Ukraine Pain, China’s Gain, Future Plain

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Since hitting age 73 this month, my interests are drifting slightly from “making more” to “enjoying more.”  Which means, for columns like this (free) one, there’s not an incentive to “give it all away.”

Reason?  There can be some really nice payoffs to life-long learning and temporal/longitudinal observation series.  So, tomorrow, Peoplenomics subscribers will get a “Short Course on Soros.”

No, not the dirty socialist (communist) bent on buying ultra-liberal socialism for America (want it, or not) by selectively buying political outcomes.

That’s not the point.  Anyone with MONEY can BUY PEOPLE.  Look at the lefties going into our courts for examples of his handywork.

Instead, I’ve been focused on intuiting a new way of “out playing” the Davos  crowd and Soros while we’re at it.  Making a bit of progress at it, too.

Tomorrow’s Aggregate Differential Trading on the Peoplenomics side explains a new – and different – way of playing markets which subscribers should enjoy.

Although news can “break” any time, we dropped a profitable short position early-on (extended hours session) today based on the new way of thinking about markets.  What the approach suggests may be something of a run-up into the weekend.  Not advice – we don’t do that – but a strong rally in Europe overnight seems to be inferring that Ukraine Pain One Decline may settle out for a while.

Calendars Matter – Eversomuch

Multiple calendars are now in our crosshairs:

  • For markets, the odds are about 50-50 on a 1/4-point Fed rate hike in two weeks.  It’s also 50-50 on a 1/2-point rise.
  • Our food run calendar here at the ranch popped with today being a supply day and a trip into town.  OMG, Wal-Mart online has an amazing amount of crap out of stock.  Grocery depth and availability calendar is shading us toward the 1/4-point scenario.
  • The FOMC calendar is also “under the influence” of a major drop (see yesterday’s column) in the H.6 Money Stocks Report Monetary Base reading. Easy money means rallies.  Tight money is oftentimes the top of the roller coaster.
  • Religious calendars figure in, too.  For example, it would make sense for Russia – which has displayed less than stellar military action (thus far) to be setting up a chess move.  Remember, April 17 is [traditional] Easter.  But the Putin marches more to the [orthodox] drum on April 24th.
  • China’s calendar begins to open up for Taiwan-taking as weather over the Straits begins a seasonal improvement.

One free “stock tip” which is general in nature:  If you don’t have a pretty-good mental model of where stock prices will be come Monday, you shouldn’t be in this market.  In the preopen today, our long-term (coward’s) long-term average was still far overhead.  It’s a time to be in cash and equivalents, even though there’s both cyber and inflation risk to contend with.

Or do what we’ve been doing:  Add a large – filtered air – greenhouse along the side of your home and focus on making it as much a “self-tending food basket” as you can.

In addition to veggies and “Square Foot Gardening” *(with a side of vertical gardening, too) we have been spending non-market time reading up on The Effects of Different Substrates on the Growth, Yield, and Nutritional Composition of Two Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus and Pleurotus cystidiosus) (nih.gov) and other such data.  The “magic” mushroom pH for home growers looks like 6.7 to 6.93 on your soil meter, by the way.

Plain Pain

Headlines from Eastern Europe? Let’s hit the links to Ukraine government media first, shall we?

On the Russian side, nothing has changed much.  Putin got past the talking points and is on a slow roll West.  However, Putin  is methodically picking-off his objectives.  For example, “Russia Says Captured Key Water Supply Route to Crimea – The Moscow Times.”  You will remember water was a key driver since the West/NATO Kiev government was using the water weapon in the lead-in to the fighting.

Now, despite claims of success stopping a tank column approaching Kiev, the Russians are now focused on regime change in Kiev, despite any short-term setbacks.

You can sense this in reports like “Russia Says Invasion to ‘Free Ukrainians From Oppression’ – The Moscow Times.”  Which lets us assemble the mental Lego blocks to something like:

  • Russia will firm up its backfield and focus on logistics for a few days.
  • Then (perhaps next week?) we would expect Mariupol and Odessa to fall.
  • After that,  Kyiv/Kiev will become the focus.  But, for now, Putin is sparing civilian populations to some extent.

There’s actually a good deal of military logic (we’ll skip the side discussion of that) to such sequencing.

