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Episode 743: April 22, 2025 playlist: Joseph Allred, "The Groundhog" (Old Time Fantasias) 2025 Scissor Tail Shonen Knife, "Dizzy" (Sweet Candy Power) 2025 Damnably SAULT, "K.T.Y.W.S." (10) 2025 Forever Living Originals david thrussell and die teufelsmaschine, "eros maximus" (eros maximus (ost)) 2025 Ant-Zen Chris Brokaw, "8 Or 9 Things" (Ghost Ship) 2025 12XU Creeping Pink, "By This River Again" (Mirror Woods) 2015 Castle Force / 2025 Mascarpone Discos Monolake, "Ice" (Gravity) 2001 Imbalance Computer Music / 2025 Field The NRG, "Re-NRGizer (Chill-out version)" (Warehouse Justice! (The Chill-out Room)) 2025 Surface Reality Sharpie Smile, "The Slide" (The Staircase) 2025 Drag City Moin, "X.U.Y." (Belly Up) 2025 AD93 Jules Reidy and Sam Dunscombe, "Gracelords" (Edge Games) 2025 Futura Resistenza Sandwell District, "Least Travelled" (End Beginnings) 2025 Point of Departure Gryphon Rue, "Squatter's Quarters" (I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water) 2025 [self-released] Merzbow, "Untitled" (The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue) 1996 i / 2025 Room40 Glare, "Guts" (Sunset Funeral) 2025 Deathwish Anthony Pateras, "Sans Visages #1" (Reise der Schatten) 2025 Hallow Ground Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.
Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Israel's renewed military actions in Gaza has killed nearly a thousand Palestinians since March 18, according to Gaza health officials UN officials say Democratic Republic of Congo conflicts are devastating civilians, causing food crisis Audit of Santa Rita Jail shows continuing failures in medical care, as county's health provider contract comes up for renewal Environmentalists say LA is endangering Mono Lake by diverting too much water Yale professor who studies fascism moves to Canadian university, saying US is “tilting towards a fascist dictatorship” The post 1,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since March 18; Santa Rita Jail audit shows continuing failures in medical care – March 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest. While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound. Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M. This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve. Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D. As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent. @kia-sydney @animalia-label @cirruslabel Read more at ra.co/podcast/973
Check out this page from the Mono Lake Committee to see images discussed in this episode. This episode Kelly and Amanda discuss a strange family of flies that live in liquids that would kill other animals. There are around 130 genera described in Ephydridae, but we mostly focus on two species endemic to California which live in the La Brea Tar Pits and Mono Lake. Tangents include the musical Wicked, bears, Christmas, Robin Hood, and deaths at National Parks. Kelly's Field Notes for this episode: https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/episodes/sodanaut Send us questions and suggestions! BugsNeedHeroes@gmail.com Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bugsneedheroes/ Join us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bugsneedheroes.bsky.social Join us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BugsNeedHeroes Hosted by Amanda Niday and Kelly Zimmerman with editing by Derek Conrad with assistance from Chelsey Bawden Created by Derek Conrad and Kelly Zimmerman. Character artwork by Amanda Niday. Music is Ladybug Castle by Rolemusic.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 7, 2025 is: beleaguer bih-LEE-gur verb To beleaguer a person, business, etc. is to cause them constant or repeated trouble. Beleaguer is also sometimes used as a synonym of besiege. // The coach, beleaguered by the media and fans for his poor decision-making during games, has been fired. // The novel is set in a city beleaguered by military forces. See the entry > Examples: "... Mono Lake, beleaguered by three years of drought, is expected to rise by several feet, a welcome reprieve as the lake has struggled to reach target levels." — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023 Did you know? There's no getting around it: beleaguer is a "troubling" word. It comes from the Dutch verb belegeren, which in turn combines leger, meaning "camp," and the prefix be- (a relative of the English be- meaning "about" or "around"). While the Dutch word, meaning "to camp around," is neutral, its descendent beleaguer implies a whole heap of fuss and bother. Beleaguer was first used in the late 16th century, and is still used today, as a synonym of besiege; indeed, an army beleaguering or besieging a castle may also be said to be "camping around" it, albeit with nefarious rather than recreational purposes. This sense of beleaguer was almost immediately joined, however, by its now more common—and less martial—meaning of "to cause constant or repeated trouble for."
Tonight's edition features new music from Daniel Heskerdal, Rival Consoles, Hollie Kenniff, Neil Cowley Trio, Nonkeen, Monolake, Trey Anastasio, David Cordero, and a reissue of GAS's…
In this episode of "Travel is Back," Journey Joe Mitchell takes listeners on a virtual fall road trip across some of the most stunning destinations to explore in October 2024. Joe kicks things off with New England's iconic autumn landscapes, from the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire to the charming town of Stowe, Vermont, complete with apple-picking and breathtaking mountain views. He then ventures to the hidden beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, highlighting the mesmerizing colors of Porcupine Mountains and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.Next up is Colorado, where Joe explores the San Juan Skyway, the Million Dollar Highway, and the unforgettable vistas from Telluride's gondola. Wrapping up, he uncovers the lesser-known fall splendor of California's Eastern Sierra, including the surreal Mono Lake and the cozy natural hot springs of Mammoth Lakes.Throughout, Joe reminds listeners that the magic of autumn travel is as much about the journey as the destination, encouraging everyone to find beauty close to home too.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!
If the medium is the message then surely anyone closely involved with Ableton over the past couple of decades can justifiably claim to have changed the world of music in that time.Since our guest this week is a co-founder of the company, then his contribution should probably be described as world-changing. And not just electronic music, since all music today is to some extent running on tech. Ableton has done more than any other emergent piece of technology to enable vast, previously unprecedented numbers of people to make records.But is that a good thing? We find out in this conversation.Of course we also discuss Robert's contributions as an artist, in particular his new album as Monolake, entitled 'Studio'. We get into the process of making it, and the differences from his previous album projects. And we talk about the challenges and pressures of making music over time.We also get deep into his story, moving from Munich to Berlin in 1990 and gradually developing the projects which would... well, change the world.This is as good as I'm making it out to be, so make sure you get all the way through it!If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features the show without ads, regular bonus podcasts, and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using a card, with Paypal, or your Ethereum wallet! Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation in the public channels.Listen to the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today's electronic treat of an interview features DJ/composer and technologist Robert Henke AKA Monolake. He is a German computer music artist working in the fields of audiovisual installation, music and performance. Born in Munich, and now lives in Berlin. Many of his works use multiple channels of audio or are specifically conceived for unique locations and their individual properties. For the past few years, he has been exploring the artistic usage of high power lasers in his installations and performances. As Monolake, Robert's minimal, dub-influenced techno helped establish the sound of the Chain Reaction label in Berlin. Most famously, he helped to develop Ableton Live, and designed the Atlantic Waves software for performing live with other producers in different countries simultaneously. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the futuristic technological and artistic world of Robert Henke. If you can, please support the Electronically Yours podcast via my Patreon: patreon.com/electronicallyours
Vom 28. bis 30.08. findet wieder auf dem Gelände der Kulturbrauerei das "Pop-Kultur Festival" statt. In diesem Jahr feiert es 10jähriges Jubiläum. Olaf Zimmermann begrüßt in der ersten "elektro beats"- Stunde den Kurator Christian Morin und stimmt mit ihm gemeinsam auf das Festival ein. Dabei fokussieren sie sich eher auf die elektronischen Konzerte. Mit dabei sind The KVB, Hope, Evija Vebere, Stereotype, Rosa Anschütz und Tarwater. Stunde 2 präsentiert dann neue Musik von Kid Simius, The Smile, Housemeister, Dr. Walker, Monolake und Lieblingselektronikalben von Moby.
Ettore Biondi, California Institute of Technology Traveltime-based tomographic methods have been extensively explored and employed by researchers since the 80s. Such algorithms have been successfully applied to various geophysical applications, ranging from seismic exploration to global to regional seismological scales. However, given the advancements in computational architectures over the last 20 years, full-waveform methodologies are now dominating most of the subsurface-parameter inversion applications. These workflows seek to match all the waveforms present within active seismic data or synthetic Green’s functions obtained by cross-correlating ambient noise. Despite this decrease in the popularity of traveltime-based tomographic approaches, these methods have great potential to be successful when applied to distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data for seismic applications. DAS instruments can operate on existing telecommunication fibers and transform them into large-scale high-resolution seismic arrays. We demonstrate such potential by applying an Eikonal traveltime double-difference tomography algorithm to DAS data recorded in the Long Valley caldera, located in the Eastern Sierra region of California. This active volcanic area has been extensively studied in the last 50 years and its recent unrest remains still poorly understood. We employ two DAS arrays composed of almost 9000 channels along a 90-km north-south transect across the caldera to characterize the subsurface structures present underneath the area. We use almost 2000 cataloged events and apply a machine-learning algorithm to accurately pick their P and S arrival times necessary for the tomography. The range and spatial resolution of the DAS arrays allow us to retrieve structures that could not be resolved by previous studies that employed only conventional station recordings. Our results agree well with previous studies and highlight the presence of a low-velocity basin along the Mono-Inyo craters. Both P- and S-wave models also show a low-velocity structure centered below Mono Lake, which agrees with historical gravity surveys. Moreover, the low Vp/Vs ratio inverted below the Long Valley caldera suggests a lack of newly intruded materials at depth above 10 km and a clear separation between the shallow low-velocity basins and the ≥10-km deep magmatic reservoir.
