The era of 70s –economic reality

The history of planning from Soviet Union to United State during the FDR time to current planning monopoly in the corp world is a very interest development.
This is the genius of propaganda or spin by the corporate interest.
What is not told in the school and the mainstream media is very clear to me. This is [...]

social security fund crisis?

Russel Beland is deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower analysis and assessment.
He gave a rebut of social security fund crisis yakked by the conservative interest of the US couple months ago (Oct 22, 2208).
He list there are five myths about the social security fund crisis.
Myth1: As the boomers retire, they could break the [...]

Geopolitic

The declaration of independence of Kosovo is a historical event of the world. Hopefully this would not lead to more fighting of separatist groups around the world.
The mention of many small region clamoring for independence at the southern border of Russia leads me to think there may be the future trouble spots.
There is another point [...]

Flash in the pan?

Laziness of handle materials and administrative tasks result in forgetting to pay bill to the power company. What a lesson in life. These are boring chores however, one still has to face every month.
Another problem is I am not sure how they will inform me about the amount of bill that I owe every month. [...]

Too boring to read?

“Martin Gruenberg, a chief staff of senator Paul Sarbanes, found out the Basel II draft was full of holes. It even let the banks in US to lower their reserve requirement and more chance to speculate on other people money.
William McDonough and Susan Schmidt Bies, member of the Fed Reserve Board of Governor dealing with [...]

End of the Line

The “End of the Line” is a pretty interesting book. It has a lot of good observations that are contradicting to the conventional wisdom and spin machine outputs.

The 2004 Straight of Taiwan confrontation between US and China is used as an example of the schizophrenic nature of the current view of Globalization. “The United States [...]

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
This is a report on the recent real estate and hotels development along the river front of Chendgu city of China. I’ve been to this city last year, I was impressed with the city modern high rise and commercialism. It [...]

Excessive foreign reserve dilemma, oil price, stock market reality

Stock market trend
What Cisco and Oracle are doing in the capital market borrowing moneys instead of issuing more stocks is a sign of maturation of these companies.
IBM’s stock is not doing well at all. There are no sign of its ascent in price for so long. All the manipulations by the current CEO don’t seem [...]