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Alan Hall
11/18/2009 2:15:00 PM
The eugenics movement began during a bull market in the late 1800s. At first, it gained respect among many in the upper and educated classes with the premise that the human race can improve itself by controlling who can procreate. But like a societal version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a later succession of bear markets morphed eugenics into a rationale for genocide.
Filed Under:
Eugenics movement, socionomics, overpopulation, climate change, environmentalism, waves of social mood
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Cultural Trends
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Neil Beers
11/17/2009 4:30:00 PM
In the following two clips from The Socionomics Institute's documentary History's Hidden Engine,you'll see clearly that extremes in popular cultural trends coincide with extremes in stock prices, since they peak and trough coincidentally in their reflection of the popular mood.
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social mood, social trends, socionomics, music, movies, Disney, popular culture
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Neil Beers
11/17/2009 1:00:00 PM
In the 1940s, renowned science fiction writer Isaac Asimov began writing a trilogy of novels called the Foundation Series. Asimov’s protagonist discovers and develops “psychohistory,” a mathematical science that statistically predicts the general course of future events for large groups of people.
As it turns out, Asimov’s idea was actually science, minus the fiction. In the 1930s, a decade prior to Asimov's initial Foundation stories, Ralph Nelson Elliott made a discovery that became key to the development of socionomics, a new science of social prediction.
Filed Under:
socionomics, socionomist, wars, social mood, Isaac Asimov, psychohistory
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Neil Beers
10/14/2009 9:30:00 AM
An article in the University of North Carolina's Daily Tar Heel, “Swine Flu Humor Infects Universities Nationwide,” reminds one of the epidemic disease study in the May and June Socionomist, especially what it said about today’s historic complacency toward epidemic disease.
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swine flu, disease, social mood, socionomics, socionomist
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Neil Beers
8/25/2009 10:30:00 AM
Mexico has taken an important step in fulfilling a forecast from the July 2009 Socionomist: President Felipe Calderón just approved a law that decriminalizes small-scale possession of several different drugs.
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cultural trends, Drug War, Marijuana, socionomics, socionomist
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Cultural Trends
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
8/4/2009 4:30:00 PM
If you've followed the stock markets in recent months, you may have asked yourself the same question a reader sent to EWI's Message Board: "With all the bad news, how can investor sentiment become positive and push the markets up like it has been?" Here is a radical answer...
Filed Under:
employment, fundamentals, social mood, socionomics, consumer price index
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Stocks
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/29/2009 5:30:00 PM
At EWI's Message Board, readers ask us dozens of questions, daily. We try and answer everyone, and the best Q&As we publish for all to see. Below are our three nominees in the "Best Question" category for the month of June. Enjoy!
Filed Under:
consumer confidence, social mood, Robert Prechter, socionomics, message board
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Economy
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/23/2009 1:45:00 PM
Since its June 12 top, the DJIA has lost close to 6 percent. Blame the economic data, say the mainstream financial analysts. But why would investors who disregarded "bad fundamentals" for more than three months suddenly be worried about them? It's a puzzling situation, but only until you look at it from an Elliott wave perspective.
Filed Under:
Robert Prechter, global economy, DJIA, Dow, social mood, socionomics
Category:
Stocks
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/30/2009 6:00:00 PM
In light of the potential swine flu pandemic, it's worth mentioning that from an Elliott wave perspective, disease epidemics are hardly random. Take a look at these facts -- and don't miss the new study showing you the 600-year history of social mood as it relates to epidemic disease.
Filed Under:
swine flu, bird flu, prechter, epidemics, pandemics, spanish influenza, socionomics
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/24/2009 5:00:00 PM
In light of the the latest news of a severe swine flu outbreak in Mexico, it's worth mentioning that from an Elliott wave perspective, disease epidemics are hardly random. Take a look at these facts...
Filed Under:
swine flu, bird flu, prechter, epidemics, pandemics, spanish influenza, socionomics
Category:
Cultural Trends
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by
Editorial Staff
11/12/2008 1:30:00 PM
The following is a short lesson in socionomics directly excerpted from Robert Prechter's just-published November 2008 Elliott Wave Theorist.
Filed Under:
socionomics, politics
Category:
Classic Prechter
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Alan Hall
7/25/2008 3:45:00 PM
Today, the Russian RTSI Index took its biggest hit since January 21. It is now down almost 22% from its May 19 high. The surly social mood is steadily worsening, much as we predicted in our November 2007 Global Market Perspective Special Report, Sizing up a Superpower: A Socionomic Study of Russia. The report begins like this: “Our long-term Elliott wave count for the Russian stock market indicates that a major top is imminent.”
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socionomics, social mood, Stocks, Russia, xenophobia, Putin
Category:
European Markets
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
5/8/2008 11:45:00 PM
We call a urinal "the most influential work of art of the 20th century" and flock to see dead bodies set as sculptures. Is there a connection between the recent popularity of “all things melancholic” and the state of our collective spirits? We at Elliott Wave International think there is. Watch this free documentary for the answers.
Filed Under:
corpse art, body worlds, skullmania, Fountain Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst For the Love of God, diamond skull, socionomics
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/11/2008 6:00:00 PM
Well, it finally happened. The world famous, bullet-fast, no-speed-limit German autobahns may soon become just like every other highway – boring. Is there a correlation between the trend in stocks and highway speed limits? Let's take a closer look.
Filed Under:
autobahn, speed limit, Germany, dax, socionomics, greenhouse gases
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European Markets
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Susan C. Walker
3/11/2008 5:30:00 PM
Of all the reactions to the news about Eliot Spitzer's call-girl dalliance, there's one you won't read anywhere but here: Former heroes get cut down to size in a bear market.
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Bear market, socionomics
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Cultural Trends
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Robert Folsom
2/27/2008 5:45:00 PM
Which individual has exerted the greatest influence on American political thought over the past half-century? I can think of very few people who deserve serious mention, but on my short list, one particular person's influence plainly trumps all others....
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socionomics, politics
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Cultural Trends
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Editorial Staff
2/15/2008 1:00:00 PM
The law of supply and demand reigns at the shopping mall because consumers are pretty certain of their needs and resources, so they can reason their way through the decision process. But investors are uncertain because they have no basis to decide a fair price.
Filed Under:
herding, socionomics
Category:
Classic Prechter
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Susan C. Walker
1/18/2008 11:00:00 AM
On days like today in the financial markets, you can almost see social mood changing before your very eyes. With the DJIA, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all off by 2% or more today, the sell-off has resulted in a 10-month low for these markets.
Filed Under:
Merck, stock options, socionomics
Category:
Stocks
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Susan C. Walker
12/5/2007 9:45:00 AM
Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez, needn't have waited for vote returns; all they really needed to do was double-check how their nations' stock markets did over the past few months. Then they could have known the outcomes in advance of the vote counts. Why?
Filed Under:
socionomics, presidential popularity, financial markets
Category:
Cultural Trends
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Alan Hall
12/21/2006 11:45:00 AM
Like the price of gold, the height of the National Christmas Tree has been “regulated” at times -- by pruning. It is a long and fascinating history, at least at Christmastime. Following are some interesting facts about the Tree. They are dated so you can locate them on the chart of the DJI (courtesy of Yahoo Charts) at the bottom of this article.
Filed Under:
socionomics
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Cultural Trends
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