Bleeding Markets and Personal Health

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I can’t think of two more important topics this month. Especially as the world careens toward a nuclear showdown, China slobbers on Taiwan, and down on Wall Street, our Aggregate Index work has been right, again.

The Nikkei was down more than 4-1/4 percent overnight and the picture in Europe isn’t pretty, either. Now imagine a whole week of Tuesdays. Might come to that, but we will see.

Yesterday doesn’t matter on this side of the sunrise, though.  In our charts it will be all eyes on “Gee, how bad could it get?”  (Very if not nuclear at midmonth, still pretty bad.)

We loaded up the hamburger fund Tuesday, but didn’t stay into the bitter end.  Ran out of QuikClot.  Ever try talking sense to a stampede?

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49 thoughts on “Bleeding Markets and Personal Health”

    • G.A. STEWART: In my 2023 book, looking at the math, I came to the conclusion that The False Peace could be negotiated sometime around January or February of 2025. If I am right, that means within the next three-months, civilization will spin off its axis. It could be a brief and intense war.

    • (“Nostradamus clearly alludes to that fact. “R’édifier,” “le forneron,” to “rebuild,” to “reconstruct,” to “re-erect,” “the furnaces, the ovens;” it is exactly what it sounds like. It means the rebuilding of Nazi ovens to burn the large number of dead bodies.”)

      considering that… FEMA .. had every county around here obtain mobile crematorium for emergency use .. which hit mainstream news when it happened.
      I can’t find the story now but was shocked when I read it..

    • Wow, this is a long but excellent read. I have read shorter books!

      Stu covers all the bases in this one. Things I already knew and am prepared for. Things I did not know and which deepen my understanding of the batshit crazy days we are living in.

      • This was certainly a magnum opus effort on Stu’s part that pretty much covers all the bases… ancient to present. The prospect of living thru another Mahabharata type war is less than appealing. Some prophecies offer hope of peace afterwards. I wonder if any humans will be left to enjoy it.

  2. (“But the happy talk is still around, too. If you’re and Optimist, the report a couple of weeks back from the Brookings Institute looked like all good news: Six facts about the post-pandemic commercial real estate market in the US and what they tell us about the future of retail (brookings.edu).
    However, a closer inspection of the Brookings report screams that it completely misses the point of my most recent book (The 100-Year Toaster) when it proposes:”)

    we have low income apartment complex close by.. they had to raise the low income rent to keep up With the tax increasing.
    over half of them are empty. low income doesn’t make enough to afford low income rent costs.
    the strip mall.. it use to have a wonderful Mexican restaurant..all of the shop spaces except 1 closed..the mall its still looks busy but over half of the spaces closed one shop owner next to a coffee bean shop ..I overheard him saying to another gentleman that prices has exceeded his ability and he’s desperate to figure out how to get new sales income.. its beginning

  3. (“with neocons trying to light off nuclear war to cover-up global financial misfeasance, the most valuable assets of all will be those with certain of settlement.”)

    the real problem is one of the ten commandments.. the neocons covet…
    (“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female slaves, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

    —?Exodus 20:17”)

    then there’s the legal drama on Trump another of the ten commandments.. thou shalt not bear false witness..
    while the whole war and more wars about Ukraine and russia.. is because of the desire for what resources they have.
    Gaza and the desire to eliminate the Palestinians official termination was because a few gang member terrorists did a horrible attack against civilians and the Israeli governments assessments that Iran’s leaders and their inability to bring the criminal elements to justice .. but is it or is it about oil and gas fields that are so badly needed by NATO countries and the reluctance to negotiate for access and price. coveting their resources.
    the raw desire to acquire at the cost of the lives of the innocent.. the.. GREED..One of the seven deadly sins..

    https://inspirationfeed.com/what-are-the-seven-deadly-sins/

  5. (“China takes Taiwan (end of month) a first nuke goes of (doesn’t matter where) at mid-month, and then we will be at, or below the trend channel.”)

    question… if this all lives up world wide and a hidden army within the borders starts acting similarly to blm and Antifa and marches across the country and the air land poisoned by radioactive fallout.. just what good will a sheet of paper with a number be if we are thrust back to the technological times before noah..
    I have said this before gold and silver is pretty.. but if you have ten pounds of grain and have the needs of food and water like the people that have to walk many miles to get a scrap of food or water.. how much gold would it take to buy some of what you have.. you can’t use it unless you find someone that collects it..

