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Japan

Japan invested their Social Security in the stock market. How did that turn out?

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 4:15pm

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, the world's biggest pension fund, began moving hundreds of billions of dollars from conservative and safe government bonds to riskier stocks in 2014.
The market celebrated.

Ecuador earthquake of 7.8 magnitude kills dozens

Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Sun, 04/17/2016 - 4:38am

Just one day after Japan suffered a second, and larger earthquake than the one that hit on Thursday, Ecuador has been hit with a very big quake... At least 77 people are dead and 500+ are injured, so far.