the *DON* JONES INDEX…
		GAINS POSTED in GREEN LOSSES POSTED in RED
	10/01/21… 14,@ 9/17/21… 14,360.48 6/27/13… 15,000.00
*(THE DOW* JONES INDEX: 10/01/21…34,764.82; 9/24/21…34,764.83; 6/27/13… 15,000.00)**

LESSON for September 24, 2021 – “BOJO GOES HO! HO!”

America, in word, is in suspense.

Decisions made by the President and several of his predecessors have left Don Jones hanging from a fire escape like one of those little children on the live snapchat, selfie and Tik Tok anthologies. Sen. Joe Mancin (D-WV) is enjoying his “pause” in the apparently irreconcilable budget battle… Republicans holding the larger 3.5T “human” infrastructure items (healthcare, childcare, climatecare) hostage while the liberal Democrats stand ready to pull the trigger and kill the 1T bipartisan allocation for physical infrastructure… the roads, bridges and toxic waste disposal facilities that are all failing at about the same time. Sen. Krystin Sinema (D-AZ) is unspooling a horror show by insisting on no new taxes or tax increases… not even repealing the Bush/Trump tax cuts for the billionaires.

And then there is Afghanistan. And, for that matter, China and Russia (whose election misinformationeers are being accused of colluding with numerous officials in the Ol’ 45 administration, perhaps Djonald himself. An ex-President cannot be impeached, but he can be indicted.

The economy is improving, but critical shortages are on the horizon that… together with a persistence of the Delta plague or a new variant… may send the nation into a tailspin longer and deeper than the first. A lack of Chinese-made computer chips is shutting down the auto industry – and one wonders what else they have in their gunsights.

The climate is failing.

The migrants are migrating.

And then, of course, the plague itself is rumbling on, abetted by millions of idiots who refuse masks and vaxxes out of a purported loyalty to Donald Trump (himself preparing for a 2024 comeback).

None of these problems are going to be solved this week… even the possibility that they may be addressed falls heavily on the “doubtful” spectrum.

So are what are we going to do about it?

We’re going to go to England.

Well, not exacely. We’re going to go to the U.N. where Trump’s fickle friend Boris Johnson stood up on his hind legs and made a speech about climate change that overfulfilled the nostalgia bucket for anybody who misses the former President.

He eulogized wind and the drowned prairies of Doggerland, pitched “green bonds” and Glasgow and channeled a dead Greek philosopher and a croaking TV amphibian…

“Sophocles is often quoted as saying that there are many terrifying things in the world,” BoJo allowed, “but none is more terrifying than man, and when Kermit the frog sang It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green, I want you to know he was wrong - and he was also unnecessarily rude to Miss Piggy.”

And here he is!

FROM gov. u.k.

PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON'S SPEECH AT THE 76TH SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

Delivered on 22 September 2021, Published 23 September 2021

Mr President, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

An inspection of the fossil record over the last 178 million years – since mammals first appeared – reveals that the average mammalian species exists for about a million years before it evolves into something else or vanishes into extinction.

Of our allotted lifespan of a million, humanity has been around for about 200,000.

In other words, we are still collectively a youngster.

If you imagine that million years as the lifespan of an individual human being – about eighty years – then we are now sweet 16.

We have come to that fateful age when we know roughly how to drive and we know how to unlock the drinks cabinet and to engage in all sorts of activity that is not only potentially embarrassing but also terminal.

In the words of the Oxford philosopher Toby Ord “we are just old enough to get ourselves into serious trouble”.

We still cling with part of our minds to the infantile belief that the world was made for our gratification and pleasure and we combine this narcissism with an assumption of our own immortality.

We believe that someone else will clear up the mess we make, because that is what someone else has always done.

We trash our habitats again and again with the inductive reasoning that we have got away with it so far, and therefore we will get away with it again.

My friends the adolescence of humanity is coming to an end.

We are approaching that critical turning point – in less than two months – when we must show that we are capable of learning, and maturing, and finally taking responsibility for the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves.

It is time for humanity to grow up.

It is time for us to listen to the warnings of the scientists – and look at Covid, if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right – and to understand who we are and what we are doing.

