Forbes, Nov 18, 2013

choi

(1) The Working Dead; For the third time in five years the world's highest-earning celebrity isn't even living. Here are the top moneymakers from beyond the grave (in the section Highest-Paid Celebrities).
forbesindia.com/printcontent/36551


(2) Susan Adams, The Pursuit of Happiness (in the section Leaderboard: Industry atlas).
www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/ ... rsuit-of-happiness/
("The US is happiest, with 30% of its workforce engaged, while its GDP per hour is a high $63. * * * The French and the Dutch put in short workdays and boast high GDP per hour, yet fewer than 10% of them are happy")

Note:
(a) In print but not online, just beyond the right upper corner of the graphic is

“89.1%  Share of Bhutanese reported to be happy in 2010, in the country’s most recent measure of ‘Gross National Happiness’”
(b) "Sources: Gallup (engagement), The Conference Board"

The Conference Board
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_Board
is a nonprofit organization founded in 1916 and based in Manhattan.
(c) Neither China nor Hong Kong is included in the chart.
(d) summary from the Forbes chart:

......................GDP per hour of work [x axis]...........Hours worked per year [y axis].........% of workers who are happy [circle size]
France............~$59...............................................~1,475..............................................9
Germany........~$57................................................~1,395............................................15
Japan.............~$45................................................~1,720.............................................7
Taiwan...........$40..................................................~2,140..............................................9
Singapore.......~43..................................................~2,280..............................................9
South Korea....$30.................................................~2,180..............................................11
UK..................~$51...............................................~1,650..............................................17
United States..$63.................................................~1,700.............................................30

(e) The first two columns seem to come from
The Conference Board  Total Economy Database™
www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/

However, I can not find the data in this Web page.

choi

(3) Money on the Move ((in the section Leaderboard: Toys).
www.forbes.com/sites/hannahellio ... made-by-henry-ford/

Note:
(a) For leaderboard, see leaque table
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_table
(b) Not in the photo gallery (but appearing both in print and online) is (as seen in print):

“$2.9 Million  Sale price, at a 2011 auction, of a Soviet Vostok Space Capsule launched in 1961 with a crew of a live dog and a mannequin.

(i) Korabl-Sputnik 4
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korabl-Sputnik_4
(ii) vostok
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok
(Russian for Orient of east)

(c) "This summer a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R Formula 1 single-seat coupe became the most expensive car ever sold at auction, commanding $30 million at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale in England."

Mercedes-Benz W196
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W196
(was the Mercedes-Benz Formula One entry in the 1954 and 1955 Formula One seasons)
(d) hydroplane (n): "a powerboat designed for racing that skims the surface of the water"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydroplane

(e) No 6 in the photo gallery is
“MARKLIN LUSITANIA OCEAN LINER $194,500, 2010”

, which in print is MÄRKLIN.
(i) Märklin is a German toy company. See

George Eiermann, A Short History of Märklin Metall. undated
www.dalefield.com/nzfmm/odds&ends/marklin1.html
(“originally published on the spanner discussion group;”  “the letter ‘ä’ is the same as ‘ae,’ and it is pronounced like the English ‘a’ in the word bad”)

Quote: “In 1859 Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin (1817-1866), a master tinsmith, started producing accessories made of tinplate for dolls' houses in the town of Göppingen in the South German state, ‘Kingdom of Württemberg [which is now part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg].’ (Göppingen is about 50 km from Stuttgart)

(ii) RMS Lusitania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
(In service 1907-1915; The ship's name was taken from Lusitania, an ancient Roman province on the west of Iberian Peninsula)

RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship.
(iii) Lusitania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania
(province of Roman Empire; 27 BC-891 AD; named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people; section 1 Origin of the name)

choi

(4) Nathan Vardi, The Smart Money Behind The Hunger Game; Mark Rachesky makes billions for his investors by grabbing control of companies like Lions Gate Entertainment on the cheap.
www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi ... d-the-hunger-games/

Quote:

"Mark Rachesky, chairman of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., the movie and TV studio behind The Hunger Games, Mad Men and other big hits. At 54, Rachesky runs MHR Fund Management, his $6 billion Manhattan investment firm that is Lions Gate’s biggest shareholder, with a 38% stake, a position that has earned $1.5 billion in paper profits. [He was t]he former deputy of Carl Icahn

"The son of a former Triple-A ballplayer who became the owner of a small photo-finishing business, Rachesky grew up playing stickball in the streets of middle-class Clifton, N.J. He ran track, excelled at math and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. He got his MD in three years at Stanford University and stayed to get an M.B.A. He financed both Stanford degrees counting cards at blackjack tables in Lake Tahoe.

Note: Triple-A (baseball)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)

choi

(5) Simon Montlake, The Middle Way; Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, aims to break into the top mobile ranks by rethinking its manufacturing.
www.forbes.com/sites/simonmontla ... ld-a-better-tablet/
("Yang [Yuanqing, CEO,] reckons that PC sales, which have tumbled for six straight quarters, will revive soon")

Excerpt in the window of print:  Rely on assemblers? Forget it. "They will share the design and innovation with others. You won't have a unique product." [Yang's statement]

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.

choi

(6) Christopher Helman and Agustino Fontevecchia, Mexican Revolutionary; Despite the drug war and immigration morass, America's southern neighbor is on the cusp of its greatest economic transformation in a century, thanks to the courageous oil reforms of its new president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
www.forbes.com/sites/christopher ... ion-worth-billions/

My comment: There is no need to read the text. What is interesting is the graphic, which does not show up online:

“What's Under the Ground?

Mexico and the US share a common border--and a common geology, which means the fracking boom that’s transforming American energy could soon do the same there, shoring up fast-slumping production [in Mexico]. Geologists have mapped out vast shale fields containing an estimated 13 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 500 billion barrels of oil, potentially larger than the country’s proven conventional reserves. But without access to foreign technology and capital, the oil and gas will remain locked in place.

[Followed by two historical figures, both 1980-2013 on the x axis: y axis of the top figure’s is “Crude Oil Proved Reserve (Billion Barrels) [Mexico’s oil reserve precipitated between 2000 and 2003],” whereas that of the bottom figure ”Total Production (Million Barrels per Day) [about the same in 2013 as in 1980 for both countries, with US output approximately twice as much as Mexico’s]”