Post Tagged with: "Mark Galasiewski"

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  [Article] What Truly Dictates Peace and Conflict in the Middle East?

  Before the government fell in Tunisia, and before the first can of tear gas was thrown in Egypt, analysts at the Socionomics Institute forecast an environment favorable to an increase in violence across the region.
   
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  [Article] Have We Seen The Peak In Radical Islam?

  In early March, Newsweek’s cover proclaimed, “Radical Islam Is a Fact of Life. How to Live With It.” Socionomist Mark Galasiewski believes that the headline probably marks the multi-year peak in Islamic extremism.
   
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  [Audio] High-Performance Men, Women and Cars – Part 2

  There is a high correlation between automobile engine horse power and the inflation adjusted Dow Jones Industrial Average. That correlation is unusually strong in relation to Chevrolet Corvette engine power. Improve your investing and socionomic skills by taking in this discussion.
   
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  [Audio] High-Performance Men, Women and Cars – Part 1

  John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hillary Clinton have something in common. They appear on the national scene at certain points in bull and bear markets. Socionomics tells us where those points are.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic Take On James Bond

  In bear markets the sexual stereotypes that these icons represent fall from favor as society embraces a greater variety of gender roles and identities. The history of the longest-running film franchise to feature a traditionally male character bears this out.
   
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  [Article] Women in Politics

  Feminism gains power during corrections.
   
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  [Article] Negative Mood Themed Films

  “Popular Culture and the Stock Market,” identified horror films as manifestations of negative mood trends, so they tend to be most popular during bear markets in stocks. Anecdotal evidence suggested that other genres also rise and fall with the social mood.
   
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  [Article] Euthanasia

  The debate over euthanasia in the past several decades suggests that negative mood may also raise the public’s tolerance of mercy killing.
   
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  [Article] Nuclear Tests

  For years we have maintained that the detonation of nuclear bombs, while it may stir transient emotions, has no effect on the social mood; rather, social mood determines the penchant for exploding nuclear devices.
   
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  [Article] Aircraft Accidents

  We postulated that a negative social mood—held by passengers, crew, maintenance workers and pilots alike—would tend to increase the chances for aircraft accidents and that a positive social mood would decrease them. Indeed that is the case.