Money Monday: Force of Habit....

 

...habit of force. Habit: a settled or regular tendency or practice; Force:a fundamental concept that explains how objects interact and move. So: A fundamental concept that explains a tendency... a practice of how something interacts. Anyway.

Anyone who knows me - maybe better at this point in life to use more a past and partials: Anyone who knew at least a part of me for awhile... knows I've never believed in stories or, to use a friend's useful phrase, prosaic valuations. Which is a bit odd - we depend on stories. As organizations of information they... smooth away our intrasystemic, someone else might prefer the word internal, conflicts, partially shield us from reality and consequence, establish or at least imply rules. Their emergence - stories' - makes it all easier. You could write a best seller or two on the notion with titles like: 'The Ten Stories Billionaires Tell Themsleves,' or 'A Phi Story for Stress-Free Living.'  They take away much of our uncertainties. Anyway.

Seeing that uncertainty is a sort of nemesis of plural, living systems though - you could replace stories conceptually with forms of language, see stuff in terms of entropy, time, energy, information - particularly that odd stickiness of systemically expressed information - because of topology. Not story. Stories can be rewritten. (Ah, one should add a partial definition for anyone reading this who didn't and does not know even much of a part of me: though people broadly insist on thinking of language as having much - that is, anything - to do with intersystemic communication ... that doesn't make sense, really. To me, language is the topological representative expression of consciousness. All communication instead is translation - mutilingual perforce.) Anyway.

You can partially summarize in a phrase or similar: we likely live in a self-referring universe. Fractal. Once set in motion, the more things change, the more they stay the same and the more they stay the same, the more they change. So:where does motivation come from? The thing that prompts all those behaviors, from how we perceive the world to what we are to do in it? From... a cell to an organ system to a person to a group to whatever. Anyway.

This week: 

as of the Friday the close the practice portfolio was up 8.27 percent while the benchmark S&P is up .12 percent. Cash and positions are pretty much 50/50 and,neatly, there are presently no loosing positions. The only change - as before and a imitating not a little wine drinking, or prepping and eating food.... I'm tending again toward med. and biotech as I did back when. As in: when you begin drinking wine you pretty much taste a bunch of stuff, begin to learn spontaneously various elements of enology, indentify different grapes, different houses, different vintages... from wherever your supply and local recommendations come from. Then you inevitably begin to concentrate a bit on a few regions, not too many types of wine, dive more into the houses or Chateaux, further distinguish a few makers whose grape juice tends to jive with your palate and nose. And that's already happening as before after just 4 weeks in the markets. Force of habit. Anyway.

    So.. last week - (sorry if I haven't put up the video yet, A.,) a quick overlook of gold. This week: silver. You can basically take a good bit of what was mentioned for gold and apply it, a little, for silver as well. Even the US had a silver-backed, along with gold, currency for a good while. It's also used a good bit in solar and catalytic converters and production forcasts aren't stellar. So it works for both scenario insurance and as a long investment. Maybe, like gold, you can pick it up at some point in the coming months for less but I'm not at all convinced any drop will be... glaring. Anyway.

It's a bit late-ish and I a bit tired-ish so... I'll stop here. Above, I hope to get to a video alongside last weeks (the video was done right away but the having first to convert on the Apple before keying it and uploading here... is a bit of a slow drag.) So.. other things next time. Silver and Gold... (....something more for Lis. than the christmas special tune one might expect. Still... not a poor pop tune at all...)Anyway.  

Ah..the disclaimer:  (Disclaming note to anyone perusing: for now, I've none of these things - those who know me know the primary cause. He did actually steal literally every thing. Just suggestions these and no conflicts of interest. For now.) Anyway.