Fresh CPI data, the UK slides into recession, liberal “gush” about Kamala. Then part two of our plan-ahead piece on aging. Totally full plate this morning. (Like I need another full plate, lol.)
Somewhere in here’s we’ll also review our Aggregate Index market charts and ask some questions about gold’s decline.
Coffee and speed-reading? Welcome aboard…
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Part 1 this morning of a look-ahead for young people. Old age is going to creep up on you..trust the old-timers on this. That means the earlier you have a “game plan” for your senior years, the more likely you will be to “win.”
There’s a balance between lifestyle when you’re young and what kind of lifestyle you want to enjoy in the “golden years.”
Before we get into it – and begin to apply some basic “gap analysis” to the problem, let’s roll through some headlines.
After that, we will stare (mouth-agape and perhaps drooling) at our ChartPack of stock prices. Which have risen to absolutely insane levels.
Seriously! I mean think about it: Companies are not hitting revenue targets, almost 9% fewer people are working, bankruptcies are rising…
Despite the facts on the table (even without second wave CV fears and election pandering) what was it we said?
Oh yeah…”No more money for U until after the election…”
It’s like Investors are buying stock in a banana republic, we suspise.
Exsqueeze me? Is the world flipping nuts?
Bean up and click-ahead, brothers and sisters: Yes, the world IS nuts but we’re going on the “back-lot tour.”
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Information is the “high ground” in all matters these days. Yet, for some reason, most people are “passive news and information consumers.” A threat board is a tool to hone your aggressive news and information strategy to better inform all aspects of your life.
The average don’t look long, hard, or deeply at much of anything. Bumbling through life – without purpose – it’s easy to drop in to “go along to get along” mode.
Oh, yeah: It’s also what makes average people, well, you know…average!
We tackle that on an ongoing basis using the idea of a “threat board” which traces its way back to SWOT analysis in business.
But, before we get into it, a look at the height of financial folly in our ChartPack. Sure…it really is different this time. Until it’s not.
Bean up, eyes on your goals, and we roll…
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With markets insane, and with Fitch lowering its outlook on U.S. debt to negative, there’s a “clock running” on America before the Second Depression is widely felt. We need a break.
So, this morning we take off for a little side trip into some “things going on” and how they weave into a whole cloth.
Want to tie space travel, UFO’s, cattle mutilations, and why all that money into CERN into a big coherent wad? We take a stab at exactly this.
Mental distractions aside, we also hit the charts which are back to a “break up” or “break down” line for the coming week.
And if that’s not inspiring enough, how about forward CV-19 outlooks?
(Do we know how to have a fun summer weekend around here, or what?)
Click ahead…but you’ve been warned. It’ll be stranger in here than it is “out there.”
Or not…’cuz “out there” looks pretty sketchy to us…
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We begin to tiptoe around whether we can be taxed into communism under the false-flag of “socialism.” Oh, sure, of course the costs of CV-19…and lots more …figure into it.
Put another way, can deficit spending and political demagoguery take down a country that literally saved the free world twice? It’s become an interesting wager.
But first, we have a few choice words about the satanic party and its mockery of “hearings” by summoning attorney general William Barr and then not letting him give answers to false-choice questions.
As soon as my blood pressure comes off the pin, we’ll wade into this mess-o-facts and the market prospects given the “paper mache” model of economics now at hand.
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We tackle the second part of the recent “dream realms experience” this morning. It’s very much spot-on when comes to matters “economics.”
That’s because deep-down, at the root of all human endeavors is the “key question” – what are we all doing here? And as I think you’ll agree, when we look at the migration of work over millennial time-scales, something very useful comes into focus.
Beyond that? Well, no podcast this morning – not enough time in the day for all things.
But, if it’s any consolation, that called Wednesday as a possible “Market Top” is looking not only interesting, but maybe a few bucks toward lunch on that one.
So, buckle up (and bean up) and off we go again…
Email Outage: Due to the DDoS attacks, the george@ure.net email is down but the gure(at)centurylink.ne t account is working fine. Vendor is working the problem.
