Russia’s Wheat Crop Fails? | Armstrong Economics

The weather turned very cold this year as our computer has been forecasting. The importance of our model’s forecasts lies in determining what will be the next cycle focus. Each cycle tends to shift from one to the next sector. While we still risk a strong dollar rally into 2020 creating the economic recession through deflation as assets decline, the next 8.6-year cycle appears to be setting up to be a commodity cycle. As the climate changes to bitter cold, we have warned this is when FAMINE and DISEASE rise. The flu season is always when it turns cold – not warm. It is important to keep an eye on the climate cycle and prepare for the next real bull market. This year, the wheat crop in Russia has failed because of the bitter cold with even April coming in as the coldest in more than 140 years. The people who want to believe in global warming are so enamored with this idea mixing up pollution with climate change that they fail to see the trend coming. As crops fail with colder winters, food supplies will decline and prices will rise. So look for the next 8.6-year Economic Confidence Model Wave to bring higher prices in food.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/russias-wheat-crop-fails/

The Crisis in Analysis – Is it Just Hopeless? | Armstrong Economics

A new study has come out taking issue with the entire climate change forecasts putting forth that it is at best 45% as intense as the prognostications put forth. The greatest flaw is just how poor these people do their research. They are TOTALLY ignorant of any cyclical trend and project that if the temperature rises 1 degree this year, then they project that will continue without change for decades. Honestly, they do the same in just about every field with the same results. Economists assume they cannot predict the business cycle so why bother. Projections for growth into the next year are always based upon the trend this year. As that famous interview of Larry Summers by Bloomberg reveals, Summers was asked why you “smart” people can never predict a recession? It is the methodology that makes all of these forecasts worthless. The one thing we can count on is that whatever trend is in motion this year, by no means guarantees we will see the same next year. Just how do we ever get all of these fields to stop and consider cycles is beyond comprehension. When you forecast the future trend correctly, they accuse you of causing the trend because of influence. It often seems hopeless to ever get a change in how analysis is conducted. It will just take a crash and burn before anything changes. Summer states the very theory why the NY banks accused me of manipulating the world. The assumption is you cannot, and if you do manage to do it, then it is attributed to influence. You just cannot win.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/future-forecasts/the-crisis-is-analysis-is-it-just-hopeless/

On Compromise – The Imaginative Conservative

What is interesting is the ultimate human predicament, when serious principles, serious commitments are at odds, and there is no apparent way to compose them in sight, except for giving something up, or giving in—that will be a surrender of self. Why are we in these predicaments to begin with?… (essay by Eva Brann)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/04/on-compromise-eva-brann.html

Lindsey Graham: Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Friday that his former rival President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize if North and South Korea decide to denuclearize and become peaceful neighbors again.
— Read on pjmedia.com/video/lindsey-graham-trump-will-deserve-nobel-peace-prize-if-north-korea-denuclearizes/

I think he and the leader of Chins both deserve one now for deescalating the tensions on the Korean Peninsula