10-12-2016, 10:52 PM
Turns out graphene, the wonder material with so many potential applications, is also the secret sauce to making tougher silk. A team of scientists from Tsinghua University in Beijing successfully created silk that's twice as tough simply by feeding the material to silkworms.
Graphene-fed silkworms can spin super threads
The market did not fall on Tuesday simply because Alcoa reported a disappointing quarter and the price of oil went down. Jim Cramer thinks a larger force could be taking down some of the largest companies in the stock market. "When you see investors turning on the market's former leaders, that tends to spread doom and gloom and pessimism," the "Mad Money" host said. To gain more insight from the charts, Cramer spoke with technician Rob Moreno, who is a colleague of Cramer's at RealMoney.com and the publisher of RightViewTrading.com.
Cramer: Charts reveal the real culprit taking down the entire stock market
The slow growth the U.S. economy has experienced since the recent recession is not a fleeting condition, rather it's the result with a serious demographic problem that is poised to dampen economic growth for years, according to a recent research paper by three Federal Reserve economists.
The biggest economic horror story is real, according to a new Fed paper
However, Regling said that GDP (gross domestic product) per capita was usually the same as in the U.S., and the region had a "much better income" distribution. "The last 15 years, 80 percent of European households have seen a real income gain. In the U.S., we know it's only 10 to 20 percent. A big difference in favor of Europe," he added.
The man selling Europe's bonds slams Stiglitz, Krugman and US income gains
A lot of people are worried about the growing ranks of jobless young men. George Will says America is suffering a “quiet catastrophe” in which men simply no longer want jobs. Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently came up with a novel theory to explain this. He suggested that young American men aren’t working because they’re too busy having fun playing video games and living in their parents’ basement. Derek Thompson wrote it up in the Atlantic and Tyler Cowen enhanced the argument by suggesting that young men are also enjoying internet porn, thus eliminating a key non-monetary incentive that drives young men to get a job and their own place.