Able to work from home & sensing the return to nightlife, YUPPIES eschew the bigs like NYC and SF for affordable Austin, Baltimore & others

Decades in decline sedans are now less than 10% of car sales. Pickups, MiniVans and SUV are highly preferred in America. EV versions soon!

Stock values are high leaving retail & institutional investors fretting about timing the downturn but unable to find good alternatives for $

Austin startups pull in Venture Capital for companies ranging from Tattoo Removal to data tracking from satellites. Bumble seeks IPO!

Xi Jinping now wilth all military assets under his control has the International Community worrying about aggression in the South China Sea.

Pushing Federal Procurement to favor "Made in the USA" is appealing but ignores supply chain realities and international trade agreements.

Batteries to stabilize electric delivery will become common in buildings and neighborhoods. A small cube unit is made by Fluenceenergy.com

Pandemic aside corporate RELOs are hitting records & high rise builders are aligned with 17 on the way & 26 in-the-works or in planning.

Everything that is old is new might be the 2021 anthem for the Mighty Moss electric generating plant. New life from surging battery tech !

Sucking CO2 from air may save the planet. OXY envisions a future that removes CO2 using it to extract oil & making its use carbon neutral.

Gold aside, the pandemic depressed commodity prices. Oil aside, most are now well-beyond Jan 2020 levels. Are we poised for a supercycle?

Big organizations having more than 500 employees here in the Austin have roles primarily in IT 32%, Retail 24%, Health Care 20%.

Electric Vehicle makers include Tesla, traditional automakers, Rivian&Others and new entrants Alibaba, Baidu, Foxconn and now Apple.

We currently have parameter levels that suggest we are at better than average risk of a downward market correction but it's not that simple.

To most of us lay folks infrastructure projects make lots of sense especially now when growth is needed but completing them is difficult.

Not illegal but often not-binding patients are signing binding arbitration documents to become or remain as patients of a medical practice.

COVID-19 restrictions in early 2020 forced many to Work-From-Home and now in 2021 what adjustments will be made as the pandemic eases?

Trucks bring perishable groceries & other items to the people allowing shoppers to inspect & buy in neighborhood. Routes & items on demand.

Carmarkers somewhat stalled by lower auto-chip production as industry tries to adjust to changing demand brought on by the pandemic fallout.

Apartment vacancies are up & prices are down in big but not suburban cities. Declines are leveling off but likely will stay low for months.