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Dan Walters: California prisoner count drops, spending increases – Americans of a certain age may remember the term "peace dividend." It was uttered after the Vietnam War ended in the 1970s and the Cold War ended in the early 1990s – referring to an anticipated decrease in military spending. Something of a "peace dividend" was promised – or at least assumed – when California, acceding to federal court pressure, sharply reduced its prison population. Forget about it. Walters column in Sacramento Bee
Jeff Jardine: O'Brien stacks deck in Olsen's favor in Stanislaus supervisor race — On Thursday, Stanislaus County Supervisor Bill O'Brien emailed a statement proclaiming that he will not run in the June primary for a fourth term to represent District 1, which includes the Oakdale and Riverbank areas. In the same statement, he also endorsed terming-out California Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen as his successor. With this well-coordinated strike, O'Brien and Olsen all but sealed and dead-bolted the window of opportunity for others now entertaining thoughts of running for the seat. Jardine column in Modesto Bee
Gov. Brown
Willie Brown: Gov. Brown needs to buck big tobacco and sign antismoking bills — As a veteran of California's tobacco wars, my advice to Gov. Jerry Brown is to buck the tobacco lobby and sign the just-passed package of bills that, among other things, raises the age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21. Brown column in San Francisco Chronicle
Other areas
Dan Morain: Short takes from the campaign trail — In each presidential election, University of California employees are among the largest collective sources of campaign money, particularly for Democrats. This year is no exception, but preferences of West Coast academia might surprise you. Morain in Sacramento Bee
San Bernardino Assembly race could define what it means to be an Inland Empire Democrat — What happens when a Democratic lawmaker strays from party leaders on a key piece of Gov. Jerry Brown's policy agenda? One assemblywoman who held back support for a sweeping climate-change bill last year is starting to find out. LA Times article
Joyce Terhaar: It's all on the record with the Sacramento Bee's editorial board — We don't want to keep secrets from readers when we talk with political candidates. That's why The Sacramento Bee's editorial board, which regularly meets with public officials and candidates for public office, requires that conversations be on the record. The board invites news reporters to cover the meetings, in the event someone makes news. Terhaar column in Sacramento Bee
News Stories
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Coalinga's new boil boom: Proposal would transform empty prison into cannabis oil production — This city founded on the discovery of a petroleum field is looking to strike it rich in a new oil industry. Instead of relying on the black gold pulled from the ground for jobs and economic stability, Coalinga could find future wealth in marijuana by transforming its vacant state prison into a cannabis oil cultivation and manufacturing operation. Fresno Bee article
Researchers' idea will blow you away: 656-foot long blades on wind turbines – Efforts to increase wind power mean that turbine blades are getting bigger and bigger. But a new design in the works takes the idea to levels most people can barely imagine: Blades up to 656.2 feet long — more than two football fields. Today's longest blades are 262.5 feet. LA Times article
Jobs and the Economy
Turlock City Council set to decide farmers market proposals' fate – The Turlock City Council is gearing up for what is expected to be a contentious showdown between two competing farmers market proposals this week. Modesto Bee article
Intrigue builds in Turlock farmers market flap – Peter Cipponeri, a for-profit contender in the Turlock farmers market bidding heading into Tuesday's vote before the City Council, has expanded his management résumé. Modesto Bee article
Struggling California desert towns seek tax bonanza with pot farms – With a likely November ballot measure to legalize recreational use in the Golden State, the Riverside County town of Desert Hot Springs is one of at least four economically depressed Southern California cities now banking on a revival by licensing and taxing marijuana cultivation. Sacramento Bee article
Chinese investors muscling in to Bay Area housing market — The flood of Chinese money into Bay Area housing is coming not just from home buyers. Developers and investors are also building and backing large residential projects here. They mainly want to diversify away from China's overbuilt market but also serve Chinese buyers wanting a home in the Bay Area. San Francisco Chronicle article
Sacramento Bee: Let Sacramento's homeless have their tent city – A collection of tents on a plot a land in some Sacramento neighborhood is not a solution to homelessness. It is an admission that society has failed the thousands of people who have no roof. The notion of a safe ground, flawed though it is, could help and, therefore, it's worth a try. Sacramento Bee editorial
Fresno company updates package for squash sauté kit – Baloian Farms of Fresno, one of the region's leading produce suppliers, has added a new look to one of its newer products, the Savory Sauté Squash Kit. Fresno Bee article
Giving from the heart: Sierra Vista dance group gets assist from Stockton is magnificent – Stockton is Magnificent may be a grandiose claim, and for the more cynical, false advertising, but then something comes along that forces the doubters to admit there's something special going on here. Stockton is Magnificent, launched after Forbes Magazine called out Stockton as the most miserable place to live, is getting ready for its fifth community celebration. Stockton Record article
Jury sides with Hughson couple in fight over $23,000 Turlock Irrigation District bill – "All my life, I tried to be a good person, like my father and my grandparents would teach me," said Felipe Ruelas. "I worked so hard and I never asked the government for food stamps, health, welfare – nothing. And I never did something wrong." Jurors recently agreed, ending his 16-month legal battle with the Turlock Irrigation District. Rather than requiring that he pay TID nearly $70,000, jurors declared the district liable for financial elder abuse and directed TID to pay Ruelas $23,231. Modesto Bee article
New snowstorm hits Sierra Nevada as 'March Miracle' continues – Several feet of new snow is expected in the Sierra Nevada mountains this weekend as another El Niño-influenced storm moves into Northern California. In what some are calling a "March Miracle," the Sierra have been hit by a series of powerful storms this month. That's important because the Sierra snowpack is a key source of water for California, which is in its fourth year of a drought. LA Times article
Sacramento River flows over weir into Yolo Bypass for first time since 2012 — Water from the rain-swollen Sacramento River began flowing over the Fremont Weir and into the Yolo Bypass on Saturday morning, according to monitors at the California Nevada River Forecast Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sacramento Bee article
San Francisco selling off spare parts for emergency water system — San Francisco is having a fire sale on spare parts for the city's 100-year-old emergency water supply system — the network of high-pressure pipes and hydrants designed to help firefighting efforts should city water mains fail in a major earthquake. San Francisco Chronicle article
Bruce Blodgett: Farmers take issues to state reps – The executive director of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau writes, "Each March, the California Farm Bureau Federation brings its members together for a leadership conference in Sacramento. Having just returned from those meetings, it's safe to say your region was well represented. Members from throughout the county participated on issue-based committee's that dealt with everything from food safety to land use issues and technology." Blodgett in Stockton Record
Criminal Justice/Prisons
Lois Henry: Sheriff's helicopter safety shouldn't be left up to luck – So, the NTSB recently issued its final report on exactly what caused a Kern County Sheriff's Office helicopter to crash onto Highway 58 in the middle of the night two years ago. The sheriff's department prefers calling it a "hard landing." Uh, no. The pilot was not trying to land on March 27, 2014. In fact, the highway came as a complete surprise to him and everyone else on board. Anyhow, the report is bad. Like, really bad. Henry column in Bakersfield Californian
Michael Fitzgerald: Officer Stephens' four shootings – I have spoken to retiring cops who said they never fired their gun in 30 years of service. Or even drew it. Officer Houston Stephens cannot make that claim. The controversial Stephens — he changed his name from Sensabaugh, possibly to avoid notoriety — recently was involved in his fourth shooting in eight years on the force. Fitzgerald column in Stockton Record
More San Diego Police Department officer leaving despite better pay – The San Diego Police Department is still losing more officers each month than it can replace, despite an increase in benefits last year that officials hoped would reduce departures. San Diego Union-Tribune article
Rape kit backlog: DNA matches suspect to teens' rape six years later — One minute they were getting into their car on Allston Way in Berkeley just before 10 on an unseasonably warm Friday night. The next, a stranger had a black handgun to their heads. San Francisco Chronicle article
Investigation continues to strain relations among Fresno Unified trustees – Amid a federal investigation of Fresno Unified School District's construction contracts, tensions continue to grow on the school board as trustees sling accusations at each other. But the board president says trustees need to redirect their attention to what's important: running the state's fourth-largest school district. Fresno Bee article
