Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aedens]

Fractal Cycles from Hurst cycled we already factored a 18 year marker H.
Node structures that would fit are within 10 percent for the pattern curve. That was 1346 node structures that
keep the savages from eating others.
The delay fuse fit we can entertain. Overall the Script ends just as it was and has been written.
The grouping dynamics of the period is enough to the actual pattern recognition as it fit itself seen here.
Log3 will just announce the SWOT map into the AGIL facts seen.

[Higgenbotham]

When I talk to someone like the good professor...I sometimes probe around the edges a bit to see where their minds are at...

...I also discussed things people can do in retirement with an emphasis on the fact that anything anyone can do in retirement as far as income goes outside of their area of expertise strictly falls into the category of being a hobby unless the world changes radically from what it is at present. I said, for example, someone can garden as a hobby, but that will never be anything more than that unless supply chains radically change from what they are. I said it's not like gardening in present conditions is going to result in an income of $20 per hour or higher. Maybe you get more nutritious food, but that's about it. He enthusiastically agreed with all of that but had no comments.

People are occupied with current concerns. They have many and it doesn't seem the coming global food crisis is on the radar.

For example, a few days after the above conversation, we discussed the situation at Cornell. We both agreed that the situation the young woman found herself in was caused by factors that occurred long before she entered Cornell. It may have gone all the way back to elementary school. We discussed the fact that the school my daughter and his granddaughter attend is demonstrating to the children what a healthy and normal environment is, which will help ensure they do not find themselves in such a position later in life. We both agreed that is more important than the school being able to impart another 20 points on the benchmark assessment test. Some things can't be undone once the damage occurs.

[aedens]

Well we only got a head start from 2019 and they will learn its not different this time.

[aedens]

+0.06% will raise cash into spring sweeps.
Fish rot from the head down.
As like you hedged and unwinding into phase two.
Slowly at first then all at once they simply lost there mind.
The only companies still standing as five facts eliminated what was in there way
to end them. Morgan even then told you how they dealt with it.

For the year ending December 2025, courts recorded 574,314 total bankruptcy filings, up from 517,308 the prior year.
That included 24,737 business filings and 549,577 nonbusiness filings.

Recent indicators show a gap between reshoring interest and actual shifts: in an ISM survey, some manufacturers said they were exploring a move to U.S. production, while Kearney’s reshoring index fell in 2025. That suggests announcements and intentions don’t automatically translate into completed factories or broad-based relief.
manufacturingdive.com

Free cash flow is important because it shows whether a company generates cash after operating costs and investment. But it can be temporarily low when a company is building capacity, and it doesn’t by itself capture debt risk, durable demand, or the value of a resilient supply chain. So onshoring is most likely to pay off where U.S. production can be competitive and reliably supplied with skilled workers, affordable power, and key inputs not simply where a company has announced investment.

They will not even show up for $50.00 and Hour in any skillset and yeah they screwed there Master Tech's who are telling them to stick it.
The Info sector think residual flows will stay solvent longer than the take it or leave it economy.
So go ahead algo scalp to prosperity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJ2titFNew&t=2907s
Replant in the Spring.

[Higgenbotham]

Well we only got a head start from 2019 and they will learn its not different this time.

Time will enact a common price as they are consumed by todays wisdom. Same as it ever was.

[aedens]

Recycled oil can be filtered to a 10-micron level but 5-micron for the essential motors if push goes to shove,
which helps remove smaller contaminants, making it suitable for use in various applications.
The drip water system is good for 15000 gallons drinking water as such if needed.
The garden was actually decent this years as it is still is but limited usage until another wave of killer frost hits.
Blame the Amish as these EYI useful idiots are wasting.
Wife got back will check on the infirm and elderly reports.
Historians will continue to debate whether the Empire’s collapse was inevitable or contingent.

[Higgenbotham]

I've talked pretty extensively here about what I call The 97th Percentile. In a high school class of 300, The 97th Percentile could ideally be characterized as those who ranked from roughly Position 4 through Position 15. They are those who do the work without question and strive to do the best job they can. You could spend somewhere between 4 and 12 years around these people and get a pretty good feel for who fits in at that level. If a teacher is an entitled goldbrick who teaches two classes while wasting oodles of taxpayer money, The 97th Percentile will fear, aid and abet him without question.

