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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Advances in data summarization and presentation has outstripped the average human’s ability to live  effectively with “Flat-Land News.” That is, to admit that most of what passes for “news” is wholly incomplete, lacking of context and riddle with fake “forced-choice” presentation. 

Because it falsely distills complex events into bi-polar choicing that is most often agenda-driven.

At the simplest level, “Should taxes be raised” is an extreme of binary (yet persistent) news polarity.  At some level, supportive facts are offered on both sides.

Yet, at the deep level, there’s far more going on.  For raising taxes in a hyper-complex world results in hyper-complex rippling impacts.

Consequently, high-order manipulators of the “fact field”  proffer “bigger & truer facts” but not reliably “useful” facts.  Despite these shortcomings, they still hold sway. Climate and Trump-hate are only two present examples.  We use illegal immigration as an example in today’s discourse.

The result of “flat-land” news – absent wide contextualization –  is serial sub-optimal governance decisions, financial error compounding, and life-changing oversights such as those recently outlined for subscribers) in the just-completed book The 100-Year Toaster.

Before reading, you may wish to work on serious “centering” of sell.  One suggestion is  Some study of the Hawai’ian art of Ho Oponopono.

Contradictory though it seems, today’s report probes the opposite end of the mental spectrum.  .  Rather than “quieting our data” we suggest a massive reform of what we define as journalism into deeper data relationship analysis.  Think of it as lots more “deep diving”  – sure to scare hell out of the “waders” at the shallow end of the information pool.

A few comments about it in Podcast #9 online here (27 min).

The process may take a long while to evolve.  But rather than become sheep-like partisans, following the sources of greatest hyperbole, human culture may ascend to a new – and better place – where cultural realization can triumph over experts in financialization and political manipulation.

Ah!  An A/B choice, then?

No – since we all zoom-in to the data displays in our minds differently.  It’s a choice range, not an Bushian “with us or against us” idiot-oriented over-simplification.

Confused yet?  Dandy!  We’ll count bodies and market action first thing today. But, after that? We shall propose a NextGen  presentation layer for news and information not adequately transported to the mind by present 2D constructions of  (what rather sloppily) passes for “the news.”

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As the death toll worldwide continues to mount – passing 1,116 on 45,204 confirmed – , we eye the next set of personal escalations.  This morning a look at what we’ve done already that you may wish to implement ahead of further events.

After, some morsels of data – and perhaps a Celebration of Lunation as the markets have now *(at yesterday’s highs) approximately equaled the  minimum 1929 Pre-Collapse Bubble.  We wonder how high is up, after all?  Projections follow.

Unlike Carol King, I won’t tell you ” I feel the Earth, move, under my feet...”

I do, however, have a sense of  slaughter ahead as the “mainly liberal” financial engineers of the NY stripe may soon be “burning down the house” to Stop Trump.

With J. Powell saying “this is unsustainable,” Who needs Molotov’s from the Bernunist when you have Miss March in the wings.  Repo’s Galore is her stage name, I think.

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As we wrap up, we explore solutions using the Global Commons model. As suggested in a phone call this week by my consigliere. Who also contributes some dandy insights into the spread of Wuhan Virus at the top of this morning’s report. 724+ dead now.

Also up is Podcast #8 for subscribers by clicking here.

So – deep insights into Wuhan, the final-final chapter of this serialized book after some other headlines and the week’s charts. which are looking more like 1929 by the day.

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You can’t live 70+ years – filing tax returns for 57 years – and not learn a thing or three about how to make tax-time easier.

Since most of the major brokerage firms will have their data ready for import into  tax software programs in a week or two, I sat down and started the annual process.

Like a lot of small office/home office (SOHO) filers there are some simple steps to  “getting it right” I’ve never written down, before.

We’ll get to it after a few headlines on climate, Trump’s SoU, and a discussion of how the charts are looking…Oh and the blow-out jobs report.

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We have a surprise from us “Hicks in the Sticks” – Tech is losing its Urban bias. Sure there are some drawbacks to remote living, but thanks to technology, we’re catching up fast and the lifestyle rocks.

More detail – and something of a short urban mass migration history – after we run through our usual weekly news post mortem which will include what’s ahead for next week.

Yes, podcast7 (*here) doesn’t show off the time machine project well at all, so next week in pod8 (to come) we’ll have a short course on several related sounds involved along with additional commentary.

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One of the biggest stories of the month – swamped by the District of Circus and the viral news of out China, is  that the World continues effectively in negative rates.

What follows is a roadmap as to how this works and why so many people aren’t understanding the mechanics of what’s ahead.  Gold and oil are screaming “There’s more inflation than recognized.”  So are housing prices.

Before that, however, we’ll first check a few headlines and roll through our ChartPack because it’s a difficult time to keep track of so many moving pieces

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After Pandemic coverage and ‘peachy remarks?”Mobbies:  Hobbies that make money.”

Sure, stocks are up – bigly – but is that really fun?    Today, we look at some of the ways we have tried to make some minor “Funvestments” in life.

And, having done so, I have to say while they haven’t all been winners, the closer I get to the final column, the more perceived value there is in the funvestments compared to most everything else.

We’ll collect some collectable ideas after our usual weekend fare – pandemic and impeachment updats, the ChartPack and Podcast #6 with Chris McCleary on where we are with dreams out on the psychology frontier. 

A nice change-up from pandemics and impeachings, methinks.  Who said “You deserve a break today?”  We like that plan…a lot!

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