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There’s a “Post Web Order” coming into view.  So, this weekend a progress check on three fronts of keen interest for subscribers.

First is system readiness in order to be able to “keep up with class” as we are publicly building a MoneyMachine in Python to test machine-assisted trade planning.  The second installment will be along in our upcoming Wednesday report.

The second feature today is a 20_ page Futuring paper which outlines very specifically the migration path forming for AI to replace the web.

OK that may not sound like a biggy – except it absolutely IS because this could kill social media as you know it.  Would that really be a bad thing?

And then we get down to the rubber meets the road with a progress check on everything from 25H2 to the Atlas browser.  If you’re not tracking, you’re sliding into the obo (obsolete) column quickly.

But don’t feel bad – we have some news headlines to pass along plus 30-odd pages of market ChartPack  plus more on our “order within chaos” work.

You won’t just want coffee for today’s subscriber report.  You’ll want time to think through the implications of where this is all leading us.

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Every civilization eventually forgets what made it strong. Ours is forgetting faster than any before it — not because we lack memory, but because we’ve outsourced it to machines that do.

The web that once promised universal knowledge has become a patchwork of walled gardens and incompatible truths. The Splinternet isn’t coming; it’s here, and its side effect is cognitive decay.

The collective Ebbinghaus curve — the rate at which a population forgets — is now visible in everything from market reactions to politics. We are living inside a forgetting machine.

In the early days, the Internet was a cathedral of connection. That drove me to write my book Broken Web in 2012.  Back then? Protocols were open, bandwidth was shared, and information wanted to be free.

That was the dream. But as every engineer knows, dreams get patched, monetized, and eventually fenced off. Each firewall, each algorithm, each national censorship node split the network’s once-coherent fabric.

We didn’t notice the fracture because the lights still came on — but the light was no longer the same everywhere. The Internet of things became the Internet of factions.

For investors, this fragmentation isn’t just cultural; it’s financial. The same Ebbinghaus law that measures how quickly we forget words now applies to market memory.

Traders forget so crashes happen faster. Consumers forget scarcity sooner. Corporations forget lessons learned about leverage and risk.

The result is volatility without conscience — capital chasing momentum through an amnesiac network that can’t remember yesterday’s mistake. In a world of accelerated forgetting, valuation becomes a hallucination shared by algorithms.

That’s where this week’s Peoplenomics report begins: at the intersection of systemic amnesia and digital fracture. This ain’t just another TA shop.

We map how the Splinternet undermines not just geopolitics but investment stability, how the “Ebbinghaus-Ure Effect” explains recurring cycles of risk blindness, and why the next crash may not be caused by war or debt — but by the sheer inability of markets to remember what coherence looked like.

The real danger isn’t disconnection; it’s forgetting what connection meant.

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Short for Adaptive Non-Linear Order-Metric Algorithm.  Which does what?

Reflects the intent to quantify how “ordered” or “coherent” market movement is while accepting that behavior is non-linear and adaptive to regime shifts.

Somewhere in here, you’re likely to get confused.  But let me line up events for you.

In our Tuesday Peoplenomics we began teaching readers how they can build their very-own apps to do market chores.

Come this next Wednesday, we will explain how to download Python and use AI to do the grunt work of programming.   AI.  All you’ll need to do is copy source, paste into Python locally and run.

OK, useful to have data files, too but we’ll go through all that.

But the key thing from last week was explaining that if you’re going to program an app, you need some secret sauce.  So this morning ANLOMA is one no-longer secret.

A couple of headlines but in the ChartPack today, some mighty interesting things to ponder about how the ontology works.  Behind the scenes.

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Focus on the Important and today it’s learning to write a personal app. Our Focus today is on learning to become a skilled user of AI to write your own apps to shortcut stock trading investment decisions.  This is the first of what’s likely to be two or three parts.

Then?  Ever wonder when life got so loud? Somewhere between the notifications and the “next big thing,” we traded silence for scroll. Our ancestors had hard days, but they ended with stars overhead, not screens. The world may look high-tech now, but maybe all we’ve built is a noisier version of the same old shopkeeper’s stall — shelves full, souls empty.

