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Financial Calendar – Week 26
26 Jun
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
The World’s Financial History In 4 Hours, By Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson.
Also Available Via PBS >> Here.
The Logics Of Beauty
14 Jan
«Why beautiful people are more intelligent» – from Intelligence 32 (2004) 227–243 – Four assumptions follows from the conclusion that beautiful people are more intelligent:
« (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
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.
Photos by Jonathon Much
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WSJ Markets
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- Canada's Carney Presses China, EuropeChina has a "responsibility" to stand by agreements it has made to restructure its economy, said Mark Carney, Canada's central-bank chief and the head of the Financial Stability Board.
- Greece Launches Debt SwapGreece launched a bond-swap offer to private-sector creditors, kicking off a $134.7 billion debt write-down plan.
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