  • Mariupol is the tenth biggest city in Ukraine.  Good “warm up” battle size.
  • Odessa is a different kettle of fish.  Third biggest city in Ukraine, but it’s the politics to focus on here.  As my consigliere noted, “There are likely more Nazis in Odessa than anywhere outside of Germany.”  

So strong is the Nazi linkage to this region that it showed up in the title of spy story master Frederick Forsyth’s book The Odessa File which went on to become a movie (The Odessa File [Blu-ray] starring Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell).

While it’s useful in economics to consider financial gradients of adjacent financial regimes, so too there’s a good study to be done in sociopolitical gradients such as one we can begin to envision as running from Latvia (see the Butcher of Riga, Eduard Roschmann’s rap sheet) south through Kiev in pockets and on south to Odessa.

More on the order of a Peoplenomics topic than coffee-level discussion, just as Nature distributes geographical occurrences as frequent adjacencies, so too, humans seem to self-arrange into adjoining linguistic and psychographic regions.

Which can then be better comprehended using Eric Hoffer’s True Believer concepts as a “steepness of gradients” construct.  (Or you can skip all that and just machine-read social media to define the varying psychological topography and then tie it back to mapping software.  But, I digress.

It should be enough to say that this “psychological ditch” of ex-Nazis turned NATO believers runs deep from the Baltics south and that’s why the evolution of battles to come may be sensed as semi-predictable.  As much as mad men at the helm on all sides can allow, anyway.

Hype-Drivers: Domestic Data

Let’s slop on a heaping order of delusional “Personal Income” adventures, shall we?

“Personal income increased $9.0 billion, or less than 0.1 percent at a monthly rate, while consumer spending increased $337.2 billion, or 2.1 percent, in January. The increase in personal income primarily reflected an increase in compensation of employees that was partly offset by a decrease in government social benefits. The personal saving rate (that is, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income) was 6.4 percent in January, compared with 8.2 percent in December.

Off in the direction of the bankruptcy slaughterhouse, we notice a chart:

Impressive?  Not so much when you remember the Illusion Effect of making up >20% more paper money every year to paper-over us being in a Depression.  Empty store shelves are only a hint as to how deep our problems are.  We figure it will only get worse before either it gets better or we get dead.

Mr. Cheerful then wheels around to the Labor Department’s latest:

“New Orders
New orders for manufactured durable goods in January increased $4.3 billion or 1.6 percent to $277.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This increase, up eight of the last nine months, followed a 1.2 percent December increase. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 0.7 percent. Excluding defense, new orders increased 1.6 percent. Transportation equipment, up three consecutive months, led
the increase, $2.9 billion or 3.4 percent to $87.6 billion.”

Chartifies as:

On That Cheerful

A few for the road:

The system still works.  Despite what the radical racial dividers claim.  3 officers found guilty on federal charges in George Floyd’s killing.

Remember the Hong Kong flu?  Here’s progress for you:  Hong Kong’s new COVID cases top 10,000 in spiraling outbreak.

News Overdose continues:  J&J, distributors finalize $26B landmark opioid settlement.

And another example of the Biden administration scuttling energy independence right and left?  Feds rescind license extension for Florida nuclear plant.

Off into the weekend we amble.  Futures are now up almost 200.  Which is why all this focus on market differential gradients.  We made money in the after-hours session exit.  Wouldn’t have been able to do it in the day session.

Let’s see how much they run it into the close today, shall we?

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

58 thoughts on “Ukraine Pain, China’s Gain, Future Plain”

    • Agnut

      Have you seen the film (unedited) of the “arrest?” Floyd had been “spoofing” drugs. He was already dying. He had chosen what was going to happen to him by ingesting what he did even before the cops arrived.

      He died in an ambulance with cops assisting the first responders in providing life support.

      Check your facts.

  2. Today Ben over at Suspicious 0bservers included a report on “Geopsychology of instrumental aggression: daily concurrence of global terrorism and solar-geomagnetic activity (1970-2018)”
    https://psyarxiv.com/brmns/

    The paper draws a good correlation between Solar activity and our aggressive behaviors here on Earth. Ben says “Yes, 9/11 and every major terrorist incident any of you are going to ask about is on the correlation curve …”.