The world – this precious blue sphere with its eggshell crust and wisp of an atmosphere – is not some indestructible toy, some bouncy plastic romper room against which we can hurl ourselves to our heart’s content.

Daily, weekly, we are doing such irreversible damage that long before a million years are up, we will have made this beautiful planet effectively uninhabitable – not just for us but for many other species.

And that is why the Glasgow COP26 summit is the turning point for humanity.

We must limit the rise in temperatures – whose appalling effects were visible even this summer – to 1.5 degrees.

We must come together in a collective coming of age.

We must show we have the maturity and wisdom to act.

And we can.

Even in this feckless youth we have harnessed clean energy from wind and wave and sun.

We have released energy from within the atom itself and from hydrogen, and we have found ways to store that energy in increasingly capacious batteries and even in molten salt.

We have the tools for a green industrial revolution but time is desperately short.

Two days ago, in New York we had a session in which we heard from the leaders of the nations most threatened by climate change: the Marshall Islands, the Maldives, Bangladesh and many others.

And they spoke of the hurricanes and the flooding and the fires caused by the extreme meteorological conditions the world is already seeing.

And the tragedy is that because of our past inaction, there are further rises in temperature that are already baked in – baked is the word.

And if we keep on the current track then the temperatures will go up by 2.7 degrees or more by the end of the century.

And never mind what that will do to the ice floes: we will see desertification, drought, crop failure, and mass movements of humanity on a scale not seen before, not because of some unforeseen natural event or disaster, but because of us, because of what we are doing now.

And our grandchildren will know that we are the culprits and that we were warned and they will know that it was this generation that came centre stage to speak and act on behalf of posterity and that we missed our cue and they will ask what kind of people we were to be so selfish and so short-sighted.

In just 40 days time we need the world to come to Glasgow to make the commitments necessary.

And we are not talking about stopping the rise in temperatures – it is alas too late for that – but to restrain that growth, as I say, to 1.5 degrees.

And that means we need to pledge collectively to achieve carbon neutrality – net zero – by the middle of the century.

And that will be an amazing moment if we can do it because it will mean that for the first time in centuries humanity is no longer adding to the budget of carbon in the atmosphere, no longer thickening that invisible quilt that is warming the planet, and it is fantastic that we now have countries representing 70 per cent of the world’s GDP committed to this objective.

But if we are to stave off these hikes in temperature we must go further and faster – we need all countries to step up and commit to very substantial reductions by 2030 – and I passionately believe that we can do it by making commitments in four areas – coal, cars, cash and trees.

I am not one of those environmentalists who takes a moral pleasure in excoriating humanity for its excess.

I don’t see the green movement as a pretext for a wholesale assault on capitalism.

Far from it.

The whole experience of the Covid pandemic is that the way to fix the problem is through science and innovation, the breakthroughs and the investment that are made possible by capitalism and by free markets, and it is through our Promethean faith in new green technology that we are cutting emissions in the UK.

When I was a kid we produced almost 80 per cent of our electricity from coal; that is now down to two per cent or less and will be gone altogether by 2024.

We have put in great forests of beautiful wind turbines on the drowned prairies of Doggerland beneath the North Sea.

In fact we produce so much offshore wind that I am thinking of changing my name to Boreas Johnson in honour of the North Wind.

And I know that we are ambitious in asking the developing world to end the use of coal power by 2040 and for the developed world to do so by 2030, but the experience of the UK shows that it can be done and I thank President Xi for what he has done to end China’s international financing of coal and I hope China will now go further and phase out the domestic use of coal as well, because the experience of the UK shows it can be done.

And when I was elected mayor of London only 13 years ago, I was desperate to encourage more electric vehicles and we put in charging points around the city.

And I am afraid that in those days they were not greatly patronised.

But the market in EVs in the UK is now growing at an extraordinary pace – maybe two thirds every year – and Nissan is sufficiently confident to invest £1 billion in a new EV factory and a gigafactory for the batteries.

And that is because we have set a hard deadline for the sale of new hydrocarbon ICEs of 2030 and again we call on the world to come together to drive this market so that by 2040 there are only zero emission vehicles on sale anywhere in the world.

