Fed’s “Biggest-Ever” Mistake?

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Bad enough America was sold-out by the rich when Job-Jacking took hold and industry moved to least-cost labor centers.  Today it’s even worse.  As the market put on a rally in the face of terrible job numbers, then fell back to earth by the close.

This morning, some serious bile on that – after which we will look at the pig bloat market while still engaging in self preservation – don’t fight the tape.  But pissed?  What was your clue?

We do spend a few brain cells today looking at the reciprocal or Ebbinghaus in the ChartPack. With more speculations about the underlying process by which Future arrives.

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39 thoughts on “Fed’s “Biggest-Ever” Mistake?”

  1. re: “Operation Low Voltage”, HSI
    feat: “This Buddha’s for You”

    Folks,
    It’s okay to be “piste” in France because then you’re on the trail of something. One of the interesting listens to “Operation Low Voltage” unplugged is that the raided Hyundai battery factory is a joint venture with LG Chem of Seoul.

    As chance would have it, LG Chem’s own website informs of its unnamed “holding company” in Beijing. Apparently there have even been gigantic joint ventures between LG Chem and China’s cobalt colossus, Huayou. It seems the latter started out as a cosmetics company and in one context “huayou” means “beauty”. Since Huayou’s mea culpa as alleged child labour employers in the extraction of rare earths from the DRC in Africa, perhaps the Chinese Buddhist context of a “huayou” translation can be substituted – “to educate, enlighten, and guide”.

    DJ George reminds listeners to replace the battery in your smoke alarm. Meanwhile move over B.B. King, there’s a new Seoul in town heating up electrons. Kids wanting to score big time while breaking the rules need to listen up to the latest Kpop vibes. From their “Never Say Never” album just dropped Sept.1st, here’s Zerobaseone and
    “Slam Dunk” !

      • Did you Ed Zacary ?!?

        Ugly Women walks into Doctors office, and complains to Doctor that she has not been able to have a relationship with any Men, in spite of great efforts on her part.

        Doctor asks the Women to disrobe, and to crawl on all fours across exam room floor. When she is done, Doctor calmly instructs Women to put close back and that he has a Diagnosis.

        Doctor tells the Women she has clear case of Ed Zacary Disease,

        Ure face looks exactry like Ure ass!

  2. Collegen thing reminded me of NMN. I tried it for a couple weeks. Got two odd little skin growths never seen before. Treated them, stopped NMN, they are going away.

    “However, just because NMN may be safe in small doses doesn’t mean taking it is without risk. Dr. Dinetz, as well as supported studies, note that excess NAD+ that can result from taking NMN may promote tumorogenesis, which is the growth of cancer cells into tumors, given the NAD+’s critical role in promoting cell division.”

  3. I worked thru the 28 plus year downfall of a major US and International company. The biggest reasons why jobs were outsourced overseas was the EPA, OSHA, and tort lawyers, not taxes. No matter how much compliance we did, every year, more and more expensive but useless rules were imposed. Eventually the cost of compliance was just too high. Factories and their outside support companies, jobs, knowledge and skills migrated over overseas. Before factories and jobs can come back, the cause of their demise must be destroyed.

    When bureaucracy prioritizes its own preservation over its intended goals, it can lead to inefficiency and waste, as resources are allocated to maintain the bureaucracy rather than to fulfill its original purpose. This self-preservation often results in a lack of responsiveness and accountability, ultimately undermining the effectiveness of the organization.

    • “When bureaucracy prioritizes its own preservation over its intended goals, it can lead to inefficiency and waste, as resources are allocated to maintain the bureaucracy rather than to fulfill its original purpose.”

      The principal goal of every bureaucracy is self-preservation. Its stated or chartered goal is merely the excuse for its formation.

      I defy anyone to examine any bureaucracy, spawned at any time in history, by any authority on the planet, and prove me wrong.

