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Cyreenik Says 2022
Jul-Dec

• o Nothing for this month (Dec 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Nov 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Oct 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Sep 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Aug 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Jul 22)

Cyreenik Says 2022
Jan-Jun

• o Ukraine War: What does Putin want? (Jun 22)
• o Russia's Vietnam (May 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Apr 22)
• o Is Ukraine going to become Russia's Vietnam? (Mar 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Feb 22)
• o Nothing for this month (Jan 22)

Cyreenik Says 2021
Jul-Dec

• o Nothing for this month (Dec 21)
• o Nothing for this month (Nov 21)
• o "I really, really want a conspiracy theory."
  o Afghanistan's tribal violence continues, and in classic format
  o The decades-long China property boom is busting (Oct 21)
• o The big surprises of 9-11 (Sep 21)
• o Afghanistan: stranger and stranger!
  o Afghanistan: returning to time of warlords? (Aug 21)
• o Afghanistan: America is leaving, it gets to be a failed state again (Jul 21)

Cyreenik Says 2021
Jan-Jun

• o Climate change is the latest variant on Conspiracy Theory
  o Cryptocurrencies aren't anonymous (Jun 21)
• o Covid-19 vaccine patent waver: a really bad idea (May 21)
• o How big does AI need to be? Count the surprises
  o Afghanistan: Twenty years later: The End (Apr 21)
• o The importance of seeing the right pattern (Mar 21)
• o A pattern: ignoring record breaking as the cause of a disaster
• o A pattern: cheap phone calls -> spam calls --- cheap stock trades -> GameStop phenomenon (Feb 21)
• o Trump's surprise as president (Jan 21)

Cyreenik Says 2020
Jul-Dec

• o The pleasant December Surprise: covid vaccines are ahead of schedule (Dec 20)
• o The November Surprise: the tight election (Nov 20)
• o The October Surprise that really is one: Trump and COVID (Oct 20)
• o The Middle East seems to be finally moving on... towards peace
  o What the replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg process is indicating
  o Unprecedentedly spooky: An American president who won't live with election results (Sep 20)
• o "Why weren't we ready for... [pick a disaster after it happens]?" (Aug 20)
• o A Pattern: Mask wearing is like Prohibition (Jul 20)

Cyreenik Says 2020
Jan-Jun

• o The George Floyd Big Vision (Jun 20)
• o The Coronavirus Big Vision is passing
  o Market bubbles and exciting events (May 20)
• o The Coronavirus Crisis is transforming into a Black Swan event
  o A recession is a time of dream changing (Apr 20)
• o Combating coronavirus is becoming a community Big Vision
  o The coronavirus social and economic legacy
  o The Coronavirus Correction: Where is the political talk?
  o The Coronavirus Correction: Trump's Election Nightmare (Mar 20)
• o Afghanistan: a big proxy is moving on (Feb 20)
• o Hold on to your hats! It's time for a big regrettable action!
  o Surprise update: The Ukrainian plane crash was caused by Iranian missiles
  (Jan 20)

Cyreenik Says 2019
Jul-Dec

• o Human gene editing: a technology swirling with lots of strong opinions
  o Big events, few surprises (Dec 19)
• o The popular side of Climate Change is getting stronger (Nov 19)
• o California's PG&E: Another fight in the battle between idealism and pragmatism
  o Is ISIS much of a threat these days?(Oct 19)
• o Another sign that climate change is becoming a neo-religion: child prodigies
  o Syria: the proxy war is winding down, the proxies are moving on
  o Brexit Wow! (Sep 19)
• o Trade War Time? Remember Smoot-Hawley!
  o Is California working to become the next Rust Belt?
  o Trump and the Chinese have provided a trigger -- will the Brexit Hangover start now? (Aug 19)
• o Contemporary saber rattling -- the British/Iranian ship standoffs
  o The bond market is getting strange -- dream changing is coming soon
  o The next Big Visions: climate change and health care (Jul 19)

