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Drop "Shop-'til-You-Drop." STOP.
This telegram is your wake-up call.
It wasn’t that long ago that people bought stuff they didn’t need with money they didn’t have. Easy credit and houses-as-ATM’s fueled consumerism to the boiling point. In hindsight, observers have described this behavior as “aspirational shopping,” or buying beyond your economic circumstances. Another trendy name for the trend is “masstige,” or consumers trading up to prestige brands.
Not to be judgmental…but admit it: You’ve seen people driving cars they have no business driving; living in houses they have no business living in; buying things they have no business buying. (Not YOU, but them.) Now those days are over. And they might not come back for a long, long time.
What does this have to do with the stock market? Everything. The Elliott Wave Prinmciple views the stock market as the most accurate reflection of social mood. This social mood (or mass psychology) generates recognizable Elliott wave patterns in stock market charts that repeat themselves in all time frames. As we go through the painful process of unwinding the largest financial bubble in all recorded history, these wave patterns help us to see where we’ve been, where we are, where we’re going -- and how far.
The shopping-as-entertainment craze was part of a mass psychology that drove share prices and property values to the sky. It’s over. Many people in North America, Europe, and Asia are sleepwalking in a dream-like state, hoping and believing that the something-for-nothing days will return. (Whoever thought we would refer to the Bush administration years as the good old days!)
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