Japanese scientists have said they have never seen anything as horrific as the massive group of dead dolphins discovered stranded on a beach near the site of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. After conducting an autopsy the scientists found that the dolphins’ lungs were white – which they say is an indication of radiation poisoning.
Submitted by Mark Brandly via The Mises Institute,
Lately, I’ve wondered how my neighbor, Sam, affords to buy so much stuff. He appears to have an unlimited budget.
When I asked him about this, Sam asked, “Do you think I’m spending too much?”
“That depends,” I said, “How much money do you make?”
“I take home $100,000 a year.”
As the gap between GAAP and non-GAAP converges (and not in a bullish way), BofA reports the earnings estimate revision ratio (ERR) fell for the sixth consecutive month, to 0.47 from 0.49 – its lowest level since April 2009. So despite the exuberant, we're going back to record highs, rally off the lows, the real mother's milk data suggests more than twice as many cuts vs. increases to earnings forecasts over the last three months... and it's not just Energy anymore.
This is the lowest S&P500 GAAP earnings per share since 2010.
For years, we noted that despite Goldman suffering progressively declining revenue...
... and occasional downward fluctuations in its bonus pool. one of its key "charms" for employees was that ever since the financial crisis, its total number of employees never declined. That is no longer the case.
An Essex grandmother has won a £1million lottery draw and thinks that fate dealt her the wrong hand by mistake. Lynne Groves, 57, from Chelmsford, bought the winning ticket for Wednesday night’s Lotto Millionaire Raffle from her local shop after the shopkeeper originally printed her the wrong ticket. The Independent reports: Delighted that she can now treat her family and friends to cars and foreign holidays, the mother-of-three and grandmother to eight, is sure fate played a helping hand.