Cyreenik Says 2019
Jan-Jun

• o The Mystery of Maduro continues on
  o EU parliament elections: dream changing is happening all across Europe (Jun 19)
• o Brexit is bringing dream changing to the UK
  o The "Brexit Hangover" arrives on schedule, even if Brexit doesn't (May 19)
• o Instinctive thinking hard at work: Boeing and the 737 MAX are still high profile
  o Working towards a "China Transformation" in Iran (Apr 19)
• o With the end of the caliphate, what comes next for ISIS followers?
  o "Blame Them" happening in March
  o The instinctive thinking behind grounding all the Boeing 737s
  o Syria: The proxies are moving on (Mar 19)
• o Amazon HQ2 and NYC
  o What is next for Venezuela? (Feb 19)
• o We begin the year with three mysteries: The Trump Wall, Maduro surviving and no Brexit Plan (Jan 19)

Cyreenik Says 2018
Jul-Dec

 

• o More proxies getting tired of playing in the Middle East
  o A surprise outcome of the Khashoggi Killing Fiasco: a truce in Yemen
  o The "Pie Problem" with Populists
  o Big Vision is missing in France (Dec 18)
• o Brexit stays messy
  o Doing an autocrat assassination wrong: The Khashoggi case
  o In Syria the proxy war continues (Nov 18)
• o Yet another expression of End of the World instinct -- this time as a migration from Honduras to the US
  o Watching tough diplomacy in action: Jamal Khashoggi
  o The importance of a Big Vision (Oct 18)
• o More September Surprise: #MeToo becomes neoreligion
  o The #MeToo movement is getting sold out big time
  o Change in China: seriously courting Africa (Sep 18)
• o Big change is coming to Venezuela, what it will be is still very uncertain
  o The importance of a community having a Big Vision and community members feeling enfranchised
  o Gene editing: The future is coming fast in this arena -- it is getting easier and more popular (Aug 18)
• o The Population Bust is coming soon
  o The chronic threat to prosperity: Populism -- "Where is our free lunch?" (Jul 18)

Cyreenik Says 2018
Jan-Jun

 

• o What do #MeToo and McCarthyism have in common?
  o Times are certainly changing: the Miss America pageant without beauty? (Jun 18)
• o It's Panic and Blunder Time: The Italian Government Crisis
  o Little surprise here: Trump cancels summit with Kim Jong Un
  o Trump's Iran choice isn't helping Iran move on
  o More evidence that we are in a dream change: auto buying preferences (May 18)
• o More surprises in Korea: Will they bring sincere surprises this time?
  o Instinctive thinking in action: Airline passengers being deeply afraid of flying
  o Dream changing is upon us
  o The proxy war in Iraq and Syria is finally moving on (Apr 18)
• o The Venezuela Mystery: Who is benefiting?
  o Which to choose: democracy or autocracy?
  o Forecasting how driverless cars will be owned and used (Mar 18)
• o A blind spot in US thinking: Getting too licensing happy
  o Looking at the Big Picture, and seeing it's a pretty one (Feb 18)
• o Split coming in the auto market: convenience vs. personal expression
  o Crypto currencies are still in their infancy
  o Irrational exuberance is upon us
  o Breaking a pattern of history: Dealing with returning jihadists (Jan 18)

Cyreenik Says 2017
Jul-Dec

• o New financial tools, new ways to express financial mania
  o The consequences of the now-flowering Fem Scare (Dec 17)
• o A social mystery: Why can a run-our-community-into-the-ground government be so stable?
  o A pattern of history unfolding: Red Scare and Fem Scare
  o Computer games: these days it's lots more of the same (Nov 17)
• o A big threat to growing prosperity: people not moving for better opportunities
  o Blindspot thinking: Health insurance = Health care
  o With ISIS being ousted, what comes next for the Middle East?
  o The Las Vegas Shooting: It's Panic and Blunder Time (Oct 17)
• o The good news: 911 is history
  o Which is more important: "Who" is doing the creating or "What" is getting created?
  o Living with the fruits of school education based on urban legends (Sep 17)
• o Charlottesville: icon of a moral panic
  o Trump Bump and Eclipse Dip
  o America's Big Challenge for the 2020's: figuring out how to move around again (Aug 17)
• o Time for "ISIS Disappointment" to kick in
  o Sarbanes–Oxley is coming to prescription drugs
  o Yet another indicator that TSA is a neoreligion not a security enhancer (Jul 17)

