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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

February 2013 Financial News and Resources

1. More than 1/2 of college graduates under age 25 are unemployed or underemployed:

2. Are red-hot 3-D printing companies overvalued? Well, um, yeah. Here's a better question: Who cares? Let us explain:  

3. There is a serious possibility that the "education bubble" is going to be very difficult to sustain, says Dr. Russ Roberts  

4. It takes an average of between 11 and 14 years to go from a laboratory setting to getting a drug approved by the FDA:  

5. Although China's Great Firewall blocks access to Facebook, 3rd-party estimates peg Facebook users in China at 63.5M:  

6. INSANE - Start with $1. Double it every day. In 48 days you'll own every financial asset that exists (~$200 trillion):  

7. Crazy! Just 1 drug out of approximately every 5,000-10,000 tested in preclinical trials will ever make it to market:  

8. Since 1928, the Dow Jones has increased more than 10% in a single day eight times:  

9. The average cyclically adjusted P/E ratio for the market is ~16.5. Now it's 23.15:  

10. Researchers have printed out human embryonic stem cells using 3-D printing.  

11. The European Space Agency is investigating idea of using 3-D printer to build a base on the moon using moon dust.  

12. With 65 million users, Brazil is Facebook's second largest market after the U.S. by number of users.  

13. Dell, which was once No. 1 computer maker by market share, has sealed deal to go private. A look back: GRAPHIC

14. Another case of the Mondays. The S&P 500 is down every Monday this year. It's 45 Seconds Over Wall St  

15. Survey: 1 in 6 couples who got married in 2010 said they met online. via  

16. All 10 of the 4-year public colleges with the lowest net prices have graduation rates below the 58% U.S. average.  

17. NYC's Upper East Side has a 2-to-1 ratio of single women to men. The cities with the most skewed gender ratios:  

18. Survey: Four in 10 workers say they've dated a co-worker at least once during their career.  

19. Living in the city is less stressful than living in the suburbs, argues . 8 reasons why:  

20. "As an executive, you have a 30% to 40% chance that you won't be retained after an outside CEO arrives."  

21. Facebook will let users pay to promote friends’ posts in search of new revenue |  

22. The companies that pay their interns around $6000 a month |  
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