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...event. “I think it’s great,” he said. “Any kind of attention you get always helps.” In conjunction with Geoffrey Miller and Joshua Tybur, Jordan discovered that the hourly tip earnings of lap dancers rose about 40 percent when they reached their peak fertility. Literature winner David Sims also said he was “delighted” to learn that he would receive a prize this year. Sims was awarded for his study on conflict, entitled “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration...
...case of households, debt rose from about 50% of GDP in 1980 to a peak of 100% in 2006. In other words, households now owe as much as the entire U.S. economy can produce in a year. Much of the increase in debt was used to invest in real estate. The result was a bubble; at its peak, average U.S. house prices were rising at 20% a year. Then - as bubbles always do - it burst. The S&P Case-Shiller index of house prices in 20 cities has been falling since February 2007. And the decline is accelerating. In June...
...India's middle class of about 90 million people, some 20-30 million have taken on more debt than they can handle, he estimates. Rising rates of loan defaults appear to back up the claim. For example, nonperforming assets at ICICI Bank, India's largest private lender, rose to 1.8% of total assets in the quarter ending in June, compared with 1.35% a year earlier...
...GOOD A new Campbell's Soup and Kraft Singles marketing campaign is coming soon, with the slogan "Warm hearts without stretching budgets." Campbell's stock rose on Sept. 29 as the Dow Jones dropped 778 points...
...Tension rose around the pool as the game went into an overtime period consisting of two three-minute frames. Brown won the face-off and scored on a power play just past the goal line. After some back and forth jousting between the two offenses, Brown attacked again, this time firing into the right side...