The collision of global markets and social mood

Friday, May 20, 2011

Getting A Good Dose Of Texas Heat

It's hot and humid today in Austin. I'm inside enjoying the AC and catching up on a few things.

Had a major information breakthrough today. For the past several days, I've been experiencing some pretty menacing heart palpitations that I've suspected were related to my mercury detoxification. As I've said before, they're pretty much the only things that truly scare me.

Today I learned something huge. And of course, yet again, how I learned it had the hand of divinity in it, at least the way I see it.

I'd just finished telling a friend with a suspected kidney stone about magnesium deficiency and suggested that since she was on prescription medication, that she should supplement with magnesium because her medication depletes it. Kidney stones are thought to be caused in part by magnesium deficiency.

I believe that any time you give advice you should listen to it yourself, as everything happens for a reason. Last night I was again having some pretty troubling palpitations. For some reason I started thinking about minerals and electrolytes.

This morning I woke up and started typing "mercury depletes m......." into a search engine. Before I could spell it out, it auto-completed . . . MERCURY DEPLETES MAGNESIUM.

Guess what affects heart rhythm? MAGNESIUM.

So I walked down to the kick-ass health store that's just a couple blocks away and bought some homeopathic Magnesium cell salts, not 6C but 30C, the even more diluted stronger stuff. (Homeopathy works counter intuitively: the weaker the concentration, the stronger it is.)

No more palpitations.

$6.99 -- problem solved. If I'd gone into a clinic or a hospital or even to a doctor, to run an EKG and then an ultrasound once they heard how wacky my heart was beating would have cost upwards of $1,800.

In the age of ObamaCare, we must have the courage to embrace the folk remedies that kept our elders healthy and vibrant before modern medicine took over.

I find it interesting that in China, the family doctor is kept on a small monthly retainer until someone in the family becomes ill. The doctor is not paid until the person becomes well.


Speaking about dollars, I found this on Twitter:


Two completely different stories 6 minutes apart. Notice oil's price difference is only $2.

Things are heating up in Europe. What started as political protests in Spain are now spreading to Italy, Germany, and France. On Twitter, there are calls for European revolution and "Real Democracy Now." Just as the Mid-East protests were against the abuse of power, so too are these. The targets are the banks which have been bailed out amid austerity measures that fall most directly on the public.

Make no mistake that the EU experiment is at a similar crossroads as the original American colonies were under British rule. Austerity measures, whether deserved or not, function the same way as "taxation without representation" did centuries ago. Could it be that socialism has shown its true colors? Many of these young Europeans sound like they're ready to fight for what we fought for so long ago.

Furthermore, as a monetary union without fiscal unity, the EU was doomed from the start. So much for globalism.

By the way, what predicted these events? Socionomics did.

"Socionomics is the study of social action that expresses social mood. Social mood arises endogenously from unconscious herding impulses inherited through evolution, and is patterned according to the Wave Principle.

"The Wave Principle suggests that the patterns of collective human behavior are governed by the Fibonacci, or “golden” ratio, a mathematical phenomenon known for millennia as one of nature's ubiquitous laws of form and progress."

Socionomic theory suggests that “Bear markets display a powerful urge to throw out old rules and customs -- not to mention political leaders -- as irritated crowds search for ways to express their negative mood.”

Perhaps that's why people are rioting in Spain.

Socionomics also suggests that "Unity and tolerance are expressed during bull markets, while bear markets breed separation." Could it be that since the markets have been going up for over 2 years, people throughout Europe are unified in their angst against their governments?

At the same time, there are reports like this one:

Friedrich defends EU border control changes

"German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on Wednesday defended a controversial plan to restore border controls in Europe's visa-free Schengen area."

This would seem to be an example of bear markets breeding separation.

The fact that they're occurring together suggests transition, possibly from rally to meltdown.

I will be keeping my eyes and ears on how these events unfold. The EU will face certain defeat should unrest in Spain, and especially Italy, upset their respective bond markets. That would be game over for the Euro, and a boon to the dollar, something that no one is ready for.

I think that across the globe, markets have been in a liquidity-induced bear market rally that may be in the process of rolling over. On Friday, the S&P 1332 bull/bear line was nicely defended, it seemed, until the end of the day when the market tanked into the close ending above it by only 1 point.

I'm concerned that the confluence area surrounding 1323-1325 has not produced more of an upsurge. That alone speaks volumes, to me at least.

The gap at 1312.62 still has not been filled, but there are still gaps above too. This may be a market with a few tricks up its sleeve. Stay tuned.

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