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• Declining Labor Force Participation and Its Implications for Employment Growth
• Ancient Lake on Mars
• Land and Ocean Temperature Percentiles
• 10 Christmas Day Reads

Declining Labor Force Participation and Its Implications for Employment Growth Posted: 26 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST

Ancient Lake on Mars Posted: 25 Dec 2014 12:00 PM PST Source:Vox

Land and Ocean Temperature Percentiles Posted: 25 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST Source: NOAA

10 Christmas Day Reads Posted: 25 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST My Christmas morning reads: • This Christmas, Be Grateful You Didn’t Put All Your Money in Oil and Gold (B Politics) • Now that the Dow has hit 18,000, let us remember the worst op-ed in history (Washington Post) • Mohamed A. El-Erian: Wow! What the Jump in U.S. Growth Means (Bloomberg) see also The Most Encouraging, Least Noticed Economic News of 2014 (TNR) • One of the Worst Arguments in Finance (A Wealth of Common Sense) • Never Buy Expensive Stocks. Period. (Alpha Architect) • Fresh Doubt Over the Bailout of A.I.G. (NYT) • The Ghost Christmas Past: A Look At the History of Christmas (Farnam Street) • Is Chinese Takeout Really More Popular on Christmas? An Investigation. (Slate) see also Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas (The Atlantic) • Santa Delivering Drones for Christmas Amid Rising Safety Concern (Bloomberg) • Why Muslims Love Jesus Too: The virgin birth is mentioned in the…what…gasp…Koran?! It is indeed. So have yourself a merry Muslim Christmas. (Daily Beast) What are you doing this holiday?     Oil’s Drop Hits Big Investors Hard Source: WSJ

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