The Latest
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Most influential news organizations
Monday, March 28, 2011
World news, U.S. news and sports
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Top 20 U.S. newspapers by combined audience (print/online)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Financials of the World Champion San Francisco Giants, plus some other MLB team fact$
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Bill Neukom bought the team in 1993 for $100m.
The San Francisco Giants recorded $230m in revenue in 2010.
Revenue sharing costs for the team 2011 will rise significantly compared to last year.
The Giants' 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in late September posted a 9.25 rating, an all-time high for the franchise.
The previous record was 7.8, the night Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking756th home run.
All teams in Major League Baseball rose in value this past year except for three: the New York Mets, San Diego Padres and Cleveland Indians.
The average MLB franchise is now worth $523 million, an all-time high and 7% more than last year.
The New York Yankees are worth $1.7 billion and are baseball’s most valuable team for the 14th straight year (since Forbes began valuing franchises in 1998).
Forbes
How the $200 billion disaster will affect the global economy
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Barclays projects the total costs of the earthquake will amount to 12-17 trillion yen ($152-217 billion).
Their calculations:
- Building damages = reconstruction costs = JPY5-10trn (1.0-2.0% of GDP)
- Expected losses to GDP = JPY2trn (private consumption) + JPY150bn (exports) – JPY217bn (imports) + JPY5trn (manufacturing output) + JPY0.3trn (electric power industry output) = JPY7trn (1.4% of GDP)
- Total economic cost = JPY12-17trn (2.4-3.4% of GDP)
And the GDP impact:
With reference to the patterns following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 and other factors, we revised our real GDP forecasts (q/q saar) as follows: Apr-Jun (to +0.8% from +3.2%), Jul-Sep (to +3.2% from +2.4%) and Oct-Dec (to +3.0% from +1.9%). In fiscal year terms, we lowered our forecast to +1.7% from +2.0% for FY 11 and left our forecast at +1.8% for FY 12. In calendar year terms, we lowered to 1.6% for CY 11 and left our forecast at 1.9% for FY 12.
The Red Planet
Microprocessors
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The next billion
Monday, March 14, 2011
Data as Art: About 39 million papers were published in scientific journals between 1817 - 2010
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Source: M'hamed el Aisati/Academic and Government Products Group, Amsterdam
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