If properties are empty from population decline, they'll lose value and rent. If this happens, then what's the timeline? Richard Vague, the PA Governor-appointed Secretary of Banking and Securities from 2020-2023, joins us. US and world birth rates keep declining. As population declines, per capita GDP often increases. Richard believes that inequality will widen. Most models show the US population increasing for several decades. A median model is 342M today up to 383M in 2054. Opposite of what the Fed thinks, Richard believes that lower interest rates can quell today's persistent inflation. The US has had 9 instances of high inflation. It's often spurred by wars, which create shortages. I tell Richard about GRE's Inflation Triple Crown and ask his opinion. Real estate values rise as debt-to-GDP rises. I point-blank ask Richard if an economic crisis is imminent. 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The phenomenon of population decline is spreading throughout the world. Will that come to the US and obliterate real estate then? A bit of a debate on the affliction of inflation and what this all means to real estate today on get rich education. When you want the best real estate and finance info. The modern internet experience limits your free articles access, and it's replete with paywalls. And you've got pop ups and push notifications and cookies. Disclaimers are. At no other time in history has it been more vital to place nice, clean, free content into your hands that actually adds no hype value to your life? See, this is the golden age of quality newsletters, and I write every word of ours myself. It's got a dash of humor and it's to the point to get the letter. It couldn't be more simple. Text GRE to 66866. And when you start the free newsletter, you'll also get my one hour fast real estate course completely free. It's called the Don't Quit Your Day dream letter and it wires your mind for wealth. Keith Weinhold (00:01:18) - Make sure you read it. Text GRE to 66866. Text GRE to 66866. Corey Coates (00:01:30) - You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education. Keith Weinhold (00:01:46) - We're going to drive from Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin to Mono Lake, California, and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith Weinhold, and you're listening to get Rich education. Real estate is obviously a strong, proven store of value. Now, what's interesting is that most economists agree that money should be three things a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Well, please don't take offense here. This can sound a little crude, but there's one thing to call those that use dollars as a store of value, and that is poor. How is a dollar a store of value when you've had 20% plus cumulative inflation over the last three years alone, the dollar is a poor store of value. We're going to get into inflation with our other esteemed guest and gubernatorial appointee today. He has some opinions on inflation, and you may very well feel that I poke him on this topic today. Keith Weinhold (00:02:58) - I'll also get his input on our inflation Triple Crown concept, where real estate helps you win with inflation three ways at the same time. But first, he and I are going to discuss the specter of population decline. And well, it's not always a specter to people because some feel that the world is better off with fewer people, environmentalists and others. Japan's native born population is falling at a rate of almost 100 people per hour. Yeah, you heard that right. Well, is that coming to the United States and how bad would that be for real estate? 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Education is ranked in the top one half of 1% of listened to podcasts globally, per lesson notes on air every single week since 2014. Some say that we were the first show to finally, clearly explain how real estate makes ordinary people wealthy. For advertising information and inquiries, visit get Rich education.com/ad let's get rich education compered. Today it's the return of a terrific guest. This week's guest was with us last year. He's an economic futurist, keynote speaker, and popular author. He's the former secretary of banking and securities for the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Today, he runs a group that predicts financial crises called Tycho's. Keith Weinhold (00:05:40) - That's really interesting. Joining us from Philadelphia today. Hey, it's great to welcome back Richard Vague. Richard Vague (00:05:47) - Thank you so much for having me. It's real privilege. Keith Weinhold (00:05:50) - Vague is spelled vague u e just like it sounds. If you're listening in the audio only. Richard also has a YouTube channel where, among other things, he discusses topics like population decline and inflation. Two things that we'll get into today. But before that, Richard, how exactly do you get tapped by the governor of Pennsylvania to have been appointed his banking secretary? Anyway? How does that really happen? Richard Vague (00:06:16) - Well, I served under Governor Thomas Wolf, a superb governor here at Pennsylvania. We kind of were both very familiar with each other, and I had already written a number of books on banking crises, including The Next Economic Disaster and A Brief History of Doom. And he had read those, and so much to my surprise, he showed up in my office one day and asked me if I'd consider it. Keith Weinhold (00:06:40) - Wow, that is really cool. Keith Weinhold (00:06:42) - All right. You kind of led with your writing in your books for making that happen. Richard, here's a big question that I have for you. At 8.1 billion people today is Earth's overpopulated or underpopulated? Richard Vague (00:06:58) - Well, there's a lot of very valid points on both sides of that. You know, there are a number of folks who decry the level of population we have because of its destructive impact on the environment. And there's a lot of folks that note that it's population growth that really has made our economic growth so vibrant. So there's a real contention on that issue. We tend not to take a position, but what we do know is as world population growth is slowing, which it clearly is, that is going to make economic growth much more challenging in a whole lot of places around the world, some of which you're actually starting to see population declines, like China. Keith Weinhold (00:07:46) - I want to get to that slowing growth in a moment. We talk about overpopulation versus under population. Some in the overpopulation camp thinking the world has too many people they're referred to as Malthusian, was named for Thomas Malthus, who in 1798 he said the world would exceed its agricultural carrying capacity and there was going to be mass starvation. Keith Weinhold (00:08:09) - Malthus was wrong. He didn't consider technological advancements. So I guess my point is the future can be really difficult to predict. Richard Vague (00:08:18) - Yeah. Without question. You know, the big innovation came in the early 1900s when we figured out how to synthetically manufacture of things like fertilizer, which allowed arable land area to increase dramatically. It kind of took them out of this equation off the table. Keith Weinhold (00:08:36) - Yes. With the mechanization of harvesting and the engineering of foods, there sure have been a lot of advancements there to help feed more people. And yeah, Richard, you talk about population decline. Of course, the world population overall is still growing, but its rate of growth is declining. So before we talk about the United States, you mentioned China. Why don't we discuss population decline more in global terms, where even nations like India are already struggling to exceed the replacement birth rate of 2.1? Richard Vague (00:09:10) - Yeah, I mean, it's a phenomenon that, you know, we haven't faced or perhaps even thought of for a couple hundred years because population growth accelerated so dramatically with the Industrial Revolution. Richard Vague (00:09:22) - We've really not known anything but rapid growth. And frankly, it's easier to grow businesses. And the economy is old. But now we're seeing places like China, Japan, Germany that are facing population declines in places like India, which, as you said, is comparatively a younger country. Nevertheless, facing this prospect as well, then in 1980, the average age in the US was 30. Today it's 38. In Germany I believe it's 48. So the world is getting old in a way that it had not previously in the industrial revolutionary period. Keith Weinhold (00:10:03) - I think a lot of people are aware that many parts of Europe, Japan, South Korea are in population decline or they're set up for population decline. But yes, some of these other nations that we think of as newer nations or growing nations, including India, are not forecast to. Grow in, Richard. Are we really down? Of course. There are a number of outliers. Are we down mostly to Africa that still have the high birth rates? Richard Vague (00:10:29) - As the world has become more urban, the need for more kids has declined. Richard Vague (00:10:35) - It's in an urban environment, become an expense rather than a benefit. So that alone accounts for the deceleration. And then you have folks that are getting married later, having kids later, and you simply can't have as many kids when those two things are true. So it's a combination of events, and there aren't that many places left that have higher birth rates. And even in Africa it's declining or decelerating. So the world's just moving in that direction. Keith Weinhold (00:11:06) - Yeah. It's really once we see the urbanization trend in a nation, what lags behind that are slowing birth rates, oftentimes birth rates that don't even meet death rates in some places. It kind of goes back to the Thomas Malthus thing again, if you will. When you don't have a family farm, you don't need nine kids to milk the cows and shuck the corn and everything else like that. You might live in a smaller urban apartment. Richard Vague (00:11:33) - But we're all just has it been thinking about this issue? And it's upon us now, and it's going to change everything from governments to handling debts to infrastructure to growth itself. Richard Vague (00:11:48) - So we need to start thinking about this issue much more deeply than we have. Keith Weinhold (00:11:54) - Is there any way that an economy can grow with a declining population, and how bad will it get? Richard Vague (00:12:02) - An economy will obviously struggle to grow if the population is declining, but the per capita GDP and increase as population declines. And in fact, we might see that early on in a population decline situation. I think that's actually been true in Japan over the last few years. The population is down, but GDP per capita is actually increasing slightly. So I think it's longer term. When you talk about trying to service the debt that we have amassed with the smaller population, that we're really going to have issues. Keith Weinhold (00:12:41) - Talk to us more about that. The servicing the debt part of a declining population. Richard Vague (00:12:48) - The debt doesn't shrink on its own, you know, so it tends to grow because, you know, it's accruing interest. Keith Weinhold (00:12:54) - It always seems to go one direction. Richard Vague (00:12:56) - It always pretty much only goes in one direction. So it's pretty simple. Richard Vague (00:13:00) - If you have growing debt and I'm talking about public debt and private debt, and you have a declining base to service that, you have more people in retirement who are not paying as much in the way of taxes. It's going to increase the challenge, and it may in fact, increase it considerably. As we look at a few decades. Keith Weinhold (00:13:21) - We need productivity to pay down debt that's more difficult to do in the declining population. We talk about technological advancements, some things that we cannot foresee. Did you sort of lead on to the fact that some of this might help us be more productive, even in a declining population, whether that's machine learning or robotics or AI? What are your thoughts there? Richard Vague (00:13:45) - That's something that's been predicted for quite some time. You know, if we look back not too far ago, economists were wondering what we were going to do with all of our free time, right? Because, you know, automate. And this goes back to the 20s and 30s and 40s what we do with all our free time. Richard Vague (00:14:01) - So we again have conversations along those lines. You know, it's not inconceivable that we could all be sitting there, you know, sipping our Mai tais, and the machines could be doing all the work for us. And servicing debt might be easy in that scenario, I doubt it. I don't think that's what's going to happen. Keith Weinhold (00:14:19) - The more technology advances, the more complex society gets. That continues to create jobs in places where we cannot see them. I mean, case in point here, in the year 2024, we're more technologically advanced than we've ever been in human history, obviously. Yet here in the United States, we have more open jobs than we even do people to fill them. Richard Vague (00:14:39) - Yeah. And I think one of the things that all of this does is increase the march of inequality. You have folks that master the technology become engineers, software engineers and the like that are going to be the huge beneficiaries of these trends. But folks that don't have the skill sets aren't going to benefit from these trends. Richard Vague (00:15:01) - And even though in aggregate, we may continue