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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, it takes an average U.S. citizen a shade under four years to earn $100,000. Alex Rodriguez does it in six pitches.
Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers may have him beat. If you include his signing bonus, Mr. […]
Markets in Everything: Coupons on Your Cell Phone
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Coupons You Don’t Clip, They’re Sent to Your Cellphone
Originally posted at Carpe Diem.
Value of U.S. Currency in Circulation
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Note the difference in life expectancy between $1 bills (1.8 years) and $5 bills (1.3 years, less than the $1 bill) and $100 bills (7.4 years).
From Visual Economics.
Listen to bluesman Little Walter sing about them “Dead Presidents.”
Originally posted at Carpe Diem.
Weather Supercomputer Predicts Climate Change, But Ironically It’s One of Britain’s Worst Polluters
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The machine pictured above was hailed as the ‘future of weather prediction’ with the ability to produce more accurate forecasts and produce climate change modelling. However, the Met Office has now been named as one of the worst buildings in Britain for pollution - responsible for more than […]
Markets In Everything: A U.S. Call-Center That Pays $100K a Year And Has Doubled Workforce in Ohio
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BUSINESS WEEK — Consider iQor, a call center and business process outsourcing company based in Columbus, Ohio, that’s increased revenues at a 40% clip for the past four years. It’s done this primarily by expanding its U.S. operations. IQor also gives its U.S. employees universal health insurance, and […]
Coupon Queen: $279 of Groceries For Only 39¢
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Mom Feeds Family For Under $10 A Week
Isn’t this just the epitome and apotheosis of “consumer greed?”
Originally posted at Carpe Diem.
New Age of Cheap Energy Approaches: A Tribute to the Virtues of Markets, Free Trade and Capitalism
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UK Telegraph — We have all become so used to reading that the end of the world is nigh that we tend to close our eyes and stick our fingers in our ears when there is evidence to the contrary. So you have probably missed one of the […]
Markets in Everything: College-Themed Caskets
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Taking School Spirit to the Grave
NEW YORK – If you thought school spirit meant just plastering your college bumper sticker on your car, think again. These days, devoted alumni and fans of their college team can show their undying school spirit — in a college-themed casket.
“I don’t think […]
Markets in Everything: Direct Purchase of Drugs
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WSJ – Walgreen Co. will offer prescription drugs directly to Caterpillar Inc. for workers and retirees starting Jan. 1, expanding an unusual approach to cutting corporate health-care costs and improving efficiency.
When Caterpillar is buying drugs, the agreements will allow it to bypass pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, the […]
Best Six-Month Stock Market Rally Since 1933
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From the early March lows, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has seen a spectacular rise of about 45%, marking the best six-month stock market rally since January of 1933 (see chart above).
HT: Drudge Report.
Originally posted at Carpe Diem.
ECRI: Double-Dip Recession “Out of the Question”
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A weekly measure of future U.S. economic growth slipped in the latest week, though its yearly growth rate surged to a 38-year high that suggests chances of a double-dip recession are slim. The Economic Cycle Research Institute said its Weekly Leading Index for the […]
Markets In Everything: Hourly Car Rental Takes Off
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Embedded video from CNNMoney Video
FORTUNE — For drivers who already share movies via Netflix and stream music rather than buying CDs, the idea of sharing a car is the natural extension of a hip, financially smart, and environmentally conscious urban lifestyle.
After all, drivers who give up their cars […]
Tennis Elbow: New Treatment
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Physical therapists at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in New York City report that eccentric exercises offer a simple and effective cure for tennis elbow (July 2009 annual meeting of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine). The researchers […]
Burning on Urination May be STD Infection
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One in three single, sexually-active Americans who have more than one partner carry a sexually transmitted disease that may not respond to treatment. These people may have no symptoms at all, or they may have pain during sexual relations, burning on urination, discomfort […]
Uzbekistan 100 som 2009 - 2200 years Tashkent
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New circulating commemoratives:
2200 years Tashkent
(information and images by Michael Kaplan and Wolfgang Schuster)
LINK: Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
The @stupidcancer Golf Tournam…
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The @stupidcancer Golf Tournament in Binghamton, NY is in ‘full swing’. Har har.
http://bit.ly/kS2BA WBNG TV in…
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http://bit.ly/kS2BA WBNG TV in Binghamton, NY profiles i[2]y and our efforts on behalf of young adults with cancer. #awesome
Standing in the Binghamton Uni…
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Standing in the Binghamton University Student Bookstore. Haven’t been here in 13 years. What a throwback. Everyone is sooo young!
Congrats to Tom Murdock and hi…
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Congrats to Tom Murdock and his amazing team for raising $10,000 for i[2]y at the 2nd Annual @stupidcancer BBQ Cookout-A-Thon in Boston!
http://bit.ly/kvird Hey Boston…
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http://bit.ly/kvird Hey Boston! Tonight’s the night! 2nd Annual #stupidcancer BBQ Cookout-A-Thon benefiting i[2]y. Survivors come free!
Time to bury this treatment.
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Many years ago, I cared for a 50ish man with colon cancer that had spread to his liver. He had a good response to chemotherapy for a while. The cancer shrank and he felt better. Eventually the inevitable happened. The cancer began growing again. Although I was […]
Jurassic Park Set Visit
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In 1992, when I was in the middle of a booksigning in LA, a guy said came up to me and said, “Hey, if you’re not doing anything tonight, do you want to check out the set for Jurassic Park?”
His name, it turns out, was Mike Trcic, one […]
Harvard Wind
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Sometimes I like to exaggerate a little when I’m out sketching to poke some fun at my fellow man (and at myself in the process).
Worldwide Paintout 2009 in Tunnel Hill, GA
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As part of the International Plein Air Painters’ World Wide Paintout, the Art Alliance of North Georgia is sponsoring the “Tunnel Hill Battle Paintout” during the annual “Battle of Tunnel Hill” Civil War reenactment on September 19th & 20th. For driving directions, see more information in the […]
Bethlehem Blooms
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7″x5″ oil on RayMar panel, painted en plein air, alla prima, on August 26th (completed at 10:30am)…$35 including shipping…Bethlehem Gardens in Varnell, GA, is 7 acres of growing things, lovingly planted by the hand of Ms. Ruby. She cares for her gardens and 39 cats (yes, […]
