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The Usual Saturday Reminder: This is a weekend - and a long one at that. Consequently, all content that's new is posted for subscribers to Peoplenomics. Most folks figure at $40 a year, it's better than many of the spendy financial newsletters in the $300-$600 class. Since we don't make any pretense about offering financial advise - covering a much wider range of topics - it's a bit of mind stretch at times and the piece I'm working on for Sunday is no exception. It's all about what I call "Reality Waves". Should be interesting. This page should be updated on Monday around our usual; 8 AM posting time. Between now and then, have a great weekend!
Good Moon/Bad Moon Got a pet theory going into the open of trading in the US market today - which came through with a screaming 284 point advance on the Dow yesterday which was even better than the 200-I was expecting. The theory goes like this: People are crazy around the full moon. In fact, I think it was Steve Puetz who first noticed the effect.
Let me quote from a June 2001 article from internetnews.com:
The rest of this Paul Shread article is a must-read if you're not familiar with Puetz work.
About here, you may be asking yourself "With the futures up, and everything looking rosy again, why would old Gloomster George dredge up a story out of 2001 for me to read?"
Assuming you don't have your Celestecomp V (or StarPilot) handheld navigation computer fired up for your sunrise sun shots to see if your home is where it should be, here's the deal: The NASA Eclipse web site says we have a total solar eclipse coming up on July 11th.
And that means the next full moon after July 11th will come July 26th. But while it may be tempting to sit on the sidelines until then, there's also some correlation between madness and full moons which is why - at the peak of the market today - or near it as I can time things, I will go 'all in' with the few "play dollars" I have in paper assets.
Since I'll be playing either very long expiration (2011) put options on selected financial stocks, or the triple bear financial stock ETF, I'll have plenty of time to watch and wait.
If Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner can print money, I figure George can, too. And this is how I plan to do it.
CAVEAT: This is not financial advise: I'm a wild-eyed, hard drinkin, cussin', no good, steel-for-guts, options player with more losses than sense. But when I have gains? Well, they've been pretty good. --- Speaking of matters aloft and their relationship to markets, please try to remember that just because I don't continually write about what's coming astrologically, doesn't mean I'm not aware of it - and give it a wide berth.
I mention this since the rest of the financial universe seems to be talking about the forecast of Arch Crawford whose "Crawford Perspectives" is widely followed by astro-econ types who (wrongly) assume I'm an ignorant pig. While they may be right on the ignorant pig part, no denying that, I did cover Crawford's outlook in depth in our October 21, 2009 report right here.
To save you the trouble of clicking - it's Friday and you have to be tired of it by now - and to save me additional bandwidth charges for your incessant clicking, here's what I wrote in October of 2009:
Now that we've arrived safely (if you don't mind a little oil being slopped around the planet) in near-summer of 2010, I'm feeling positively giddy that the market may be about to put in a "full moon high" today, which with the right basket of paper, I figure could double, triple, or better before we get to August or so. My portfolio is up only about 50% YTD but that's not going to buy me a new Cessna.
I try never to count my "Clevelands" before they hatch, but a move up of another 50-150 points today would make be positively giddy, I tell yah.
Speaking of giddy-up, time to stop daydreaming although I'm sure you're aware that you can scam pretty good by calling daydreaming "solution visualization" which outwardly looks about the same and seems much more acceptable to brain-dead muddle managers.
We ride on to Personal Income - assuming you still have some:
All of which - if these figures (especially savings) are to be believed, ought to fire up the bulls long enough for the bears (like me) to line up for the sneak attack on their arrogant ways...which have only gotten worse since the high tech bubble which made paying of dividends far less common. Once a measure of how well a company was doing, dividends have fallen to dismal levels on the theory that Greater Fools will always be readily available for crappy stock with too much debt behind it.
Me? Call me old-fashioned, but never late for dinner. Nothing's better than a little Bull well done.
The UK's Telegraph is asking "Is Europe heading for a meltdown?" Ah, such limited thinking. "Is the whole freaking world headed for a meltdown?" is the right question with a very wrong answer this year. --- The recent headline that our predictive linguistic pals "WebBots REPORT MOST DEPRESSING THING I'VE READ IN A LONG, LONG TIME..." is not why their published.
They're so you can get off the train tracks before you get run over, or haven't folks figured that out yet? Really astute people will probably figure out how to make money from the passing train, which is my particular bent.
Plume & Doom The headline from MSNBC that a "New, Giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf" is not exactly a surprise, given that my sources in the oil patch down Houston way explained to me that "Flow rate are going to increase while they're injection 'top kill' mud."
The other thing (other than persistent Florida evacuation rumors) is that the incident management group came up with a daily flow rate as high as 19,000 barrels per day, which pencils to about two Exxon Valdez-sized spills so far at the high end, and 12,000 barrels a day, or an Exxon Valdez every 22 days or so at the low end, I feel somewhat vindicated that when I told you 2,100 barrels a day was a load-o-crap, it has now been proven just that. --- Something that has come to our attention up in Canada is that a Chevron facility has been leaking oil since (coincidentally or otherwise?) April 21. Good backgrounder in the Vancouver Sun...but it seems odd two leaks in the oil business around the same time. Terrorism or coinky dink? We report, you veg out.
From our "No shit Sherlock" file comes this CNN headline email that: "BP's top official upgrades impact of Gulf oil spill from "very modest" to "environmental catastrophe."
It will be two more days (at least) before we know if Top Kill works.
USF reports one of their research ships is finding 'invisible hydrocarbons' more so than expected:
You presumably know that there's an "Indonesia mud volcano still spweing sludge four years later"?
Buffett to Speak
Sounds like beer, popcorn and CSPAN time, to me.
Memorial Day Weekend: Sunny Side Up This being Friday and all, the latest UV forecast from the folks at NOAA look like a fine excuse to stay indoors and veg out this weekend:
You'll notice something about the upper left hand corner of the country that's a bit odd: Seattle, always known for it's rain, or more properly the very occasional sun sightings there, is a "1" again.
So for the sake of comparison, here at the ranch out closest reporting station (Tyler, Texas and stand up when you say it) has only managed 9.9 inches of rain Year to Date (YTD) while "normal" ought to be 18.6" by now. Even dray 2009 has 14.6" by now.
