This week, let’s do a bit of – ahem – roll play. How do you prefer to hang your toilet roll? Do you like the loose end to be far away from the wall (known as the over style) or next to the wall (the under style)? Now let’s see what Dr Gilde Carle (“Relationship Expert to the Stars”) has to say about your choice. If you roll over, you like taking charge, crave organisation and are likely to over-achieve. If you roll under, you’re laid-back, dependable and seek relationships with strong foundations. If you don’t care, as long as it’s there, you aim to minimise conflict, value flexibility and like putting yourself in new situations. But could your choice even tell us something about your earning power? One American survey found that 73% of people who earn under $20,000 a year roll under, while 60% of those who earn over $50,000 roll over. Of course, these surveys do not quite meet the standards required for a scientific psychology study, but – if this column is your favourite bathroom reading – it should certainly give you something to ponder.
Since the financial crisis, S&P 500 companies have spent trillions of dollars buying back shares of their own stock. In the third quarter alone, these companies gobbled up $156 billion worth of themselves. Goldman Sachs' David Kostin estimates that these companies will spend another $608 billion in 2016 buying back shares, up from $568 billion in 2015. It's important to note that these buybacks — which are enormous enough to sway markets — don't occur evenly throughout the year. "Typically, we have a huge tailwind in December from buyback action," JonesTrading's Dave Lutz observed on Thursday. "Fascinating: November/December has combined for almost 23% of annual buyback budgets from '07-'14(ex-'08)."
Share-buyback seasonality - Business Insider
Scientists at UCL have found that hormone levels of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' are significantly different which could explain health inequalities... Poor and uneducated people could be ageing faster, and more vulnerable to disease, because their hormones are out of balance, a new study suggests. Scientists have known for some time that the most underprivileged members of society die earlier and are ‘biologically older’ than the rich, with those in the most affluent areas expected to live around eight years longer than those in the poorest regions.
Poor and uneducated are biologically different to affluent, UCL finds - Telegraph
The dilemma My husband and I married recently. I am not his first wife. We came together with all our baggage from three decades of separate existence that included furniture, curtains, artwork and one dog. We’ve had our ups and downs deciding how to fit it all into our new home together, and there have been plenty of arguments about which individually “treasured” possessions we no longer have space for in our new life together. We’ve been battling for the last two years and, thankfully, tempers have died down. Except my husband has started buying more, which would be fine if our flat wasn’t already packed, and more importantly if he chose to consult with me before committing. If I don’t like his purchases (the latest a large ornate cabinet), he gets angry and say I am ungrateful. As for children, I’m beginning to think they’ll never be an option as we simply don’t have the space!
I don’t want our home full of my new husband’s stuff | Life and style | The Guardian
"We're really bad at setting reasonable goals," Cuddy told Business Insider. And when we don't meet an unreasonable goal, we fill ourselves with feelings of anxiety and lower our self-worth.
Amy Cuddy explains the dangers of New Year's resolutions - Business Insider