Big report today: Well over 5,000 words plus 29 graphics so it may load a bit slow… What we have is a complete step-by-step on how to put in some home deep water culture (DWC) hydroponics and a big discussion in the chart section about whether the G-20 is driving global stock prices, or whether the US is “leading.”  Damn tough one to decide, that ‘un.

Oh, like that’s not enough?  Fresh CPI figures out from the Labor Department, too.  (Reminds me of the old broadcast journalist “Rip N. Reed” who was rumored to have been a WSU b/j grad…)

So two cups and maybe three as we roll though what matters minus the ILRF (idiot level ratings fluff).

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Survivors can’t rule out famine. Although what will really happen in the long-term is out of everyone’s reach, if we are to transition out of a less monetized existence, there will be widespread social risk.  One of the largest of these is “food risk.”

Not just the risks with a pesticide lawsuit, nor the idea of “terminator seeds” being weaponized, or with tariffs on food items (esp from Mexico) – or over-slowing the labor sources needed for production and harvest.

The problem is most complicated and we are probably less prepared for a breakdown of the food supply than at any point in recent history.  Remember, the Great Depression was also called “The Hungry Years” in America.

For your reading list:  The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.

Today, we look at how monetization has screwed up the future of food and strategies to take-back some personal control.  After headlines and a few charts along the way…

Then, at the end of the report, some “woo-woo” detective work…

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Lies about Money and Labor.  There are a couple of axioms that we roll through not to mention the various kinds of “money” out there.  World does great at optimizing senseless digits.  But average work-hours to live numbers?  Forgetaboutit!

Our current fave is pseudo-money – the made-up diggery digital spunk.  Which, if you argue the point means you don’t know the carbon footprint of bit-mining. Rape resource to make-up hash codes?  AYSM?  That  makes crypto-fallacies the most environmentally damaging industrial waste (with the least return) ever invented by mankind.

A few headlines before going full-spleen today, but eventually we made the ultimate “Environmentalist Observation:”  The whole world has gone wild resource-stripping because we are optimizing “money” (and digits) instead of “minimizing labor.”  Stupid choice, ain’t it?  But we are a what kind of society?  Anti-smart.

(Which may explain why we are all busting-butt for 90-hours a week just to break-even.  Not our fault, except for the part where we fail to challenge the crooked business model imprinted on us from birth.  As we shall elucidate upon momentarily…

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Today: Limits to Growth:  People, Resources, and Money.  But, far more important, in our “Replaying 1929” charts, we have this week a broken critical support and the gates of hell may be getting ready to open earlier than anyone planned.

We’ll run you through the charts and a prediction of an S&P 500 below 2,000 after a couple of headlines and yes, more coffee!

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How did the entire world get sucked into its excessive consumption addiction?  This morning, we look at some of the people, inventions, and circumstances that have paved the way.

But first, a look at a very few headlines and a HUGE problem forming in our view of markets.  The future, at least in some chart views, is on the verge of “blinking out.”

Definitely a fasten your seat belts people.  “Sell in May” might mean more than “and go away” might involve an unusual amount of “going” this year.

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Worthwhile reading for all, we hope, though especially Millennial’s, as we trace the “Death of Quality” in consumer goods.  As the trip evolves, we arrive at some interesting “facts” about the future.

This being a holiday weekend, we hope you enjoy the outline presented here and will share any additional areas that might usefully fit.

As the old Danish saying goes:  “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the Future…”  Except that our task is easier today in a world of spreadsheets and databases .  These allow us to move the “future” a little nearer; allowing finer focus and clearer inspection.

After headlines and charts, of course.

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Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems.  You will also meet TEWS (tethered-electronic) weapon systems).  You might see a frame of a video I made in 2004 on remote controlled surveillance e vehicles…and you might infer quite properly (now that all my NDAs in the area have expired) that I do have a fact-based vision of a very ugly future when comes to urban warfare..

Most people have never penciled the future out in this subject because it is so ugly, horrific, and anti-human.  Tends to scare the hell out of you. I Robot IRL and not the happy ending.

Special Bonus: A link to video coverage of the riots in Indonesia overnight from our Jakarta Bureau.

Before we get to it though, how about some headlines, charts and coffee?

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Two big stories this week frame a change in how the US Economy works.  The CDC reported the American birth rate is now down to the lowest level in 32-years.  At the same time, claimed president Trump Thursday, smuggled children constituted almost 65% per illegal border crossers this year.

Here’s the problem: We have a population drop (PopDrop) problem at the same time we need synthetic growth (SynGro) to keep the economy from imploding. 

The MainStreamMedia is either deliberately lying about what’s going on, with the battle for  future of tax revenues, or they are incomprehensively stupid.

Notwithstanding the Stanford-Binet’s,  a tale of two economies today, as we sort through the idea of merit or just keeping the doors open to everyone.

After tea and crumpets (OK, coffee & charts, then) of course.

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Time for a rethink of social programs?  A chance discussion this week got me to thinking about how the world really needs a way to “recapture waste people.”

Who???

There’s no one who is “waste” per se, but circumstances in life often result in a lot of people ending up in hopeless, dead-ends, that seem almost inescapable without some kind of aid program.  Yet, most of what we have today doesn’t work well.  Something must be missing…so we’re off in search of “it.”  After headlines and our charts, of course.

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Humans are binary animals. It’s built in to how we think because of our “wetware” – which means neurons only have two states:  fired or not.

This has tremendous implications for how we arrange nested decisions and how we “bias ourselves” in certain directions.  Yet little of this is out in front of the public to consider

Instead, we live in a world where the majority of our binary decisions are pre-packaged so that corporations can profit from our following “their script.” “Tell your doctor” and “Buy one today.”  It’s that way in investments, as well.  Binarism, if you will.  So, this morning we toss around some ideas on this point and I think you’ll find it thought-provoking as hell.

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Recent U.S. Navy anti-gravity patents hold both promise and problems. It’s a classic “disruptive technology” and it’s part of a larger picture we will be covering in multiple upcoming issue.

We’ll jump into that after headlines and our view of the trade-crazed markets…

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While Peoplenomics’ main focus is economics, there’s a secondary focus on “living well.” We reckon part of that to be doing a fair bit of “spiritual work.”   Going into those realms in an unavoidable future problem for everyone.

Today, we will dabble our toes in the waters of a “Grand Unified Theory of Everything” (*GUTE) which, thanks to the Navy anti-gravity patents, has begun to come into view.  It is, though, a bit like “sticky tumblers” in a lock sometimes.

As part of this “Escape Room Earth” approach, we will update you on some of our “light crown” work and walk you through some of our upcoming research plans. More important, though, is the progress of The Chronicle Project which has quietly taken-down its website even as their research continues to fill in more of the past.

After a few headlines and today’s charts, of course.  This is one of those rare reports where rather than focus “on the money you can’t take with you,” we instead focus on where we go next…

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Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is key to understanding the shifting sands of planetary economic warfare.  Although it gets little mention in the American Mainstream, it will likely join other monumental forces at work shaping our future; such as anti-gravity, artificial intelligence, and resource depletion as the Grand Strategies.  Together, these “new forces” will likely have a huge impact on humankind’s prospects for survival.

Because while there’s a good bit of press about China going to the moon (as a first colonizer), they’re are going a great number of other places as well.  That’s the point of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

America, meantime, is hopelessly distracted by minutia that has little long-term impact.  One example?  The headline-grabbing Mueller dissent letter to Barr being waved-around today.

This “larger context” is on the “thinking list today after headlines and our view of markets in the ChartPack section….

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