Seattle on the other hand has 18.8 inches YTD and a 17.2 inches average, which means people are having problems with septic systems and so forth. --- Also of interest this weekend is the price of gasoline, which is shown in the latest Triple A Fuel Gauge report:
I keep waiting for someone to post a national Beer Index just for grins, but haven't found one yet. There - a million dollar idea for some lurking webmaster who's out of ideas.
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Coping: Solar Power - Round Two Being on the leading edge of Economic Depression 2.0 - which should be painful obvious to the unaware by November 15th at latest - there are some real bargains to be found while preparing. A few weeks back I went shopping for solar panels to increase the amount of energy we could make locally from a modest 1.7 KW which had set me back more than I'd like to admit, to an additional 1.75 KW the basics of which came to under $6,200 including shipping.
The first part of the project has been getting the additional panels and after shopping around this time, I settled on 175-watt "blemished" panels, which for the life of me I can't see where the blems are. Here's what I ordered:
Yes, you're reading that right: 175 watt solar panels for $385.00 per panel which pushes out to $2.20 per watt. Bear in mind, when I was buying the panels for phase one of "the best back-up power for the office" system, I shopped like crazy and thought I was a genius for getting the panels at $4-something a watt.
The Outback grid-tie inverter already in place has been trouble-free, as have the Xantrex (formerly Trace) C40 charge controllers.
Found the equipment this time at www.sunelec.com - you can call David Shapiro at (305) 536-9917, but realize than panel and inverter prices do bounce around a bit, and there's no guarantee they'll have these panels in stock, but I'm a happy camper.
Delivery was via R&L Transport out on this end, and even though we can't get a 50-foot trailer up to the house, we (driver, Panama, and me) simply slid the pallet with the goodies off the lift gate on the semi's trailer and into the bed of the pickup for the final journey to their new home.
The next step will be trimming a few trees (which means renting a scissor lift which will give me a pretext to do some work on the ham radio antenna tower while I'm at it, then weld up the next panel rack, and then wire it all up and connect batteries.
This is NOT SOMETHING TO DO YOURSELF unless you really know your way around electrons. But a run of #4 wire to the solar plant, a half ton of Interstate UL-2200 (I think that's them, 225 Ahr 6V golf cart batteries), junction boxes, switching, and a having some matching cables made up to connect everything, that'll add another kilobuck to the tab, but in terms of energy independence faced with a choice of buying paper or practical goods that at least hold the prospect of paying for themselves over time, guess which I think is important?
Presto, Quake-O As was noted by a few readers, despite the 7.4 reading, the arrival on Thursday of a change in solar wind may, or may not, be argued as having something to do with the quake. The follow-up advisory makes the solar wind speed changes clear:
We note that the 7.2 magnitude Vanuatu quake arrived on the 27th - not the 28th, about 17:14 Hrs UT (GMT) - 9 hours earlier than the observed arrival) so this gets us to a couple of schools of thoughts.
The simple one? "Coincidence!"
The more complex? Since everything in universe is connected to everything else, perhaps it's a gravity well change of some sort not well-understood.
If you've followed the work of science, you know that even if you're a great theoretician, you won't get 'em all right. Take, if you will, the case of Thomas Gold. Some right, some wrong, some jury still out 6-years after his passing.
While it's true that the (currently) measured parameters didn't change until nearly 9 hours after the quake, it's also true that the quake happened in close proximity to a predicted window.
More 'citizen science' is needed on this one, and maybe a full-up study of past coronal mass ejecta (CME's) versus quakes. We continue to be open to no connection, a quake-led arrival, or none at all.
Like the old saying in statistics: It's not what the numbers tell you that's often most important...it's what they hide.
Famine To Come Reader email of the day:
Which is why we've been telling people to what? Garden! More on gardening in Monday's column....
Friday at the WuJo: Past Pizza The idea that reality splits off every so often and then comes back together again - slightly different has been an emergent theme at the WuJo - where Reality and Science square off on the mat with observed curiosities. Remember that story a while back about the reader who swears that both he and his wife ate the same piece of pizza for lunch in one 'time-slip' event? We start from there and this reader email:
There's something there, alright. Just too much persistent rumors of odd things happening when multiple high density wave fronts are about. Once we toss aside the purported Philadelphia Experiment effects, and then trash can the Montauk experiment, there are still other dabblers in time/space warping that seem to point to something there.
One example is the Hutchison effect, which you can read up on here - and then YouTube it for some way cool vids.
Then there's the Fran De Aquino paper "Gravity Control by means of Electromagnetic Field through Gas or Plasma at ultra-low Pressure" that we've covered before.
From what I've been able to figure, there may be some real effects here - and one source claims to me that organic light emitting diode screens about to come on the market will be key to breakthroughs in this regard and are 'already there' in the upper .mil circles, but only rumors and nothing I've been able to duplicate in my lab here at the ranch.
Still, I've actually got a test plan in mind now which will look for even subtle variances with low power levels by comparing frequencies of multiple crystal oscillators (frequency standards). The idea being that one inside any 'time effect' or 'space effect' field should show a frequency shift which ought to be measurable.
If what I have in mind works, believe me, I'll tell you about it just as soon as the provision patent ap is filed. But is there time for this to come along as a new technology? Depends what I can get done by November, doesn't it? I mean if Clif's work is right...
Music Going Really Is Going to the Dogs The report on the BBC that "Lou Reed and wife stage 'high frequency' dog concert" is more than just another walk on the wild side, as I figure it.
Odds are good this will answer an age-old question about dogs: Is their Bach really worse than their bite? ---- Ya'll come back soon, ya hear? The groans ought to have died down and the Pun Police paid off again by Monday. With the markets closed, we may be able to do some serious stand-up.
Send your comments to george@ure.net Shop Till You Drop Department: Peoplenomics This Week ELE 2: Extinction Level Economics Let's see what Santa has in his bag of goodies this week, after last week's fine demonstration of how dangerous a calculator can be when used as a BS Detector around ridiculous low-ball claims about the size of BP's Gulf Ocean Murder. Ah, here we go: A nice discussion of Extinction Level Economics, an assortment of new acronyms that are about to go mainstream (including GOOD, GOOF, GOOL, and GOOT). Plus a few follow-up notes on how Hollywood programs society (at some pretty interesting levels). Like the guy at the cash register says, change in inevitable.
