"The Enterprise" and the MMMR Problem

I assume you know, if you’re web-literate, that the Enterprise is what the runaway group that pulls the strings of governments all over the world calls itself now and then.  If you’re not aware of the group, a simple Google of the Black Eagle Fund Trust that has been swirling away in background should be enough of a clue to at least get you started on the path of discovering for yourself just how far reality has strayed from the “way things used to be.” But other than confirm that “absolute power corrupts, absolutely” – which we all kinda knew anyway – the trail we’re on today has more to do with whether systemic corruption is part and parcel of how great civilizations end; management of multiple matrix realities (MMMR) reaching simultaneous dysfunction.  Heady stuff, and with 100+ pages of recommended reading as background, the stop at the coffee pot this morning will be a short one…  Just think of this as a quickie course in stratification of conflicting economic realities resulting in conflict.  Oh, and we’ll table an initial answer to the question “How far is down for this market?”

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Computer Update Advisory

Please note that you may experience a few new looking screens on the Peoplenomics site as we are presently upgrading to new software which will fix from the bugs (like the white screen at renewal time) and other nits.

I will post a note when all of the changes have been complete, but it should not prevent access while we complete the upgrading process.

Still, best laid plans of men and software designers….  thanks for your patience….

Has the Long Wave Been Defeated?

With the departure Friday of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and the elevation of Janet Yellen to the position of Fed chair, have we seen the demise of the long wave cycle in economics?  Or, has there simply be so much “creation” of “paper money” that we can no long see the true scale of what’s going on?  These are some mighty juicy morsels to ponder as we survey this week’s action in markets.  Which we’ll get around to after a few headlines and coffee, as always…

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Crashes: “Shock Timing” and Futuring

While we are sitting around clearing the financial wreckage and waiting for the Fed to be put in its place by the PowersThatBe Wall St. Division, let me share with you a revised chapter from my book “Real Time Machines: The Future is an Ap,”  This arises from ongoing discussions between www.nostracodeus.com brainpower Grady, Mike, and Ures truly.  It gives key insight into the danger of getting “married” to a particular method of predicting the future both in terms of crashes as well as secular events.  If you’re a radio-frequency engineer, it will become apparent why it was so important that we develop the “tunable intermediate frequency” approach to analysis of the internet in our Nostracodeus project.  But first, headlines and coffee to wake us up.  This morning’s report may be a bit longer than usual, but trust me, it will give you new methods with which to consider the always-arriving “next.”  Including a fresh look at Vlad Putin’s “Gentleman’s War” with the EU at the Ukraine front…

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Now Arriving: Hard Times Economics

This past Thursday, in an UrbanSurvival report, I mentioned several key factors that will likely usher in the return of “hard times economics.”  To be sure, it’s a general umbrella kind of label, but it’s a fair one given that working hours may be set for pending collapse as employers begin to reduce the workweek to the threshold (30 hours) below which employees are really “on their own for healthcare.”  Then I mentioned the drought that continues to engulf California, and with it, the likelihood that the Central Valley and south (San Francisco down to San Diego) may encompass the New Dust Bowl (NDB).  This morning I thought it would be useful to highlight from the practical day-to-day aspects of living in the new Hard Times.  After coffee while we can still afford the elixir of morning…

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Davos: Danger, and Devolution

As Davos is getting underway, we pause this morning to look at what may be the most-overlooked aspect of the concentration of power in the “hands of the few” namely massive changes in the traditional “span of control” concept in management.  It seems such an innocent thing on the surface, but then so did Lizzie Borden, I suppose. We’ll cut to the heart of things after a few headlines…

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Trending Out the Future

Two things to talk about this morning, since we’re way ahead of the California Drought which has become a big deal, as we expected it would:  One is how the Millennial mindset and new minimalism may work against Boomers trying to unload property for years to come.  And the second is an assessment of west coast port data.  But, before we look under those carpets, let’s pick up our drought discussion that we forecast would pop in last weekend’s report…

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Do We Really Need Government?

At least as we now know it…  In many of my recent UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics columns, I have asked whether there isn’t a Terrible Vortex ahead, somewhere a year or two out, when misguided government policies all come home to roost at the same time? The question is particularly pertinent because of recent disclosures about governments spying on civilians (non-suspects) in an effort to do for the present day with computers, what the McCarthy Era did for rabid anti-communists one long-wave economic cycle ago.  As usual, we try not to ask questions we don’t already know the answers to, but not without coffee first…and then we’ll get down to whatever happened to Robin Hood and since when did robbing ‘hoods take become acceptable?  Time for a large helping of “Business Process Reengineering” directed toward government…

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Left Field Alert: California Exodus?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a major state – like California – just had to up and quit doing business in the ways it always had?  What would be the impacts?  That’s the question we ponder this morning as we look at a possible “left field event” (black swan or outlier is also used) that may be developing right now.  It’s also a story of political intrigue involving a frog – and maybe someone behind the scenes running an agenda.  First, however coffee and munchies as we spin up the brainerator for weekend use…

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Meet the Video Version of 9-1-1

Thanks to Peoplenomics.com subscribers, we have the resources to every so-often actually pursue a new idea.  This morning we roll out a new concept:  How to turn every-day cell phones into crime fighting tools that may even be more effective than hand-guns.  We’ll be sharing this one with UrbanSurvival readers and trying to promote the idea more widely beginning Friday morning.  But this morning, in addition to the website announcing the concept, a short discussion about the “method of invention” by which anyone can come up with great solutions to very difficult problems.  After some headlines and a check of how our trading model is doing, of course.

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