Stanford, UC Berkeley students stage battles to change controversial names on campus — At universities across the country, centuries-old names that adorn buildings, streets and squares are under siege — from Stanford's Serra Mall to UC Berkeley's Barrows Hall to Yale's Calhoun College. San Jose Mercury News article
Multiple sex harassment cases against UC faculty prompt new review process – University of California President Janet Napolitano has announced a new sexual harassment review process for administrative leaders, amid furor over Berkeley's handling of misconduct claims involving its law school dean. LA Times article
UC bigwig, bounced in sex-harass scandal, is pulled from new job — A former UC Berkeley vice chancellor who was forced from his job last year following a sex harassment scandal — but kept on by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to serve as an international ambassador for the school's planned Global Campus in Richmond — has been ordered removed from his new job by University of California President Janet Napolitano. San Francisco Chronicle article
Folsom Cordova gun policy unique among large Sacramento area school districts — Folsom Cordova Unified is the only large school district in the four-county Sacramento region known to allow select employees to bring a gun onto campus, based on a Sacramento Bee review this week of local policies. Sacramento Bee article
Inland residents dismayed by air board's softer stance on pollution rules – Last week, the South Coast Air Quality Management District's board fired its longtime leader, seen as receptive to the concerns of environmentalists, and reaffirmed smog rules backed by polluters. Some new board members have also been talking of putting more emphasis on the needs of business. Inland Empire environmental advocates, many of whom have fought to curb pollution for years, are frustrated by the decisions. LA Times article
Gas company finishes cleaning Porter Ranch parks as fallout from leak continues — Southern California Gas Co. said Saturday that it has completed the cleaning of four public parks in Porter Ranch after residents complained about oily residue found on playground equipment. LA Times article
New Pacific fishing approach could protect whales, dolphins, turtles — At a Friday meeting in Sacramento, the Pacific Fishery Management Council unanimously voted to begin a process authorizing fishing gear that may make drift gillnet use for the hunting of swordfish a thing of the past in California. Sacramento Bee article
Health/Human Services
Retiring Sacramento County aging chief says growing senior population poses big challenges – When Debra Morrow took a job in late 1998 to manage services for elderly and dependent adults in Sacramento County, she had 200 employees and an annual budget of $26 million to serve a senior population of 130,000. By the time she retired March 4, the county's Division of Senior and Adult Services had 322 employees and an annual budget of $35 million – and the senior population had grown to over 200,000. Sacramento Bee article
UC Davis research touts synapse health to avoid brain function decline — Most everyone of a certain age has had that moment where a forgotten name or set of misplaced keys prompts the question, "Is this the first sign of Alzheimer's disease?" It's a logical question and one that UC Davis neurology professor John Morrison discussed Saturday at a presentation on the aging brain at the Center for Neuroscience in Davis. Sacramento Bee article
Other areas
Fresno Bee: Citizens have a right to expect transparency in government – There are elected representatives (and their appointed officials) who don't want the public knowing what they've done, what they are planning to do or how those tax dollars are spent. This failure to commit to full transparency is why we have Sunshine Week, which is a national effort promoting open government and freedom of information. Fresno Bee editorial
Mountain West Men's Championship: Fresno State beats San Diego State to earn NCAA berth – They won, 68-63, a victory that will have them in the Tournament, with a big T, for the first time since 2001 and touched off waves of emotion for coach Rodney Terry and the Bulldogs. Fresno Bee article
Basile's last-second 3 puts CSU Bakersfield in NCAA Tournament – Dedrick Basile became Rod Barnes' most crucial recruit in Cal State Bakersfield's Division I history. Basile's 3-pointer from the left wing with two-tenths of a second Saturday night at Orleans Arena left lifted the Roadrunners to a 57-54 win over New Mexico State and gave CSUB its first trip to the Division I NCAA Tournament in men's basketball. Bakersfield Californian article
Mike Klocke: Getting random on water, sports and much more – Random thoughts for a Sunday morning. Klocke in Stockton Record
LA County coroner's office workloads could threaten accreditation, sources say — The embattled Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner met all accreditation standards at the time of its last annual review in August, but showed some signs of potential problems because of a staffing shortage, according to the president of the National Assn. of Medical Examiners. LA Times article
Fresno architect remembered for his futuristic City Hall design, historical preservation — Fresno architect William "Bill" Patnaude died Friday at age 78, leaving behind an indelible footprint on the city and its architecture, both past and future. Fresno Bee article
Valley Editorial Roundup
Fresno Bee – There are elected representatives (and their appointed officials) who don't want the public knowing what they've done, what they are planning to do or how those tax dollars are spent. This failure to commit to full transparency is why we have Sunshine Week, which is a national effort promoting open government and freedom of information.
Sacramento Bee – A collection of tents on a plot a land in some Sacramento neighborhood is not a solution to homelessness. It is an admission that society has failed the thousands of people who have no roof. The notion of a safe ground, flawed though it is, could help and, therefore, it's worth a try.
Maddy Events
Sunday, March 13, at 5 p.m. on ABC 30 – Maddy Report: "The Governor's 2016 Budget: Sunny Today, Rain Tomorrow?" – Guest: Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor and Fred Silva, fiscal policy analyst with California Forward. Host: Maddy Institute Executive Director Mark Keppler.
Sunday, March 13, at 10 a.m. on Newstalk 580 (KMJ) – Maddy Report-Valley Views Edition: "Governor Brown's 2016 Budget: What It May Mean for the Valley" – Guests: Fresno Bee opinion page editor Bill McEwen and Fresno State political science professor Jeff Cummins. Host: Maddy Institute Executive Director Mark Keppler.
Sunday, March 20, at 7 a.m. on Fresno Univision 21 (KFTV)– El Informe Maddy Report: "El Nino and the Drought" – Guest: Alvar Escriva-Bou, an analyst with the Public Policy Institute of California. Host: Maddy Institute Executive Deputy Director Ana Melendez.
The Maddy Report airs throughout California on The Cal Channel. Check http://www.calchannel.com to find the Cal Channel and schedule in your area. You also can view previous Maddy Report programs in their entirety at http://www.maddyinstitute.org/policy-analysis/the-maddy-report-tv.
Community Events
- Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro and other university officials will participate in a Community Conversation at the Reedley College Student Center in Reedley on April 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Seating for this free event is limited, so RSVPs should be made by Tuesday, April 5, at www.fresnostate.edu/presidentrsvp using the code "Reedleyforum."
- The 2016 San Joaquin Valley Parks Summit will be held at Bitwise South Stadium in Fresno on Thursday, May 12, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration launches March 1. More information: Jenna Chilingerian at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Next 10: UPDATED California budget challenge – For the first time in a decade, California's budget is largely in balance. However, the state has outstanding debts of $28 million, not counting long-term pension and retiree health care costs. Budget choices affect us all. Take the Challenge and decide how much should be spent on programs and where the money should come from. Next 10 California Budget Challenge
Next 10: Federal budget challenge — The Federal Budget Challenge is based on The Concord Coalition's Principles and Priorities budget exercise, which has been used in numerous town hall meetings across the country by members of Congress from both parties, as well as in hundreds of high school and college classrooms. Next 10 Federal Budget challenge at www.federalbudgetchallenge.org.
Next 10: California Water Challenge – As our state faces some of the most severe drought conditions in its history, Next 10 wants to issue a new challenge to Californians: can you create a plan to make sure there's enough water for everyone? Next 10 California Water Challenge
LEGISLATORS' VOTING RECORDS: How often has a California legislator broken party ranks, abstained or switched sides? The Sacramento Bee has a database of the voting records of every member of the state Senate and Assembly. Enter a lawmaker's last and first names to see how he or she voted, or enter a bill number to see how every legislator voted on it. Check it out at this link. http://www.sacbee.com/votingrecord/
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Once again, a few stocks lead the many. This is a time for pre-retirees to understand what that means.
This is probably a good time to remind you that I am neither a bull nor a bear. I am a realist. So, while some professional investors manage money with an emphasis on "where's the market going," I favor a different approach.
I cut the market into many smaller pieces, and make decisions based on more of a "weight of the evidence" approach. That is, I don't stop my market analysis after checking out the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq NDAQ. I dive deeper, and analyze fundamental, price and sentiment patterns of those smaller pieces. History is a key guide here, too.