      You are exactly correct in your analysis. Trump45 brought companies back and stimulated the economy by eliminating rules and regs (remember the “pass a new reg, eliminate 5 old regs” thing?) While he was contemplating life during the Biden Administration, he determined the 1-5 thing wasn’t good enough, which is why we have a 1-10 thing now, which everybody has forgotten to mention because they’re caught up in misrepresenting Trump’s tariffs (and their actual purpose…)

      • “Trump45 brought companies back and stimulated the economy…” Do you have any data to back that up? How many new jobs were there under trump 45 anyway?

        Because from my perspective trump crashed the economy once and he’s on his way to doing it again.

        but some folks will believe “When these monstrous, huge, beautiful places—they’re palaces of genius—when they start opening up, I think you’ll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible,” Trump said. “Right now, it’s a lot of construction numbers, but you’re going to see job numbers like our country has never seen before.”

        of course he kicks the ball down the road a year. fairy dust.

    • I’m not saying you’re wrong. What can we do?

      DDT worked. So does Glyphosate.

      Is it cheaper to build without fire suppression systems? MGM Grand style fires are the result.

      Legend is before Nixon created the EPA smog and polluted waterways was a problem.

      I’m near Detroit and see the results from the old timers.

      Here’s one:

      Former radioactive site collapses into Detroit River, raising drinking water safety concerns

      “A site on the Detroit River that was used to produce radioactive materials during World War II collapsed last week, raising concerns about whether the adjacent water supply is safe to drink. ”

      There’s other forms of pollution too. The Packer pension fund and Enron come to mind. Before airport security people brought guns onto air planes… everyone is out to get us.

      Some kind of balance?

      • The problem is balance, what bureaucracy is going to say enough, the job is 99% done. No, they keep pushing. Like the old 6 Sigma fiasco. Worked great for factories,but then they expanded it in the office. No shit we had to generate 6 Sigma level patent applications. Even paid for a program to evaluate the application and responses. Lots of expensive 6 Sigma level patents were granted with zero company benefit. That was a self inflicted wound.
        Another is the moronic prop 65 warning on everything because of the retards in CA. They have Prop 65 warnings on everything, gas pumps, elevators. There were Prop 65 warning signs in a clients parking lot. I asked a local why and was informed because the cars had gasoline in them so the public had to be warned. So they have to have signs, of course the bureaucracy has to have codes for the correct signs, inspectors to verify the signs are in compliance with the ever changing codes, fines for non compliance, etc. a big useless bureaucratic waste. That is California right now.

        • When is done done?

          Legend has it in olden day America politicians and the like were tarred and feathered. Personal responsibility. I don’t know if there’s actual documentation.

          After the Packard pension fund was squandered .gov created PBGC. 50 years later Enron and union represented GM staff used the agency.

          Humans had the asbestos in factories problem and years later formaldehyde in the office drywall problem. There needs to be oversight because the others really are out to kill us.

          Farmers are whining again. This has been going on since FDR days – no personal responsibility.

          People Have Little Sympathy For The Arkansas Farmers Who Are Asking Trump For Emergency Funding To Save Their Farms

          “On Tuesday, hundreds of farmers from across the state gathered before representatives to voice their concerns and ask for help amid terrible markets, higher input costs, and tariffs. Many emphasized the direness of the situation, with one farmer saying, “I have never been as worried as I am now about whether or not my kids and grandkids will be able to carry on.””

          https://au.news.yahoo.com/welfare-queens-people-lot-arkansas-224649174.html

    • Phil is on to something, and that is there is an agenda that is not apparent in global warming, or worker safety etc.
      For example, the FJB admin worked like crazy to shut down fossil fuel electric generation, even if it was relatively clean like natural gas.
      They SAID they wanted to replace it all with renewables.
      BUT, for every 100 MW of Coal, Oil, or NG generating capacity they shut down, they only GAVE PERMITS to 25MW of alternative, renewable generating capacity.
      Their apparent goal was to cut the amount of electricity available to the American people.
      This might raise the price, but the main result was to deny the public the power for any reason, enough to just live their normal lives.
      What were they wanting the public to do?
      Live in tents and burn campfires?
      Things that make you go Hmmmm.

