Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what ... deadly-and

Note: healthcare spending at the beginning of the 20th century was 0.25% of GDP, reached 1% in 1933, dropped to 0.38% during World War II, and went back up to 1% in 1961 before experiencing the meteoric rise it has seen in recent decades.

Most remarkably, despite spending 2-4 times as much on healthcare as any other affluent nation, the United States has the worst healthcare outcomes amongst the affluent nations (which is detailed within these charts). This I would argue, is a result of our healthcare spending prioritizing what corporate interests want, not what produces effective healthcare. Sadly, as I have shown in this article, pervasive corruption has entrenched itself throughout the Department of Health and Human Services and our healthcare officials.

As this costly trend is impossible to ignore, various proposals have been made to address it. Unfortunately, all of them have arisen from the same mentality that gave birth to the problem in the first place and thus have made it worse (e.g., creating more regulation to “improve” healthcare but having that regulation be created by bureaucrats who did not understand the realities of healthcare and shaped by corporate lobbyists who only care about profits).

This is amazing stuff. For example,

To illustrate, I recently had a colleague who called me in tears because their father had been discharged to a hospice center, and was being started on palliative care because his case was terminal, but my colleague was convinced he was just dehydrated and needed saline. I asked, “Well you’re a doctor, can’t you get them to give the IV?” They said, “The nurses will only do it with the hospice physician’s authorization, so I need help.” We were eventually able to find a way to get him the IV (which made a big difference) but there was a roughly a four day delay in the process.

To an outsider, that situation seems a bit unbelievable, but in truth, it’s reflective of the current paradigm.

Even I'm surprised by just how much corruption is described in this link. No wonder life expectancy is plummeting.

[Higgenbotham]

Top industry for lobbying is Pharmaceuticals/Health Products.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries

[FullMoon]

Even I'm surprised by just how much corruption is described in this link. No wonder life expectancy is plummeting.

Lack of empathy and regards for another person's life. The downward spiral to zero. We might be further down than we realize. Or maybe there'll be a precipitous drop at the crashing of the everything bubble. Literally everything that's kept this current unsustainable paradigm afloat. Our whole way of life.

[spottybrowncow]

Based on aeden's advice, I decided to get a cat first. I picked up this one up from a nearby farm.

Higgie,

I know this is a "working" cat, but I have to say, it's a very pretty one. But then again, we typically have three cats sleeping with us every night. Cats are all different, but they're generally great animals.

Spotty

[aeden]

Holiday week bias as spy signal wakes up from five day so good luck getting buyers by fridays close.
Warning is clear enough of bounce as if/then trap. No calls open just chill.
Smart money to retail spread is a real as the trap seen developing.
Emptor. Yes calls went into SDS for the nap as pull back in time is seen.
Drop then small pop then the crush down. The downdraft will be brutal.
No calling just do pay regard its over priced.

[Higgenbotham]

I haven't been following the markets in great detail lately, but if I'm not mistaken, the US Dollar Index was down today and the S&P 500 was also down. It's not common for this to happen. If the US Dollar Index is down on any given day, risk assets normally rise. However, we know the market has been trending against this over time, as the DXY bottomed some years ago and generally the stock market has risen with it. It's for very short term time periods, like one day, that it's not normal for them to trend together in my experience.

But what brought this to mind is on April 26, 2010 the stock market made a new post March 2009 high and I can recall that right around that time the dollar was down and stocks were down the same day. 10 days later on May 6 was the flash crash. We have something similar with the November 26 high yesterday, then dollar down and stocks down today.

100 percent of my account is in SDS so I don't care about the details anyway. Just thought I'd mention it.

[Higgenbotham]

Technical analyst DeMark says his models are flagging major caution for the holiday week
By Steve Goldstein
Published: Nov. 27, 2024 at 5:32 a.m. ET

Markets have often changed their trend around holidays, and one widely followed technical analyst says that shift may happen again.

Tom DeMark, who has advised top investors including Steven A. Cohen and Paul Tudor Jones, focuses on trend exhaustion and says that markets top on good news and bottom on bad news.

In particular he focuses on a string of 9 and 13 daily or weekly moves, which don’t have to be consecutive but do have to be better than four sessions ago in the 9 model and two sessions ago in the 13 model. See DeMark’s analysis on his website Symbolik.

“Back when I started in the investment industry over 50 years ago, it was common to see both domestic and worldwide stock markets record trend changes over long weekends when trading was closed,” he says in an email to MarketWatch. While he said that hasn’t been the case in more recent years, he’s thinking of that pattern now due to how close his models are to reaching their targets.

“Although this Thursday is an American holiday and Friday trading, the day after Thanksgiving, is typically characterized as one of the most reliably low volume, up days of the year, the haunting of the long weekend unexpected trend change lurks in the background. What is particularly disconcerting is the fact that some of our most reliable stock market timing tools are about to flash major caution.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/techn ... k-87b79927

Sometimes he's right.