And you can make these cuts in pollution while driving jobs and growth: we have cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 44 per cent in the last 30 years while expanding our GDP by 78 per cent.

And we will now go further by implementing one of the biggest nationally determined contributions – the NDC is the pledge we ask every country to make in cutting carbon – going down by 68 per cent by 2030, compared to where we were in 1990.

We are making a huge bet on hydrogen, we are expanding nuclear, we are helping people to reduce their own household CO2.

We are working towards Jet Zero – the first large carbon-free passenger plane.

And we also recognise that this is not just about using technical fixes for CO2: we need to restore the natural balance, we need to halt and reverse the loss of trees and biodiversity by 2030, and that is why we in the UK are committed to beautifying the landscape, strengthening our protection against flooding, by planting millions more trees.

We must also work towards the crucial Kunming summit in China and I call on all nations to follow the example of Imran Khan who has pledged to plant 10 billion trees in Pakistan alone.

And we in the developed world must recognise our obligation to help.

We started this industrial revolution in Britain: we were the first to send the great puffs of acrid smoke to the heavens on a scale to derange the natural order.

And though we were setting in train a new era of technology that was itself to lead to a massive global reduction in poverty, emancipating billions around the world, we were also unwittingly beginning to quilt the great tea cosy of CO2 and so we understand when the developing world looks to us to help them and we take our responsibilities.

And that’s why two years ago I committed that the UK would provide £11.6 billion to help the rest of the world to tackle climate change and in spite of all the pressures on finances caused by Covid, we have kept that promise to the letter.

And I am so pleased and encouraged by some of the pledges we have heard here at UNGA, including from Denmark, and now a very substantial commitment from the US that brings us within touching distance of the $100 billion pledge.

But we must go further, and we must be clear that government alone will not be able to do enough.

We must work together so that the international financial institutions – the IMF, the World Bank – are working with governments around the world to leverage in the private sector, because it is the trillions of dollars of private sector cash that will enable developing nations – and the whole world – to make the changes necessary.

It was the UK government that set the strike price for the private sector to come in and transform our country into the Saudi Arabia of wind, and only yesterday the UK’s first sovereign green bond raised £10 billion on the markets, from hard-headed investors who want to make money.

And these investments will not only help the countries of the world to tackle climate change: they will produce millions and millions of high wage, high skill jobs, and today’s workforce and the next generation will have the extra satisfaction of knowing that they are not only doing something useful - such as providing clean energy - but helping to save the planet at the same time.

And every day green start-ups are producing new ideas, from feeding seaweed to cows to restrain their traditional signs of digestive approval, to using AI and robotics to enhance food production.

And it is these technological breakthroughs that will cut the cost for consumers, so that we have nothing to fear and everything to gain from this green industrial revolution.

And when Kermit the frog sang It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green, I want you to know he was wrong - and he was also unnecessarily rude to Miss Piggy.

We have the technology: we have the choice before us.

Sophocles is often quoted as saying that there are many terrifying things in the world, but none is more terrifying than man, and it is certainly true that we are uniquely capable of our own destruction, and the destruction of everything around us.

But what Sophocles actually said was that man is deinos and that means not just scary but awesome - and he was right.

We are awesome in our power to change things and awesome in our power to save ourselves, and in the next 40 days we must choose what kind of awesome we are going to be.

I hope that COP26 will be a 16th birthday for humanity in which we choose to grow up, to recognise the scale of the challenge we face, to do what posterity demands we must, and I invite you in November to celebrate what I hope will be a coming of age and to blow out the candles of a world on fire.

See you in Glasgow.

Now, those Joneses who are depressed and discouraged because they don’t have Djonald Trump to lift up their spirits and brighten their day… unless they could go down to the George State Fairgrounds Saturday and participate in another maskless, vaxxless Super Spreader Rally… have something to feel good about.

Shouldn’t we all?

SEPTEMBER 17 – SEPTEMBER 23

Friday, September 17, 2021

Infected: 42,050,792

Dead: 673,474

Dow: 34,526.34

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Apart from the liberal/woke/conservative designation of code of Latino/a, LatinX and Hispanic, 91 year old labor leader Dolores Huerta, profiled on NBC insists: “The fight goes on.”