  3. Biden is controlled from who ever it is pulling his puppet strings and whom ever that is has nothing but destruction of this country as we know it as its goal.
    I know you are aware of this. I just can’t help to voice it as many times as I can as evidently the sheeple are so sheared they just don’t care to save this country and soon they will be third world poverty slaves.
    And for the low IQ’d who is turned off by the term SHEEPLE you know your a OH, well I’ll be nice, You have a nice day
    Too many nice people have allowed this country to fall.

    • And what is your proposal, neither party that had federal power has shown any fiscal responsibility in the last 50 years. Though you could say the couple of years under Clinton with a republican house they didn’t run a deficit. So as much scorn as I have for Biden, no party leadership has taken any actions to keep us living within our means. Many republican’s voted to pass Covid relief and BBB enormous spending plans. All of them are criminals who have only a desire for power and control

  4. THE CROOKS
    Once Obama took office, he cancelled the ABM radar installations that were soon to be installed in Eastern Europe that would have warned of and stopped incoming missiles from Russia. Why did he do that if Russia was so evil? Biden almost immediately upon taking office helped open the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe while cancelling pipelines and drilling here in the U.S. Russia has benefited tremendously from higher oil/gas prices while the American people have suffered, and we are just starting to see gasoline prices that will shock the public, and we are no longer energy independent.

    At the same time, Biden shut down our pipelines, he cancelled liquid gas processing plants that were being built to ship natural gas to Europe. Why if Russia is so evil did he do that…it is simple…Obama and Biden want to destroy America, remake it into a socialist/Marxist state, and based upon their repeated actions, they appear to be in bed with the Commies.

    Biden didn’t even put sanctions on Putin or his cronies for invading Ukraine. And when questioned about why he didn’t sanction the Russians on the SWIFT system, he stated let’s give the current sanctions a month and see if they work. In other words, the Europeans don’t want to sanction via SWIFT. They have too much to lose with the Russians-trade and heat. A lot of territory can be gobbled up within a month and Putin and the oligarchs can get all their money out of the western banking systems.

    Obama is running the show two miles from the White House. Same puppets in Biden’s Administration that were in Obama’s Administration. Why would Obama stay in crime ridden Washington D.C. in his $8.1 million house, when he could be in his 8-figure house on Nantucket, or the new multi-million-dollar house he is building on the beach in Hawaii? All those book sales and speeches and that Presidential salary got you all that money for those multi-million-dollar houses right Barack Hussein? BS. Must have been tens of millions of anonymous books sales…a safe way to wash money to politicians. Books filling warehouses, or land fills. One of the oldest tricks in the books.

    Don’t forget Kerry/Obama/Biden were the geniuses that gave the Iranian Ayatollahs $1.7 billion in cash on pallets. It couldn’t be tracked in the black market for funding terrorist organizations, weapons purchases, and nuclear weapons programs, and of course some off the top for the crooks in D.C. Who would know the difference?

    US courts had ruled that the money belonged to US victims of Iranian terrorism. Congress had agreed. And we are supposed to trust these morons in charge on Global Warming now re-branded as Climate Change. And that idiot Kerry just stated yesterday that he hopes Putin will help us stay on track for what we have to do for the climate. No mention of the invasion. What a fool!!

    Just like Hillary getting ‘donations’ to her “foundation” for selling off our uranium to the Ruskies and nothing ever happened to her. Nor did anything happen to her for erasing her laptop when it was under subpoena. Nothing will happen to Sloe Joe or his La Familia del Crimen for deals made via Hunter with China, including numerous partnerships and directorships and fund management, and multiple deals in Ukraine for which Hunter knew nothing about Oil/Gas. Why? Because Lady Justice has been ripped completely out of our rigged legal system. The big boys can break the laws and skate. Perhaps Biden wanted Russia to go into Ukraine, and then they can say that everything discovered there about the Bidens was planted by the Russians? The Democrats did it to Trump by saying the Russians were on his computers when it was apparently the Democrats who were Watergating Trump!!

    Was Ukraine blackmailing the hell out of Biden and that is why he said that it would be OK if Russia had a small incursion into Ukraine?

    And now Biden is using the excuse of the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a reason for high gasoline prices here. He will blame everything else going down the tubes here on the Russians, and then the Chinese, and then the Iranians. What a senile idiot. It is embarrassing to hear him mumbling about sanctions. A total disgrace to the Office of the President. The State of Union on Tuesday will be a comedy show for other leaders in the world.

    Prediction-The Democrats will try but will not be able to steal the next election because the voter turn-out will be so large against the existing crooks in control because our country will be deeply in the middle of bubbles popping-stocks, bonds, housing, while at the same time, hyper-inflation will be running wild if you can even get products. The House will impeach Biden, but if RINO McConnell is in charge of the Senate, the Chinese will squeeze him to stop the vote on Biden. Jill Biden will strike a deal to let the old fool resign to save face.

    Hopefully, McConnell will not be the next Senate Majority Leader. Trump’s enemy and Trump has not forgotten. Too much power has gone to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader. The people should vote for those positions or clip their wings. They give out positions of authority, and control legislation based upon members loyalty to them, not loyalty to the American people. The ultimate good ole boy club controlled by money from the lobbyists and big business.

    • All for 10% to the big guy.. Sub committees divide and conquer, delegating authority to a sub group that is steering the agenda. Easier to control and less costly than to Bribe ‘Em all.

    • Excellent, except for one point. Mr. Obama is a courier. He’s not an especially intelligent person, and in no way would be allowed to run the show.

      Susan Rice and the other “Obama holdovers” are managing Biden. They get their instructions from Obama. Mr. Obama gets his marching orders from someone else. Who? I dunno. It was Soros when he was da Prez. George Soros has his own agenda, but WRT the President, Soros is also just another courier…

      • Ray,

        Given what I have read in about the goings on of the past, I would say that the Rothschild family/families are the ones pulling the strings. This family bankrolled Soros in the beginning to help bring about the fall of the British pound sterling. Only seems logical that they still have an agenda, and what better puppet than Soros to push their agenda. After all, he still owes them.

        The Rothschild family doesn’t show up on the list of world’s richest people, because they have more money than can be counted; so why bother with a list of “peons” in their mind.

      • “The Rothschild family doesn’t show up on the list of world’s richest people,”

        Yeah, I know. When Jay Rockefeller was a Congresscritter his highly-publicized “net worth” was $63mln… Speaking of, David Rockefeller doesn’t show up on any list. He’s like, the only living Rockefeller who doesn’t have a page at wackypedia.

        I wonder why…?

        BTW, you are correct that the Rothschilds are one of the families seated at the grownup table in the Boardroom of the Powers that Be. It is, however, not a family gathering, but an actual board meeting…

    • Excellent post, as usual!
      “Obama and Biden want to destroy America, remake it into a socialist/Marxist state,”
      It’s not possible to ‘Build Back Better’ unless all that exists before is destroyed. We are being ruined from the inside like from a massive termite infestation.
      Al B.

      • We had a ‘builder- in the WH with Trump. Most in DC now are destroyers, they couldn’t build a sand castle to save their sorry butts. Thats what happens when there is no penalty for breaking ones oath-of-office – the first charge should be felony perjury – 1 to 5 in the Big House! The laws are for us, not them.

      • C (Does that stand for Commie?)
        The sanctions situation IS NOT different than what I described. I have no cynical illusions when it comes to that fool occupying the White House. I am questioning why Biden is going to give the current weak kneed sanctions 30 days to work. Russia will own Ukraine by then. And why is the fool Biden still buying Russian Oil. Because he cancelled our energy independence. Get your facts straight and quit relying on crappy publications sponsored by Government Intelligence Agencies like Aljazeera!

        Reading Aljazeera for facts is not something I would ever rely on anymore than I would count on NBC, CBS, or CNN for factual news. All propaganda and lies.

        More importantly, Wimpy Biden did not hit the SWIFT system immediately re: Russia, the Oligarchs, and Putin. Mainly because of Germany. Biden had to put up Puff and Bluff and give Putin time to accomplish his goals. If Biden hadn’t been trying to make Ukraine a member of NATO, this wouldn’t be happening. Putin needed a buffer zone and the Biden Administration would not agree to it. It would be like having China with missles and military in Canada and Russia with missles and military in Mexico. We wouldn’t allow it…(although Biden would).

        Biden has given Russia the Green light since early February, but those are facts you won’t find from any of your news sources.

