Three areas where Goepfert finds useful readings of dumb money (or small retail investor) sentiment are in purchases of oddlots (less than 100 shares) of stock, flows into bearish and bullish Rydex funds and in what he calls the R.
The odd ones out are America and Britain, which both have lots of women at work and fertility rates close to replacement level (with immigration making up the rest).
He handles lots of foreign policy (he is just back from China and Japan) and heads the odd task force (there was one on the middle class, for example).
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