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Thursday May 27, 2010 Special Update Remember that "Big Earthquake"? I mentioned that a 'Presto?" alert told us that late Wednesday or early Thursday there would probably be a largish earthquake due to a partially Earth-directed coronal mass ejection from the Sun?
A couple of readers remember:
All purely coincidental, I tell yah...purely coincidental...maps and such here.
Rally Resumes Yeah, yeah, I know, you're thinking "Ure! What the hell happened to your rally yesterday? Petered out in no time..."
Come on - lighten up - got up 135 points and change before tanking, didn't it? And we should see it go up at least that much - maybe even a couple of hundred points in today's session. But this site doesn't offer financial advice or (especially) trading advice. You're on your own there, but I expect to get back on the short side of things maybe tomorrow, maybe Monday...we'll see...
Europe is all green today...and the futures in the US are up strongly and as I pointed out yesterday, sure we may have some disasters out there (the gulf comes to mind...) why except for a major earthquake, what could go wrong?
The latest report on GDP sounds encouraging...
If you like numbers, don't be surprised by a better than expected report on personal incomes when it comes out tomorrow, either.
Employment figures are out for the week:
That brings us to item #2...
Puffed Up Jobs #'s I just love John Crudele's ongoing exposure in the NY Post ("Two more Census workers blow the whistle") on how Census workers got fires and rehired to make it look like more hiring has been going on that is really the case.
Our only problem around here is: At which point are we supposed to look surprised? But an 'attaboy" award to Crudele...again...and to the Post for having some balls to go after the story.
Working "Top Kill" One of my friends in the oil industry sent along a drawing he'd gotten from BP which outlined some of the difficulties of the 'top kill' operations now ongoing at the oil spill source off Louisiana. "Think of it as a hugely complicated ballet," he told me.
"Each one of those surface ships - the big ones - lease at $8-10 million a day - and that's before you get the remote submersibles going - some of them are $5,000 an hour - and then you need skilled operators for them. On top of that, there's so much equipment on scene it's almost like and air traffic control problem keeping all the ROV cables from snagging on one another..." my source continued before filling me in on the special oil-based mud used for injecting...
We wish them all the luck in the world, but linguistically the odds are much less than the 40-60% chance local oilmen cite that the undersea voilcano will be stopped any time soon by this 'top kill" effort.
The predictive linguistics carry on this track out 19-months, although we can only hope that lots of that language will relate to references back to current events... 100- miles of coastline now fouled and the number keeps increasing...
Did I mention oil is back over $73 this morning? No doubt part of that on word that the WH is planning to extend the ban on new offshore drilling.
And the blame game is underway with reports of a heated debate on the rig shortly before the explosion...
--- Linguini: Now that people are using the term "voilcano" with some regularity, the next linguistic stop seems to be the new word for illnesses induced by the fumes from the mess. Favorite one so far the the combination of spill and illness into "spillness". Something to ponder while hiking north later this year.
Korea Rumblings May seem like wild ramblings, but there's a report that a US submarine may have been involved in the sinking of the South Korean patrol boat last month - and that a US sub may have gone down -- serious charges that are floating about. Wild speculation, 99.9% unlikely BUT if you 'suddenly' hear about a US sub going down in extremely deep waters (to the point where recovery/investigation is impossible) then the rumors and speculation probabilities would flip the t'other way.
Meantime, China is going to back North Korea from further sanctions and such if they can - and China has massive leverage given their economic standing in the world. North Korea talking 'all out war'.
Iffy Banks A reader sent along a note that Weiss Ratings has a list of the "Weakest Banks and Thrifts" in the US. They are sorted by state...and you can find a list of the strongest banks, too.
Depression 2.0 and M3 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the UK's Telegraph has noticed the collapse of M3 here lately, something we've mentioned now and again. A read of his "US money supply plunges at 1930's pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus" should be a wake-up call for those who don't regularly look at M3 reconstructed over on Trader Bart's site.
As a practical matter, what this all boils down to is if you're looking for bank lending to lighten up any time soon, don't bother. My deflationist pal Jas Jain has to be watching these developments thinking "I told you so" (which, to his credit he did), but people won't believe we're really in the Second Depression until year's end, by which time, most people will be beggared and broke.
Fortunately, there's a fine distinction between words that will save us which you ought to get firmly in mind ahead of time: Broke means 'without money".
"Poor" is something else again but with he right mental attitude none of us should ever be 'poor'. We might get hungry, might be without money, but whatever happens in months ahead, with so much difficulty yet to come, don't let yourself become 'poor'. You're never broke between the ears.
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Coping: Fake Alien Alert Here's an interesting assertion for you to plumb: the father of the US rocket program (borrowed from Nazi Germany after WW II) Wernher "Von Braun: Illuminati Plan For E.T. Deception..."
Not that
this is the first place the idea has appeared. It's been
kicking around since Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace.
What do you need in order to keep people working (as told) and paying taxes? Why, an unbeatable external threat of course! Without appropriate wars (or war substitutes) argued Iron Mountain, people would not have any particular reason to be compliant - and that'd be a problem for the PowersThatBe.
Which is why at some never-mentioned economic level - lacking a good threat since SARS, swine and so on failed - we find America still off warring in the Oilstans. The odd environmental disaster (playing out in the Gulf of Mexico) also serves to build control over people, especially those who are in nearby states who might be forced to relocate should the fear factors be ramped up high enough.
Next question?
You may not like the answer here, since it's kinda complicated. But, if my read of the situation is right, the PTB seem to be using a stair-stepping methodology to move toward control.
In other words, turn up the heat on the EU for a while, then appear to be backing off with a bit of 'break up talk' while other instruments of power & control like the WHO move ahead with finding a revenue base for the One Worlder scams.
Interestingly, once I saw the report recently that "U.N. internet tax dead - for now" I was reminded that this is the most dangerous of times since we can fight scams that are public. The task is always getting ahead of the curve so we - the people - can decide on the next tax and control effort.
What they need are a couple of good crisis situations globally which could coerce everyone into paying 'global tribute'. Then, once there's a source of revenue, then you simply move the compliant minions into figurehead positions and tell them what to do from the sidelines.
See where Canada's PM Stephen Harper is going to Europe to meet bank tax advocates? ( To clarify: Harper is anti-tax...)