Take a breath before diving into today’s madness; this one’s about The Vanishing Quiet.

And in the ChartPack today? A dart toss at when the lights will go out – for good.  See, Tech is just a scaled-up shopkeeper economy…But you knew that, right?

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Not a pretty Friday on Wall Street — and not much prettier in the headlines. When Trump fires a shot across Xi’s bow and Beijing answers it reminds the world how the U.S. “forced Japan’s hand.”

Before WWII, traders tended to duck first and think later.

Friday was a duck (or ostrich)day. Markets closed the week bruised, nervous, and about as graceful as a bar fight at closing time.

But step back a minute. All this noise — wars, tariffs, inflation, political food-fights — is really about one thing: our addiction to growth. The global system only works when we feed it more: more debt, more consumption, more stress.

Which is why this weekend’s Peoplenomics report asks the heretical question: If humans were rational, what industries would we shut down?

We’ve got a list — and it’s not short. From high-fructose corn syrup to glyphosate, from the ad industry’s hypnosis to warehouses full of unused junk, we’ve built entire economies around irrationality.

The good news? There are sane replacements: soil restoration, cognitive-health design, local energy loops, and a tax-deductible gift economy that rewards generosity instead of hoarding.

If that sounds radical, remember: so did “personal computers” once upon a time.

Rational redesign isn’t destruction — it’s evolution without denial. So after this week’s market mess, maybe a little rational thinking is overdue. Full report — plus a defense of AI against the latest media panic — is up and waiting for you. Bring coffee.

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We return to the scene of the Fed’s last spectacular error in 2018.  Because when we look over the wreckage there, sure looks like the Fed is set up to play the “Evil Twin” of the 2018 holiday debacle.

We not only go into the numbers but also sketch out how a return to work from the GovDown could help set up disaster timing to a tee.

And in today’s Focus piece?  We have a dandy paper ready on the art of decision-making when the data is incomplete.

Yeah, like now – when government’s gone,; in a sense. The future slightly out of focus. And the international picture bleak but holding.

What’s not to love?  Well, besides the price of gold, I mean.  We’re up about a “new car” for the month. But you’d never know it out here in mobile home country.  Unrealized gains taxation remains a liberal fantasy.

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The market’s gone full carnival again — screens glowing, traders chanting “To the Moon!” while the old pros quietly cinch their parachutes. With Washington shut down, no one really knows what the economy’s doing; the official dashboard is dark, and we’re all watching by the glow of the instruments.

This week’s Peoplenomics takes apart the illusion — showing how digital liquidity has replaced the Weimar’s printing presses, how “cheap money” became the new theology, and why every major economy now dances to the same inflationary rhythm.

We explore what happens when the lights come back on: whether this ends in another parabolic spike… or a crash landing that makes 1929 look like a soft touchdown.

If you like your economics & money unfiltered, chart-backed, and a little dangerous, subscribe to Peoplenomics ($40/year) — two issues a week, cheaper than a gallon of diesel, and worth every byte.
ecause when everyone’s yelling “To the Moon,” it helps to have someone checking the fool gauge.

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(A Glimpse Inside Peoplenomics: Issue 1217-A)
History has a habit of rhyming—sometimes in whispers, sometimes with a bullhorn. In this issue, we look at two rhymes playing out in real time.

The first is the rise of socialism: how it surged in the 1920s out of war, inflation, and dislocation, and how it’s back again in the post-COVID landscape, this time riding hashtags, immigrant politics, and algorithmic media. What looks like fringe today can become tomorrow’s policy. We’ve seen it before.

The second rhyme is more subtle, but just as dangerous to wealth: bubbles aren’t only numbers on screens. They’re hallucinations in the human visual cortex. Our Focus this week explores how investors literally “see” futures so vividly that dopamine overrules discipline, driving valuations into the stratosphere.

Whether it was airplanes and utilities in 1929, dot-coms in 2000, housing in 2007, or today’s AI hype—the neurological fingerprints are the same. Subscribers get the deep dive: sector spreads then vs. now, the neuroscience of why crowds lose their grip on value, and what this means for positioning capital in a high-change-rate world.

