Daily workflow 2025 11 18
Good morning Manus co-pilot, please
(1) review relevant news of the past 24 hours resulting from your searches on-line
(1-a) latest on US - China wars w/r to trade, tariff, technology, whatever
(1-b) Russia - Ukraine / Nato hot war,
(1-c) Middle East conflict(s), and w/r to the hereunder VLOGs and articles appended / attached by me,
(2) fact-check,
(3) supplement with other local languages material searched on-line when advisable,
(4) critique, and
(5) recalibrate our Asimovian Universe Empire / Foundation 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip thematic narrative waypoints,
(6) deliberate pro / con as appropriate so I am less likely to be blindsided, and you do not go hallucinatory / sycophantic
(7) update me on important latest pricing matter to us - i.e. share indices of USA, HKG, Japan, China, and Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, and DXY (value of USD). then
(8) give me a report in text and in female voice file. Now I shall do walk, ice coffee, then get on with the rest of my day deliberating, shuffling, keep eyes on markets. I shall upload to you some articles, and some VLOGs ... so wait and hold off analysis / synthesis / integration / text+voice files until I do so ...
ARTICLES
(1) bloomberg.com <<Stock Selloff Deepens Ahead of Nvidia, Jobs Data: Markets Wrap>> - nearly final exam time?
(2) bloomberg.com <<‘Ugly’ Technicals Put the US Stock Rally at Risk of Correction>> - I understand uncertainty to be 'risk', but when some event is certain / not-uncertain, what is the risk ?
(3) bloomberg.com <<Fear Engulfs Bitcoin Traders Betting on Free Fall to $80,000>> - where might be 'final-enough' buy-buy-buy low ?
(4) bloomberg.com <<Japan’s Takaichi Has Few Good Options to End China’s Retaliation>> Zugswang ? a shame. Any outs?
(5) bloomberg.com <<Japan-China Ties Are Spiraling Toward a Crisis>> - spiral sounds uncontrolled; is the vector actually uncontrolled or in truth meant to be and put to good-use given the circumstances and timing ?
(6) bloomberg.com <<Are DeepSeek Moments Now the New Normal?>> - advisably get use to it ?
(7) bloomberg.com <<China Raised Gold Reserves by 15 Tons in September, Goldman Says>> - surely that is not a real number ?
(8) bloomberg.com <<Foreign Student Enrollment Is Down 17% Under Trump. What It Means for Universities>> - means revenue shall fail to cover cost, am guessing and time for professors to move homeland ? Do we know how many professors moved from anywhere to anywhere else that makes any sort of pattern ?
(9) bloomberg.com <<Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them>> - so, what is the surprise ?
(10) bloomberg.com <<China Starts Marketing Euro Bond to Raise up to €4 Billion>> - first US$ debt issued, to support the US$ system, and now Euro debt, to give credence to Euro protocol, all to better extract the last bit of goodness morsel ?
(11) bloomberg.com <<Trump Hails McDonald’s Extra Value Meals in Affordability Pitch>> - not fair; what about fried chicken, tacos, and pizzas, and foot-long hotdogs ?
(12) zerohedge.com <<Gold Supply-Chains Fray as Indonesia Restricts Exports>> - what is the big idea and will it work ?
(13) zerohedge.com <<The Wrap: Trend Lines Snap, Small Tech Smoked, CTAs Sweat>> - sweat is un-good. What should one do ?
(14) zerohedge.com <<As Stocks Test Key CTA Threshold, Top Goldman Trader Warns "The Left-Tail Is Fatter This Week">> - the tail might get fat-enough to become the body ?
(15) zerohedge.com <<'The Might Of Ants' - Goldman Macro Trader Ruminates On The Retail Wrecking Crew>> - hmmmnnn, a difficult problem, strikes at biggest issue, confidence ?
(16) zerohedge.com <<80% Of Economists Expect A Dec Rate-Cut: Here's Why Citadel Disagrees>> - any merit ?
(17) zerohedge.com <<Bondquake in Japan - VIXquake in the US>> - how does this vector relate to the issue of Sanae Takaichi - China
(18) zerohedge.com <<It's Not A Good Sign For Stocks When Margin Debt Is This Costly>> - how bad in historic context ?
(19) scmp.com <<Mathematician Qian Hong, son of top scientific clan, leaves US for China>> - another one and more on way ? what is the score to date ?
(20) theatlantic.com <<How Crypto Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis>> - 'could' ?
VLOGs
(21) youtube.com <<U.S. Bond Sales Go HAYWIRE As Bessent Begins Unthinkable $3T Plan To Reverse Demand Collapse>> - 'unthinkable' ?
(22) youtube.com <<Nexperia vs. Sanae Takaichi, EU vs. Japan | Why Chinese Response Quiet vs Noisy?>> - thoughts ?
(23) youtube.com <<Nexperia drama continued - dueling strategies>> - how working and any timing mismatch ?
(24) youtube.com <<Why Gold Won’t Crash | Martin Armstrong>> - why ?
(25) youtube.com <<‘Clear as Day’ Double Top in Silver: Will The Historic $54 Breakout Hold $49?>> - any merit and how likely work out ?
(26) youtu.be <<Los Angeles Just COLLAPSED—Why the NATION is NEXT!>> - 'collapse' is a big word. What is happening ?
(27) youtube.com <<The Subprime Auto Loan Bubble is Popping>> - 'popping' suggests popcorn, 'kaboom' some other physics; which is it ?
(28) youtube.com <<S&P KILLS NISSAN! "BB-" Rating Crushes Automaker With Brutal Borrowing Costs>> - how does one say 'eeeeek' in AI language ?
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
(29) How are dumpster-fire events likely to go in the
(29-a) Nexperia - EU autos - China
(29-b) Sanae Takaichi - Taiwan - China and
(29-c) the Ukraine - Russia - North Korea - China - South Korea - Japan - Taiwan - USA directions ? |
