World has to run a “gauntlet” between now and 2050 as we explained last week.  Now, we need to inspect how that choice is laying out in more detail.  With the hope that by doing so, we will see where the “muddle-through” might be found.  Turns out the pivot-point may be the shelf life and skills required from humans. Dopamine-driven dopes.

We focus, therefore on the declines of pleasure and purpose then explore how that, too, blows up sooner than not if we don’t do something about it.

And it’s here the “threading needle of figure problem” comes into view.

A few headlines to warm the neurons and then the ChartPack for the visual cortex.  But then we’re into “the heart stuff” where the purpose of humans in a machine-dominated world begins to glaze over…

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You may not have time for 50+ pages of last-minute checklist and thinking notes… So it will be available in the Peoplenomics Bookshelf part of the Master Index.  And sorry, don’t mean to sound cavalier or too cynical, but we’re in that kind of world now.  Notice?

Also for your breakfatudinal (zat a word?) munch reading, the chart pack is a dilly today, too.  (Say, ever have a dill with Saturday breakfast? (Without a beer?)

And if that doesn’t leave you “in a pickle,” some of the morning’s headline analysis may land you on the shrink’s couch before lunch.

“‘The Peoplenomics Survival Planner (The Last-Minute Prepper’s Pre-War Edition) is a useful guide focused on practical self-sufficiency for uncertain times, covering three critical areas: quick survival foods that can be grown rapidly (like sprouts and microgreens), long-term survival gardening with calorie-dense and diverse crops (like potatoes, beans, and squash), and high-value cash crops for crisis barter (such as hemp, tobacco, and garlic).

 It also provides detailed herbal home remedies for common health issues, a step-by-step immediate action plan for preparedness, a family-sized shopping list, practical home defense strategies for two people, essential survival knife selection, and a guide to emergency communications, offering a complete blueprint for resilient, sustainable living in crisis scenarios.” 50-odd pages of PDF.

Second cup, Glaucon! . As we ponder deeper meanings of The Republic (ch.10). Allegorically, of course.

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We are hoping for an “Eartbloom” before 2050 but there’s one hell of a gauntlet to run first.  Time to take a closer look because 20 years can come and go in a heartbeat.  the “good news” – such as it is – is that we do have time for avoidance maneuvers but how many will pay heed to the Threat Board?

I will be discussing a period labeled “The Gauntlet” in our modeling.  Today’s  report may be especially timing with one of the Gauntlet data loci’s on the verge of nuclear with overnight missile launches between India and Pakistan – both nuclear powers.

To cheer you up after? A few headlines and we’ll do the final ChartPack before the FOMC meeting announcement this afternoon.

But for now, how about we kick it off with war in store? And more…

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Where we look at the angle of the dangle (or the rate of rise) in ridiculous rallies toward predictable conclusions.  Sure, it sounds a little complicated, but we could have a much longer (and maybe boring) discussion of how this approach to the “math of markets” is not dissimilar from the take-off angle of a bullet and it’s ultimate distance covered horizontally – with similar implications.

We all fall down.

Why, toss in some weather aftermath, a few headlines from the front lines of social hysteria, and it’s a fine morning to do “real effort” before getting to the “important work” in ShopTalk tomorrow…

[Reader note:  Trying to put more emphasis on look-aheads into the coming week.  Since the news of the moment is “in th4e can” and not much to be done about it.  On the other hand, an eye toward the temporal horizon sounds like a reasonable thing to do.

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