asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: EPA approves increase of ethanol to 15%, despite damage to older cars
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asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Eric Schmidt to Sell $335 Million of His Google Shares
When I say "artificial" what is mean is that if for example a turn-around CEO and/or team is compensated partly or largely in stock options then they can decide the best way to raise the stock price is not to grow sales and profits but to spend the company's cash reserves on a buyback.
Other investors are often supportive of this as it gives them a profitable exit from the soon to rise stock.
On its own, less supply leading to higher prices is perfectly natural.
asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell
Its being digested from the inside by the parasite and a bunch of new parasites are about to burst out.
asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Study: GM corn causes organ failure in mice
Actually the exact opposite of a banana republic.
A banana republic depends on bananas or some other cash crop. The US dos NOT depend on corn. Quite the opposite, it uses tax revenue from OTHER profitable sectors of the economy to subsidize corn.
asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Eric Schmidt to Sell $335 Million of His Google Shares
They are going to spend the company's cash reserve buying back stock and artificial restrict supply which will raise the price?
asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Study: College Students Not Learning Much
I still recall a very brief and elegant point my pedagogy professor made by giving all of his students an IQ test.
The test just happened to test on material none of had ever studied, for example how to clean offal. This was a real test which people with the correct experience had scored highly on. Us college students on the other hand, were deemed barely functional by the same test.
The IQ test is not contrived but it does rely on learned knowledge to be able to test. So the IQ test itself is not a very good test of intelligence, especially in the case where the tool (lets say language) it's using to test IQ is lacking in say non-native speakers.
But to get back to the SAT test, my East Asian immigrant high-school friends with decent English - bad SAT scores. Two years later with greatly improved English, same people - great SAT scores. And I am talking about all of the SAT, including the math part.
asdfj843lkdjs | 15 years ago | on: Study: College Students Not Learning Much
Since the SAT[1] is a glorified IQ test[2]
The SAT is a wonderful test for memorization. Also how much time you spent studying, almost as if its a... scholastic test.
It it's relationship to IQ is extremely vague.
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!... but... but... but that's not a reason to use all that "surplus" cheap corn to make ethanol. It's a reason to stop subsidizing corn.