Interesting, yet another cycle peaking currently (in addition to three other economic cycles talked about by Ray Dalio). It isn't surprising that the Sun dominates everything, it's an incredible amount of energy and gravity stabilizing our planetary system. A Carrington Event would be disastrous---we've insulated ourselves pretty well against many calamities: insects, drought, disease, and such but we are incredibly vulnerable to a disruption from a solar flare. I'm sure military hardware, government and AI data centers, high security things like that are 'foil-hatted' but our electric utilities, autos, trucking, computers, phones, etc. can all be damaged, disrupting food supply, heating/AC and medical needs first and foremost. One can only hope we're on the dark side of the planet when it blows through.
I've been following an amateur meteorologist who swears up and down we're entering a new 40 year solar cycle where the US at least will be much colder and wetter---and the SW US' long drought can be explained by the previous solar cycle, not CO2. Well, I take it with a large grain of salt, it doesn't help that he appears to be a right-winger but I'm ordering a few barrels of popcorn to watch the next few years environmentally and economically, lol.
Thanks, seems like a lot is about to change or has the potential to. And yeah, if people freaked out about toilet paper during covid, what if the grid went down for a few days.
That's interesting, I haven't heard about that. I'll have to check it out. I have heard things like the crop yields may go down during solar cycle minimum, so agriculture prices (and stocks) may do well. I do think weather and climate are not as well understood as they seem.
This correlation between solar cycles and market volatility is genuinely surprising. The historical data on unemployment rate turning points lining up with sunspot maximums (6 out of 7 times) is way more consistent than I'd expect from coincidence. What caught my attention is the biological mechanism you laid out, if geomagnetic activity actually affects decision-making and mood as those studies suggest, that's a pretty direct transmission channel rather than some vague cosmic influence. The weakening magnetic field angle adds another layer, makes me wander if the next few cycles might show stronger effects than historical norms.
Interesting, yet another cycle peaking currently (in addition to three other economic cycles talked about by Ray Dalio). It isn't surprising that the Sun dominates everything, it's an incredible amount of energy and gravity stabilizing our planetary system. A Carrington Event would be disastrous---we've insulated ourselves pretty well against many calamities: insects, drought, disease, and such but we are incredibly vulnerable to a disruption from a solar flare. I'm sure military hardware, government and AI data centers, high security things like that are 'foil-hatted' but our electric utilities, autos, trucking, computers, phones, etc. can all be damaged, disrupting food supply, heating/AC and medical needs first and foremost. One can only hope we're on the dark side of the planet when it blows through.
I've been following an amateur meteorologist who swears up and down we're entering a new 40 year solar cycle where the US at least will be much colder and wetter---and the SW US' long drought can be explained by the previous solar cycle, not CO2. Well, I take it with a large grain of salt, it doesn't help that he appears to be a right-winger but I'm ordering a few barrels of popcorn to watch the next few years environmentally and economically, lol.
Thanks, seems like a lot is about to change or has the potential to. And yeah, if people freaked out about toilet paper during covid, what if the grid went down for a few days.
That's interesting, I haven't heard about that. I'll have to check it out. I have heard things like the crop yields may go down during solar cycle minimum, so agriculture prices (and stocks) may do well. I do think weather and climate are not as well understood as they seem.
This correlation between solar cycles and market volatility is genuinely surprising. The historical data on unemployment rate turning points lining up with sunspot maximums (6 out of 7 times) is way more consistent than I'd expect from coincidence. What caught my attention is the biological mechanism you laid out, if geomagnetic activity actually affects decision-making and mood as those studies suggest, that's a pretty direct transmission channel rather than some vague cosmic influence. The weakening magnetic field angle adds another layer, makes me wander if the next few cycles might show stronger effects than historical norms.