From my perspective, anyone who goes anywhere (to clarify: not just Canadian) to talk about the PTB plans for global indenture and tax ought to be declared guilty of high treason on the spot. I mean, the good people of Canada (and to clarify: thye US etc) should only voluntarily be involved in helping people anywhere else, right?
What we're seeing is the financial equivalent of goon squads going around creating crisis after crisis and using it to remove local control of government from the world's citizenry.
This doesn't just go on at the top of the PTB foodchain, of course. States are lusting after internet revenues, too. Which is what's going on behind headlines like "California Lawmakers propose Internet Tax".
The mantra is "control and tax" or "tax and control".
The PTB (in case you hadn't noticed) usually belong to one or two camps each, but never a universal camp. Which is how one way of looking at the contest for World Governance is [presently] fractured. You've got EU types going for a major regional/global revenue base while there are UN supporters (a lot of 'professional' political hacks in this crowd) who are going for a UN solution.
Then you have other groups which want to go it alone - and have the power to do so cause they are ascendant in global affairs and have vibrant economies - at least compared to the economic has-beens like the EU and to some lesser extent, the US. Which is why we look at BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) as another power block.
I hope you noticed
that Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group The knowledgeable observer, probably figures that the real global war underway now is amongst factions of the PTB - each seeking a global income stream of some kind to support their further ascension to global controllers.
The thoughtful observer also appreciates the fine duality of the apparent versus underlying strategic contest, which at one level is humans versus power freaks and blue bloods, but at another breaks down into multiple factionalized players, each with a control agenda of their own since unanimity of global power grabbing has been elusive.
Every so often a
"Fake Alien Warning" comes along to remind us to ask which
faction of the PTB has control over the ex-Nazi "Rule the
World" foundations (laid out in Hitler's Mein Kampf:
the Official Nazi Translation
All of which is 'old
hat' to long time observers of this other layer of
reality...folks like researcher Jim Marrs who laid it out in The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America
"Preposterous!" you're thinking. "Why a person would have to be a raving fool to believe such blather..."
Let me ask you, who's more nuts? Those that are the unwitting pawns that put up with this anti-human condition and fail to see how corpgov has even co-opted their churches with Rovian turned Rahmian 'faith-based initiatives' OR those that see the game for what it is...power-seeking despots, each wrapping themselves up with this holy cause or that, while seeking to bilk you into paying tribute for conditions you had no conscious hand in creating, but which were deliberately engineered as mechanisms of control and power?
Bad news sport: You aren't still looking for change are you? Sorry to remind you of this but you're in a casino where the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, and the House is out to get all your money if it can. The best move in such situations is obvious: Enjoy the free drinks but don't gamble here.
It's the dialect in practice - the intersection of the purported warning from Wernher Von Braun and Iron Mountain with factions spying on one another while grabbing for the world's purse strings - with predictive conditioning playing on the MSM and peeking out of modelspace almost as a trailer for a coming big screen feature this November.
The previews are in the headlines every day. Just usually not as obvious as today's fake alien warning.
Wednesday May 26, 2010 Rally From the Dead Lazarus walks Wall Street today is nice way to sum up today: That stocks are in for a good bounce should be about as surprising to anyone serious about markets as, oh, say the tide coming in. That's how markets are wired.
The market goes down in bear markets, but it comes back up every so often to let 'true believers' (or is that coax real fools?) back in on the long side, while the more seasoned players....which is to say those of us who have lost several fortunes worth in our trading lives... know get a sense about when it's time to get out of short positions, however briefly, while the crop of newcomers are lined up to be parted from their cash.
And so (with 85% cash going to 100% cash at the open) that I watch the rally going on in Europe this morning where every single market was up earlier when I looked and think to myself "I wonder if this will be IT for a while and a real rally get underway?"
As if to answer the question, in pops an email from Robin Landry to his colleagues in the investment business:
BCA Research says more support is needed for the Euro, but no market goes straight down, and no reason to expect this one to be any different.
Durables report out this morning can be taking as wildly bullish:
Watch the herd turn on this stuff...run bears & hide for a while...and let's just count our winnings...
So Where Are We? I'll keep this short because I was up way past my regular bedtime last night with our visiting seismic friends - the story of being the next Jed Clampett to be continued in a week or two - but the main features that caused the market to tank are not gone, and the general direction of "building tensions" outlined so neatly in Cliff's latest www.halfpasthuman.com "Shape of Things To Come Report" haven't disappeared.
But, even in the worst field of dandelions, stickers, thorn bushes and poison ivy, you'll still find the odd blade of grass if you look hard enough - which is what the markets are doing presently.
Shipping Figures One useful metric, at times like this, is looking at various port/shipping data. Don't remember if I mentioned it here, or on the subscriber side (Peoplenomics.com) last weekend, but rail shipping actually looked pretty good in the latest from the Association of American Railroads, and not to be a doomster let me underscore that bit of good news again:
Whether this is a 'blade of grass among weeds and trash plants' may be cross-checked by looking at West Coast ports data:
there are all kinds of footnotes to this data, which generally looks good in part because 2009 was such a crappy year. If you're looking for a paper to write in your spare time today, work us up a study comparing current month with 2007 and 2008 figures, presented in Excel and have it on my desk by 5 AM tomorrow. The only thing offered might be a green star next to your name, but if you're looking for something to do, that'd be more fun than mowing the lawn. (Unless you have a riding more, an MP3 player, beer, and....well, you get the picture.
Makes a good 'bounce story' for the PPT for a while, so until serious problems break out in the EU again (give it time) I'm out of short positions at the open.
BP'd: GlobalRev Not exactly a good spring for BP so far. No only are there delays getting the 'top kill" worked out, but the WSJ reports the Alaska pipeline was due after a power outage (that resulted in a small spill). Normally a back-page item, because of who had the problem, it's a bigger deal. --- If you look closely, you'll see signs of GlobalRev with regard to how global humans are getting along with PTB institutions like big oil.
For example, an oil pipeline was blown up in Yemen on Tuesday. In Nigeria, operations at an Italian oil operation were interrupted in late April, and there's been years worth of pipeline conflict in Iraq.
Not to state the obvious (although it's what writers do, mostly) but one of the problems with complex societies is they have so many moving parts that it's impossible to watch all of them at once and as part of GlobalRev this will become more apparent.
With first report of 'oil rains" popping up on the net, GlobalRev seems likely to get more traction.
