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You don’t have to go more than 1:18, into this interview to get an inaccurate definition of inflation.
With that said, it does not keep the (delusional) bugs in the comment section from eating it up.
The interviewer, if he had the strength, could have stopped it right there and challenged with: ‘Inflation is defined as the expansion of credit that results in increased demand that in turn results in higher prices.’
At this point in time, we’re in credit destruction (i.e. Wells Fargo shutting down credit lines) not expansion … um, which is deflation not inflation.
At this point, it looks like there will be complete destruction first which brings us to the next bullet item.
No. 5
Only Problems. No Solutions
Personal Anecdote. Skip to No. 6, if not interested.
Back in the day as an Engineering Manager, there were times an employee (usually an engineer) would walk into my office and give me a list of problems on a particular project.
If this happened a second time, I would sort of gently (maybe) let them know, ‘If you bring me problems, you need to have solutions as well.’
I also let them know, if they were not able to come with solutions, I would map out a long-term action plan (basically starting documentation for termination) for their continued development.
How many YouTube sites talk endlessly about the problem?
It does not take much effort or thought or creativeness to tell us what we already know.
This site not only presents the problem(s), but also presents potential solution(s) or action(s).
Example:
Problem: Markets stretched to valuations beyond historical extremes. Traditional methods of analysis (P/E ratios, Book Value. etc.) no longer work. The market could ‘disconnect’ and be unavailable to trade for days or weeks at a time (think Klaus Schwab ‘cyber attack’).
Solution: (not advice, not a recommendation):
Identify a market and trading vehicle that has its own direction and is separated from the overall mass-hysteria. Position ‘in and out’, as required in that market until such time there are other opportunities of similar potential.
That market thus far, has been identified as biotech, SPBIO. The trading vehicle is LABD (not advice, not a recommendation).
Any disconnect or surprise event is already factored in as a likely positive for the position taken, i.e. being short biotech
We’re not only taking this approach for the current market environment but the supply chain as well.
The supply chain shut down and the potential famine that will ensue, is one of, if not the main reason(s) silver and gold may be of no use (at least temporarily) in the troubles to come.
Well, it would not be a compete ‘Notes’ update without mention of Scaboo.
Here he is at his new home … a few miles north of town.
As mentioned in the last update, the hen that gave him trouble at the outset, well, he’s got that all sorted out.
According to his new owners, he takes his job seriously.
He protects the hens and is meticulous about getting them into their coop at night. He then goes to his own coop; sort of a personal man-cave.
This picture was taken by the new owner.
You have to figure they must be pleased with him to wait long enough to capture such a majestic pose.
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‘Way hay and … up she rises … early in the morning.’
Left out of the beautiful rendition above, is the following:
Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter Early in the morning’
One of, if not the largest ‘storable food’ supplier closes down because it can’t get product.
Is the local bullion dealer closing down for three months?
I’m not against the metals.
I’m against, the abdication of honor, character, and bravery just so I can grow my YouTube channel with popular ‘stacking’ clips.
Pointing one’s followers single-mindedly to ‘stacking’ (as the means to survive the collapse) by definition, points them away from understanding what’s happening on a world-wide basis.
If you watch the old TV shows like Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Superman, and on, one theme keeps repeating.
That is, the disgust for cowardice; especially from the women and rightly so.
It really must have been a big deal back then. If you were labeled a coward or ‘yellow’, your life was basically over.
We all have our areas of ‘fear’ and the author here, being no exception.
Maybe, just maybe after it’s all over, if Hollywood’s still around (I won’t be sad if they’re not), they might figure it’s a good idea to toss the CGI.
I’m not holding my breath.
No. 10
The Elephant’s ‘Knew’
No one told the elephant tribe, their benefactor and protector had died (time stamp: 3:48).
They just knew (a phenomenon discussed previously) and traveled 12-hours to pay respects.
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In an attitude that seems similar to this site, Dan gets into who he wants as a relator (time stamp 13:00).
That is, not some hairdresser that just got their license six months ago but someone who’s ‘been in the trenches’ as he says. Someone who was ‘around during the 2008, crash’.
Someone who’s a hardened and tough negotiator.
As the economy, the food supply, energy supplies and now volcanic eruptions/earthquakes continue to destroy the infrastructure, it’s likely the population that stands to survive, will get very focused on experience.
Paper (degrees) hanging on the wall, as so-called ‘qualifications’ are no substitute for brutal, raw-edged competence.
The music and the film footage are excellent. They set the scene.
Perhaps, more important are comments such as this one:
I was born in 65. In the 70s this CCR tune made my fathers eye turn to what I later learned was called the “thousand yard stare”. That’s when I knew it was time for me to just quietly slip out of the room. I could literally see/sense his fear and pain. he didn’t, get mean, just distant and quiet, until the day he died. A lot of you know exactly what I mean. This song did a lot to help me understand him and his friends. Now that we are both a lot older, I only wish I could take some of that weight from him and carry it for him, and maybe give him some space to recover some of his lost soul. I can’t be the only son who has, and still does cry for my father and what he had taken from him.
Even better, is the first comment that replies to the above:
“How many women and children did he kill?”
