It’s an honest writer’s confession that I admired the late author Leonard C. Lewin. You’ll remember him as the author of the best-selling Report From Iron Mountain: On the Accessibility and Desirability of Peace. This was one of my favorite books. It amplified the lessons of “thinking the unthinkable” I’d learned as a newsman years … Read More
It’s almost spooky how close the book has been at predicting the macro-trends.Almost as frightening, in fact, as what is ahead for markets over the next couple of weeks.No headlines today…
Although there has been much conversation in the public press about how this 1967 book published by Dial Press was likely a farce on the Vietnam War and the whole “war gaming mindset” we continue to extract huge swaths of meaning from the book in such diverse realms as computer programming and logical approaches to “unthinkable” problems. Hence, this morning we tackle the first parts of Report from Iron Mountain with an eye not toward what is held by the crowd to be just a “farce.” Because, as you’ll see as this series unfolds, when you look at the books “Substitutes for War” one topic – distinctly missing in 1967 – is terrorism.
That gets to be an interesting question, really. Yes we have some new data, but can a (more or less) local jobs picture turn a world in decline? Before we get into the U.S. picture, therefore, a word about Elsewhere. In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei was down almost 400-points and shade over one percent. Hong … Read More
Prepping: At its peak, an estimated 2-million people in Texas lost power as Hurricane, then Tropical Storm, then Wet Spot Beryl wandered through. Plenty or injuries and up to 9 dead (reports vary). The only major disruption we noticed was (an hour or two after losing power), we flipped over to the genset, threw the … Read More
With the holiday almost here, I will be busier than a short-order cook with crap today. Tuesday is garbage day, there’s a new tractor battery to change, and we seem to be in a “calm before the storm.” You know, there’s a time – before a squall hits – when you want to close all … Read More
Report from Iron Mountain (on the accessibility and desirability of peace) laid out the problem brilliantly. Essentially: What is the incentive of nominally free people to give away between 25 and 50% of their labors to government? You need big sticks if you’re in the “governing business.” The Big Sticks are: War (actual) War (threatened) … Read More
There’s a book from the 1960s which all the old-timers around here have read: “Report from Iron Mountain – on the accessibility and desirability of peace.” So controversial was (and still is) the book that it has an extensive Wikipedia entry and offers insights into the modern economy’s “grow or die” problems. “The heavily footnoted … Read More
We’ll hold off on chart sharing until Peoplenomics subscribers get to Wednesday. But, the short translation of visual-to-text is we are walking the top of the trend channel of Wave 2. The Aggregate Index high of November 2021 led to a blow-down into Q3 2022. But from that low (of Wave 1 down) we have rallied … Read More
This morning’s “second cup brainchild” is some insight into how “Reality” is manifested at the macro level. The key aspect of which is how the GMC (global mass consciousness) is always, continuously, voting on the Future. This harks back to the Schrödinger’s Cat principle of quantum mechanics. Which posits whether a cat, placed in a … Read More
Won’t mince today: The longer-term view of long wave economics offers the uncomfortable idea that not only will the Biden (denied so far) recession get worse, but the odds of full-on Depression are skyrocketing, as well. As this happens, my consigliere’s Warm-Up Wars will multiply such that we can only see World War III when the outcome … Read More
We covered the groundwork, for what is threatening to be yet-another public health bureaucrats’ globalist-backed power-grab. Back in July 2021 we wrote: “Leaving us to wonder “Is this the short everyone should have seen coming, or does Savior Joe have a plan to pull it out?” That’s before we get to MonkeyPox, though: Monkeypox outbreak fears as … Read More
Yes. Global Systemic Collapse is coming into view. We’ve all sort-of known that the world has been living on borrowed time. But, like that Library book you kept forgetting to return, we have skipped the actual doing something about it. “Such a small daily fine, after all.” So, we have cheated, cajoled, polarized, and differentiated to the … Read More