Would Nuking The Oil Work? Interesting input from a reader:
That's what I expect is going on right now....simulating everything six-ways-to-Sunday.
Bordering On Action Word that president Obama is sending 1,200 national guard troops to the Mexican border might sound like action.
That is, until I get the calculator out.
First, the border is 1,969 miles long. That's one Guardsperson for each 1.64 miles of border.
But now suppose (for the sake of discussion) that it takes six guardspersons behind the scenes to put one on the front lines? Someone has to cook, some one to run motor pool, command them, communicate them and Lord above all, someone to PR and photo-op them.
250-million people cross that border a year and some estimates run 10,000 illegals per day. Like I said: Bordering on action...
MMS IG Reports Speaking of big oil, big problems: If you want to interesting reading, you might thumb through some recent investigations by the inspector general's office at the Minerals Management Service which is in charge of managing government leases in the Gulf. You'll come across snips like this:
This is addition to the IG report about use of meth, porn, and what have you by government staff. Thinking you should put in an application? They may have openings - soon. Only allegations at this point but...
Terra Shakes With a 6.4 in the Pacific east of Okinawa. Is this the quake expected when the earthbound CME gets here late today or early tomorrow? Don't think so, but wi8th any luck it will be all this week.
FedSpeak Department Uncle Ben's Converted Banks aside, Ben Bernanke was in Tokyo yesterday promoting central bank 'independence, transparency, and accountability with soothing words like:
All of which means mostly nothing, near as I can figure. The problem is that the Fed and Congress operate in cahoots: m Congress overspends, debt runs up, Fed prints money, government pays interest ($224 billion so far since last October, by the way) and the circle is unbroken.
GovSpeak Just exactly what does "US Expands secret military operations: report" in hostile and friendly countries mean?
Why can they just say "we're gonna kill more people" which is the whole point of "operations", right?
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Coping: Cheerful Optimism Say, here's some early feedback on Cliff's latest report:
Yeah, that is a bit of a problem, isn't it? I don't try to talk too much about such things around other people - I just write it down here on my web site where I'm sure it must sound manic at times, since I seem to be wildly pessimistic and short some days, and on others, I'll be out of my last short position at the open today and that'll be that till we finish the present rally.
Talking to people about the future of the world is akin to trying to 'shake' them out of a media-induced stupor - which is why so much emphasis around here on limiting our media consumption to only those items which are actionable rather than getting overly hooked on the entertainment values promoted in society.
You have no idea how much money I have saved over the years by not being interested in sports. Which is not to say I won't watch the final 'two minutes' of a football game now and then - just to see how long 2-minutes can be stretched out, but entertainment - as we were talking about yesterday is a mechanism of mind control. Give me enough movies focused on mindless bloodshed and I can warp anyone into death-watching morons.
But grab the remote outside of my own home? Nope...and I usually don't start conversations unless someone asks. Not my job to tell them how crappy the future is, unless they really want to deal with the harsh reality of living in a world full of too many humans, not enough food, greed & money driven governance and a select group of elitists who make really self-serving decisions.
One of Cliff's favorite explanations is that "You can't teach a pig to sing. You'll only get frustrated and anger the pig." Or, put another way, "Tend your own garden."
A snip from, an email sums it up nicely:
Don't look now, but I'm stealing that word.
National Dream Center Update Coming into focus is the whole reason I built the National Dream Center database...let me explain: Got an email this morning from a reader who asks:
So, in answer to your question: Yes!
A dreamer posted this to the 'dreambase' last Saturday:
Whether it actually comes to pass, is another matter. But what seems significant is that the more of these non-ordinary, vivid dreams people contribute, the better sense we'll have of what's to come. This is all archetype stuff: But, Spanish-speaking soldiers and invading America from the south at the behest of China or Russia is perking around in people's brains down at the archetype level and while we don't know why exactly, the voilcano is naturally suspect.
If the events come to pass, maybe it will be Cuban troops, not Venezuelan, but you see how things are developing a recent rhyming? It's going on in several other archetype areas, too and as I get time -whatzzat? - we can get into it more...
Speaking of which, time's up - got to water the garden, run the well pump a bit, a bite to break the fast, and take a snooze while I wait for this rally in the market to pass so I can get back to making money on the downside...
Tuesday May 25, 2010 This Could Get Ugly Think of this as "Drop until you shop" - for stocks... Back on May 1st, I told Peoplenomics subscribers that I was 'getting short' the market. As we arising to face another day the economic treadmill, a hint of what's likely comes from two sources: The Asia markets which were bleeding red on all fronts overnight, with Taiwan down about 3¼ percent, China Hang Seng down about 3½ percent and Japan down just over 3 percent.
Hopes that things would begin to turn around in Europe were dashed when France dropped nearly 3½ percent although German and the yUK were down a bit more than 2½ percent. Needless to say, it ain't over till it's over, but as I was mentioning in last week's column (see Three Bears, Testing 10,000):
How deflation in everything but necessities will work out depends where your interests lie:
I'm sure you remember the old definition of "What a statistician is?"
"Damn, dude, another one of your doofus jokes?" Yep...'fraid so...
A statistician is someone who puts one foot in buck of ice water and the other foot in a campfire, then looks you bang in the eye and says: (drum roll) "On average, I'm comfortable!" (rim shot)
Seeing as Ben Bernanke's academic background has been the study of the previous Great Depression, and trying to figure out which formulas fit where back then (which makes an interesting presupposition, doesn't it?) we can see that the combined Fed/Treasury policies are akin to stepping on the gas - just so - while at the same time, stepping on the brakes.
May not feel good if you're a homeowner, or trying to sell a high priced toy sports car right now, but the theory goes a long ways toward explaining why the markets are manic and why you can't get 'easy money' loans from the local bank anymore.
First, your local bank may not be a bank already, since by my count, 235 banks with 4,941 branches have failed since IndyMac (and including) with another 750+ on death row.
But even if they are around, they are likely not doling out loans without liens on first born sons (*not a bad analogy, since war in Korea might spark the return of the draft, simply because we'd be low on military manpower since Rome demonstrated that governments can only occupy so much of the world at once) and then only if you have some track record with the bank, a credit score over 750, don't live along the Gulf of Mexico and.....yada, yada, yada....you're getting the picture.
