Tag Archives: Chicago

Chicago Bank Converted into a Bar

23 Jan

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The Bedford even has a restaurant and a lounge in its 1926 vault. Location: Wicker Park, Chicago, US.

Financial Calendar – Week 26

26 Jun

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Worthington Motor Sales: May 1947

Image by dok1 via Flickr.

Key Data For The Week Ahead:

Monday: Personal Income And Outlays For May.

Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices For April.

Wednesday: Pending Home Sales Index for May.

Thursday: The Initial Weekly Unemployment Claims Report, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for June.

Friday: ISM Manufacturing Index, Auto Sales.

The Rest Of The Busy Economic Schedule For Week Of June 26th.

The Ascent Of Money

4 Jun

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The World’s Financial History In 4 Hours, By Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson.

Also Available Via PBS >> Here.

Adorable Joey Visits The Chicago Blackhawks

26 Feb

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Joey the Junior Reporter investigates the phenomenon of girls, relationships and beauty in the Chicago Blackhawks’ locker room.

The Logics Of Beauty

14 Jan

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«Why beautiful people are more intelligent» – from Intelligence 32 (2004) 227–243 – Four assumptions follows from the conclusion that beautiful people are more intelligent:

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« (1) Men who are more intelligent are more likely to attain higher status than men who are less intelligent. (2) Higher-status men are more likely to mate with more beautiful women than lower-status men. (3) Intelligence is heritable. (4) Beauty is heritable. If all four assumptions are empirically true, then the conclusion that beautiful people are more intelligent is logically true, making it a proven theorem.»

Researchers present empirical evidence for each of the four assumptions. Find out more on Free Market Mojo here.

Chopping The Pork

28 Dec

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President George W. Bush at Chicago Mercantile...

Via Wikipedia

The notorious futures contract, pork bellies, once among the CME’s most-traded commodities and a staple at CME since 1961, has seen its volume drop in recent years, prompting calls for the exchange to shut down trading.

Full Story From The Wall Street Journal here.