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Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan

Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 25, Issue 3 , March 2001, Pages 535-554 , Shigeru Wakita, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Escape from Hunger

A startling shooting star of light on the subject of the records, causes and prospects for longevity, as a beacon of proper methodology for historical studies, a debunker of numerous market fallacies, and a guide for proper thinking of about the industries most likely to prosper in the coming decades.
Cambridge University Press (May 24, 2004) , Robert William Fogel

Currency Competition in Switzerland, 1826-1850

Currency competition provided a stable monetary system in those Swiss cantons that deregulated their financial systems after liberal revolutions in the 1830s and 40s.
Kyklos,Vol. 41, 1988, Fasc. 3, 459-478. , E. Juerg Weber, School of Economics and Commerce, University of Western Australia

The Math Behind the Music

will be of interest to musicians, mathematicians and marketicians... Review by Victor Niederhoffer, Daily Speculations
Cambridge University Press, May 2006 , Leon Harkleroad, John Barrow (Editor), Ronald Graham (Editor)

Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture

The conventional view holds that girih (geometric star-and-polygon, or strapwork) patterns in medieval Islamic architecture were conceived by their designers as a network of zigzagging lines, where the lines were drafted directly with a straightedge and a compass. We show that by 1200 C.E. a conceptual breakthrough occurred in which girih patterns were reconceived as tessellations of a special set of equilateral polygons (“girih tiles”) decorated with lines.
Science 23 February 2007: Vol. 315. no. 5815, pp. 1106 - 1110 , Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt

What's a Penny Really Worth?

On December 14, 2006, the United States Mint announced new regulations to limit the melting and exportation of pennies and nickels. The goal is to prevent a shortage of small change in circulation.
Chicago Fed Letter , François R. Velde

Chart on the Fly: Housing, Stocks and Cocktails

According to the author, cocktail parties now focus singularly on one asset class: real estate ! Stocks are still unloved...
Morgan Stanley, December 2006

Beijing Duck

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other polished cabinetry are visiting China later this week. They'll see fields of skyscrapers, traffic jams of new cars and designer couture replacing the old Maoist uniform with five buttons and too-long sleeves. In other words, we've got the Chinese right where we want 'em.
WSJ, December 12 2006 , Andy Kessler

Towing Icebergs

The main point of Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics, is that mathematics is a language that can describe, measure, and help inform us about everyday points of human activity. Review by Victor Niederhoffer, Daily Speculations
Princeton University Press - November 1998 , Robert B. Banks

Chart for Toughts: Uranium

Our 19th century world was dominated by coal. Our 20th century was dominated by oil. Could it be that the 21st century will not be dominated by oil? That's at least what the market seems to believe, as uranium has not had a single down month since 2001, and since 2003, uranium has never traded down for even a single day, regardless of what was happening to oil prices.
Investor Insight , John Mauldin