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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Down to the “Concept Corral” as we model the future this week. Our approach, as with all research, is to review what is known and then construct a filtering process on several levels.

This is a useful exercise because it can turn into a wellspring of good ideas.  Or, in the case of coming up with a non-planet-wrecking economic system to replace the one in power now, it can at least get us on the path to asking the “right questions” about our dilemma.

After coffee, a few headlines, and of course the ChartPack.  Wherein we shall look ahead to what a collapse this fall could look like when we pass “End of the Replay of 1929” which might come as early as this coming week.

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Ever have a good idea? One you longed to patent and implement but it would take just too much effort at precisely the wrong time?

An interesting tale today of a novel idea presented in a couple of 2013 and 2014 Peoplenomics articles and how (I can’t make this up) the idea shows up in the Jeffrey Epstein orbit in a complex tale of Israeli intelligence, backdoors in software with more Orwellian high strangeness that leads right to the dark pool some think of as the Deep State master of Totalitarian America.

We’ll run that down after a few opening news events of the day and our odd way of looking at stock market patterns that remind us of 1929…

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Positioning of the democrat wannabes, weather “roll-ups,” and the coming of “virtual reporters.” There are multiple stories in play which give us a chance to employ some forecasting skills.  Each involves a specific “way of thinking” and are thus widely applicable skills.

Oh, and the future “won’t sneak up on you” either.

We will begin by laying out an incredibly obvious nested positioning statement sequence for whoever the dems pick, and explain how the GOP lags in marketing.

First, however, a check of a few headlines, the weekly market check (oh, yeah, blowing off as expected) and then we’ll preview the likely (today, anyway) 2020 match-up.

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Time to update  September 2018’s Peoplenomics 891-B where we outlined recent advances in anti-aging.  The “supplement cocktail” we approached while sniffing around last year is now making headlines.

Can we get another “one year drop on the future?”  Maybe so.There is much new data to review along with a “process discussion” covering how Elaine and I have constructed spreadsheets to manage our “anti-aging  supplement regimen.”  Oh, and our “analog” to that prescription-based life-extension cocktail.

Right to it after some headlines and the charts, where a chance of a replay of last year’s Back Christmas for the markets appears.  Don’t ask us why, though.  Ask the elves…

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No, actually, I’m not kidding.  Our recent encounter with what can only be called a “time slip”  August 30th has actually yielded not only an interesting  set of data correlations but also deep-thinking on how “the Whole Thing (Universe) might work.

Sorry it’s such a long piece, but there’s a ton of concept to digest, So we will keep the news and ChartPack

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Value Propositions and Economic Models today. Because we need to start at the very beginning of a product’s life-cycle if we’re to resolve the now-appearing conflict between economic efficiency on the one hand, and environmental efficiency on the other.

Because once you see the inherent conflict, we may be able to outline a new kind of “global econometric model” which might lead the entire planet (after a bumpy transition period) to a new sort of “economy” where there’s harmony between “economics” and “environmental constraints.”

Unless we get this figured-out soon, the entire world will continue riding “deeper and deeper into the Box Canyon” or disaster where slaughter of all things will take place.  From the Great Barrier Reef right down to the 3-year old child next door.

We know we need to change our thinking…but as always, that’s a product of habit and the how to change US stops us cold.

So, into that in greater detail after a few headlines and our morning view of the ChartPack for this holiday-foreshortened week…

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Lemme see: The Corruption of Money and a Tremendous Woo-Woo event – mind-stretchers huh?  Seem grand topics to be immersed in over a Labor Day weekend, don’t they?

After all, who in ‘Merica doesn’t work for “money” save a handful of blessed people who have found “another way.”  And of those, isn’t woo-woo expected?

Mostly, this weekend is about supply, demand, and logical limits.  Including when time gets out of bounds like it did Friday afternoon, between 3 and 4 PM Central time, if you didn’t notice the change personally. 

Last one of this magnitude was 45-days ahead of 9/11…it’s like a “bow wave” of a huge emotional hit.  The sense of time changes in advance.  Or it was CERN…but more on this as we wander along, seeking…what?

First, a few headlines and our charts.  And we’ll use incredible restraint by not referring to our Dorian story coverage as a “few lines of blow…”

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What could be bigger, right? You may not like the answer.

BecauseTrump walks the footsteps of Herbert Hoover, or so the world markets now worry.  Rates are again falling.  There’s a sense that history is on the precipice… right on the brink. And so we are.

Toss-in the problems of Hong Kong and the fall BREXIT of the UK and there’s every reason to point at the “trade war” as being the Biggest and Worst problem afoot in the world right now.  Why, even the Drudge headline about 40-year rates collapsing under 2% support the growing concern.

Unfortunately, it goes deeper than all these.  After we run through some headlines and the morning’s ChartPack, a discussion on the larger context of global war is due.

Yes, there may be something worse than the trade war out ahead of us.

The choices are ignorance, planning, which to us isn’t a choice, at all.

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Today’s report may read like something out of a sci-fi book. But, I assure you it’s real.  Today we’ll be walking through an extremely odd  “teaching dream” I experienced Thursday morning in one of my “other lives.”

“Other Lives? AYFKM”

I warned you of the sci-fi angle, right?  If you haven’t read my book Psychocartography: Mapping the Human Dream” it won’t make sense.  But trust me, there are a few of your fellow humans around who have worked diligently on “remembering their dreams” and often, the recall is so good and just so damn crisp (in a “going to IMAX way) that upon waking into this shared “reality” it takes a day (or two) to get your feet back on the ground.

I think when you read this “trip report” you’ll understand clearly what “non-numeric mathematics is about and here’s another warning for you:  This may change how you think about history forever.

But first, the weekend “housekeeping items” including our headlines, a look at the markets through our “Aggregated markets” viewer, and then we’ll jump into one of the most instructive dreams I’ve ever experienced.  And that’s going a good ways…

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According to the UrbanDictionary, the term springs from a posted definition from a UD contributor named conceitedAsHell) back in 2003.

Since this was “follow-up” week from my August 6 hernia mesh implant, which involved my personal science project in an attempt to ‘beat the laws of medicine’ I’ve been doing a lot of study on patientology. 

Not just as it relates to being a grand patient (doctors don’t get enough “up-side surprises” as I see it), but also to how we – as aging upright apes – take on this whole (increasingly likely) interaction process with the medical community as we age.

As a result, I’ve been working on generalizing a personal pro-active approach for Elaine and me – many details of which I think you’ll find interesting.  Especially one mental acuity protocol I call simply “the gauntlet.”

We’ll jump into this stuff just as soon as we roll through the midweek ChartPack and see if the news headlines make any more sense today than they did Tuesday.  Spoiler alert:  Don’t hold your breath…

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The non-public part of Comms in the AfterCrash on UrbanSurvival today.  As that article notes, you will have to adjust to an entirely different information world in the event of “an actual emergency.”  No reason not to herd a few neuron bursts in that direction while we can.

A note from military affairs contributor warhammer on EMP sets the tone for this morning’s discussion of how one might successfully prep for an EMP or massive HGD (*hard grid-down) event.  We’ll be doing this one a budget and with a purpose.

To round-out the concepts in the UrbanSurvival piece.

After some headlines and a check of how markets ended this options expiration week.

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