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Europe's Record Youth Unemployment: The Scariest Graph in the World Just Got Scarier
Europe's job market is a historic disaster. The EU unemployment rate set a new all-time high of 12.2 percent. But it's the youth unemployment crisis that's truly terrifying. In Spain, unemployment surged past 56 percent, and Greece now leads the rich world with an astonishing 62.5 percent. According to the Atlantic, youth unemployment is
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell: is an easy to understand video about 'The Physics of Everything'. Dr. Michio Kaku, a professor of Theoretical Physics asks "What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe?" Kaku explores how physicists may shrink the science of the Big Bang into an equation
Playing 'Smart' Doesn't Mean You Are Cheating
When did playing 'smart' start to mean that you were a cheater? Recently, Apple got grilled for its low-tax strategy. While not every business can, or does, copy that approach … many do. Here is a look at what S.&P. 500 companies paid in corporate income taxes — federal, state, local and foreign — from
Are You More Worried that China or the U.S. Wants to Monitor You?
Are you more worried that China is cyber-snooping on us … or that the American government admitted doing it too? When I travel on business in a foreign country, I assume that my computer use is monitored. Likewise, many organizations are now prohibiting production laptops, iPads, or other personal electronic devices from traveling to certain
Some Thoughts on the 'Hindenburg Omen' Pattern Predicting Market Instability
Tracking the Hindenburg Omen: How Much Danger Is There? Warnings were heard from many corners of the financial blogosphere that the Hindenburg Omen triggered. What is it? It is a fairly obscure technical analysis pattern, which supposedly gives an early warning of unstable market conditions (and even potentially stock market crashes). While the calculation is
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
You probably heard that Apple avoided $9.2 Billion in U.S. Taxes with its recent debt deal. Here is one way to try and fix that … Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting. Lighter Links: The Wisdom of Psychopaths? What can you learn from