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Holiday sag in a second, but you know you’ve pissed someone off when bot nets get deployed against a site,  Maybe it was for the “servent of the people” remarks about a small eastern European country, the Middle East real estate expropriators – or the radical left supporting Hamas – or just people that don’t like us asking hard questions about the nature of reality and the scam layers put over all that. Or the ultra-left crazies…

Be that as it may, 14-hours of website work and…well…here we are, ready to mow into the weekend.  ShopTalk Sunday should be along at its normal time, our Monday Labor Day special Music post hasn’t been attacked.

We’re still here…and we hope the logging for US-CERT will be useful for trackback and prosecution.

I think I’ve said this before, but we think deliberate hacking should be a felony and – if an attack is make on an American?  Well, that ought to be a direct-action trigger by American foreces overseas…  world woudl be a lot cleaner and we could all just get on with things.

(This morning is being published in sections, just in case…)  If you don’t see the “write when you” reload in a few minutes…  Thanks for sticking with us.

Holiday Sag

Two financial stories to cover first.  International Trade is interesting – because on the one hand, we think consumers may dial things back a bit – on rising actual prices – the dollars should be going up because if I am not mistaken, the tariffs are included in the dollar figures?

“Advance International Trade in Goods
The international trade deficit was $103.6 billion in July, up $18.7 billion from $84.9 billion in June. Exports of goods for July were $178.0 billion, $0.1 billion less than June exports. Imports of goods for July were $281.5 billion, $18.6 billion more than June imports.

Advance Wholesale Inventories
Wholesale inventories for July, adjusted for seasonal variations and trading day differences, but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $908.4 billion, up 0.2 percent (±0.4 percent)* from June 2025, and were up 1.3 percent (±0.7 percent) from July 2024. The May 2025 to June 2025 percentage change was unrevised from the preliminary estimate of up 0.1 percent (±0.2 percent)*.

(Market didn’t exactly love that – some of this may be tariff impacts?  But who’s saying how much?)

Then we have to roll out the personal income numbers.  Yeah, I know – never high enough, right?

Personal income increased $112.3 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in July, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—increased $93.9 billion (0.4 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $108.9 billion (0.5 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—increased $110.9 billion in July. Personal saving was $985.6 billion in July and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.4 percent.

The we get into two Big Picture charts of interest.  mThe first is our Aggregate Index in real time which goes along like this:

The we can overlay this with how the Bubble Popped in 1929:

Elsewhere, the Gold and Silver prices- which had remaioned confident on inflation – have backed off a bit todsay.  And Bitcoin is down clawing toi remain over $110,000.  Could the long-term high be in and the Age of Made-Up monies coming to a close?

I never understood the get whaled quickly attitude of crypto, except to say that greed is a strange bit of plumbing in human behaior.

News Object Tracking

Lawyering Up:  Fed Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over dismissal from board.

The War that just won’t end: Russian missiles pound Ukraine, damage EU and British offices .

Concerns about President Trumps health may be getting legs, if you count stories like: Vance says he’s prepared to become president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’.

We are still a bit bothered by the Trump family promotion of a “made up money” becausde history says notionals all blow up over time… Eric Trump sees bitcoin hitting $1 million, praises China cryptocurrency role. Sorry, as bit on the skeptical side here today, long hours fighting hackers, I suppose. But if I can lose a website, think a crypto is any safer?

Around the Ranch:  Holiday Planning Tips

Tghree day weekends are the “holy ground” on calendars around here.  A few things to keep in mind today.

1. Plan on Quality:  If you amble into a holiday without figuring out a “plan” in advance, your results will likely reflect the lack of plans.  To have a really great long weekend, make a plan, figure some worthwhile goals and outcomes, and then act in accordance with the plan.  Oh, yeah, shoudl mention the spousal unit has equal voice – time is of roughly the same value to all people and three day’s worth is a chunk.
2. Supply Chain Fill:  This works out at all different levels.  For example, Elaine collected the bathroom trash last night and this morning I refilled low supplies (in 2) of he garbage liner plastics.  At the other end (er, so to speak…) the Food stocks were topped off Thursday with final supplies coming later today.
3. Splurge Plans Count!  Yeah, only during the holiday do I give-in to the sweet tooth.  On the last quickie supply run (gas for the mower, again, rain has been a blessing and a curse) there might be some Tastee-Kakes and maybe a sixpack of Klonidike frozen ice cream bars.
4. Drink Responsibly:  Yesh, when we were younger, things like a half gallon of (whatever) could disappear over a three-day weekend.  But now?  A single glass of wine.  And – THIS IS KEY – NEVER EVER DRINK AND DRIVE.  Back in our sailing days, the skipper’s rule was “No drinks until the boat is secured for the night…:  Either hook’s down and set, including the anchor alarm and radar guard zone.  OR, you’ve tied up (and the holding tank doesn’t need a visit to the pluymbing dock…),   Just keep in mind that living like a grown-up is how you get to be one…
5. Pre-Pan Tuesday:  When the weekend is over, is there a load of wash that needs to be run?  Got detergent abnd bleach and whatever else you need for early next week?  We like to have the meals blocked out, too.
6. Pre Your Food!  We typicallty will get one of our spiral-cut honey-baked hams for a holiday weekend.  Great for breakfasts and sandwiches on the fly.  Last night, I put on the ‘butcher hat” (gotta have the right hat for every job…) and I pre-cut the ham into ZipLoc bags.  One bag is slices, one bag is chunks, and one is a mix.  Doing it this way, you get the convenience of a deli pack at a price per pound that’s about half if you could buy it.  The deli ham is never as good as the spriacl cut, so that kind of think matters.  Weekends are a gooid time to get some frozen bread dough.  Nothing smells better (to me) than a fresh loaf o bread coming out about the same time the primne rib comes ouet of the roaster to ‘rest.’

I know you know all this stuff.  Our demographics are a little on the high side compared to the kiddie sites.  But here’s the thing: 15-minutes in planning or prep today – maybe a pop-in grocery speed run, too – will pay a bedtter return on time invested than almost anytjhign else when comes to quality of the weekend.

Keep a Weather Eye?

Rain coming through but do keep a weather eye on the news wires.

One of my most-trusted sources called unexpectedly (in mid computing crisis) and began the conversation with “I need to tell you this while the channels are still open…”  Huh?  “That’s all I can say” – yeah, channels open, channels close, but left it hanging…

There may not be any high immediacy to it – but eye on scan….

OK, if you want more on Ai see the https://hiddenGuild.dev site and expect Peoplenomics tomorrow with more to come as the weekend unfolds…

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