RETRACTED: Social mood: The stock market and political cycles

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: The editor greatly regrets the misrepresentation of authorship in John R. Nofsinger's, “Social mood: The stock market and political cycles,” which appeared in the October 2007 issue of The Journal of Socio-Economics. Dr. Nofsinger's version derived its thesis and substantially its content from a pre-existing discussion paper by Robert R. Prechter, Jr., Deepak Goel and Wayne D. Parker that he reviewed prior to producing his iteration. Contrary to the publisher's policy on originality and plagiarism, Dr. Nofsinger's submission failed to cite the earlier work. Dr. Nofsinger has agreed to retract his paper. The Editor in Chief of The Journal of Socio-Economics hereby retracts Dr. Nofsinger's version here in print and further brings this action to the attention of the reader by watermarking the electronic rendering.The Prechter, Goel and Parker paper, now titled “Social mood and presidential elections: A socionomic perspective on voting results,” is currently in submission to another journal.