  6. I loved the one on dental issues and longevity..
    I am a prime example of that.. not that I don’t brush or floss..
    my whole first set or baby teeth had to be surgically removed..their wasn’t any enamel on them .the Second set crumbles.. All the dental issues were the cause of dietary vitamin and nutrients that was missing in my mothers body as she went through the great depression.
    it has been the Bain of my existence to.. the assessment of 60 grand for implants.. seemed a great deal a few years ago.. today it should have been seen as a bargain. going the cheaper way was still twenty five grand then a other ten grand d that I’m paying off at 39 percent interest..with another assessed ten grand plus in the future.
    all because of the affects of the depression long before my existence. regular dental cleanings .. we use to get those twice a year when we had dental insurance today at 500 a time or two grand a year on a set income its above the pay grade..
    A great thought but not realistic to the vast majority.. today’s youth are not offered the perks of health insurance much less dental insurance.
    I was afraid to smile and saved a Nicole a pay period until my late twenties .. the smartest woman I ever have met.. ( in the stacks of the LOC ( library of Congress) she’s still reading a book and a half a day and in her eighties.. still afraid to smile the same reasons.. and all of it due to dietary issues because of the last depression. I look at the kids today..the vast purchases of the cheaper foods because of lack of cash..bulk foods.. will their grandchildren and great grandchildren face similar issues in the future?

  7. Anecdotal Oh $hit!

    We got stopped out of a lot of our big holdings yesterday and this morning. Trailing on boomer stocks.

    Is it a “bear raid” til November? Or as the late great Fred Sanford said. “it’s the big one!”

    However you chose to see it, risk appears to be all downward until election relief day.

  8. Great write up on ure person health journey
    it reflects many changes that I also have incorporated into my life, 5-11, 230 lbs I was a chubby now 165, cheese cake , oh dear, we used to have a shop that specialized in homemade cheesecakes
    anyway in Nebr there are Walz family members possing with Nebr Walzs for Trump shirts,,, photo
    https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1831325569591427502
    it is a healthy tip,,, vote Trump,,, as he will bring in RFKjr
    get rid of toxins Trump says
    https://x.com/IQUQWEQ/status/1831197664358043766
    ya should know to unmute the volume,, 34 sec vid

    pink parts, oh my,,, I use Dr Bronners peppermint soap castile in my shower
    https://www.drbronner.com/
    and Meyers clean day at my hand washing sinks
    https://search.brave.com/search?q=Meyers+clean+day&source=desktop
    what a george’ous/gorgeous day

  9. “Black neighborhoods are underserved by retail (operations — stores).”

    Well, Lordy-me! Who-da thunk it!?

    Sorry; but let me speak The Politically Unsayable:

    The “neighborhoods” are DANGEROUS and CRIME-RIDDEN. This includes personal violent crime, such as muggings and carjacks, and also such things as mass lootings and chronic individual shoplifting.

    Companies wishing to make “Profit” — [gasp!], will either leave, or never setup business is such areas.

    There. I done said it.

    I know the More Delicate folks will by now have clutched their pearls, and fainted away on their couches. Sorry for my brutal — and no doubt racist — analysis; but there it is. Horrible Practical Reality.

    “The Neighorhoods” might KNOW what they have to do; but apparently they have not the gutz to do it. They prefer their happy (stupid) Politically Correct illusions.

    I try to patronize as few delusions as I can manage.
    They should try the same thing — or remain ignorant victims. The power and the issue are well within their hands.

    (Sorry to be so harsh.)

      • More authoritativly, https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country

        But please, don’t go off on the racial rants on this stuff. Definition of IQ is intellectual by chronological age. If you have no learning resources, you’re stuck in 7-th grade by your environment and race is NOT the issue. Unequal distribution of nutrition, teachers and materials, clean water – you know, the basic shit we take for granted – is the limiter, not natural ability.

        I wish you had gone in that direction/ Or had exp0plored the leadership role that Islam is taking in getting the bottom of the heap off the ground a bit. Sure, violent means sometimes but from indigent people’s view itsd back to the rock n roll song “When you ain’t got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose…” All the while, the corporate devil of all colors is coming for your resources…

    • Exactly.. BLM and Antifa targeted the small neighborhood merchants. how many times did you see them smashing windows and some idiot running with a tv set..beating the merchants even raping his wife and daughter..
      then they wonder why a merchant hesitates opening in the high crime neighborhoods where our politicians de-funded the only protection they had.
      I know someone that had a business in the crime ridden neighborhood that George Floyd riots were in..their business deztroyed.. they thought their insurance would cover the damages and loss..nope not because of a riot.the business never reopened they lost everything.

      here’s a couple of demonstration videos..for those peaceful protests.. I knew someone that told me there was people offering cash for doing damage and more cash if there was violence..