Cyreenik Says 2017
Jan-Jun

• o Not much surprise: finance is going elsewhere
  o The surprise completes in France
  o The Year of Election Surprises continues
  o Terrorism gets more confusing: ISIS claims everything while it gets reduced to nothing (Jun 17)
• o A recession is a time of dream changing: retailing is certainly feel that
  o Freaking out about flying: This instinct is still strong
  o Trump's theme of Surprise! continues with the firing of James Comey
  o Obamacare versus Trumpcare: lots of arguing about trees while missing the forest
  o Slippery Slope Populism claims another victim in the Caribbean (May 17)
• o If Marcon wins will France secede?
  o The Year of Surprises in politics continues
  o No need to wait for driverless cars and drones, big lifestyle changes are happening now
  o Parking: the city shaper
  o Responding the right way to terrorism: Business as usual (Apr 17)
• o Some history patterns don't repeat: the 1937 crash dodged
  o The evolution in car ownership is continuing
  o Can change come to air travel? It would be good if it did.
  o Can Turkey fight a bloodletting war with... The Netherlands?
  o Good intentions are not enough to get good results. Good meshing with harsh reality is also essential (Mar 17)
• o A Kim Jung-un hobby revealed: bizarre high profile executions
  o The Curse of Being Important strikes again: on human gene editing
  o The revolution in Turkey is not finished
  o The bright side of immigrants: Entrepreneurial growth
  o Driverless cars: The present is catching up to a Roger Forecast (Feb 17)
• o Another pattern of history emerges: Surprise presidents and talk of secession
  o Globalization: The times they are a changing
  o The Trump Era theme of "SURPRISE!" continues
  o Another trickle of talk about the right issue: Follow ISIS's Money
  o Tunisia's mess: Demonstrating the importance of feeling enfranchised
  o The change in car ownership is coming
  o Don't like a surprise: Deny it! (Jan 17)

Cyreenik Says 2016
Jul-Dec

• o Adult kids living with parents: a vision of 2050 in progress today
  o Is the bloodletting war in Syria likely to wind down soon? Here are things that may keep it going
  o Social media is now getting into the anti-Terrorist movement
  o The Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline protests: a victory for Goat Sacrificing over prosperity (Dec 16)
• o The theme of the Trump presidency: More Surprises
  o Q: What comes next? A: A lot of "Testing Trump"
  o The importance of surprise in current events and history
  o Trump's election: The Time of Nutcases continues and gets surprisingly intense
  o The social revolution, and witch hunting, continue in Turkey
  o Black Friday shopping: an example of ritualizing (Nov 16)
• o "Blame Them" thinking -- hard to find a bigger example than Venezuela
  o The Philippines have picked a ruthless leader. Why?
  o October Surprise for 2016: The Creepy Clown moral panic (Oct 16)
• o End of the World investing mania in progress?
  o Rodrigo Duterte: the new shining face of populist frustration
  o North Korea Nukes: Beijing needs to seriously worry about a "woman scorned" response
  o A Panic situation in a surprise venue: container shipping
  o The Sacred Masculine is already mixing with the World of TES (Sep 16)
• o Time of Nutcases swirls through The Philippines and Blunder is the result
  o How will a big war be conducted in the year 2020?
  o Turkey is experiencing July 15th -- its version of Arab Spring (Aug 16)
• o Turkey: It's classic: Coup Panic followed by purge Blunder
  o Challenge of the decade: Fixing the world's disenfranchisement with new styles of Big Vision
  o Brexit -- something novel, scary and surprising, but not panic inducing
  o This season's terror surge -- sign of the ISIS break up?
  o Want to scare me? Suspend my trading!" -- Today's version of good old bank panic (Jul 16)

