Since “going off the farm” for a bit, a number of realizations wandered into my personal headspace, a good thing overall, but they are serious tasks which will keep me busy for many months to come. I’m refocusing on self-sufficiency and with good reason. You’ll see why as we serve up the remainder of Capt. Midnight’s five-parter (which will be parsed out in three more “shorties” on the free site, plus we will go into some details about one topic in particular, namely peak oil (thanks to Oilman 2). But first, before rolling up our sleeves, we have a few things to talk about including one topic which I’ve been wrestling with for several weeks for a book I’ve been asked to write…
Futuring With Capt. Midnight
Our friend & colleague who goes by the moniker “Capt. Midnight” offers some savory thoughts about the future which contain many nuggets worth mining. And, if you are thinking about putting off Social Security to pile up more benefits, we offer some alternative thinking…
On Democracies and State Secrets
With a lot of America’s “secrets” coming out, a quick look at some history and some discussion of how state secrets work. Plus, an update on our trading model, of course.
What Cost Power
(Hartford, CT) Based on reports which hit the net this week that hint the government may have sniper teams to kill protesters, we ask the intriguing question “What Cost Power?” and come to an interesting conclusion…
A Technical Trading Note
(Columbus, OH) As we have a demanding travel schedule today, we are posting this morning’s report ahead of time. Our particular focus today is on technical trading… a nice way of saying we’re going to try to keep the bastards in the bankster-class from eating every last dollar of our retirement dreams by keeping one step ahead of things…
The “Missing Link” and some Travel Notes
(Nashville, TN) Our story on de-rusting tools lacked a critical link Saturday, so here it is this morning. Also some flying sights which flying across America’s mid-section…
The Prepper’s Dream Shop
While this week’s report was to have focused on the effect Alfven Waves have on human, hence market, behaviors, we found it downright curious that the very week when we might have been able to draw some solid conclusions about how electricity impacts markets, the HAARP data pages at the University of Alaska disappeared. My, my, well ain’t that curious? While we wait for their crackerjack IT dept. to get them back on line, we will instead focus on the Prepper’s Dream Shop…how to set up for whatever this way comes. After, of course, Mrs. Olson stumbles through with another dose of half-caf.
Now, About That Recovery
Time once again to get really grounded in our view of the
U.S. economy using the most non-partisan economic report I can think of: A
check of actual port traffic coming in from Asia via the US west coast. I
won’t spoil the surprise by telling you what to expect, we’ll just roll with
data, as always. Meantime, we also have a dandy ChartPack update which
features a sizeable bounce that we anticipated in last week’s report. But
first, deck the halls with boughs of coffee…time to welcome this morning’s
second cup of Mrs. Olson’s half-caf and get on to our First Things topic…
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Is Poverty a Choice?
Statistics are ugly little buggers. We begin this morning with a scandal story or our own, assess why Japan’s mini-crash this week means something in longwave econ terms, and then we get into the good stuff: As we look at the problem of whether poverty is a “choice” we quickly descend into harsh realities of self-deception. We develop some
notes on how humans (like us) can still us shortcuts to get great economic results. What we find, I think is interesting and useful. But not as useful as our “first things” column and a few headlines, along with that first cup of coffee…
The Anti-Marketing League
Want to fix almost everything that’s wrong with the world? IRS Scandals, the ultimate surveillance state, income disparities, lack of time off, world hunger and all the rest? Well, today we offer some thoughts on how the Grand Unified Theory of What Went Wrong
(GUTOWWW) arrives at a simple conclusion: Too much marketing! First, as usual, we will sort some of the wheat from the chaff and notice that in terms of our propose Anti-Marketing League, there’s not much that can’t be set right in the world with a lot less hype and a lot more thoughtfulness….
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Vacations on the Cheap
After our Vacation Economic School report Wednesday, a number of readers suggested that while my analysis of most cost-effective ways to vacation (paying full retail) was pretty good, a number shared ways to really vacation on the cheap. So, since this is summertime (or will be in two weeks, officially, but everyone starts the “vacation season” at Memorial Day), I thought we could run down a number of ways to “vacation” while penny-pinching. After all, why work is there’s no carrot out there? First, however, we’ll look at our scandal sheet and see what spiked the punch bowl on Wall St. and make a call to our Water Department in our never-ending quest for trends that matter behind the headlines…
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V.E.S. (and it deals with Vacations…)
June 5, 2013 — Take a drive through almost any city in America at this time of the year and you’ll see signs up in many neighborhoods proclaiming VBS! It’s usually accompanied by fine print for us heathens to remember it means something other than Visual Basic Scripting. Most times, it means Vacation Bible School, but if you were to see such a sign in a certain part of Redmond, WA, if could just be someone with my odd sense of humor. “What’s this VES stuff, Ure?” Indeed: Vacation Economics School…wherein we provide some cost comparisons between different vacation modalities. After a Danish, a splash of Mrs. Olson’s (if double Daning can be forgiven), after a look at just crossing headlines, you’ll read Brother Ure’s preach on the Gospel of More Time Off. In Excel see us, daily, et cetera.
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