Archive for category: Social Mood Watch

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  [Social Mood Watch] Hands Down: The Hero Who Best Embodies Today’s Bear Market Mood

  Social Mood Watch

  Need a hint about the hero’s identity? Picture a grim, sexually voracious, revenge-seeking, anti-social, motorcycle riding, goth-dressing computer hacker…

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

  Social Mood Watch

  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 Watch] Has “Enhanced Performance” Come to a College Near You?

  Social Mood Watch

  Schools are juicing test scores to boost academic reputation.

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How Does a Sports Rivalry Turn Murderous?

  Social Mood Watch

  Democracy seemed to appear on Egypt’s horizon a year ago, yet social mood helps explain why that sun has yet to rise.

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] When It Comes to Social Mood, No One Is Left Out of the Herd

  Social Mood Watch

  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

  Social Mood Watch

  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?