06-13-2014, 11:59 AM
Eating a high protein diet significantly lowers the risk of stroke and could prevent 10,000 deaths in Britain every year, a study has suggested. Consuming as little as one chicken breast, or a salmon fillet – the equivalent of 20g – reduces the risk of stroke by 20 per cent.
Eat protein to lower stroke risk - Telegraph
There are no one-way bets in global finance, but Japan's stock market comes close. The authorities are about to funnel large sums into Japanese stocks openly and deliberately under the next phase of Abenomics, both by regulatory fiat and by purchasing the Nikkei index directly with printed money.
Japan to keep printing money for years to come, so learn to enjoy it - Telegraph
This time around, Abe didn't ignore the economy. Backed by economic adviser Koichi Hamada and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, Abe first implemented the biggest monetarist push in world history. He went the opposite direction of Europe, and -- unlike the U.S. -- he gave every indication that the shift toward monetarism was permanent. The result: Japan has escaped deflation. The stock market is up, growth is way up and even wages are finally starting to rise.
Japan's Abe Is the World's Best Leader - Bloomberg View
In other words, Friedman was calling for large scale asset purchases (LSAPs) long before it was vogue and understood that for the purchases to help the economy there must be a sufficiently large and permanent expansion of the monetary base.
Macro and Other Market Musings: Abenomics as a Fulfillment of Milton Friedman's Policy Prescriptions
Solar panel prices have plummeted more than 80 percent in recent years, but solar power is still more expensive than fossil-fuel power in most places, and accounts for a tiny fraction of the world’s energy supply. Few people have a better idea of what it will take to make solar compete with fossil fuels than Richard Swanson, who founded SunPower
How close is solar to competing with fossil fuels? It’s darn close. In 2000, a big study concluded that solar panels could get below $1 per watt [a level thought to make solar competitive in many markets]. At the time, everyone in the industry thought the authors were in la-la land. Now we’re under that cost target.
Richard Swanson on the Future of Solar | MIT Technology Review
China has announced new measures aimed at bolstering its economic growth. These include plans to build railways, roads and airports along the Yangtze River - which connects China's less developed inland provinces to Shanghai.
BBC News - China takes new steps to boost growth
The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK researchers. A study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed "suicides have risen markedly".
BBC News - Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides'
Secondly, it gravely weakens the most optimistic explanation for the post-2008 drop in productivity. We had hoped that this was due in part to labour-hoarding; firms hung onto skilled workers in the downturn in anticipation of needing them in the recovery.
Stumbling and Mumbling: The productivity slump
The question of whether fiscal policy should be pro- or countercyclical has become increasingly relevant during the recession. This column provides causal evidence from South American countries showing the success of countercyclical policy in improving social indicators of economic success, combined with correlative evidence from Europe. This represents a strike against the case for austerity-led growth.
Fiscal policy responses to crises: The social impacts | vox
As we’ve mentioned in the past, perhaps the Samsung Galaxy Tab S range’s defining feature will be its thinness. Both versions will be just 6.6mm thick, which will make the 7.5mm iPad mini 2 Retina seem like a bit of a fatty.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S leaks in full - News - Trusted Reviews
Today Panasonic once again leads the way in digital camera development with the launch of the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 - the world's first compact camera to feature 4k video capture.
Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 Review | First Impressions
George Osborne will use his Mansion House speech on Thursday to give City regulators the power to cap risky mortgage loans in a bid to allay fears of a growing housing bubble. In a dramatic move, the chancellor plans to allow the Bank of England to limit mortgage loans that could undermine the financial stability of the UK housing market.
Osborne to give regulators power to cap mortgage loans | Business | theguardian.com
The world must act to contain the risk of another devastating housing crash, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday, as it published new data showing house prices are well above their historical average in many countries.
IMF sounds global housing alarm
New data showing the return of a couple of old friends — subprime mortgages and so-called "jumbo loans" — have some people worried that recent history is repeating itself. Just six years after a housing bubble nearly tipped the world into a new depression, home prices in California and Florida are climbing precipitously – enough to prompt the real estate listing company Trulia to rank much of the property in these two traditionally frothy state markets as overvalued.
Some scary practices return to US property market, but the bubbles are overseas
A new journal article by researchers from Poland's Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (WAT; translates to "Military University of Technology"showcases an interesting roadside sensor that could revolutionize law enforcement if it can be made more accurate and more consistent. We've seen system-on-a-chip (SoC) microfluidic laboratories that "sniff" for the presence of alcohol and other drugs. Such sensors are already becoming commercially available, and have been deployed in traffic studies and at key security points across the U.S.
DailyTech - Roadside Laser Could Remotely Detect Drivers' "Alcohol Breath"
Johnson takes it upon himself to debunk the claim, made by the gun reform group Everytown for Gun Safety, backed by Michael Bloomberg, that there have been 74 school shootings since Adam Lanza killed 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook elementary School 18 months ago. In fact, Johnson concludes, there have only been seven. How does he manage this feat of mathematical magic? Simple: by narrowing the definition of “school shooting” so far that almost none of them count.