"Stock futures plummet, market set for lower open" is no surprise around here. The only surprise would be closing above 10,000.
To Nuke, Or Not To Nuke That is the question - or at least seems to be one to ponder going forward. Although the decision won't weigh on president Obama for a couple of months while other tactics are used/tried, we're seeing an uptick in the number of reports that use of one (or more) small tactical nukes to close off the oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico will be considered: "Nuking the Oil Well" from KVUE (Austin, TX) is a must read. We covered this option coming up a couple of weeks back in Peoplenomics for subscribers.
Fortunately, as luck would have it, we keep a real-life full nuclear engineer on staff at UrbanSurvival to field just this type of question (and build innovative coffee warmers and such...). He offers this:
I was happily keeping this note buried in my inbox (recently weeded down to only 5,000 items), until this talk of nuking came up - again.
Here's the problem as I figure it: The production explosions of the 1970's seem to have been aimed at enhancing oil/gas production, but if my scan of the gray literature on this stuff is right, about all they were able to do was to make a bunch of radioactive natural gas and byproducts. Good idea, just of limited application.
On the other side of the discussion is the reported Russian experience which I think is something like a four out of six success rate (or whatever - that will come out in a few months when comes time to 'sell' the project to the public.
Although the public will no doubt drop into mass hysteria mode about any talk of nukes, the real solution would be to use HAARP & related technologies to induce an earthquake with the idea of creating a slip-strike which could close the wounded crust. But, can't let on too much about that, can we?
In lieu of using HAARP, (was that mid Atlantic quake this morning a tune-up / test?) one can envision a kind of simulated small nuclear induced earthquake. Maybe one largish device (Hiroshima X2 maybe) and then a couple of slightly delayed 'small pusher devices' which would push earth from one side of the leaking well toward what could be a 'hollow' on the other side.
All of which might pencil out provided we had perfect knowledge of the pressures, knowledge of how the methane hydrates would react, and so on. My biggest concerns, however, are that if the nuke shots were too small, they would not do anything but make the environment not only oily but radioactive. On the other hand, if too big, then the fracturing of rock starts going off (as fracturing was the intent of the early oil & gas production enhancement tests) and you might get the equivalent of popping a pimple, except this pimple would ooze oil instead of...oh oh, not a breakfast time analogy, but you get the idea.
The idea of using nukes doesn't bother me. I know enough about water moderated reactors to figure the odds of significant release of radioactivity from such an effort would be nearly zero. Reason? First, the shots would be done in wells which would likely put them 1,000 feet (or so) under the seabed. Right there, you're talking something that happened somewhat routinely around Las Vegas (can I say commuter flights to Tonopah without everyone getting edgy?).
Then on top of what would be an underground test, you have a mile of seawater. Nope, not too worried about that since under ground (seabed is just wet dirt), and then under water would not be like the shallow water nukes tests off Eneweta.
We read further about Operation Wigwam which was conducted in about 2,000 feet of water, 500 miles off San Diego in 1955 which was a 30 kiloton device. the Hiroshima bomb, for comparison, was 12.5 kT. The plume wasn't too high, although you wouldn't want to vape it...
The plume from 1958's Operation Hardtack rose only a reported 1,700 feet and that was set off just 500 feet down. So, honestly, 10-times deep and then underground? I wouldn't want to be swimming there at the time, but radioactivity release potential? Extremely low by my reckoning.
That said, it wouldn't be the initial explosion I'd worry about - it'd be the seismographs up north in the minutes to months following. Why?
A successful nuke shot in terms of sealing the leaks might bring on a secondary line of troubles: Touching off major movement of the New Madrid seismic zone which extends almost (and possibly) into the Gulf of Mexico.
Of course, if the leak isn't sealed by the blasts, then oil flow could be massively increased, which in turn could change the underground pressures which hold up the south end of the Mississippi Delta...and then terms like 'continental subsidence' start coming to mind. But that's just monkey-mind tripping out.
A reread of the seismic history of the region might be of interest here.
Ultimately this leads to some very tough decisions (which will come out when the next Shape of Things to Come report is released tomorrow from my friend Cliff (clif) at www.halfpasthuman.com since the predictive linguistics this time around might be fairly labeled instead "predicament linguistics") but you'll get access to that tomorrow.
As usual, we will try to stick with the facts as we know them, and not read too far ahead even with the Libretto although we've been talking about Diaspora for a long time around here and strange as it seems, a couple of hundred million people getting up and moving around due to either subsidence or oily death rains really could be a big deal. === As Universe has always playfully provided significant additional inputs when I pay attention, so I see it as a grand coincidence that a couple of readers who have pioneered a breakthrough electromagnetic survey technology for oil and gas exploration are coming over this afternoon to have a look at what's under Uretopia Ranch. We're right next to producing wells here, so that ought to be interesting, but even more so will be understanding the rock we sit on and how much of it is hollow in a sense, filled with oil and injected salt water.
With all this going on in the Gulf, it should make for incredibly interesting dinner conversation. If they give me permission, I'll write it up for tomorrow's report as it really is neat technology.
Universe either has me mistaken for Jed Clampett or realizes that "George's news nose knows news..."
Overplaying Oil Rain? Slate has done a good job of covering the science behinds a major hurricane hitting the Gulf oil slick. Maybe not as bad as some alarmists have been saying...but of course I'm tapping wood while writing this a mere 470-miles downwind from you-know-what...
Terra Shakes The latest CME is due to arrive tomorrow or early Thursday, so I'll be watching for quakes about then. You saw the Amazon quake Monday?
What was that magnetometer bump yesterday? Related? You wanna take a shot at this?
Rattle Turn on the distraction machine, quick! South Korea making threatening noises...
What Do Stars Eat for Breakfast?
Here you thought I'd say starlets or something tacky!
Next Texas Growth Industry? Looks like expansion of nuke waste dumping could be about to pop up 30-miles north of Odessa/Midland...near Andrews, Texas.
Paycheck Comparison Private sector going down, government sector going up.
Quick, look surprised.
Rattle
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Coping: Guarding the Gates of Consciousness Need to have us a meaningful follow-up conversation to yesterday's toucvh on 'predictive programming' in H-Wood movies and such. A reader sent in this incredibly good summary of his readings on point:
Well, now that you mention it, the government really is aware that the biggest threat from the internet is NOT terrorism, but an awakening people who might 'get in the way' of things. So whatever you do, don't click over here to the government's own "Conspiracy theories and Misinformation" page on the www.america.gov site and see what the official lines are.
