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Category: Socionomics
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Monday Feb 8 2010 From the latest on Socionomics at the EWT website. Students have expressed puzzlement at my comment that he public is angry and social mood is negative. Here are some observations about what is going on. Increasingly negative social mood is overtaking politics — and the U.S. stock market. A recent…
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Thursday Feb 4 2010 When I was an undergrad students were protesting the Vietnam War, and various administration policies. Now they are protesting the administration itself. Again Mish details that students at Yuba Community College are protesting a $30,000 raise for the Community College Chancellor's $250,000 salary. Now go re read my post two back about…
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Friday Jan 29 2010 Click on the chart for a larger view. The red and blue lines are exponential moving averages MAs. The red and black bars are the price ranges for stocks in a week long activity. In the summer of 2007 we got a crossover of the MAs to the downside, this is…
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You will recall that our political heroes, the Federal Government, now own Chrysler and GM. In a classic, hit em while they are down strategy, Congress now plans hearings on the hung accelerator story at Toyota. Apparently the problem is actually a misaligned floor mat. The same sort of unintended acceleration story nearly sunk…
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Jan 21 2009 Thursday Most futuristic films seems to take an apocalyptic view of what is going to happen, which is to say disaster. My wife wants to see The Book of Eli, I read the reviews, have not seen it yet, but it got me to thinking about the socionomic implications of such films.…
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Malcolm Gladwell has become one of our best selling authors. I have read Outliers and just finished Blink. This book is all about first impressions, and that means really fast first impressions. The TSA harasses people at airports. The Israelis are trained to look at people's eyes and determine who is the most likely person to…
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James Cameron's $300 M Avatar epic is a box office smash, world wide. Interestingly the number two film, Sherlock Holmes! No doubt this introduces a whole generation of younger folk who certainly do not read, so seeing Sherlock is the introduction. I have not seen Sherlock but find the description of martial arts stuff (obviously…
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Wednesday Dec 23, 2009 Barack Obama's disapproval ratings are up to 46%, and this is just his first year. This is no surprise to a student of socionomics, the trend and mood are down! Remember out template is the period from 1966-1982. We are now well into the 1970s. If Bush was Nixon, Obama is…
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Tuesday Dec 22 2009 Rush Limbaugh has been named Radio Personality of the Decade by Mediaweek, a leading industry magazine and Web site. Mediaweek also named Apple’s Steve Jobs as Marketer of the Decade, “The Sopranos” the TV Show of the Decade, Rupert Murdoch the Media Executive of the Decade, YouTube the Web Site of…
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Well so much for cowboys and where the west begins, Texas tops the list of US universities offering courses on vampires. Literature, sociology, you name it. UT Austin, the class is now at 250 and growing, TCU, and gads, Texas Tech now offer courses on our they live by night friends. You heard it on…
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