Archive for category: Cultural Trends

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  [Article] A Socionomic View of the News

  2011, Conversations in Socionomics, Cultural Trends, Socionomics

  Learn what drug runners’ wanting to be paid in gold bars can tell you about trend extrapolation.

   
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  [Article] Growing Polarization: Pension Envy and Hate Groups

  2011, Cultural Trends, Research, Socionomics

  The year 2010 saw a new record number of hate groups and growing tensions between the public and private sector. Is this increasing polarization ending — or just beginning?

   
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  [Article] Back to the School of Hard Knocks?

  2011, Alan Hall, Cultural Trends, Research

  Guess what economic measure rose 800% since 1997? Not home prices. Not medical costs. Student loans! In fact, education debt now almost equals U.S. defense spending.

   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of War, Stocks and Commodities

  Alan Hall, Cultural Trends, Financial Markets, Research

  Instead of asking how war affects the economy, stocks or commodities, the socionomist asks, “How do fluctuations in social mood affect the prices of stocks and commodities, the strength of the economy and the likelihood of war?” This non-conventional approach to causality eliminates conflicting assumptions and rationalizations, and provides the simplest explanation of the available data.

   
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  [Article] The New Global Bull Market in Socialism

  Alan Hall, Cultural Trends, Research

  By Alan Hall, originally published in the October 2008 European Financial Forecast Download PDF (451 KB) Socialism is suddenly a hot topic. In Japan, young people are joining the Japanese Communist Party in “droves.” In Russia, there is renewed reverence for Stalin. Latin American leftists are “gloating over Comrade Bush’s Bailout,” [...]

   
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  [Article] Federal Employees Under Scrutiny

  2011, Cultural Trends, Politics, Research

  Increasingly authoritarian government rule is not surprising given the ongoing bear market in social mood at Cycle, Supercycle and Grand Supercycle degree.