to see per capita GDP increase, our track record over the last few decades would suggest that inequality will increase just as markedly as it has in the past, so we'll have some societal issues to face. Keith Weinhold (00:15:19) - That's concerning as inflation. Continues to exacerbate inequality simultaneously, which we'll talk about later. But population decline is of concern to us as real estate investors because of course, we need rent paying tenants. So this could be pretty concerning to some. You've probably seen a lot of the same models that I have, Richard, let me know. In the United States, population is projected to increase for several decades by every single model that I've seen, maybe even until or after the year 2100. Richard Vague (00:15:53) - The projection is by 2050, we'll have about 380 something million people, and today we're at 330 million people. So clearly the population is going to continue. It's just kind of the relative portion of those populations. And what I think we're seeing, and you as real estate investors would know this better than I, is a shift towards the type of real estate out there. Richard Vague (00:16:19) - Right? So instead of new homeowner development, it's retirement development that I think is going to be the higher growth sector with the real estate industry. Keith Weinhold (00:16:31) - And we're surely going to see fewer offices be built, something that may never come back. And then when we talk about things like birth rates and population growth rates here in the real estate world, I sort of think of there as being a lag effect. It's really not so much about today's births in the United States, because people often rent their first place in their 20s, and then the average age of a first time homebuyer is an all time record high 36. And all those people are going to need housing into old age as well. So to me, it's sort of about, oh, well, how many people were born from the 1940s to the 1990s? Richard Vague (00:17:10) - Well, there's a very useful tool that's pretty easily available called the Population Pyramid. You can find that on the CIA World Factbook site for every country and including the United States. And it shows exactly what you're talking about, which is the number of folks, you know, between 0 and 10 years old and into 20 years old and so forth. Richard Vague (00:17:32) - So you can kind of make reasonable projections about the near term based on the data that the CIA World Factbook is kind enough for by I believe the UN has this data as well, so you can make informed judgments about the very thing you're talking about here, which is how many folks are in their 20s to over the next ten years versus the last ten years. Keith Weinhold (00:17:54) - Yeah, that's reassuring to real estate investors to know that we expect several decades of population growth in the United States. However, it may be slowing growth. So we talked about births, I mentioned deaths. Well, you tell us a bit more about immigration, something else that can be very difficult to project here in the real estate world that we have a popular analyst called John Byrne's research and Consulting. Their data shows that we had 3.8 million Americans added to our population last year, much of it through immigration. That's a jump of more than 1%, an all time record in our 248 year history in one year alone. So can you tell us, at least in the United States, a bit more about immigration in the calculus for population projections? Richard. Richard Vague (00:18:42) - Immigration is a huge factor in the demographics of every country in the US, from a pure population growth standpoint as benefited by in-migration, including illegal and migration. That is a positive comparison versus a lot of countries that are either more restrictive art is desirable destinations for immigration and the life. So it has benefited us from a pure population standpoint. But what we clearly see is there are cultural ramifications that are difficult for us to deal with. We have the percent of folks that are in the United States that were born in another country. It's the highest it's been, I think, at least in a century or more and perhaps ever, that is really difficult for the general population to absorb. We see this in the headlines every day. We see it the concern, we see it in the political rhetoric. It's a real issue. So you have a very real conflict between the economic benefits of immigration versus the cultural divisions that that immigration creates. And that's not going to be easy to digest or to resolve. I think we probably end up continuing to compromise, but it continues to be a political lightning rod right into the foreseeable future. Keith Weinhold (00:20:14) - And there are so many factors here. Where's our future immigrant diaspora? Is it in places in Latin America like Guatemala? In Honduras, in Colombia. And are those people going to come from there? So there are a lot of factors, many of which aren't very predictable, to take a look at our future population growth rate in the United States. We're talking with economic futurist, author and Pennsylvania's former secretary of banking and Securities, Richard Moore, and we come back on the affliction of inflation. 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Keith Weinhold (00:23:03) - We know for sure that there's also the growth of the number of dollars in this nation. So we're talking about inflation here. You talk an awful lot about the affliction of inflation and the history of inflation. And I think a lot of people when we talk about the history of inflation, maybe we should begin chronologically. They don't realize that inflation wasn't always with us. Since the birth of this nation. Richard Vague (00:23:30) - We haven't had that many episodes of inflation. We look at it pretty hard. We see nine what we would consider nine instances of high inflation. Most of those have come with war. So we certainly had that. The Revolutionary War right of 1812 and the Civil War and World War one and World War two. But inflation has been brief, contained and rare in the history of Western developed nations. We had our bout in the 1970s that related to OPEC and the constraint of the oil supply. It normally relates to the decimation or constraint of the supplies and the supply chain. We saw it again with Covid. Richard Vague (00:24:17) - A lot of folks consider it to be a monetary phenomenon. We just don't see that in the data. Keith Weinhold (00:24:24) - So we talk about what causes these bouts of inflation. You talked about nine of them. Well, he talked to us more about why wars often create inflation. Of course we're trying to create a lot of supplies during wars, but they tend to be only certain types of supplies. Richard Vague (00:24:40) - World War One is a great example. Probably, you know, two thirds of the farms in Europe were decimated. So for a couple of years, there simply weren't the kind of crops that are needed for nutrition being grown in Europe, we Corps and the like. So the US had to, frankly, export something on the order of 20% of its crops to Europe to prevent starvation. Well, it's pretty easy to see that if the US if the supply has been decimated in Europe, we're having to ship, you know, a huge chunk of our crops to Europe, that the price of wheat and corn would go up. Richard Vague (00:25:21) - And that's exactly what happened. It's also pretty easy to see that as those farms came back on stream and began growing crops, that the price of wheat and corn would drop. And that's exactly what happened. So you have this relatively short lived period of 2 or 3 years where the decimation of supplies caused inflation, and that's fairly typical. Keith Weinhold (00:25:45) - Supply falls, demand exceeds supply and prices rise much like what happened with those Covid shortages, as you mentioned, what are the other major causes of inflation other than supply shortages that have caused these nine bouts of inflation? Richard Vague (00:26:03) - Well, let's talk about major developed countries, which I would include Western Europe, the United States predominantly. That's pretty much the only thing that has brought sustained high inflation is supply constraint. We don't see instances of high government debt growth or money supply growth ever causing inflation. Now when you get to smaller countries where they are borrowing in a foreign currency, where they have a trade deficit and where they yield to the temptation of printing too much money, and I don't mean by printing, we use that term in the United States, and it's absolutely a fictitious term. Richard Vague (00:26:50) - We don't print money in the United States. We have it printed money since the Civil War. So in a third world country, they can actually go to a printing press and start paying with cash for government supply needs. And you can see it very clearly when it happens and it very quickly leads to high inflation. You know, this is in places like Argentina and the like. So that would be the big issue in these countries. It's they borrow at a foreign currency. They have a trade deficit. They yield to the temptation of actually printing currency. It can get out of control pretty fast. Keith Weinhold (00:27:26) - It feels immoral. As soon as more currency is printed, it dilutes the purchasing power surreptitiously of all those people that are holding that currency. What about Richard? The government printing. And we can put printing in quote marks, say, $1 trillion to fund a new infrastructure program. A technically that is inflation if we. Go back to the root definition of inflation, inflation being an expansion of the money supply. Keith Weinhold (00:27:54) - But talk to us about how something like that does or does not dilute the purchasing power to fund, for example, a big infrastructure program. Richard Vague (00:28:03) - Well, it just never happens in Western developed economies. And one of the reasons it doesn't happen is the government issuance of debt does not increase the money supply by a nickel. If the government issues debt, it actually withdraws or shrinks the money supply because folks like you and me would buy the government security that reduces the number of deposits in the system. The government immediately turns around and spends exactly that amount. So the size of the money supply from government debt projects remains exactly the same. It doesn't increase. Keith Weinhold (00:28:42) - Does that act, however, increase our total absolute amount of national debt, which is currently $35 trillion? Richard Vague (00:28:51) - Of course it does. Absolutely. But the increase in our debt is money largely played to the households. So what normally happens is when the government's dead increases, household wealth increases by that amount or a greater amount. So take the pandemic. In a three year period, government debt increased by $8 trillion, which means its net worth declined by $1 trillion. Richard Vague (00:29:18) - Well, households were the beneficiaries of that household net worth in that three year period increased by $30 trillion. So, you know, net net, of course it increases their debt, but it dollar for dollar typically increases household wealth. Keith Weinhold (00:29:33) - That wealth effect can feel great for consumers and families in the short term. But doesn't increasing their income substantially in a short period of time drive up prices and create this debase purchasing power of the dollar? Richard Vague (00:29:46) - If we got our little green eyed shades out and went to try to find examples of that, we got a database of 49 countries that constituted 91% of the world's GDP. We just wouldn't find examples of that. And in the US, it's very easy to measure that. The number you're looking for is GDP. And we don't really see big cuts in GDP. You know, a wild swing in GDP would be 3.5% versus 2.5%. That's not a factor in any observable way. And what happens in inflation. Keith Weinhold (00:30:19) - Richard, the term that I think about with what's happened the past few years in this Covid wave of inflation is the word noticeable. Keith Weinhold (00:30:27) - People don't really talk about it. Consumers, families, they don't talk about inflation much when it's near its fed 2% target until it becomes noticeable. And now it's so obvious with what you see at the grocery store. So it's really infiltrated the American psyche in a way that it didn't five years ago. Richard Vague (00:30:45) - Inflation, even moderate inflation, is a highly consequential thing to the average American consumer. And two things happened to increase our inflation. Covid supply chains decimated supplies and kicked up prices. And then a second thing happened that was even more consequential. And that is Russia invaded Ukraine. And you had two countries that were, if you add them together among the largest providers or suppliers of oil and wheat, and almost instantly the price of oil and wheat and other goods skyrocketed. It was those two things, Covid, plus the invasion of Ukraine that drove our inflation up to 9% in June of 2022. Now, in July, it dropped to 3% and it stayed at 3% ever since. But we had already driven prices up in the prior year or two. Richard Vague (00:31:49) - And those prices even though the increases have moderated, those prices haven't come down right. Keith Weinhold (00:31:55) - Nor will. Richard Vague (00:31:55) - They. Now we have, you know, the threat of war again. So, you know, the price of oil just touch $90. Again, I would argue that, you know, it's going to be hard to see inflation come down. Much for like that 3 to 4 range because of the geopolitical