Cyreenik Says 2016
Jan-Jun

• o The Brexit Vote -- Time of Nutcases in Europe
  o And now the Orlando Blunder Chain adds a link -- Senate Sit-in over voting on gun laws
  o The Orlando night club shootings: Over one hundred people panic and blunder
  o "The world isn't ending... again! [sigh] Time to head home." ISIS warriors are reconsidering (Jun 16)
• o Cincinnati Zoo Incident: Panic and Blunder... of the armchair quarterbacks
  o A new finance mystery: Why is there a big valuation difference between US and China stock markets?
  o Is China suffering from "irrational exuberance"?
  o Trump Triumph: Panic Time? Blunder Time?
  o The Time of Nutcases is growing stronger
  o Age of Caesar coming to the US? Keeping the government responsive to the people (May 16)
• o Building better cities: a next positive feedback industry?
  o Islamic State: the money has finally been followed
  o How the "Panama Papers" Scandal relates to Productivity Growth (Apr 16)
• o The divide between Luxury Money and Necessity Money grows wider in California
  o This year's boom in terror attacks
  o What Putin's pullout in Syria means: Watch Out!
  o An example of dream changing
  o The Time of Nutcases grows stronger: 1937 revisited? (Mar 16)
• o Guantanamo Bay: a still-festering Blunder Scar
  o Judge versus Apple: a whirlpool of instinctive thinking
  o The Time of Nutcases grows stronger (Feb 16)
• o Trump, Sanders and America's next Big Vision
  o Saudi Arabia and Iran: Both not ready for globalizing yet
  o Putin's Big Vision Building: Reboot the Cold War (Jan 16)

Cyreenik Says 2015
Jul-Dec

• o Solving the mystery of low interest rates and sluggish economy? Look at supply and demand: too much money, not enough to invest in
  o At the heart of every financial bust is a surprise
  o Trump and Sanders aren't the issue -- their popularity is
  o The Grand Strategy for dealing with ISIS and terrorists: Don't pay them and don't promote them (Dec 15)
• o I see a new pattern: 2010's = 1960's
  o The serious crisis on US college campuses: Tender Snowflakism with teeth
  o Paris, Beirut and Terror Theater
  o Panic and Blunder at the Wall Street Journal
  o The Mid-East Migrant Crisis: Bringing new prosperity to Germany? (Nov 15)
• o The next financial bubble may be taking shape... or not
  o The problem with 20/20 hindsight on 9-11
  o Turkey is primed for a Blunder
  o Business Financing and Social Justice: Fertile ground for constantly creating the next Plan B
  o Is drone-striking enemy leaders a good idea? (Oct 15)
• o The battle between Progress and Fairness heats up on a new front: Biotech
  o More thoughts on our Year of Discontent
  o More thoughts on the Migrant Crisis (Sep 15)
• o Thoughts on the Migrating-into-Eurozone Crisis
  o Trump & Sanders Up; Markets Down; Are we rebooting 1937? (Aug 15)
• o The Iran Nuke Compromise: It's good
  o Now there is panic, in Greece
  o No panic in Grexit
  o Panic in China's stock markets (Jul 15)

Cyreenik Says 2015
Jan-Jun

• o Charleston church shooting and Confederate Flag
  o Yellow waving flag: Frothy stock markets in China, and froth plus Midwest Disease?
  o Progress versus urban legend
  o Progress versus urban legend: Fracking
  o Progress versus urban legend: Food additives (Jun 15)
• o ISIS and the Korean War: Lots in common
  o The elephant in the room: Business Regulations
  o "Blame them" is alive and thriving in Illinois
  o Migrants and Xenophobia: Bad Times Coming to Africa? (May 15)
• o Migrants and the Med
  o ISIS: The "movie Nazis" for 21st century story telling (Apr 15)
• o Fears and Curses: The root of the slow progress in air travel
  o Another ugly twist resulting from the War on Drugs: regressive taxation
  o Finding the right governing styles for the Middle East (Mar 15)
• o Is the Era of BRIC over?
  o ISIS: The International Brigading continues
  o The delusion gets deeper in Venezuela
  o Is it Shark Jumping Month for jihadist terrorists?
  o A Tale of Two Countries (Feb 15)
• o Update on terrorist advertising <sigh>
  o An upcoming oil price decline casualty: The Syrian Civil War
  o Charlie Hebdo: Terrorist advertising that crosses the line into poor taste
  o Young US Entrepreneurs: An endangered species? (Jan 15)