Focus now, so you can relax later (when you retire)
I mention this because I truly believe we are at the most pivotal time in the lives of the generation of investors I belong to: the Baby Boomers (I just made it, born in 1964). You see, markets are cyclical.
And while anything can (and will) happen in the global financial system, that is out of our control. So, we should stop trying to control it. Or even worse, think we can control it.
What IS within our control is how we position our wealth to give us the highest likelihood of retiring the way we want. To do this, it is essential to understand how those stock market "headlines" get created, how they evolve, where the hidden risks are, and how to translate that into investment portfolio decisions. You either do this yourself, offload it to someone else, or do what too many Boomers are doing: leave it to chance.
This is why I rail against "60/40" portfolios, and strategies that rely too heavily on the stock market producing 10-15% annual returns. The odds of that happening over the next decade or two is remote, in part because what we just saw last decade happens so rarely. But the "recency" effect is a strange, and dangerous thing.
Current conditions
As this chart shows, the S&P 500 is doing it to us again. It is masking (pardon the Covid reference) the underlying health of the broad stock market. I will cover stock valuation in other articles. Here, I am simply pointing to how the "market" rally since March has been as deceiving as much of the rally that took place in the few years leading up to the 2020 S&P 500 implosion. If nothing else, that should give us pause.
I track a watchlist of ETFs that help visualize the market's "internal" health. So, when I heard on TV this morning that the S&P 500 was flat since March 6 of this year, I instinctively took a look to see if some of my own indicators matched up. Here is what that chart tells me.
The S&P 500 (SPY – the blue line) did dive and recover. It is up very slightly since March 6. Nice job, S&P 500!
Symbol FDN (the orange line), which tracks a group of stocks that are modern-economy leaders, but do not pay dividends, is up 18% over this same time period. Several of the largest positions in FDN are large positions in the S&P 500. They have lifted the S&P 500 much higher than the rest of the stocks have.
Stocks that pay above-average dividends are nowhere near the "comeback" implied by the S&P 500's flatness over the last 2 1/2 months. I chose 3 ETFs (SDY, SPHD, SPYD) which each pay higher dividend yields than the S&P 500, AND whose holdings are all within the S&P 500 Index.
Same script, different year
That tells me that recent market activity is just another version of the same old story: low-yield and zer0-yield stocks continue to be out of favor with investors. Those 3 ETFs are down about 9%, 15% and 18% at the same time the "headline" S&P 500 is slightly positive. This is a microcosm of the last several years. In other words, after the 5-week selloff that took 1/3 of the S&P 500's value as of February 19 and made it vanish, most of the stock market is still in critical condition.
To me, that means the whole market is in critical condition. In the long-term, your portfolio strategy is only as good as its weakest link. History is littered with "narrow" stock markets that ended with a generation of disappointed investors. Or, as one old definition I heard goes: the definition of an investor is a disappointed speculator.
The way forward
I have made a few intermediate-term guidelines for the portfolios I manage. First, I will not resume purchasing any individual stocks until I feel there is a low probability that the stock will drop more than 10% from where I purchase it at any point during the time I hold it.
I aim to hold most of the stocks I buy for more than a year. So, in an environment where there is likely some unfinished business to the downside, that list of potential stock holdings is pretty thin right now.
Hedged Investing for Boomers
Next, I think that this may be the best time in the lives of Baby Boomer investors and retirees to learn the basics and benefits of what I call "Hedged Investing." Specifically, one aspect of that is to look for profits not through "stock-picking" right now. Instead, identify "pairs" of securities (typically ETFs), one that you think can outperform the other.
This can be done in a variety of ways, but the one I favor in this environment is to hold one or more ETFs I think will perform relatively well, and pad that investment with an inverse ETF that "shorts" some segment of the broad market. I described this in a Forbes.com article recently, so take a look there, or just ask me about it.
The goal is to try to profit in tenuous times, but in a way that keeps your range of possible outcomes fairly low. I think it's a lot better than this "in or out" approach so many investors run to at times like this. After all, when the market headlines tempt you to only see the tip of the iceberg, you need to find a way to steer the boat around it.
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CentrePiece article
Globalisation and pandemics: surprising interactions
Pandemics are only possible because of international travel. But perhaps surprisingly, in the absence of social distancing, a more globalised country will not necessarily suffer a worse outbreak. Pol Antràs, Stephen Redd...Read more...
Pol Antràs, Stephen J. Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
2 November 2020
CEP discussion paper
Prime locations
We harness big data to detect prime locations - large clusters of knowledge-based tradable services - in 125 global cities and track changes in the within-city geography of prime service jobs over a century. Historically...Read more...
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers and Kristian Behrens
5 October 2020
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Labour Economics:
Job polarization and the declining quality of knowledge workers: Evidence from the UK and Germany
Across the developed world, employment has polarized clearly by occupation, but changes to the wage structure have been harder to interpret. We examine changes to the wage structure in the UK and Germany, two countries w...Read more...
Chiara Cavaglia and Ben Etheridge
1 October 2020
CEP discussion paper
Globalization and pandemics
We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework provides joint microfoundations for the gravity equation for international trade and the Susceptible-...Read more...
Pol Antràs, Stephen J. Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
21 September 2020
CEP discussion paper
Rising protectionism and global value chains: quantifying the general equilibrium effects
Quantifying the effects of trade policy in the age of 'global value chains' (GVCs) requires an enhanced analytical framework that takes the observed international input-output relations in due account. However, existing ...Read more...
Rita Cappariello, Sebastian Franco-Bedoya, Vanessa Gunnella and Gianmarco Ottaviano
26 March 2020
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Economic integration, foreign investment and international trade: the effects of membership of the European Union
This paper investigates the importance of economic integration in simultaneously fostering foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade. These have rarely been analyzed jointly using contemporary econometric m...Read more...
Randolph Bruno, Nauro Campos, Saul Estrin and Meng Tian
29 November 2017
CEP discussion paper
A unified approach to estimating demand and welfare
The measurement of price changes, economic welfare, and demand parameters is currently based on three disjoint approaches: macroeconomic models derived from time-invariant utility functions, microeconomic estimation base...Read more...
Stephen J. Redding and David E. Weinstein
2 August 2016
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What predicts a successful life? A life-course model of well-being
Policy makers who care about well-being need a recursive model of how adult lifeâ€satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a ...Read more...
Andrew E. Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit
1 November 2014
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Local Economic Conditions and the Nature of New Housing Supply
We present a modified open monocentric city model that assumes that land is available for conversion into new housing throughout the city. The model predicts that positive local income shocks (i) increase the city's shar...Read more...
Christian A. L. Hilber, Jan Rouwendal and Wouter Vermeulen
29 August 2014
CEP discussion paper
Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro-panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry ...Read more...
Saul Estrin, Seçil Hülya Danakol, Paul Reynolds and Utz Weitzel
23 May 2014
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Has job polarisation squeezed the American middle class?
Job polarisation has had strong effects on US workers' relative wages, according to research by Michael Boehm. His study examines whether the decline in manufacturing and clerical jobs has been responsible for the laggin...Read more...
Michael Boehm
10 December 2013
CEP discussion paper
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such...Read more...
Andrew E. Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit
22 October 2013
John Van Reenen
27 June 2013
CEP discussion paper
Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a su...Read more...
Michael J. Boehm
10 May 2013
CEP discussion paper
Policy Design in a Model with Swings in Risk Appetite
This paper studies the policy implications of habits and cyclical changes in agents' appetite for risk-taking. To do so, it analyses the non-linear solution of a New Keynesian (NK) model, in which slow-moving habits help...Read more...
Bianca De Paoli and Pawel Zabczyk
19 October 2012
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Do Homeowners Benefit Urban Neighborhoods? Evidence from Housing Prices
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are large and well documented in...Read more...
Mika Kortelainen and Tuukka Saarimaa