They’re not exactly Hispanic… perhaps Franco-African… anyway, thirteen thousand more Haitian migrants flee their assassination and earthquake prone sh*thole to camp out under a bride in Texas enraging, of course, Gov. Abbott.

Christmas lumps of coal impending as ocean shipping backlog causes shortages of toys from China (Americans are too proud to make our own), looming double-digit price spikes for Christmas trees and natural gas for cookin’ that turkey, and the last brick n’mortar Sears store ascends to that boneyard in the sky.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Infected: 42,087,432

Dead: 673,763

FDA greenlights booster shots for seniors, at-risk workers and the immune-compromised, but nixes shots for the rest of us. Bureaucrats still wrangling over kiddie vaxxs… plague blamed for childhood obesity. De-recalled Gov. Newsom (D-Ca) celebrates, but his vaxx-denied kids get it. So do comedian Chris Rock, plus six lions and three tigers at the D.C. National Zoo.

The law wins some, loses others… Brian Laundrie, “boyfriend” of cute l’il Gabby rabbits as the bodies pile up. His family says he’s not fleeing, he’s “hiding” and authorities are dumbfounded all the same. Not-so-loony lawyer Murdagh avoids jail by checking into rehab as the bodies pile up. But Colorado school shooter gets life without, and real estate tycoon Robert Durst is finally convicted of murder after… what… 20, 30 years?

Tom Manger of the Capitol Police says “we don’t want a replay” of the one-six… and they don’t get it. (See above)

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Infected: 42,287,762 Dead: 676,075

Inspiration Four’s four civilianauts splash down, and meet and beat their goal of $200 million pledged to charity.

Dr. Fauci goes along to get along with redlighting of vaxxes… says “we don’t have enough details.” Details? Unvaxxed get it and might die. Those who take the shot get a pain in the arm. FDA and CDC dispute Israeli definition of “severe” illness, will “fine tune” said details and hope to start shooting up by Halloween. Meanwhile, more kids get it and die; a school official explains: “We are experiencing a pandemic while recovering from a pandemic.” Of those who can get shot, 2% become long haulers. Refusenik gets it… and is then refused by 164 hospitals before obtaining treatment.

Pro-riot riot fizzles, then fails. (See above) Liberals ask whether Trump’s influence is fading.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Infected: 42,510,677

Dead: 678,420 Dow: 33,970.47

Pentagon admits drone strike goof – 10 killed include 7 children and an aid worker filling canisters of water mistaken for explosives. Politicians proposed giving families of droned children money. Replies an Afghan father: “they were all innocent, like my cute daughter.

Things looking bleak for cute Gabby. Remains found in Wyoming will be analyzed on Tuesday, “boyfriend” said to be hiding in National Park full of snakes and gators. Justice pending?

Violent weekend all over America. 24 shot, 5 die in Chicago by Sunday, 44 by Monday. Grandson of Cleveland mayor killed as are volunteer firemen in Pennsylvania, Cop killing in Texas, school shooting in Virginia… and there’s even a school shooting at the University of Perm in Russia!

Along with gunfire, this is the weekend of looks back and rank taken… country music rednecks blast Rolling Stone’s top 500 recordings of all time, Time’s list of 100 important people includes Billie Eilish, called an “innovater”. (See Attachment One)

Stock market mini-meltdown, Dow drops below 34,000. SecTrez Yellin warns Congress they have to raise the debt ceiling.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Infected: 42,545,119 Dead: 681,197

Dow: 33,919.81

It’s the UN’s International Day of Peace. Cowboy border agents on horseback horsewhip Haitian migrants and the FBI promises to investigate. President Joe makes a nice speech and then K-poppers BTS rock the UN, promoting vaxxing.