        Furthermore, why is Biden just now saying he wants to give $375mm in military aid to Ukraine, and Germany is saying that they want to send 400 grenade launchers? But Biden leaves $85 Billion in military equipment in Afghanistan?? And what good are only 400 grenade launchers–it should have been 40,000. Too little too late idiots! Like closing the gate after the cattle got out of the corral. Kyiv is surrounded. The airport is closed. How are they going to get these huge gifts to the military?

        Biden said he needs Congress to authorize another $6.5 BILLION because of the Ukrainian crisis…FOR WHAT???? Buy more votes? The weak-kneed fool is the one that caused this and is now Russia time to consolidate their position. He wants the current government gone!!! Think Hunter might have something to do with that???

  5. Yikes Dude,

    Ure clarity of battle order is refreshing to see. Remember the “odessa tragedy” when 50 peeps were burnt alive by radical Maidan supporters?
    Pooters is a “masterful” fighter, and seems to be feinting blows at Nato/Ukeies.Nato/Europe/Slo are sooo overmatched, the head-shot is coming, and will be expertly delivered..precision like.

    Big questions -what will the Ruskies find at the US Bioweapon Lab in Ukraine ? Obviously the DEWS station is or will be taken out..

    What is/was Battelle Corp and cia project ClearVision ? clandistine ? why omitted from US Bioweapons Convention declarations submitted to UN.

    Remember Battelle ran ft detrick for 15 yrs or so. Why do We pay for/ fund wit ure Tax Dollars 25 BioWeapons Labs across the East from Chynah to Russia to Iran and all over Africa? Follow along ..
    Metabio – will find 3 of their bio weapons labs in middle central african ebola crisis.7-17-14 report from Viral Hemorragic Fever Consortium aacused Metabio of fialing to abide by existing agreement how to report test results for bypassing Sierra Leon Scientists working there. Report accussed Metabio of culturing blood cells at the lab.
    Where ever US bioweapon labs are found – we find brand newly emerging Biting Fly Populations.. Tbilsi, Dagestan..tropical mosquitos in Georgia??…Dont evn think about Ticks – See Lyme NH, let alone CCHF – a tick borne virus (nairo virus)? how we get an outbreak of CCHF (crimean congo hemorrahagic fever) in Georgia ?? Bueller?
    US Bioweapon lab in Trashganistan up on Iran border… dont have to wonder anymore how they got hundreds of cases of CCHF.
    Dont even want to consider the horrors practiced in Utah at Army Dugway Proving Grounds – what the holy F, over? Inhumane at best..

    Its even better than we can imagine..”As Above (heavens), So Below (earth)”
    Its an Ancient War, we still be in the middle of it – “Matriarchs” vs “Patriarchs”
    Think Ptah Line out of Egypt – Damkina – Sacred Feminine – Moses – Jesus…

    • Excellent post. You know your stuff… Ptah… You’re in the deep end of the pool now.

      There’s an old Indian named road near me, Allahptah. I’ve wondered about that long ago history.

    • Pathfinder Bob,

      “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
      Mark Twain

      It seems the Runnymede lands, an Anglo-Saxon meeting place of Magna Carta signing fame, were gifted to The National Trust in 1929 to avoid commercial development. The donor’s spouse descended from Mayflower pilgrims was an oil heiress daughter of a founder of Standard Oil who rescued Mark Twain from bankruptcy.

  7. I don’t know George, the system certainly “works” if your goal is to protect minority criminals from any results from their direct actions of not following legal police orders. I think such decisions only will embolden the criminal class and ensure non minority officers avoid interacting with those minority criminals.

    I might has a more positive attitude if there were actually a trial against the police for the shooting of un-armed Ashly Babbit.

    I am no fan of police these days with their enforcement of laws, being bullies, ignoring the constitution, and not enforcing the laws equally. But they are all that we have as a society to separate out the people that refuse to live in a civilized culture and those that do.

  8. “Beware the Two’s ” proves prescient/prophetic did it not?

    Did not the warning get posted here? Top off Ure gas, supplies, popcorn, cash, precious metals, cryptos. Each form of “money” will be needed and or usable as we progress forward thru the USD demise.
    What will be IN-Place and Ready to rock and roll on a global scale when the time comes ?

    Thirsting for secrets revealed ??