I say it’s better because ladies and gentlemen, it may be a perfect example of the zombie mentality that could be nearly, if not fully eradicated during our up-coming trials.
Recall, from No. 6, above:
The stupidity today is unprecedented and it’s not sustainable.
Of course, our village idiot’s comment did not go unchallenged.
Many replies followed throughout the link and included a good amount of, “Thank you for your service”.
We’ll end our ‘Notes’ with the following; also from the same link.
“If you honestly want to thank a veteran. Become a citizen worthy of being fought for“
Which then begs the question: Are you, or am I, that citizen?
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The signs continue to stack up (pun intended) that accumulating inedible metals, non usable as a work tool or a medicine is a dead end; for now.
If you already have gold and silver … great.
At this point, we can see more and more, the ‘accumulation’ needs to be storable grains, legumes, proteins, water purification and medicines along with ‘protection. Go to time stamp 4:24.
No. 2
La Palma Eruption Continues: Increases Intensity
The best ‘boots on the ground’ reporting is coming from ‘Bushcraft Bear’ at this link.
You know it’s good as his videos are being stolen and re-packaged by those who can’t think or do for themselves.
Everybody’s so self-important and has something to say, right?
If you want to watch pure media sensationalism (with no actual data … other than lava temperatures), here is just one link among many.
Scuttlebutt (unverified) on the alternate sites; corporate drug manufactures do not have liability indemnity if they engage in pre-meditated homicide.
No. 8
Quigley, Down Under
Does Quigley (Tom Selleck) have ear-plugs at time stamp 2:57???
No. 9
Taboo Scaboo … Goes To The Farm
For those following these updates, we’ve (at the residence) been raising a Leghorn Rooster (“Scaboo”) from a small chick … which is ‘against the rules’.
After six months, it wound up where he was spending more time, sometimes all day in the house. He was not able to go outside because he would start crowing.
Understandable as he was ‘outside’, a happy camper and surrounded by four hens.
Moving him to the farm of some friends is the best thing for him.
Apologies for the camera being in ‘portrait’ mode. I did not do the filming.
Here he is at his new home strutting around.
Look at the size of that comb!
Upon arrival, he immediately got into a scuffle with the ‘lead hen’ … that thinks she’s a rooster.
There was some blood and so they were separated for now.
No worries though.
He’s much larger than the rest and does not avoid conflict … i.e., he’s not a coward.
I suspect he’ll have it all straightened out in short order.
We have ‘visitation’ rights. 🙂
Meanwhile, the hens back at home have started laying.
Leghorns are very productive and will typically produce one egg a day.
At full production, that equates to 28 eggs a week.
In addition, we have about one year’s worth (and planning to get more) of chicken feed stockpiled.
Couple that with a three-tier, raised-bed garden (each bed is 192 sq.-ft., for a total of 576 sq.-ft.) that’s going year-round.
The other side of the yard has ‘mini-beds’ that are used for melons in the summertime.
The main beds are not used as the melons overtake the entire garden … being on the other side of the yard, allows them to spread out as much as needed.
All of our drinking water (including the hen’s) is filtered through a Berkey.
Thus far, this ‘homestead’ has made a serious dent it its reliance on the grocery store.
It’s taken eleven years to get to this point.
We’re in a long haul game (by the elites) that will likely last through the lifetime of anyone reading these posts.
No. 10
The ‘Unprepared’
As a corollary to No. 9, we have the ‘unprepared’.
I think in one of Dan’s recent posts, he even talked about those who are unprepared, attempting to make it look “cool” to not take action.
After dealing with the stupid, the lazy, the back-biters, the heel biters, gossips and the just plain idiots in the corporate world (24-years), stupidity looks like it may have finally run its course.
In a hopefully very rare comment (about myself), I’ll remind those reading, in the corporate career, I was one of the top Avionics System Integrators in the world; performing work as “Lead Engineer” for System Integration on Global Express.
So, I’m not making it up when recalling how I had to deal with the “tiny minds” as I came to know them.
I later went on to build an entire engineering department for an autopilot company that may have committed fraud.
They promised the customer a product they knew they could not deliver. They had already squandered the $200,000 initial payment (out of a multi-million dollar contract) for work that had not been done.
I was hired to build the department (hide that effort from the customer) while making it look like the company knew what it was doing.
I decided to leave that company and engineering entirely after I had chastised an engineer reporting to me, by giving him a poor review.
He then took that review to the HR department where the woman there decided on her own, she knew more about autopilots, system integration and aircraft flight test than I did.
The review was re-written by her; being more favorable to the engineer reporting to me.
I do not recall exactly if I signed the updated copy. If memory serves, I refused.
The rest it is history.
I left the engineering field entirely in early 2009.
The same level of effort and commitment I had in the corporate world, is now being poured into market analysis and other research; like backup power methods, seed-saving, managing livestock and homesteading.
It’s a long haul game as well.
This site’s not looking for the day-trade or even a swing trade. We’re looking for the big move … and spending money (account balance) to get it.
Everybody has their own trading style and time-frame. We’re openly disclosing that ours is focused on the long-haul (not advice, not a recommendation).
