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Defense accounts for more than the entire drop in durable goods orders in the first four months of the year.
So this is Black Thursday for the U.S. stock market?
ISI on Bernanke testimony: "the sharp negative market response suggests it’s too early to taper"
Trying to figure out why the NYT story on nightclub in water tower seems so damn familiar. Like I read it someplace else on Monday...
Sell the computer, buy 500 books... Buying a Computer Won’t Raise Your Kids’ Grades on.wsj.com/10M9M5F @WSJ
Buying a Computer Won’t Raise Your Kids’ Grades
blogs.wsj.com — A home computer isn't going to improve a child's performance at school - but it also isn't likely to hurt it. That's the conclusion of a new paper by two economists at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "A "B" student without a home computer remains a "B" student even after receiving one," said Robert Fairlie, one of the authors.
If news of Yitan Zhang's prime-number paper made you want to run out and build a prime sieve, here's a way to do it: bit.ly/13LpjYM
My Prime Sieve - Homage to Yitan Zhang
econometricsbysimulation.com — As a homage to Yitang Zhang who has proven a mind-bending property of Prime Pairs, I have written a prime Sieve to detect all of the prime numbers from 1 to N. # There might very well be a function in the base package that already does this.
Bernie Sanders with the socialist notion that there's something wrong with bankers getting to pick regional Fed presidents...
The ten-year yield has been on an interesting journey this morning pic.twitter.com/wn1OzaMSXm
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Famous economist John Campbell with a question! Oh, wrong John Campbell...
Texas university system endowment's gold bet not looking so hot on.wsj.com/180lHp5 @WSJ
Gold's Fall Stings Texas Universities' Endowment
online.wsj.com — Gold's slump has saddled the second-largest U.S. college endowment with more than $300 million in paper losses.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Business and Finance and more.
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