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Not sure how conversant you are with the term but this morning we look at how we sink into the quicksand of humankind’s relationship with machines.

We will start in a very old elevator and somehow end up in what pilots call “the flight levels.”

And along the way, we will see some very difficult relational problems as the upright apes meet the rechargeable machines.

After headlines, coffee, and some fascinating charts about our 1929 Replay scenario.

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As readers know, I am a huge fan of equality.

This week especially, since there has been mostly nothing but a parade of Trump bashing on the mainstream media and it’s been old since the election which the die-hards on the left can seem to accept they lost.

But there are other targets for the public’s ire worldwide, and this morning we line up some of the going-on in the European Union which has been enjoying something of a free pass with Trump being the press lightning rod of late.

But that ends this morning after a few headlines and our charts on where the market goes next…

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With the Trump administration signing off on the Wall with Mexico this morning, we look at the problems of Mexico more broadly this morning.

While the Wall is certainly a short-term solution, it seems to us that a tighter wall will simply increase the narco-collapse of Mexico.  I expect within five years or less, we will see a full-on narco-revolution in Mexico and that holds both social and economic implications for the U.S.

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We offer some investing ideas and discussion this morning.  After running numbers, it looks to us like the Trump administration might bring back that long time friend of real estate and precious metal investors…

Inflation…

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What’s more, News is going Consumer-direct.

Join us this morning for a step into the world of Mesh Networks and you’ll see with astounding clarity how Trump has radically changed the playing field of “Old Style News” dissemination.

With the network topology in plain site, of course the NY Times will have to reduce its newsroom staffing.  To say nothing of CNN.

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This Friday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as President.

So this morning we offer some thoughts on the speech Trump should give.

Not that he will, but I hope you’ll agree, there are some damn interesting ideas put forth in the one we cobbled up for him.

Regardless, a week from now expect the headlines to be full of reports on how the Trump speech harkened back to Kennedy and the national goal of putting man on the moon..

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A kind of short-form companion to our recently presented eBook for subscribers on Sales, this morning we roll through the six stages of marketing.

Although mainly useful if you have a management position in a company, being aware of these steps will help you in many ways, including how you “size up” companies you are thinking about investing in.  Useful stuff…

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We were talking about Recipes this week in our Millennial’s Missing Manual (Coping section Thursday) and we have a dandy discussion this morning of Modern Monetary Theory and how it works and what does it mean.

The short answer is:  Formulas cloud thinking.  But it’s a kind of turf war between the math-leaning quants on the one hand with the more clear-headed behavioral economics believers on the other.

Bottom line is “What we all believe about the future tends to manifest” but there are some interesting :reasons why” in MMT which are worth talking about…

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Yes, there are server-side issues – working on them… will be restored as soon as possible.

Although we’re fairly sure that the all-time market peak will arrive as early as March or as late at September, there are certain “stars” we can steer by.

We look at Housing, Gold, and Bitcoin prices this morning and make some observations about where these could head, and in turn, may drag the rest of the economy along with ’em.

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By three cents!

I know – why would you celebrate a victory of 3-cents over a buy/hold on the S&P?  Well because it was done using a process that is coded and which back-tested actually rocks it in times of uncertainty like 2009.

In that year, the model doubled the return over a buy and hold S&P strategy.

So let’s talk about that plus our definitive guide to optimizing the home audio experience…

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Over the past 15-years, a number of small business owners have asked me to share the approach that made the second half of my life a simple cruise between $100K+ jobs.

Well, there is a PROCESS and this PROCESS CAN BE LEARNED so I decided to write it down for my consulting clients years ago.

It turned out to be much more efficient that having to do site visits and such – “Read this, do what it says, and send me the reports.“

If a client said “We can’t do that” then I would patiently explain “then you can’t be successful to the degree you should be – so you’re fired.”   Yes, I fired clients.

Now it’s an e-book and it’s worth your time to read even though short and to the point.  Santa doesn’t want you to be poor.  Santa wants you to open your eyes and stack some cash.

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Yeah, I know – wasn’t going to have a report this morning, but then I got to thinking (overnight) about the puzzling role of the Knickerbocker Crisis.  And then?

Well, let’s just say that sometimes when a good detective is on one suspect’s tail, they can end up with something completely different.

And this is precisely what happened this morning…

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