05-29-2014, 11:54 PM
There’s an industrial boom underway in Louisiana, thanks, in part, to a rise in fracking. A massive new plant under construction in Lake Charles is expected to create 7,000 jobs at the peak of construction, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. South African state-oil company Sasol is pumping $21 billion into the 3,034-acre complex in what could be the largest foreign investment in U.S. history, according to the Journal.
Fracking spurs next industrial revolution | Daily Ticker - Yahoo Finance
Perhaps the main problem, though, was one of ideas. "All of us Brazilians got carried away with the great football that Netherlands had presented in 1974, with the players carrying out lots of functions, and our coach Claudio Coutinho wanted, in a short space of time, Brazilians to play in the same way. It wasn't possible," he said.
BBC Sport - Zico's World Cup story: World class but denied on biggest stage
The middle classes will die out within 30 years because of rising property prices, which will rob today's children of their dreams, an economist has warned.
Middle classes will disappear in next 30 years warns Government adviser - Telegraph
Nobody ever claimed binge drinking was good for you. But the work done by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School on a small group of drinkers shows that a single episode of five drinks or more "can cause damaging effects such as bacterial leakage from the gut into the blood stream,"
Binge Drinking Can Take A Toll On Your Immune System - Business Insider
Putting their alternative take on economics to the world of stock picking, "Freakonomics" authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt have told CNBC that investors might try blind luck rather than follow the advice of their portfolio manager.