Cyreenik Says 2014
Jul-Dec

• o America (and the world) need to handle "exile" better
  o Hackers and Hollywood: A text book case of Panic and Blunder
  o Sydney standoff and The Interview: Sad cases of supplying lots of terrorist advertising
  o The battle between innovation and prescriptionism in climate change
  o The latest wrinkle in Fear of Flying: drones and jets colliding
  o The hard part about innovation (Dec 14)
• o Does automation make us dumb... or just different?
  o The unusual origins of personal computers and The Web
  o "Putin Mania" entering a new phase (Nov 14)
• o Is a time of economic dream changing coming upon us?
  o "Putin: ruthless leader" update
  o Ebola: Full Panic now in progress... expect Blunders
  o Containing Putin: Oil prices are helping sanctions
  o Syria: A "Blood-letting War" for the Arab Spring (Oct 14)
• o Blunder Scar in Action: Dodd-Frank hurting central Africa
  o Not good: US regulators shaking down US businesses
  o ISIS: Terrorist advertising
  o Mania in progress today: Putin mania (Sep 14)
• o ISIS -- Now we have the International Brigades of the 2010's
  o Ferguson update: still no sign of dealing with the enfranchisement issue
  o Ebola panic is now creating serious Blunders
  o Venezuela: "I've got money to burn... so I'm burning it."
  o Summer rioting and looting: Tis the season to show disenfranchisement
  o Malaysian Airlines crash crisis: The Blundering starts (Aug 14)
• o Vladimir Putin: Ruthless Leader
  o Panic strikes Malaysia Airlines: Two mystery accidents in the same year (July 14)

Cyreenik Says 2014
Jan-Jun

• o Whispers of coming US wage inflation: The recovery may be complete
  o Iraq, Syria and ISUS: It's not easy being a puppet governor
  o Japan: Is this the future of all human populations?
  o On low financial market volatility
  o On pollution: China is sounding like LA of the 1950's (June 14)
• o Alas! More prescription in the Midwest
  o Manias and markets: Is the Ukraine Crisis making a Russian market mania?
  o The hazard of letting rocky little islands become proxies for flag-waving nationalism
  o Weaseling out on Freddie and Fannie
  o Thoughts on Piketty and "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"
  o Russia is a grim place... really! (May 14)
• o Ukraine Crisis: Blunder Time is near
  o Further thoughts on the Ukraine crisis
  o The scars of 9-11 on air travel endure (Apr 14)
• o Thoughts on the Ukraine crisis
  o Thoughts on Malaysia Flight 370: unique mystery?
  o E-cigarettes: a classic technophobe response (Mar 14)
• o Ukraine and Venezuela: Blunders in progress (Feb 14)
• o Robotics is set to become the minicomputers of the 2010's
  o Accessibility versus Security: The never ending cyber dilemma
  o Pent up housing demand: Is it real?
  o An out-of-the-box prison reform idea: Make prisons a boom town
  o Thoughts on Believing in Evolution or Creation (Jan 14)

Cyreenik Says 2013
Jul-Dec

• o Thoughts on North Korea's "Uncle Execution"
  o Thoughts on the style of Elon Musk's successes
  o A surprise outcome of Quantitative Easing: fomenting social revolutions
  o Thoughts on Detroit's bankruptcy
  o Thoughts on "The Bankruptcy of Modern Economics" by Steve Forbes (Dec 13)
• o Thoughts on Thanksgiving and "Black Friday"
  o Thoughts on the latest nuclear deal with Iran (Nov 13)
• o ACA web site fiasco: A fine example of a "Brat Project"
  o Government Crisis in a nutshell: We are still searching for the Next Big Goal
  o More thoughts on Syria (Oct 13)
• o Yet another saving class takes it in the shorts. Why do savers consistenly put up with this?
  o Comparing the Kenya Westgate attack with the WTC attack
  o Threatening the Sacred Masculine
  o North Korea decides to make money the conventional way again (Sep 13)
• o How to get involved in Syria
  o Arab Spring turns into long, hot Arab Summer
  o Paying attention to job growing
  o Portland, Oregon: A candidate for Detroit of the 2020's? (Aug 13)
• o Surprising twist: Asian preference for male children supports high housing prices
  o Thoughts on Detroit bankruptcy
  o Thoughts on the Zimmerman trial
  o Farm subsidies: Modern day goat sacrificing (July 13)