23 May 2012
CEP discussion paper
The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity
It is well documented that graduates enter different occupations in recessions than in booms. In this article, we examine the impact of this reallocation for long-term productivity and output across sectors. We develop a...Read more...
Michael Boehm and Martin Watzinger
6 May 2012
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Tim Leunig and Joachim Voth
26 October 2011
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Effects of Agglomeration on Wages: Evidence from the Micro-Level
This paper estimates individual wage equations in order to test two rival non-nested theories of economic agglomeration, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE...Read more...
Bernard Fingleton and Simonetta Longhi
June 2011
CEP discussion paper
Spinning Welfare: the Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production
Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while more recently econo...Read more...
Tim Leunig and Joachim Voth
May 2011
CEP discussion paper
Long Term Implications of the ICT Revolution: Applying the Lessons of Growth Theory and Growth Accounting
How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting and the insights from a two-sector growth model to answer this question. The use of a two-sector rat...Read more...
Nicholas Oulton
November 2010
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Modelling and Forecasting UK Mortgage Arrears and Possessions
This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears (payment delinquencies). The innovations include the treatment of difficult to observe variations in loan q...Read more...
Janine Aron and John Muellbauer
August 2010
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Predicting the Geography of House Prices
Prediction is difficult. In this paper we use panel data methods to make reasonably accurate shortterm ex-post predictions of house prices across 353 local authority areas in England. The issue of prediction over the lon...Read more...
Bernard Fingleton
February 2010
CEP discussion paper
Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression
The prominent role of monetary policy in the U.S. interwar depression has been conventional wisdom since Friedman and Schwartz (1963). This paper presents evidence on both the surprise and the systematic components of mo...Read more...
Pooyan Amir Ahmadi and Albrecht Ritschl
January 2010
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Common and Spatial Drivers in Regional Business Cycles
We examine real business cycle convergence for 41 euro area regions and 48 US states. Results obtained by a panel model with spatial correlation indicate that the relevance of common business cycle factors is rather stab...Read more...
Michael Artis, Christian Dreger and Konstantin Kholodilin
April 2009
SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Simulating Wages and House Prices Using the NEG
The paper incorporates house prices within an NEG framework leading to the spatial distributions of wages, prices and income. The model assumes that all expenditure goes to firms under a monopolistic competition market s...Read more...
Bernard Fingleton
April 2009
CEP discussion paper
The Empirics of New Economic Geography
Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the ...Read more...
Stephen Redding
April 2009
CEP discussion paper
Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature
This paper reviews the new economic geography literature, which accounts for the uneven distribution of economic activity across space in terms of a combination of love of variety preferences, increasing returns to scale...Read more...
Stephen Redding
January 2009
CEP discussion paper
A 'New Trade' Theory of GATT/WTO Negotiations
I develop a novel theory of GATT/WTO negotiations. This theory provides new answers to two prominent questions in the trade policy literature: first, what is the purpose of trade negotiations? And second, what is the rol...Read more...
Ralph Ossa
June 2008
CEP discussion paper
Inflation Persistence When Price Stickiness Differs Between Industries
There is much evidence that price-adjustment frequencies vary widely across industries. This paper shows that inflation persistence is lower with heterogeneity in price stickiness than without it, taking as given the deg...Read more...
Kevin D. Sheedy
November 2007
CEP discussion paper
Intrinsic Inflation Persistence
It is often argued that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is at odds with the data because it cannot explain inflation persistence — the difficulty of returning inflation immediately to target after a shock without any lo...Read more...
Kevin D. Sheedy
November 2007
CEP discussion paper
The Shimer Puzzle and the Correct Identification of Productivity Shocks
Shimer (2005a) claims that the Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment lacks an ampiflication mechanism because it cannot generate the observed business cycle fluctuations in unemployment given labor productivi...Read more...
Régis Barnichon
August 2007
CEP discussion paper
Search Frictions, Real Rigidities and Inflation Dynamics
The standard New Keynesian model suffers from the so-called .macro-micro pricing conflict: in order to match the dynamics of inflation implied by macroeconomic data, the model needs to assume an average duration of price...Read more...
Carlos Thomas
August 2007
CEP discussion paper
Productivity, Aggregate Demand and Unemployment Fluctuations
This paper presents new empirical evidence on the cyclical behavior of US unemployment that poses a challenge to standard search and matching models. The correlation between cyclical unemployment and the cyclical compone...Read more...
Régis Barnichon
August 2007
CEP discussion paper
Economic Linkages Across Space
We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. W...Read more...
Henry Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables
June 2007
CEP discussion paper
Monetary Policy Committees and Interest Rate Smoothing
We extend the New Keynesian Monetary Policy literature relaxing the assumption that the decisions are taken by a single policymaker, considering instead that monetary policy decisions are taken collectively in a committe...Read more...
Carlos Montoro
February 2007
CEP discussion paper
Search and Matching Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy
I analyze optimal monetary policy in an economy with search and matching frictions in the labor market and staggered nominal wage and price contracts. In this framework, as opposed to the standard New Keynesian model, pr...Read more...
Carlos Thomas
December 2006
CEP discussion paper
Union Free-Riding in Britain and New Zealand
The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their workplace has been rising in Britain and New Zealand. Social custom, union instrumentality, the fixed costs of joining, employee perce...Read more...
Alex Bryson
January 2006
CEP discussion paper
Labor and the Market Value of the Firm
What role does labor play in a firm's market value? We explore this question using a production-based asset pricing model with frictions in the adjustment of both capital and labor. We posit that hiring of labor is akin ...Read more...
Monika Merz and Eran Yashiv
May 2005
CEP discussion paper
Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy
We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework...Read more...
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Henry Overman
May 2005
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Journal of the European Economic Association:
Evaluating the employment impact of a mandatory job search program
This paper exploits area-based piloting and age-related eligibility rules to identify treatment effects of a labor market program-the New Deal for Young People in the U.K. A central focus is on substitution/displacement ...Read more...
Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and John Van Reenen
1 June 2004
CEP discussion paper
The Structure of Wages in What Should be a Competitive Labour Market
This paper examines the structure of wages in a very specific labour market, for care assistants in residential homes for the elderly on England's 'sunshine coast'. This sector corresponds closely to economists' notion...Read more...
Stephen Machin and Alan Manning
June 2002
CEP discussion paper
Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment
In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of une...Read more...
Maia Güell
May 2001
CEP discussion paper
Externalities in the Matching of Workers and Firms in Britain
We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for the UK. We use a monthly panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; th...Read more...
Simon Burgess and Stefan Profit
April 2001
CEP discussion paper
Monetary Misconceptions
The paper identifies a number of misconceptions about the monetary policy process and the monetary transmission mechanism in the UK. Among the misconceptions about the process are the alleged lack of regional and sectora...Read more...
W.H. Buiter
August 2000
CEP discussion paper
The Determinants Of Cross-Border Equity Flows
We apply a new approach to a new panel data set on bilateral gross cross-border equity flows between 14 countries, 1989-96. The remarkably good results have strong implications for theories of asset trade. We find that t...Read more...
R Portes and H Rey
February 2000
CEP discussion paper
Workers' Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Employment: the Spanish Case
This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of the transformation of these into permanent ones. To address this issue we estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with c...Read more...
Maia Güell and Barbara Petrongolo
January 2000
CEP discussion paper
The Dynamics of International Specialisation
The theoretical literature on trade and growth suggests that comparative advantage is endogenous and evolves over time. However, most empirical analysis of international trade flows is essentially static in nature. This ...Read more...
Stephen Redding
January 2000


