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Multidisciplinary researcher, bridging some of the remaining gaps between psychology and economics, and between economics and finance. Key findings: 1. Emotional responses reflect economic shocks and states of expected future reward versus punishment, including expected surpluses and shortages. 2. Consciousness can be abstractly considered as the functioning of transitive inference in working memory, augmented by self-symbolic representation faciitating metacognition, in concert with metaphor. Conciousness allows for extended ability to deal with novel situations and planning.3. The difference between the NGDP growth rate and the concurrent quarter S&P 500 earnings yield reflects the state of macroeconomic equilibrium in the US. This is based upon economic theory, which states that the economic growth rate is equal to the rate of return on capital, in equilibrium. The mean difference between these variables is only 0.04% since 1990, for example. This measure reveals whether the US economy is running too hot, too cold, or as at equilibrium in any given quarter. There are also forward-looking versions of the metric.4. Interest rates are not a causal macroeconomic variable regarding stock prices as often used in the Gordon Growth Model. Stock prices are determined by expected GDP growth.

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