[aedens]

This week was the shift in dxy - bond - equity.
All three had been uptrend which is just a suicide watch for the over leveraged.
Last look was -6 percent year over year in SDS and as you know also the lunatics
as before are destroying both ends in plain view.
Over in easter island b the Marxists are also eliminating farmers for the complete cult rentier takeout.
As we warned in the inbev files Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:55 am forward you will be waiting for a very very long time
for the body farm debt swamp lunatics. To date as indicated in testimony from them it's not shifting as they climate fiat grab all they can and are.
Taxpayers are in no regard as insane measures in ubi fed uniparty only has one view.

The overwhelming majority are too dull to grasp a correct interpretation of the situation. They go on in the routine they acquired in noninflationary periods. Filled with indignation, they attack those who are quicker to apprehend the real causes of the agitation of the market as "profiteers" and lay the blame for their own plight on them. This ignorance of the public is the indispensable basis of the inflationary policy.
Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, § IV Ch. 21 ¶ 19

"It is not that government has lacked information needed to fix the problem. It is institutionally incapable of bringing about the desired result, since the principles of profit and loss, private property and contract, enterprise and entrepreneurship, do not exist in government. Any Government operates with an eye to its own short-term survival, and those of its connected interest groups, and nothing else." Mises

You are correct since the actual disdain is past resolve as the repressionary wasting was the feature to the elimination of the taxpayers to servile
status as they are crushed in the millstone of fiscal debaucherys.
We will infer to balance of trade mandates as the inflection point appears other than beggar thy neighbor usury rates.

After starting in 1972 I am done and will add to the 2019 effort to supply non diseased food chains to the grandchildren and children
into 2025 planting and retirement. Now the real work begins God willing as all is from His Mercy alone.

https://psyche.co/ideas/bunkerised-soci ... o-american

[Higgenbotham]

Regarding bottled water, the total mass concentration of microplastics, as well as the mass concentrations of PE, PVC, PP, and PA66, in the stools of participants in the intake group were higher than those in the nonintake group (86.1 vs. 19.9, χ2 = 3.138, P < 0.05; 5.5 vs. 0.8, χ2 = 2.104, P < 0.05; 37.5 vs. 11.0, χ2 = 3.469, P < 0.05; 32.6 vs. 3.4, χ2 = 3.392, P < 0.05; 0.0 vs. 0.0, χ2 = 2.278, P < 0.05). For bottled beverages, the mass concentration of PP in the stools of participants in the intake group was higher than that in the stools of participants in the nonintake group (21.0 vs. 4.5, χ2 = 1.997, P < 0.05) (Tables S10–2).

The results showed that city of residence, reheated food consumption, and bottled water intake were significantly associated with the total mass concentration of microplastics in the stools of participants (SE = 10.341, P < 0.05; SE = 31.687, P < 0.05; SE = 36.829, P < 0.05). However, factors such as the frequency of takeaway food consumption, total water intake, tea intake, frequency of facial cleanser use, use of body lotion, use of facial masks, wearing framed glasses, frequency of washing intimate clothing, and exposure to secondhand smoke were not significantly associated with the total mass concentration of microplastics in the stools (P > 0.05) (Table 3).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 9124018852

[Higgenbotham]

Technical analyst DeMark says his models are flagging major caution for the holiday week
By Steve Goldstein
Published: Nov. 27, 2024 at 5:32 a.m. ET

Markets have often changed their trend around holidays, and one widely followed technical analyst says that shift may happen again.

Tom DeMark, who has advised top investors including Steven A. Cohen and Paul Tudor Jones, focuses on trend exhaustion and says that markets top on good news and bottom on bad news.

In particular he focuses on a string of 9 and 13 daily or weekly moves, which don’t have to be consecutive but do have to be better than four sessions ago in the 9 model and two sessions ago in the 13 model. See DeMark’s analysis on his website Symbolik.

“Back when I started in the investment industry over 50 years ago, it was common to see both domestic and worldwide stock markets record trend changes over long weekends when trading was closed,” he says in an email to MarketWatch. While he said that hasn’t been the case in more recent years, he’s thinking of that pattern now due to how close his models are to reaching their targets.

“Although this Thursday is an American holiday and Friday trading, the day after Thanksgiving, is typically characterized as one of the most reliably low volume, up days of the year, the haunting of the long weekend unexpected trend change lurks in the background. What is particularly disconcerting is the fact that some of our most reliable stock market timing tools are about to flash major caution.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/techn ... k-87b79927

Sometimes he's right.

Sometimes this guy is right too. https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg ... d=34930206

There aren't very many with a good batting average. The best one by far that I knew of died a few years ago. Contrary to what I've been reading lately from the trend followers, batting .250 would be good provided several dates close to the top are given and most of them are above where the trend change is identified and, importantly, entered by the trend follower. Citing an entry point will do no good if the market gaps down significantly below the entry point. Someone can say that rarely happens. The top of a multi-century bull market rarely happens either and nobody knows how it is going to play out.

I think it's worth noting that some generalists have recently thrown in the towel and are saying that the markets can be manipulated higher until some kind of catastrophe happens. That's certainly not the case in my opinion.