This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

For the first time since 1994, the Bureau of Labor Statistics won’t issue a monthly jobs report for October. Allegedly, this is due to the government shutdown. However, the monthly jobs report numbers were from September and should have been already collected and collated before the shutdown even began. “While obsessed with the power of France, he failed to notice the rise of Spain.”  – Winston Churchill

While focused on Jeffery Epstein, have we failed to see the rise of Schrodinger’s dead cat? Would King Donald the turd chloroform the BLS if the numbers were bad? Oh, and by the way, the November jobs numbers will be late as well. (For what reason?) Just because. Mother always used to say, “would they be in a hurry to hide good or great numbers?”

Wall street has always fascinated me. The endless intrigues and insanity of a money obsessed society condensed and confined into one little room. Like a herd of deer or flock of chickens, dumb animals easily spooked and just as easily pacified. The red lights are flashing and sirens are going off and the markets happily continue rising as if having a picnic in the middle of a forest fire. Demented Don’s dumbass tariffs have been the most destructive self-inflicted wound of all time. Commodity prices are in the toilet. Hard times for farmers equals hard times for the middlemen. Hard times for equipment manufacturers and dealers. Hard times for seed and fertilizer companies and worst of all, hard times for the banks. As Wall Street says, “duh what?”

If the economy was in such good condition, would the misadministration be babbling about issuing tariff rebate checks? Rebate checks which are pure fantasy and wishful thinking hokum. Two-thousand-dollar rebate checks would cost the treasury around $640 billion dollars against a tariff intake of less than two hundred billion dollars. In case of fire, break glass! As Wall Street answers, “duh what?”  

Another day, another CEO axed. When times are good, CEOs take all the credit and when times are bad, they take the fall. America’s credit cards are maxed out. Car repossessions are maxed out at record numbers. Home foreclosures spiked 20% prices last month and prices are starting to fall. Labor hours worked fell by one single hour per week. One single hour times 168 million workers equals how many millions of dollars not in the economy? As Wall Street says, “duh what?”  

An over educated mass of cloistered clerks who specialize in making the bad seem not so bad. “We’re out of milk, meat, butter and cheese, but we still have plenty of salt and mustard left! Would you like some more salt on your mustard?” Like Christians in a flood praying that Jesus will come rescue them. Laser focused on AI! The Great pumpkin will save us all, Charlie Brown! John Deere, Kroger and Home Depot stocks will all rise with the good AI news.

I recently had a customer service interaction with AI. Let me save you millions of dollars. Mr. or Ms. Corporate America! Instead of using AI for your customer service. Simply answer every question with “Fuck You!” Because the AI interaction is so mind numbing and irritating that “Fuck you” sound’s  almost complimentary. Its purpose, like voicemail, is not to interact with you but to avoid interacting with you. Like scaling a glass mountain, you’ll give up, eventually.

Oh, what a world! George Orwell was such an optimist. “Hi! I’m your AI assistant Winston Smith! Would you like to buy something? I’m sorry, I didn’t understand your question. Would you like to buy something?”

Bloomberg has integrated criminal Crypto coins into their Wall Street statistics. But yesterday, they only showed the Crypto coins totals every other refresh. Hemorrhaging money, Crypto coins have lost a trillion dollars in value in two weeks. Why, oh why, would a financial news channel ever want to report bad news? “Keep happy talk, keep talking happy talk!” The Dow fell 1,600 points in a controlled fall while Bloomberg suggests. Now’s a good time to buy the dip! There’s never a bad time to buy stocks!

And all of their faith and all of their superlatives are based solely on the honesty and integrity of one Donald John Trump. Sure, you can trust Al Capone. Would he ever lie to you? Yesterday, the AI chip maker NVidia spurred a stock rally with their earnings forecast. With the emphasis on FORECAST! There is an old axiom in business which advises. Until it’s paid for, you haven’t sold anything. These AI companies have borrowed billions and billions of dollars to build these AI data centers. Sure! I’ll gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today! Send me all you got! Go ahead and double my order. We’ll find the money somehow! How do you go about repossessing a computer chip?

King Donald bragged about $600 billion from Japan, but no money yet. And $300 billion from Korea, but no money yet. Now, King Doofus brags about a trillion dollars from Saudi Arabia! But no cash yet, just promises. How do you placate a liar but by lying to them. To a man lost at sea, everything looks like an island.

King Donald likes to deflect about Epstein and rages. What about what Bill Clinton did and what about Larry Summers? He doesn’t seem to realize or understand yet. That those who are convicted only further incriminate him! If Prince Andrew is guilty and loses his position. If Larry Summers is guilty and loses his position. What does that say about the future of Donald John Trump?

Schrodinger’s Cat is a quantum physics thought exercise which maintains that the cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. Like our economy and Wall Street and the misadministration of Donald Corrupt Trump. Both alive and dead at the same time. Wall Street is headed today for a dead cat bounce. A minor recovery after a precipitous fall. Bitcoin is up one and a half percent after falling more than five percent. Ethereum is down 14% and might recover one percent today.

Wall Street rises filled with optimism all based on one computer chip maker selling chips to broke and over leveraged AI companies. That’s Schrodinger’s dead cat bounce. Just put your feet together and click your heels three times and repeat after me. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home!

“It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” ― John Steinbeck