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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With all the attention in media to “fake news” we present a short course in sorting “wheat from chaff” today. Since I’ve got 50-years of reporting under my belt, I’ve been looking for a way to  teach anyone – in a matter of minutes – to sort “real news” from fake.

Surprisingly, this is one of those “useful insights” that happens from living a multidisciplinary life.  In today’s case,  as you’re about to discover, the “simple way to “score news” arose from my deep interest in treasure-hunting, or all things!

I’ll walk you through what promises to be a very short  and useful column, after we get some of the “usual’s” out of the way.  Specifically, some key headlines to watch and our Aggregate Index chart series.

(Our previous plans to update on the Time Machine Project have been pushed to Wednesday as I continue putting finishing touches on a radical theory called “The Q of Time.” )

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Bad news:  The end of the world may not come with a bang, but instead with a whimper.  Looking at the general “flow of life” from the long-term perspective of a 70-something, there are disconcerting signs popping up all over.

Yet few are able to put it into words. 

So we’ll take up that mantle this morning after our charts and the major headlines driving this to be called another “hump day.”

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Lab notes today on some of our “further-out” thinking. Including oddities like the study of local earth currents and “earth batteries.”  Where does over-unity fit?

While there has been “buzz” around the internet for years about  coming “new electrics” with much energy (and hype) focused on things like the over-unity motor quest, I think there may be lower-hanging fruit in other areas of science.  Worth this morning’s cup of coffee.

Then again, so are hot issues like Brexit and what may be retribution to follow.  Plus there’s the matter of how bad will crop yields be this year and more.

More important than our low-probability of breakthrough research, though, We’ll explore the process of asking “Right Questions” and “instrumentation,”  Coupled with a unabashed willingness to “fish in strange new waters,” there may be hope for humans, yet.

“Anchors away!” We go fishing today for “free energy” after analyzing some news and do some serious chart-gazing…

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“You can’t take it with you?”   Who says?  Sure, you can’t take a “load of gold with you” – and we’d emphasize to the coinsters that you can’t take cryptos, either.  But, since you have a suitcase between your ears….

What can you take with you when you die?  Well, that’s a fairly deep rabbit hole and we’ll get after it with a shovel  after a few headlines and our ChartPack.

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Unlike a Casino, you alone decide when to take your bets off when trading stocks. Which is why, when markets run against you, looking at  stocks as an analog to “gambling” is the most rational course..

This is a topic of great interest here because it has been a brutal week for bears.  This morning our “Focus” and the “ChartPack” are presented together as we tackle the problem of trading rules and self-discipline in market reversals.

After a few headlines and coffee first.

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Today we pencil out how much money might be made in the stock market decline of 1929.  Such a decline would begin tomorrow or as late as next Monday and would  continue to almost Christmas, as some of our models suggest, there is still a lot of “processor time” to be thinking about other topics as well.

With “time machines” going in background, I wanted to mention a few points about treasure-hunting today because both science as well as treasure-hunting can benefit greatly, I think from a new way of thinking that’s come into view.

We’ll get into that after we first go through some “pipe-dreams” about how much money might be made by someone who is willing to take a LOT of risk, should the replay of 1929 turn out to be enduring.

Knowing, of course, it will likely not be.  Still, though…

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We can’t stare at markets all damn day, every day. So, things like  thinking through how to build a working “time machine” provide a useful distraction.  A “wait” machine for the brain?  LOL.

Dual purpose, too:  Keeps the brain working which, in turn, makes what’s ahead for markets “come in more clearly..:“

Some people, like me I confess, derive a Zen-like feeling from attacking the intractable and perhaps even impossible.  Very much the techno-spin on a Zen Koan.

Today, part 2 of time machines – after we size-up the week’s financial carnage, a continuation of the longish discussion from Wednesday, for which I apologize:  That one tipped the bifocals at somewhere north of 7,800 words, or about 1-10th of a novel.  I promise a dash of brevity today.  5,690 words isn’t too brief, however.

Ready for the headlines and the ChartPack, then?  Seat backs and tray tables in their up and locked positions? Click on in then…

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We pick up where my book Dimensions Next Door left off.  Sure, it sounds like raving of a nut-case, no question about it. But since subscribers get to put themselves on my “science advisors board” maybe not completely irrational, after all.

Over time, we have a modest body of evidence that suggests manipulation of space-time not only could be real, but there may be enough “clues” as to make some experiments worthwhile. All that’s missing it to find “the key anomaly.”

Today we begin exploring the non-mathematical, anecdotal reports and literature in the field, From that, we figure to work up some proposed “new phenomenon ideas.” From there, logically, we’d design first instruments and then some test beds.  Adventuring we go…

I’m sharing this with Peoplenomics readers because in many ways the finding of the “keys to the market” involves similar methods. I began by reviewing the literature, coming up with a few testable ideas, and then employ a few winners.  Fair to say it hasn’t been totally unrewarding.

More important personally, as a writer/researcher (and every once in a while day trader) I that Peoplenomics readers are a group of generally well-above average income and IQ people.  It’s be a waste not to invite such people to contribute some thinking and offer criticisms.

All the fun stuff aside, we update our Replaying 1929 series of research charts.  Then (and you may not like this) explain the three-reasons to crash that could show up as early as next week. 

Today, a deeper discussion of that “damn self-similarity of economic declines” problem in a bit more depth.

Wheels up after coffee and the charts…where I’ll show you how we compare with the 1929 track.

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Equational madness:  At the limits of business models.  We know that there is a logical upper bound for any product.  One (OK, several) for every person on the planet.  And we know there is a lower bound, too. Zero.

The problem is what the planet needs is an resource optimized model.  While Wall Street (and individuals) all want the financially optimized model.

In order to “solve for saving planet” we need  to understand slopes of price-demand curves which is our work this morning.

After a few headlines (Impeachment Fever hasn’t broken yet…) our ChartPack, and one more half cup of the bean.  Just so we can be as jittery as a DNC operative, don’t you know?

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What “Report from Iron Mountain” missed.  “Report from Iron Mountain on the Accessibility and Desirability of Peace” was long-rumored to have been a parody of “think-tank” style contingency planning prevalent during the Cold War and during Vietnam, as well.

Alhough controversial at the time, the core idea of the book was that using capitalism, humans could be so productive and so doggone creative that we would literally keep producing ourselves into boom-bust cycles forever. 

These, it was postulated would threaten government, but there were only so many things that could be done to keep the masses under control.  National healthcare, an alien invastion, and so forth.

But that was before the Internet which – as we shall explore in in more detail – has changed the social control options available to leaders; both good and bad.

After a bit more coffee, headlines, and our charts. Which, by the way, may be trying to suggest Crashgiving in November this year.

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