Wyoming authorities autopsy remains believed to be those of cute li’l blonde Gabby after her “boyfriend” leaves his parents’ home and disappears into a snake n’ alligator populated swamp “nature preserve”, allegedly to “meditate”. The FBI is baffled. TV crimefighter John Walsh calls the case a “comedy of errors” and the parents “the dirty Laundries” who ought to be charged with… something. A Utah park ranger steps forward and says she told Gabby that her relationship was “toxic” after Brian Laundrie beat her up.

Brazilian Minister of Health gets it – plague. Harvey Weinstein gets it – blindness. The first Texas abortion-abetting doctor is fingered by vigilantes and sued.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Infected: 42,551,992

Dead: 682,016

Dow: 34,258.32

It’s world rhino day. The San Diego Zoo shows off its new baby white rhino. Old white RINOs join MAGAtrump Senators in Washington plots to destroy Biden’s infrastructure plans and shut down the government while liberal Democrats are distracted by ongoing border crisis.

Wyoming autopsy confirms the remains are those of Gabby. Boyfriend remains at large (perhaps in the swamp, perhaps already chomped on by gators) and lawyers insist he’s still a “person of interest”, not upgradable to a suspect. Justice, however slow, lumbers on – 1996 cold case killing of Krista Smart finally goes to trial.

Worldwide angry-ness escalates. A German refusenik murders a mask-asking gas station cashier, an American guzzler, enraged over being served warm beer, assaults the server. But a NYC denizen gets good news… a winning $442M lottery ticket.

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Infected: 42,672,780

Dead: 684,347

Dow: 34,789.43

Backlash on border rodeo where agents on horseback horsewhipped Haitian refugees and drove them back to Mexico; some all the way to Monterrey. Daniel Foote, Special Envoy to Haiti resigns in protest… immigration spokesman replies: “Our agents are well trained… and so are their horses.

The week ends as it began… hot and dry in the West, flooded in the East, yet another hurricane (Sam) on the way and Americans everywhere murdering each other at a record pace. Gunman shoots 13 people, then himself, at a Memphis grocery; students shot, one killed, at Louisville bus stop – the tale of the toll is 3,054 children shot, so far, 575 under the age of eleven. And the CDC votes 9 to 6 to prohibit booster shots for health care workers… rotsa ruck, nurses!

President Joe cites “productive, candid” discussions on infrastructure bills that most others pronounce dead of partisanship, like the police reform measures proposed in the wake of George Floyd. The time draws nearer and nearer to a government shutdown that both parties agree will hurt the other faction worse in November. As for the country – well, fuhgeddabout it!

THE DON JONES INDEX CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000 (REFLECTING… approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013) See a further explanation of categories here… ECONOMIC INDICES (60%)

DON JONES’ PERSONAL ECONOMIC INDEX
(45% of TOTAL INDEX POINTS)

CATEGORY	VALUE	BASE	RESULTS			SCORE	SCORE	OUR SOURCES and COMENTS
INCOME	24%	6/17/13	LAST	CHANGE	NEXT	9/17/21	9/17/21	SOURCE
Wages (hourly, per capita)	9%	1350 points	9/17/21	+0.15%	10/01/21	1,469.68	1,471.95	*https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages* 25.95 25.99
Median Income (yearly)	4%	600	9/17/21	+0.025%	10/01/21	673.85	674.02	*http://www.usdebtclock.org/* 35,642 51**
*Unempl. (BLS – in millions	4%	600	9/17/21	-3.85%	10/01/21	386.04	386.04	*http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000/ 5.2% nc*
*Official (DC – in millions)	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.05%	10/01/21	465.37	465.15	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 8,392 396
*Unofficl. (DC – in millions)	2%	300	9/17/21	-7.07%	10/01/21	377.66	404.36	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 15,342 4,329
Workforce Participtn. Number Percent	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.01% -0.08%	10/01/21	318.56	318.31	In 153,195 210 Out 100,068 065 Total: 253,263 275 *http://www.usdebtclock.org/* 60.54
WP % (ycharts)*	1%	150	9/17/21	+0.16%	10/01/21	152.48	152.48	*https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate* 61.70 nc
OUTGO	(15%)
Total Inflation	7%	1050	9/17/21	+0.3%	10/01/21	980.21	977.27	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.3 nc
Food	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.4%	10/01/21	276.14	275.04	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.4
Gasoline	2%	300	9/17/21	+2.8%	10/01/21	262.35	255.00	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +2.8
Medical Costs	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.3%	10/01/21	286.20	285.34	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.3
Shelter	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.2%	10/01/21	288.77	288.19	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.2
WEALTH	(6%)
*Dow* Jones Index	2%	300	9/17/21	-0.00003%	10/01/21	377.46	377.45988	*https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DJIA* 34,764.83 34,764.82
Home (Sales) (Valuation)	1% 1%	150 150	5/21/21	-1.84% -0.89%	10/01/21	174.07 181.13	170.87 179.52	https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M): 5.99 5.88 Valuations (K): 359.9 356.7
Debt (Personal)	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.02%	10/01/21	270.87	270.87@	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 65,064 @ 65,115

