Not a Pretty Picture

In "Poll: On Economy, (Still) More Negatives Than Positives," the Washington Post's Behind the Numbers blog summarizes the results of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Not surprisingly (to Financial Armageddon readers, anyway), it's not a pretty picture [italics mine]:

Overall, nearly nine in 10 rate the economy "not so good" or "poor," and while three in 10 see improvement, the same figure say things are getting worse. Among all adults, three in 10 say the government's efforts to stimulate the economy have helped, with about one in 10 seeing "a great deal" of progress from the government's efforts.

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[kevinearick]

Thank you for your work and patience MP:

Speculation in the Analog Economy

As you saw, Bernanke was hedging hard. The price of oil reflects the declining financial position of the cartel, as its costs spiral out of control, which reflects loss of power in the old enterprise system, as the digital economy shorts into a black hole. Despite massive excess supply of new equipment, spread all across the country, collecting rust, sitting in auction yards, Caterpillar was ramped up to prime the same dead pump for another round.

As you have seen, debt maximization depends on cash flow control. All the protective layers have now been stripped away with increasing transparency, and the digital core itself is now in the same position as the mortgage industry. Pension cash flow can no longer feed the machine and real estate cash flow can no longer feed the machine, leaving healthcare and education to be liquidated into the black hole next, which is why you see digitization of the healthcare industry, which can only have one outcome; the doctors have become expendable (most were convinced by the AMA that they were not labor). The doctors will now be at each other’s throats, which will spread into medical research, across to university control over K-12, down through K-12, and across the entire “for profit” education system.

Precious metals are the exit strategy for currency traders, and the currency trap has been set. The currencies cannot escape the black hole of the closed loop, too-big-to-fail system, as the intervening mechanisms short out in quick succession. But precious metals cannot serve 7 billion people, which the too-big-to-fail, digitized monetary system is relying upon. Coming from the perspective of the other end of the chain reaction, you have no doubtedly heard that commercial real estate concerns and their tenants are in the same position as the residential mortgage industry. They are physically holding their positions, but not paying their bills.

The protected labor government conduit fuse has been lit. The federal government core is becoming exposed as the Medicaid bills overwhelm the states, and the states are withdrawing support from the municipalities, exposing the muni debt market to accelerated losses. Because core domestic credit depends upon those stable cash flows, real credit contraction is going to accelerate, putting increasing pressure on all the phony state revenue “enhancers”, and, as previously discussed, the global fuse has already been lit as well. Europe didn’t have $7.5T to turn its artificial pump back on, so the Chinese turned their artificial supply and demand pump back on. Now, Germany and France are in trouble.

Globally, economics is self-adjusting. All this artificial supply and demand has compressed that spring, creating a bomb, and the fuses are lit. Contrary to popular mythology, associated with the false assumption of scarcity, economics is not a zero sum game. That is a self-fulfilling prophesy. As the cost of misdirected speculation increases, with increasing artificial regulation of markets by controlling market-makers, through their digital algorithms, return to real productivity is penalized, and accounting return to passive investment on the ponzi scheme is rewarded, resulting in a contracting economic pie, as the closed-loop feedback mechanism intensifies with decelerating ponzi participation. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

If you filter through your history, you will see that the chiefs have always employed family law to turn the ones into zeros and the zeros into ones, to reset the system, programming women to act as a group, and men to act as individuals. With slightly more energy, the sexes could have been easily programmed to reverse the roles. When they want to build the tree of knowledge, family law is constructed to favor males and return to unprotected labor is increased. When they want to pick the fruit clean, they favor females with family law and return to passive investment is increased. They have always gone too far because they always had another geographic area for expansion and reset, to plant another tree. They walk away from all that sunken debt, associated with the closed-loop system (the only difference between feminism and chauvinism is a one and a zero, which depends on your perspective. For labor, the difference is negligible).

The digital control economy, under the false assumptions of scarcity and zero-sum economics, incrementally rolls out minor improvements in technology to sustain the self-fulfilling prophesy. In so doing, it merely accelerated the construction of the black hole, locking in the artificial demographic acceleration feeding it, along with the proprietors themselves, with viral expansion now hitting the ceiling of planetary saturation. Microsoft is in big trouble, and Apple is gearing up to lock its customers into the black hole, liquidating its organic potential into immediate return with one-sided contracts. Women are about to get their first transparent look at the digital economy, and hell hath no fury …

The analog economy is going to mirror the digital economy, quantumly improving effective analog computing. If you look, you will see that biology, chemistry, and physics are all different perspectives on mathematics. So the analog development will pass through biological and chemical phases to pure physics. The resulting gravitational field will be massive per unit space, which means that the intelligence level of the participants will increase dramatically, to avoid the black hole. What you are observing is bifurcation of the global population. How far that goes depends on the choices participants make.

Individual psychological dissonance is a function of social dissonance, which is a function of separating the individual from nature, with government. Nature can be a threat or an opportunity depending on perspective. It’s a threat to efficiency. Government has convinced many women that their increased dissonance is due to their stronger biological bond to the planet, a condition to be remedied by government. I wouldn’t want to be in that leadership group when these women wake up and see their sisters building biological computers and raising kids, comfortably, in a smarter, not harder, effective economy. The education system has been geared to produce economic slaves to efficiency for the last 35 years, and we are now entering the effectiveness half-cycle.

If the old families want to go along for the ride, they have no choice but to fund small business with no strings attached, but they are a stubborn lot, and bred behavior does not change in real time. What you are going to see as the pressure in the nucleus increases is individual members shooting the vortex. Government is a trailing indicator, a spring. It will break or it will follow, which will determine the rate of development acceleration. The law follows behavior, first informally, and then formally. You will have investment opportunities at each stage of catalysis, but this time around the reaction will seek equilibrium, due to the planetary saturation curve.

Watch that flow and bet accordingly.

(that should about cover it)

[anon]

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone person to person.

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas.

[robert]

The trouble with these negative polls is the absurdist contrarian conditioning we have received over the last thirty (or perhaps eighty) years, only instilling in us the desire to fearlessly buy all dips. At some point, in the interest of self preservation, this "fight" mechanism becomes rather dangerous and stops working and a "fleeing" strategy becomes more profitable. If we are not there yet then we are pretty damn close.