    Repeat after TBM – X R P the “bankerz” coin… cat bee outta da bag,again.

    https://youtu.be/nBCtYzCGnXU

    No – not available to Buy, anymore – at least on Coinbase, but then again Neither is Theta or Theta Fuel – but you know the TBM may be HODLing Theta @ offshore broker somewhere in Lenny land.

    • I’d much rather listen to George! Much higher S/N and greater information density. I fail to understand the appeal of “Alice Cooper”.

      • He’s an awesome guy who still puts on one hell of a show. MY 15 & 13 year old went to a concert with their dad (locally). A mixed crowd and all loved that show, as far as I know. Also, Cooper does charity. HE does. And loves it all, too. He especially loves his fans, as I can attest from 3 years ago at a comic convention. So, yeah, there is more to him than just music, which no one is required to like. But it’s a little hard not to, imo.

      • ” I fail to understand the appeal of “Alice Cooper” ”

        Neither did I, until I saw him live. Unlike every other road band, Alice Cooper and Meatloaf “concerts” were operas, where there’s stage props, a hard theme to the show, and (sometimes with music, sometimes with dialog) every song is bridged into the next (scene.) If you ever saw the music video of Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” then pause for a moment, and imagine it as an aria from a 3-act Stage Opera. That is exactly what it was, live, at a Meatloaf concert.

        TBH I was never an Alice fan, so when I saw him, I only knew a few of the songs he did. He did not sing his “hit repertoire” but instead, only sang those hits which fit into the opera which was his performance on that particular tour.

        Alice, the Man, is kind of a nifty dude.

        Go for a stroll in downtown Phoenix between 1800 and twilight most days between April and September and you’ll eventually run into him. In person, he’s bright, common as dirt, will chat with anyone on any subject, and has a habit of giving his money away to charities or worthwhile causes…

  10. George

    I’m a bit of a preppier though not as much as I would like due to my wallet.
    Recently I stumbled across a prepping idea that even a money challenged person can do.

    You may know about it. It’s called a Crisco Candle and is super simple to make. There are lots of video’s on YouTube on how to make them.

    The interesting point with these candles are their long burn time, low cost and availability of materials to build them.

    I am using the Walmart version of Crisco as the fuel. Empty 20 ounce Dinty Moore stew cans for the containers and 6 inch long by 1/4 inch wide devotional candles as the wick.

    In the last two months I have been able to acquire materials to make 18 candles. As the cost is low I will continue to make candles Ad Infinitum.

    You can use these candles for light, heat and cooking. You can make them in large or small sizes to fit your needs. The candles can be found on Amazon and a 100 pack was $32 including shipping. I can make 200 candles from that pack by cutting them in half.

    Hey, it’s just an idea that I find doable and probably a vital item if power goes out for a long time.
    Buying the materials over time makes it doable for people on a tight budget.

  11. Speaking of Nazis in western Ukraine, the US has had a love hate relationship with them. Certainly, the US ‘space program’ would not have ‘gotten off the ground’ (pun intended) without Nazi scientists.

    The western Ukraine Nazis have been useful stooges for the US in its now defunct quest to position US/NATO forces in Ukraine. Vlad finally put the hammer down on the US led stooge government headed by top stooge ‘coke head’ Zelensky. While the Ukrainian people (especially in the east) will benefit from being released from western corruption (think Bidens), the land still has a difficult path in front of it. It really depends on how much the Ukrainians want to dissociate from western/US corruption. Remember, the US/NATO still have lots of ferry dust to sprinkle around to corrupt people like Zelensky and others.

    I don’t have much to say – I will take Vlad and the Russians any day over the corrupt US government. Russia deals in real stuff – energy – oil, NG, pipelines where the US has preferred to dabble in fiat and manipulated. ‘markets.’ Just ask the Bidens who are up to their ass in Ukraine corruption.

    Hopefully, this is a turning point for the Ukraine people. Vlad does not want to ‘rule’ Ukraine. He just wants to keep NATO and the corruption of the west out of the country on his border. Fortunately, if the USD ever fails, most of the Biden style corruption will fail – you can’t bribe people worthless dollars.

    • top stooge “coke head” Zelensky used to be a paid “Clown” on Ukey TV.

      kosher nostra owned (same wit Pres. Trump) TV station was his employer – now that “clown” is President..same wit tRump.

      -Holy crap ,we got ourselves a clown pandemic..Slo&Harris, tRump, Zelensky, Turdho, Bojo,Squab,Letard, van der Losen..not a single Leader amongst them, just a bunch of order taking syncophants’. thinkz we been hosed again.

