Robert Folsom

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  Four Major Periods of Negative Social Mood Drive the 100-Year History of the American Security State Part 1

  In part one of this study, Robert Folsom reviews the first of four major trends toward negative social mood that fueled the development of the American security state.
   
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  Press Room | Socionomic Researchers

  Robert Folsom Senior Markets Researcher, Elliott Wave International Areas of research include politics, history, privacy, finance and movies that don’t suck. Robert Folsom has covered politics, popular culture, economics and the financial markets for more than 25 years, via print, radio, video and digital content. His columns have appeared on […]
   
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  [Video] The Worst Person in History

  The April issue of The Socionomist offers a perspective on the rise of Hitler that, I assure you, you haven’t read before.
   
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  [Article] Mixed Mood Picks Opposing Nobel Laureates

  In this article, writer Robert Folsom explains that a deeply mixed social mood prompted the Nobel committee to award the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science to two academics
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How NOT to Miss the Obvious

  The 2014 Socionomics Conference
   
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  [Article] The Rural Purge: The Year CBS Killed Everything With a Tree in It

  In this article, writer Robert Folsom explains that a deeply negative social mood in 1970 prompted CBS to cancel all of its light-hearted, rural-themed shows and replace them with dark and controversial series. It was a programming revolution known as “The Rural Purge.”