The recent reversal in Biotech, SPBIO (inverse LABD) may be just a blip … or the start of something much bigger. We’ll see.
Enough said.
Back to the unprepared.
Even if you’re prepared, it does not mean that you’ll avoid being taken down as well.
Idiots will indeed take some with them to the abyss just from being in proximity; or you (or me) being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
At least if you’re prepared, you might see it coming (for them) and sidestep so you’re not swept up in their self-inflicted carnage.
Stay Tuned
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Note: Posts on this site are for education purposes only. They provide one firm’s insight on the markets. Not investment advice. See additional disclaimer here.
Note: Posts on this site are for education purposes only. They provide one firm’s insight on the markets. Not investment advice. See additional disclaimer here.
Note: Posts on this site are for education purposes only. They provide one firm’s insight on the markets. Not investment advice. See additional disclaimer here.
Woody’s is the type of place, when you open the door, if you’re not from around here, the piano music stops and everyone looks to see who’s the newest sodbuster in town.
If that ever happens to you, just announce to all:
“I’m not from Texas, but I got here as fast as I could”
With that, you should be good to go.
Not more than a few hundred yards from Woody’s, is where I slid my Ranger pickup off the road down an embankment and upside down during the Texas ice storm of 2006.
The Chevron station, time stamp 0:32, is where I parked my hobbled, totaled pickup on that freezing December day.
The cab was smashed and the frame bent … but it was mobile enough to make it to the gas station.
When I slid off the road, down the embankment into oncoming traffic on Hwy 180, I thought (as the pickup rolled over), “well, this is it, this is how I’m going out.”
There’s no way oncoming traffic’s going to stop … not on the ice … I braced for impact.
It’s amazing how the almighty can engineer circumstances to be so perfect and so personal; it’s tailored specifically for you … to understand who’s really in control.
As the pickup came to a stop, upside down … the anticipated impact never came. Instead, within a few seconds, I had a woman knocking on my upside down driver’s window asking if I was ok.
I rolled it up (to go down) … it was a hand crank window. I unlocked the seatbelt and crawled outside. It was bitterly cold, windy, wet and sleeting.
What I saw was a line of pickups …. some Dually’s with stock trailers that had jackknifed on the ice … all stopped and the ‘Bubbas’ getting out to help with the overturned Ranger.
It took maybe five to seven of them to right the truck. I was in shock and grief but thankful as well.
I assured them I was ok. They had done their part and so went back to their own business. I then changed the right rear tire as the crash impact had blown out the seal.
By the time it was over, my hands were freezing … I got in and limped the truck to the Chevron station.
The point is this:
That crash revealed the character of the people at the time.
They put their own lives on hold (even if just temporarily) to do the right thing … to be the Good Samaritan.
So too, have current world events revealed the character of the people at the time.
That revelation is: The cowards and the corrupt have been thoroughly exposed.
Unprepared or unwilling to step up and be counted. Instead, they have done what comes naturally.
They have retreated.
Figuratively (or actually) building their back-yard decks so they can watch the financial and societal collapse in ‘comfort’.
On the flip side: The independent thinkers, leaders and the brave have been identified as well.
Those who are first generation of immigrant families (from communist countries) understand perfectly what’s happening.
They’re on a different path … taking action, getting ready.
All of which brings us to the next bullet item:
No. 2
Taboo Scaboo
Scaboo is our thoroughly illegal ‘urban rooster’.
Here he is, inside the backyard hen house with his ‘no crow’ collar clearly visible.
There’s no harm though as it’s relatively loose. It’s used more for psychological reasons; his or ours, not sure.
In an earlier update, having a rooster at this location is forbidden. Hens were recently ok’d when a previous city ordinance was overturned.
However, there are strict rules on how many and the located distance from other properties.
What’s the point?
It’s possible and probably likely, there’s much more going on here than just skirting the ‘rules’.
It’s been a mental exercise to engineer a method to keep him without the neighbors being aware; if they do know, without them complaining.
Scaboo has an ‘inside coop’ that consists of a used dog kennel with pine pellet bedding.
He’s on a schedule. Inside the house overnight; then put outside when he seems to be ready (stopped crowing).
If he starts back up, he’s brought in again. That’s the way it’s been for about the past month.
The amount of support received (physical or moral) from family members has been close to zero; more like, below zero.
“You’ll have to get rid of him”
“It’s against the rules”
“I wonder how long you can keep that up”
(bringing him in at night).
These comments have come from family that whether they know it or not, have already identified themselves as casualties.
This is not about the rooster itself.
Rather, it’s about having the mental elasticity to take a situation and make it work.
It’s sort of a practice run for the main event … whatever that’s going to be.
Quick thinking or action will be required.
How’s anyone with a closed mind going to figure out how to secure food, water or anything else when supplies are interrupted; when mental elasticity is the difference between survival and not.
In closing, here’s a brief video of our contraband rooster enjoying a dust bath … with the hens wanting some camera time as well.
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Jimmy Carter had this image to define is impotent presidency; so too now, we have this image to define an incompetent, not even a presidency.
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