Gongol.com Archives: March 2016
March 31, 2016
Foxconn buys Sharp for a lot less than originally offered
Their original bid was 489 billion yen -- and the actual sale price is about 100 billion yen less than that. That's not the direction these negotiations usually go. Japanese news reports reveal a whole lot of resentment at Sharp over the outcome. The buyer is Taiwan's Hon Hai (better known as Foxconn).
An electric car with a price tag starting in the mid-$30,000 range
Why is violence still surging in Chicago?
A great city with a huge problem
Two attorneys say they were kicked out of a bar for being black
They happen to be attorneys for the ACLU, so that's not likely to end well for the bar
Iowa farmland values fell by 9% last year
That's a huge decline, largely tied to the drop in commodity prices. Lower prices mean less cash flow, and when the outputs don't justify the cost of the capital (here, that capital is land), the market price of the capital is bound to fall.
A deceptively simple and addictive game called Guess the Correlation reveals just how bad we human beings are at recognizing statistical correlation -- even when it's right in front of us
