Category: Socionomics

  • Monday Sept 8 2014 I ws not aware of who invented e mail until today, now we know. And now the bride wears red,  and the groom wears red with flip flops, great for the beach I guess.

  • Wed June 10 2014 Socionoimics holds that social mood posits social action. Eric Cantor got a does of this in his failed re election bid. He had $5.4 M in funds, his opponent spent a mere $122,000. In times of social mood change, throw the bums out is a popular mood, which we are seeing now. No…

  • Monday April 28 2014 These countries are experiencing a net outflow of population.  It seems to me that a graph of the number of people rather than the percent would have been more informative. While the percentage leaving the Cook Islands is huge, I suspect that the number of people exiting Russia is much larger…

  • Wed April 56, 2014 The Bard turns 450 years old this week. Here are some common phrases coined by the playwright. Gee, who knew?

  • Weekend April  13, 2014 Social Mood We have been writing for some time  about a downturn in social mood. That downturn is now on display world wide. From massive demonstrations in Caracas, Venezuela to protests in Cuba to the unrest across North Africa to the refugee campus in Lebanon and Jordan to the take over…

  • Thursday April 3, 2014 I often discuss the reality and impact of social mood. Social mood causes stock and bond prices to vary literaly from minute to minute and certainly from month to month. The animal kingdom provides examples of this via schools of fish or flocks of birds. Here is a video of hundreds of…

  • Monday Feb 24 2014 Tom DeMark and Tom  McClellan have both looked at the chart of the market from 1929 versus today. Mark Hulbert comments on the similarities. One can see the same sort of pattern now. What do you think?

  • Weekend Feb 15 2014 A TAMUSA finance team entered in a contest guessed Rackspace would hit $80. It did for three days. Today it is less than half that collapsing 19% in one day as the CEO resigned.  RAX Two Year Weekly Chart with 13,34 Week Exponential Moving Averages RAX is the perfect example of…

  • Friday Nov 22 2013 I have posted some or part of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay on gifts the last several Christmas seasons. I have posted prior to the nutcase day otherwise known at Black Friday. On this day stores open at ridiculous early hours. Limited numbers of cut rate bgargains are offered to entice…

  • Weekend Oct 20 2013 Socionomics While markets have picked up, the themes at the theater are decidedly downbeat.  Robert Redford stars in a one man show with little to no dialog. in All is Lost. Here is the tag line. After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts…