Word that CV-19 has continued to accelerate comes as no surprise around here; we’ve been projecting it for months.  It’s how “compounding” works.
Yet, the arrival means more than draconian government regulations, there are the problems of “savings destruction” because that’s the stuff of which major Long Wave Depressions are made.
That and drought.  But, out West, we’re going through a serious dry spell and the long range forecasts are worrisome.
Rather than get wrapped around the axle of more “useless election news” (other than noting that Elaine and I are available for $100 per hour (each) to count votes – and we take direction on which way the count should come out very well…  (kidding, of course!)
Why, if we were in a more “marginal state” than Texas, such job credentials might start a bidding war…
Seriously, though, long-term goals are changing quickly now that many of the “assumptions of retirement” are being turned into “mass casualties of CV-19.”
We will do some spot checks after a few headlines and the charts.  Which are worrisome enough, too…
Important:  It’s Veterans Day – thank a Vet for their Service.

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Tired of wasting your time on social media and election jitters? This morning we outline a new concept to evolve the “next big steps” in human evolution.

While a lot of Americans have been wasting “personal processor clicks” on fears of riots, insurrections, and voter fraud allegations, we’ve been working on a tool that could be spun out of social media.

In a nutshell, insight and intelligence do not live on a Bell Curve.  Yet, as humans, we organize ourselves as-if it were the only way of ‘being.’

I assure you, it is not.

So, this morning, we begin inventing a new “system of inventing.”  One that harnesses the power of large bodies of humans and their intelligences in a way that’s never been done before.

After a few comments on elections, headlines, and our Aggregate Markets view of finance.

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Stand by for America to “fix” a bunch of non-problems. As we awaken to a “revolution lacking but a match” it looks like lawyers – not voters or rational humans – will decide our next president.

Rather than our typical drill-down into some important aspect of life, we instead focus today on a collection of tell-tale data that will shape the soon-coming future.

And about that match?  Prime time and social media are are fumbling for it, already…

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This follows our recent take on William S. Lind’s  book Retroculture.  After some thought, much of what advocates of “the old days” are after really comes down to mainly one thing:  Speed.

Gone, for example, are times when people strove for individual breakthrough insights. Regardless of time spent getting there. In that style’s place has come group problem solving.  Going missing in it all?  Time to just “think about things.”

So this morning with a “break point” in the cultural paradigm at hand on Tuesday – that we fear will be marked by incredible stress and acting-out – we’ll consider the genuine benefits of just slowing the hell down.

First, though:  A little campaign dirt and a look at some charts that – in our view – foretell of a dangerous decline as socialist economics threaten America in 2021.  Why, toss in the drought and some more hurricane?

Maybe we won’t repeat the “Dust Bowl.”  Instead, could be swirling Tech Trash to be followed by the Famine Festival…

So on to…

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A curious hybrid report this morning: economics with a side of woo-woo. Much has been written of a possible global reset.  But word in the “dream realms” is there’s something else to keep an eye on.

As the election jitters continue to drive the markets down, we wonder just “how bad will it get” in 2021.  After all, when we back out the 35% increase in “money slosh” due to the Fed, it’s clear that economic growth this year has been largely illusion.

A few headlines and our ChartPack which offers some interesting “forward prospects.”  As soon as published, I’ll be pressing my Scrooge McDuck suit again with futures pointing lower.

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While looking for reasons why human telepathy doesn’t work, we may have found some (effectively) “CHMOD” locks built into humans. These may effectively control “interpersonal read-write access” at the psychic level.

Which has what to do with economics?  Well….that’s what the new book is about.  How the lower-level contexts work.

In an odd way, humans are evolving computers by building detuned replicas of themselves.

Hell of a topic, huh?  After a few headlines and our ChartPack, of course.

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We pass a major milestone in the ongoing adventures of Peoplenomics.  Today marks our 1000th weekly since we first published deeper thoughts online in 1999.

Our focus today is on two prospects competing to dominate our future.  One is called “Retroculture.”  A concept of returning to those “...thrilling days of yester-year…”

But this is offset by the ongoing and dangerously rising social pressures on the “Uranium People.”  We all remember what happens when ‘critical mass’ is reached?  Safer out here on the “Rural Reservations,” we reckon.

Somewhere in here, more disease outlooks – market hype rolls along – with so far – our prediction of “No cash until after the Election” holding up well.

Plus in our ChartPack, we wonder when someone besides us will recall how economic slow-downs tend to the first or second year of a new presidency…

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Wednesday will be “Issue #1,000” of Peoplenomics.  Time to pull 20-odd years of study into something for posterity.  Or, was that posterior?

The only thing to rival the insanity of the Digital Uprising and quickly emerging Digital Mob Rule is the political process.  Not much of a choice.

If you haven’t taken the time to watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, you have missed one of the clearest previews of ‘the future’ you’re likely to find.

As we will see in the ChartPack, hard to see where this all ends happily – as the market is poised to out-launch

Elon Musk, or crater deeper than the Original Tulip Mania or 1720’s South Seas Bubble.

Merge with China and Russia into a Globalist World?  Or, stand up for our founding values?

Coffee up.  Freedom is on the line.

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A change of pace today as we look at a couple of historical oddities. Feels like a fine time to “get unstuck” from the pre-election frenzy.  Because if you’re like us, this has become pretty sickening.

Still, we stick to our long-term roots in cyclical economics as the ChartPack reveals some interesting information about what may be ahead going into Friday options expiration.

And of course, a few breaking economic stories including the just released…

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Can we simple humans out trade the machines (made in our own image), anymore?  It’s far from a theoretical question in markets like these.

By many measures (rational ones, like price to book and prices to dividends) markets are at “lifetime extremes.”  But, you wouldn’t know it.  Sadly, as we’ll see in charts this morning, no sign of the fever breaking.

Even in such outcomes, however, we are able to discern “usable information.”

But, before we get to those two hot topics, we’re going to “break the mold a bit” from our usual structure.

You see,  Woo-Woo is back.

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We look ahead at what could be in store for America into 2021. We obviously have a classic loss of government control over social behavior.  And maybe that’s one reason why wars are so popular over history.  Nothing like a “war to keep the peeps in line, eh?”

Moreover, with a hotly contested election coming, and mail-in voting fears, the times ahead promise more than a full measure of fear-mongering.

No worries there:  We have our on fears – but these run more to financial than social.  If you have enough money for a few supplies and can hide out from people (who are increasing crazy!) other than cleaning your AK…I mean what?

ChartPack is especially interesting this morning, too, as is the discussion of spreadsheet modeling the future.

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Want to live 30% longer?  Stick around. There is a trick hidden in plain sight which I haven’t see discussed anywhere else.

With markets in their pre-election confusion now – likely to last until inauguration – we focus on physical optimizing one’s wetware platform today.

Gone are the days of “optimizing for weight” for us.  Instead, an assortment of widely available home measurement tools can be brought to bear if one chooses to use them.

Not medical advice – goes without saying.  But we do like to think in unconventional ways about unconventional things.  For that, we need a high-performance carrier for the brain.  Liquid cooling, latest drivers and system updates, to put it into computing terms.

First though, a check up on markets, and how the president’s doing…

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Think of them as eWMDs as we fit them into the overall evolution of WMDs over historical periods.  Which matters because in ways, there’s much on the internet today that fulfills the functionality of a conventional WMD.  As we will discuss.

A couple of economic notes on data and that mess of whatever was pawned off as “debate” last night.  And then a detailed look at charts and where we go next…

We don’t care if the politicians want to be stupid, so long as we don’t have to be broke as a consequence.

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