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Daily Archive for December 30th, 2009

History Question

Between the time the American War for Independence ended in 1781 (formalized in 1783) and the time that Connecticut ratified the Constitution – thereby creating the United States of America, what were those 13 places called? They could not have been colonies – that’s what they fought the war for – to stop being colonies. […]

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On the Sixth Day of Christmas

Look at what has happened to the scarcity of cobalt over the past 100 years. The top chart adjusts nominal cobalt prices to account for the general rise in prices since 1900 using a measure of the CPI’s broad inflation index. The bottom chart takes a different approach to adjust the cobalt data. It looks […]

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