      • TRAUMA

        Has always been #1 – in HERD Management…since Day 1 of our Earthly Existence.

        Humanity was Created/Born into TRAUMA.

        Physically/Brutally ENSLAVED for thousands of years..in the beginning.

        That TRAUMA is embedded in our genetic memory now..

    • (“The biggest reasons why jobs were outsourced overseas was the EPA, OSHA, and tort lawyers, not taxes. No matter how much compliance we did, every year, more and more expensive but useless rules were imposed.”)

      I remember when we used to dump the remainder of barrels and wash them out in the ditch..to be returned .. lol lol it was common practice.. homes where the sewer was dumped into rivers. commercials on tv showing a native American with tears in his eyes as he looked at polluted streams.
      there are some very good reasons for the compliance regulations just like there’s some good reasons for building codes..

      • “native American with tears in his eyes ”

        I was trying to communicate the fraud and scams. Speaking of the Native.

        “The Indian from the 1970s pollution commercials was Iron Eyes Cody, a non-Native American actor of Italian heritage who presented himself as a Native American for his career. Cody was central to the Keep America Beautiful anti-pollution PSA, famously known as the “Crying Indian,” where he shed a single tear after witnessing pollution.”

        Scam Nation, right?

        Here’s another ‘sell the dream then walk’.

        Oregonians won ‘$5,000 a week, forever!’ from Publishers Clearing House. Then the company went bankrupt

        Bankruptcy records show at least ten “forever” prize winners may never collect millions they were promised.

        https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/oregonians-won-publishers-clearing-house-then-company-went-bankrupt/283-48e70a19-6223-4a44-a9f9-1642875b96fe

    • Regulations, compliance, licenses, forms and reporting are the major reasons I’m now a lazy bum. I worked hard and endured that stuff, but I no longer need to and would rather sidestep the entire system. Earn the minimum, live each moment, and watch the sunset of civilization.

      Money is no incentive, and anything that might incentivize is now either illegal or requires far too much begging and compliance.

    • Every single Rate Cut will further ENRICH the already filthy Rich, while at same time impoverishing the middle class(whats left of it) further.
      One of the greater Con jobs of modern times.

      Wealthy investors know every rate cut means MOAR money, MOAR money, MOAR money. So yeah lets cut those rates further, impoverish the little guy further, then cut the shit out of social services.

  6. A thunderstorm bulldozed through last night. No tornadoes, but 65+ mph straight line winds dropped a large tree across my driveway.
    On the way to eat breakfast, I saw a lot of large limbs and whole trees down. There were line trucks everywhere, and a few areas were still without power.

    I have one of Arthur Bradley’s Defcon EMP detectors plugged into the wall. About mid way through the storm, it howled for 1- 2 seconds for the first time, then the Utility feeder dropped out. The feeder reclosers didn’t kick in for more than 10 seconds. That’s new. The surge protectors on my main panel stayed active, and their breakers didn’t trip.

    I had to restart some electronics devices, but I haven’t found anything smoked. I took maybe two or three lightning EMP’s, one on the power line and two from nearby cloud to ground strokes. The TV antenna coupler didn’t blow. The lightning was off the back end of the antenna.

    The delayed reclosing of the incoming AC feeder will enhance EMP defense. I had suspected that with all the growth in new subdivisions surrounding, I would probably have upgraded utility protection. Looks like my EMP defenses worked hands-off against high-energy multiple hits. Blistering fast E1 rise time events and very long duration E3 defenses remain untested. Not really campaigning for those test scenarios.

  7. (“How stoopid do they think we is?”)

    All my kids think I’m a moron… lol lol…. my being opinionated is probably why there’s a long line to visit..the wife and I are sociable just not very social..

  8. Most excellent post this morning – over on the “pay-side”.

    I hope everyone here takes the time to read it. Some very hard truths.

