One of the golden rules of mood analysis is that major declines in social mood will always be accompanied by dramatic outbreaks of mass violence. While I had watched the growing protests in Thailand, I thought that there still needed to be an even greater spectacle of discontent before this be ... Read more
The appointment of New York Fed President Timothy Geithner - "not Wall Street guy" - as Treasury secretary in the incoming Obama administration is this week's most compelling market mood match. The announcement, by many accounts, helped send the stock market soaring late in trading ... Read more
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