As part of their job, equity analysts are required to read about a wide range of topics, everything from the impact of declining birth rates on global economic growth to the rising price of arabica coffee beans. This is, without a doubt, what keeps our work interesting and, hopefully, useful. Listed below are several data points that we discovered over the past year that we thought you too might find interesting. See if you can match the statement on the left with the correct answer on the right.