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Imagine walking out your door and getting in your vehicle, you then type in the location you would like to go to and you car merges into traffic. You can now sit back and relax as your driving vehicle does all the work for you. It may be reminiscent of a cartoon you used to know as a child. And the truth is the self driving vehicles will look something like the pod flying vehicles that popular family drove.
These vehicles will be able to detect accidents before they happen and everyone in the vehicle is now a passenger. Although this may seem like a dream of the future, the future I now and those vehicles are coming to life.
Google has developed a self driving vehicle and has plans to build a new fleet and system to operate them. This will not happen overnight but it will eventually affect all industries to do with the auto industry. First will be the oil industry. These vehicles will run on battery power and will not need fuel such as gas to run.
Not only will it directly impact the amount of fuel needed in vehicles it will also affect the amount of oil consumed by the industries that supply car parts to auto manufacturers. This includes the industries that manufacture the metal parts for frames and doors. Although the self driving cars will need new parts they will be less likely to get into an accident, therefore they will need less replacement parts.
Lastly the shipping industry will be affected. At first it may actually increase in business to get the parts where they need to go. But after that there will be fewer parts to move. But the shipping industry need not worry. We in America like to constantly improve what we already have. This means the shipping industry will always be needed to move new vehicles, new parts, and new computer systems around the world. These self driving cars may be able to drive themselves but that doesn't mean they will be able to move the vehicle parts where they need to be to get the car together.