	AMERICAN ECONOMIC INDEX (15% of TOTAL INDEX POINTS)
NATIONAL	(10%)
Revenue (trilns.)	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.18%	10/01/21	328.99	329.59	debtclock.org/ 3,847 854
Expenditures (tr.)	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.09%	10/01/21	218.62	218.43	debtclock.org/ 6,853 859
National Debt tr.)	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.08%	10/01/21	319.89	319.63	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 28,772 795
Aggregate Debt (tr.)	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.09%	10/01/21	367.48	367.16	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 86,043 119

GLOBAL	(5%)
Foreign Debt (tr.)	2%	300	9/17/21	+0.03%	10/01/21	290.19	290.11	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 7,235 237
Exports (in billions)	1%	150	9/17/21	+2.46%	10/01/21	189.01	189.01	*https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html* 212.8 nc
Imports (bl.)	1%	150	9/17/21	- 0.18%	10/01/21	116.36	116.36	*https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html* 282.9
Trade Deficit (bl.)	1%	150	9/17/21	+1.43%	10/01/21	98.63	98.63	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html 70.1
SOCIAL INDICES (40%)
ACTS of MAN	(12%)
World Affairs	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.1	10/01/21	384.42	384.80	NoKo and SoKo exchange missiles – Kim’s Kidds have to resort to railroad launchers to do the deed. Back to 1899! Angry French recall ambassador over US-UK-Aussie nuclear sub deal. BoJo flies to address the UN, too, talks about Muppets, then takes tea with President Joe. (More on this next week!)
Terrorism	2%	300	9/17/21	-0.3	10/01/21	221.40	220.74	Pentagon admits drone strike on suspected terrorist killed an Afghan aid worker loading cans with water and 7 children – offers money to the victims’ families. Hotel Rwanda hero accused of terrorism. Taliban follows up working woman ban with prohibition of music.
Politics	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.4	10/01/21	435.98	437.72	Trump says he will support (but not attend) Saturday’s pro-riot riot which, consequently, fizzles out (See above) but everybody has a good time and nobody gets killed. His influence is said to be “waning”, but his fundraising choogles on, he’ll hold another mega-MAGA rally on Saturday at the Georgia State Fair. Beto will repeat his quest for the Governorship of Texas, probably facing off agains Magic Mike (Matt McConagjy) in the primary. Awright, awright!
Economics	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.2	10/01/21	407.10	407.91	TreaSec Yellin orders Congress to raise the Debt Ceiling, or suffer the consequences as the latest inflation target is natural gas and Sears closes last store in Illinois. Fed Reserves holds steady but holds out hope/fear of higher rates after Xmas; Fed Ex will impose higher “fuel” fees for Xmas and raise all prices thereafter. Dow tumbles as Chinese real estate behemoth Evangrande collapses, then bounces back as Commie govt. “prepares” for the catastrophe.
Crime	1%	150	9/17/21	-0.2%	10/01/21	239.70	239.22	Post-moratorium chickens roost as Maine evictee kills landlord while homeless man kills gym manager in fee refund dispute. Active shooter in Memphis grocery puts 13 notches on his gun, then turns it on himself while billion dollar Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes leans on board member Gen. James Mattis, who served with George Shulz and Henry Kissinger. Baffled prosecutors ask: “…what do these people know about blood?”

