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(Amarillo, TX)  This morning we do a little forensic accounting as we look forward to the Monday opening of global markets to see what effect the killing of nearly 120 people by crazed Muslim extremists in France will do to global markets.  A sizeable decline is possible to likely.

You see, the paradigm of the national security state is that such things can be prevented – if we just give up enough of our freedoms.  Hence, we’ve gone along with the airport pat-downs and such.

But Europe?  Their immigration policies have been even more stupid and inane than those being followed by the Obama administration which is seeking to admit even more people – many single military aged males – into these United States in coming months.

So is someone trading in advance and making a killing?  It’s hard sorting the general decline from the possibility of front-running a massive decline next week based on terrorism’s big return to the headlines.

So double-up on the coffee…we’re looking closely and the game’s afoot.

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REMINDER:  Banks are closed today, markets are open.  Futures are near neutral and we expect a slow day.

This may sound like a trivial sort of thing to be talking about, but the problem is – trust me on this – far from trivial.

We all know robots are coming.  They will be here any minute to about 20-years from now for most everything humans do.  Already there are sex machines and sex robots so it stands to reason that most other human functions will be replaced, too.

That gets us to the idea of who should be paying income taxes.  And,. as I got more deeply into the research for this morning’s report, the more I found a decidedly anti-human aspect of the tax code.

So we’re on that that trail this morning…one my consigliore – an  accomplished tax lawyer himself – admits is “One of those inconvenient questions we haven’t thought much about in the profession…”

And that’s where we will begin our study.  After crumpets and headlines, of course.  Because while we’re on the heels of preparing for War with Robots, there may be something even more lethal to either them, or us humans.

Tax policy.

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This morning is a fine example of a New Depression Journal and Look Ahead:  You see humans are -whether they realize it, or not – in a perilous gulch at the moment.  The results of decisions made now – and in coming years – may determine how humans fare in future relations with machines.

While this is not purely economic, and thus within our normal scope in Peoplenomics, the matter is sure to become both economic as well as social in less than 10-years time.

The decisions we make now are important.  As you will see in the materials to be presented using our hypothetical Directorate 153 paradigm, a continuity of government agency may even today be working the “leading edge” of the issues.

For Gun Rights advocates, there is a key question:  The currently framed interpretation of the Constitution permits us to “keep and bear arms.” 

Traditional interpretation has so far generally limited the definition to fired projectiles.  Yet, as you will see this morning, there are a wide range of non-traditional weapons which are both common and which could be tasked as anti-robotic measures.  In the face of this reality, will Liberty be able to outrun the megalomaniacs who would command hoards of robots?

We are on a new track here:  Where are the limits to weapons and under the Constitution, where do we draw the line?  Pellet guns, compound hunting bows, high powered long-arms, or bacteriological, nuclear, or robotic weapons systems are all on a continuum.

That and our usual short list of key headlines and a lot at where the markets sits as another week came to an end.

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Can it be done?

Well, hell yes.  It’s not that hard.

All you need is a little common sense and the ability to step back from the crowd a bit and see into the economic future.

If you get to where you’ve got even a bit of confidence about what the future may bring, there is no reason not to use all available tools to make a little dough on the next Crash.

And you’ll read this morning, eBay may be a key part of that strategy.  After some employment numbers and a check of the slippery National Debt to the Penny….

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Christmas is coming, Thanksgiving, too.  And it’s the time of the year when people’s thinking just naturally begins to run to “holidays.”

This is one of those semi-close-hold Peoplenomics reports we do from time-to-time.  Of the sort where our sources are impeccable, the underlying data beyond reproach, and the conclusions are inescapable.

Yet I’m asking you not to post this on the net in deference to our source.  This is an amazing tale that speaks absolute volumes about the future.

Yet it is one of the most difficult to comprehend fully because of its sheer magnitude.

With no more delay, let me tell you about “The Scariest Holiday – Ever.”

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Too early to say Happy Halloween – but not to early to say Happy Fed Day.

Of course, we all know what a bubble economy is.  We have been through plenty of them.  And when they fall apart, they hurt – badly.

This morning, we ask a terribly important question:  Is the whole “information economy” something of a load-balanced Xeon-powered server bubble that will blow over one of these days?

Just as the market collapse in 1929 was the result of malinvestment from too much hype about growth, industrialization and the emergence of mass media, could we be in a similar place today?  Big data isn’t an answer – it’s the problem as we shall discover.

And intriguing question…so pour that cuppa your favorite and let’s dig in…with 4,300 words and nine charts and graphs, you may need a refill on this one.

Oh, and a surprising update on Bitcoins as an investment, too…

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Because our projections of the market being in a blow-off top formation lead-in are working out very closely, this morning we extend things out many years to get a better idea of how the future could present itself.

Granted, this is highly speculative in nature, but then again, so was our recent call for a Dow to zoom up to as high as 25,000 – or more – between now and the period after the 2016 election.

