A couple of notes on economics and prepping this morning and then a few thoughts on ping pong (of the chain reaction type).  Blood moons, delicate negotiations and all that.

This being a holiday weekend, we’ll keep this morning’s report short and to the point.  But not without an update on some headlines and our Trading Model update.

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With the government routinely building files on all of us – as part of Total Information Awareness – due in part to a need to prevent terrorism, but also spot people who may have holdings outside of “officially approved asset channels” that can be seized, we have to look at government surveillance and ask some simple things.

One interesting question would be how hard would it be to build an intelligence platform to help guide us in our various investment decisions? 

Another would be how to use global intelligence (and big data in particular) to feather our own nest both professionally and personally?

Seems a worthy goal for anyone venturing into the realm of Peoplenomics to look at what the government has developed and ascertain how much can be “borrowed” for our own purposes?

This morning we look at retasking some personal assets to help us stand up and co-own our own futures.  Are there some ideas from the Bumblehive folks we could perhaps borrow?  Nice to “Secure the Citizens” and all, but most of us just want to secure some more money…

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A reader asked me what I thought of some fellow running around the ‘net telling people he had inside information that the US population was going to be reduced 88% by 2025.  Said reader asked “What is Ure take on it?”

Simple:  Doom porn. 

Hey, it’s an industry and – one could argue since I have worked so much on future/futuring, one that I bear some responsibility for helping to create.

That said, I have renounced the doom porn crowd and it has cost thousands upon thousands of insecure, nail-biters, anxious to be believe the end is near.

The truth?  Ain’t no 88% pop-redux (or global coastal events so far) despite whatever the “End is Near and we’ll sell it to yah” types are peddling.

So instead this morning you’ll have to deal with a likely market decline which – while it won’t end the future of humans – WILL be something you might want to avoid.  Or, if you’re a horrible old capitalist, you might want to scalp a few bucks on.  But first….

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While the “happy-talk crowd” continues to crow about how well the economy is doing, the reality as shown by multiple indicators paints a different picture.

We’ll brush off a little of the optimism this morning, but not without being mindful that a herd of lemmings is a difficult thing to turn, even if their thinking is quite wrong-headed.

We’ll saddle up and ride into some hard data after headlines and coffee.  One needs a bit of reinforcing before taking on a full herd of lemmings.

Reader Note: We will be filing a formal complaint today about site caching by a certain California group which insists on serving up outdated UrbanSurvival content.  Problem is not on our end – it’s in how caching is being operated by those who apparently don’t appreciate our candid views on things.

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