ACTS of GOD	(6%)
Environment/Weather	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.1%	10/01/21	400.46	400.86	Hurricanes Peter and Rose see what’s happening in America and veer northeast towards Europe. Next up: Sam and Teresa. Late nite comedians devote Wednesday shows to climate change as the UN jostles and investors shrug.
Natural/Unnatural Disaster	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.3	10/01/21	401.56	402.76	California wildfires burn on; menace General Sherman… the world’s oldest/tallest tree… saved by clever firefighters and lots and lots of silver mylar. No sooner than statements by astronomers that volcanoes probably killed life on Mars than a lava gusher erupts in the Canary Islands - 5,000 residents and 500 tourists evacuated and acid rain is on the way. 5.9 EQ in Melbourne, Australia… much damage, no fatalities.
LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX (15%)
Science, Tech, Education	4%	600	9/17/21	+0.6%	10/01/21	680.70	684.78	Inspiration Four’s four civilians touch down, reportedly meeting and beating their goal of $200M for charity.
Equality (econ/social)	4%	600	9/17/21	-0.3%	10/01/21	559.18	557.50	Florida leading the race to be first to copycat Texas abortion vigilante law and ‘ReTalicans speak openly of SCOTUS repealing Roe v. Wade in a year or two, even though two-thirds of Joneses support it.
Health Plague	4%	600	9/17/21	-0.2% nc	10/01/21	492.69 - 103.33	491.70 - 103.33	Listerians smack down uber-healthy kale. Boppy Company recalls killer kiddie loungers (toddlers should be exploring, not lounging). Covid death toll tops that of the 1918 Spanish flu. FDA greenlights boosters for the elderly, healthcare workers and immuno-compromised, redlights it for the 16 to 65 folks (Dr. Fauci concurs, “not enough information”) and keeps shuffling papers while schoolkids die. 2% of child victims get long hauler syndrome. (The plague is also blamed for a plague of childhood obesity.) Overwhelmed cities order new morgues. Vaxx refusenik gets it, 169 red state hospitals refuse treatment – he has to be airlifted to Connecticut for treatment.
Freedom and Justice	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.5%	10/01/21	459.11	461.41	Off to jail go aides Michael Sussman (Hillary’s… he made a false statement to the FBI), Djonald’s felonious four… the (Democratic) House Riot Committee fingering Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino and Man About Here and There Steve Bannon… and His Execrability’s 2016 fundraisers Jesse Benton and Doug Wead are busted for laundering campaign contributions from Russia. Real estate baron Robert Durst convicted of murder.


MISCELLANEOUS and TRANSIENT INDEX (7%)
Cultural incidents	3%	450	9/17/21	+0.2%	10/01/21	526.69	527.74	Jeopardy winner Ken Jennings replaces disgraced Michael Richards as host. Ted Lasso and The Crown sweep the Emmys. RIP Rodney King videographer George Holiday, actors Anthony A. J. Johnson and Willy (“Sex & the City”) Gerson, singer Sarah Dash (LaBelle), blaxploitation godfather Melvin (“Sweet Sweetback”) van Peebles. Reforming: the Fugees (inc. Lauren Hill, Wycliffe Jean). Performing: lotsa stars for Prince Harry’s “Wokestock” Global Citizen anti-poverty concert and shaming fest next Saturday.
Miscellaneous incidents	4%	450	9/17/21	+0.2%	10/01/21	485.97	486.94	Anderson Cooper discourses on Vanderbiltish ancestors – Commodore Cornelius made 100M in his day (larger than the US treasury but only 2 billion in today’s money at which tech dudes would snicker). DoorDash to deliver alcohol in 20 states including Illinois, where Guinness to open a brewery in Chicago. Mom braves waist-high raw sewage to rescue toddler who fell down a manhole.

The Don Jones Index for the week of September 17th through September 23, 2021 was UP 32.83@ points.

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ATTACHMENT ONE – From Time

ICONS

· Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

· Naomi Osaka

· Alexei Navalny

· Britney Spears

· Sherrilyn Ifill

· Dolly Parton

· Shohei Ohtani

· Cathy Park Hong

· Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara