“Takes paper to make paper” is the first calendar entry this week.  A bunch of Treasury this-n-that’s (buy-backs and such) start the week.

After fondling $124,000 last week, Bitcoin is “viagra-seeking” from the $115,000 range early. Gold and silver firmed earlier, but nothing to get excited about.

REAL Action this week will be the Fed summer confab at Jackson Hole.  The capper will be the Jerome Powell speech Friday as the wrap-up.  While hopeless optimists are still nattering-on about rate cuts, as in Rate cut watch: All eyes on Fed Chair Powell’s final Jackson Hole speech, dedicated tea leaf readers will slobber all over the Fed Minutes Wednesday.  Should we mention that the minutes will be a month-old rear view?  I suppose not.

Housing start data tomorrow doesn’t feel like a SpaceX project:  You can’t have aggressive ICE enforcement and have a frothy real estate picture.  It’s a population-driven metric. So unless the dems can line up “do-docs” for homeless, housing will be a solid industry, but not like Nvidia and the Ai go-go’s.

But as we have lectured here for more than a quarter century: “The thing about common sense is that it isn’t.”

We Weren’t Invited –  “news.obj’s”

Neither were you.  Trump to host Zelenskyy, Europeans at White House today for talks on Ukraine war.

You’re welcome to go read thousands of articles on point, but one of the Big Secrets in my upcoming book (Domain Work) is that you don’t need to be a Deep Study to understand complexity.  You need to simply generalize and group.  And, when you have that nailed, then you can elevate your news reading from data-point oriented to object-oriented.

In other words, Ukraine is a “news object.”  Only a couple of aspects or attributes of the object change on a daily basis.  Most are captured in simple headlines.  For instance:

See it? Trump says No to Ukraine getting Crimea and No NATO membership.  Second is Putin’s OK with security guarantees for Ukraine as long as it’s not NATO.

So for the rest of the day, the Ukraine news.obj has two modified attributes which Trump will try to sell in order to settle this Obama-Biden cockup shoved through by neocons. How Obama, Biden, And The EU Started The Ukraine War – Armed Forces Press.

More on news.obj‘s in a sec. For now, the J-school version would be “Instead of getting lost in 50 articles, you treat each story as an object with attributes that shift a little each day.”  Leaves more time for beer-drinking and that’s important at this time of the year.

Erin Blows

Might do some lawn watering in the mid Atlantic states this week.  And speaking of natural watering? Pakistan defends flood response after more than 270 people killed in northwestern district.

Moving the S-Meter

(Which is the signal strength meter on a real radio…)

Air bust: Canada government orders striking Air Canada flight attendants into binding arbitration. As Air Canada flight attendants defy order, 100,000 passengers stranded.  I hear the Trans Canada is nice this time of the year…

Yes – but that doesn’t matter: California Voters Don’t Like the Newsom-Democrat Redistricting Plan.  In California, the government doesn’t so much work for the people – it’s all about the Party! (Maybe them being closer to Beijing means something, you think?)

Speaking of Partying: Is She Drunk? Kamala Harris Sounds Sloshed as She Weighs in on Texas Redistricting Efforts (VIDEO).

You are slowly losing control of your computer, chapter 586: You Can No Longer Turn Off App Updates in Microsoft’s Store | PCMag

Wait… a heartfelt poop?  Gut holds the key to new heart failure treatment.

Passings (of another sort): Terence Stamp, Iconic Superman Villain and Oscar-Nominated Actor, Passes Away at 87.

Around the Ranch: Math, Domain work, Bad Pot Roast

I spent 11 hours Sunday grinding on the new book. Turns out, learning to “operate as a domain walker” really does unlock some hidden human horsepower.

By day’s end, I had cranked out a credible academic math paper:

• Decomposition of Multiple Cycle Drivers in Financial Time Series: Evidence from Aggregate Index Data, 1999–2025. Even AI had to tip its hat. Running the Shiller S&P dataset back to 1871, my new method beat out traditional econometric tools like ARIMA. In plain terms? The Ure/GPT “Minimal Decomposition” pulled trend, projected slope, and cleaned up the noise better than old guard econometric tools like ARIMA and Kalman and….

But Sunday wasn’t just math. My domain work also opened up what I can only call a hidden dimension of thought: a “visual-object” domain. It’s where you don’t calculate so much as see relationships and move objects around mentally — and suddenly complexity stops looking complicated. You’ll see more on that in Peoplenomics this week.

I propose that this missing domain may provide the scaffolding for breakthroughs in economics, science, and social systems, just as the adoption of mathematics once transformed natural philosophy into modern science. In the same manner object-oriented computing opened new frontiers in code, object-oriented THINKING (as in the news.obj example above) is a world-changer.

Then came the big lift: a 7,000-word chapter for the new book called Co-Dreaming and Co-Dying. Western culture treats death as a solo act. But is that required? If soulmates can co-dream — extending their time together eight more hours a day — could they also “hook up” in The Big Sleep?

By the time I shut down the keyboard, I was equal parts drained and in awe — staring into The Presence, the two Realms (waking/shared and non-local), and the strange but real domains of thought we get to play in here in wakingville.

Other than that? My Sunday pot roast wasn’t very good. And a quick zip into town to exchange a prescription – the wrong one was in the bag when I did a pick-up Friday.

So goes the noise floor of the world, eh?

ShopTalk Sunday is here if you missed it and Stiks checked in from his sailboat in the Western Pacific.

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