situation. And one other thing that I would suggest is holding up inflation. And that's the Federal Reserve's interest rate. You know, if inflation is a measure of how expensive things are, high interest rates make things more expensive, right? Keith Weinhold (00:32:27) - It's an irony. Richard Vague (00:32:28) - It's almost exactly the opposite of what the orthodoxy at the Federal Reserve studies or believed. For whatever reason, if you're at an in an apartment in the apartment owner has leveraged their purchase of the apartments by 50 or 70 or 90% and their interest bill goes up, guess what? They have to. Charge you higher rate. I think some meaningful component of the stubbornness of inflation relates directly to the Federal Reserve's persistent interest rates. Richard Vague (00:33:00) - I think the best thing they could do would be to pull interest rates down 1 or 200 basis points. Keith Weinhold (00:33:07) - Well, that's interesting because the fed funds rate is pretty close to their long term average, and we still got inflation higher than their target. So tell us more about what you think is the best way out of this somewhat higher inflationary environment that we're still in Richard. Richard Vague (00:33:22) - Well two things. I think the geopolitical impact on oil prices is you. And I think the interest rate impact, particularly on real estate prices, is huge. Those are the two things holding up inflation. So if you wanted to improve inflation, you'd lower interest rates and then you'd run around the world trying to calm down these hot spots. And you'd have 2% inflation. Keith Weinhold (00:33:47) - Coming from some people's point of view, including the Fed's. If you lower interest rates you would feel inflationary pressures. So then go ahead and debunk this because the conventional wisdom is when you lower interest rates. Oh well now for consumers, you don't incentivize them to save as much because they wouldn't be earning much interest. Keith Weinhold (00:34:06) - And if rates to borrow become lower, then you're incentivizing more people to borrow and spend and run up prices in fuel the economy. So what's wrong with that model? Richard Vague (00:34:16) - Well, there's no empirical support for it. In 1986, when inflation dropped to 2%, interest rates were in the highest interest rates had been coming down by, you know, almost a thousand basis points over the prior 3 or 4 years. Money supply growth was 9%. So the two things the fed says are most the biggest contributors to rising inflation were both amply present when inflation dropped to 2%. So I just can't find any data to support the Fed's theory. And by the way, that data is not esoteric. That data is really readily available. You and I can go look at it. It's not a complicated equation. But over the last 40 years, in what at the age I call the great debt explosion, aggregate debt and the economy in 1981 was 125% of GDP. Today it's 260% of GDP and almost that entire 40 something year span. Richard Vague (00:35:21) - Inflation and interest rates went down. Somebody, somewhere is going to have to show me the evidence for me to believe what the fed is canonical, which is almost a sacred balloon. Keith Weinhold (00:35:33) - Well, that's a good look at history. In fact, something I say on the show often is let's look at history. And what really happens over having a hunch on how we think that things should proceed. You mentioned some inflation figures there. Why don't we wrap up inflation? Richard was talking about today's inflation measures. We've got the producer price index, the PPI, the widely cited CPI, which I recognize what you were stating earlier. And then of course there's the Fed's preferred measure, the core PCE, the core personal consumption expenditures. Richard, it's also funny to me when any measure is called core, it's core when they remove the food and energy inputs because those things are said to be too volatile. And of course, not only is food and energy essential, but what's more core than that? So perhaps the core rate should be called the peripheral rate. Keith Weinhold (00:36:22) - But in any case, do you have any comments on the measures of inflation that are used today? Richard Vague (00:36:28) - It's like you say, it's everything you just mentioned and more, because they're not just core inflation. There's something called super core, which I think is probably even more peripheral. Right. And I like your terminology better than the Fed's, but there's a lot of things to look at right now. They're all kind of coalescing around this at a low to mid 3% range. We got a new number coming out. It'll probably, you know here in the next few days. And it'll probably be a little bit higher than the last number, but we're talking about the difference to a 3.3% and 3.5%. And to me there's no difference between those two numbers. We were at 9%, as we just said, in June of 2022. And we're at a moderate level of inflation now after having suffered a rise in prices. It's not going to disappear. It's not fun, it's not comfortable, but it's moderate rabble. Richard Vague (00:37:22) - It's not a big drought. Keith Weinhold (00:37:24) - What's the right level of inflation in your opinion? Richard Vague (00:37:28) - Okay. Anything fundamentally wrong with the the 2% number that the fed saw I think, you know, at 3 to 4% were probably on the high end of, of what might be considered acceptable. But again, it's not the fact that it's 3% that's the problem. It's the fact that it was 6 to 9% for a couple of years. Yeah, that's the problem. It'll get take a while for everything to adjust to that. In the meantime, you know, with all bets are all that you know, there's if these wars get further out of control and we see 90, $200 oil prices again, we're only about we're 50% more efficient users of oil today than were were in the 1970s. We're still a little bit over dependent. Keith Weinhold (00:38:11) - Here at gray. I espouse how in everyday investor they can do more than merely hedge themselves against inflation, much like a homeowner with no mortgage would merely hedge themselves. But you can actually profit from inflation with a term that I've trademarked as the Inflation Triple Crown. Keith Weinhold (00:38:27) - I'd like to know what you think about it. The inflation Triple Crown means that you win with inflation three ways at the same time, and all that you need to do in order to make that happen is get a fixed rate mortgage on an income property. The asset price increase is the inflation hedge. The debt debasement on your mortgage loan, that's an inflation profiting center. Is inflation debases that down while the tenant makes the payment. And then thirdly, now rents might only track inflation, but your cash flow is actually a profit center over time too because it outpaces inflation. Since as the investor your biggest monthly expense that principal and interest stays fixed and inflation cannot touch that. That's the inflation triple Crown. It's available to almost anyone. You don't need any degree, your certification or real estate license. What are your thoughts on that? Profiting from inflation the way we do here I think you're absolutely correct. Richard Vague (00:39:22) - And I think you put it very, very well. And that's not just a trend at the individual property level. Richard Vague (00:39:28) - We studied macroeconomics and we look at aggregate real estate values. And frankly, real estate values rise as debt to GDP rises. The more money there is, the more my dollars are chasing real estate and the higher real estate prices will go. So it's absolutely been the gin to put it into numbers in 1980 household. Well, this a percent of GDP was about 350%. Today it's almost 600% most household wealth that in the form of just two things real estate and stocks in somewhat equal measure, that's 80 or 90% of also. Well, so if you wanted to make money over the last 40 years and presumably over the next 40 real estate, one of the two places you could go. Keith Weinhold (00:40:24) - Well, Richard, as we wind down here, you run a group that predicts financial crises. So I'd be remiss to let you go without asking you about it. We've had a prolonged inverted yield curve, and that's been a terrific track record as a recession predictor. Is a financial crisis imminent? Tell us your thoughts. Richard Vague (00:40:41) - No, it's not. The predictor of financial crises is a rapid rise in private sector debt in ratio to GDP. We saw it skyrocket in the mid 2000 and we got a crisis in zero eight. We saw it skyrocket in the 1980s and we got the crisis in 87. We saw it skyrocket in Japan in the late 1980s. And you got the crisis of the 90s. We saw it skyrocketed in the 1920s and we got the Great Depression. That is the predictor. You know, we've studied that across major economies over 200 years. There really are exceptions to that as it relates to financial crises. Our numbers right now on the private debt side have been very flat, and they've really been very flat since 2008. They actually got a little bit better in that period, and they've been very flat over the last few years. We're not looking at a financial crisis in the United States. Other parts can't say that China is looking at a they're well into a massive real estate crisis there. We see companies there crumbling, declaring bankruptcy. Richard Vague (00:41:53) - That's because they've had runaway private sector debt in China for the last ten years. And there's a few other countries that are facing that as well. Keith Weinhold (00:42:02) - A lot of Chinese overbuilding there during that run up to, well, if you, the follower, are into using history over hunches to help you predict the future, Richard Baig really is a terrific resource for that, as you can tell. So, Richard, why don't you let our audience know how they can follow you and learn more? Richard Vague (00:42:22) - You're so kind to say those words. We hope we provide something of value. You can get our weekly video if you go to join Dot Tycho's group.org and Tycho's is spelled E, ICOs, ICOs group. Or we send out a weekly five minute video because if you're like me, you have a short attention span and brevity is the soul of wit. I also have a book that came out recently called The Paradox of Debt. Yeah. Which, you know, covers a lot of the themes we've talked about here. You know, it'd be an honor to have anyone to pick up either. Keith Weinhold (00:42:58) - Well, Richard, it's been a terrific discussion on both population decline and inflation. It's been great having you back on the show. Richard Vague (00:43:05) - You have a great show. It's a privilege to be part of it. Thank you very much. Keith Weinhold (00:43:15) - Yeah, big thanks to Richard Vague. Today he hits things from a different angle. With population decline perhaps not taking place in the US until the year 2100. Of course, we need to add years to that. Real estate investors might not have falling population growth in that crucial household formation demographic age. Then until the year 2125, well, that would be 100 more years of growth from this point. And yeah, I pushed him on our inflation chart somewhat. Richard isn't the first person, though I have heard others maintain that lower interest rates also lower inflation, where most tend to believe that the opposite is true, including the fed. In any case, wars drive inflation because they create supply shortages. That was true over 100 years ago when World War one and today with Russia, Ukraine. Keith Weinhold (00:44:17) - I mean, is there any one factor that drives price increases more than supply shortages? The short supply of real estate itself is what keeps driving prices. And Richard asks us to look where some don't. That is that real estate values rise as debt to GDP rises. In his opinion, there is no financial crisis imminent. We need to see a rapid rise in private sector debt in proportion to GDP first. And you know what's remarkable about this economic slowdown or recession that still hasn't come, but it's been erroneously predicted by so many. It's the fact that recessions are often self-fulfilling prophecies. People have called on a recession for the last year or two. And that mere forecast alone that tends to make real estate investors think, well, then I won't buy the property because my tenant might lose their job in a recession. And businesses don't hire when everyone says a recession is coming. That's exactly how a recession becomes self-fulfilling. And despite two years of that, it still hasn't happened. That's what's remarkable. Anyone sitting on the sideline keeps losing out again. Keith Weinhold (00:45:37) - You can follow Richard. Big Tycho's is spelled Tycho's. Follow a joint Tycho's group.org. Richard and I talked some more outside of our interview here, and he had a lot of compliments about the show. In fact, more compliments than any guest has given in a while. He had not heard of our show before last year. I'm in Philadelphia somewhat regularly and I might hit him up the next time I'm there. We'll get lunch or something. Check out Gray in Spanish at Get Rich education comma. 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In der Weihnachtsausgabe der "elektro beats" präsentiert Olaf Zimmermann einen zweiteiligen X-Mas-DJ-Mix.Mit dabei sind Rival Consoles, The Allegorist, Dead Can Dance, Sun Electric, Chris Liebing, Louis Armstrong im The Orb-Remix, Pantha Du Prince, Andrea Parker, Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian, Hania Rani, St Etienne, Monolake, Wunder, Caterine Barbieri, Rosa Anschütz, Ame, Lucie Antunes, Mark Prichard, Vangelis, Björk und Boards Of Canada.
