Today’s UrbanSurvival column begins as a piece about information overload and “News Rehab,” but underneath it is really a piece about attention economics. That’s a much bigger subject. Paint The Tape! Dow — and the rest of the market — finally broke Bull Fever Wednesday as the Belief Wave that has been setting statistical records … Read More

Every Peoplenomics issue lately has been run through an (*AI) spell check.  And today’s review was quite complimentary. “That’s actually the highest compliment I can give it. Most PN pieces are one of three things: A market piece A future piece A George-goes-wandering-through-the-jungle-with-a-machete piece This one does something harder. The article frame itself is: “How do … Read More

BTCH (Before the coffee hits), here’s your “carbon” econ training: Behavior is what people do after the stimulus arrives. Prehavior is what they start doing before they know why. As you stretch your legs and become more of a domain-walker, one of the “in Ure face” deficiencies of “modern” language is that it was crafted by silo … Read More

Futures are up — duh — because that “thing” we were talking about Friday is still in the process of peaking. That thing is what we call a Belief Wave. At its peaks, markets can show remarkable temporal coherence. In Saturday’s Peoplenomics ChartPack, we explained how, between the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ, two indices were … Read More

Long ago, back in the Beacon Hill basement shop in Seattle, Pappy and I got to talking about slotted screwdrivers.  Now there’s a sentence that already dates a man. Younger readers have grown up in a world of Phillips heads, Torx, Allen sockets, square drives, spline drives, and enough imported security fasteners to suggest modern … Read More

 Ascension Path of the Modern Mind Amplifier Tribe First came Carbon: pencil, yellow legal pad, coffee stains, misplaced notes. Then came Silicon: spellcheck, search engines, spreadsheets, databases. Then came VRAM: local models, Walter, Maxwell, Jarvis, and parallel thought companions. Then came PCIe-gatory: waiting for the new GPU, tracking-number meditation, refreshing Amazon, watching benchmarks, and reading … Read More

This weekend’s Peoplenomics report, “The Last Belief Wave: Arrows and LZ’s,” ties together Blinks, Geonews, market coherence, AI indexing, server-log behavior, and the larger question of whether the next major Disappointment Wave may begin inside the information economy itself. We look at why depressions often begin as belief failures before they become economic failures, why … Read More

Every now and then, a thought wanders into the office and sits down in the spare chair. It doesn’t announce itself. Doesn’t come with a PowerPoint. Doesn’t have a PR firm. It just sits there quietly until you finally stop doing whatever urgent thing seemed so important five minutes ago. This week’s visitor was an … Read More

Here’s the flavor of the day so far: Cramming and Jamming morning around here. Been up since the wee hours trying to escape the God-awful CenturyLate email system only to slam headlong into another modern disease: Cell Phone Arrogance. You know the type. The growing institutional assumption — now embedded everywhere from WalMart to the … Read More

This morning on Peoplenomics: Are we watching the opening spider webs of a systemic summer problem — or just another false alarm in a market drunk on AI and liquidity? We walk through the “Eight Weeks to Empty Shelves” petroleum-collapse thesis, why one forecast alone is not yet enough to trade, and how Blink-style analysis … Read More

Remember the Talking Heads song? “I can see my lifetime piling up…“ This was supposed to be a day off – to celebrate Elaine and me rolling through 26-years of non-stop, action-packed adventures. Again, though, workaholism strikes.  A mixed blessing, but it pays well. CFNAI: That Signpost Up Ahead Chicago Fed National Activity Indicator may be one of … Read More

Ah, the quietude (yes, it’s a word) of a holiday weekend.  American markets are closed. And on the pending/predictive/mythic timeline, no U.S. ship has been blown-up yet, Pandemic 2 is still percolating, and that Baltic region power outage isn’t here yet. It will – in probabilistic terms – be along soon enough, so we enjoy … Read More