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Weekend Oct 18, 2015 Here is the Socionomics Institute pod cast Pop trends Price Culture
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Weekend Oct 11, 20115 A Forty Year Cycle Anniversary This week is the 50th anniversary of a event. That was the week the Ramsey Lewis Trio debuted their version of The In Crowd at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington DC. The live recording shot to the top of the charts right behind the Beatles…
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thursday Oct 8 2015 Fifty years ago this week Ramsey Lewis version of The In Crowd hit the charts just behind the Beatles, Help. It stayed on the charts for 47 weeks. This linked article explains how a suggestion by a waitress led to choosing an instrumental version of the song, which made the group famous.…
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Tuesday Sept 29, 2015 Ralph Nelson Elliott was an accountant by trade. During an protracted illness he began studying patters of stock market behavior. He concluded that mass human behavior occurred in a three steps forward, interrupted by two steps backward. He used his own name to term this the Elliott Wave Principle. Use this link to…
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Weekend Sept 27, 2015 Bad News Bears In bull markets, all news turns out positive. In bear markets, bad news tends to be, well, really bad. The classic example of news in a bull market is the Clinton Presidency. Whether the Republicans took over the House and Senate or the revelations of Monica, Bill seemed…
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Weekend Sept 26, 2015 You better stop, look aroundHere it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comesHere comes your nineteenth nervous breakdownOh, who's to blame, that girl's just insaneWell, nothing I do don't seem to workIt only seems to make the matters worse. Oh, please 19th Nervous Breakdown, the Rolling Stones…
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Friday Sept 25, 2015 CAT shares dropped 7% Thursday. Year to date the stock is down 25%. 2015 will be the third straight year os sales declines. CAT has been a bellwether for the world economy. As this article says CAT equipment is big and expensive. Purchases are always made as a result of exuberant…
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Wed Sept 9 2015 Here is a blog post from Venezuela. As he says the Greeks are just now beginning to suffer it has been going on in Venezuela for quite a spell.
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Wednesday August 12, 2015 Shake Shak now carries a market capitalization near that of Wendy's. But Wendy's has 71x more locations and 86x the revenue! A finance textbook would state that the value of a firm is the present value of future cash flows. Clearly that is NOT how Shake Shack is being valued. Shack is…
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Tuesday July 28, 2015 BP had its worst quarter in ten years. A write down on Libyan investment and the spill settlement took profits lower. Here is the WSJ summary. LOW OIL PRICES, DEEPWATER HORIZON DEAL HIT BP BP PLC swung to a loss in the second quarter, a victim of lower oil prices and a $9.8…
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