Professor Elam

Socionomics

Market tops are accompanied by bold colors and expansive displays of wealth. At the same time fractal negative readings are occurring. We have highlighted many of these the last few days and found a few more worth mentioning

In the San Antonio we learn of Bold spring

Courageous color, gutsy prints, fearless fabrics — there's nothing shy about spring fashion.

Consider Ralph Lauren's jumbo ruffles, Rachel Zoe's androgynous leather and Tadashi Shoji's nearly neon lace. And then, there are Marc Jacobs' whopping stripes — loudest in black and white.

Bold modern floral motifs and other unexpected digitally produced prints from photographs of nature and people are also among spring's extraordinary — and wearable — works of art.

William Flynn, a Cape Cod Barber, ran $150,000 into $500,000. He has been through two booms andbusts in the thirteen years since. The article details that his barber shop has gone from a hub of investment speculation to Wall Street being a taboo topic. I mention this as the perfect example of someone who failed to realize the change from an 18 year period of expansion, 1982-2000, to a period of stagnation, 2000-present. The best bet is that we now have yet another big fall ahead of us, this would duplicate past such period. 

We hope that reading TMP will allow you to avoid the kind of mistakes that still plague Mr. Flynn's barber shop. 

And finally we hope you are getting the idea of expressions of social mood at the top. Faster, bigger, bolder, expansive. Seeking to break records not only on the racetrack but at sea as well, on again offagain Maserati has found a home with Ferrari.Maseratil has sponsored a sailboat which just set a new record on the New York to San Francisco  round the tip of South America at  Patagonia voyage. 

Or as Hal Holbrook remarked to Charlie Sheen in Wall Street, 'enjoy it while it lasts son, cause it never does.'

Does a car companhy helping set a sailing record sell more cars, I wonder…