Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Fun Facts

The number of senior citizens in the workforce has nearly tripled since the 1970s.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/nine-to-five-after-65/390948/

...[B]lack women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million....For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html

Dog bites account for $1 billion in homowner claims each year. Pit Bulls & Rottweilers alone accounted for 67% of human dog bite rated fatalities. (correspondence from home insurance company)

[B]etween 1976 and 2007 the bottom 90 percent saw their income grow by an annual rate of ¼ of 1 percent, adjusted for inflation, while the top 1 percent saw theirs grow by 4.4 percent. Put another way—and pulling forward to the most recent year of data—from 1975 to 2013, the top 10 percent of households have accrued 109 percent of all the income gained.
http://equitablegrowth.org/research/todays-big-u-s-economic-trade-off-isnt-equality-efficiency/

[In] Albuquerque, New Mexico...one in five homicides is a police killing.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/02/baltimore-rebellion-is-uprising-against-austerity-freddie-gray

Somewhere between 3% and 10% of all U.S. employees – about 4 to 14 million Americans – are experiencing intimidating forms of political contact at work.
http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/content/when-bosses-recruit-employees-politics-evidence-new-national-survey

Twenty years ago the holding period of shares was 4 years on average. Today it's 22 seconds.


10 comments:

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    4. I'm going to share two links on the nature of money, a topic you explore, before I move on. The first is to a scholarly paper on money as a legal institution.

      http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321313

      The second is a blog post that summarizes and comments on the paper.

      https://econoblog101.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/money-a-legal-not-an-economic-thing/

      You might find them interesting or at least useful.

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