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BY MAX FISH
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping (more…)
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Wall Street’s Brightest Minds Reveal THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARTS IN THE WORLD
MATTHEW BOESLER OCT. 9, 2013, 11:56 AM 952,622 23
Source: Business Insider
We asked our favorite portfolio managers, strategists, analysts, and economists across the Street for the charts (more…)
40 maps that explain the world
Lifespan depends on month of birth
Abstract
Month of birth influences adult life expectancy at ages 50+. Why? In two countries of the Northern Hemisphere–Austria and Denmark–people born in (more…)
Child Rate by Mothers Education
The following represents the percentage of women 22–44 years of age who have no children and percentage with three or more children, by education: United States (more…)
How Investors Leave Billions on the Table
Source: Wall Street Journal (Click here to read the article)
‘Mancession’ Pushes Italian Women Back Into Workforce
Source: Walls Street Journal (Click here to read the article)
Oil’s $5 Trillion Permian Boom Threatened by $70 Crude
Source: Bloomberg (Click here to read full article)
WTI Crude Tumbles Below $98 on Projected U.S. Stockpile Increase
Source : Bloomberg (Click here to read the article)
Unemployment Falling for Wrong Reason Creates Fed Predicament
By Rich Miller – Sep 8, 2013 11:00 PM CT
Source: Bloomberg
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The good news may be bad news for the Federal Reserve as it considers when to begin scaling back its stimulus.
While unemployment dropped last month to 7.3 percent, the lowest level since December 2008, the decline occurred because of contraction in the workforce, not because more people got jobs. Labor-force participation — the share of working-age people either holding a job or looking for one — stands at a 35-year low.
The reduced workforce “poses a problem for the Fed,” said Roberto Perli, a former central bank official (more…)
The secret to a long life isn’t what you think.
Source: USAToday.com
By: Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY.
Prescription for a long life: Work hard. Don’t retire early.
The idea that your job or your boss is leading you to an early grave is one of several myths debunked in an analysis of a 90-year study that followed 1,528 Americans. Among other myths: be optimistic, get married, go to church, eat broccoli and get a gym membership.
Researchers Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin report their conclusions in a new book, The Longevity Project. “Everybody has the (more…)
35 Questions That Will Change Your Life
By Jason Nazar
Source: Forbes
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire
“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.” – Carl Sagan
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
As I turn 35 and think of my life so far and what’s to come, I realize how much I’m shaped by the questions I ask. I’ve always been insatiably curious. These are the 35 questions that have made the biggest impact on my life.
Self-Awareness
What are you pretending not to know? This was perhaps the most (more…)
Nissan: We’ll have a self-driving car on roads in 2020
By By Todd Wasserman, Mashable
Source: CNN
UPDATED: 09:43 PM EDT 08.27.13
Nissan has just joined Google in the race to make driverless cars a reality.The Japanese automaker is aiming to have such driverless autos on the road by 2020.”Nissan Motor Company’s willingness to question conventional thinking and to drive progress is what sets us apart,” said CEO Carlos Ghosn, in a press release. “In 2007 I pledged that — by 2010 — Nissan would mass market a zero-emission vehicle. Today, the Nissan Leaf is the best-selling electric vehicle in history. Now I am committing to be ready to introduce a new ground-breaking technology, Autonomous Drive, by 2020, and we are on track to realize it.”SEE ALSO: Tesla Opens First Plant in the NetherlandsNissan intends (more…)
The balance of national prosperity and economic inequality
By Swint Friday
Source: Caller Times
CORPUS CHRISTI — During the holiday break, my travels will take me from the wealthiest countries in Europe and Asia to some of the poorest. Always of interest is the striking juxtaposition of high rise hotels and office suites against the tenement housing below. Many of the poorer countries where the contrast is greatest (more…)
