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Monday March 8, 2021 Andy Kessler is one of the newer columns for the WSJ appearing on Monday along with the wonderful Mary O Grady. He has a tech and securities background. A few weeks ago at DJIA 30,000 he was warning of a top. Today he recounts past downturns. His conclusion is worth reading…
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Thursday Feb 4 2021 I often think we should have a business history class. Manias and ethical lapses are nothing new. We will be asking our teams to address some of these past manias in our on line classes. The Original Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds Railway Mania of 1840s UK…
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Thursday Jan 28 2021 My investing blog The Market Perspective has featured numerous examples of top market action. https://professorelam.typepad.com/markets/ Yesterday the DJIA declines 600+ points while Gamestop and AMC went viral with massive volume and price moves. There is much to learn from this, here are our library links to articles on yesterday's action. https://search-proquest-com.tamusa.idm.oclc.org/news/publication/10482/citation/1345C2EA7187C9E3374/6?accountid=130967&decadeSelected=2020…
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Christmas Day 2020 Dennis and Peter, Warm greetings to you this holiday season. As the year draws to a close, it is my pleasure to announce the winner of the 2020 Socionomics Foundation Scholarship Competition. For the past four years, the Foundation has awarded a $1,000 prize to the student who writes…
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Wed Nov 18 2020 WMT announced that shopping habits have permanently changed. WMT notes that people spend more shopping on line. WMT has seen this and acted appropriately. The company reported U.S. comp sales rose 6.4% during the third quarter, with most of this gain coming from e-commerce. Walmart said in its quarterly report…
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Thursday October 22 2020 Matt Lampert was on Stuart Varney's show today. Matt predicted an 87% probability Trump would win based on their studies of all Presidential Elections. Their research tied re election chances to the stock market, as much as it has been up, they think that will cinch it for Trump..
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Weekend October 2 2020 Socionomics stipulates that internally generated mood drives social action. It is unremembered and constantly fluctuating. The result of this is that society is continually making the same mistakes made generations before and after, again and again. This graph of Marathon's acquisition of Andeavor makes the point. Follow the time line…
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Weekend Sept 26 2020 In ACCT 5308 we are reading about frauds and scandals at Ernst and Young, three n less accused fraud at Nikola via Hindenburg Research Rio Tinto CEO resigns over exploding historic site J P Morgan to pay $1 billion fine Frauds and excessive hype occur at market tops which is precisely…
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Wed Sept 23 2020 check out this link for the Socionomics Institute study of all Presidential Elections in the US https://www.elliottwave.com/Social-Mood/See-THREE-Dow-Levels-You-Need-to-Know-to-Predict-the-2020-Election?sc_camp=74323903FE504FD89615F7AE521EF551&utm_source=ewi&utm_medium=emdep&utm_campaign=2020elec&utm_content=3levels&rcn=200923elec1 If the market keeps repeating this past Monday and today Wednesday, Trump maybe in trouble.
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Wed Sept 16 2020 Who will win the 2020 presidential election? Many pundits talk about the economy as the deciding factor. But did you know that the stock market is a more powerful presidential re-election indicator than GDP, inflation and the unemployment rate combined? It's true. That was one key finding of a 2012 paper…
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