I have pushed-back the next chapter on our solar/renewable energy book to Saturday because a couple of readers asked me to take a look at Gold which has popped up over the $1,300 level recently.
When I went through the data (which is something we love to do!) I found something that’s definitely worth thinking about.
That is, after we roll with headlines and our Aggregate view of markets.
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Confessions of “A Battery Slumlord.” As our “superior prepping” for whatever comes has evolved, we began with a survey of basic energy economics in a society that literally would starve without lots of power.
After that, we ran through the process of “Scoring Power Sources” in chapter two. On Wednesday, we rolled out some of the basic design parameters of any alternative power system by looking at lifestyles and load sheets.
This brings us to this morning’s chapter where you will learn more than most about how to select batteries. We will “go light” on the chemistry, but we will share some critical theory. Because with the exception of large ICE-driven sources, it’s nice to be able to store a lot of power for future use. You’ll learn how to “run the numbers.”
First, however, a few headlines and some focus on the charts because we seem to be breaking higher in the markets. We’ll dust off our Elliott wave prediction spreadsheet in here, too. So coffee and headlines and then we’re off. Doing what few will on such a football-oriented weekend. Wasting none of our precious time in life, except, perhaps, to marvel at today’s demonstration of a time machine on national television.
Wait! Did I just say time machine?
Sure did! How else can you explain 2 minutes on the clock taking more than 20-minutes to occur out here in the hinterlands?
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Lifestyles and Load Sheets is our next topic as we roll through a complete (in advance) book that should help you plan for a “better Depression” if there can be such a thing…
Next to food and water, nothing is more important to human existence that some form of energy which can then be transformed into light or heat.
Thing is – trivial as this may see – even those most-basic of human needs became hard to supply in the 1930’s. Toss in extreme cold (such as we’ve had this week in the Midwest) and maybe a side of “grid-hacking” by foreign actors and the purpose of all this “planning and contingency work” should be immediately apparent.
Apparent, that is, after some key headlines, a glance at our market chart series, and then more coffee. …
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Scoring Power Sources is our topic heading into my “Useful Book of Emergency Power” for subscribers.
The whole matter of picking your power sources is vastly more complicated than people give it credit for being.
This morning, after the headlines and charts, we’ll scale a number of sources against a wide range of threats that could leave you in the dark if the “latter-day replay of 1929” shows up.
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Since UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics have been solar-powered since 2008 (a fact I mention only once in a while) we do know more than a thing, or two, about robust home power stystems.
Toss in living almost 11-years on a 40-foot boat – which had its own, special kinds of power issues inlcuding a wind generator and more solar – and I think it’s fair to say I’ve forgotten as many people will ever learn about alternative energy, except for the working pro’s who design and install such systems for a living.
Thanks to reader inquiries, I’ve been saving up the questions so that in coming weeks, our Peoplenomics readers will receive a real education in robust home power; something that can be mighty damn useful should the second depression drop by. Send in questions along the way!
After our morning helping of headlines, commentary, charts, and financial kibitzing…
It has been a while since I wrote a book and this is one that begs to be written. Not a fantasy or a “what-if?” No, this is nuts and bolts how to do everything we need to cover. Today we look at the economic angles.
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Instead of our usual 4,000 word long discussion of something we have three topics this morning. Although, any one of them could be treated as book length material.
First is Donald Trump promising big news this afternoon. Then, there’s one of our oscillators that suggests we hit a potential turning point at the Friday highs.
But the real guts of today is the Personal Prepping Audit which we will attend to last. mmade necessary by an amazingly timed power outage…
Oh, yeah…our emergency power systems are all working just fine…
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Now that I’ve published the Small Trader Power Tool set – and subscribers have enough back-loaded historical data (nothing proprietary, just the Aggregate Indices we create) – to at least begin back-testing their own trading ideas, I’m trying to “move on” to the projects that resonate most with me and which are both interesting plus offering some real future for humanity.
One of these topics is “lost technology.”
In addition to prepping and ham radio, of course, since there may be a Depression coming (they seldom send out invitations), the four projects that really “grab me” right now are the ones that have been rattling around in my head since the book-before the book Psychocartography
On top of ultra-serious prepping, there are things like sound-driven levitation, space-time warping, brain hacks, and unique explorations into historical events that may have much more basis in literal fact when viewed from the perspective of a modern, open-minded generalist.
Today, in what I hope is a refreshing break from markets and money and along wave economics (our focal stock-in-trade) we’ll instead consider some of the issues attendant to recovery of lost technologies.
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With little more than Trump-bashing over Wall funding and resultant government shut-down in passing headlines today, we abandon our regular report format in order to offer a software manual to accompany the Small Trader Power Tool (STPT) workbook (a collection of worksheets in a single file) being released concurrently..
As you know, I have been fascinated with the use of market aggregates as a particularly useful way of considering Big Picture financial market behavior. All based on the idea that there is just so much money in the world at one time available to bid prices up, or down.
So while congress bemoans the closure – which could be over in an instant if the presidential non-signing was over-ridden, we will keep our eye on the ball – which is looking at the Big Picture for guidance on how the future might roll out.
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Not your “normal” Peoplenomics topic, for sure. But, this is not so much about my specific back pain fixing, so much as it’s a lesson in using available resources and applying rigorous process to attain a designed result.
This coming Saturday, we have the “subscriber-sourced” Small Trader Power Tool (release candidate 1, lol) coming along. Plus a few remarks about what happens when the talks in DC fall apart.
So, coffee-up…as we ponder whether the rally of recent days will survive to the weekend.
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Today, we’re into the “fun stuff” – the kind of thing I used to do and got paid well for doing: Working out algorithmic software solutions to complex problems.
Since we are de-emphasizing the day-to-day trading discussions, we thought it would be fun to use the occasion to whip up some new – and maybe a bit unconventional – tools to make sliding a few more dollars into the bank a little less work…
Peoplenomics, as I’ve defined it, is the study of people economics. So, what’s the point of studying “matters economic” if we can’t take a bit off the top for ourselves?
We’ll release the first draft of the tool next weekend along with some additional notes on algorithmic trading. But, it sure looks through “the tool” as though the Dow jump of +747 Friday was more algorithmic than humanistic, to us.
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While we normally publish Peoplenomics twice weekly, due to the markets being closed Tuesday for New Years, there’s not much new. So we will be along with our usual report Saturday…(Yes, I took a day off…)
A totally engrossing topic is on tap this morning: What should old people do – once they get old and are comfortably well-off?
It may seem an absurdity to even consider it – especially if you are young and working one, two, or even three jobs and some side-hustles. But, believe me, if you remember our three laws of life, you may actually get to the point where you’ll have a little side hustle (that’s fun) and be able to ponder the bigger questions like “What’s the absolute BEST way to retire?“
The answer should be clear: Retire with a purpose. Fine. But, how, exactly does one go about finding “purpose?” Our topic this morning after some warm-me-ups and a few charts…
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Wednesday reports normally contain extended comments as a “focus” section. However, today, due to the holiday line-up this year, we will instead focus on charts only and also provide an abbreviated news review on the UrbanSurvival.com site. A Focus piece will be presented Saturday.
And, if that’s not screwy enough for you, we will also be doing a special update on the UrbanSurvival site at about 8:15 AM Central to include the latest Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic Housing numbers.
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