Straight Talk About the Future and Futuring

The title of this morning’s discussion is pretty straight forward – as we have a number of items to mull over as we continue plodding along our methodical path into a future which, to many, is terribly uncertain.  But such high-powered thinking can’t be done on an empty stomach, so a few crumpets and coffees while we dash through a few headlines including retail and CPI, and then this morning’s chart pack before we get down to the serious business of making the “great bank-shots” of Life…those personal financial decisions which grow the nest egg.

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Peoplenomics: Shopping List for a SuperCountry (Part 2)

We desk a couple of additional ideas this morning on ways that America could start the process of climbing back up the ladder of international prestige and stature.  But we have many other items first including a key cyber hacking sentencing this week, and a couple of quakes overnight including one near Tokyo.  So bean up, clean the glasses, and down to it, shall we?

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Shopping List for a SuperCountry: (How America Can Recover with Best Practices)

Ures truly is about to write a small book which – I hope – will generate new thinking in America about where we are as a country, and more importantly, how we can easily return to our once-great condition.  The answers are simple, and I believe there would be a tremendous “return on investment” but neither of the financial parties is presently able to stand up to the purchase orders for legislation (lobbying) that keeps meaningful change in check.  So today we’ll delve into a Shopping List for a Super Country as soon as we update a few headlines and get some coffee going around here…

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How a US Bail-In Might Work

A number of people have asked me to weigh in how a US Bail-In might work – and while the short answer is “It’s an extremely low-prob event” some explanation is in order…it’s long and involves a lot of thinking, though, so consider yourself forewarned.  And this won’t go well because it’s the Global Bankster Hold-up and even young Millenials are wondering “What to we need Bankers for?”  Fine question that is, indeed.  And we’ll get to it just as soon as we get through a few late-breaking headlines….

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Nowhere to Invest?

We tackle housing in times ahead in our first little venture into what lays ahead, and as we start to line up some longer-term investment ideas for younger subscribers and our own kids who are now in their 30’s to high 40’s.  And in part two this coming weekend, we venture beyond housing to that world of high tech to see where the smart money might be making long-term plays now.  First, however, we take a quick look through the headlines of this morning which includes election results which we can summarize as…

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To Bug Out, or Not to Bug Out?

That is the question this morning. When I first wrote UrbanSurvival back in 1996/1997, one thing led to another, and by 2001 what was then the “Inside Report” series was covering all kinds of things “preppy.”  This included bug-out bags, bug-out plans, where to get military manuals on CD (a novelty back when) and lots of discussion about which parts of the country would be “good” to survive in, and which would be “bad.”  Although it has been a topic hugely imitated by (sleazy marketer/imitators (Google “UrbanSurvival” sometime and find any that have been around as long, lol) we do need to keep our contingency plans tuned-up, so we set off down that road this weekend, having just tasted a very bitter week of bug-out vehicle disaster.  But first, the morning bean and some leftovers, starting perhaps with…

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If a Million Bucks Lands on Your Head…

I get a fair amount of reader email asking my opinion as to where I would personally invest a couple of hundred thousand (or more) should it fall out of the sky and  land on me.  Universally, these are accompanied by “We won’t you accountable because we realize that it’s just an investment opinion, but really, George, what would you do?”  And then there’s the matter of my son.  He’s working  steady lately as an EMT and he’s “stacking cash” but he’s also got the “Old Man’s” conservative streak.  So this morning we lift our heads up for the wild market, which, as of yesterday’s close, looked like it might really try for that run-up to Dow 20,000 and S&P 2,200.  But for now, the market’s terribly over-bought and after some headlines, we’ll try to figure out what the next “Investment of a lifetime” will be.

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2 Days in Branson: A Surprising Long-Term Outlook

It’s been quite a busy past three days – but this morning I’ll do my best to sum up what the future could looks like based on a new pet theory of mine (Bullecules and Bearecules) and the hard Elliot Waves counts of Robin Landry.  I think you’ll be surprised by the outlook because I sure was.  As always, however, let’s start with some “expectation-setting headlines” and consider some of the possible “tilting” that could impact our playing field.

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Turning Your Home Shop Into a Business

Because the scent of fall is in the air, lots of folks will be turning to their home shops now that the good working weather is here, and turn on some of the long-delayed home improvement projects.  But can you get more out of your home shop?  Well, the answer is an unqualified….maybe!  This morning George (the tool man) looks at some ideas and opines on how an attractive home-based business for those who like to work with their hands might make sense as an economic insurance policy.  After headlines, and the charts of course, including our fancy trading indicator which has been much more right about the market than George has been of late.  Why he invented it and those choses to ignore it is just totally inexplicable.

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Where To from Here?

The market this week put on a very impressive rally, but as our little exercise in developing a simple trading system seems to be hinting, all the hoopla this week about “solving” the crisis (which is spelled similar to circus) hasn’t really fixed much of anything.  This coming week should be really key since we are now past euphoria of options expiration, too.  So this morning rather than roll through repetitive headlines, we’re going to focus on what Peoplenomics is all about:  Trying to stay ahead of economic trends and look off into the future a ways…

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Simple Questions–Hard Answers

Because there are so many moving pieces to the developing budget and debt ceiling story, I’m not going to focus on those in  this morning’s report (except, to pretend I’m a play-by-play baseball announcer like my old friend Manning Slater did in real life, but another story for another time…)  “It’s the bottom of the calendar, and the idiots are at bat...” is how I’d begin.  Which is why CNN hires a foreigner to anchor, I suppose.  So instead, something a little more hopeful:  A college kid wrote in and wanted me to answer some questions for him, like “Why do you prep?”   Boy, I bet he’ll be sorry he asked.  But we’ll spare him the full-meal-deal until after I do this short bit of play by play with a flow chart into the finals…

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Advisory for Peoplenomics Subscribers, Interested Readers

As you may know, the topic of Peoplenomics this weekend was a purely hypothetical solution to the devastating consequences of an economic collapse that would involve the mass euthanizing of Americans.

As happens so often, what is envisioned in our report is being overtaken by events revealing themselves on the web.

This weekend, writer Dr. Bill Weld has released documents which allege that the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has an active program in place which is releasing nano-devices into American food and water supplies and that by January of 2014 (less than 3-months from now) more than 98% of the US population will be effected.

While we cannot attest to the accuracy of the report, the idea seems to be that once dispersed, the nano-devices which could theoretically operate at the cellular level, could be activated by radio transmissions from such sources as cell phone towers and airborne drones.

The balance of the article is available here, along with links to purported documents.  What this means if true is that the government has developed an illegal KILL SWITCH  with which to attack its own population. 

We leave it to you to discern whether the report is accurate, although the economic rationale for a planned die-off of humans, does make unfortunate actuarial sense as outlined in our hypothecated outlook for Peoplenomics readers.

The Solution No One Wants to Talk About

Tired of hearing endlessly about the Ceiling and the Shutdown?  Well, there really is a solution no one talks about but it’s a very ugly and messy one.  Many times in the past, we have referred to our purely hypothetical Directorate 153 as being a kind of Central Command for a shadow government which really drives US sociopolitical operations.  Envisioned as being an outgrowth of the Cold War, when the US was at a long-term strategic disadvantage in policy implementation, due to the longer duration of Soviet and now Federation (State Duma) committee plans, our hypothesized Directorate at least gives the West a somewhat equalized footing on the timeline; one less subject to political breezes that blow through Washington in the wake of each election.  This morning, after a cup and a crumpet, we’ll consider what we do best around here:  The unthinkable.

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