We connect the dots that mainstream financial media won’t touch—linking history, psychology, and markets into one coherent map. If you’re ready for more than clickbait headlines, join us. For $40 a year—less than a tank of gas—you get two detailed reports each week, plus the charts, context, and forward-looking analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

We don’t just report on markets. We study them as living systems. And right now, those systems are flashing warnings worth heeding.

Or not – your call.

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Keep your head down this coming week. If you’ve been reading UrbanSurvival for any length of time, you know I’m not in the habit of hyping ordinary weeks.

But next week has all the fingerprints of a compressed storm window: soft or hot housing numbers, an all-hands military meeting at Quantico, labor data rolling out midweek, and Russia and Venezuela jostling in the background.

When geopolitics and jobs data hit the tape at the same time, markets don’t just twitch—they might convulse.

Peoplenomics is where I unpack that kind of setup before it hits the mainstream—two deep-dive reports a week with charts, context, and the kind of long-cycle thinking you can’t get from cable or a trading app.

 It’s also where I pull together my sources, the “deep-background” chatter, and the little indicators that often point to the next big move.

If you’re reading this and haven’t subscribed yet, consider it a low-cost hedge against being blindsided. Forty bucks a year gets you access to my password-protected site, the full ChartPacks twice weekly, and the running commentary that ties it all together.

Cheaper than a gallon of diesel per month, and a lot more useful for navigating what’s coming.

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Two tracks this morning: The Secret Service telecom bust in NYC and the possibility of a sleight of hand with a Crypto-based Dollar reset.  All very important stuff – and it comes on a bank settlement day with a Treasury series auction mid morning.

Toss in our usual odd quip here and there and 23-charts for your trading and dancing pleasure?  Why it’s almost like a night out on the town.

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In the ChartPack today some very bad news for Bulls.  There is a simple way to compare the recent run of the markets in this “Replaying 1929” period.

Not only will we run those numbers for you – and call of the laggard – but we will also talk about why a soft hyperinflation probably won’t work.

Bean up and read on…

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On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics.  Since we did our comprehensive pre-Fed discussion in the Sunday special edition (here), we give away the first part of my newest thinking and writing adventure this morning.  What’s it about?

What if the tools we use every day—books, language, coffee, meditation, even AI—aren’t just conveniences, but actual mind amplifiers?

What if they are extensions of the nervous system, tuned gain-stages that boost awareness, sharpen recall, or distort reality depending on how we use them?

That’s the premise of my newest book project, Mind Amplifiers: On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics. It’s an exploration of how humans have always relied on external and internal “prosthetics of thought” to stretch our reach.

From the flicker of firelight on cave walls to the printing press, from vocabulary to nootropics, each step has been a way to increase signal, reduce noise, and transmit a cleaner life-report back to the Universe.

In the Focus section today, I’m giving readers the first half of the book—a ride through noise floors, attention as a directional antenna, cognitive dithering, and the difference between “simple indexers” and “mass indexers” of reality. It’s both a framework for personal growth and a toolkit for navigating the age of AI and information overload.

Plus, in the ChartPack, our last chart survey ahead of FOMC this afternoon…

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A special Peoplenomics subscribers only report ahead of this week’s Fed FOMC.  

Markets today are running hot when every major cycle in the book says they should be cooling.

That’s not just a quirk of data — it’s a setup we’ve only seen a handful of times in the last century, and none of them ended quietly.

Behind the headlines about AI riches, shiny IPOs, and Crypto’s immortality is a structural mismatch: the clockwork rhythms of markets are pointing down while the tape keeps climbing.

History tells us that kind of divergence doesn’t resolve gently.

This special Peoplenomics report dives into what those cycles really look like now, why we’re in “never before seen” territory, and what the three most likely outcomes are.

If you’re wondering how far markets can stretch before reality intrudes — and what comes after — that’s where we’ll go.

If you can make it part the side-by-side charts – they’re riveting.

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