It’s nothing new – an update on our long-standing “Threat Board.” But it’s a good morning for a super-quick “keep it together” walk-through.  Especially because there is an unreal amount of eclipse talk (hype) underway.

For us, though, a more measured view of life helps with the blood pressure, attitude, and keeps the trigger finger safely off the you-know-what.

We instead offer our usual advice:  Plan a plan and stick to it. Because a good plan will pull you through a lot of dicey situations. Which is our starting point today.

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In an earlier Peoplenomics report (December, 27,2023) we went into some depth on a concept called QFPD: “Quest for Perfect Days”.  This, when coupled with some ideas covered both in old “ShopTalk Sunday” reports  like this one, led to some new insights into a “battle below the perception threshold” that’s waged every day, all around us.

Interestingly, there are not too many people who dare venture into these “real” aspects of self-management…with a few bright shining stars like Jordan Peterson and Cal Newport as delightful exceptions to “me-too’ism.”

Today we pick up where that December column left off – and get into task switching.

But not before a few headlines, Taiwan quake and such that we have word on this morning plus ADP job report just out; coming on the heels of the Tuesday Labor JOLTS report.

Then we can focus on playing better in the game of life.

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…It was strange enough?  Nope. A number of lookahead items on our threat board have us considering just how crazy this spring could become.

Due to the Easter weekend, we will keep it very real because in our 18 charts today, there’s a future coming into focus.

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“Time to play the exciting world-wide financial game sensation!”  Why, I can almost see the television and streaming ads now:

“The Great Reset is becoming visible in the headlines…who will be the first to see it?”

As usual, our “first things section” will lay out how the Big Swindle – and de-wealthing” of the Commoners – has been set up.

Along with that, our usual 18-charts in the Aggregate Index view of financial markets.

And was that overnight quake off Oregon just a prequel if eclipse-driven events to come?

As luck would have it, our First Contestant for today’s round of Stats of Consequences is ready to click….

You.

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First question is: Is it brave or crazy?  With the markets bumping along at logically over-bought levels, it’s tempting to buy a short and “play for time.”

But this is riskier than it might appear.  Although we’ve been known to do it from time-to-time.

Backing up these observations will be a dozen and a half charts to keep us “middle of the channel.”

Plus in this morning’s report we reconsider that massacre in Russia Friday that has killed nearly 50 people and wounded another 150, or so.

Best get to it: Busy morning and we’re just getting started…

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It may seem an odd question, at least in some sense: Since we are all “investors” every time we pay taxes.  But what is seldom asked – and there’s no one really advocating – directly for shareholders – is the simple question: “What are we getting for our money today and how does that compare with times in America’s past?

No. I don’t usually put on the forensic economics hat, and I am not doing this exercise out of spite or malice.  But the question does come up from time to time either in conversations over drinks, chit-chat with people in general, or when I have to cut one of those quarterly tax payment checks.

Today, therefore, we’re looking into how Americans have been long-term victims to what is arguably the most long-running, pernicious, and evil of all financial crimes, dating back to when “money changers” were kicked out of temples in Biblical times.

Like then, the question today that keeps coming up is “What’s really going on with our money?”

First, a few headlines pre Fed announcement and, as always, our ChartPack view of things…

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Quite the issue in today’s ChartPack.  Seems with a world on the verge of nuclear war, and the wrap up of the Russian elections this weekend, the odds of that peaceful “way forward” have just hit the skids.

Toss in the confusing Biden administration handling of Gaza, not to mention the pending Chinese move on Taiwan, and the world is likely to become a very “scarcity plagued place.”

Our focus today is on the most important question in economics. Which – as luck would have it – no one is bothering to ask. Yet, around here it’s the only question on the table..

And that is?

When certain forms of arcane finance are practiced – under the general heading “technical analysis” – should an adjustment be made in our long-term view of things based on the hard reality of long-term inflationary impacts on waveforms?

Ah, but we also have a few headlines to consider in all this, so best we jump right to it…

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This is where we figure out what being a neat homemaker has in common with being a successful investor.  Which – sure – sounds a little “out there” until you drill down into how organizing works.

Then there’s actually a great deal to be learned.

A few headlines and a super-interesting ChartPack today – about 18 of ’em (but it’s early to count so high, lol).

Even on the “free side” we might hint that a good sell-off in markets today, could presage a smoking Retail Sales report tomorrow.  All that’s missing is whether this will be a “sell the rumor, buy the news” setup for Thursday when retail sales come in.

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There we go, again, thinking the unthinkable,  Which is what Peoplenomics is about.

While we don’t think it will happen Tuesday, and might not even happen this year, it is increasing  “non-zero risk” to be taken into account.

A very short discussion to tweak some refinement of future plans, our morning review of the “creepy crawlers” but most important, perhaps, is the ChartPack.  Which, as you’ll see, is in the “waiting for end of Trend” to be our Bearish Friend.

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A final book chapter, Fed testimony, fresh job numbers, and crypto crazies means a biggish report today.  Which  we will pick up and play through starting with the jobs picture.

Oh, and not anything especially shocking about the election results in Super Tuesday, to speak of.

Two cupper, for sure though because many puzzle pieces are in motion.

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A reader poll on whether a new book (serialized first on Peoplenomics before general release) is of any interest.  This, as a result of Elaine’s healthcare crisis this week. Which got both of us seriously refocused on Aging, the point of living Life, and how to live our important roles to the fullest.

In the midst of all this, the markets are “going to the Moon” and we’ll explain what we did in response going into the weekend.

Also, a role through some headlines as the “World going to hell…” is slithering ever closer.

Might need a cup-and-a-half for today’s report.

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Wherein we describe a movement of warfare toward “Tainter Point Wars.”  Which we set about describing with plenty of historical references.

From there, we jump into Ure’s world of woo-woo dreams and get a glimpse of where the “new styles” of warfare seem to be leading us.

As one colleague in the review loop for this observed, “War is ugly. Civil War is uglier still.”

All the while, tiptoeing out on the ledge, a number of hot dates are expected soon.  Leaving us to ponder whether the Ides of March, or Ides of April will matter a damn in the long-term scoring.

So, we’ll kick off with the GDP numbers, followed by the Creepy Crawlers, into the ChartPack and ending with a good roll in the mud of history and a precognitive jump into a world on its way to us on the present paratime line.

With a nod to Oasis Technology for quantifying in the computational space, a notion that may be extensible into deeper philosophical and paraphysical realms.

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As we wrap up February next week, The Ides of March loom large. Not that Julius Caesar will be assassinated again, but the World could be on a hard boil by then as global events remind us of an old Talking Heads song – “Lifetime Piling Up.”

The good news, such as it can be when so many of the G.A. Stewart Nostradamus pieces are falling into place, is that many of our deepest questions about “Who was behind the Dump Trump” move has come into the open due to an amazing Tucker Carlson interview with Michael Benz in the past week.

A link to that – it’s worth every minute of the full hour to watch – is included.  Since we have entered the Post Constitution period. When self-righteous “defenders of America” are breaking the country on the pretext of “saving it.”

Against this outlandish (criminal) usurpation of power from the electorate, we also look in on that “free money to play stocks” deal run by the Bank of Japan that lit off another moonshot in the markets this week.

But will it all hang together, or are we at another one of those Beware the Ides of March deals?

Two cups and onward.

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