Merit-Based Lifespans

You know the Fooled and Doped Administration has halted public sales of NMN – a potentially life extending supplement, right? What is not being spoken of much is the gross (obscene) violation of medical ethics in play.

Years ago, there was a study on low-dose aspirin, and when the trials showed the intervention worked, the study was busted and the people not getting the low-dose aspirin were given the option of taking it.  The statistical life extension from reduced cardiac risk was that major.

We won’t dwell on the fact that Seniors are going to die ANYWAY so give us what we want.  Instead, we will look where this is all going.

Eugenics fans will be thrilled to see how it’s a major milestone on the road to Merit-Based Life Extension.

Sorry, dear readers, but this is exactly the kind of overreach the government pulled off by patenting many of the marijuana compounds.  Gave them power they didn’t need, and which is certainly NOT in the Constitution.  (Neither was mandatory EXPERIMENTAL SHOTS.

In the interest of full disclosure?  Elaine and I did NOT get The Jab.  But, since Elaine is 80 and I’m quickly closing in on 75, we figure if we want to self-medicate, we have that right. Or, should.

Not after a bunch of Nanny State ass clowns (who decided God made mistakes with His Flora) should usurp our freedom to choose.

You can choose an abortion but they’re moving toward control of healthy aging.  Though, we’ll admit, with less than 10-years until Social Security blows up (and benefits will have to come down at least 25 percent) we know there’s an actuarial excuse out there somewhere.

‘Pay To Live is on the way!  And, as we’ll explain, a Chinese-style Social Credit Score is likely to determine your lifespan in the very-near future. Maybe even more than diet and exercise once you get up into our age range.

After the ChartPack and housing data, of course.

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The Anti-Aging Elixir

Investors – deep down – know one of the fundamental rules of money is “Must be present to Win.” Which means there’s a reason to spend profits now and then on getting healthy as possible.

This week, we focus on a key new idea that has come out of research into life extension.

But while tech, and our personal experiments seem to be working very, very well, there’s a problem.  And that is simply whether the World can support a major increase in the population’s life expectancy at this time.

We are going to look at both parts of the story, this week and next.  With some of the latest science and how it can be applied at the personal level.  Then, next week, we’ll consider the government policy implications.

For now, I’ve shelved working on my novel Ancient Children because there’s been an almost daily increase that the “plot” envisioned in the book will play out IRL (in real life) long before the book would ever pay off.

Headlines, the ChartPack and a spot of tea are at the head of the line, though.  Before we get into the weekend’s mini focus section.

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Does CPI or War Matter Most?

Pick your poison today!  We have a fascinating stew of intermingled economic classes to unravel.  There is, of course, Behavioral Economics (Prime Day 2).  Then we have International Economics.  Runaway bubble market economics.  And for good measure, let’s throw in Battlefield Economics – which is becoming a bounding layer forcing both sides into escalation.

Bring your own cluster bombs, pom-poms, cheerleaders and fear bleeders. A fine time will be had by all.

And even grander time awaits in today’s Focus piece.  We look into knowledge compression and how we’ve been “shrinking time on task” from what people learn to Winner’s Checklists.  File under “Need, read, and succeed.

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Warring on Weight, Warming Hype, War

If – or likely when – wider war shows up, readers are already fearing a second-phase of the American die-off will arrive.  Reader Stephen2’s comments on drug supply chains are spot-on.  In war supply chains are likely to crumble. Rationing.  Even of meds.

Losing weight is hard, but dying could be harder.

Today we also tackle some recent news headlines and a precise look at the arrival of our expected rally Friday in financial markets and how we played it going by.

After a few “weight, warming, and warring notes on times ahead.

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China to Replay U.S. 1929 Role?

While not offering advice, I did mention to subscribers I’d gone short last Friday. Odd things happen in the long wave economic cycles.  Positions of power and influence change.  With it, nations rise – and as we fear out west – they can also fall.

This will leave the U.S. to reprise the role of Great Britain in the Great Depression, which they suffered, as well.  While it’s not time to put in a potato crop, start saving tires and winter clothing, it is important to have a “feel” for how overly dependent Globalism/ists have made America on least-cost manufacturing meccas.

Which is why this morning we are focused on where markets could be headed next.  When events we have been eyeing could turn into something Bigly/Hugely later this month.  Circle July 27th – Av 9 – and let’s see how it rolls.

We also offer timing congrats to The Economics Fractalist, as well.

Holiday memories are all we have for the next 61-days. Between Av 9 and China bond payments, we wonder what kind of “celebration” Labor Day might be.

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A Reasonable Court in Unreasonable World

Some major SupCo decisions this week and we find them most agreeable. But they are not popular, depending on which one(s) you talk about.

Today our main focus, being a holiday weekend, is on the charts.  We are eyeing the coming few weeks to see if the end of the Wave 2 rally will become apparent.

If it does, as The Economic Fractalist advises, the chance for a dramatic nonlinearity could go nonlinear.

That fact we went short 7-minutes before Friday’s close doesn’t mean we’re sure of trouble ahead.  It could just indicate we should seek an intervention from Gamblers Anonymous.

That decision should be more easily made next weekend.

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Seven Paradoxes of Technology

We’re focused today on the subtle – but world-wrecking differences – between Numerical Accounting and what we’d label Natural Accounting. OK, it may seem like an odd place to attempt changing the world from, but go with me on this for a second.

Natural Accounting is about all possible measurements.  Climate, resource depletion, impact of under-tested medicines and the like.

Numerical accounting – which shows up in long wave economic cycles are a twist-up of numbers provides a much more singular focus.

Before we get to that, however, a look at a few headlines – we have fresh data just dropping this morning – and then a review of our ChartPack.  Which is still sorting out whether the major Wave 2 up we’ve been in since fall of 2022 is ready to “stick a fork in it” and – at last – be “done.”

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Charts Whisper a Grim Future

IF (and is still iffy) the top of Wave 2 is in – and the market continues sliding into a major Wave 3 Down – certain aspects and timing about Future become clear.  Because while there was much hype Friday about a “coup in Russia – like it was good news in some way – the fact is that could be a worst possible outcome.

The reason is simple:  Vlad Putin is not the worst president Russia could have.  The hard liners would likely have already escalated to tactical weapons use by now – and that would have opened doors to a global war already.

‘The psychology of next week is what concerns us most today, however.  Make it or break it time for Wave  2.

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Avoiding a “Solar Fleece”

A number of readers have asked me how to judge an investment in solar power.  Today we will take a deep look at solarnomics.  However, as you’ll discover, there’s a legal cloud – not so much an accounting  issue – that lurks as great peril to solar investors.

Yeah, including us.  I got “bit” too.

It’s a useful tale.

We’ll also cover the near-term future in our ChartPack section.  Where things are ideally positioned for an “Insert Big Event” in the next few days.  Something large enough to be a scapegoat on which blame for financial calamity could be blamed.

Stick around…things are getting “Interesting.”

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Biden’s (Internet) Hostage Crisis?

Digital preparedness has been one focus on the UrbanSurvival.com site this week.  Now the “reason why” is coming into focus with headlines today like U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims have been crossing.

Normally, were it a corporation, there would likely have been a major uptick in Bitcoin prices concurrently. As BTC is one of the favored means of payment to digital hijackers.

Today, reports have us researching recent BTC prices.  Because from Thursday’s lows around $24,870 we have popped up to the $26,700 region overnight (Friday into Saturday).

That’s a gain of  more than eighteen hundred dollars.  Which looks to us like speculation that a major ransom might be paid.  But, we’re thinking the opposite:  The U.S. is likely – in our view – to do many more things.  But paying ransom may not be on the list.

Some important conjecture this weekend about how the “Pre-Nuke” part of global conflict escalation plays out.

As we roll through the Juneteenth Holiday and wonder when the “wage slaves” will be freed, as well?

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Cause Economics

Two remarkable events are tabled this morning. Our BrainAmp spreadsheet projected Wave 2 Fibonacci high was hit at Tuesday’s close (within a point).  And in the other, we are increasingly concerned that non-banker socioeconomic tools are wresting control of our economic future away from those entrusted to manage it.

Pretty serious stuff.

Plus, we’ll look at some of the factors behind the coming collapse of the Commercial Office Space bubble and consider how that will become an [additive driver] to the Second Depression.

Now toss in the FOMC decision this afternoon and it’s a joyful day ahead, no doubt.

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Oversold Bull!

Park the Bull Market Talk.

We don’t mean to be critical of the me-too press, but… Yeah, this morning a few hard facts the cheerleader pom-pom media didn’t bother to emphasize while driving the market higher this week.

This being the middle of summer sweats around here, we’re keeping our focus on the Charts and on the prospect of “big money” if things keep rolling our way.

Other than allegations against Donald Trump this week – to take him out of 2024 politics, very little has changed.

But there are some key points to remember…

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Should “Prepping” Become “War Planning?”

We’ve been writing about Prepping almost from the beginnings of the Internet. Now, things are changing.  Well in advance of the Y2K “non-event” we were prepping.  I’d even gone so far as to position our “escape pod sailboat” at a safe harbor outside of the Seattle metro area.  In the event something did go wrong, there’d be “no pretending and no do-overs.”

This week, we focus on how the general economics-driven version of “prepping” could evolve as America moves into a more risky period featuring the potential for Global War.  In short, Prepping becomes War Planning.

We have a fair bit of history for guidance, so the exercise is as much about fine-tuning, as anything else.  Still, important to change up as the times evolve.

Which we will get to shortly after a few headlines and a look at our ChartPack.

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