This site officially proclaims that (on health, for example) that:
What is left unsaid is that in each of these cases, there have been claims made that the diseases were lab-created with a profit motive and that the recent decision of the WHO to go for a tax on the internet is about all the proof a thinking person needs to at least ask for independent third-party analysis. Oh, the government sight doesn't tally up the rip-off of the last round of "Killer flu" vaccine monies, either.
And even though the 9/11 event has been publicly exposed by architects and engineers, the 'official' government position outing conspiracy theories and misinformation insists that:
As I've told you many times, when the 'net becomes too much of a threat to ongoing operations of the PTB, they will just shut it down. Maybe under the premise of 'protecting the public from misinformation' or perhaps because "only official news sources" accredited by guess who? will be 'authorized". H-Wood is 'authorized' as our emailer seems to imply.
Right about then, when blogging and public discussion is held as seditious or worse, you'll want to have your GOOD bag packed because when America wakes up to 97 years of corpgov/bankster plundering of The Constitution and the ideals America, there'll be a few people around who will be really pissed and ready to take independent action on all fronts.
Paradoxically, control mechanisms aimed at preventing AmRev2 seem more likely to precipitate it.
The key thing to do early on is post guards around your consciousness and avoid being caught in mind traps where problems will be presented with prepackaged conclusions. That's how the PTB work.
Want my take on the www.america.gov "Conspiracy Theories" page? See if this sounds familiar: "Admit northing. Deny everything. Make counteraccusations."
Angry Readers File Do I make things sound overly grim? Sorry about that. But here's a sampling of my emails:
Oh, and here's a friendly gem under the subject line "Ure an Idiot"
No, come on, admit it: you read my site because it's real, usually way ahead of the curve, and the effects of your bluepill brainwashington (sic) are starting to wear off. Fortunately, my 'delusional interpretations of economic" cycles are only up 50-something percent YTD. Worse: My current fave holding is only up a further 6.61% in the pre-market today. "Ure an Idiot" is right, I will grant you that. Monday May 24, 2010 Special Update Earthquake Watch Just in one of those Presto! Alerts:
Sure hope this doesn't set up my "Los Angeles Wednesday" earthquake dream...the link between quakes and CME arrivals is purely speculative but seems to make intuitive sense...slap a ball with energy and what?
Road to Total War 2.0 Subtle doesn't always work, although I often make the mistake of hoping it will - just this once. So try and think back to a few months ago when I suggested you put a block of time aside and read the Rand paper "The Road to Total War" by Frederick Sallagar. Welcome to another Monday here in version 2.0.
The reason has everything to do with trying to understand the economic Long Wave which is the core of this site, which is based on (among others) the work of Nikolai Kondratiev. When you do even a quick read of the subject matter (and Wikipedia makes this a 5-minute exercise here) we have some reason to ponder now whether the K Waves (as they were known) were not perhaps a misinterpretation of something else. Chart, please?
Intimately involved with the K Wave theory is a parallel idea that major wars come at both the top and bottom of these economic waves. Often, the Civil War in the US is cited as a 'peak war', WW I a slightly misplaced K Wave Bottom, WW 2 a 'trough war', the Vietnam war a 'peak war' and so forth.
The problem which is upon us is that the K Wave theory while holding a certain amount of intellectual curiosity since it goes back to grain prices in Europe earlier than medieval times, and thus seems to be 'solid' but upon inspection, we expect the rise of the role of Capital what seems to have occurred more recently is an evolution of the K Wave into a three Kuznet waves move.
Little early for all this? Simon Kuznets won a 1971 Nobel prize for his work on the 20-something year cycles that occur based on other business cycles.
While backwardized economic theorists hold that the 10-minute time out of the US stock market in the so-called mini-Crash of 1987 was a properly-timed market break which could be counted as a Kondratieff market turn, inspection of the business cycles in play in those time - not to mention a look at an inflation-adjusted Dow chart - reveals such thinking to be plain poppycock.
When you
get serious about studying this stuff, the works of Michael
Alexander including The Kondratiev Cycle: A generational interpretation
"Damn dude, lotta foreplay there...you gonna get to a point sooner or later?"
Tisk, tisk! Such impatience...what should already have formed in your head (depending on how much fluoride is in your water and how many minutes a day you're on a cell phone is the notion that economics and social cycles may seem a bit off because what I'd bet is happening is that the K Waves are synching up on three Kuznets waves.
During this 'entraining' period (as wave structures change in economic terms due to adjustments in the realities of everyday living occur) is that events become choppy and on a very superficial level feel 'unpredictable'.
Yet, at some level they are. An inflation-adjusted Dow shows that we've completed a five wave advance since the market break in 1920 - really the first big marker post WW I of the new 'telecommunicated world view' and since then the entraining process has been marching along to its beat of a distant - not to mention seldom heard because we're all too busy to think about thinks like that - drummer. --- Fast Forward To the Rand Paper This morning's touchstone concept emerges out of the overnight fog: Given all the data, are we (humans) about to be sucked into something like "Total War 2.0?"
If so, what might the elements be? Well, ALL elements, of course. We ought to see nearly global warfare, for example. Look at what fraction of America's best and brightest are tied up in war-making or support of war-making and I ask you, are we not close?
We would have concerns about sabotage and rear-guard actions and if the War on Terror doesn't qualify as an analog to WW 2, I don't know what could? And the near i8mpossibility for Middle Class humans in the US to flee for a safer land certainly echoes of 1939 Germany, although the Gestapo had a more menacing look than economic balls & chains strapped on current day ex-pats who wish to leave for tax reasons in modern times.
Total War 2.0 would also include attacks on e-commerce infrastructure - that's certainly a given; that's only a matter of when not if.
TW2 would also have a nice helping of environmental disaster which might "kill a third of the oceans and things therein" which is getting uncomfortably close.
And capping it all off would be an unsolvable economic crisis which seems to have gained legs of its own. Need I mention stock futures are down again in the pre-open? Gold is rebounding as people seek something safer than dollars, which have their own set of problems now that China has indicated it will revalue its currency - within three or four months is the bet going around Deutsche Bank.
"So how is a reasonable person to cope?"
