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Category: Socionomics
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Sunday Jan 31, 2011 The Correction Gets a Foothold We titled last weekend’s update ‘Correction Under Way.’ We showed that five waves appeared to be complete from our buy signal at the July lows. We also showed that the Summation Index for the New York Stock Exchange was decidedly lower indicating reduced market participation in…
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Martha Stewart is attempting to re invent her company once again by taking over the Hallmark Channel. So far the results are not promising. This is a pretty good article on socionomics though I doubt the writer realizes it. He notes that Cher is on magazine covers for Burlesque, Oprah is going Cable amid falling ratings,…
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Sunday Dec 5, 2010 Jeff Bridges, movies have been much more successful during bear markets. His first big film was in The Last Picture Show (1971) as Cybill Shepherd’s luckless boyfriend. The name of the film, the theme, and the timing were bear market highlights. The film tells the story of a small Texas town…
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Monday Nov 22 2010 We are in a parallel of 1968-1982. That was a time of protest movements. The TSA has provided the perfect opportunity for everyone FED UP with their tactics to protest, such protest are already under way or should we say under wear. Click the link to read that one protestor stripped to his…
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Sunday Nov 14, 2010 On October 24, 2010 I made the socionomic observation that UT Football Coach Mack Brown had thrown a temper tantrum. He said his team make that the UT team, 'stunk.' What happened is that the team and then the coach, (or was it the other way round?) experienced a downturn in…
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Monday Oct 25, 2010 Surprise surprise, engineering, CSI, Accounting make more right out of college than liberal arts. A dynamic that one might miss is this, there are simply too many liberal arts and humanities majors for the 'market' to possibly absorb them, hence it is difficult to stand out and supply continues to trump…
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Sunday Sept 19, 2010 Western Artist G. Harvey, chosen to depict Lyndon Johnson’s boyhood home, Is having an exhibition in Fredricksburg, TX. But here is what caught my eye. – The month’s exhibition and sale of new Harvey works-which has the reverberating force of a cattle stampede in the exclusive Western art world- is…
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Thursday July 29, 2010 This last two weeks has seen self doubt, cross currents of opinion, and expectations of dramatic market action surface. Luminaries such as Barton Biggs have seemingly gone from bear to bull, as did Richard Russell. Others like Arch Crawford believe we will see a sort of repeat of the Harmonic Convergence…
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Friday July 16, 2010 Self Serving Bureaucracies The bill "is a 2,300-page legislative monster…that expands the scope and the powers of ineffective bureaucracies," said Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.). "We failed completely to understand the complexity of what the impact of the national decline in housing prices would be in the financial system," said Ms.…
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