This coming week could be extremely interesting. Because if scrying tea leaves is you thing, this is a perfect skill-building set-up.
OK – our ChartPack this morning is a wee bit longish. But we’re back into the time of year editors hate most. How many refries of the “not all Epstein files” released do we need before someone calls the Health Department to shut down the media food truck?
Seriously?
OK, we do a few headlines, but the real story is the ChartPack and trying to eyeball the end of the AI bubble. That’s where the fish or cut bait is. With Bitcoin stuck around $88,230 at press time, there isn’t much in economics to write about. Other than how silver-lithium batteries will make the Silver Bulls rich over they next couple of years…
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What good is a silver battery if no one can afford it?
thats exactly it . remember what you said . well spotted and thought . we shall see
I connected with the oracle of ChatGPT for its thoughts on the silver situation. Apparently current annual demand is in the neighborhood of 1.1 – 1.2 billion ounces while newly mined production is around 820-840 million ounces per year.
Should silver producers align themselves into a cartel formation to maximize revenue? Mexico is credited with 24% of supply, with China and Peru next at 13% each, so there’s 50% of new production by the top three nations. The #4 to #10 producer countries combined bring in another 32% on top of that. By comparison, the 12 OPEC nations allegedly have 35% share of oil production or close to 50% with other loosely affiliated nations thrown in.
“Every cloud has a silver lining”?
I hear announcements of new solid state batteries, and nothing ever shows up that I can actually buy and use.
The specs I have read on the Samsung Li-Ag solid state batteries are cutting edge. When Bosch has a 1.5 kwh direct replacement battery for their 0.5 KWH bicycle battery, then I will start believing.
As far as Li-Ag solid states for automobiles go, I can’t really afford Li ion, so the PM solid states don’t look like something I should get worked up about for larger applications, like home and auto. They might competitively drive down the costs on the LiFePo batteries further, which have already declined significantly. Unless external factors change significantly, the 14 KWH and change of batteries I have at the house will probably take care of real immediate needs and significant contingencies. The next step up would be to go from UPS to solar mode, and that will get expensive, with the code work-arounds which are currently required to achieve potential regulatory nirvana and defeat revenuer resistance.
G____ posted last at 2:30 PM, so it looks like this website comment section evacuated for last minute holiday shopping. I’ll soldier on. I had my shopping done in October. Gifts have been delivered.
I watched Catherine Fitts recorded statement to a European court on Youtube regarding the great Fed reset of 2019 or so. It confirms, at least to me, that my targeted 2025 spending has not been based on delusional objectives. I should be prepared for operating in a much much leaner environment. It isn’t the bolt from the blue that usually does you in; it is the everyday finances and the drag of operating expenses in an environment you aren’t anticipating. Being clueless in a land turned deadly hostile is never good. Wish I could say I haven’t been there for a decade or more, but I can’t. I am getting a better idea of who the architects were, both local and national, and their objectives. I do have plenty of experience operating behind enemy lines, which seemed to expand to the national border under the now deposed houseplant rule of social justice vigilantism.
Got a release from my surgeon, but I am still laying low until a different bone knits fully. It is healing, but slowly. Meanwhile, I am fine tuning in-hand supplies. Bought some new boots on sale, mail order. Ordered a bag for the electric bike, which is unlikely for me to get any use out of before the end of January. I need some spare bike tubes. And some pins. Parts.
Trump has issued executive orders intended to counteract the Fed-centric monetary policy effects on ordinary ‘Mericans, but there is no telling where that will go. Those sorts of actions can take decades to work out. Not sure we have that much time.