      https://youtu.be/ojMEkPVfvKQ?si=kON88Ot0SZehLOXc
      https://youtu.be/H5fRbi4yTz8?si=oQQc1lTNuM2KlsjV

        • (A simple ban, flag down on the field, or an attempt to explain reality? Hmmm. We’ll go with #3)

          Citing the WEF? (Have you lost your fricking mind? Their story is a rip from Axios, three alleged companies were NOT NAMED and you want us to believe your version?) Seriously?
          Worse, the whole left-wing assertion is a likely lie because a) Axios where the story didn’t name “three retailers.” And b) when we went looking for the (alleged) source data, we ended up here: https://www.iii.org/page-not-found?attempt=fact-statistic/facts-statistics-civil-disorders (it’s a 404 – been disappeared error)
          With the Insurance Information Institute source gone…looks like the left keep running its own echo chamber to us.
          Then (look shocked) when “one third of the insurance industry loss has come from only three retailers” (is one of the most stupid generalizations for effect ever because three businesses might be like chains of gas stations, convenience stores and so forth. Could a chain of convenience stores have multiple locations and thus 10^ or more market share? Insane use of “facts” to polarize. It was an outbreak of lawlessness.
          Seriously? You want creds around here, cite actual source, not the Klaus Schlabbs who want to force feed the world bugs and preach high and mighty bullshit from the clouds. You’re throwing in with terrorists in your thinking.
          Thank you. thank you very much.
          Corporate neo-Nazi’s of the left – disappears actual sources… what could go wrong? What could be misleading trolling?

  10. George,

    The formation of a star from concentrations of compressing interstellar hydrogen gas has as an epiphenomena, clumps of matter distributed in a planar disc, which evolve into planets. One Goldilocks’ planet, over time, fortuitously, had an ambient environment ripe for the self-assembly of organic compounds which produced a perpetual self assembly of DNA and RNA based proteins and structures that were tested for survivability in the planet’s milieu. Senescence and death of living things likely promotes the continuity of this self replication process.

    The growth and decay fractals of valuations of assets of the asset debt macroeconomic system self assemble in the most efficient mathematical manner possible. Second fractal nonlinear collapse is akin to the nonlinear death of a living organism which immediately removes or revaluates the bad asset’s valuation relative to its debt, its overproduction, and its relative overvaluation – compared to the annual wage of a laborer working within the base of the asset-debt macroeconomic pyramid.

    8 October 2024 is the self ordered low valuation target date of an October 27, 2023 first and second mathematical fractal series: 74/165 days – and the beginning a longer fractal self-ordered series to a system 2025 low.

    • “8 October 2024 is the self ordered low valuation target date of an October 27, 2023 first and second mathematical fractal series: 74/165 days – and the beginning a longer fractal self-ordered series to a system 2025 low.”

      The 8th is coming up quickly. Only been on one airliner that went maximum nose down on a medical emergency into HART field, right through the middle of a rather severe thunderstorm. The stewardesses thought the guy (in the seat behind me) was having the big one; it sounded to me more like air sickness and a panic attack, with him dry heaving into a bag the whole roller coaster ride down. They took him off on a gurney.
      Unless I am misinterpreting, you seem to be postulating an initial nose down valuation event between now and the 8th. Hopefully the employer makes a safe landing, but I’m not overly confident. Lack of exit plans. I have more confidence in my low personal debt load, and avoidance of equity assets and high-yield bonds for the moment.
      The late Irving Weiss theorized that the stock market implosion and margin calls in ’29 set off a bond market fiasco that led to the credit deflation in the early 30’s. The timeline you are putting forward reminds of that era.
      I am curious if you have projected which quarter in 2025 the economy ditches in ?

  11. “The Commercial Real Estate sector ”

    Years back the Detroit billionaire wanted a new skyscraper in downtown Detroit. Long story short, hook and by crook he got it built by taxpayers funding the bulk of the build. Taxpayers loved ‘seeing the cranes’ and normies couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Everyone had to have the building.

    At this point in history the building is near completion and it turns out the normies were right, business doesn’t need the space at all.

    “The overall $1.4 billion project is two new side-by-side buildings: the 49-story skyscraper and a wider 11- or 12-story “office block.” A total 1.5 million square feet of space is planned. The developer is Dan Gilbert’s real estate firm Bedrock.

    The office block topped off two years ago and appears closer to full completion, with leasing agents actively seeking office and commercial tenants to fill it. So far, no occupants have been announced.”

    Taxpayers will get the payment book. Maybe the plan from the billionaires POV was to buy the building at auction for pennies.

