Media Lies About the Job Numbers

Yeah – we need to piss test Wall Street. And the NYC Media Moguls.  A rally based on what, Friday, for crying out loud?

America deserves full disclosure of who’s getting what money (perks and comps) for doing such a horrible spin on the economy and blowing the stock market skyward with smoke and hype.

Seriously, to anyone who can read and speak of it honestly of the experience (except us), did ANYONE mention the total number of people working was DOWN?

Seriously – a rally based on losing 319,999 workers is a cause to light ’em off?  Say WTF?

What kind of bullshit cheerleading of the sheep is being played on ewe?  You ever wonder?  We dive into just that.

We even put up the government’s own darn data. No, the fix was in.  Junker Joe just signed away the Debt Ceiling – which has become a joke.  Remnants of the GOP sold out Honest Accounting once again.  Thanks.  There’s a reason for our tiny website at Fired in ’24 – Free Citizens Will No Longer Stand for This Crap (firedin24.com)

Except for one thing:  We keep standing (*and sitting) for it.  Damn shame and proof for voting doesn’t keep out the crooks.  Who don’t read bills and who don’t understand cash basis accounting.  We’re on the government equivalent to the EBITDA disaster of Internet Bubble 1 (which brought us the Twin Towers).

Wonder what they’re setting up for, this time?

No, there’s something else going on.  And Maybe more than “At the peak of Wave 2s, there’s more bullishness than ever.?”

Our decision to focus on the charts – and some remedial accounting for  readers may prove useful.

So here we go…

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Time to Spinoff the West?

Socialism’s darlings on the West Coast are starting to find their future is dimming quickly. Today, we consider latest Housing numbers – where the declines are clearest in financial terms.  But, even beyond this, the ancillary data supports the notion of moving “Back East.”

Toss in a barrel full of liberal Constitutional abandonment and excess development considering water and power…why, it’s the makings of a technology-rich hell.

Which we’ll jump into after a few headlines and the ChartPack.

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Enjoy It While You Can

A blow-off high at the market close Friday could face disappointment this coming week.  Not only is there a Fed meeting on June 13-14,, but we also have recent less-than-stellar news about inflation.

In all, while we admit to – even plan for – a continuing market rise for another two months, the late July (and onward) timeframe this year seems fraught with risk.

Still, on Main Street, the sense of “normalcy” pervades.  And who are we to argue with the Masses?

Therefore, a kind of “chill” look today as we work on bringing down blood pressure and adrenaline to stable levels…

Some “calm before the storm” seems prudent in here. It’s what holidays are for.

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The “Solution to Social Media”

Graceful engineering ideas time – something to FWD to Elon Musk? – as we consider the Surgeon General’s concerns on Social and propose radical solutions. This is as discussion about the Magic Bullet that could save Twitter  for Musk and turn it to a “best of class” concern, again.

No, it’s not turning off your computer; though that might work, too.  Instead, we have a whole different take on social media.  Including a roughed-out website (and some future Peoplenomics articles which may become web pages) to get some software “legs under the idea.

This is one of those horribly obvious fallouts from TRIZ thinking.  Which, frankly we are surprised Elon Musk has not already invented – because it is just so obvious to us.

Anyway, the idea is useful, doable, scalable and changes the whole ballgame for social media.

Which we will lay out right after a few warm-up headlines and the morning ChartPack.

But then we leap into it:  A world obsessed with the climate scam has missed the Global #1 *with a bullet* problem afoot today:  Thought Pollution.  Take it with big enough doses of Woke disease and robots posting and you have an environment where nitrogen and carbon emissions look positively inviting.

So, a side of Budget hype with them eggs, today, pardnah?  Then let’s get real about Social’s role in Thought Pollution.

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How High? How Long?

A Quest for Answers. Markets this week closed above a critical “trading box” so it means its time to start penciling out more inflection points ahead.  As we figure it now, without a Chinese move on Taiwan or the (eventual) escalation of to tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine (besides depleted uranium which will poison their land) we  could still make it into a summer rally and maybe even until the end of the year.

Macro bounding events are all over the place.  One of which is the coming Fed hikes while another is the outcome of budget negotiations.

But our weekend focus here is simple: Now that we can collapse any time, what will be the “right” indicator of pending collapse?

Therein lies the quandary!

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A Senior View of Diets

Mediterranean? Keto? Paleo?  Bewildering choices, We have a few ideas.  Which is well-timed since right after this morning’s post, Elaine and I go in for fasting blood draws.

Key to us is the idea of “instrumentation” of senior health. In addition to the electronics of aging – a recording pulse-ox, CPAP data software, and a BP cuff, we add even more science to health monitoring this week.