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Belt tightening continues for railcar maker
FreightCar America (NASDAQ: RAIL) announced a joint venture with a metal fabricator in Mexico for the purposes of manufacturing railcars.
FreightCar America inked a deal with Fabricaciones y Servicios de México, S.A. de C.V. (Fasemex) to build railcars in Castaños, Mexico. Construction on the new facility has begun with the expectation that railcar production will commence in the middle of 2020. FreightCar America is funding the joint venture over several years with $25 million in assets and cash. The two companies will split the profits or losses in the 50-50 deal.
The announcement is part of the company's efforts to improve operating efficiency by lowering production costs and consolidating its manufacturing footprint.
"Getting ourselves repositioned and on the right cost structure are core to our 'Back to Basics' strategy. We are making great progress in our material and fixed cost reduction efforts, and now, with the addition of this partnership in Castaños, we will become even more competitive in certain railcar types that weren't economically feasible previously," said FreightCar America's President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Meyer.
FreightCar America is tightening the belt on the downside of the railcar cycle as lower rail volumes and precision scheduled railroading (PSR) initiatives continue to weigh on new car demand.
The company implemented the "Back to Basics" strategy in 2018, which is designed to reduce material and labor costs, improve the product portfolio to more profitable car types, and optimize its manufacturing capabilities. By the end of 2018, the company had reduced cost of goods sold by $3,000 per railcar manufactured, which management contends was negatively impacted by a higher number of production changeovers and shorter than normal production runs. The company wants to achieve $5,000 in savings per car in 2019.
Prior to the company's second quarter 2019 earnings report, it announced that it would shutter its Roanoke, Virginia production facility, which is expected to save the company approximately $5 million annually. In early 2019, the company announced that it had struck an agreement to reduce the square footage and lease payment, both by 40%, at its "Shoals" facility in Cherokee, Alabama. The new lease doesn't take effect until January 2022.
"While we complete construction of this new facility, we remain deeply committed to Shoals as our primary manufacturing platform and will continue with our plans to make incremental investments and consolidate our Roanoke operation into Shoals," said Meyer.
The Chicago, Illinois-based company manufactures and leases railcars and supplies railcar parts. The company designs and builds hopper, gondola, intermodal and flat railcars. FreightCar America's production backlog was 1,121 railcars with a value of $96 million at the end of the 2019 second quarter. However, the company received new orders totaling 1,050 railcars after the financial period ended.
Shares of RAIL are off more than 3% on the day.


