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NYT - Mortgage Rates Below 1% Put Europe on Alert for Housing Bubble - Liz Alderman 12/17/19 Money is so cheap — a 20-year mortgage can be had in Paris or Frankfurt at a rate of less than 1% — that borrowers are flocking to buy apartments and houses. And institutional
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Perspective WSJ - U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number Since 1987 - Janet Adamy 5/17 * "The figures suggest that a number of women who put off having babies after the 2007-09 recession are forgoing them altogether. Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire, estimates 4.
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If you were only to read one thing… Bloomberg Businessweek - How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet - Zeke Faux 3/27 * Affiliate networks ('affiliates') = companies/brokers that design advertisements and pay to place them on social media sites on behalf of merchants. * "Granted anonymity, affiliates were
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Perspective Economist - Daily Chart: Are alpha males worse investors? 2/20 WSJ - Household Debt Sees Quiet Boom Across the Globe - Josh Zumbrun 2/18 WSJ - Daily Shot: United Nations - Global Population Trends 2/23 * "The global population pyramid is expected to invert by 2100 as the population gets closer