The Socionomic Implications Of September Vogue: 2017

No need for an exhaustive mood report this year.

It's all about the cover.

First consider the iconic July 1942 cover created during the most gruesome war in history which took the lives of over 50,000,000 human beings.

Then consider September 2017.

Whether planned or not -- most likely accidental subtext (unintended, subconscious communication) -- September Vogue 2017 can be summed up in three words.

Sunset Of Liberty

Let us hope that's 100% wrong.

Yet, it's a result of the same methods that forecast the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, the polarization beneath the real-life Hunger Games economy, both dramatic stock market declines of 2014 & 2015, and the longest stock market decline in over 35 years during last year's "Fearless Fall."

What are the implications?

Think of what you cherish yet take for granted as an American.

The freedom to move about or do as you please.

Freedom from physical restraint.

Freedom from arbitrary or despotic control.

Losing such things could feel like Evening in America, a phrase Vogue was kind enough to provide on page 696.

The Sunset Of Liberty could therefore telegraph the rise of authoritarianism, or worse, totalitarianism.

As for the market implications, we're a long way from the 1981 bottom in bonds and the 1982 bottom in stocks.

A long way from Morning In America.

Stocks have risen largely in line with bond prices as yields have shrunk to multi-decade lows.

Real estate values are back to historic highs. As is mortgage debt. And Federal debt. And Federal tax receipts.

Commodities are back to multi-decade lows versus stocks.

September Vogue just announced the end of the cycle is coming soon.