Ephere, musicien live et producteur nous présente son univers musical allant de l'ambient à la techno, des performances immersives aux dancefloors éthérés, de la contemplation à la libération des corps.D'abord DJ, Ephere produit et joue en live depuis une dizaine d'années maintenant, explorant les territoires les plus mentaux et texturés de la techno. Sous son vrai nom, Pierre Huyghe, il est désormais performeur ambient pour différents projets qui mettent tous la contemplation au centre. Pierre est aussi le créateur du label Stellar Transitions, spécialisé dans l'ambient. De ses débuts à jouer de la disco house à sa musique actuelle qui gravite dans les éthers, de son amour du field recording à sa vision tantôt introspective, tantôt dansante du son, on dresse avec lui le portrait d'un artiste tout en profondeur.Ephere conclut l'émission en nous présentant son live : une envolée mentale et hypnotique, une techno qui nous fait contempler au plus profond de notre âme tandis que nos corps se libèrent dans la danse.< TRACKLIST >Charpi, Etiology & Troubles (Ephere Synthesia Remix), Visions 001, Kornarion, 2018.Monolake, “North”, Polygon_Cities, Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music, 2005.Zhe Pechorin, “On My Way To Home”, A Story of Light - The Dawn, Stellar Transitions, 2020.Romain FX, “結合 Jiehe”, JIN 05, Jin, 2021< WHAT'S GOING ON >On reçoit le collectif rennais Vilaine Band qui fête sa première soirée en club vendredi 17 novembre, au Satori. Mathieu et JM nous présentent cette soirée qui fera la part belle à l'indie dance et à la progressive house et trance avec comme invités Clint et Romain FX aux côtés des résidents du collectif.BONNE ÉMISSION
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Join our live event for new-build Utah fourplexes on Wednesday. Register at: GREwebinars.com Home prices fell three times since 1975. We explore the reasons why. The homeownership rate is 66% today. (The long-term average is 65%.) I expect the homeownership rate to fall due to low affordability, which will increase renter households. If you have dollars in a savings account that pays 5% interest, I describe why you're losing prosperit. Our Investment Coach, Aundrea & I discuss the state of the real estate market. Then we discuss our upcoming live event for new-build Utah fourplexes. They produce cash flow, have great tenant amenities and come with built-in equity. This area is extremely fast-growing: Register here. Timestamps: National Home Prices Fall and Causes [00:00:01] Discussion on the historical trends of national home prices, the causes of price falls, and the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis. Housing Affordability Crisis [00:00:50] Exploration of the current state of housing affordability and the impact of the pandemic on home prices. Upcoming Real Estate Event [00:01:44] Announcement of an informative live real estate event that listeners are invited to join. The current state of housing affordability [00:11:45] Discussion on the challenges faced by first-time homebuyers due to higher prices, mortgage rates, and lending requirements. Homeownership rate trends [00:13:11] Analysis of the historical homeownership rates, including the impact of aging population and low affordability on the rate. Future outlook for homeownership rate [00:19:40] Prediction of a decline in the homeownership rate below the current 66% due to poor affordability and increasing number of renters. Rental Market Overview [00:24:10] Discussion on the current state of the rental market, including cash flowing properties, stable prices, and limited inventory. Demand for Investment Opportunities [00:26:14] Exploration of the demand from investors who are looking to invest their existing equity and the regions they are interested in, such as the Southeast and Midwest. New Build Income Properties [00:28:14] Introduction of a provider offering new construction fourplexes in the Intermountain West, discussing the market growth, population demographics, and amenities of the properties. The opportunity for new build properties in a fast growth area [00:34:59] Discussion on the benefits of investing in new construction properties in a rapidly growing area with good cash flow. The role of HOA in maintaining property values [00:36:04] Explains how the integration of HOA (Homeowners Association) helps maintain uniformity and cleanliness in the rental property investing world. Details about the upcoming real estate event [00:38:31] Promotion of a live event where listeners can learn about new construction fourplexes and have their questions answered in real time. Resources mentioned: Show Notes: www.GetRichEducation.com/462 Join our Utah fourplexes live event: GREwebinars.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments. You get paid first: Text ‘FAMILY' to 66866 Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review” Top Properties & Providers: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREmarketplace.com/Coach Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith's personal Instagram: @keithweinhold Complete episode transcript: Welcome to GRE! I'm your host, Keith Weinhold. Historically, just how often DO national home prices fall… and what causes it? Then, learn more about how TODAY'S housing affordability is absolutely awful. Then, our informative live real estate event that you're invited to join. All today, on Get Rich Education. __________ Welcome to GRE! From Pennsylvania's MONongahela River to Mono Lake, CA and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith Weinhold and you are listening to our one big weekly show. This is Get Rich Education. "Real estate never goes down." Yeah, a handful of people actually told me those five exact words in the mid-2000s decade. “Real estate never goes down.” Of course, 2008's Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and Mortgage Meltdown proved them ALL wrong. And ya know what, I've never heard one single person utter those words since! Late last year, national home prices took just a small dip for a few months on a m-o-m basis. That's not something that often happens though. So as minor as THAT was, that's the event that actually precipitated the creation of this segment of our episode. There's a colorful chart that provides a… terrific visual of the month-over-month shifts in US home prices, per Case-Shiller, dating back to 1975. And if you're one of our “Don't Quit Your Daydream” letter subscribers, you got to see it last week. Winston Churchill said, "The farther backward you can look, the farther FORward you can see." I don't know that I've contributed anything quite that proverbial to the world on that exact subject yet. I just say that when it comes to future expectations, I favor "history over hunches". So, before we look at WHY home prices historically fall, first of all, why go back to 1975 when we're looking at a history of home prices. Why that slice of time, 1975 to present? Well, that's almost 50 years. It's two generations, so it stops just short of your grandfather's generation which was back when the dollar was still pegged to gold. Here's what we can we learn from almost 50 years of home price history on a relatively untethered dollar: Nominal home prices usually rise, but not always. This is NOT inflation-adjusted. That's the first takeaway. Of the 500 to 600 little rectangles, that's how many months there have been since 1975, they're nearly all blue, which means prices rose. Before we center on the red areas, which is when & where prices dipped… The next thing I can tell you is that it shows that home prices are remarkably stable. A SEASONAL fluctuation is quite apparent. Year after year, home price growth is weaker in winter and stronger in summer. But do you know how many times national home prices have dipped since 1975? Any idea? It is… three. Three periods of falling prices in the last… 48 years. Those periods were the erstwhile Global Financial Crisis period from 2007 to 2011, then that tiny dip that occurred in the last few months of last year. That was due to a late pandemic slowdown. Before I tell you about the other time, that third time, that so few discuss, let me tell ya, the 2008 GFC went deep red. Most markets had losses of 20% or more. I WAS an active RE investor at that time. And that downturn was caused by irresponsible lending, rampant speculation, and an OVERsupply of housing. That's well documented. Look around today, and we don't have any of those conditions today. Today it's tough lending standards, no wild speculation, and oppositely, as you know, it's that STARK UNDERsupply of housing. But few people seem to know about an earlier attrition in prices. It was a mild early '90s downturn. It was really small, just a percent or two per year in a lot of places, but it persisted for more than 5 years. I think a lot of people DON'T KNOW about that small early ‘90s downturn, that's why before the Global Financial Crisis, they said what we all know to be false, “Real estate never goes down.” The start of the ‘90s. That's before my time - I mean, I was alive but not old enough to be investing, so I had to do some research about what caused prices to circle the drain just a little. And to boil it down, it occurred for two main reasons - it was from defaults created by high household debt and also, adjustable-rate mortgages kicking in, making those homeowners pay higher rates - and some couldn't pay it. So as we look back like Winston Churchill to get lessons from history, I like to look at today's landscape and see if we have any of those two early ‘90s conditions. High household debt? Well, rather, really this era's aberration is the opposite condition. Today it's households sitting on a lot of cash and equity. And then the second reason for the early ‘90s price dip - adjustable rate mortgages kicking in. Well, that is affecting the commercial space, not the residential side, where homeowners have now been long accustomed to FIXED rate debt. Now, before we look into the future of home prices - and I've got some good stats there… To summarize, the top takeaways from 48 years of looking at monthly HP growth are that: Prices typically rise, not always Prices are remarkably stable Prices rise more in the summer than the winter And that historically, let's distill it down to three - three chief culprits for falling prices are an OVERsupply of homes, irresponsible lending, and a distressed borrower Now, with housing, people tended to use the word “uncertainty” a lot - really, constantly, ever since the pandemic began in 2020. Now, I think that we can finally say that the clouds have begun to clear. Though, of course, we never have 100% clairvoyance. Most everyone is confident that the majority of interest rate hikes are done, inflation has come down, mortgage rates are back at historic NORMS right now actually, and home prices are rising at historic NORMS again too. You have all this money sloshing around the economy that is still fueling consumer wealth from the pandemic. All this money sloshing around AGAINST a low housing supply, and with more economic certainty. All this really has a lot of people more bullish than I've seen in a couple years. Homebuilder confidence is really surging right now. And looking into the next year, more and more analysts are now forecast increasing national home prices. Fannie Mae recently revised their forecast upward to 3.9% appreciation for THIS YEAR. CoreLogic now expects prices 4.3% higher from June of this year to of next year. And Zillow expects 6.3% price appreciation over this same time period. And, our core investor areas have just kept climbing and really didn't experience last year's slowdown at all. I guess this isn't necessarily good news, right? The bad news might be that there's no price BREAK. Higher RATES still didn't break the market. Now, I've heard some analysts at real estate research firms speculate that if INTEREST RATES fall in the next year with all these other favorable conditions that 10% HPA is possible. I'd say, that's speculative alright. It's so hard to predict future interest rates that I'm not willing to do it. And like I've shared with you here, which is contrary to what people USED to