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50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World. Life hacks are little ways to make our lives easier. These low-budget tips and trick can help you organize and de-clutter space; prolong and preserve your products; or teach you something (e.g., tie a full Windsor) that you simply did not know before. Most of these came from a great post on tumblr. There is also a great subreddit ‘r/lifehacks‘ with some fantastic tips as well. 20. Separate egg yolks like a boss 40. Sources – muxedo task: 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier! If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: For Stock-Picking Advice, Don’t Ask an Economist. OVER the last few weeks, as the stock market has reached new highs, my thoughts have turned to my 85-year-old mother. “O.K. Mr. Smarty-Pants,” she often asks me, “what stock should I buy now?” She first asked me this question when I was an undergraduate at Princeton, majoring in economics. Unfortunately, she has never been happy with my answers, which are usually evasive.

Yet we economists have written countless studies about the stock market. THE MARKET PROCESSES INFORMATION QUICKLY One prominent theory of the stock market — the efficient markets hypothesis — explains how answering my mother’s question would be a fool’s errand. Photo This theory gained public attention in 1973 with the publication of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” by Burton G. PRICE MOVES ARE OFTEN INEXPLICABLE Even if changes in stock prices are unpredictable, as efficient markets theory suggests, we should be able to explain these changes after the fact. Mr. In 1985, Rajnish Mehra and Edward C. 'What Happens When Top Income Earners Receive Smaller Subsidies for Retirement Savings?' - Pale Moon. Greg Mankiw complains that rich people (like him presumably) will stop saving so much if there is "some kind of penalty for people who have accumulated more than $3 million in retirement accounts" in the president's budget: The President's Latest Bad Idea His big complaint?

"President Obama's $3 million constraint would be a significant disincentive for saving. " Here's something to consider via Owen Zidar: What happens when top income earners receive smaller subsidies for retirement savings? When individuals in the top income tax bracket received a smaller tax subsidy for retirement savings, they started saving less in retirement accounts….. but the same individuals increased the amount they were saving outside retirement accounts by almost exactly the same amount, leaving total savings essentially unchanged. I saw this paper presented at an NBER meeting at the SF Fed. Internet libre. Spintank » Spincase – Cartographie de la circulation de l’info s. Le 10 juin dernier, le Conseil Constitutionnel a censuré une partie substantielle du projet de loi Création et internet (HADOPI). L’annonce a eu lieu officiellement à 17h. Elle a naturellement circulé en ligne de manière ultra rapide, empruntant notamment l’espace le plus naturel pour la diffusion publique d’infos : Twitter.

Après la représentation des retombées de la mission de Richard Descoings sur les lycées, nous avons relevé et étudié dans le détail la circulation de cette information précise, dans les heures autour de la décision du Conseil Constitutionnel. L’objectif : comprendre la dynamique de diffusion de l’information, d’amplification, isoler les différentes étapes, et identifier les acteurs-clefs de cette diffusion. Saisir, aussi, l’impact des mécaniques propres à Twitter, et notamment la fonction de « retweet » (RT). Un petit point méthode tout d’abord.

Comment avons-nous réalisé la carte ? 1) Le corpus d’étude est constitué des tweets qui ont utilisé le hashtag #hadopi. Mtislav. Scientists try to prove that women manipulate men with noises du. Scientists try to prove that women manipulate men with noises du.