Cyreenik Says 2013
Jan-Jun

• o The Importance of Having Good Oversight as well as Good Intentions
  o Thoughts on the Edward Snowden whistle-blowing
  o Ruthless leadership is alive and well
  o "Talent Exchanges": Widening Opportunity or Widening Wage Slavery? (Jun 13)
• o Sandy Hook: Ghosts and evil spirits are still with us... and strong! (May 13)
• o Boston Marathon Bombing Blunder
  o Promoting a housing boom
  o Margaret Thatcher's death
  o North Korea's saber-rattling (Apr 13)

• o Thoughts on the Stubenville Rape Case
  o Thoughts on Hugo Chavez
  o The Importance of a Community Dreaming Big (Mar 13)
• o LA area police experiencing acute panic
  o Thoughts on Immigration
  o Moving beyond Panic (Feb 13)
• o An example of distraction caused by 9-11
  o Still missing the big picture: How to discover growth though productivity
  o Introducing a technology as a toy
  o Tolerance in Action
  o The US is a late-stage "boom country" (Jan 13)

Cyreenik Says 2012
Jul-Dec

• o Interesting insights in The Economist articles
  o Thoughts on the Sandy Hook shooting incident
  o Let's celebrate Good Intentions Month
  o Good intentions without good consequences: It's way too common (Dec 12)
• o More thoughts on Hostess: Encrusting
  o The Arab Spring evolves: The Morsi coup in Egypt
  o Thoughts on the Hostess debacle
  o Price gouging and line waiting: An example of emotions being more important than reality
  o Thoughts on the Election (Nov 12)
• o Gas price and Instinct (Oct 12)
• o Want protection(ism)? Invoke national security
  o The Magical Mystery Tour Continues
  o We aren't out of the tunnel yet
  o Which is important: The Trigger or the Power Keg?
  o The Midwest Disease Moves On... to California (Sep 12)
• o Surprise use of technology: Mobile money building third world economies
  o Worried about Nuclear Iran? Prepare to be blind sided!
  o Here's an ankle biter just waiting for its time: Velocity of Money
  o Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...: Time of Nutcases!
  o Social Media Bust: It's early but it's on schedule
  o A Blunder from the 9-11 Crisis that's still very much with us: Government spending on defense and security (Aug 12)
• o Thoughts on the Drone War in Yemen
  o In praise of cool-headedness
  o An example of technology changing our lives: Migration is becoming less important to economic success
  o Blunder alert: The Time of Nutcases is still with us
  o From Mayan calendar to "fiscal cliff": The doomsday mania remains potent (Jul 12)

Cyreenik Says 2012
Jan-Jun

• o Health care and consumer products: Why the difference?
  o The growth of cities: Another interesting pattern of human life
  o Serial or Parallel Entrepreneurs: When is one better suited than the other?
  o From India to The Philippines: The Outsourcing Champs Outsource?
  o Cars and Kids: An example of recession dream changing (Jun 12)
• o Mixing finance, computers and fear
  o Doing Green wrong, doing Green right
  o Space exploiting is losing its Curse
  o The Challenge of Success
  o The Third Industrial Revolution (May 12)
• o Mexican Immigration: Closing the gate... now?
  o Space exploring: an example of losing The Curse of Being Important
  o Thoughts inspired by Economist articles (and it's quite a collection!)
  o Team Gambling: thoughts on the Mega Millions Lottery (Apr 12)
• o Things looking up? Yes, but watch the nativism
  o Dodd and Frank letters to The Economist: An example of how hard it is to give up on a Blunder (Mar 12)
• o Koran Burning Protests: Panic and Blunder in Afghanistan
  o The America-Pakistan Divorce continues
  o Thoughts on FBI stings of terrorist nutcases (Feb 12)

• o The irony: Costa Concordia and Titanic
  o End of World Coming? How about End of World Mania? (Jan 12)

Cyreenik Says 2011
Jul-Dec

• o Kim Jong-il's death: A non-event
  o Thoughts on the coming US-Pakistani Divorce: A big event (Dec 11)

