Politics

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  [Social Mood Watch] Want to Know Who’s Going to Be President? Ask the Stock Market

  If you want a good predictor for the result of an incumbent president’s re-election, look to the stock market.
   
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  Social Mood and Elections: The Paper

  Does the Stock Market Predict Presidential Elections? New SI Study Says Yes.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] When It Comes to Social Mood, No One Is Left Out of the Herd

  How extreme was the positive mood when the euro launched? So extreme that nations which were enemies in history’s two bloodiest wars all agreed to bind their collective futures to a single currency.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] The Rise of Federal Police Power

  Federal cops and/or criminal investigators with full police power today work for the Peace Corps, the Government Printing Office, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. How did this happen?
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] A Big Chunk of the Web Goes Black: Is SOPA Dead?

  Internet-based opposition has turned the bill into a front-page conflict. The Obama administration announced its opposition to the legislation, and how it did so is especially noteworthy.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How “Digital Piracy” Created a Consensus that STILL Reflects Negative Mood

  An apparent exception to gridlock has been much in the news lately. It has a bipartisan list of sponsors in Congress and near-unanimous support from America’s entertainment/industrial complex…
   
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  [Article] The Authoritarianism Battle: Governments Increase their Monitoring and Control of Citizens

  Discover which governments now lead the race to control digital information, and in turn their own citizens.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Disunity in the European Union

  “Thinking the unthinkable: Treasury admits planning for euro collapse.”
   
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  [Article] Update: Drug War Burns Unevenly

  Events in the U.S.-Mexico Drug War presented exactly the kind of actions we’d expect from a partway-down mood.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] What This Country Needs is More Jobs — Steve Jobs

  If you want more jobs, encourage more Jobs. Too bad the government hasn’t a clue about how to make more people like him.