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Pig Humor No Laughing Matter

by Neil Beers
10/14/2009 9:30:00 AM
An article in the University of North Carolina's Daily Tar Heel, “Swine Flu Humor Infects Universities Nationwide,” reminds one of the epidemic disease study in the May and June Socionomist, especially what it said about today’s historic complacency toward epidemic disease.
Filed Under: swine flu, disease, social mood, socionomics, socionomist
Category: Cultural Trends


Is The Bottom In For Lean Hogs?

by Nico Isaac
7/9/2009 2:15:00 PM
Over the last few months, lean hog prices have gone to slaughter: Up until late June, the market was hovering near its lowest level in six years. But now, after the tidal wave of selling, many mainstream experts suggest the end of hogs downtrend is here...
Filed Under: Commodities, lean hogs, Hogs, swine flu
Category: Commodities


It's Official: Swine Flu Is a Pandemic
The "quiet epidemic" is back.

by Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/11/2009 2:30:00 PM

"WHO declares first 21st century flu pandemic," reads a June 11 headline. To us here at Elliott Wave International, what continues to be most interesting is the timing of the swine flu outbreak. As we've reported before, disease epidemics are hardly random. Historically, they occur at specific moments in human history: when social mood is at a low.

Filed Under: swine flu, h1n1, epidemic, pandemic, social mood
Category: Cultural Trends


Social Mood, Stocks and Epidemics
As prices fall, susceptibility rises

by Alan Hall
5/11/2009 4:45:00 PM

As measured by the stock market, we recently completed a large wave in a powerfully-negative social-mood trend. It bottomed amid extremely pessimistic sentiment. Social stress reached higher levels than it has in decades. Soon after, H1N1 swine flu erupted and came right to the edge of being a pandemic. If this was the only such instance of disease breaking out after a social-mood decline, it might be coincidence, but there are numerous examples in the historical record.

Filed Under: socionomist, swine flu, disease, epidemic, pandemic, social mood
Category: Cultural Trends


Did Lean Hog Prices Catch Swine Flu? Answer: N-O

by Nico Isaac
5/7/2009 5:30:00 PM
Over the last month, lean hog prices have gone to slaughter: By May 4, the market was on the chopping block at a new contract low. It took the mainstream experts approximately .009 seconds to call out the giant pink Pig in the room: Swine Flu. Truth be told, lean hogs have been falling BEFORE the H1N1 outbreak hit big...
Filed Under: lean hogs, Commodities, Hogs, swine flu
Category: Commodities


How Can Stocks Rally When the News Is So Bad?
Stocks LEAD changes in economy, politics and even culture.

by Vadim Pokhlebkin
5/5/2009 10:15:00 AM

"Why is the market running up like it is with such bad news, massive debt, increased unemployment, increased defaults on mortgages and credit cards, bad debt at the banks, major corporation going into bankruptcy... Where is the top?" -- That's a quote from an email we've recently received at EWI's Message Board. It's a good question -- and the answer may surprise you. 

 
Filed Under: chrysler, Dow, DJIA, ftse, Nikkei, eurofirst, dax, swine flu
Category: Stocks


Swine Flu and Elliott Wave Analysis (Updated)
Think epidemics are random? Hold that answer.

by Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/30/2009 6:00:00 PM
In light of the potential swine flu pandemic, it's worth mentioning that from an Elliott wave perspective, disease epidemics are hardly random. Take a look at these facts -- and don't miss the new study showing you the 600-year history of social mood as it relates to epidemic disease.
Filed Under: swine flu, bird flu, prechter, epidemics, pandemics, spanish influenza, socionomics
Category: Cultural Trends


Swine Flu & Stocks: The Hard Medicine of Truth

by Nico Isaac
4/28/2009 4:30:00 PM

On Monday, April 27, and the early morning of April 28, the Dow took a flying leap south in a strong sell-off. As for why, the mainstream experts had one animal on the brain. Not bull. Not bear. But rather, Pig. Namely: the phase-four hog flu that is rapidly spreading across the planet...

Filed Under: U.S. stocks, swine flu, dow jones industrial average, pandemic, S&P 500
Category: Stocks


Swine Flu and Elliott Wave Analysis
Think epidemics are random? Think again.

by Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/24/2009 5:00:00 PM

In light of the the latest news of a severe swine flu outbreak in Mexico, it's worth mentioning that from an Elliott wave perspective, disease epidemics are hardly random. Take a look at these facts...

Filed Under: swine flu, bird flu, prechter, epidemics, pandemics, spanish influenza, socionomics
Category: Cultural Trends


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