    • Hunter Biden was bribed by Chinese girls and cheap drugs. Even I could afford them if I could find them.

    • Stephen, thanks for letting us know there are already a Russian disinfo posters on this site, let me request DJ George play an oldie but goodie for your dampened spirit…

      For those in Kyiv sleeping in the subway station, lyric from ‘Dont Sleep in the Subway”
      ‘You wander around on your own little cloud
      When you don’t see the why or the wherefore
      You walk out on me when we both disagree
      ‘Cause to reason is not what you care for’

      Don’t Sleep in the Subway, with lyrics, Petula Clark 1967
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRF_iLp054

      • …’First thing you’ve ever posted which was worthwhile.

        Since you’re not any good at politics or unbiased thought, perhaps you should spend more time surfing & posting entertainment.

        BTW the backstory on Petula Clark: She got her start as a child singer, performing in the underground during the German Blitzkriegs, to keep Londoners’ spirits from tanking while their city was being bombed.

  12. How about a 100% bet on this – you wrote, “the odds are about 50-50 on a 1/4-point Fed rate hike in two weeks”.

    I’m the guy who told you back in October that the invasion of Ukraine would happen AFTER the Olympics.

    So I have “street cred”!!!

      • I have no idea where the markets will be on Monday morning, so I’m unqualified to trade any stock or ETF. Even after all these years of US and PN, I still don’t have a gut feel for those things.

        I suppose some have that mojo and the rest of us have something else. I’ll stick to creating value designing, building and repairing.

    • That’s an interesting question, but let’s just say that it is not in the ‘official narrative’ to warn people about upcoming disasters. Certainly, the eggs would have gone off when the vaxx was first introduced since it is and will be a massive disaster for tens of millions of people.

      We are in a very massive information war, and any reliable prognostication will probably be shut down or at least minimized. The good thing is that the NWO/gangsters/banksters/globalists are losing as truth is eventually relentless. I am surprised by how far they were able to get with the covid scam, but I have to admit that they did do a very credible job of dumbing people down before the scam started. Some people are still playing catch up.

      • “truth is eventually relentless.”

        True, but disinformation, misinformation, and other forms of propaganda are pervasive. When the PTB can not shut down the truth, they flood dissemination outlets with untruth or antitruth. The ensuing mental Charlie Foxtrot, makes it nearly impossible for someone to identify the truth and share it.

  15. pathetic column . an admission of employment to dark side . capitalism is dead folks . join the thundering herds of the dark side and trade your way to obscurity

  16. Stocks have rebounded partly because my broker said there is a memo reminding investors that in the scheme of things, Russia is superpower in weaponry only. Here are some interesting facts he shared with me…

    For some perspective on the potential impact on world economies from the Russian-Ukraine conflict, here are some notes about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and how it MAY impact markets:
    – Russia is a marginal player in the global economy outside of commodities.
    – Russia’s economy is about the size of New York or Texas’ economy.
    – European economies could be most impacted with potential soaring energy costs.
    – Russia is a marginal player in the global economy playing a tiny role in global supply chains. Even countries in Central and Eastern Europe only send 1-3% of their exports to Russia.
    – The US is close to energy independent (and this will fuel more energy independence investment!)
    – Only 0.1% of sales by S&P 500 companies go to Russia.
    – The US and global economies have strong momentum entering this crisis with forecasts of 3.6% US growth and 3.5% Euro Area growth in 2022, Global growth of 4.3%.

    About the war itself…. Russia has lost 2,800 troops, 80 tanks, 516 armored vehicles, 10 airplanes, and 7 helicopters in its invasion of Ukraine: deputy defense minister. Some superpower…

    Numbers as of 3pm Ukraine time.

    • Please give sources for Russian losses. Why would your investment advisor know information that the Russian military would probably never disclose. Surely, he would not have used Ukrainian ‘news’ services.

    • “– The US is close to energy independent (and this will fuel more energy independence investment!)”

