Mood Riffs

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  [Mood Riffs] An Uncertainty-Rich Environment

  If voters choose their favorite candidate like investors choose stocks—by trying to guess what other people will do (sometimes called herding)—polls offer little to go on right now. But how do voters really decide?
   
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  [Mood Riffs] A Good Sandy Story

  My friends, a married couple, have great timing. They made nice profits buying and renovating historic structures during the housing bubble—all while building custom houses for other people—and then made a timely exit from the business in 2004.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Ain’t Gonna Study War No More

  Willie Dixon—boxer, WWII conscientious objector and Chicago blues man—recorded the song, “Study War No More,” for his 1988 grammy-winning album, “Hidden Charms.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Haiku or Fiku?

  Haiku poetry
  Has five syllables and then
  Seven and then five.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Black Bear Bites Red Bull

  Society seems intent on regaining the buzz of the previous bull market.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Want To Gauge Authoritarianism? Watch the Experts

  “I can’t believe my country is moving back in time so fast.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Will Your Shoes Need a Birth Certificate?

  Authenticity has never been so scarce.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Gimme Back My Grand Canyon!

  Arizona wants to reclaim the Grand Canyon from the federal government and open 25 million acres to grazing, logging and mining.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] You’ve Heard of DRM, Welcome to DFM

  Digital rights management (DRM) is a business model (read: scheme) companies use to try and retain
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Another Moot Debate

  The results in 13 of 15 recent European elections support the socionomic hypothesis: social mood as reflected in a nation’s stock markets is a more powerful election determinant than any other factor.