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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Bad Lip Reading pours its talents on into the mouths of unsuspecting football players, just in time for the Pro Bowl and  Super Bowl.

 

 

 

via YouTube.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious CEO in the Universe. (Fortune)
• Decrypting Google: Examining the Growing Giant's Business Methods. (Economist)
• 25 most commonly used password list 2014. (Visual.ly)
• 10 Fad Diets, Debunked. (Io9)
• Woman Sends Bank Angry Letter After They Bounced Her Check. This Is Gold. (Tickld)

 

Trading Links:

• The Best and Worst Hedge Funds of 2014 - and Everyone In-Between. (ZeroHedge)
• Top 5 Chinese Trends That Will Shape The Global Economy in 2015. (GeekTime)
• Top 10 Trading Movies. (Futures Mag)
• A Venture Capitalist's Five Predictions for 2015. (Fortune)
• 3 Reasons Why Legal Marijuana is Happening Now. (Wall Street Cheat Sheet)

How the Average Hours Worked Per Week Decreased in the the Last 150 Years

The average human now lives about 75 years.

We spend about a third of that time sleeping ... a number that probably hasn't changed much across human history.

What has changed is what we do with the remaining time.

As the following chart shows, over the past 150 years, there has been a profound shift in what we do with our waking hours.

 

Our World in Data.

 

In 1870, employed persons worked close to 3,000 hours per year ... which is roughly 10 hours per day, 6 days a week, 300 days a year. That number has almost halved for the most productive countries.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Déjà vu?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 5 Tips for Finding Flow: A High Performance User's Guide for the New Year. (Forbes)
• Science Says This Personality Trait Predicts Job Performance. What's your guess? (BI)
• Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer. (NewYorker)
• CIA Predictions for 2015 from the Year 2000. (Business Insider)
• Coming Data Deluge Means You’ll Know Anything You Want, Anytime, Anywhere. (SingularityHub)

 

Trading Links:

• 10 Legendary Investment Rules from Legendary Investors. (Zero Hedge)
• Big Banks Manipulate Physical Market Prices | The Big Picture. (Ritholtz)
• Information in Financial Markets: Who Gets It First? (Papers)
• High-Frequency Trading Payoff Tied to News. (MarketWatch)
• Oil Companies’ Predicament: Who Should Cut Production? (Wall Street Journal)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Hope you are having a Happy New Year!

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Form a Habit:  A Scientific Approach. (Sqwiggle)
• What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020. (Harvard Business Review)
• The Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires and Prodigies. (Tim Ferriss)
• Kermit the Frog Gives a TEDx Talk, and Twitter Loves It. (TED)
• Why Sadness Lasts Longer Than Other Emotions. (BPS Research Digest)

 

Trading Links:

• 2014 Portfolio Review: What Strategies Worked & What Didn’t? (PragCap)
• David Tepper Warns 2015 Is Poised To Be Like 1999. (ValueWalk)
• Saudis Tell Shale Industry It Will Break Them; Plans to Keep Pumping. (NakedCap)
• The Leading Robo-Advisers Now Manage $19 Billion and Continue to Grow. (BI)
• Florida Becomes 3rd Largest State Following CA & TX, NY Drops to 4th; Political Implications. (Global Economic Analysis)

The World as 100 People [New Infographic]

The world has over 7 billion people.

How can we get a sense of what it means ... and who we are?

One way is by statistically representing the world population as 100 people.  That way, complex issues become more comprehensible and help us get a clearer look at the big picture.

So, what would the world look like if it were represented by just 100 people?

The infographic below covers a broad range of statistics, including: gender, age, race and religion. 

 

 via Washington Post.

To see a video about this, click here.

A different look at the data is here.

You can find the original source of the data here.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Here is a picture of Obama rocking a tiara like the leader of the free world should.

 

 

(h/t JB via ABC News)

The president understood that he was broke a cardinal presidential rule.  "Here’s the general rule," Obama explained: "You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president.  That’s politics 101. You never look good wearing something on your head."

Chief White House photographer Pete Souza posted a photo to Instagram showing the president donning a tiara alongside a group of Girl Scouts from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Some things you find on the internet actually happened.