      The U.S. is importing 8,470,000 bbl/day (595,000 bbl/day from Russia) {November numbers — latest available} which is really distant from “energy independence.”
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      “– The US and global economies have strong momentum entering this crisis with forecasts of 3.6% US growth and 3.5% Euro Area growth in 2022, Global growth of 4.3%. ”

      When growth is measured in World Reserve Currency (USD) and numerical inflation of the USD is ~31%, “growth” would have to be around 34% to maintain stasis or Y-Y PPP. Compare the “growth” with 2019 actual volume, not currency numbers, to get an honest picture — ‘better sit down and have the nitroglycerin in-hand when you do, though.
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      “About the war itself…. Russia has lost 2,800 troops, 80 tanks, 516 armored vehicles, 10 airplanes, and 7 helicopters in its invasion of Ukraine: deputy defense minister. Some superpower…”

      Russia is fighting with less than 30% of its in-theatre manpower and materiel. It is also being really careful to not kill more civvies or destroy more infrastructure than it deems necessary. If they were fighting with a bulldozer instead of a feather, they would own Ukraine by now, would have lost between 300-400 troops, and there’d be 2mln dead Ukrainians to bury — not exactly an ideal outcome. I can’t tell whether Putin intends to repatriate The Ukraine or simply clear out the corrupt oligarchs we installed in power in 2014, with his own corrupt oligarchs, but the point is moot if he has to kill 4-5% of Ukraine’s population.

    • deputy defense minister Of Ukraine remind me of Baghdad Bob everything he said was B/s …Real numbers is Ukraine is DONE !

  17. nah ill tell you what happened . just a bit of rigging so the darths can get more membership to their casinos .. i am getting very interested in a certain asset class and in future will say nothing .

  18. Lol.. well.. interesting developments.. I was going to comment on @rogers post yesterday on the thesis originally written in 36 and the Chinese texts from 100 by on how they believedthat alternate flowing mercury would give you eternal life and alter time…on all of my stuff I get the 403 forbidden access flag when I go to post a comment .. so I more than likely won’t be posting comments at least while in my equipment.. I can read the post just not allowed to share my rambling opinions..

  19. yah mother fing tureds. why did you have to screw gold for 2 days to get your bullsheet fake stockmarket going ?ill tell yah why . your broke . have been for years . fools .. interesting number today priks

  20. Apparently there are a number of US biolabs in Ukraine. These have been mapped to missile strikes by Russia. I’d consider the source carefully, but:

    https://twitter.com/hashtag/USBiolabs

    Apparently we have at least six American biolabs of some sort in Ukraine. I can see this as just one more reason for Putin to want to control the area. Let’s not forget Chernobyl that could be turned into a giant and unforgiving dirty bumb that would also be upwind of Russia! Food for thought.

    • This is what Clif was saying in his latest video along with several other points that have been galling Putin for some years now. Ukraine has been a source for laundering billions of dollars and is, basically, a criminal state. I’ve often begun to wonder if Putin would be a better ally against the global deep state than anyone else out there – at least to a point.

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/FP8ZtEaliS2g/

  21. you want to bet the piece of sheet crashes on monday fool .who gives a flying fark about the ukraine . for all i know dopey joe and his kokbreath son are ukranian . they like kiddies and drugs . ukraines the capital of it . putins cot bigger things going . what about that stock memo some old broker posted here . fools no brains . putin is gold and freedom , dopey joe and USSA are debt and facism . honestly ure kidding the stuff you spewed out today .CRASH monday ure ready ?

  24. I am pretty sure I believe anything Mark has to say.
    Just like I believe Bill never had sex with that girl.
    It really is 10 in long.
    Biden won.
    My pet rock talks a lot.
    Wait,,hold my beer.

  26. Congratulations to Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on his recent appointment to head the central bank of Norway once his Nato term expires later this year. His Excellency has come a long way since his Vietnam-era “Norway out of Nato” protests to now activating the Nato rapid response force to the gates of Ukraine. If I’m reading the documents correctly, the rapid response force call up would include non-Nato members Finland, Sweden, Georgia, and Ukraine. Mr. Putin will not be pleased?

    What is going on with Ukraine state owned cargo carrier Antonov Airlines? Their one and only of its type, AN225, the world’s largest cargo plane has been sitting at Kiev for the past three weeks. Earlier today Planet Labs homepage had publicly posted a blurry satellite picture of it parked outdoors none the worse for wear thankfully according to anecdotal reports.

    Ja, all good.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Romanov_(Ukrainian_businessman)

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