    Thanks !

  9. (“The middle class gets crushed while billionaires celebrate. “)

    silly boy… the middle class died in 1980…. today we have the haves and the have nots..bell ringers and the disposables…
    what your describing is that we are living the plot of.. nothing lasts forever..or I at least believe that was the movie I’m thinking of…
    https://youtu.be/kXujx3gEA64?si=7_qvJ90KGEAKmoBN
    besides the scene where imogene coca serves guinea pig for supper is the scene with.grandpa..and his ability to tell the future by reading how his turds lie in the bowl and has everyone race to the toilet to see how his turd is pointing..hmm so the federal reserve and market analysts are describing our future by how their turds lie.. amazing..lol lol lol

  10. (“Lower rates don’t mean a paycheck anymore. They mean another pink slip, “)

    the place I’m working now.. has cut so much staff to keep the ones on top making their bells ring that any more..they’d have to just dictate the doors closed..which is why I’m there..they didn’t have staffing enough to take care of the client..
    The tower of a civilization we now inhabit—once built on craftsmanship, community, and continuity—now trembles under the weight of profit-driven neglect. Our infrastructure, like our moral scaffolding, has been hollowed by endless wars and economic extraction, leaving behind shells of industry and spirit. What remains is a drill , constantly digging from the bottom to heap riches atop a crumbling base, while the majority cling to plastic credit and borrowed time. The business model that fattens the few has starved our resilience. One spark—an EMP, a depression, a rupture in trust—and the dominos will fall, not from chaos alone, but from the quiet rot we refused to name or deal wth.politicians that don’t even care enough to sit and work the issues we face..I actually don’t believe we can turn it now..

      • Oh…trust me…I seen it coming…. lol lol.. I would explain what I seen coming and got the old …EYE ROLL….yeah sure you betcha..
        had someone bring up they wished they had listened twenty five years ago when I suggested they invest in solar panels at the time I paid 25.00 a watt installed for a 1 kW system.. ( it paid for itself in five years) its been a rant of mine..( gosh I’m more than positive you’ve heard me say it..solar towers at ever sub station, solar grid tie kits to every home owner, greenscaping cities, air wells in arid and co2 filters) its the cheapest and easiest to guarantee all of our electrical needs for the future.. and the bonus..our fragile and vulnerable grid would give our country more national security..where now a few well placed EMPs would cause our country to totally shut down..killing off what was it the studies said 98% of the total population.. the problem is..it doesn’t fit with the present business model..the person that was talking to me said..oh I suppose I could get a loan..the misconception is..in their mind they are visualizing paying the loan and the present electricity bill!! not the reduction of the bill ..so even though they have the loan..they are paying themselves once the life an is satisfied.
        for the electric companies handing out a grid tie to anyone willing to have one installed..they see loss of control !! when if they thought about it.. smart meters and power shut down for heavy use items during peak power ..already exists they offer them to everyone..tgat hooked in line with a solar power system they still have control and their business model would conyinue.
        Remember why OBAMA In the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama harnessed the widespread frustration over America’s severely broken healthcare system to galvanize support across class and party lines. Millions of citizens i as one—especially in working families at the lower ranks of employment —were either uninsured, underinsured, or drowning in medical debt, ( yup i was in all of those brackets)while insurers routinely denied coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Obama framed this crisis not just as a policy failure, but as a moral one: a betrayal of the promise that every citizen deserves dignity and care. His platform proposed expanding Medicaid and SCHIP, creating a public-private insurance exchange, and outlawing discriminatory practices in coverage selection.. the money is there it always has been..trillions is spent yearly for health coverage that routinely rents or places extremely high for deductibles. By elevating healthcare reform as a central pillar of his campaign, he spoke directly to the lived anxieties of everyday working Americans—transforming their private struggles into a collective call for change. It wasn’t just policy of tge federal government acting on an issue that directly effects over ni ety percent of the total population…it was a reckoning with the system’s cruelty, and a promise to restore fairness where profit had eclipsed compassion where it failed.. was it still allows insurance companies to gouge anyone..sure you can get it..but you’ll have to pay for it..like my wife’s health insurance..huge deductible and plan cost extreme because her past health issues..even though we could have invested that monthly premium into savings bonds and would have gleaned Us just shy a million in bonds that would be available to spend now.. but if we had gone that route..we would have lost access to clinics and one family dr. that is involved with and knows your patient history….its the business model…Throughout history, leaders like Adolf Hitler and Napoleon exploited systemic inequities—economic despair, institutional failure, and public disillusionment—to consolidate power and redirect national rage. Hitler’s rise was fueled by the chaos of the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation, mass unemployment, and a broken social safety net left citizens desperate for stability. He weaponized their suffering, promising restoration while dismantling democracy. Today,We see the echoes of that manipulation resound in a business model that prioritizes profit over people, leaving millions trapped in cycles of debt, denied care, and priced out of basic dignity. The healthcare and insurance systems—once meant to protect—now serve as gatekeepers of exclusion, mirroring the same conditions that once primed nations for authoritarian control. But this perfect storm is more insidious cloaked in corporate language, automated denial,( remember me ranting and raving fighting with the supplement insurance over two grand ..that I was forced to get by paying forty percent … I told them I don’t care if they paid or not just write me a beautiful letter saying eat shit and die we aren’t going to pay…instead last December they sent two hundred bucks of the two grand) and digital detachment, it Has been eroding resilience from within for decades. What we are facing especially since out sourcing industry and making mom go to work taking the adult presence from the home is not just economic collapse—it’s a moral unraveling splitting the social classes and increasing the amount of the population in homeless shelters or drug addiction, a slow corrosion of the social contract expanding gangland violence and the erosion of ethical dignity that once held us together as a United States.

