Economy

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  What Bond Market Is Whispering About Next “Big Event”

  Keep an eye on the bond market: It’s a gauge of social mood swings.
   
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  UK Real Estate: Fractured Market is Not a Healthy Market

  Less than a decade after the housing bubble burst
   
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  If Your Nest Egg Breaks, Will You Still Want the Nest?

  It’s been less than a decade since the housing bubble burst, yet home prices in the UK and US today hover near new highs.
   
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  Attention, Detroit: How to Predict Changes in Automobile Styling

  It’s almost inevitable. At some time in your life, you’ll be on a car lot, shopping for new wheels.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] RIP Ole’ Blue

  Why are SUV’s back in vogue?
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic Perspective on the Microsoft Case

  The Timing of Attacks on Successful Corporations.
   
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  Roads and Recessions: A Socionomic Analysis of Cars and Travel

  Euan Wilson takes the wheel and drives right to the heart of how social mood affects trends in auto design, driving habits, and even your safety on the road in this issue of the Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] Ups and Downs: Optimism, Banking, and Secession

  People are happier even as bank creation reaches zero and legislators of one U.S. state noodle how they might approach secession.
   
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  [Article] Measurement Points to All the Same Market

  The flip side of markets going up together is that when the reversal comes they all go down together.
   
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  [Article] The Wave Principle Governs the Growth and Decline of the Slave Trade

  Alan Hall recently examined a large, newly released volume of data on the transatlantic slave trade. There he discovered — much to his surprise — a massive Elliott wave tracing back hundreds of years. His article explains the pattern, and explores the questions that must follow such a remarkable discovery. Namely: “Why?”, and “Doesn’t this suggest what may be next in the unfortunate history of slavery?”