Gravity Derailed Prosperity
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on January 31st, 2026
No matter what you’ve read, gravity will remain in effect for all of the 86,400 seconds of August 12, 2026. NASA has confirmed that the online rumor of seven seconds of weightlessness is baseless. They went so far as to reply to a Snopes.com inquiry indicating that “the Earth will not lose gravity on Aug. 12, 2026. Earth's gravity, or total gravitational force, is determined by its mass. The only way for the Earth to lose gravity would be for the Earth system, the combined mass of its core, mantle, crust, ocean, terrestrial water, and atmosphere, to lose mass.” What a time to be alive.
Economics is subject to rumors as well. Worries are growing, but concerns about a looming collapse are unfounded. According to this GDP forecast of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, they believe America’s economy grew at an annualized rate of over 5% from October through December 2025. Now that is the type of levitation we’d like to see.
The official fourth quarter GDP release has been delayed by about a month as the Bureau of Economic Analysis continues playing data catch up after last year’s government shutdown (the longest ever). Further, the Economic Cycle Research Institute (a favorite of Atlas’) confirmed in this interview with Bloomberg that an inflationary spiral is not in the cards and that the American economy remains “exceptional.”
America’s labor market is relatively well-anchored as well. There has been some weakening but nothing so material that one needs to fret about the unemployment rate suddenly levitating in an unusual manner, causing the type of catastrophe one might expect on earth after seven seconds of weightlessness.
August 12, 2026, will be here before you know it. The temperatures will be warmer, and this note from Atlas is likely to be fully forgotten. Fortunately, there is a scientific phenomenon happening that day which may remind you of this important notice, a solar eclipse. Unfortunately, it won’t be visible from the U.S., that is unless the scuttlebutt about Greenland becoming part of the country actually comes to fruition.
