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Bet you didn’t know there are over a million drones now registered in the U.S., did you?  Are there any prepping angles to them?  The answer, says your newly-minted Part-107 Remote Pilot is “Hell yeah!”  It’s a long weekend and care to guess who has play on his mind?

Of course, there’s the money-stuff, too:

With a new all-time high in our Aggregate Index comes a new target date for the fall collapse. Though we have to admit the continued rally would be more mysterious if it were not largely powered by the Fed making up money.  And most people having no alternative investment ideas.

Which is odd when you think about it (which we will a bit today):  With Covid and variants being made lickety-split (*say “Mooo!“) very few people are considering the compound outcome of population reduction PLUS excessive money creation.

Think back to the previous century in terms of a Flu-mar Republic  hyper-inflation!

A few headlines and then off the high board into data…

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I don’t like to be overly focused on “automatic money.” But it’s important to look at our returns on personal investments of time… Especially when some people spend hours every day looking at stock prices.  Is there a good ROI in that?

Automatic Money is a simple concept and it can usefully guide your “side hustle” efforts.

We also begin this morning – with the long weekend ahead – with a novel way of looking at (gulp!) climate change that occurred to me as I was pawing through Texas data.

Toss in this morning’s ADP jobs report number to kick things off, and our Aggregate markets view of stocks and an interesting morning, indeed.

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Bond market isn’t growing as fast as the stock market. In relative terms, it’s shrinking. Which, we think offers a novel opportunity to offload the Federal Debt onto individual shareholders.

The process takes a wee bit of explaining, but our point is that while the Federal Debt screams toward the $30-trillion level, there is a way to “IPO it away.”

The time to offload would be when, ideally?  How about in the midst of a massive stock bubble…like right now?

Which we will table after we first roll a few headlines and review our unorthodox view of the stock market this week.

Which was even more irrational than usual – Losing Afghanistan, but let’s run up stocks.  Why, it’s almost a harbinger of Buy the Rumor – and God forbid what the Sell the News events in the wings might be…

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Nature abhors a vacuum – and the Biden mess in Afghanistan is creating a huge one.  With the Chinese having said – almost forever – that reunification with Taiwan will happen – the pending debacle still in the early stages of unfolding in the Middle East may offer China an unprecedented window of opportunity.

Will they take their time and await next year?  Or, will this fall (and we’ll give you a date to circle) be simply too much for them to pass up?

A chance for a two-fer?  Get  for China and hobble the U.S. for years to come?  We shall see what we shall Xi, we figure.

Meantime, the market seems to prepare for a fall rollover as new data still holds the line, but looking at new Fed numbers, trouble lurks.

A few headlines to warm up the brain cells and then into the thick of it.

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Between events in the shop this week, and Biden pulling troops before others, we see a vision of the future that looks horrific.  This will come out on Urban in pieces, but this morning for subscribers a high level overview of what’s likely to come from America’s simmering calamities.

Along with the ChartPack which is turning into a nail biter on its own.

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My book Packing to Die: Suitcase Between Your Ears is now available on Amazon for Kindle.  Feel free to buy several thousand copies.

In a few days, the paperback version should be ready, as well.  Amazon’s had a “hitch in their print-along” this week. Not my error! I hear a number of other authors have material cued up, waiting for the glitch fixers to complete repairs…

The focus on getting this book printed got me to looking back at another Peoplenomics book I wrote some time back but never put out for the gen pop.  You can find the pertinent chapters of The-100-Year Toaster on the Master Index pages.

However, this morning, I decided to rewrite the first chapter of that because of more recent observations about the nature of not only product but also corporate obsolescence.   (Do I know how to party, or what?)

So after we clean up from the overnights and from the train wrecks, and a view of how bad this fall could really get in the ChartPack, we’ll focus on getting ahead by looking behind.  While there’s still time.

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SitRep and the Charts today since the week was consumed with “book work.” My latest book should be out Monday or Tuesday on Amazon.  Both as a $4.99 Kindle ebook and as a paperback, as well.

This brings another Peoplenomics book into focus.  I have continued to collect data for additions to “The 100-Year Toaster:  The Global Addiction to Obsolescence.”  Decided to write one more chapter there.  One dealing with the “100-Year Body.”  Which in turn rolls into the Perpetual Economy.

In case you missed it, the world is stuck with a formerly free enterprise system that works extremely well during growth (economic expansion).  But which tends to blow-up immediately upon economic contraction.  Which is just ahead.

Which frames this morning’s comments:  Serial policy failures are just getting warmed-up.

You’ll see it in the headlines and in this morning’s ChartPack.  Times like the end of the TSR (Typical Summer Rally) have, on occasion, presaged less happy times ahead.

When the wheels come off…

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Packing to Die: Suitcase between Your Ears should be on Amazon in a couple of weeks.  This morning the final chapters for subscribers.  Plus we’ll have those “hot off the boat” CPI numbers.

On a more worrying front, one of our lawyerly readers has dug out documentation on how CDC has actual contingency  plans to set up camps for the sick and remove people from their homes.

Wait!  Conspiracy theory?  Nope.  CDC planning options document (with link) which envisions an outcome where to “protect people”  On “humanitarian” ground.  Problem? The Constitution (if this comes to America” is trash-canned and a medical dictatorship takes effective control.  Say goodbye to property?

“A summary of the shielding approach described by Favas is shown in Table 1. See Guidance for the prevention of COVID-19 infections among high-risk individuals in low-resource, displaced and camp and camp-like settings 1,2 for full details.”

“Shielding” is the ideal, paternalistic term making this extensible from third world settings.  Just needs the “right variant” being pumped.

What could be worse than personalities like Newsom, Cuomo, Pelosi, and Fauci deciding to “go for a National Health Emergency” –  far past lockdowns and into death-spreading “camps,” instead?

We’re not saying this will happen, but the Covid  contingency planning docs will send shivers.  This isn’t fun reading.

Initially done under the guise of helping people in “humanitarian camps” we wonder what lying jingoists came up with “humanitarian” and “camp” as linguistically compatible terms?  What’s worse is that this is terrible extensible.  Yeah – to “first world” countries.

All that’s missing is the “right variant” to be loosed on the world.

So warm-up your intermodal crane and let’s unload this puppy…plus the market charts which this fall may need a good scapegoat, after all…

[May load sluggishly – today’s posting is about 11-thousand words worth.  More like a treatise than a report, lol…]

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Fat guys in red suits aren’t needed; not when we have a Federal Reserve and a conflicted bond market.  Which combined this week to press stocks and bonds around like seldom happens.  Gold down, bonds up?  Come on, man!

Next week, we shall see how it will work out since imbalances in the fundamentals don’t often hang around for long.

That said, we have papered-over economic collapse from the onset of the plandemic to what would be the modern analog of December 23, 1930 in our work.  The shout-out to the elves of the Fed is well-deserved.

Sadly, we have to away Monday to see who gets the lumps of coal as the typical summer high passes.

First, a few headlines and some buckshot at the news scanner.  To be followed by some thoughts on how to learn “Economics Backwards.”

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Two more chapters of my book “Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” today. In this one, we talk about postponing death. Lots of strategies to be kicked around…

Sorry if the page is a bit slow to load. Not a server issue. Just a lot of words and charts. 14 graphics, and about 9,700 words. 8,700 is the book portion. The balance is charts and the ADP job report analysis, and such wise and so forth. Shall we?

Super weak jobs report…

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Took only 4 1/2 hours. 

Peoplenomics is on a new server, but till the DNS changes settle down, maybe 48 hours, there could be some net-induced janky.

Moved all the subscriber data, was a SQL-slinger, the data move was flawless with another hat tip to my pal Gaye  for having a faster (and less prone to disconnect) web connection!).

Off to have a well-deserved glass of vino…  Buddy up in OK is now 13 days in hospital with CV but hanging in there.

Huge treatise of UrbanSuvival tomorrow on antennas, but for a “weekend/day off?”  Yeah…kicked it.

Kicked it hard.

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Reader Note:  We will be moving to a new server farm today.  So from noon (CDT) today until I’m done (take it any way you will) the Peoplenomics website may have a few unreachable moments… We’re not leaving.  Just rearranging the digital furniture.

Report now? A twisted tale of future studies, dream worlds, and computers that run intelligence is our topic.  Following the Friday market sell-off, next week could be interesting.

How about I tell you our topic ends up in some serious woo-woo?  Like the kind of stuff that jerks you out of bed at 1 AM to start trying to capture what just happened in a dream?

Well, that’s exactly part of what happened.  Let’s do the usual’s and then we’ll get into the really strange world of future.  After the ChartPack.  But first, we need to talk about Aging and NBCRET…

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Another chapter in the next book “Packing to Die:  The Suitcase between your Ears…” Today, we will look for those easy to use tools that can not only keep you “thinking young” but – special bonus here – if you ever have to do time in solitary confinement – you can actually look forward to it.

Yeah – interesting ground for a book on prepping to die – but we do look at things a bit unusually around here.

After, that is, we get through the mid week headlines, and what is that oh-so-silly stock market doing to our ChartPack, now?

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