We first talked about a rash of bear stories in The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast in February 2001 when the bear market in social mood was really getting down to business. For some of what we said then and an update see the Sociotimes entry of August 23, 2005.
Bruno the bear is not alone in breaking into the limelight. Once again, for some strange reason, bears seem to be grabbing the headlines. In Ocala, Florida, “Rare Bear Sighting Draws Crowd.” In New Jersey, annual bear hunts designed to reduce an encroaching bear population have become a media focus and a black bear made national news for getting chased up a tree by a cat. In Lake Tahoe, a “rogue bear was killed by wildlife officials.” Recently I finally got around to seeing Grizzly Man, the documentary about Timothy Treadwell’s 13 seasons living among grizzly bears in Alaska. It seems impossible that a person could become so completely blind to the destructive force of nature, but this film explains it in a visceral way. |