Why that's obvious! You need to get involved with one of the State-sponsored addiction programs. Go to a doctor, declare you're feelings of stress and Presto! They'll give you drugs that are more dangerous than marijuana, but which can't be made at home, and so Government gets to tax it and not to mention all that hot lobby money to get regulations moved just thus and so in the District of Corruption.
Aren't you glad the solutions to so many of life's problems - like the March to Total War 2.0 - are so easily solved? Say, is that is decaf you're drinking, right?
What's the Stew than makes up Total War? Read on...
Deflation Lookie here: "Fed’s Forsaken M3 Money Gauge Points to Deflation: Chart of Day " Not that it hasn't been a headline around before since we click on Trader Bart's M3 Reconstructed about every 23-minutes to watch the collapse...
9% annual deflation rate...why that must mean the money velocity is toast...which explains why I haven't had a single offer on my 911/930 for sale on eBay. Did find out it is the factory 930 turbo-look...but not a single bid yet. May not end up with a plane after all.
Beefing Up Korea
Crying Over Spilt Gulf "Requiem for the Gulf" is getting traction over at YouTube.
BP's ability is being questioned on many fronts now - especially as lies (partial truths are lies around here) about flow rate are being exposed...
The flow of ships heading out of the GOM is interesting to watch over at http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ Boxes 566, 191, 17, and 12 in particular on the marine traffic maps in near real-time. Kinda like watching the marine version of Exodus at times...although slower today.
See where Dengue Fever has broken out in Key West recently? What do you think - put on the thinking cap here - will happen to Florida real estate prices there in the land Elaine refers to as "Home of the newly-wed and nearly-dead crowd"?
Say, won't that oil spill cut down mosquito populations? See how this is all working out? --- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal seems seriously pissed at the slow federal response. This 'harmonic of KatRita' mess is one of the main topics in the short term values (3-weeks to 3-month) futures when the next HalfPastHuman "Shape of Things to Come report is released...Wednesday so keep clicking on www.halfpasthuman.com about then. $10. The advisory from Cliff:
There are all kinds of rumors flying around the net, but until we get traceable reports to an established source, or one of our own sources in the industry sheds light, we'll just forego the alarmists reports and just take the prudent preparations outlined for Peoplenomics subscribers this weekend.
Arms Boner or Planners For whatever reasons, the US has agreed to relax sanctions on a Russian arms exporting outfit. Oh...and this goes nicely with our "Road to Total War 2.0 theory: Iran sanctions won't stop Russian missile deliveries to Iran.
Not Reassuring "New Financial Rules might not prevent next crisis" said a report out Sunday. Well, ain't that peachy? So why bother?
Web Rights? There is no such thing, of course as an email from a reader points out:
Patience. When post Gulf Disaster Famine shows up, there will be better things to do.
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Coping: The End of Radio? One of the 'game changers' in the wings is the report that "Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 kM". All of which makes communicating without a traditional radio signal possible.
That said, the big caveat is that this cannot be done without a conventional link to set up time synchronization between entangled photons...but why do I sense that at some core level that's what humans do down at the dream/preconscious level with just the right 'tuners' which might include - depending on culture - drugs, mediations, and what have you's?
What I'm waiting for is the "do it yourself" article in the American Radio Relay League's publication QST....famous for cool ham radio projects.
Something like "Begin by mixing up a batch of entangled photons, and here's how you do that..."
Interesting Dream Synching Now that we're up and collecting dreams over at The National Dream Center a very curious this has come along - different people having similar dreams. Quite strange. Here, take this one:
Another dream goes along the same line (emp event):
What's interesting - now that the dream collection process is going - is that we can see certain 'recurrent themes' emerge. Now, whether these have any predictive value or are just expressions of people's fears is, I'm afraid, about a three beer discussion.
Still, there are some interesting groups around certain kinds of events - like EMP/nuclear war, for example, and "huge destruction in the US southeast" in the form of a mega quake/destruction with seeming parallel dreams about quakes (elsewhere) but seeming to come from the New Madrid area.
Given my own expectations about the future, some of this stuff resonates as a kind of 'everything piles up' late this year and into next and with the 'oil volcano' leaking in the Gulf at a horrific rate, no question in my mind that additional mega quakes mentioned in the previous HPH reports are looking more possible - either that, or we are just noting that people with common inputs seem to share common worries at a very deep emotional level which their subconscious is trying to resolve and is doing so in different ways. Ponderings continue.
Monday At the WuJo: Look! Up in the Sky! Department Remember that mysterious spiral over Norway a while back? A quick Wikipedia refresher course:
OK, now the real news - there's been one over Canada!
Speculation abounds here - it's either ET's with a tractor-beam warning (and the fact that the spiral is distorted looking over Canada may be due to some defense system (HAARP?) being tested...OR the simple explanation that this is an ultra-secret military project - or MAYBE it has something to do with why our government launched that unmanned remote control combat vehicle into space recently.
Your bet is as good as any on this, but damn interesting story --- maybe Project Blue Beam is closer than we thought?
Not worth worrying about. I'm gonna go watch the market crash this week and count my money - and get an account opened in a bank north of 40º...
Before the chart, a little background: Once upon a time, a long while ago, I observed during my quest for 'truth' in economics, that the PowersThatBe, the talking heads on the teeve, and the other information sources that actively engage in the programming of humans not to think, had conveniently swept several trillions of dollars that disappeared in the Internet Bubble's bursting (since spring 2000) under the rug. Surely, it wasn't unnoticed by the thousands of people who called brokers and said "Where is my money?" "Gone, but hang in there as you're a long term investor!" was about all they heard back.
So one of our charts for Peoplenomics subscribers oughta be widely circulated - it shows that if you line up the peak of the Dow in January 2000 with the peak in early September of 1929, we're on a very very close replay track. Much closer than even the chart shows if you were to back out inflation, and put in the effects of 1929 deflation, but that'd be real work, and I'm sort of lazy if the truth be told.
No, it's not a perfect replay of 1929, but history doesn't repeat exactly, it only rhymes. So think of this as the rhymes and the crimes chart:
"George, that's only a coincidence!" your monkey-mind will protest.
Why sure it is...you bet. A 9½ year long coincidence...yessir....just a coincidence, I'm sure...
Write when you get rich,
George Ure, The People's Economist
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