Caroline Calais -- Democracy in Americas

I don’t know what it is but the more I see of Hillary the less I trust her. I am not alone. 53 percent of the Americans share my opinion says a recent Gallup poll. And in Pennsylvania, a Pew research survey done in early April found that of 1,000 respondents 29 percent said they had a very negative opinion of Sen. Clinton, compared to 15 % for Sen. Obama and 12% for Sen.  McCain.  Hillary Clinton still won the Pennsylvania primary, but the question about her trustworthiness is troubling. 

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The pack at Wall Street is running scared (again), and it really makes me wonder – don’t those guys have a single original thinker among them? Obviously not and it all has to do with hormones. Yes, you heard me right. Hormones associated with stress, sexual development and aggression explains the irrational group behavior associated with market bubbles and crashes.  This is at least what two British researchers found in a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. But it might make sense, it was for example, the strange behavior of traders during the dot-com boom that inspired John Coates, a senior research fellow at Cambridge, to look at the link between hormones and trading.“I began to think that the people involved in this insanity were under the influence of some drug”, he says. “When it was all over, they were like people in a hangover. They couldn’t believe they had bought some Net company with no earnings, no interest plan and lost all of their savings”.

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