• o Time of Nutcases example: Wild rumors in action
  o Acrimony ratchets up: Supercommittee fails
  o OWS = Bonus Marchers: The 30's Flashback Continues
  o The Euro-zone Crisis Grows: Conventional Solutions Still Not Working
  o How Will This Crisis of the Decade End? (Nov 11)

• o Occupy Wall Street: The return of the Bonus Marchers
  o Occupy Wall Street: The Underlying Stress is Rising (Oct 11)
• o Eurocrisis: The Underlying Stress is Rising (Sep 11)
• o The England Riots: Lost Children? Lost Enfranchisement!
  o The Stress Rises: The Time of Nutcases is still coming
  o A Shoe Drops: Austerity becomes the Crisis of the 2010's (Aug 11)
• o Flashback to 1933: It's mess with the money time!
  o It's inconceivable! ...really! Part Two -- The 2011 Norway Attacks
  o It's inconceivable! ...really! Part One -- US debt limit crisis
  o Open the Blunder Textbook... to page Dodd-Frank
  o The War on Terror is moving into the sunset
  o Casey Anthony versus James Ray
  o Blunder in Progress: "Caylee Laws"
  o The Perp Walk: Losing faith in Rule of Law (July 11)

Cyreenik Says 2011
Jan-Jun

• o Fracking: Picking up The Curse of Being Important
  o Blunder time coming?: Step One of Three -- Building Stress
  o Thoughts on the future of the Arab Spring revolutions (June 11)
• o Why the Jobless recovery is jobless
  o Dot-com Bubble 2: Coming Soon to an Economy Near You?
  o The Curse of Being Important: Sending out the wrong message
  o Mother's Day: Thoughts on Saving the Children
  o Thoughts on Bin Laden's Death
  o The Time of Nutcases revisited: Donald Trump
  o Another cost of The Curse of Being Important: Regulations that endanger us (May 11)
• o Oil Price Probe: Time to shoot the messenger
  o The Curse of Being Important gets worse for airlines
  o Rocks and Hard Places: The "Middle East Spring" comes to Afghanistan (Apr 11)
• o Nuclear, Financial and Supply Chain meltdowns: see The Curse of Being Important in action
  o Nuclear Panic: Godzilla is back!
  o Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Blunder in the Making
  o Crime and Enfranchisement: How they are linked (Mar 11)
• o Collectivism is back! ...and BAD!: The Wisconsin State Budget Battle
  o Thoughts on the Middle East turmoil
  o Egypt's Economy: Showing the value of Enfranchisement (Feb 11)

• o Panic and Blunder time in the Middle East
  o Russia's Permanent Blind Spot: Enfranchisement
  o Surprising good news: Obama's WSJ editorial
  o Red flag in the sunrise: US exports inflation
  o Surprise technology use: The Housing Bubble created jobs (Jan 11)

Cyreenik Says 2010
Jul-Dec

• o The Dark Side of Goat Sacrificing in Modern Times (Dec 10)
• o Wikileaks, Connecting the Dots, and modern information flow
  o A Dark Side Boom in the Counter-terrorist Industry: Agent Provocateur
  o Citizens revolt against the TSA: Are practitioners ready to lose faith?
  o Blunder: BAB: Building our next good intention bubble?
  o Blunder: Green Insanity in California
  o Blunder: Et QE2, Brute?
  o Blunder in progress: Can Congress produce an Edsel?
  (Nov 10)

