AI: Sunset for Musicians

A word of caution:  Avoid the temptation to blast co-humans with  the catchier tracks linked in this morning’s report.

A bit longish, sure – especially if you listen to all the music links.  This is a study of music that reveals a great deal of the general processes involved in obsolizing/obsoleting humans.

Music’s a marvelous context for understanding computational encroachment into the human domain as we call out the technical <and in turn monetary drivers> that are moving toward the Sunset for Musicians.

First, our usual main news stories (especially the NOAA temperature and global warming fraud now breaking) along with our ChartPack view of markets.

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Amazing Echoes of the Twenties

I spent a fair number of hours this week going through the 1928 and 1929 newspaper morgue of the Library of Congress online.
I loved it –  a grand non-numerical way to “sense” the rolling end of the Roaring Twenties and look for plays today that rhyme long-past events.

We’ll get to it, just as soon as headlines, charts, and several cups of the bean get us rolling.

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Doctoring Your Numbers

I have the good fortune to have an excellent doctor here in Palestine, Texas.  His problem?  He has the very bad fortune to have me as a patient.

This week, I got the results of my latest medical exam…and a discussion of “the numbers” is of great interest since most of our readers are “grown-ups.”.  And, when figuring estate-handling, life plans, and such, having an idea “how much time is left” is a very useful thing.

First, though, some headlines, including this morning’s fresh market data, and the ChartPack.  Best viewed while playing “Fly Me to the Moon” in background…

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An Overlooked Statistic

…Starts our quest in the Focus section this morning.

After a few bends and twists on the road tracking down the future, we are gob-smacked by a mutha-giant of a fact.
The Information Age is over.  Right there in the data.

Which we’ll get to after coffee, headlines, charts and a discussion about my “shorts.”  Which maybe should begin with “Gee thanks, Gary!”

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The Holy Grail of Economics

Today we dig deeply into the cause of periodic economic depressions (which could be closer than you’d think) and come up with a surprising result.

While cycle theorists, such as Nikolas Kondratiev believed in the 48-64 year “long wave” we find evidence that there’s more driving periodicity than simple interest-rate fluctuations.

First, however, headlines and those amazingly prescient charts of our including an update on out Boolean Logical Comparison of two candidates for parallel timing circa 1929.

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The 10-Year Delta

I call it the Machine-Human Overlap (MHO).  It’s the period between when a new technology comes along that works without human participation and when the last human leaves a supervisory role.
We’ve seen this is broadcasting, railroad, but the big stuff (cars, trucks, warehouses, retailing) is just gathering steam.  So with more than some concern we focus on the life-change no one’s focusing on:  the 10-year delta.  After coffee and the charts, of course…

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Timing the “End of the World”

“How Long Do We Have?” is this morning’s focus. That’s because, every so often, one of the children will call. Besides the “Hey dad, how are you?” there is often a “What do you think is going to happen?“
They will plug-in whatever the news story du jour is – not that it makes a difference. I then patiently (or not) explain that news is only of ANY value if it is specifically actionable.
Today, we’re going to focus on the “How long do we have?” question.

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Occam’s Update

Our Peoplenomics update Wednesday suggested a methodology to figure out if we are on the right side or the left side of that mega bubble that popped in the fall of 1929.

This morning, we offer subscribers an update based on the close of trading Wednesday and looking at the futures (up strongly) this morning.

While this is not trading advice, it is nevertheless very useful information to have at a time of nearly unpredictable markets.  We hope you enjoy it!

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Occam’s Spreadsheet

Two new charts arrive this morning (amidst a long-winded discussion on method and where we are in the rhyme financially) which may in coming days and weeks help jus to figure out when to get on either the “last train out” to the upside, or get out  of in front of the bus on the downside.

This being Consumer prices and retail, let’s do those first, shall we?

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