The conspiracy mindset is fascinating. In that many things in world seem to happen “by chance.” But there are limits to coincidence. One of our readers up in the PNW has been on the lookout for a major west coast quake, as have I. But for different reasons, perhaps.
First things first: The latest Consumer Prices report is hot off the wire from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S.
But first, an off topic remark or three… My consigliore, just back from a hard week of skiing in Montana, bashed me good on the phone yesterday by pointing out that a major decline of exports doesn’t necessarily mean collapse of the GDP…and he was a) better rested, b) more caffeinated, and c) right. After we kicked around the likely date for the Big West Coast earthquake I dreamed about back in January, he let on that in his scans of the net, there’s been an uptick in tsunami talk. Showing up in prophecy and dream boards and worth noting. And you do know what happens Saturday, right? 109th anniversary of the major quake in 1906 that devastated the city by the bay.
First: I won’t dignify the candidate’s run for the White House by repeating her name. From here to the end of primary season, I’ll refer only to “She of whom we don’t speak.” [SOWWDS} If SOWWDS wants an ad. she can buy it.
Resurrection and Drought for breakfast this morning: We first covered the coming California Drought/Panic (and potential Diaspora) back in January of 2014 for our Peoplenomics.com™ subscribers. What I like to do with Peoplenomics™ (much more so than UrbanSurvival) is look into the future –toward where the data has been pointing – and project what that future will be like when it shows up. So fifteen months ago, we were considering how the federal protections of frogs and such would lower reservoirs and how the rains had not come, nor would any be expected.
Elaine and I had a wonderful weekend up in Oklahoma – long conversations comparing market and futuring outlooks, plus a good amount of time was spent on the subject of prepping. On the way back (somewhere over the Red River, I think it was), I made a note to discuss prepping as an important change in people’s outlooks compared to past Depressions. There wasn’t any prepper movement in the 1928-1930 period, at least in a large enough sense to have been lumped as a “movement” and carved into the history book. This time around, prepping is huge. The numbers are pretty impressive.
Elaine work up in a kind of Yogi Berra mood this morning. There’s nothing like a discussion at 4 AM about the boundaries of intention to kick-off Monday. On her side of the ledger, the science is pretty obvious: She figures that when people are born, they are like fresh sheets of paper – blank – and ready for imprinting. The “printers” are the parents, schooling, expectation-setting, and social context – all of which turns the blank-pieces of humans into nice, malleable republicans and democrats and keeps most people coloring inside the lines.
If you’re reading this morning’s column, I assume you forgot to call in sick and fly your Gulfstream up to Greenland for the eclipse today. Just a guess, mind, you. Got to love the headlines about it, though. Not to burst your bubble, or anything, when when you read headlines like “Total solar eclipse provides a spectacular celestial show” don’t get too worked up. Around here, when we see stories like this, we take an East Texas Outback kind of practical approach, which includes laughing our butts off at live coverage of darkness on television.
The market’s jump yesterday was very good news, indeed. With the Dow popping up 228-points there are a couple of ways to read the Dow. One way – and this is the one I’m inclined toward – is this is a massive “Buy the rumor” event. If you watch the market long enough, you can get a sense of it: Sometimes, when “planned news” like the Fed announcement tomorrow afternoon is due, you’ll see a big run-up ahead of time.
Time for another one of our Adult Education Courses in How the World Really Works 101 from our guest lecturer, Mr. Who Me Skeptical? This is not the week you want to be a prophet of doom. Not enough bummers to go around 21-thousand news and doom channels. As predicted by our trading model, the markets took a huge leap skyward off the recent bottom of trend line that we use as our keen insight into whether the world will end (financially), or not.
Three things are a foregone conclusion this morning: 1. The Emperor has not clothes. 2. The jobs report will show rising employment.
OK, now China has gone and done it…lowering interest rates this weekend. That means all the things we have been warning you (about additional deflation) is likely coming along and with it, this morning the major exchanges in Europe have edged back from recent highs. Does this mean it’s time to slap the 55-day timer, since major collapses (and big corrections) don’t usually get organized until well after a major peak? Put another way, airplanes don’t crash in the sky…the crash hitting the ground. Same thing is true for stock markets.
(Near 20’03” NH by 86’23.5” W – about off Cancun, Mexico) Peoplenomics Subscriber Note: The regular Saturday report this week will be posted on Sunday afternoon because I need a lot more bandwidth that what’s here shipboard to run www.nostracodeus.com software scans and get a better bead on what lies ahead.