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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The Nature of the Invention
June 1, 2013 — I’m sure that by now you’ve memorized my Seven Major Systems of Life (food, shelter, communications, transportation, energy, finance, and environment) and you know that I have al least a passing acquaintance with teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch (TRIZ), the Russian science of invention. This morning we toss items in the blender to come up with what may be the first in a series of Peoplenomics Notes: 20-Years Out in which we will consider present trends, resource and economic realities and try to project what that world will look like for the kids when 20-years from now shows up on the alarm clock one of these mornings. So…I’m pleased to share a draft Provisional Patent Application for a new kind of Housing which I expect will be here in 20-years, or less. But, before we tickle the brain cells, a few headlines to wash away the fog of Friday night…and the winds of Oklahoma…
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The Collapsing Velocity [of money] Problem
May 29, 2013 — As the self-proclaimed People’s Economist I’ll share a little pet theory of mine with you: The reason that America is not in the throes of wild hyperinflation is that although the Fed is printing money hand over first (and has been for a long time) the reason we don’t see prices doing moonshots is that the velocity of money is dying on the vine. So that’s this morning’s economic munchies after we get some more coffee and a few headlines under the belt. How about we start with Working Moms lead the crime rate by 15 years?
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