Friday Feb  28, 2020 Has the Financial Bubble Finally Popped? .Look for a needed pullback in stock prices and lower oil prices over the next month. Last line of this column Feb 23 This column and the website, themarketperspective.com, have cataloged numerous examples of ‘top market’ social mood thinking over the last several weeks. We…

Posted Tues Feb 11 2020 Tough Mudder  has hit hard times, yep it is in bankruptcy proceedings. And the trustee wants to sell it to Spartan Race. Yep who wouldn't pay good money for a tough as nails endurance test, particularly in the mud! I am uring a student in ACCT 5308 to write on…

Posted Mo\onday Jan 27 2020 Students have access to back issues of the Socionomist since  2014, here is the link http://ezproxy.tamusa.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsu&jid=FDO8&site=ehost-live

Tuesday Jan 21, 2020 The Coronavirus is spreading in China. This may be simillar to  the  2003 SARS outbreak. The Chinese New Year is Saturday. Three billion trips are scheduled across China. UBLIC HEALTH Dangerous Virus Comes at Worst Possible Time for China Coronavirus might sound like Day 2 of your Cabo trip, but it's…

Tuesday Jan 7 2020   was just watching Jay Leno’s Garage on you tube. The subject is the AMR DB 11 V 12.   He is visiting with an Aston Martin test driver. At 6 45 in the interview, displayed bottom left   the AMR rep mentions the designer likes to use the Fibonacci series…

Tuesday Jan 7, 2020 The Fibonacci number series is such athat as one adds the numbers, each preceding number is 6..8% of the next number. 3+5=8 5/8= 6.25%   the smaller numbers are close as the number series progresses, the ratio becomes tighter Here is an introduction to the Fibonacci number series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number   Here…

Friday Nov 22, 2019 An alert student in BUAD 3192 made a good presentation on the rise of plant based meat substitutes. And he noted it is not just in meat but across the board into dairy and other products. I mentioned this to my frends at the Socionomic Institute, and guess what, they had…

Thursday Nov 7 2019 We track social mood for various asset classes.  Bit Popeye's Chicken Sandwich, is that an asset class?   As you will see on the videos, violence is breaking out over the sandwiches, or is this just a derivative of violent nature that has been under wraps to this point?

Tuesday Nov 5 2019 We’ll find out soon. Yesterday, Ferrari announced a fashion collaboration with Giorgio Armani as part of the sports car maker’s quest to become a multidimensional luxury company.  That takes a certain level of brand equity, but Ferrari thinks it’s got the horsepower. The goal is for branded goods to contribute 10%…

Weekend Oct 20 2019   https://www.thenational.ae/world/the-americas/protests-around-the-world-violent-clashes-hit-chile-hong-kong-lebanon-and-barcelona-1.925415