Feb 14
The Morning Call reports that Megan Thode, a graduate student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, claims that the C+ she was given in one of her classes caused her $1.3 million in damages. Thodes was in the College of Education pursing her master’s in counseling and human services. As part of the curriculum, Thode …
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Feb 13
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) just released a fascinating paper entitled “Chronicle of a Decline Foretold: Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?” The paper explains that Chinese population controls will cause the number of Chinese working adults to peak between 2020 and 2025. At this point, a “precipitous” drop of working age population will …
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Feb 11
The recent real estate bubble and foreclosure crisis that California faced has left first-time home buyers wondering how much home they can really afford. With the relatively lower current prices and record low interest rates, the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) is suggesting it’s an opportune time to buy. C.A.R. published the following chart that …
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Feb 08
Eating too quickly has been proven to be bad for health, causing heartburn, digestive problems, and even weight gain. The old method to curb this bad habit was having a mother or a spouse remind us to slow down and “chew your food.” Now with the help of technology, no such verbal reminders are necessary. …
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Feb 06
On February 6, 2013, the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced that as of the week of August 5, 2013 it will suspend Saturday mail delivery (see: USPS Announcement). This reduction in delivery is estimated to save the USPS approximately $2 billion annually. Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and CEO stated: The Postal Service is …
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Feb 05
KPMG recently released their Global Audit Committee Survey (See the KPMG survey here). The survey contains the views of 1,800 audit committee members worldwide regarding topics such as financial reporting and disclosures, audit quality, oversight of internal and external auditors, risk management and crisis readiness, emerging technologies and audit committee effectiveness. The survey highlighted the …
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Feb 03
Predictionmachine.com generated a statistical model for the 2013 Super Bowl that reports a 67% probability of the 49ers winning. The probability of this outcome is different than predicting that the 49ers in fact will win. Yet such simplistic, and incorrect, interpretations are common to Monte Carlo style models (the type of model run by Predictionmachine.com). …
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Feb 01
The real estate market has taken a beating in the past few years. During the most recent downturn in the economy, real estate values plummeted causing homeowners equity to vanish with many homeowners facing short-payoffs and even foreclosure. Despite the more positive recent news regarding real estate, potential buyers are facing increased scrutiny from banks …
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Feb 07
Does anyone NOT know the key differences between CA versus TX? Anyone…?
February 7, 2013
Both the business and residential climates in California versus Texas are long known to be diametrically opposed: one is a more progressive state advocating social justice at a “cost” of higher taxes and more regulations while the other espouses lower taxes and less regulations while advocating individual responsibility. Despite this well-known, long standing difference, Governor Perry of …
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