What will happen in 2010? The answer may be in the music...

[Dien Rice]

Is it possible to predict what the year ahead will hold for us, in terms of the economy?

According to one researcher, there is a way to know! And all you have to do is listen to the top hits on the radio!

Although this "news" came out about a year ago, it's still useful for what the year ahead will do...

Dr. Philip Maymin, a researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, has researched a connection between trends in the S&P 500 and the top 100 selling songs of the year.

He found that if the music on average has very consistent beats (that is, the beat during the song changes very little, like a lot of dance music), then that means that there will be a lot of market volatility - that is, we're in for a stock market roller coaster ride.

However, if on average the most popular songs have highly varying beats (that is, the beat varies a lot during the song - it might slow down, then speed up for instance), then it means smooth sailing as far as the stock market is concerned.

What's going to happen this year?

I'm not sure... I'm going to have to listen to more popular music!

However, one man thinks that the "Black Eyed Peas" hit song "I Gotta Feeling" is a sign of good things to come!

You can read the article here...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/blog...nting-the-beat

Well... I hope he's right!

Best wishes,

Dien

Dien,

Hope you're right...

But Gerald Celente does Not agree...

I hope he's seriously Wrong!! Scary stuff...

And as you'll see...

He's one of Top Go to people, especially with the Media...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...ta=&a q=f&oq=

Of course there are All kinds of ways to Read through the lines on this Kinda stuff and still have a...

Very Healthy... Prosperous and Successful 2010 New Year...

Phil

Man, I feel so vindicated for being a pop culture junkie!
I'm going with the multi-variate beat of Owl City's Fireflies as a sign of optimism ("I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly/It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep, 'cause everything is never as it seems.").
Cheers to 2010 - the recovery year!

[Ankesh]

Interesting link Dien

But its just correlation from hindsight. Only if the researchers can predict the future trends and show a good success rate - does this become interesting.

I recall reading about some research that showed a correlation between the economy and the Playboy models. (The more classical beauty - the better the economy... or something like that.) Unfortunately - that didn't hold true for predicting the economy.

On the other hand - lipstick sales to predict the economy has held true. (A rise in lipstick sales = bad economy.)

More fun
How womens hemlines help predict the economy:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/2010010...economy-s.html