    • Field of Dreams …. IF you build it, they WILL COME.

      Developers are always like that, it is a mindset I don’t share but it is what drives the building of economically inefficient but magnificent buldings all around the world.

      John D. Rockefeller did NOT expect to make a profit on his Rockefeller Center COMPLEX of buildings (it is many buildings, not just 30 Rock) for many years, if ever. He however wanted a signature edifice with the Rockefeller name on it that would outlive him.

      John D. Rockefeller lies in grave in an old cemetary in Cleveland Ohio with just a small monument next to it, smaller than some of the other ones in that cemetary in fact. His resting place in death is unobtrusive and minmalist. His Rockefeller Center however lives on and carries his name. It is probably the only reason that anyone under 50 even recognized the Rockefeller name … so it accomplished what he wanted to accomplish.

      Developers of SiIGNATURE high visibility projects seem to crave developing something that will live past themselves that they “may” be remembered by. Part of the human condition?

      • Lakeview

        tis where my Ancestors(Fathers side) are laid to rest. Put my Dad in there about 8 years ago. Mom refuses – wants to go where her Family is all interred in Philly region. Older Sister went in next about 6 years ago. They always are sending me fund raising stuff – Halloween stroll thru the Cemetery sort of stuff. Think there is a president (Garfield) in there as well. Still room in Family plot ! whoopeee.

        My urn will prolly be rejected on sight or struck by Lightening upon placement..Not that that matters – Ill be long Dead really could not give a F what happpens to my body once my KA/Ba has left the “building”.

        * small blue granite markers

  12. He was now 55 and as he noted in his 1984 book, Iacocca, an Autobiography, “At this point in my life, I had no interest in working for somebody else.”

    In seeking company-saving government loan guarantees, Iacocca and his management team, some of them ex-Ford employees, were required to reveal the product the loans would be used for. Thus the K-car, which Iacocca had enthusiastically embraced upon arrival, became so widely exposed that its official debut as a 1981 model would seem almost anticlimactic.

    Chrysler survived by selling some 410,000 1981 K-cars, compared with the 195,000 rear-wheel drive Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volares they replaced. By 1983 Iacocca proudly paid off Chrysler’s $833 million (U.S.) loan guarantees.

    If its been done before?

    It can happen. again.

    • here let me restate that changing with only 3 words.

      “At this point in my life, I had no interest in working for somebody else.”

      In seeking company-saving government loan guarantees, Trump and his management team, some of them ex-Ford employees, were required to reveal the product the loans would be used for. Thus the K-car, which Trump had enthusiastically embraced upon arrival, became so widely exposed that its official debut as a 1981 model would seem almost anticlimactic.

      The United States survived by selling some 410,000 1981 K-cars, compared with the 195,000 rear-wheel drive Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volares they replaced. By 1983 Trump proudly paid off Chrysler’s $833 million (U.S.) loan guarantees.”

      IMHO, the K car was and is the ugliest and most gutless car that ever existed on the planet.

      but that wasnt the point now was it. the point was and is:

      in 2 years it successfully paid off all the US loan Guarantees.

      • you are aware enough to see the parallels,

        “Ford’s manufacturing innovations are considered to have sparked a technological revolution in automotive design and manufacturing techniques.”

        creating mass production.

        leading to mass effeciant production in every industry in The USA.

        good thing Iaccoca had on his management team, ford people.

        now change that one word again, in the above.

        the ansers come when they come and they come as they are. its hard not dictate when they come or what they say.

        im off to see melenia for the afternoon. my cute blonde from Keiv. she said she was home doing Laundry. she was out of underware. she said come over.

        i said, Ok, cool. im on my way.

        I am Open to Receive. I am Open to Recieve. I am open to Receive.

      • smart fella! i heard that!!! you are righr! the Chrysler Mini Van was originally built opon the chassey of the K-car!

        hahaha. O.K. now. get out of my head.

        i going to see that hot ukrainian lady who is not wearing any underware.

        always a good fucking time.

        ha ha ha ha.

    • thus saving the “Chrysler” from going completly Bankrupt.

      K is the first letter in Kennedy.

      im going for a walk about eden have a look around. so good to be here.

