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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Oh no!  George has roughed out another book idea. And subscribers will vote the project up or down.  I hope it will be a harder choice than the choice in the fall election.

Before that, a bit of pre-holiday news to go over and the market charts, of course as well.,..

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With a mix of terror and remorse, we line up the “history that logically follows” as the markets prepare for collapse.  Just this week, for example the Federal Reserve’s H.6 Money Stocks report owned up to swelling M1 (cash and equivalents) at an annualized rate of 88.5%.

While “doubling the money” (or close enough for home use) can effectively double the bid for stocks, by Friday some rationality appeared.  Like the story on ZeroHedge asking about “The Biggest Disconnect Between Prices And Profits In Stock Market History? “

We will mainly focus on stock charts and market tactics today, and for that reason (plus my pillow beckons) we will dispense with the podcast for a week, or two, while pressing matters around here take precedence.  As we “top off” and “stock up” for Lockdown II, the sequel.

Industrial arts to save the day!  Or, have you got a better way to rebuild American Independence on foreign goods?

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If stock market behavior, of late, hasn’t “hung together” for you, we have the answer!  A very short – and pithy (as in “I’m pithed”) at the academic crookery involved in selling the scam called “Modern Monetary Theory” to the witless and stupid that comprise 80% of Americans.

But, before we go into the fact-free zone of economics (where MMT thrives), let’s do the ChartPack and a few headlines to set the table.

Then we’ll lay out the MMT scam.

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“A Training Routine for Digital Knowledge-Fishing” is our focus today. Originally, I sat down to write up my plans for a ideal survival computing platform….  But, suddenly, there was this whole way of becoming “Web-Empowered” that doesn’t seem to get much notice.

Moreover, it crosses a lot of “traditional societal views” in the process.  That is, it is based on multiple concepts that can be seen as “encroaching” on everything from religions, to schools, the government, to social mores…

It’s a new “project” for us – and one eminently suitable for hot weather when outside “physical work” is limited by heat.

A rundown in the form of a project outline, after the morning headlines, the ChartPack, and Podcast #24 which is available here.

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Today, a prepping topic few people talk about:  In the event TSHTF, how will you “chill?”  Sure, we could ask hard questions like “Why are publicly owned companies giving away shareholder profits to “social causes?” But that might get folks riled-up.

On the other hands, in recognition of what is already a Long Hot Summer – we can’t change the season, or its duration.  But the “hot part?”  Maybe we can help.

First though, a number of “usual topics” to roll-through, including the morning news items and the ChartPack.

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We use our fictional Directorate 153 framework to reveal some interesting – and under appreciated aspects of economics.  As you wonder “Are we in a  Financialization Nonlinearity Zone now?”  We suggest this answer is yes.

Also, Podcast #23 is here, with an interesting update on Chris Tyreman’s re-translation of the Bible.  As it relates to “End Times.”

After our morning mash-up of charts and a few headlines to stirs the blood and baste the brain.

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With all the discord in America, what better way to get in touch with “Who We Are” than turning on the radio? But not just  listen to today’s 2020 Top-10.  We also go back to the summer of 1985.  And therein lies a tale…

We were shocked with what we found.

First, though, some headlines, a look-see at the ChartPack and some speculation about when “Wave II” will arrive on the disease front.

“And the hits just keep on comin’…”

Like Consumer prices…

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