believe, it's that: Mortgage rates really don't have that much to do with home prices! So when it comes to home prices over the next couple years, I think that the most commonsense expectation is slow price growth and stability. Now, just wait until you see what's happening with the homeownership rate today. I want to share that with you shortly. Before we get back to RE, let's Zoom out for a moment and look at the broader investing landscape while we're here at mid-quarter. Bitcoin is getting less volatile than stocks. That's one trend lately. Another way to say that though, is that bitcoin prices are in a period of historic stagnation. Gold has fallen from the $2,000 an ounce mark that it touched recently. Oil prices have been on a multi-month tear, but you know, when you look at it on an inflation-adjusted basis, which so many people forget to do, oil at under $100 a barrel feels inexpensive. Elsewhere in investing, some online savings accounts have hit the 5% yield mark. That might sound good when you consider that inflation has backed off. But as most agree that the CPI is understated, if you think that the true diminished purchasing power of the dollar is 5% and your savings account rate is 5%, aren't you at least treading water? Well, first of all, just treading water means that you aren't going anywhere or growing. But you're not even treading water. Because don't forget that your interest earnings on savings accounts get taxed. So it's good to hold some liquidity - always. But you're likely underwater with a 5% savings account in this era. Yes, on your interest earnings, you're taxed at your earned income tax rate, between 10 and 37%. Say that you're in the 32% tax bracket. Well then, real inflation is 5% and your 5% savings account only yielded 3.4%. On an inflation-adjusted basis, even if you happen to have a savings account with a yield that high, your inflation-adjusted return is negative 1.6%. That's why, here at GRE, we typically invest in vehicles that target returns VASTLY exceeding both inflation and taxes. As much as that might hurt, you know who today's real estate market is actually really bad for? Even worse for the saver that isn't even treading water. It is downright AWFUL out there for those wannabe first-time homebuyers. They are looking at this triple-headed monster of higher prices, higher mortgage rates, and stringent lending requirements. And then if they overcome ALL that, they've got to compete for that tight supply. It's made affordability for people in THAT position really awful. In a lot of markets, a starter home is $400K. With your 20% down payment plus closing costs, that's $100,000 out of pocket, right upfront, as well as your ongoing monthly payment… all for an asset that doesn't generate income when it's your HOME. Well, that's an insurmountable hurdle for a lot of people. This low affordability moves people out of the homebuyer class and adds them to the ranks of the RENTER class. Well, there's our opportunity as landlords. You aren't preying on them. You're risking your capital to provide good housing for them. But curiously, the HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE is actually just a touch higher than usual right now, despite souring affordability. So, let's take a look at this. And then I'll break down what it means to you as well as where we're headed. Since 1965, the average homeownership since 65% and currently, it's 66%, running a little high. BTW, homeownership peaked at 69% in 2004—that's back when you could outright lie about your income, job, and assets, and still get a mortgage. Many people did just that. NINJA loans. When you hear the acronym, NINJA loans, what that stands for is no income, no job, or assets. Well, you either rent your home or you own your home. It's one or the other. So then, today's 66% homeownership rate means that everyone else, 34%, are renters. When the homeownership rate drops, then you've got more renters. The low point for homeownership was in 2016 at 63%. It's grown since then, and you might wonder… how in the heck is homeownership above average today in the face of this low affordability? How is it 66%. Well, there's a few reasons for that and it's not always intuitive. America's population keeps AGING. And that skews figures… because homeowners tend to BE older. Secondly, incumbents - those that already GOT their home have really low, affordable payments. They're not going to lose their home & become renters. 80% of borrowers have a mortgage rate under 5%. You're really happy to stay put when your mortgage rate begins with a “4” or less - and you can also keep making the payment. It's a payment amount that does not rise with inflation. That introduces a lag effect in the stats. It'll be a little while until this low affordability gets reflected in a lower HO rate. There's a low FORECLOSURE rate, under 1%. Americans can afford their payments and they have the motivation to keep making them. Now, over on YouTube, I shared a great map with you, the Homeownership Rate by state and broke that down. Join us over there. On YouTube, we're called “Get Rich Education”, of course. I host THAT show and it's different from THIS show. What's the trend here? Well, HO is highest in low cost states like the Midwest and Southeast, and HO is lower in high cost states. WV has the highest rate at 78%... because it's low cost. NY has the lowest HO at 54%... because it's high cost. NYC drags down the number for upstate NY. So where are we headed? In the future, I expect a NATIONAL DROP in the homeownership rate. This is because few expect property prices or mortgage rates to fall significantly. Lending requirements should stay strict. So it's the awful FTHB affordability that will continue to take homeownership lower. See, FTHBers are also exactly the type of people that often have student loan debt repayments to make… if they ever have to begin repaying them. That's also going to make it tougher for people to clear that affordability bar. They're going to keep being your renter. And that's why I expect the homeownership rate to plummet below 66% where it is now, and then below the long-term average of 65% by 2025 or 2026. That's where we're likely headed if market forces prevail. Depending on who our president is in 2025, government relief programs are just about the only thing that I can see getting in the way of a declining HO rate. Household FORMATION is high right now… because you have sooo many Americans between ages 25 and 40. So that question you've got to ask is - is that new HH going to be formed as a OO residence or as a rental? Increasingly, it's gonna be a rental because of that continued poor affordability. See, for a ton of people, if they didn't get their ultra-low rate mortgage the past couple years, then, well, it's too late. That era is over and that's why their affordability ship has sailed. That ship has passed. It's gone. And that's why more RENTERS are being made every single day. So if you're a LL, this is expected to both increase your occupancy rate AND the amount of rent that you can charge. Carefully-chosen rental property is really where today's opportunity is. I've got more on that shortly, as I'm about to bring in one of our two Investment Coaches. You know, you're telling us that you find it so helpful to have free one-on-one coaching with them, either Aundrea or nuh-RAYSH. Both coaches have their MBAs. When you read their bios on our Coaching Page, they've got some impressive international corporate experience. But they both live right here in the USA and they're active REIs themselves - that's really how they help get you started and connect you with the right market and property. It's an in-house conversation with an IC & I straight ahead and we'll discuss how we can help you. I'm Keith Weinhold. You're listening to Get Rich Education. __________________ Aundrea talked about cash flow. OK, that exists. Great. Yet, I still think of these as better for appreciation than cash flow over time. She'd probably agree. Maybe you're thinking a brand new construction duplex in the path of progress IM West could cost $1M or $2M, but no, this builder provides them for less than that. And then, of course, you're probably going to finance most of that cost yourself too. And, BTW, Aundrea did smile at my dorky joke about her loving rap music. A big smile that you couldn't see through the audio-only podcast here. But, yeah. You didn't quite hear a laugh. See, one prerequisite to laughing is that a joke actually be funny. In any case, Aundrea and the provider are your two co-hosts on Wednesday. The provider is a powerhouse of knowledge about not just real estate and demographics and fourplexes, but construction and financing too and everything that goes into it in order to optimize the investor experience for you. HE can answer questions in real-time for you. It is almost time for the Beehive State to shine as Utah is front, center and under the stage lights on GRE's Live Event in just two days. You are cordially invited to join… as long as you don't ask Aundrea about rap music. But, really. When you put this all together - a 4-unit building is the most that you can get with best financing terms, the cash flow, new construction, often this BUILT-IN equity at purchase time too, a fast population growth market, all inside a demographic population in Utah that's young and has good incomes… it's really quite remarkable. Quite a confluence. We haven't had an event for a product type like this before, and I don't know if we'll ever have an event quite like this again. Attend live to get your questions answered and get the first look at the inventory. But if you can't make it on Wednesday, then sign up anyway and we will effort to get the replay link for you. You can do it all at: GREwebinars.com Until next week, I'm your host, Keith Weinhold. DQYD!
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Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry.Alex Greenfield says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a kid. His dad (Allen H Greenfield) self describes as a “researcher in the shadow world.” And his mom soon grew tired of her husband's lifestyle, which included a lot of time on the road: chasing rumors of cryptids, ghosts, and aliens. But after his parents split up, Alex, his dad, and an ever changing cast of motorcycle gang members and step-moms kept seeking the occult. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: St. Simons Island in Georgia (and reported hauntings), The Okefenokee Swamp (and the ignition of swamp gas), The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident (and subsequent protests), Mono Lake in California (and the UFO sightings there), and a movie called Being There (wherein the character played by Peter Sellers appears to walk on water).Alex Greenfield is the writer of The Sand, 10.0 Earthquake, and other movies. He also used to be the head writer for WWE Smackdown. Alex's dad, Allen H Greenfield (aka. T Allen Greenfield), is a UFOlogist and occultist. He is the author of Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts, The Story Of The Hermetic Brotherhood Of Light, and other books. Unrelated to this episode, but do give a listen to the limited series that Jeff's been mixing for Crooked Media. It's called Another Russia, and it's about the assassination of Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, as told by Ben Rhodes and Zhanna Nemtsova. Available now on every podcast app. Also, Jeff's headed back to Berlin, Germany for about a month. If you know any good stories/interviews he should record while he's there, send a DM on Twitter or Instagram, or use the contact form.Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listeners and sponsors. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot, Circling Lights, August FriisSponsor: is / ought books is / ought books is a publisher of spiral bound self help manuals, art books, and non literary works on paper.All titles from is / ought books are available to buy online via the link below. is / ought books are also distributed via Small Press Distribution (SPD).Thank you is / ought books for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.
