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Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation
Jan 17th 2012
As the chart at the bottom of this page shows, public higher education in our state increased its full-time-equivalent positions by nearly 25 percent between 2002 and 2011. This data, released last week by the State Auditor’s office, raises (more…)
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What percentage of people who have ever lived are alive today? We know that sometime this year the world population will tick past 7 billion [1]. We know that there are a whole billion more of us than there were in 1999, as if a new (more…)
This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. (more…)
By Steve Matthews Feb 18, 2014 8:12 AM CT
Source: Bloomberg
Hard economic times had kept Amy Derose and her husband Lawrence locked in an unhappy marriage for the sake of their engineering firm in Pompano Beach, Florida.
“The business was hanging on by a thread and we had to hang on,” said Derose, 53, who had been married 35 years and worked as the business manager. “We couldn’t afford to split. He needed me in the business and I needed him.” (more…)
By Dan Murtaugh Jan 31, 2014 2:12 PM CT
Source: Bloomberg
Near the only four-way stoplight in Nixon, Texas, smoke rises off a pilot flare at theBlue Dolphin Energy Co. (BDCO)refinery that had sat cold for two decades.
The employee parking lot is full, tanker trucks line up to unload crude and the silver distillation tower thrums. None of that was happening two years ago, when Blue Dolphin reopened the 10,000-barrel-a-day plant. Smaller refineries are known as “teapots” because of their size. (more…)
By Naureen S. Malik Jan 24, 2014 3:22 PM CT
Source: Bloomberg
Related Article: Natural Gas Rises in Survey as Cold Weather Depletes Supplies
Natural gas futures will gain next week as freezing weather boosts demand and erodes inventories of the heating fuel, according to a Bloomberg survey.
Seven of 13 analysts, or 54 percent, said prices will advance on the New York (more…)
Genetics may influence financial risk-taking
Research recently published in PLOS ONE suggests that genetics may be a primary factor in shaping individuals’ financial decisions. In the paper, Brian Knutson, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Stanford, and colleagues examined how a serotonin gene, known as 5-HTTLPR, influenced participants’ willingness to take risks when investing their money. (more…)
Babies born in August – and are more likely to have a tough time at school.
They are 20 per cent less likely to go to a leading university compared with friends (more…)
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This document presents some information on mortality rate as a function of age, derived from several sources. A combined estimate of an underlying probabilistic mortality-rate function and the resulting survival-probability function also are presented (more…)
Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made the Eagle Ford and several associated rock units one of the most (more…)
By Matthew BoeslerOctober 11, 2013 12:27 PM
Top portfolio managers, strategists, analysts, and economists sent us what they deem the most important charts in the world.
We received over 100 fascinating (more…)