• o Blunder in progress: The October Foreclosure Moratorium
  o The Phillips Curve and Quantitative Easing: Blind spots for the 70's and 10's?
  o San Fransisco and Cleveland: boom, delusion and reinvention
  o Blunder Scars: Here are some Blunder scars we are currently living with
  o Cyreenik guest appears on Skeptical Market Observer blog
  (Oct 10)
• o Blunder Scar: Fannie, Freddie and Home Mortgages
  o Blunder Scar: A Tale of Two Development Projects: WTC in NYC and CRA in LA
  o Blunder: The FM chip in cell phones.
  o Blunder: Immigration issues around the world
  (Sep 10)
• o Succession time: Will the North Korean anomaly continue?
  o Blunder Alert: The Time of Nutcases is coming
  o The Steve Slater - JetBlue Airlines Incident -- Yet another wake up call to those running the commercial flying process
  o Guilt fueled waste: Blood diamonds
  o Security versus privacy? No, security versus progress: The RIM encryption controversy
  o The Curse of Being Important: Congress micromanages airlines some more
  (Aug 10)
• o Afghan Wikileaks... Pentagon Papers... Where's the news?
  o Fannie and Freddie and the Problem of Narrative
  o Guilt-fueled Blunder: Ethanol subsidies
  o Immigration policy: Teaching Enfranchisement
  o More on Recession Dream Changing
  (Jul 10)

Cyreenik Says 2010
Jan-Jun

• o The McChrystal Blunder
  o Recession and Dream Changing: Is the Time of Nutcases coming up?
  o Japan's Lost Decade: Is America going to find it?
  o BP and Deepwater: Blunder Time is indeed upon us
  o Panic and Blunder in Kyrgyzstan
  o Health care's Curse of Being Important raises it's head again
  o SPOT -- Another example of the faith-based thinking that infuses the TSA
  o Blunder Chain growing: When airlines can't figure it out? ...The government will?
  (Jun 10)
• o Blunder Alert: Oil Spill Panic and Blunder
  o Blunder Chain Alert: The Rise of the PEO's (Professional Employment Organizations)
  o Blunder Chain Alert: North Korea shows us how not to rattle a saber.
  o Blunder Chain Alert: Bond Crisis in Europe: Great Recession Two? (May 10)
• o Blunder Alert: Bond Crisis in Europe: The next shoe in the financial crisis is dropping.
  o Blunder Alert: New Arizona Immigration Law is seriously disenfranchising
  o Blunder Alert: Obamacare: Market pricing not moving the right way? Add price controls!
  o Tea Party: The Symptom of Disconnect
  o Blunder Alert: The Vatican Pedophile Priest Blindsiding
  o Terror: American worries, Russian attacks (Apr 10)
• o The government Pay Boom
  o Thoughts on the passing of Obamacare.
  o Is there a Chinese Bubble waiting to burst?
  o Inflation's Siren Call
  o A Housing Mystery: Why Fannie and Freddie Survive?
  o What was Obama's biggest accomplishment in 2009? (Mar 10)
• o Women Working and Male Enfranchisement
  o Messing with the Money? Could be Blunder Time in North Korea (Feb 10)
• o More Thoughts on Haiti
  o Tough Love for Haiti
  o The War on Terror Marches again -- still in the wrong direction! (Jan 10)

Cyreenik Says 2009/8/7

• o Worshipping at the Altar of the Holy Metal Detector
  o Blunder time comes to Obamacare
  o Blunder Alert: EPA put in charge of climate control!
  o Thoughts on Climategate (Dec 09)
• Thoughts on recession dream changing, the Fort Hood shootings, immigration, and Thinking Green (Nov 09)
• Regulating banker pay, Balloon Boy and Letterman, the health care debate (Oct 09)
• Thoughts on the US health care mess (Jul 09)
• More thoughts on Republican Recession and thoughts on home-brew genetic engineering (May 09)
• Lynch Mob goes after AIG and Republican Recession (Mar 09)
• Australian Brushfires and Bernie Madoff's great skill (Feb 09)

• Moving beyond the War on Terror (Dec 08)
• Bubbles and busts from a Prisoners Dilemma viewpoint (Nov 08)
• Big Bad Oil Companies (Jun 08)
• Inflation Insanity: The Gas Tax Holiday (May 08)
• YFZ Ranch: the Texas polygamy colony blunder (Apr 08)
• Olympic Panic and Blunders in China (Apr 08)
• SocGen Crisis (prequil to Bernie Madoff) (Feb 08)

• Anti-predatory Lending Act of 2007 (Dec 07)
• Stop the Pain and Kill the Messenger (Aug 07)
• Easy Money and Hamas in Gaza (Jul 07)
• A report on the VT shootings (May 07)
• DaimlerChrysler, Chavez, G8 riots (Jun 07)

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