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Eugene F. Fama's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

2013 Economic Sciences

Born February 14, 1939

The Successful Messenger

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In the record

Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (born February 14, 1939) is an American economist and Nobel Laureate. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

2013 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

“for their empirical analysis of asset prices”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with Lars Peter Hansen (9♥), Robert J. Shiller (7♣). 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 Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Eugene F. Fama's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Eugene F. Fama. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

Live Jack of Diamonds meaning page

Eugene F. Fama in the public record

He is best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2013, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. The Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the 9th-most influential economist of all time based on his academic contributions as of 2019. He is regarded as "the father of modern finance", as his works built the foundation of financial economics. Fama was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Angelina (née Sarraceno) and Francis Fama.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Eugene Fama (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

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Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

J♦ — Birth Card, from the published Jack of Diamonds meaning

He is regarded as "the father of modern finance", as his works built the foundation of financial economics.

Paired on shared wording: financial, works.

Also on the record

  1. All of his grandparents were immigrants from Italy.
  2. Fama is a Malden Catholic High School Athletic Hall of Fame honoree.
  3. He earned his undergraduate degree in Romance Languages magna cum laude in 1960 from Tufts University, where he was also selected as the school's outstanding student–athlete.
  4. Fama's MBA and PhD came from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in economics and finance.

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FAQ

What is Eugene F. Fama's birth card?
The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 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 Eugene F. Fama's dates come from?
Birth date 1939-02-14 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 894) + Wikidata CC0 (Q359317) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Eugene Fama). Birth date 1939-02-14 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).