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The 25 Top Personal Development Leaders of 2014. (Success)
• 22 Pictures That Prove That 2014 Is Already the Future. (Buzzfeed)
• See the Most Beautiful Data Visualizations of 2014. (Fastcocreate)
• 5 Most Insidious Conspiracy Theories of 2014. (Alternet)
• The 20 Best Songs of 2014. How many do you know? (Vulture)

 

Trading Links:

• Citigroup to Move Headquarters to U.S. Capitol Building. (New Yorker [Humor])
• The Federal Government Now Employs the Fewest People Since 1966. (RTE)
• Top Market Themes for 2015. (Goldman Sachs)
• Frequent - But Inefficient. HFT might reduce liquidity, not boost it. (Economist)
• A Good Problem to Have During the Holidays: Vatican Finds Hundreds of Millions of Euros 'Tucked Away'. (Reuters)

The End of the Population Pyramid

The shape of the world's demography is changing.

The traditional way of visualizing and explaining the age structure of a society has been a pyramid.

If you draw a chart with each age group represented by a bar, and each bar ranged one above the other—youngest at the bottom, oldest at the top—a pyramid is the shape you would get.

This was true because, with shorter lifespans and higher mortality rates, there were always more young people than old people.

Now the shape of the global population is changing.

 

 

Between 1970 and 2015 the dominating influence on the global population was the fertility rate (the number of children a woman would typically bear during her lifetime). It fell dramatically over the period, meaning that the world shifted from having larger to smaller families. 

Between 2015 and 2060 the biggest influence upon the population will be aging. Fertility rates are slowing, and  now almost everyone is living longer than their parents—dramatically so in developing countries. 

The result will be a larger, and growing, older population.  This will drive massive infrastructure projects and business opportunities.

 

via The Economist.

Read the full article from The World In 2015.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

This cartoon made me chuckle. Perhaps you know someone like this?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Lockheed Martin's New Fusion Reactor Might Change Humanity Forever. (Sploid)
• Which Technologies Will Dominate in 2022? (Wired)
• The Odds, Continually Updated. A surprisingly understandable look at Statistics. (NYTimes)
• Mind Expanding: 7 ways to fine-tune your brain. (New Scientist)
• How Pixar Uses Math to Make Characters Look Perfect. (Gizmodo)

 

Trading Links:

• Big Banks Manipulate Physical Market Prices. (The Big Picture)
• Tony Robbins: Mastering the Game of Money. (Interview)
• The Decline and Fall of Fund Managers. (WSJ)
• Future Opportunities, Future Shocks. 6 Trends Reshaping the World Economy (Citi)
• Attack of the CyberMen. Sophisticated viruses will be the workhorses of 21st-century spying. But there should be rules. (Economist)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Apple figured out what caused some early iPhone 6 Plus phones to bend.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The 12 Best Business Books of All Time. (Motley Fool)
• Automation Makes Us Dumb. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Business Value of Pervasive Analytics. (Data Science Central)
• How to Get in Shape Using Psychology: 6 New Tricks from Research. (Time)
• Another Reason to Spend Money on Experiences Rather Than Things — The Positive Benefits of Anticipation. (Quartz)

 

Trading Links:

• Central Bank Credibility … Now Here's a Bubble. (Forbes)
• ▶ Masters in Business Podcast: Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban (Audio). (SoundCloud)
• 10 Reasons The Stock Market Rally Still Has Legs. (Investing)
• Putting the “Underperformance” of Active Managers in Perspective. (Pragmatic Capitalism)
• Elon Musk’s Next Mission: Internet Satellites. SpaceX, Tesla Founder Explores Venture to Make Lighter, Cheaper Satellites (Wall Street Journal)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The 25 Best Inventions of 2014. (Time)
• Peter Thiel's Very Negative - And Very Useful - Advice For Entrepreneurs. (Fortune)
• Google Glass Failed, but Here’s the Path Its Successors Will Take. (MIT TReview)
• Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? (Scientific American)
• Will NFL Broadcasts Ever Embrace Advanced Stats? Sabermetrics changed pro baseball. Now comes football. (MMQB)

 

Trading Links:

• The Science Behind Casino Profits. (The Week)
• Facebook 'Newspaper' Spells Trouble For Media. (BusinessInsider)
• U.S. Economy: Four Indicators Paint Very Negative Picture. (Business2Community)
• USPS Takes on FedEx and UPS with 7-day Delivery This Holiday Season. (B2C)
• Black Friday Online Sales Up 8.5% Over Last Year, 20% Of Sales Came From iOS. (TechCrunch)