As COVID-19 sloshes around, we suggest some serious movie-watching as a tonic.  Not that we’re not fans of high drama or spaghetti westerns…it’s period information we’re after.  Because out present-day period is going away.  Which year we “land in” will matter.

“Duh movies” seems like an easy way to pick up a lot of historical “knowingness” which seems like anything but a waste of time…everyone’s gotta have their motivation, so our eyes will be on the bit players.

More to the point, we also ask is MTM?  Is: “Media The Message?”.

Around here, if you don’t already see the parallel to “12-Monkeys” or see our addiction to “thingness” (as my UPS driver explained) as a mirror of the addiction problems in the movie “28-Days” you’re not paying attention.

Not a flick-fan?  OK, then to the radio…

Why, it’s Baltimora!!! Once famously recorded, how we could all be “Living in the Background”.  But, relief is ahead…

“I’ve come out of hiding by and by

(Been all alone)

Cause I’ve been immobilized for so long

(On my own)

Slowly emerging from the dark

(It’s just day by night)

I feel like I’ve wasted so much time 

I’ve been living in the background….”

After the updated forecast, and some hints of relief in the data, a look at the ChartPack, and some comments on topping off supplies, we’ll consider “movies as keys to our future…”  You tracking, Pilgrim?

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After the morning’s “bad news” we’re going for a “time out” and a “useful distraction” to keep from dwelling on the growing pile of problems. Covid cases in the US are now well-over 100,000 and there are whispers it could be worse than the Spanish Flu of 1918.  The markets are interesting, sure.  So is the D.C. half-step.

We will cover all this – plus our ChartPack view of markets as we slide into Depression II.

But, in  the interest of keeping our neurons firing,  a savory bit of research called “Evidence of Cultural Entanglement Knowledge.”

Podcast 15 is available here – a bit longer than usual as my consigliere drops by with some comments…so with that, click on in….

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There is lot more to this discussion than “money” in the digital/fiat sense. There are assets like “length of expected Life” and “How much to spend to get how smart?” 

Those are metrics that always matter.  Money just moves up to the “top of the pile” because it is the most visible layer in human economics.  The deeper question is “What are you buying and to what end?”

When studied, we fail to find in Nature, any such compunctions to print, charge interest, carry-back seconds, or the whole litany of behaviors called “financial engineering.”

Let alone buggering-up what should have already been a simply relief act due to lost incomes due to the shut-ins.

The Hoax of it all comes into focus – and we’re really now at the weakest part of the PowersThatBe Cycle – for angry mobs can arise – we need to look back, as well as ahead, to see what kind of a bargain will be struck with the Devil on it’s latest periodic visit.

And that begins with redefining our sense of “value.”

Which we will do after the COVID data, the ChartPack view of the markets, and with an eye towards Pappy’s best advice:  “You can only spend it Once.” 

(Pappy didn’t know politicians. though…nor fractionally reserved Banksters…)

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It’s an honest writer’s confession that I admired the late author Leonard C. Lewin.  You’ll remember him as the author of the best-selling Report From Iron Mountain: On the Accessibility and Desirability of Peace.  This was one of my favorite books.  It amplified the lessons of “thinking the unthinkable” I’d learned as a newsman years back

What most people don’t know is that Lewin wrote a second book titled Triage…in 1972. 

Its about a “world-sweep….”

But more on this – and why we may be moving into a “Post-Marketing Era” after some virus numbers, a few useful other things and, of course, where would we be without our ChartPack (whose study seems deeply useful, we have heard).

Oh, almost forgot:  Podcast14 is here. And some very interesting pointers on what lies ahead from one of those “well-placed sources.”

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Welcome to another Lock-limit and crash risk day.  No surprise to subscribers, though. Our death-toll outlook now surpasses WW-II by mid-July at current rates.

We need a break.  So, in today’s report we try to look past the virus spread, toward some new technology that holds amazing implications.

Because sometimes in a crisis, it’s useful to know “where the magic is” and to realize that the future is a LOT closer than we think.  Pieces of it have been deployed for years…

In the process, you will learn the answers to several questions.  Like:  Why would we not be “me-too’ing” on more virus impacts?  What does the reference to entangled mean?  And how is all this tied together in such  a manner as to have Mr. Ure’s desk about to be adorned with a particular 6.7 pound “dark crystal?”

All things are connected in the Universe – even if it’s by Einstein’s spooky action at a distance – which in quantum physics is the magic. 

But first, yes, we’ll update the virus stats and yes, we have charts. Lock-limit nosebleeds,  and all.

But the focus today is on what happens after the Globally Transformative Disease (GTD) concept.  As we “reach out and touch” a future at the signpost  up ahead.

You see, most people forget there are two outcomes when you get to the Twilight Zone. (And yes, we’re  there, alright!) Sure, it could be “night” just ahead.

But just for this morning let’s focus on the other – less often cited – choice.

Dawn. 

Click ahead.  You’re about to catch a glimmer.

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Here’s a dirty secret about the Big Bang:  It doesn’t go on for ever…and eventually it reverses.  Same for stock bubbles.  The question that damns us all is “When???”