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Sorry, but this morning’s comments are for subscribers only. There is HUGE Woo-Woo afoot right now and I don’t want to be labeled a nutjob (anymore than already) by putting it out on the public site.
You’ll have to make due with me telling you the “balloon market” is still expanding and the world is nutzo. No change.
You can skip most of the headlines and if you simply hear Dow futures are up another hundred, that’s enough finance to hold you over to this morning’s open…
Fair warning given. Tighten the seat belts..seriously odd bit of Woo-Woo to follow.
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Odd report today – it begins with a side of “woo-woo” in a dream. Then, in part 2 coming Saturday, it actually makes a marvelous economic point that most people never pause to consider.
Of course, before we get to the interesting, our usual slog through the mundane must be done.
But, with this morning’s draw-down on early futures pricing, I think you’ll find our ChartPack section especially interesting.
Read on! (Or, subscribe so you can…)
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The Ure’s face an interesting problem: One you likely will come up against if you haven’t already- vacation planning. If you have “places to go” and “people to see” what is the best way to get there?
Not exactly a “mainstream economics” question – like how the Fed is watering down the purchasing power of money while trying to “paper-over” a Great Economic Disaster.
But, it’s a practical question. Because some of us are old enough to remember what a nice, leisurely summer cruise around America was like.
We’ll dig into the strategies and costs, but first, the assorted headlines (and virus projection update for the week). And what Saturday would be complete without our ChartPack or Podcast #25 (here)?
Click on in, Bubba (or Bubbette, as the case may be)…
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Sure, buying hard assets sounds like a good idea. But how did our 2001 buy work out? The answer – and a discussion of tax consequences this morning.
In addition, we update the virus outlook and a few choice words about this being a “traders market” in the ChartPack section. Oh, and some economic reports that may influence the day, as well.
Summer doldrums are here and it’s a tough choice: Play in the shop in the morning when it’s cool? Or, sit in the comfortable A/C bubble of the office and fritter away the hours for “lunch money.”
I bet you’re in nearly the same spot…tough choices come with summer.
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Suppose, for a moment, that your “future self” could write a letter to your “present-day self” and offer pointers navigating what’s to come. While it would make an interesting book – there’s so much to cover – it also makes a pretty interesting column.
Although such a letter could be “personal” there are many aspects of it that explains much of what’s going on in society today. Why young people are not planning to have children and why – when you “run the numbers” a kind of world-wide Venezuela seems more possible than not.
If you can image the Dark Ages – and throw in some tech and the digital analog to “feudal lords.” That kind of thing is sobering, to the extreme.
After a few headlines and some charts, of course.
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Toss the fish oil? Sleep on the ground? Throw your water in the blender first? Yes, the Mad Scientist and his beautiful assistant have been at it again. Reading and pondering where Ponce de Leon hid the Fountain.
Which we will get into as soon as we find Eldorado, or its early desktop analog – the stock market.
With a few “news droppings” along the way. Which will make for a “Mary time” we’re so sure…
Economics site on aging? You bet: Must be present to win!
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I couldn’t just sleep-in. Had something on my mind that we need to watch for in coming weeks That is, if “spider sense” means anything outside of Marvel-space.
I hope you’re having a dandy weekend and this will be mainly an expansion and continuation of the thinking that I outlined on the free side (Urban) Thursday morning.
Oh, and this being a holiday and all, no podcast. Instead, flip over here to a classic bit of jazz/blues that (to me) well-describe the “field position” America finds itself in from here forward.
Ladies and gents: Mose Allison. “Your Mind is On Vacation (and your mouth is working overtime…)”
One more (as long as I’ve taken a musical detour back to my time as a transmitter engineer in Seattle’s R&B/Jazz station? How about “Big Miller” and “Without a Song“?
More reflective, you say? Al Jarreau “Spain (I recall)” works.
Days like this – the big national holidays – I sit down in the studio and can become lost for hours. Ideas pass by – a song remembered…
We are – after how many years is it? 244! – still a country with a ton of potential, but at the same time, a ton of disappointment.
At 244, will we make 250 intact?
Always the philosophizer, eh? A bit more coffee and then we launch…
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