Meanwhile, in the markets, we are back to looking “toppy” with a hard break up – or down – expected as immediate future resolves issues like use of nukes and budget loggerheads.

Plus the ChartPack.,  So let’s roll-em up, make a fist, and see what the numbers are telling us about your health – financial and biological.

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The “Sell in May” Part

Our main focus today is on the balance of this month and into next from an economics and charts perspective.  Because there is a split – quite obvious when you read financial headlines.

One faction is expecting “recession avoidance” because of the big, powerful, American economy.  The other still sees dead banks walking as the commercial real estate debacle is likely to take years to be fully revealed and acknowledged.

Of course a few headlines and such.  But for this particular weekend?  Making money always helps and we’re pleased with prospects for the period just ahead.

You may not be able to remain “married to optimism” though, and still get the most out of it.

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On Farming Humans

It all begins with rent.  From there, we see a computer software design pattern kick it.  From a single act of systemic compliance, a whole shitshow of logical consequences follows.  One on the previous, day after night.

There is a problem – existential in nature – that lurks with this “commerce model.”  Specifically, the issue is “How high can a deck of cards be stacked?”

Soon, all those Marxist backed “social movements” become as predictable as the DIM ARRAY command.

Our concern is now more elevated.  Because just as power used to be a two-dimensional world, we are now living in a multidimensional world.

No worries, it will all make sense when we build up the data model and kick it around a bit.

After the morning ChartPack, of course , and a few headlines.  While our charts focus on the odds of a bloodbath in markets ahead. Like this month…

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Info Propagation Speeds

Which we hinted at in the UrbanSurvival. column Friday.  Today, we look into the rabbit hole and see how our “lookahead” is looking, if that makes sense.

Quiet and busy spring day and the scent of coronation silliness hangs heavy in the air.

So let’s focus on the useful part: Making a little money in markets and buying a solid defense against a chilling future.

We start by ordaining 3Chuck (Marketed as Chucky Kingness) and tell you about a Deep Fake video of the Fed boss, first…

No point getting too serious – it would wreck the weekend.

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Long Wave Research Notes

This week, our research focuses on calendars behind human cycle recognition.  Ever since the (failed) 2012 “End of the World” predictions of others, we have been fascinated with the question “What did they get wrong?”

Turns out, there is plenty of opportunity to have screwed up a lot.

Worse is that the Mayan Long Count isn’t the only thing off.  Understand if some of this is right – even here and there – even things like Nostradamus might be off several years – which is why 1999 dating might be wrong to us, but have been right back then.

To make sure a fine time is had by all, however, we will begin this morning with $53 million in cash, crypto, and more Europol agents than you can count.  Seems the long-expected government crack-down on crypto as a crime tool has begun in earnest.

Then we have Fed Day – and we’ll see this afternoon how crazy things will get – next.

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“Rotational History” of the World

A “mini focus” in our ChartPack considers “Country Rotation” of Super Powers – something which has been in place for more than 700-years.  Not often described, it’s more of a driver behind modern events than most realize.

Fed week is about to begin and with it, odd of at least a quarter point rate hike seems unavoidable.  But, behind this is another, less publicly debated issue.

Which we will discuss “behind closed doors” this morning.

After “the usual” hod heaped with headlines, we’ll inspect the rate issue a little deeper in our ChartPack section.

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War and Foreign Assets

Past global wars have never to such an extend, relied on the continued construction and operation of foreign assets.  As tensions continue to increase worldwide, but most noticeably in Ukraine and Taiwan, we can appreciate the changing role of “foreign assets.”

Today, we use our thought frameworks to look ahead to the coming few months for clues as to how life will evolved.

Like the classic “good news/bad news” jokes, we do have some “good news” (spoiler: No nuclear war) but some bad news; massive shortages of certain goods and a possible “line stop” on advances in technology.

Toss in our economic press releases of the day coupled with our ChartPack, and it’s another glorious spring day.

Or not.

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Four War Monte

We call today’s discourse “Thousand Paper Cuts Trading” with good reason.

We begin this fine spring weekend by asking what do Sophia LorenStephen BoydAlec GuinnessJames MasonChristopher PlummerMel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif have in common?  If you guessed “That 1964 blockbuster “The Fall of the Roman Empire” you’d be right.

Which is really our main point this morning: Since to some of us old “geezerly” types, current events are popping right out of the Western Empire playbook.

With paper instead of a genuine coin of the realm.

With Bitcoin at $27,262 at press time, we think the global picture is on the verge of dimming, considerably.

Some navigation into Future discussion ahead in this morning’s extended ChartPack presentation is in order.

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