01-01-2016, 10:56 PM
"Smart beta" was the most searched-for term on investing dictionary website Investopedia.com in 2015. And this tells you everything you need to know about how anxious investors have felt this year.
'Smart beta' most searched term of 2015 - Business Insider
Zweig's description of Europe in the years leading up to 1914 is intoxicating. Everything seemed to be getting better: wealth was spreading, people were healthier, women were breaking free.
The world's political and economic order is stronger than it looks - Telegraph
We experience Canadian nice as soon as we reach customs. The US border guards are gruff and all business. The Canadians, by contrast, are unfailingly polite, even as they grill us about the number of wine bottles we’re bringing into the country. One year, we had failed to notice that our 9-year-old daughter’s passport had expired. They, nicely, let us enter anyway. The niceness continues for our entire trip, as we encounter nice waiters, nice hotel clerks, nice strangers.
BBC - Travel - Can Canada teach the rest of us to be nicer?
Congratulations, my fellow Americans! We’re not the rudest nation on the planet. We’re not even in the top 5. USA! USA! The travel search site Skyscanner.com surveyed its users about where the locals never smile and people are particularly unfriendly, and the nation with the most votes for rudest locals was… Wait for it… France (félicitations, mes amis!), followed by Russia. The survey received over 1,200 responses, 65 percent from the UK and Ireland, plus elsewhere in Europe, North America and Australia.
The World's Rudest Nations For Travelers - Forbes
Drinkers will be advised to cut back on alcohol for at least two days a week under new public health guidelines, according to reports. The chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, is also expected to announce a reduction in the recommended maximum daily intake of alcohol for men, dropping to the same level as that for women, the Daily Mail said. The guidelines are to say there is no safe alcohol limit and even drinking small amounts could cause illnesses including cancer.
No safe alcohol limit, new guidelines to say | Society | The Guardian