10-22-2015, 10:00 PM
For every ten students, one will attempt suicide, one will become mentally ill, two will become alcoholics, two will slam doors and jettison the violin out the window, three will work as violinists, and perhaps one will become a soloist.
How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist | The New Republic
The gender pay gap is widening again because men’s earnings are growing this year at twice the rate of women’s. The median weekly earnings for full-time male workers was $889 in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That’s a 2.2% increase from a year earlier. Meanwhile, full-time female workers’ earnings were $721, up 0.8% from a year earlier.
Even looking out 10 years, markets are expecting little more than 1 percent inflation on the index the Fed uses for inflation... We're caught in a vicious cycle. Incomes are too low, therefore investments are too low. ... We need to get out of that cycle
Economy 'caught in a vicious cycle': Larry Summers
Headlines scream about earnings “beats” and “misses,” but one-time events that have little to do with a company’s core business or its success can skew a company’s earnings in any given quarter. That is why it can be useful to look at sales instead. You can take this a step further and focus on the growth of sales per share, since this will “bake in” any dilution to investors from the issuance of more shares, as well as any decline in the share count brought about by stock repurchases.
10 earnings winners include Netflix, Adobe and Lennar - MarketWatch
Harvard Medical School checked the performance of their doctors on 24-hour shifts. They were shocked. Interns towards the ends of their shifts made 36% more serious errors. Of consultants who regularly worked 24-hour shifts, 74% showed signs of burnout or depression. The research found that shorter shifts and more informed placement of recovery days got much better results.