Professor Elam
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Category: Socionomics
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Tuesday Nov 7, 2017 Lots of news in the WSJ as always but several stories speak to the rapid increase in positive social mood, let's take a look. Positive mood is inclusionary. This results in new alliances. Typically we see mergers and acquisitions at market tops, never at market bottoms when company prices are the…
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Monday Nov 6, 2017 Disney is looking to purchase Fox Movie Studios. Read the story and you will see endless rationalizations for this sale now. But the truth of the matter is as simple as positive social mood. Positive moves markets up, hello DJIA 23,500. And that kind of mood generates inclusion. And so Fox…
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Weekend Oct 20, 2017 Here is an interview with Robert Prechter. He has just published the fourth and fifth volumes of his series on socionomics. My review is here for Society and Culture. My research interest is in how social mood drives market action. I just received volumes four and five and they will be…
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2017 Check ou the graph on the back page of Section Two of today's WSJ. Spencer Jakab shows how each ten year slice of DJIA history ended badly in its 7th year, as in 1987. The glaring exception is this year. Bob Prechter has mapped out an elaborate Fibonacci metric suggesting the…
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Thursday Sept 14, 2017 Masik.com has created a line of, yes, college fragrances. The idea is to create or re create your college experience via a fragrance. Katie Masik is a chemical engineering graduate from Bucknell University. She had to learn the fragrance industry as well as how to partner with universities. Her first…
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Tuesday Sept 12 2017 I recall hat FDR had a solution for defeating Russian communism. His suggestion was to smuggle millions of Sears catalogs into the Soviet Union. The citizens would be shocked and amazed at what they saw, realizing just how far behind their country was in providing creature comforts. Former Navy Seal Jocko…
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Sunday Sept 10 2017 https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/09/10/six-ways-stephen-kings-it-has-already-made-box-office-history/#7a762f3b9494 This is Socionomics in action, the mood change is happening before our eyes, but only a trained Socionomist would see it.
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Friday Sept 8 2017 Markets in Limbo, Social Mood Down Trending The rebooted “It” earns the highest compliment of a horror movie. “It” is worthy of the hype. It’s the details in the script, production design, and music that boost the movie to a higher horror movie tier. It is in fact Chapter 1 of…
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Wed Sept 6 2017 In the syllabus I mention that the study of how endogenously generated social mood results in social events is the center of my research interest. Follow the links in the syllabus for an introduction or click here for an introduction to the basics of the theory. Coventional wisdom has it that…
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Weekend Sept 3 2017 Never Mind the Price, Where’s the Gasoline LONDON—Gasoline futures continued to soar Friday morning, as the after-effects of Hurricane Harvey heralded potentially fundamental long-term shifts in global oil and gas markets. The price of Nymex reformulated gasoline blendstock for September—the benchmark contract—was up nearly 14%, at $2.1470 a gallon, following eight…
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