Author Archives: Chris Tate

WTF Moment Of The Week

I have nothing to say……. Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter*? Abstract This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between 1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil 121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship with the level of…

Lost Decades

Whilst looking through one of my folders for an example for the current mentor group I found this chart from 2 years ago. Off the top of my head I would guess that things hav not improved much in two years.

Three Months After

This is from a photo essay from Boston.Com If you look up resilient in the dictionary it might simply say see Japanese and under Japanese it might say see resilient. Meanwhile I am still waiting for my local water supplier to come and fix a leaking pipe outside of my house….its only been a year…

Gold And Silver….An Update

Gold And Silver

The following two charts caught my eye simply because of the congestion of price.

Shares Look Cheap….Apparently

I just opened up an email account I keep for subscribing to various bits and pieces that I dont want cluttering up my inbox to be greeted by the ASX Investor Update which is always good for a giggle. The feature story in this one is – Shares Look Cheap. My immediate response was well…