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Instead of the latest Tony Scott version, rent the original with Robert Shaw (Jaws, From Russia with Love) and Walter Mathau (yes that Walter Mathau, Out to Sea, The Odd Couple). The newer version has lots of camera motion and even more bad language whether needed or not. Interestingly the original was released in 1974,…
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Drag Me to Hell is down 23% in popularity this week, well hat's the good news. And the movie, reading the review, does not live up to its name but that is besides the point. The current titles at any video store reflect just this sort of popular genre. In a recent presentation on socionomics,…
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THE TREASURY COULD NET $1 billion to $1.2 billion from the sale today of warrants on shares of JPMorgan Chase (ticker: JPM) that it received as part of the government's TARP investment in the New York bank, derivative traders tell Barron's. The 88.4 million warrants, which carry a strike price of $42.42 and a maturity date in nine years…
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A former managing partner at Morgan remarks on the tend of Goldman partners buying pistols. I distributed the article about Goldman in class written by Bob Prechter's EWT group. Gee look like he called that one right. As the public mood sours on Wall Street, they will look for the villains behind the curtain, With…
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This is a SERIOUS post.. Now those of you only interested in the tawdry, salacious rumor sort of thing might miss the serious significance of this post but I will try anyway. Socionomics holds that public figures tend to show their clay feet at the top of markets. Now this has been going on for…
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Okay it's not the Cover of the Rolling Stone but my comments on socionomics quoted in a USA Today article.
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Okay the truth is out, the dancing stars have the lean sprayed on. It certainly beats the going to the gym right, and doing it the hard way! Read this wsj article on just how far make-up has come.
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WE have tirelessly tracked, someone has to do it, the popularity of the vampire movies with the downturn in the economy. I suspect stocks topped this past week which makes the New Moon timing about perfect. Dan Glaser went with his daughter, I will have to ask his impressions. From Wired.com The Twilight Saga: New…
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Regarding the similarities between now and the late 1960s, 41 students barricaded themselves in a UC Berkelely building protesting an increase in student fees. Now admittedly there may be a requirement that students occupy buildings in a protest fashion just to keep up appearances at UCB for all I know….
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Times change but the behavior of people does not. Vivid parallels exist between the behavior of people in this time period and in previous periods that reflect the same social mood. The periods of 1920-29, 1954-1966, and 1982-2000 were expansionary and creative. Wealth was created and the mood was upbeat. But such expansion led to…
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