A new kind of Grand Unified Theory appears in our meta data work. Our work here at Old Man Labs is loosely based on the idea that there is an acoustical “trap door” to space-time.  In a review of extensive anomaly reports, cross-tabbed to religious traditions, we seem to have uncovered possible “pay dirt.”

Today, we’ll go through things semi-sequentially so you can follow the evolution of this most novel thought.

As you will read, some of the pieces fit so damn well together  that we’re inclined to relabel the work from “crack-pot theory” to “pending experimental confirmation.”

Importantly, this changes our instrumentation plans dramatically…such that we’ve started research on optical scatter, scatterometers and difusion meters.  Because opening what we had considered a “time portal” is not an instantaneous.  In data, such events seem to take a few minutes to measurably begin and longer to become fully manifest.

First, though, work before pleasure (which is what research is, after all!).  A few headlines and trends and a walk-though of how the markets are holding up the weight of the circus tent…and fresh consumer price data just out.

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Addicted to Accounting is the focus of this Chapter. Conventions, depreciation, and the time-value of money may be driving toward unsustainable and anti-environmental outcomes.   A journal entry for delusion?  Or a T-account for Depletion?

Because as we look at what much of the world is doing wrong (high non-renewable resource burn rates for one), accounting’s curious ways of “valuing technology” becomes a focus.  Accountancy has helped shape consumption and idealize product lifespans..

We will lay it out after a few weekend headlines and our ChartPack…

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One of our guiding principles is that “Everything’s a Business Model.” So looking ahead to next year, we have a couple of interesting observations about how this “new business” is doing.

My consigliere made an interesting observation while visiting.  “Just like ESP and paranormal research like remote viewing peaked a number of years back, watch for climate to peak in a similar way…”

Interesting concept – which we will wade into as we beat the bushes looking for macro trends (like climate marketing) to begin changing consumer behavior, possibly by limiting consumer choice. Oh, you didn’t get the memo explaining how fewer choices is one of the fall outs?  Tisk, tisk!

First, though, we get through a few headlines and this morning’s Job Data…plus the ChartPack.

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Holiday weekend, but the ChartPack today is most instructive!    Yes sir: No rest for the weary around here.

We’ll hop to it, as soon as a few headlines roll by.

Say, pass the leftover stuffing, would you?

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Problem on the table this morning is “When to take the money and run?” Which we will muse on with an “indicators review.”

Before that, a few general economic notes plus we have a slug of fresh economic indicators to consider as we head to the table for turkey.

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Besides mastery of self- discipline, holidays are  a great time to construct  a “10-Year Investment Program.” These can be simply monitored with a 1-Year Investment Horizon.  Done every 3-6 months.

Unlike very short-term trades (based on various cockamamie schemes, some of which don’t work, others of which do, but with lots of qualifiers), long-term choices are what drive genuine net worth.  It’s the long game.

Today, some ideas to kick around during your upcoming “down time” over the Thanksgiving holiday.

After the usual appetizer course of headlines and that on-going Replay of 1929.  Think of this as July 18, 1929.

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Since we’re going into the “slow holiday weeks” I thought it would be useful to work on self-discipline.  Which by extension includes organization  of “life parts:” in addition to finances.. 

This came up because my consigliere will be visiting from this weekend and over the Thanksgiving period.  Not a big deal, but I decided to clean up my office-lab-electronics-and ham radio room.   It was while doing this, I had some remarkable insights into one of my own character flaws.  But also a revelation about why some people are intrinsically organized while others…well…not so much.

After we get through charts and a few headlines.

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With the stock market closing the week in record high country, we focus today on ways to tell when we have started to turn down. One of the simplest tools to use are simple trend channel lines.

If you have a spreadsheet program which some chart tools, you can skip the technical 2 or 3 standard deviation calculations and simply eyeball what can be very useful trend changes.

Before we do that, however, a few headlines including a few comments on the “peach” show trial which spend who knows how much taxpayer money Friday heading from someone who had know knowledge of anything having to do with the Trump phone call to the Ukrainian president.

Here,. all this time, we though the fishing season closed for the winter.  Our bad.  But, then again, we’re not members of the attempted coup in progress, 

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solutions to the problem revealed in a recent Bloomberg story “Richest 1% of Americans Close to Surpassing Wealth of Middle Class .”

As one who has always enjoyed “word problems”  in math classes, we can achieve some remarkable insights  by carefully reading “the facts”.  As you will see when we outline wealth concentration as “The fishing hole problem.”

First, though, we have some headlines to scale.  After which we go swimming through the charts.  Eventually, though, we get around to floating some useful thinking.   We trust you’ll catch-ion.

Frame it as taking the billionaires to Walden Pond for an outing.

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Big discussions today on Fed Repo actions, the rise of Non-depository “banks,” the Berlin Wall 30-years later, and some business activity numbers.     We’ll stick mostly with useful numbers and concepts this morning.

All worthwhile ponders as we continue watching the Great American Subpoena Festival in the District of Corruption.

After some caffeine, headlines, and a deep dive into our charts.

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This morning a discussion of hybrid money systems.

Is there a way out of America’s Financial mess?  Well, turns out yes there is.  While it may seem impossible on the surface, there is one path that could pretty much cure “all that ails us.”

I call the process “re-denomination” and it would at once dispense with all kinds of financial uncertainty. 

There would, no doubt, be a huge cry from the vested interests in finance.  Because it’s in their selfish interests to keep front-running retail stock trades.  Which is what online trading platforms do.  And – since they’re all cut of the same cloth – the SEC and other mythical enforcement groups in bed with the industry they pretend to regulate – will punish only the slow manual traders.  High-frequency trading is crooked but the regulators pretend it’s not.

Yet, how is it HFT online tracing firms can give away stock trades commission-free?  Because the real money is made front-running, we suspect.

To fix that – and a ton of other ills – we need a bottom to top rethink.  So this morning we toss out a framework to get that done.

After charts and coffee, headlines and OK, if you insist, a few snide remarks along the way.  Oh, and our Indonesia Bureau Chief checks in…

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The Fed is price-fixing and the Bubble is here.   Yeah – free markets are a Big Lie. This one hit me like a ton of bricks this week.  There I was, in my office doing generalizing.  And that’s when the “veil lifted” and a whole new world appeared.

As it turns out, much of what I’ve written on UrbanSurvival (the free site) is not only true, but the ramifications put a whole new slant on investing.

So we will skip the daily rub with a microfiber cloth of the rose-colored glasses .  Instead, this morning we reach for 180-grit sand paper instead. 

Which may take away some of the captivating details of what you think you see.  But what’s left visible is both big and important.

After headlines and what has evolved into an interesting ChartPack section this week. Since the Federal Reserve is in the business of price-fixing.  So much for “free markets” huh?

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Narrowing the “fishing grounds” today, we consider the Q of Time. Sounds incredible, but as I’ve accumulated the data over the past several years, there is compelling reason to pursue two very specific lines of inquiry outlined in the three earlier reports on this.

Today, we’ll begin the process of putting past time travel events into a format that will provide for easy analysis.  With that we should be able to “box-in” a small specific hunting ground.

First, however, some morning headlines and our ChartPack = plus the ADP jobs report –  as the market continues trying to figure out what to do with all the recent Fed liquidity…

Pack sandwiches and a Thermos for this one – runs north of 6,600 words, not counting charts and figures…

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