Rulon D. Pope, professor of economics and associate dean of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University, will be the keynote speaker at the Martin B. Hickman Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday at 250 Spencer W. Kimball Tower on the BYU campus.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend.
Pope's address will be "Deal or No Deal: Risk Aversion, Smoothing and Prudence."
Consumer confidence
A better hiring outlook and lower gas prices pushed a measure of U.S. consumer confidence to its highest level in four and a half years.
5th iPhone app
Clayton Ward, a 10th-grader from West Jordan,has created five apps for the Apple operating systems.
poorer people charitable
A 2009 study showed the poor give a higher percentage of their income to charity than rich people.
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