      The Legend Continues…

    • rememeber the dream i had.

      i road out with a very beautiful lady, a Big Tote Bag full of Cash, a couple of ARs, a shit load of Amo, a Bunch of extra Gas. couple cartons of smoked and a cat escaping the nuclear end of the world, in a 1000 Hp Orange Dodge Demon.

      a Chrysler Product.

      i underand the meaning of it. especially when she tossed the fuzzy dice out the window (no dice) and hung her panties on the rearview mirror and said, there! thats better. now ya have a dream catcher. meaning no dice, dont look back, focus the dream before you.

      and in the poll position, the rust orange colored “demon” is iway out in the lead.

      what was that song she sang while she watched the world be destroyed behind us? meaning i was driving away from it, it being pastense.

      i spose it would have been different if i was driving toward it. but it wasnt. i was driving away from it.

      oh yes, it was by head east.

      https://youtu.be/R7jW8_2Us5c?si=wlDfSY7JkOST_NQ5

  13. “the report a couple of weeks back from the Brookings Institute looked like all good news”

    Bear in-mind Brookings is a leftist think-tank. Brookings is the diametric ideological opposite of the Cato Institute, which is a Libertarian think tank…

    The politics of a Leftist policy organization must ALWAYS be taken into consideration, because they take their politics and their ideology seriously, and always place ideology above policy. Rightist organizations do this also, but they aren’t as bad about it, or as consistent, and their policy tends to be m/l neutral from a societal standpoint.

    Do not allow yourself to forget that Brookings is in the tank for Cammy…

  14. “Climate idiocy and hype continues.”

    I ran the space heater in my bedroom, last night. ‘Twas the first time, this season.

    Two weeks ago, day temps at my house were in the 70s, with night temps dipping to the low 50s / high 40s.

    Last week, temps were in the high 90s (up to 100°) with lows in the high 70s and low 80s.

    Today, it’s currently 85°, but RH is ~10% so even with bright sunshine, it’s almost chilly.

    It’s called “weather.”
    It happens.
    If it ever stops, you should sit down and kiss your ass “goodbye,” because you are going to be dead within two months…

  15. A rally cool event may be coming up.

    “Large asteroid to pass between Earth and the moon”

    “NASA has alerted the scientific community about asteroid 2024 ON, measuring 720 feet in diameter, which is set to approach Earth on September 15, 2024. Traveling at 25,000 miles per hour, it will pass at about 620,000 miles from Earth.”

    – 2 days ago

  17. ya know, when i listened to the lady whisper on the wind and entered the dry well durring that day durring Covid. when in, the first time in recorded history not a single person entered into any kind of house of worship on the planet while i stood there.

    having had a lunar eclypse on the 4 year anniverary, to the minute.

    the shaman who was there said something after, I will never forget.

    he said, I wonder if, by you standing in the place, nobody has stood in in thousands upon thousands of years, if it tripped some kind of ancient beacon and sent a signal into space.

    i said like the gothem batman light? that signals Batman to come? he said i think whoever it signaled would make batman in the movies look like the muppet count on seasame street in real life.

    i said really?? he beat his drum a while then said, the elders said only a truly inoccent could stand there. i said i didnt know what i was doing when i stood there or why i was here. he said exactly.

    he said when those who get the becon come? you were inoocent. im sure you have nothing to worry about. then laughed.

    i said oh for fucks sake. the first time i actually listen to a woman and do what she says she has me setting off an alarm becon sent into space?

    he beat his drum a little and said ya. i think so.

    when i listened to that ping on the speakers of the boeing starliner.

    it reminded me of his words that day.

    todays latest ponder

    will Ming Return and is Trump Flash Gorden?

    if n i did set off a signal into space? whoever gets it, comes only once a cataclysm according to the records.

    for my lovely blonde lady from Keiv,

    que: Back Door Man

    https://youtu.be/E9n3v4Wr-JI?si=ma-zC1FtcStdwYP4

    The Doors

  18. Sugar Blues Revisited

    You are an addict. So am I. So is everyone you know.

    “Table sugar” is not a food. It is a chemical (in case you forgot, or are too young to have seen the FDA PSAs splattered all over television for years, in the early ’60s.) It is also highly addictive.

    Should you ever doubt this, go buy yourself a couple dozen fresh pineapple and put yourself on a pineapple-only diet for a week. The specific ratio of potassium, glucose, and ascorbic acid found in pineapple, combined with the fresh bromelain from fresh pineapple will extract the sucrose that’s stored in your organs and fatty cells.

    By the 3rd day of this diet you’ll hate life. However, when you’re “clean” and have purged the sucrose from your body, you’ll feel better than you have in years.

    It is my considered opinion that sugar is added to fast food, especially burgers, and added to the wash for fries and the breading with which chicken and tenderloins are coated. It is also my contention that “prepared” foods from your local grocer are similarly doped, and that the “fructose” in HFCS is not only genetically-modified, but “counterfeits” sucrose, with the same effect.

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