And therein lies today’s modest projections of coming attractions due to COVID.  Reversal, sadly, is a good distance ahead.

For millions of years, life developed on This Old Rock and didn’t need unsustainable power plants, the Babel-2 of social media, and a leech-class to “motivate” other people to work – enabling the leaches to steal their unearned pieces.  No, we got along without that, just fine.  About time to reinvent in that direction, methinks.

As the markets continued to unwind this week, we began to make lists of entire industries and sectors that may  never recover.  As hypercomplexity fails, it could dramatically change how modern life is lived, until the Internet itself – not just the users – peter out.

First though, a stack of pancakes in our ChartPack and the “rack ’em up like cord-wood” in the virus data.   

Earphones ready?  Podcast #13 is online here.

Binoculars out? We begin “seeing past disaster” and bracing for the Great American Rethink ahead…

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Fabulously wealthy, mentioned by three major religions..and a figure who may provide insight into modern economica.    It’s his way of “thinking about thinking” that we not only find intriguing, but plain old useful.

Not hard to do, either.

Before we do that, it’s the Day of Three Number Sets.  First is CPI just out.  Second is the Wuhan box scores and update projections.  Last, but not least is our look-ahead on markets. When, oh, yeah, may be done with their dead cat bounce from Tuesday’s “running of the shorts.”

Gripping play-by-play of all starting with the CPI tee shot.

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If our topics sound a bit scattered, they’re not:  It’s a cross between a Sit-Rep, Social Outlook about Where Your Money’s going.  All of which got me out of bed and firing up a fresh pot of Kona roast at 1:00 AM.  In an attempt at contextualizing some of what may lay before us in the unraveling world.

So, this morning in addition to our few short headlines and a look at next week, we will provide some useful outlooks for how the experiential flavoring of coming months may feel.

As a warm-up, Podcast 12 is available here.

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An exposition today on what the Fed rate cut, market reaction, woo-woo, and time machine research have in common.   Yep.  This is one of those Twilight Zone kind of discussions that sinks down into the part of being human that we mostly don’t visit often.
First, though, in addition to our usual daily dose of market notes, some headlines, the Corona box scores and a few other odds and ends, we’re busting out the champagne.
In case you didn’t know, the World Health Organization has just announced the “official” mortality rate for COVID. 
It’s exactly what we have been telling your for over a month: 3.4%.

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This morning we consider the problem of how much faster markets seem to be moving now than in the descent into the Great Depression.  If you think that Depressions are a thing of the past, hang on, because that light at the end of the tunnel could be a runaway collapse.  And we’ll consider what that might mean in modern times.
How can you top a column like that? Well… We present some interesting photobiomodulation concepts based on  mixing radio techniques and medicine….

Our speculation today looks at a potential novel method for “busting viruses” in the bloodstream.
First though, Podcast #11 is here.  Then we start the day with disease box scores, a few headlines and our weekly ChartPack view of markets.  Which were anything but spring-like this week.

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In a word: Yes, maybe…  But that’s where today’s research gets interesting. “Hacking Old Age,”  Part 3, is it? This is the kind of report that “turns my crank” because I don’t have any knowledge to speak of, digging into it, and no predispositions. What does the rational mind (or mine, for that matter) find?
Yet, there has been an emergence around the fringes of  science dating as far back as the late 1970’s.
And curiously, not all water is “equally wet” in many – often subtle –  ways.
We’ll dish up this latest serving of brain food  after the “usual suspects” – including a handy spreadsheet to quickly pencil out COVID-19 numbers – and what our Charts are murmuring about the future.

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The second chapter of my next informational project “Hacking Old Aging” rolls out today. First, though, it’s useful to read the TV plotline from the series  “Limitless” where a hypothetical drug, NZT-48, gives the hero nothing short of Super Powers.
This assumes we all survive COVID19 – so we’ll jump into that today, as well.
Fictional, this NZT stuff?  Well, for some.  But over the past 20-years,; I’ve been able to sneak-up of a few of those same qualities.
Today, we will focus on the beginnings of that migration. 
Also available for subscribers: Podcast #10 (38:10 worth) here.
Before we do, though, the “usual suspects” will be dealt with:  A few pertinent news events, and our odd graphical ways of considering the markets…

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Another “lap around Life” hits this week as 71-rolls by.  Here’s the thing, though:  I feel every bit as good now as I did at 50- and maybe even better.

Why?  How?  Well, as near as can be figured, it’s because someone has been making a serious long-term effort for more than 20-years to “stick around for the End of the World.”

Still calling it a “dead heat.”

Like golf, Life’s not particularly hard –  since it may be all about technique. Today, we begin the checklist of some things I do (beginning with my odd – and maybe subversive – way of thinking).  Ideas here that you may want to “try on” for yourself.

First though, our usual Box Score on  COVID-19, no relation to Kojak-1973.

Plus the charts and our usual whine about how the market would be tanking already, were it not for the US Fed dumping in $9.454-billion  of “easy money” out into the markets Tuesday afternoon as they continue to sandbag our financial shores with paper…

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