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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
In 2008, the U.S. exported $1.276 trillion (or $1,276 billion, BEA data here) of manufactured goods to the rest of the world including food products ($89 billion), industrial supplies and materials ($780 billion), capital goods ($454 billion), automotive vehicles and parts ($234 billion), and consumer goods ($482 […]
Newspaper Articles Are Too Long
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“One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your […]
One of the Most Dangerous Words Ever: Fairness
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1. “In recent times, virtually any disparity in outcomes is almost automatically blamed on discrimination, despite the incredible range of other reasons for disparities between individuals and groups.
Nature’s discrimination completely dwarfs man’s discrimination. Geography alone makes equal chances virtually impossible. The geographic advantages of Western Europe over […]
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Lines and Colors Exhibition Review
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
I’m honored that the art blog Lines and Colors has done a thoughtful review of the Dinotopia exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.
As many people know, traveling to the exhibit has been as difficult as getting to Shangri-La, with all the record-breaking blizzards we’ve been having. But we […]
Dinotopia in China
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Fantasy Art Magazine, the leading professional magazine in China for the imaginative arts, has just published a 10-page portfolio of Dinotopia artwork.
The recent book Journey to Chandara, features some of China’s exciting dinosaur discoveries, such as the Microraptor from the Liaoning province, and great discoveries from the Gobi […]
Mouth Shorthand
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[?]Submitted by Gurney Journey
Here’s a mouth drawn in the style of American cartoonist Milt Caniff. According to artist and comics historian Ron Harris, “Drawing the lips too round or too full can detract from the “man’s man” look realistic artists usually strive for. Impressionists Noel Sickles and Milton Caniff circumvented […]
How I Met Your Mother
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[?]Submitted by Art Blog By Bob
I can’t think of any artist who suffered as much in his life as Arshile Gorky. Fleeing the ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Turkish troops, he watched his mother starve to death in 1919 surrounded by fellow refugees. Upon coming to America, he shed his birth […]
The Pre-Iraq War Lies Conspiracy-Conspiracy : Nice Try, Tony
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By Darryl Mason
Tony Blair has discovered that nobody, but nobody, believes his bullshit anymore, and the possibility of far more hostile attention to come, from signing his country up for the illegal War On Iraq back in 2002, is dampening his trousers and dementing his mind. […]
Help Serve Real Food in Schools - Slow Food USA
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Slow Food USA Pushes to Help Schools Serve Real Food
Time for Lunch Campaign Plans to Send Thousands of Letters to Congress Calling for Big Changes to the Upcoming Child Nutrition Act to End Child Obesity and Diabetes
BROOKLYN, New York – February 9, 2010 – Slow […]
Follow Through?
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[?]Submitted by The Ambitious Trader: Stocks, Trading, Investing..My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
Follow Through?
It looks like it on paper, but I don’t see any high quality setups…best to wait for more of a confirmation before becoming super-bullish….
The Ambitious Trader: Stocks, Trading, Investing..My Ambitions as a Trader and […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on February 9, 2009
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on February 9, 2009
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under $5.00
Over […]
Worldwide Food Services (WFSV) Selects New Office Site
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BORDENTOWN, NJ — (Marketwire) — 02/01/10 — WORLDWIDE FOOD SERVICES, INC. (Worldwide Food Services) (PINKSHEETS: WFSV) has selected Little Falls, New Jersey as its new office site. The 3 South Grey Rock Avenue, Little Falls, NJ, office is also the location of Rainbow Foods LLC, the Company’s Joint Venture […]
2-9-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
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Stocks rally behind Caterpillar earnings and Greece debt help
Stocks rose broadly on Tuesday with Caterpillar Inc and other industrial shares benefiting from a broker upgrade and talk of help for debt-burdened Greece reviving investor sentiment.
Speculation Greece could get help from the European Union underpinned the rise in stocks, boosting […]
China Jo-Jo Drugstores Announces Fiscal Third Quarter 2009 Results
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HANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc. (OTCBB:CJJD) (“Jo-Jo Drugstores” or the “Company”), which operates a retail pharmacy chain in the People’s Republic of China, today announced its financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2009.
Fiscal Third Quarter 2009 Highlights
Revenues increased 29.1% period-over-period to $14.9 million
Gross profit […]
DOES INDEXING MAKE SENSE IN “INEFFICIENT” MARKETS?
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Since the first index fund was launched in the early 1970s, the concept of passive investing has come a long way in terms of earning respect. For broad U.S. equity mandates in particular, finding supporters of active management is getting tougher in the 21st century. And among […]
REBALANCING & THE GLOBAL MARKET INDEX
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There are countless investment strategies, but arguably there’s only one true benchmark: the market portfolio, defined as a passive allocation to all the major asset classes, initially weighted by the relative dollar values and thereafter left to the whim of market fluctuation.
This benchmark isn’t necessarily appropriate for […]
The Heritage Foundation Confuses Me
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The Heritage Foundation critiques the CEA assessment of the stimulus. In WebMemo #2799, Dr. Campbell writes:
The CEA’s method, in brief, compared a statistical forecast of the economy based on historical patterns (no stimulus) with the actual economic results in 2009. On this basis, it claims that there are 2 […]
Letting the EGTRRA and JGTRRA Provisions Expire
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Or, what would happen if we “Let Bush Be Bush”. Recall the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were written to expire, for the most part, in FY2011. The impact of extending those cuts (along with some others) is strikingly depicted in this Figure from the Center for Budget and […]
Markets in Everything: Screw-in-the-Ground Casket
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The Two Americas: Public Sector vs. Private Sector
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Note: This post was inspired by Michael Jahr’s post on the Mackinac Center’s website, “Economy Contracts, Government Expands.”
According to a December report from the BLS, state and local government employers spent an average of $39.83 per hour worked ($26.24 for wages and $13.60 for benefits) for total employee […]
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