Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Douglas Diamond's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts
The Community Heart
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Douglas Warren Diamond (born October 25, 1953) is an American economist. The birth-card coordinate for October 25 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2022 Economic Sciences prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2022 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for research on banks and financial crises
2022 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“for research on banks and financial crises”
Shared with Ben Bernanke (5♣), Philip Dybvig (10♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/3.
93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 10 of Hearts coordinate
Douglas Diamond's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Douglas Diamond. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.
Douglas Diamond in the public record
He is the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979. Diamond specializes in the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. He is a former president of the American Finance Association (2003) and the Western Finance Association (2001–02). In October 2022, Diamond was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Ben Bernanke and Philip H. Dybvig. The prize was awarded in recognition of the economists' "research on banks and financial crises" Diamond is best known for his work on financial crises and bank runs, particularly the influential Diamond–Dybvig model published in 1983 and the Diamond model of delegated monitoring published in 1984. In 2016, he was awarded the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Douglas Diamond (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs
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Cards in Douglas Diamond's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♥ — Birth Card: The Community Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Mind
- J♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Pioneer
- 3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Sorrowful Truth
- 3♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Heart
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealth Pioneer
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wise Guide
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs
Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor, taught.
Other laureates with this card
- Arthur B. McDonald — 2015 Physics
- Esther Duflo — 2019 Economic Sciences
- Grazia Deledda — 1926 Literature
- Heinrich Böll — 1972 Literature
- Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
- Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
- Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
- Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
- Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
- Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
- Oliver E. Williamson — 2009 Economic Sciences
- 5 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Douglas Diamond's birth card?
- The 10 of Hearts. October 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Douglas Diamond's dates come from?
- Birth date 1953-10-25 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 1022) + Wikidata CC0 (Q185871) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Douglas Diamond). Birth date 1953-10-25 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).