  11. George,
    Have you ever thought about the effect you use an aggregate to compare to the 1929 Dow? Nowadays if you look at the Dow, the SPX, the Nasdaq, and the Russell, they all are topping differently. In 1929 there was a small decline, a bounce, and the crash – in the Dow. We have had declines in Nasdaq, Dow and SPX. IWM peaked Friday.

    And Puetz crash window coming up with two fall eclipses..

  13. – A week ago I called up a guy I know., out of the blue., hadn’t seen him in a few weeks., and asked him if he would like to go out for a drink. Which is very rare for me.
    I don’t drink in public. It’s not that I don’t trust myself – I don’t trust the public.
    He didn’t want to “go out”., but he just got a couple of mason jars of white lightnin’ and was looking for a reason to crack the seal on one. – So, we set the time.., I grab a box of my new dark Turkish cigaretello’s., and headed on over on my Harley. [ about five miles away.]
    We sat on his back porch sipping moon shine out of white clay cups and covered just about every subject known to man. Great – long – evening of intelligent conversation.
    At four o’clock in the morning it was time for me to go. He thanked me for coming over and for being one of the few people in his life that doesn’t treat him as an invalid just because he’s old and his wife died and he has chosen to live alone.
    “Let’s do this again in a couple of weeks.” He said as I left. I agreed.

    I guess there was a reason for me stepping outside of my normalcy and go drinking with someone. He died in his sleep two nights ago. He was 81.

    As much as I try to stay ‘positive’., sometimes this world really sucks !

    • Oh, no, Mr. dLynn,

      You were led to spend time with this particular older gentleman, and you two enjoyed special quality time with each other. That was a blessing to you both and a memory to cherish. Lucky you.

      Tonight, I celebrated the wedding of two very good friends. My girlfriend, who is 82, married a man I have known for 35 years. They make a splendid couple, and I am very happy for them.

    • stay positive . i saw both my father and mother die in front of me . i have survived 2 comas and a stroke . 40 y and a covert narcissist sets up and takes off . lifes great mate it really is . there is something somewhere that looks after us .. never ever give up and look on the bright side always . cheers

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