The problem is getting the right data into the model and then doing a bunch of date math to figure out when particular economic landmarks should be passed.

That, along with our market analysis and more, will make this morning’s cuppa bean particularly satisfying. 

Even if our view of the future isn’t precisely right, it’s better to have a 20-80 view of things than be running completely blind when comes to future events.

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Recipe for “How to Control a Population”:

Take a bunch of numbers.

Put them in the number/blender.

Frappe for one minute.

Pour.  Serve as this morning’s Peoplenomics report – with a twist.

Garnish with the Tuesday Housing Report.  Serves 320-million.

This morning we’re going to reverse engineer the noise produced by monthly feeding frenzies of nonsensical data which are perpetually revised.

Even though your “useful economic life” is likely less than 70 years, it’s still good to know where reality is despite the hype and the harbingers of doom .

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Post-Collapse Operations Part 2 this morning as we go through a personal checklist of things I have gotten wrong in 17 years of prepping.   Brought to my attention a couple of ways in the past week or three.

Once you have achieved your SORR (state of reasonable readiness) the problem changes from getting ready to maintaining readiness. 

And, of course, we will update the markets which are acting in curious ways, but not unexpected.  Analysis of what’s likely ahead is always a good thing.  To say that the end of the world crowd got present times wrong turns out to be the height of understatement.

But our work has consistently indicated it would be.

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We are in one hell of a pickle.

Usually in the fall, the market will make a serious downward plunge, there will be an intervention or naturally occurring bottom.  Following that, everyone steps back from the abyss and figure “Well hell, Merle, that there was sure some excitin close brush with Economic Collapse, but shore looks lack we made it fer ‘nother year...”

Not that we have out of the woods – since the market still has plenty of time between now and the end of the year to collapse – but we are seeing some huge underlying shifts in how the “economic game” is played.

This morning we will go poking around the feedlot and see where some of the bull is.  Even if you don’t join us on the tour, though, the concept of a Feedlot Economy is a useful way of understanding what are some mighty curious changes in spending, saving, and consumption.

Plus:  We review the “Clinton Fix” – how she lost the debate to Bernie and still owns the MSM brainwashing machine.

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We’ll chat this morning about life beyond prepping and PCO: post-collapse operations.  Let me ramble here and explain why.

When UrbanSurvival started down the “invincibly prepared” path in 1997, I was living on a 40-foot sailboat up in Seattle and wondering “Just how bad could it get, this Y2K stuff?”

As it turns out, while there were tons of small computer issues, massive code rewrites to deal with the date-rollover saved the day – at least for then.

Next came the events of 9/11 and we saw how financial markets could (and did) react to something going terribly wrong.  Money in markets was simply not available if instantly needed in the face of calamity. 

Although it’s popular to let the Bush administration off the hook, that the ensuing war was a manipulation in order to invent a “Security State” overnight (employing a million people, directly and indirectly) is hardly deniable.

We invaded the wrong country – which should have been Saudi Arabia because that’s where the perps were from – and the freedom of Saudi Royals to fly American airspace when lawful citizens were forbidden is conveniently forgotten in the government rush to trample formerly free people’s rights.  Welcome, too, the Surveillance State.

Then came 2008 where the PowersThatBe engineered a catastrophic near-miss for the Global Economy to both hold up taxpayers (via government bail-outs) but also to reassert control over government policy.  Oh, and beggar millions who were unable to keep the homes they had purchased at highly inflated prices.

Which brings us to the present in the Big Scheme of Cyclical Economics (and shakedowns of the chattel class):  What should be we preparing for now?

UrbanSurvival’s Inside Report was one of the first sites on the net to deal with prepping in a meaningful way.  Now,  Peoplenomics will move into a new area in addition to our focus on economics and wheedling out a few coins:  Collapse (and post-collapse) operations.

We begin this week with “Arrival Protocols.”  It’s not something you’ll find much about today, but then again, we do like to be early for the party – and have been for decades.

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Want to know where Bitcoin will be in 40-years or so?

That’s one of the topics we cover in this morning’s report. So is Ben’s new book.

Another thing this morning is learning to play “the waiting game” while we find out if our low probability, high return option play comes together.

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Yeah, I look really stupid doing the happy dance, but since our report on  Wednesday in which I outlined a new approach to forecasting market action at two very specific places in the Elliott Wave structure, I was totally blown away by the Market’s behavior.

As Friday began, I was pouty and snippy – my system seemed (momentarily) like it would eat my lunch.  But the pure absolute magic happened at mid session and the S&P ended up over the 1,950 level for the week – as expected and forecast right here.

Halla-freaking-lujah!

Oh, and a reader asked me to offer a bit of advice for managing personal wealth at a time like this…so discussion coming up there (with no personally identifiable information) because he raised such a damn fine question.

So pour ’em up and let’s roll…

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