This may sound like a “dog ate my homework” excuse, but on my latest trip to the eye doc, it was discovered that the eye pressure had dropped to a worrisome 5 – it should have been up around 12-20 at this stage.  As the eye doc explained, it’s sot of like having a flat tire, and with the pressure low, the repaired eye was not doing well.

One thing led to another and turns out (like the flat tire) it had a leak, so emergency eye surgery again on Tuesday.  Because of that, we will only have a few (nevertheless cynical) remarks on the flow of what passes for “news” this morning. 

Oh, don’t sound depressed:  There are certain indications that our call for a pending market decline may be about to play out over the coming week, or two, before we get into what should be the final blow-off top before the Greater Depression sets in in the 2017-2018 timeframe.  That’s when you should have your financial house in order for whatever comes next.

In the meantime, we will be focused on conservative trading and our unique way of looking at markets because if you have a little money in a Depression (Greater, or otherwise) there’s very little to be depressed about, provided you observe the old Cuban saying “Don’t count your money in front of the poor...”

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Figures can lie, and liars can figure said Mark Twain. 

Never could such a statement be more true than when looking at the economy.  And this morning we will do just that, since on Friday, the new GDP figures came out. 

It’s not a simple thing to figure, but amazingly, our numbers and some federal stats match up, we must be on the right track somewhere.

Still, by the time you’re done digesting the “down the rabbit hole, up, around, behind, and over the log” to get there, you’ll have a better idea than most as to why the mainstream parties are falling to the “Outsiders Siege.”

What we really have is a set of numbers that document your experience of “Eight years of work and no better life to show for it.”

And for millions, it’s been another year older and deeper  in debt, and we’re not just talking the coal miners.

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This morning we put on our “Look-Aheads” and size up some of the economic data that is beginning to form. 
Will it support some of our notions about a run-up into the presidential election and then a very bad patch starting in 2017?
Yes, it seems so…
But first a few headlines as we run through what will hopefully be our last “partly sighted” view of charts with major eye surgery tomorrow and hopefully a new contact lens today for the one that went missing last night…

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This morning, we lay out five simple rules for young people (40 and under) which – if followed – will almost guarantee that over time you will rise to the top of net worth individuals.
Oh, sure, it’s popular to be young, full of piss and vinegar and be anti-establishment and all that happy young radical crap.
But at some point in life, you’ll want a new Lexus or that Audi A-8, or that cruise to Europe, or that exciting new…err…fill in your own blanks.
If you’re ready to see through the political demagoguery, getting rich really isn’t that hard, if you start on the project early enough in life.
Rich isn’t bad and it beats being poor six-ways to Sunday.

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Well, we are down to our last back-up of the back-ups on the power this morning, so we will do only the market comment and the charts,

The original article which was scheduled for this morning (2-Hours a week to being a millionaire) will have to wait for Saturday…

Folksy commentary is fun, enjoyable reading, but most all of it pales compared to making a bunch of money without doing more than entering a trade, or two.

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Apparently, someone missed his meds this morning.  Maybe it was because of all the celebrating that we got out of our short position with a little money ahead – even after commissions and fees.  Or, and here’s the hard part to swallow:  Because there are a certain number of objective facts that line up in just a certain way that involve a Chicago state legislator from back when and the 2000 vote in Florida.  Yeah, definitely need some meds with this one.

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The 2DH project is code for our Second Depression Handbook which is, in turn, a collection of Peoplenomics reports and outlooks on how what the world ahead may look like when the big Debtberg we have been watching melt since 2000 finally rolls over and sinks the civilized world – such as that is.

This morning’s focus – after a few headlines and chart, we will dig into planning for the brave new world which may turn out to look like a brave old world from an earlier time…

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Do we care who wins the Presidential Election?
No, not particularly.
BUT we are are in a unique position now to begin collecting notes on how the seeming finalists will pull the levers in Washington, if they are elected.
And that is actually an early preview of what could become very useful personal financial planning data for next year.
Of course there are other markers, as well.  So we open this morning with a few remarks about the adventures of the Teamster’s Central States Fund.  Believe me, there is a major economic planning marker in there if you think about it…

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Peoplenomics.com will be updated around noon- 1PM Central Saturday.

This is due to the on-going eye saga. And if you’re interested in that, I will post an update Sunday Special on the UrbanSurvival.com site.

We will then hope to roll into whatever passes for normal around here next week.

Like the doctor says, Thanks for your patients…

This morning we pick up on where we visited in the UrbanSurvival column Tuesday:  The looming collapse of multiple pension systems.

Oh, sure, we can make a case that banks are never too big to fail.  But what happens if the next round of economic collapse brings us head to head with deciding how to deal with long-term pension obligations?

This morning we look at two possibilities to solve for “X” – neither of which will make everyone happy.  But at least in an economic sense, they are a start on that road to fixing America, again.

No, we will not Trump you to death.  There are much more interesting things ahead – like the employment data beginning to leak out.

And oh, yeah:  The Futures are indicating that the Dow will open down 100, or so.  And this will make it two-in-a-row for our fearless Monday Call.  Soft start and turn around today?

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Maybe it was something in the drugs the anesthesiologist was pushing Thursday, but an incredible moment of economic insight slapped me up-side the head on Friday while the market was tanking.
What if economic growth is all simulated and nothing is as it seems.

We get into that in today’s report, along with a few headlines and the best cliff-hanger of all (now being played in markets near you…)  Is this a correction or is something really “evil this way coming?”  Some damn fine questions, even if the answers are still, as of this moment, incomplete.

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With eye surgery tomorrow, wearing a baseball cap to control light, squinting a bunch and instilling eye drops prior to surgery, we are sticking with our core this morning:  Long wave prospects for the economy and our personal incomes.

Years back, we evolved a strange view of fractured markets that comes down to this simple idea:  While investing in the Dow might have made sense in a time when there were arguably only about 100 big companies in America that made sense and could be averages, in modern times – and with thousands of companies in each of dozens of countries, average analysts can be led woefully astray by single market myopia. 

With the Fed decision due out this afternoon, we will focus a bit this morning on the Personality of various market stages and ask aloud where we might be now.

After a headline or two, of course.  Starting with where the “ayes” had it in sillytics.

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It may seem like questing after a unicorn, but then again, that’s what a lot of investment research is:  Going through the trash (mountains of data) and thinking the Hope Diamond might be in there somewhere.

But that’s how we roll around here:  While the longer views of history can be pretty good with enough diligence, so can taking the opposite tack – Superficial and Big Picture matter, too.  Looking through the repeating events for signs of something useful to bet on….er….invest in…it all kinds of fun.

The only difference between a compulsive gambler and a leverage-oriented investor is what, exactly? Difference in casinos, maybe?

At any rate, Ures truly sifts a mountain of data and comes up with a gem…if it works out…but first some headlines to rattle us back to consciousness.

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