We moved into our new house a little over a week ago and for the third time in less than one year I’m pulling my hair out in sheer frustration while I’m pulling stuff out of boxes. Yes of course I’ve labeled everything but the damn movers we hired simply stacked everything on top of each other and then dashed, making it impossible for us to find anything.
Which means for the past week we’ve been operating on three spoons, two forks, one knife. and a bunch of antique dishes we usually don’t touch.
And while I’m at it let me tell you about the glorious train wreck that is my new office.
Turns out the large room I claimed to spend most of my waking hours comes with a horrible echo. Which of course spells bucko problems for anyone who spends a lot of time on Zoom or posts regular updates to Youtube or Vimeo.
So what to do?
You probably guessed it. I went online for some tips and then decided to order a few boxes of acoustic paneling from Amazon, hoping it would cut down on those horrible reverberations.
Did it work?
That’s a negative. In fact it didn’t work at all – I mean it did absolutely zero, zilch, nada, nichts, in regards to cutting down on the echo in my room.
But the fun doesn’t stop there.
Not only are these panels acoustically completely worthless. What’s worse is that you cannot get them to stick to the bloody wall, no matter what.
I literally tried everything. The strongest double sided tape I could find. Adding more tape. Hitting the corners of the panels with a hammer after gluing.
Cursing a lot.
Nothing worked – within an hour or two they all detached and dropped to the floor.
Okay so why not use little nails? Yes of course I thought of that. But it turns out that the damn walls in our house are made of granite rock or something – every single nail we tried immediately turned into a banana.
In great desperation I went back online and researched the topic a bit more.
And sure enough – those cheap panels everyone buys on Amazon are completely useless. You can ignore the four star ratings – most people don’t have a single clue when it comes to acoustics.
What actually helps cut down on echo? A simple rug on the floor – maybe some tapestry on the walls as well. Furniture of course – the more the better.
Which is what I did and although the sound isn’t studio quality (yet) it’s more than acceptable now.
All that remains now is the ignominious task of removing hundreds of strips of double sided tape that are now molecularly bonded to my wall.
Oh yeah, double sided tape works GREAT on walls. Won’t come off either without great effort and time.
It just doesn’t work on acoustic foam panels, might as well try to glue oil.
Speaking of oil, Europe is most likely going to run out of heat and affordable food this winter – if they ration they may make it to early spring.
Rationing of course means a bunch of coalitions all across Euroland are going to blow up, it’s just a matter of time.
I see a lot of machinations and hand ringing involving company bailouts and subsidies of heating cost to everyone but the one sector that actually needs it the most, which is the industrial sector.
Without sufficient energy for Europe’s industry the EUR is D-E-A-D and the chart above documents Brussel’s harsh lesson in economic and monetary reality.
As the old saying goes: Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other.
Of course in a global system nothing happens in isolation. The SPX is currently making a b-line for a recent spike low that kept it from falling off the plate.
Should SPX 3600 be breached and maintained for more than a day I’d say we probably find ourselves at the 3k mark in a short order.
So what do we KNOW?
We know that stock markets are balanced on the edge of a cliff… a drop below recent support could start an avalanche.
We also know that if market craps the bed it will probably drag crypto down too.
It’s possible that the Fed may panic and turn the printers back on, which of course would ignite a serious bull market in stocks and perhaps even crypto.
Which I however don’t think will happen, simply because the Fed would have lost credibility for good.
But it’s always best to account for all eventualities.
So what to DO?
I tell you what NOT to do: Don’t start worrying about what the Fed may or may not decide to do.
It’s immaterial because whatever happens on that front – you won’t be able to trade the violent swings that will invariably result.
Instead arm yourself with specific knowledge about my all time favorite trading strategy… the Crypto Salary System.
We are now at 24 R in six weeks, which is absolutely mind boggling if you grasp the concept of compounding.
In my entire trading career spanning 20 years I have never ever seen any system accomplish a run like this right out of the gate.
You may catch a lucky break every once in a while during a favorable market period.
But given that everything around us is going up in flames this equity curve is nothing short of sensational.
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