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CHART: Here's How The Stock Market Has Been Correlated To Everything Else...
A diversified portfolio is one that consists of uncorrelated assets. In other words, these are assets that don't move hand-in-hand all of the time. Diversification reduces volatility.It's important...
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Following The Money On 'Bridgegate'
A couple very interesting new threads on the Bridgegate story. As I've mentioned, as the scope of the Bridge closure effort and the attempt to cover it up grow, payback for a small town Mayor's...
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Intuit Founder Scott Cook Has A Brilliant Way Of Doing Reference Checks
To get the most valuable information out of reference checks, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook asks a very specific question. Cook knows that most people try to be nice, so they will give the candidate a...
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The 15 US Cities That Are Driving The Future
The American economy is being reshaped along the booming industries of technology and energy, according to new rankings of America’s Best Performing Cities by the Milken Institute.In the 2013 rankings,...
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This Week's Economic Calendar Is Totally Stacked — Here's Your Complete...
Economists and traders are still trying to unpack what happened with Friday's disappointing December jobs report.PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian described it as "somewhere between puzzling and worrisome."The...
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Half Of Spain's Young People Would Be Happy To Take Any Job
In contrast to McDonalds' workers in the US demanding $15 an hour wages, Almost half of young Spaniards accept any job, anywhere, despite low salary48.6% of Spaniards aged 18 to 24 said they would...
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America's Big Bank Earnings Announcements Will Be Highlighted By Tumbling...
Three of the four biggest commercial banks in the US are expected to report falling revenue in the week ahead as loan activity falls.The biggest banks in the US are expected to report falling revenue...
View ArticleThe 10 Biggest Myths In Economics
Heidi Moore asked a good question on Twitter yesterday about the most prominent myths in economics. I’ve compiled a substantial number of “myth busting” articles over the last 5 years so I thought it...
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The Google Bus Protests Are Really About Bay Area Home Prices
So I haven't been following this very closely, but I'm catching up on the Google bus controversy in the Bay Area. From what I've gathered, a growing number of Silicon Valley workers, from Google and...
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Twitter Does The Best Job Of Protecting People From The Government, Report...
When it comes to how Internet companies protect people when the government asks for data, Twitter wins.So finds a new report from privacy watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation.The EFF...
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Why The NFL Should Make The Goal Posts Taller, In One Kick
Under NFL rules, the height of goal posts must be at least 30 feet above the crossbar.There is no limit on how tall they can be. In theory, they can be 500 feet tall and poke out of the top of the...
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The Weekend Is Over And Markets Are Going Nowhere
The weekend is over and markets are going nowhere, despite Friday's shockingly bad jobs data.U.S. futures are totally flat. Gold is doing nothing. Bitcoin prices barely moved this weekend, lingering at...
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The Egyptian Stock Market Is Breathtaking
Think the US market has been on a nice run? Try Egypt.Here's a 1-year chart of the CASE-30 index, via Bloomberg. The index is up a breathtaking 55% just since last summer.Coincidentally or not...
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The Best And Worst Dressed At The Golden Globe Awards
This year's 71st annual Golden Globes honor the year's best in television and film.And nominees from "Girls" creator Lena Dunham and "Gravity" star Sandra Bullock to the casts of "Breaking Bad" and...
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Thailand Is Heading Towards A Civil War
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand braced for a "shutdown" of its capital on Monday by protesters who want to topple Prime MinisterYingluck Shinawatra and install an unelected government, as fears grew that...
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Here's The Schedule For Next Sunday's NFL Conference Championship Games
The schedule for the NFL conference championship games is set.In the AFC, the New England Patriots will play the Denver Broncos. That game will start at 3 p.m. eastern on Sunday, and it'll air on CBS....
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FIRST TAKE: Google's Bid For Nest Cements The Importance Of The Internet Of...
Google has entered into a formal agreement to acquire Nest Labs, Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif.-based maker of home automation devices, for $3.2 billion in cash. Google says Nest will continue to operate...
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10 Ways To Sharpen Your Focus
The first thing you need to know is this: Discomfort and the desire for something better drives change.It’s why you and your company go in new directions: to relieve pain of poor sales, poor...
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The Story Of How One VC Invested In Nest, The Startup Google Just Bought For...
Google just bought a startup called Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest makes Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors.The company is only three years old.One of it's first investors was a venture...
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Now You Can Play The Nerdiest Fantasy Sport Ever — Fantasy Economics
Dale Mortensen, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on supply and demand in the labor market, died last week at the age of 74, leaving economic academia without one of its foremost scholars of the...
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