Content Note: pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry.Alex Greenfield says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a kid. His dad (Allen H Greenfield) self describes as a “researcher in the shadow world.” And his mom soon grew tired of her husband's lifestyle, which included a lot of time on the road: chasing rumors of cryptids, ghosts, and aliens. But after his parents split up, Alex, his dad, and an ever changing cast of motorcycle gang members and step-moms kept seeking the occult. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: St. Simons Island in Georgia (and reported hauntings), The Okefenokee Swamp (and the ignition of swamp gas), The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident (and subsequent protests), Mono Lake in California (and the UFO sightings there), and a movie called Being There (wherein the character played by Peter Sellers appears to walk on water).Alex Greenfield is the writer of The Sand, 10.0 Earthquake, and other movies. He also used to be the head writer for WWE Smackdown. Alex's dad, Allen H Greenfield (aka. T Allen Greenfield), is a UFOlogist and occultist. He is the author of Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts, The Story Of The Hermetic Brotherhood Of Light, and other books. Unrelated to this episode, but do give a listen to the limited series that Jeff's been mixing for Crooked Media. It's called Another Russia, and it's about the assassination of Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov, as told by Ben Rhodes and Zhanna Nemtsova. Available now on every podcast app. Also, Jeff's headed back to Berlin, Germany for about a month. If you know any good stories/interviews he should record while he's there, send a DM on Twitter or Instagram, or use the contact form.Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listeners and sponsors. Producer: Jeff EmtmanMusic: The Black Spot, Circling Lights, August FriisSponsor: is / ought books is / ought books is a publisher of spiral bound self help manuals, art books, and non literary works on paper.All titles from is / ought books are available to buy online via the link below. is / ought books are also distributed via Small Press Distribution (SPD).Thank you is / ought books for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.
This week we learn about some weird worms! Further reading: Otherworldly Worms with Three Sexes Discovered in Mono Lake Bizarre sea worm with regenerative butts named after Godzilla's monstrous nemesis Underground giant glows in the dark but is rarely seen Giant Gippsland earthworm (you can listen to one gurgling through its burrow here too) Further watching: A giant Gippsland earthworm Glowing earthworms (photo by Milton Cormier): This sea worm's head is on the left, its many "butts" on the right [photo from article linked to above]: A North Auckland worm [photo from article linked to above]: A giant beach worm: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we continue Invertebrate August with a topic I almost saved for monster month in October. Let's learn about some weird worms! We'll start with a newly discovered worm that's very tiny, and we'll work our way up to larger worms. Mono Lake in California is a salty inland lake that probably started forming after a massive volcanic eruption about 760,000 years ago. The eruption left behind a crater called a caldera that slowly filled with water from rain and several creeks. But there's no outlet from the lake—no river or even stream that carries water from the lake down to the ocean. As a result, the water stays where it is and over the centuries a lot of salts and other minerals have dissolved into the lake from the surrounding rocks. The water is three times as salty as the ocean and very alkaline. No fish live in the lake, but some extremophiles do. There's a type of algae that often turns the water bright green, brine shrimp that eat the algae, some unusual flies that dive into the water encased in bubbles, birds that visit the lake and eat the brine shrimp and flies, and eight species of worms that have only been discovered recently. All the worms are weird, but one of them is really weird. It hasn't been described yet so at the moment is just going by the name Auanema, since the research team thinks it probably belongs in that genus. Auanema is microscopic and lives throughout the lake, which is unusual because the lake contains high levels of arsenic. You know, a DEADLY POISON. But the arsenic and the salt and the other factors that make the lake inhospitable to most life don't bother the worms. Auanema produces offspring that can have one of three sexes: hermaphrodites that can self-fertilize, and males and females that need each other to fertilize eggs. Researchers think that the males and females of the species help maintain genetic diversity while the hermaphrodites are able to colonize new environments, since they don't need a mate to reproduce. When some of the worms were brought to the laboratory for further study, they did just fine in normal lab conditions, without extreme levels of arsenic and so forth. That's unusual, because generally extremophiles are so well adapted for their extreme environments that they can't live anywhere else. But Auanema is just fine in a non-harsh environment. Not only that, but the team tested other species in the Auanema genus that aren't extremophiles and discovered that even though they don't live in water high in arsenic, they tolerate arsenic just as well as the newly discovered species. The team's plan is to sequence Auanema's genome to see if they can determine the genetic factors that confer such high resistance to arsenic. Next, we go up in size from a teensy worm to another newly discovered worm, this one only about 4 inches long at most, or 10 cm. It's a marine polychaete worm that lives inside sea sponges, although we don't know yet if it's parasitizing the sponge or if it confers some benefit to the sponge that makes this a symbiotic relationship. The worm was only discovered in 2019 near Japan and described in early 2022 as Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. Almost all worms known are shaped, well, like worms.
Amatori offers us a dub and techno mix with Monolake, Mikron, Monochrome, Fluxion...
Das sooperRadio ist eine neue Sendung aus dem Umfeld des Veranstalterteams der Superbooth. Es geht um Elektronische Musik in und aus Berlin, den Synthesizer als Instrument und Spielgerät und dessen praktische Anwendung. ## Die Sendung zu 20 Jahre SuperBooth. Monolake aka Robert Henke, HerrSchneider und Andre Kaufmann sprechen über die Geschichte, die Visionen, Musik und ihre aktuelle Motivation. Wir schauen heute zurück zu den Ursprüngen der Idee einer Synthesizer Messe und tauschen uns über mögliche neue Impulse für dieses Format aus. Zusammen mit Marc Mesi aus Paris, kreierte SchneidersBuero aus Berlin einen Gemeinschaftsstand auf der Musikmesse Frankfurt 2002. Dort fanden sich zehn Synthesizer Hersteller ein, wie Big Briar (aka Moogmusic), Elektron, Doepfer, Vermona und zelebrierten eine kollektive Partystimmung. HerrSchneider bringt heute ein paar Geschichten von damals mit wie „Bob Moog und seine Sekretärin auf dem Dancefloor während Berliner Elektroniker ihre Live Konzerte vorspielten." # sooperRADIO Das sooperRadio ist eine neue Sendung aus dem Umfeld des Veranstalterteams der SuperBooth. Es geht um elektronische Musik in und aus Berlin, dem Synthesizer als Instrument und Spielgerät und dessen praktische Anwendung. Zu hören sein werden viele persönliche Gedanken rund um das Thema Elektronische Musik, ihre Wirkung, Klänge und das Musizieren in seiner großen Vielfalt. Ergänzt mit Anekdoten, Aspekten und Neuigkeiten über unseren Versuch, elektronische Musikinstrumente und deren Potenzial und Anwendungsbereiche mittels einer liebevoll organisierten Veranstaltung namens SuperBooth, einem breiten Publikum verständlich zu machen und auf möglichst praktische und persönliche Weise näherzubringen. Zur besseren Veranschaulichung haben wir einen Praxisteil in der Sendung. Dafür werden wir regelmäßig den erfahrenen Produktexperten aus SchneidersLaden, Thomas Kircher, im Studio begrüßen. Neben dem fachlichen Austausch zur Materie wird uns Thomas mehr oder weniger verständliche Anwendungsbeispiele live im Studio vorstellen und vertonen. Für jede sooperRadio Sendung laden wir Musikschaffende oder Hersteller:innen ins Studio ein, mit denen wir uns über die persönliche Arbeitsweise und die Leidenschaft zur Elektronischen Musik unterhalten. Die zwei Stunden werden moderiert von Mareen und André, die neben den Künstler:innen und dem Fachberater Thomas Kircher auch immer wieder Gastmoderator:innen willkommen heissen möchten. * https://www.sooperradio.com/
The 494th of a series of weekly radio programmes created by :zoviet*france: First broadcast 25 December 2021 by Resonance 104.4 FM, and CJMP 90.1 FM Thanks to the artists and sound recordist included here for their fine work. track list 00 Katja Institute - Intro 01 Alejandro Remeseiro - Nuova antenna per ascoltare gli uccelli 02 Cousin Silas - The Day the Tides Stopped 03 Freetousesounds - Harbour, Ambience, Abandoned Pier, Summer Midnight, Chirping Bird, Arctic Terns, Waves Calm Splashing, Calm Wind, Westfjords, Iceland, 19232 04 Monolake - [atmo] 05 Quarantaine - _petition_? [extract] 06 Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Emergency Excerpt (Lost Mix) 07 Otomo Yoshihide - [untitled – 'Music for Dance Art Hong Kong's Memory Disorder' track 23] 08 Jem Finer - Water and Birds 1 09 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Greece – Amusement Arcade, Sitia, E. Crete – Machine Noise, Clunks from Table Football, Shouts 10 Sevenism - Nanoid Apology 11 Tarxun and Siavash Hakim - The Day After 12 Janek Schaefer - Radio 109 FM 13 Three Things - Light Stops ++ Katja Institute - Outro
2021 begrüße Olaf Zimmermann zahlreiche spannende Gäste in seiner radioeins "elektro beats"- Sendung. Im ersten Teil eines Dreiteilers, gibt es Interviewhighlights mit DJ Hell, Nils Frahm, den Grandbothers, Monolake, Christian Löffler, Mouse On Mars, Schiller, Marian Gold von Alphaville, Modeselektor, Paul Frick, Thomas Fehlmann und Dapayk.