I'll get back to that in a minute.

That bring us to the point of the quote above from Charles Hugh Smith, "devote every waking hour to enriching the most avaricious few for their share of the loot."

This might sound a little harsh to some. It does to me. I mean, I know some of them are good people. At best, they probably didn't intend for their actions to produce that result. But that is what has happened, and at best they were too myopic to see the result. But that is in fact, in the big picture, the result that was produced.

While the sentiment of Charles Hugh Smith is admirable, generational change is not about people willfully and proactively adopting a new set of values. For the vast majority, it's about being shocked to the core by generational panic first. The change comes after that.

People are occupied with current concerns. They have many and it doesn't seem the coming global food crisis is on the radar.

Time will enact a common price as they are consumed by todays wisdom. Same as it ever was.

These quotes remind me of an interview with Nomi Prins a couple decades ago. She was asked what the concerns of her Goldman colleagues were with regard to the ethics of what they were doing during subprime and were they concerned with any fallout that would have resulted from that. She said the only thing on their minds was closing the next deal.

The problem in a new dark age is that the constructive type of generational panic that occurs during the ascent of civilization may not ever be allowed to take place, and as a result the corrective measures which result in a higher peak than occurred in the prior saeculum never get fully taken; things just keep slipping and sliding down the hill.

[Higgenbotham]

These quotes remind me of an interview with Nomi Prins a couple decades ago. She was asked what the concerns of her Goldman colleagues were with regard to the ethics of what they were doing during subprime and were they concerned with any fallout that would have resulted from that. She said the only thing on their minds was closing the next deal.

This isn't the same interview (that one was all verbal), but it expresses the same ideas in more detail.

Nomi Prins worked in the upper echelons of the financial world as a managing director at Goldman Sachs and a senior managing director at Bear Stearns as well as a strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. During her time on Wall Street, she grew increasingly aware of and discouraged by the unethical practices that permeated the banking industry. In 2002, she left and has since become a journalist and writer and leading authority on financial and monetary systems. She is author of ‘Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World’ as well as “All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power and ‘It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street’.

From your experience within some leading international banks, what did you learn about the nature of the corporation?

The general theme is that all major multinational companies are driven by the bottom line. This means maximising profits and minimising costs. This might seem obvious but it permeates everything they do, the taxes they avoid, risks they take, and what they do in communities. I worked in four major international banks, and from the inside, upper management simply doesn’t care about how their activities impact the outside world.

For example, working at Bear Stearns in London in the 1990s, I was involved in a product that involved a major expansion of debt in emerging and corporate markets, looking at new ways to repackage and sell off or trade that debt, so that the bank could profit multiple times from a single bond. At the same time, activists with the Jubilee 2000 initiative, were campaigning on the streets, pointing to the dangers of these debts for needed investments in health, education and so on and looking to reduce the debt burden. But none of that mattered on a day to day basis within the banks anymore than current citizen demonstrations do, except in that they might move markets on any given day.

Corporations are also very much driven by short-term profit gain and how to translate favourable quarterly and annual results into higher share prices. In the banking sector, and most corporations, the higher up people are in the firm, the more likely they will receive part of their compensation in the form of shares, stocks, or options on an annual basis, so everyone cares most of all about what was made that year at the firm and how it impacted share prices. There may be internal meetings on five year-plans or products, but the whole of corporate culture is geared to those annual profits.

This shapes corporate culture, by increasing competition between departments and within departments with everyone wanting to get the most credit for what they are doing, so as to have it reflected in their year-end bonuses. I experienced this personally at Goldman Sachs in New York, where I was running a department expanding the credit derivatives market that would ultimately play a role in the financial crisis. I had worked on a successful deal with several internal groups made up of many pieces worth millions of dollars to the firm, and when I took the stairs to the next floor to let the head of the division, Lloyd Blankfein, know about my group’s role in the deal, I found a colleague from another department already there inside the office pretending it was their deal, so as to take credit for it. He ultimately rose to a very high level there.

https://www.tni.org/en/article/bonuses- ... room-deals