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Here are the 30 best Bible scriptures on anointing.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 2:20
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
James 5:14
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Luke 7:46
"You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment."
1 Kings 19:16
And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
2 Corinthians 1:21
And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us.
Acts 4:27
For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Exodus 40:10
"You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy."
Exodus 40:9
"Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy."
Genesis 28:18
So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
Genesis 31:13
"I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred."
Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.
Isaiah 45:1
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
Isaiah 61:3
To grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
Leviticus 8:10
Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Leviticus 8:11
And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Leviticus 8:12
And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Luke 10:34
He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Luke 23:56
Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
Luke 7:37
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment.
Mark 6:13
And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.
Matthew 26:12
"In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial."
Proverbs 21:20
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
Psalm 20:6
Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.
Song of Solomon 1:3
Your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
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Here are the news items for the past week:
The Crown will end after season five with Imelda Staunton starring as Queen Elizabeth. (Variety)
Netflix has cancelled Soundtrack after only one season. (Variety)
EPIX has decided not to renew Perpetual Grace, LTD for a second season. (Deadline)
Actress Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds) will have a recurring role on the CBS summer series Blood & Treasure, playing Sister Lisa, a resourceful nun in Rome with a sly sense of humor, who is good friends with Father Chuck Donnelly (Mark Gagliardi). While Father Chuck is on the trail of a mystery, he quickly comes to rely on Sister Lisa for information, as he knows that the Nuns are the eyes and ears of the Church. (Deadline)
Actress Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest) has landed the lead role in the upcoming 8-episode Netflix dramedy Sex/Life, which is the story of a love triangle between a woman, Billie Connelly (Shahi), her husband, and her past which takes a deliciously steamy new look at female identity and desire. Billie is a woman with everything to lose, a suburban mother of two who goes in search of that sexy, single girl in the city she used to be ten years ago. She takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane that sets her very married present on a collision course with her wild-child past. (Deadline)
Actor David Krumholtz (Numb3rs) will star opposite Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us) in the USA Network limited series Evel, based on the larger-than-life '70s daredevil Evel Knievel. Ventimiglia stars as the title character while Krumholtz will play Bob Arum, a Brooklyn-born boxing promoter and businessman who becomes both Evel Knievel's adversary and best friend after Evel hires him to promote his infamous Snake River Canyon jump. (Deadline)
Actress Rose Bryne (Damages and X-Men franchise) is set to appear in the Apple TV streaming series Physical that is expected to receive a series order. The series is set in a 1980s Southern California beach community, where a woman (Byrne) struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife who finds an unconventional path to power through an unlikely source: the world of aerobics. (Deadline)
Actress Margarita Levieva (Revenge) will star in the Netflix spy thriller with a supernatural bent In From the Cold. During a European vacation with her daughter, an American single mom's (Levieva) life is turned upside down when the CIA forces her to confront her long-buried past as a Russian spy who was also the product of a highly classified KGB experiment granting her special abilities. After a mysterious string of manic and murderous incidents suggests someone with her exact abilities is targeting innocent people, Jenny is forced out of hiding to stop this villain or risk losing the family and new life she has built. (Deadline)
Actress Shoshannah Stern (Supernatural and Jericho) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Grey's Anatomy, playing Dr. Lauren Riley, a diagnostics expert who helps DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) with a supposedly "incurable" patient. (TV Line)
Actress Scottie Thompson (who recurred as Jeanne Benoit on NCIS) will guest star in an upcoming episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, playing Sarah Raines, an agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency who is working on a highly classified mission to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena sightings. (TV Line)
Actress Marcia Gay Harden (Code Black) will guest star in an upcoming episode of A Milion Little Things as Gary's (James Roday) estranged mother Alice, who left a few months after his 7th birthday. (TV Line)
Actress Bella Thorne (Famous in Love and Midnight Sun) will star in the upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller The Uncanny that presents a future where every citizen is implanted with a chip capable of controlling everything from emotions to directions, until a routine update backfires, causing a cyber apocalypse. Wiping out most of humanity, five strangers miraculously survive, now forced to live hidden in a bunker with their implants ripped from their spines. They were the few lucky enough to survive – until Scarlet (Thorne) begins to suspect they were not saved at all, or by chance. (Deadline)
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On October 8th, an article on the New York Times website reported that Google had announced the shutdown of the consumer portion of the Google Plus service. Introduced in 2011 as a social media competitor to Facebook, Google Plus acted as a link between Google's services. Despite strong efforts to encourage use of the service, which included requiring YouTube users to link to a Google Plus account, the service remained little more than a means to link services for the majority of users.
I maintained a Google Plus profile, however I never considered the service to hold any benefits to my work that were not already covered by LinkedIn, and I was not looking for a Facebook alternative; mainly because I did not use Facebook as a resource for my business efforts.
Who used Google+?
According to some of the user comments on the NYT article, the main users of the Google Plus service were photography groups; who used the service to share images and tips. Other commentators mention having used Google Plus as a place to build personal family websites that they had thought would last long after they passed away (if not forever).
The service seemed to appeal mostly to those who wanted to share a web presence with a small group of friends and family, something that people say they just could not do with Facebook. Some users have even started a petition to try to convince Google to give the consumer version of the service another chance.
Why is Google shutting the consumer side of the service down?
According to a post in the Safety and Security category of the Google Technology blog, at the beginning of 2018, Google conducted a "root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps' data access." Among the findings of the review were two factors that led to the decision to "sunset" consumer level Google+:
Finding 1: There are significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers' expectations.
Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers.
In the statement on the Safety and Security post, Google said:
This review crystallized what we've known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps.
The consumer version of Google Plus shows that 90% of those who use the service spend less than five seconds in sessions when using the service, making it impractical to keep going.
The consumer version of Google Plus will shut down in August 2019, but Google intends to continue the version built for consumers.Click the social media icon of choice to follow me there:


