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Category: Socionomics
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Sunday July 11, 2010 Mark Steyn recently had a column suggesting that dependence on government could easily change in two generations. He cited how Europe had quickly embraced the state cradle to grave security system, so much for the plucky adventurer in life. A recent interview on one of the television business channels offers the…
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Sunday June 20, 2010 We have initiated market coverage at Market Perspectives. Click for a link to that blog where we will market observations. That blog combines socionomics, business history, accounting analysis, and technical analysis.
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Saturday June 12, 2010 Behold the Elephant It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. John Godfrey Saxe, 1816-1887 We re in a period of prolonged economic stagnation. This is the inevitable…
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Thursday May 13, 2010 Seven days ago I posted the graph showing the one day 1,000 point collapse in the Dow. I called it your job prospects. My point is that attempts to 'rescue or bail out' irresponsible world debtors are all failing. Please click on the links at left, the headlines on the Ambrose…
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Sunday May 9, 2010 If the breakdown last Thursday was a mistake, markets would have snapped back on Friday, instead the markets dropped again, all gains for the entire year have now been erased, in one week no less. My initial success in trading markets started in 1983, I realized (after studying various charts) that…
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Saturday May 1, 2010 Happy Days are Here Again Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. surpassed profit expectations for the first quarter, crediting Texas' resilient economy for the performance. “My colleagues and I believe the worst of the recession is now behind us,” Cullen/Frost Chairman and CEO Dick Evans told analysts in a conference call Wednesday. “The economic…
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Sunday April 18 2010 The Government has a habit of attacking business success at the top of the markets. Radio Corporation of America was the tech stand out of the 1920s, the Federal Govt sued RCA at the end of the market run up. The SEC began investigating Drexel in 1986, the market would crash…
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Tuesday April 13, 2010 News reports would have you believe that disappointing earnings from Alcoa Aluminum brought the stock market rally to a screeching halt. The fact of the matter is that news is sort of a white noise to the stock market. Popular opinion and mood has much more to do with stock prices,…
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Sunday March 21 2010 Tom Wolf opened his best seller The Right Stuff with a search team in a swamp near an Air Force Base. Lots of pilots go down, why? Lots of reasons but among them was the techie that was so intent on watching the instruments he did not look outside the canopy,…
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Wed March 10 2010 The black approve has approached the red disapprove. The spread has narrowed to near nothing in the bottom histogram. But wait, the White House sees this graph as well. My bet? This is why Obama is making a full court press on Health Care and has a date. His approval rating…
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