Mood Riffs

• 

  [Mood Riffs] Vacation Ahead for Daddy Warbucks?

  Society’s appetite for war fluctuates in response to social mood.
   

• [Mood Riffs] Back in the Mood for Oom-Pah

  Heady times are here again, as beer consumption is headed for an all-time high this October in Munich.
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] How to Leverage Bear Market Uncertainty

  Can you utilize times of uncertainty to advantage?
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] Lolita Meets Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 2012

  Modern slavery is thriving in the “civilized world.”
   
• 

  [Mood Riff] The Strain in Spain is Mainly Lagged Mood Pain (I Think We’ve Got It)

  You might wonder why Spanish and Greek social mood is so negative with Madrid’s IBEX Index and Greece’s ASE Index bouncing nicely in recent months.
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] Is the Internet LSD?

  Is the Internet the sole cause of the increase in uncertainty about what is real or not?
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] Shmacked, Schnockered and Blitzed

  Might college debt be a factor in students acting out?
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] The Low Mood Of High-Heeled Shoes

  “At the end of a rally phase of a bear market, the fashionable literally lift themselves back toward former heights with several inches of corked footwear.”
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] Arsenic and Brown Rice

  The next phase of the bear market may produce general health difficulties and might disrupt our fragile food supply.
   
• 

  [Mood Riffs] RIP EMH

  Efficient Market Hypothesis is not only dead, but is “really most sincerely dead.”