{"id":5760,"date":"2012-04-27T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2012-04-27T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:25:41","slug":"lobsternomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lobsternomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobsternomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 2012<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Forget the hemlines and follow the lobsters! When it comes to predicting fluctuations in the Dow Jones, lobsters have Wall Street\u2019s bull by the horns.<\/h3>\n<p>By David Svenson<\/p>\n<p>In the Roaring Twenties, when Wharton Business School\u2019s George Taylor proposed his \u201cHemline Effect\u201d\u2013that as hemlines rise, so does the economy\u2013he could also have taken a trip to the docks for similar insight. Because sales figures for fresh lobsters share an uncanny ability to predict market changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Lobsternomics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dollars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5761\" title=\"dollars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dollars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dollars.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dollars-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2012<br \/>\nForget the hemlines and follow the lobsters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}