Long before the internet reached the heartland, there was the DTN terminal, a modern-day Farmer's Almanac.
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To underscore the less-is-more ethic, Hurst cut his 2013 almanac by 64% from last year.
The Almanac of British Politics (Routledge), by Robert Waller and Byron Criddle and also in its seventh edition, is indispensable.
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It is modelled on Michael Barone's "The Almanac of American Politics", which has been published biennially for more than 30 years.
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And in 1732 he inaugurated his famous Poor Richard's Almanack with a hoax predicting the death of rival almanac publisher Titan Leeds.
The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
Our research in the Almanac shows that most of the January effect, where small-cap stocks outperformed large caps, happened the last two weeks of December.
Some have been duly celebrated, like Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), author of the remarkable A Sand County Almanac (1949), of Chief Justice William O.
The Almanac offers a complete guide to the electoral map of Britain, with profiles of every constituency and a biographical profile of every member of parliament.
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For more information and analysis from Jeffrey Hirsch, and to learn more about the Almanac Investor newsletter and the Stock Trader's Almanac, click here .
Report your self-destructive gambling behavior as a business and deduct your Sunday losses, fridge full of High Life, and copy of Football Outsiders Almanac against your meager winnings.
His son, Jeffrey Hirsch, is editor of the Almanac Investor newsletter and says January's retreat is the latest in a series of bearish developments in recent weeks.
Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor, is an unflappable propagator of market truisms, and his father, Yale Hirsch, discovered the "best six months" strategy in 1986.
Those purses are a big reason seven of the 10 top-earning horses--based on career winnings, tabulated by the Thoroughbred Times' Racing Almanac, a trade publication based in Lexington, Ky.
Based on MACD and the coming of the "best six months" period, the Almanac Investor went bullish on Oct. 2 this year, five trading days ahead of the Oct. 9 bottom.
The Almanac of American Politics reports that at one point, Hagel had to extricate his brother from an armored personnel carrier that had run over a landmine while his own body was on fire.
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"The last 35 years, the first five days were followed by full-year gains 30 times, for an 85.7% accuracy ratio and a 13.7% average gain in all 35 years, " reports Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of the Almanac Investor Newsletter, and son of Yale Hirsch.
Stock Trader's Almanac founder Yale Hirsch is credited with coming up with the "first five days" indicator, which essentially says that the direction of the first five days of January is predictive of January, which can have bullish implications for the rest of the year.
They could have stopped it at any moment: When they had looked in the almanac to choose the date (there was no day described as good for killing oneself, so they had settled for a day on which it was good to take a journey).
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