Revisionist historian

Amity Shlaes, conservative ideologue and revisionist historian, who believes cutting taxes will solve all the economy's problem, including government debt caused by severe recession and wars.

Her idea certainly works for the rich and well endowed and that explains her conservative appeal.

If you simply starve the poor to death when they are out of job and short on cash you can reduce government's healthcare and pension cost. Simple logic.

But there is a better solution: tax those who caused the financial crisis to pay for the poor's transition period until they can stand on their own feet. This is a solution that conservatives hate, but a just one.

Fortunately a majority of Americans have the good sense to make that call.

Taiwan's pension funding issue

許璋瑤 - 前主計長 - 社會保險改革

COPD

COPE 1

COPD 2

COPE 3

Why didn't homosexuality disappear through evolution?

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/12/homosexuality-may-start-in-the-w.html?ref=hp

Wiki compares project management software


Source Forge download project management software


accroding to Source Forge:
"ProjectLibre is an open source alternative to Microsoft Project. We have a community site as well at http://www.projectlibre.org It has been downloaded in 194 countries the first month of release and was just voted Sourceforge's "Project of the Month" ProjectLibre is compatible with Microsoft Project 2003, 2007 and 2010 files. You can simply open them on Linux, Mac OS or Windows."

Dalio on the develeraging world

What is the next decade look like

Shapiro leaving SEC

Shapiro's achievements at SEC and the unfinished tasks

Who is Elisse Walter?

Mortgage Settlement

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20121116-710251.html

Alzheimer's

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443624204578060941988428604.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595904578119213254334162.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444897304578044520966644406.html

教育投資是一種浪費?

在台灣有很多博士級的流浪教師。碩士找不到工作。大學畢業的起薪比我二十幾年前大學畢業時差不了多少，然而物價和二十年前比起來高了不少。不斷的教育投資，所得到的結果是投資報酬率越來越低。我個人覺得，臺灣流行的 “文憑不重要” “學者誤國” “學校教的理論無用” “教授肥貓” “五年五百億浪費” 等等的言論，有一定的社會背景，並非一味的"反智"。如果清大畢業後較好的出路是到澳洲當屠夫，採礦，那麼說教育投資事一種浪費，並不過分。

問題在於經濟。長期的失業，或者所學非所用，造成教育投資的write off, or write down。個人的終生所得，因為留校時間長，造成可就業時間縮短而減少。學校和老師對學生就業並不關心。任其自生自滅。產業不斷移往工資更低的地方。如果學生"自力救濟"，到澳洲打工，這是大人的錯，還是年輕人的錯?

我覺得台灣社會的文憑崇拜，因為歷史的因素，一直是社會的主流。但是資本主義全球化的結果，是中產階級的空洞化。製造業流往中國，使三億中國人脫離貧窮，這是全球化的正面影響。但是中間所得的國家，以及富裕國家的中產階級，都面臨收入減少，貧窮化的問題。社會的領袖們，包括學者，意見領袖，如果不正視這個問題，想辦法提高國家的整體競爭力，則他們的領導威信會越來越低。意見，只會越來越不受重視。

Cover story of Time, Oct 29, 2012: "College is dead. Long Live college." talked about the situation in the US. For anyone who is interested.