IDM: older classics from my radio broadcasts Mid Era: specializing in releases by Alba Esctacy (Romania) TIME....ARTIST......................TRACK............................RELEASE 00:00 [Intro-IDM] 00:10 2nd Mouse roswell diner 04:11 2403R isolieren 3.0 09:46 Surface 10 the sick illiad 13:00 Funckarma brik Elaztiq 19:51 Skeptical castle green Bruach Tatha 26:59 Melorman ...a new place to hide 31:00 Her Blood... blevy Klim 33:57 Life in a Box new cycle 38:00 Monolake north Polygon Cities 43:34 Xin hive/nexus 49:18 Crisopa algo cián Medicamentosa 54:45 Mind.Divided alone in the mountains Fragments 1:00:37 [break-Mid Era] 1:04:27 Alba Ecstacy string theory Tension In The String 1:07:42 Alba Ecstacy granular sky Beyond The Horizon Line 1:16:17 Alba Ecstacy the other side Transmiditar 1:20:40 Alba Ecstacy part 3 ...Quiet Saturdays 1 1:28:28 Alba Ecstacy there is no past iDeity 1:33:17 Alba Ecstacy sublunary Sublunary 1:50:09 Alba Ecstacy nodes Nodes Vol. 2 1:55:40 Alba Ecstacy aeons The Reckoning... 2:03:38 [Outro] Keywords: International electronic music internet electronic artists unsigned electronic artists Ambient Tribal Trance PsyTance Ethno/PsyTrance IDM Dub Step Mid Era Berlin School
In this episode, we talked to our new friend Em Beihold about fencing, moving goal posts, professional communicating, poker metaphors, fighting with Chopin, parental cameos, Regina Spektor, antidepressants, song responsibilities, existentialism, identity damage, celebrity relationships, the 46th minute, free advertising, getting lost in Mono Lake, embroidery, swashbuckling, quality decisions, and her song "Groundhog Day". NooWave: https://www.noowave.co/ The Truffleist: https://www.truffleist.com/ Discord: https://www.discord.com/invite/3EbvrZReVX Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/talkinglion Shirts: https://www.sleepinglionmusic.com/store
Something different with lots of snap, crackle & pop! I guess it's largely IDM, although the more melodic sound of the 90s. If you like ambient, chill or glitch i think you'll like this Tracks from Dettinger, Minor Science, Jan Jelinek, Phonem, Gescom, Monolake, Proem, Mouse on Mars, LFO, Reagenz, The Future Sound of London, Gimmik, Isan and Soul Oddity
In dieser „elektro beats“-Ausgabe präsentierte Olaf Zimmermann Interview-Highlights des ersten Halbjahres 2021 mit Ausschnitten aus zwölf Interviews. Mit dabei waren DJ Hell, Nils Frahm, die Grandbrothers, Monolake, Christian Löffler, Mouse On Mars, Schiller, Marian Gold von Alphaville, Modeselektor, Paul Frick, Thomas Fehlmann und Dapayk.
Tonight's edition features tons of new music, including work from Rival Consoles, Hollie Kenniff, Electric Kif, Immersion, William Tyler, Black Brunswicker and plenty more! Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ Memory Garden by William Tyler + Luke Schneider on Understand (Leaving Records)
Lisa Le Feuvre at Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator, writer, and editor. She is inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation dedicated to the creative legacies of artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-73). Between 2010 and 2017 Le Feuvre was Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, a part of the Henry Moore Foundation. She led a program of education, research, publications and exhibitions, and the development of the Leeds sculpture and collection archive. Previously Le Feuvre taught on the post-graduate Curatorial Program at Goldsmiths College, led the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum and was Course Director of the post-graduate program in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has sat on various juries including Sculpture Dublin (2021), Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation Prize (2019),the Turner Prize (2018), Hepworth Prize for Sculpture (2016), British representation at the Venice Biennale (2015), and co-curated the quinquennial exhibition British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (2009-10). In this interview she discusses the Robert Smithson exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in NYC, Abstract Cartography, June 24th - August 20th, 2021. Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Mono Lake (still) (1968/2004) 8 mm film and Instamatic slides Color, sound; 19 minutes, 54 seconds © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery Robert Smithson Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Layout Plan: Wandering Earth Mounds and Gravel Paths, 1966 Pencil and crayon on map 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery ©Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York Photo credit: Alex Yudzon Robert Smithson SNAP SHOT NOTES Pertaining to "Double Nonsite" California + Nevada near Baker Cinder Cones Rock Collected at site (LAVA) and "Death Valley Nonsite" Rock Collected at Site (Chalk), 1968 Black and white gelatin silver contact prints, felt tip marker on paper 20 x 8 in. (50.8 x 20.3 cm) Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery ©Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York Photo credit: Alex Yudzon
Something different in this mix. For those who like things a little more challenging Tracks from Burial, Apparat, Monolake, The Haxan Cloak, The Black Dog, Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke and others Full tracklist www.mixcloud.com/djscottwood/elec…ood-mixcast-030/
Host Dave Schlom takes us on an aural field trip to one of his favorite places, Mono Lake in Eastern California, near Yosemite National Park. The saline lake is home to a fascinating ecosystem based on brine shrimp and alkali flies.
An 8-minute break at your favorite nature destination, to recall how we've changed our ways in the past, and where the inspiration for change came from. Mono Lake is an ancient lake to the east of Yosemite National Park in California. In this essay included in the newsletter and the calendar sent to Mono Lake Committee members, the writer calls for nature writing to change. Awe and wonder is not enough to save our planet; it is decision making that will.
Thrash at the rehearsal room, transcending cheap music, collapsing nature and artifice. The analog noise artist discusses three important albums.Yuko's picks:Slayer – Reign In BloodPink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The MoonMonolake – Gobi. The DesertYuko's new record, End Of Trilogy, is out now on Room40. Follow Yuko on Instagram over here, and Tumblr over here.
Scientists found eight species of nematodes living in California’s harsh Mono Lake—quintupling the number of animals known to live there. Christopher Intagliata reports.
It’s a top notch set this week full of new releases and older classics. Enjoy tunes from Telefon Tel Aviv, Mouse on Mars, The Orb, DJ Food, Kid606, Jonny Greenwood, Bullion, Jega, and Monolake to name a few. That is just a sample of the great contents within. It’s a brilliant set, and we can […]
This second episode with UC Berkeley's Gray Brechin includes Mono Lake's near-death experience and how Dr. Brechin and his colleagues used the public interest doctrine in the early 1980s to save it. He then discusses the West's water wars, the dismantling of large projects, Governor Pat and Jerry Brown's legacies, bullet trains and his favourite place. Gray Brechin is the author of Imperial Dreams: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and Farewell, Promised Land - Waking from the California Dream, both published by UC Press. www.graybrechin.net
UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Gray Brechin gives a history lesson of San Francisco's "Imperial Dreams", drawing on the model of Ancient Rome. He discusses the immense environmental impacts that mining and logging had on the city's contado (Italian for hinterland). He argues that the technological advancements in mining played a key role in warfare and of all things the skyscraper, and that thanks to fracking California's attitude to new energy less resembles leadership and more one-foot-on-the-accelerator-one-foot-on-the-brake. Dr. Brechin shares the large and uncomfortable role that UC Berkeley (and the wider UC Regents) had and still has in the development and delivery systems of nuclear weapons, lifting Ernest Lawrence to heroic status, while largely ignoring the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His three wishes include Prop. 13 reform, investing in public education and that the digital generation puts down their devices long enough to see what's really going on. He closes this first part with the real danger under which Californians place themselves in their built environment, sharing among others, the real risk of fire in the next big earthquake, repeating San Francisco's catastrophic experience of 1906. Part two, to be aired later this month, will include Mono Lake's near-death experience and how Dr. Brechin and his colleagues used the public interest doctrine in the early 1980s to save it. Other themes include the West's water wars, the dismantling of large projects, Governor Pat and Jerry Brown's legacies, bullet trains and his favourite place. Gray Brechin is the author of Imperial Dreams: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin and Farewell, Promised Land - Waking from the California Dream, both published by UC Press. www.graybrechin.net
Please read the label before using. Product may contain: Soehngenetic, Dawn Mok, John Talabot, Nils Frahm, Tyondai Braxton, Knxwledge, Pantha Du Prince, Micronism, and Monolake. Proper handling should ensure a safe and enjoyable listening experience. Playlist Download 06/13/2015
Our latest episode begins colorfully, with tracks from Röyksopp, Lake Radio, and Mano Le Tough. Newer releases from Populous, NHK’Koyxen, and John Tejada follow, with some top tracks from Kahn, Peverelist, and Monolake rounding out the proceedings. Enjoy! Playlist Download 02/21/2015
The music in this mix has a strange, sort of alien feel to it. The pieces are a bit darker, but not creepy or annoying. But they do all have a weird other-worldly sense to them. This started with the first track, "We Swallowed the Night" by Anduin. It just sounded vaguely alien and a bit threatening. So from there I decided to construct a mix around that feeling. When I make mixes I collect tracks over time & toss them into a folder to sort through later. Sometimes I'll bring the folder of music to work with me & make the mix there(shhhh, don't tell anyone). The problem with doing that is I have to convert the mp3's to wav or aiff files and in the process the tracks can lose the artist identifier. So I only know the track title but not the artist. That's how I ended up with 4 tracks from Robert Rich & Ian Boddy in one mix. I usually don't like to have that much from album or artist. That's also how the mix ended up with two Pjusk cuts back to back. Oh well, Guess I'll just have to be more careful next time. I didn't want to go the Lustmord "where black stars hang" route and have the mix be scary alien. I just wanted unearthly alien. Hopefully I hit that tone pretty well. T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Anduin - We Swallowed the Night 01:56 Harold Budd - Dark Star 04:16 Hecq - aback 06:23 Pjusk - Kram 11:44 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Threshold 12:28 nebulo & druc drac - rive nord - rive sud 14:30 EU - 60 Planets 16:37 Monolake - phenomenon 19:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Methane 22:10 Anduin - The Voyeurs Wall of Glass 25:25 Lights Out Asia - All These Worlds Are Yours 27:15 Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There 30:16 Pjusk - Granitt 33:33 Pjusk - Flint 37:15 Loscil - Pressure 39:55 Roly Porter - Arrakis 42:05 Loren Connors - Red Mars 43:15 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Ice Fields 48:05 Saul Stokes - We Resolve 53:10 Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Last Outpost 55:04 end
We emerged from the studio with this top-notch collage of new releases, filled with a diverse range of artists that are pushing the limits of future music. The first half of the show features a return trip to Belbury Poly, the mysterious, frenetic sounds of Steinvord, the latest from Monolake, a new single from Shed, […]