econophysics2020

Northern Hemisphere Snowmass Breaches 1-Sigma

As the low frequency Solar Minimum cycle continues into a 30-year bottom, we are seeing effects of the new multi-decadal cold era in the form of increasing snowmass levels in the northern hemisphere. Sea ice bottom out 5 years ago and beginning to climb back up The Antarctic highsheet has already returned to normal. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global-snow/202012

A Year Later with the Sock Puppet Installed As President, Washington Post Discovers Lab Leak Potential At WIV

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/coronavirus-origins-mystery-china/?arc404=true Many scientists have speculated that the virus leaped from animals, such as bats, to humans, perhaps with an intermediate stop in another animal. This kind of zoonotic spillover has occurred before, such as in the West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014. But there is another pathway, also plausible, that must be investigated. That is theContinue reading “A Year Later with the Sock Puppet Installed As President, Washington Post Discovers Lab Leak Potential At WIV”

Oligarchy and Decapitalization

Charles Hugh Smith: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-top-10-is-doing-just-fine-middle.html The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine I’ve been covering the decline of America’s middle class for over a decade with charts, data and commentary on the social depression that has accompanied the decline. While there are many mutually reinforcing dynamics in this 45-year decline–demographics, globalContinue reading “Oligarchy and Decapitalization”

Lunatic Fringe, I Know You’re Out There: Title IX Edition

Wendy McElroy in Mises Wire: https://mises.org/wire/title-ix-will-become-vehicle-more-injustice President Joe Biden vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, the sexual misconduct hearings will be deeply impacted. These “trials” judge whether those accused of sexual misconduct are innocent or guilty. The Obama-era hearings expressedContinue reading “Lunatic Fringe, I Know You’re Out There: Title IX Edition”

The Thirty Tyrants

“Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, “1984” Lee Smith, “The Thirty Tyrants”: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants In Chapter 5 of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli describes three options for how a conquering power might best treat those it has defeated in war. The first is to ruin them; the secondContinue reading “The Thirty Tyrants”

Government of the Swamp, by the Swamp, for the Swamp, Shall Not Perish From the Earth.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. Benjamin Disraeli Patricia McCarthy wrote an interesting piece in American Thinker that is absolutely spot-on: Here’s the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/liz_cheneys_and_the_rinos_betrayal.html And here’s Patricia: Well, now we know for sure that the bulk ofContinue reading “Government of the Swamp, by the Swamp, for the Swamp, Shall Not Perish From the Earth.”

Car Wreck

Jill Mislinski: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/02/04/vehicle-sales-per-capita-as-of-december-2020 The latest data point is the December count published by the BEA in their monthly Auto and Truck Seasonal Adjustment report, which shows a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 16.3 million units, which is a 4.0% decrease from the previous month’s figure from the BEA. The first chart shows the series since 2007, which illustratesContinue reading “Car Wreck”

CoVid Viral Load: What is Truth?

From Off-Guardian: In a request for a study which shows complete isolation and purification of the particles claimed to be SARS-CoV-2, Michael Laue from one of the world’s most important representatives of the COVID-19 “panicdemic,” the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI), answered that[1]: I am not aware of a paper which purified isolated SARS-CoV-2. ThisContinue reading “CoVid Viral Load: What is Truth?”

Climate Change – Solar Minimum Edition

Arctic air is set to hamer North America from the midwest to the northeast. The temperature anomalies are expected to drive temperatures some 20C below winter average, piling onto the declining climate temperature trends observed in recent months. Unprecdented amounts of snow is also expected. The weakened solar cycle translates to disrupted jet streams, revertingContinue reading “Climate Change – Solar Minimum Edition”

Long Acme

From EvilSpeculator: https://evilspeculator.com/long-acme/ Social media giants have been channeling their inner Wile E. Coyote over the past few days for rather obvious reasons you are most likely aware of but which clearly fall outside the context of what we do and worry about here at Evil Speculator. Again, there is a myriad of places thatContinue reading “Long Acme”