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Grades 3-5
Where'd All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery
Teachers will be able to:
– Define and identify interdependence within a market economy.
– Describe how the policies of the Federal Reserve System during the 1920s and 1930s affected the Great Depression.
In this economics webinar, identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.
Teachers will be able to analyze the relationship between increases and decreases in employment and consumer spending.
Implement these lessons in your classroom and relate to current events.
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The History of Social Security: Inquiry Based for Understanding Fiscal Responsibility
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Saildrone, Inc., based in Alameda, CA, designs, manufactures, and manages a global fleet of wind and solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. The company is building the world's largest high-resolution data sets, working with governments and private companies around the globe.
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Innovation Awards 2020
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EDGE 2020 Goes Virtual

Marist College Ashgrove deploys NetApp unified storage system for improved content delivery and simplified data management; Eliminates back-up 'nightmare'

Network Appliance Inc., a leading provider of enterprise network storage solutions, has announced that the Marist College Ashgrove, Queensland has deployed a NetApp unified storage system to simplify data management and improve content delivery for staff and students.

Marist College Ashgrove began in 1940 with 70 students. Since then, the school has expanded and today accommodates 1,500 students. The college has installed a NetApp FAS250* unified storage system to support 500 desktops and 1,800 users.

The FAS250 is designed for NAS and/or iSCSI SAN environments. The FAS250 offers customers the same affordability, scalability and simplicity as standard Ethernet networking to create a low cost, high performance storage area network (SAN). The NetApp system deployed by the college utilises fast Fibre Channel in conjunction with the NetApp Data ONTAP™ operating system, the iSCSI protocol and NetApp SnapRestore software. It provides one terabyte of storage capacity and replaces a server-based storage system.

John Lee, IT Manager, Marist College Ashgrove said the key objectives of the implementation were to improve scalability, data management and content delivery.

"We were having problems with bottlenecking at the servers. Students and staff were being inconvenienced and backups were a nightmare and slow. We knew what the problem was but had no idea what to do about it."

"When a representative from ASI Solutions came and saw me, my ears pricked up when he started to talk about Network Appliance and the benefits Data ONTAP," he said.

One of the key factors in choosing Network Appliance was that the storage system was able to meet these objectives while keeping costs within the budget restraints of the college.

"Traditionally, our solution was to add more servers," Mr Lee said. "When the network reached around the 500 desktop mark, the servers began to constantly bottleneck. I had heard of SAN before and I had fears it would be too expensive for the college to afford. With NetApp this simply wasn't the case."

"Previously multimedia students needed to run large files from their local hard disks. Now they can be stored on the system. The speed and performance of the NetApp system was exactly what the network needed," he said.

Mr Lee stated that NetApp SnapRestore was a critical factor in the schools purchasing decision. SnapRestore software allows an organisation to recover data almost instantly. In seconds, SnapRestore can recover anything from an individual file to a multi-terabyte volume.

"Snapshot copies are taken automatically every hour on the hour from 9am to 3pm, with each copy kept for 24 hours. Additional snapshot copies taken nightly are kept for seven-days and a weekly snapshot is stored for 4 weeks," he said. " When we need to recover data, snapshots make it incredibly simple for us – there's no going back to tape now."

Network Appliance reseller ASI Business Solutions installed the NetApp system. Peter Black, Queensland Branch Manager, ASI Solutions said, "Together with Network Appliance we are making real inroads into the education sector. Solutions like those from NetApp help schools overcome many of the performance issues traditionally associated with school computer networks. Staff and teachers can enjoy faster and more reliable access to information ensuring a better learning environment."

"NetApp systems such as the FAS250 enable organisations to overcome the competing goals of needing to drive more applications and traffic through their network while keeping infrastructure and operating costs to a minimum," said Simon Green, Network Appliance Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand.

*The FAS250 recently won Australian Technology & Business Magazine's coveted Editor's Choice Award.

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Notes for Editors

About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive "The evolution of storage.™" Information about Network Appliance solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

For further information please contact -

John Lee
Marist College Ashgrove
Tel + 61 (0) 7 3858 4526

Peter Black
ASI Business Solutions
Tel + 61 (0) 7 3872 7600

Harry Christian
Network Appliance, Inc.
Tels + 61 (0) 2 9779 5600 & + 61 (0) 407 100 666

Press contact –
Derek Evans
Gotley Nix Evans Pty Ltd
Tels + 61 (0) 2 9957 5555 & +61 (0) 410 601 673


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Software Company Sage Will Continue to Invest in Cloud Products. Here's Why the Stock Fell 13%.
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Sage Group said on Friday it will continue to deepen investment in its cloud products, which will lead to a meaningful fall in operating profit in the next year, as the enterprise software company continues to try to capture small and medium-size businesses undergoing digital transformations.
Shares in the company fell 13.4% in London trading, while its American depositary shares tumbled more than 16%.
The back story. Sage is one of the world's leading suppliers of enterprise software, along with Oracle and SAP, and one of the largest technology companies by market capitalization on the FTSE 100. The company's focus is on accounting software for small and medium-size businesses.
Since Steve Hare took over as chief executive two years ago, the group has taken on a critical shift toward software as a service. Sage is in the process of growing its cloud platform and changing its business model to be less reliant on licensing fees for revenues, in favor of charging for subscription-based services.
Also:U.K. Tech Giant Aveva Bets on Data Management by Buying OSIsoft. That Should Power the Stock.
What's new. Sage said on Friday that as a result of the "pace of digital transformation" increasing among its core client base, the company will continue to deepen investment in the growth of its cloud business through sales, marketing, and research and development. Doing so, the group said, would knock its organic operating margin down by up to 3 percentage points next year compared with the 2020 financial year.
Releasing its results for the full year ending Sept. 30, Sage reported organic operating margins of 22.1% in 2020, down from 23.8% in 2019. The company said that after 2021 it expected margins "to trend up over time" as the investment in cloud pays off.
Revenues for 2020 fell by 1.7% from last year, to £1.9 billion, slightly ahead of analyst expectations, while operating profit rose 5.8% from 2019 levels, to £404 million.
"I am confident that our additional investment in Sage Business Cloud, and in particular cloud native solutions, will deliver stronger growth and drive the future success of the Group," said Hare.
Plus:Hut Group Stock Climbs 30% on Debut in London's Biggest Ever Tech IPO. Here's What the Excitement Is About.
Looking ahead. Sage's earnings for 2020 are fine: slightly ahead of analyst expectations, if anything, and showing the relative resilience of its products when many of its clients, small businesses, are likely suffering due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The outlook isn't fine, and the market isn't happy, punishing Sage's stock for the poor guidance on profit margins. Shares in the company are now down more than 20% this year, and today's selloff wiped hundreds of millions of pounds off its market cap. That being said, the company's strategy of doubling down on capturing businesses moving to cloud products is probably right in the long term.