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2012-01-29T07:26:00.001-08:00

Made in the World By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN THE Associated Press reported last week that Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, wrote an opinion piece on a Cuban Web site, following a Republican Party presidential candidates’ debate in Florida, in which he argued that the “selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this

2012-01-25T07:46:00.000-08:00

This is so true. My takes is you need to find your own average and continually improve it. Average is what you are good at. Average is your norm. It's your rhythm, it sets your pace. Average is compared only to yourself, your true self and that truth doesn't hurt. Average in a crowd doesn't cut it anymore. We are not 25 to 30 people sitting in a room anymore being graded on a curve. We are one

2012-01-08T11:15:00.000-08:00

The core KSAA (Knowledge, Skill, Ability, Attitude) of HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) is shifting from IT (Information Technology) Savvy to SMI (Social Media Interactions) Savvy. An entirely new HR norm is emerging shifting HRIT (Human Resources Information Technology) primary role is to that of change agent, carefully facilitate this changing HR norm.

2011-12-20T22:09:00.001-08:00

Digital Immigrants That’s what we are, digital immigrant headed to the clouds.We have our Facebooks and Goolge accounts to protect us.Our culture can be found in text-messages, posted replies, phone pics, new apps, and old emails. Centuries form now some archeologist may discover our bones but if they want to find out the good stuff about us they’ll have to dig into our

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

2011-02-23T19:45:00.000-08:00

2011-02-15T18:26:00.001-08:00

The Experience EconomyBy DAVID BROOKSTyler Cowen’s e-book, “The Great Stagnation,” has become the most debated nonfiction book so far this year. Cowen’s core point is that up until sometime around 1974, the American economy was able to experience awesome growth by harvesting low-hanging fruit. There was cheap land to be exploited. There was the tremendous increase in education levels during the

2011-01-18T09:00:00.001-08:00

Amy Chua Is a WimpBy DAVID BROOKSSometime early last week, a large slice of educated America decided that Amy Chua is a menace to society. Chua, as you probably know, is the Yale professor who has written a bracing critique of what she considers the weak, cuddling American parenting style.Chua didn’t let her own girls go out on play dates or sleepovers. She didn’t let them watch TV or play video

2010-11-30T10:02:00.001-08:00

Chapters 1, 3,5,7,9,12,13 Chapter 1, Two books come to mind; Working and Human Resource Champions My sense is we are hopelessly drifting between boredom and excellence headed toward a better future From command and control to coordinate and cultivate Chapter 3, We really are being nickeled and dimmed on a flat world. Chapter 5, The NewHR Value Propositions Chapter 7, simply make it better

2010-11-11T12:45:00.001-08:00

The human condition is designed to deliver sustainable performance and productivity. We are hard wired for survival with an inclination toward advancing our civilization. We really are a significant species within the context of the global economy. No matter how bad times may look right now, human productivity and performance is up. It has improved over the past hundred year’s, including the

2010-11-09T09:21:00.001-08:00

The Crossroads Nation - NYTimes.comBill Clinton used to talk about building a bridge to the 21st century. President Obama talks about laying down a “new foundation.” But Clinton was always vague about what the land on the other side of that bridge was going to look like, and Obama is vague about what edifice is going to go on top of that foundation.They are vague because nobody is clear about

2010-10-27T08:12:00.001-07:00

Can’t Keep a Bad Idea DownBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANI confess, I find it dispiriting to read the polls and see candidates, mostly Republicans, leading in various midterm races while promoting many of the very same ideas that got us into this mess. Am I hearing right?Let’s have more tax cuts, unlinked to any specific spending cuts and while we’re still fighting two wars — because that worked so well

2010-10-25T08:36:00.001-07:00

I am not certain of many things. But, for one. I am with all certainty convinced we are not designed for a stagnate life. Put much energy into the the search for answers of the things that you question. This will bring your joy. Joy provides good energy. Good energy propels a life worth living. ProfTom

2010-10-01T08:57:00.001-07:00

Welcome to my profile. I was born in the city of Boston and raised in the town of Maynard , Massachusetts. I joined the United States Navy and served two years sea duty on the USS Rowan and with great honor was a member of the Apollo 17 spaceship recovery team. After my Navy hitch I attended and graduated from Fitchburg State College, Portland State University, The Fielding Institute , and

2010-09-01T20:28:00.001-07:00

Coldplay - Yellow "Animation"

2010-08-15T11:17:00.000-07:00

2010-08-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

Fox Farm Picnic today, one of the best vineyards and wine tasting places in Oregon. Song of the day

2010-06-08T07:27:00.001-07:00

History for DollarsBy DAVID BROOKSWhen the going gets tough, the tough take accounting. When the job market worsens, many students figure they can’t indulge in an English or a history major. They have to study something that will lead directly to a job.So it is almost inevitable that over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will continue their long slide. There already

2010-05-04T08:58:00.001-07:00

The Limits of PolicyBy DAVID BROOKSRoughly a century ago, many Swedes immigrated to America. They’ve done very well here. Only about 6.7 percent of Swedish-Americans live in poverty. Also a century ago, many Swedes decided to remain in Sweden. They’ve done well there, too. When two economists calculated Swedish poverty rates according to the American standard, they found that 6.7 percent of the

2010-04-06T07:36:00.001-07:00

Relax, We’ll Be FineBy DAVID BROOKSAccording to recent polls, 60 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. The same percentage believe that the U.S. is in long-term decline. The political system is dysfunctional. A fiscal crisis looks unavoidable. There are plenty of reasons to be gloomy.But if you want to read about them, stop right here. This column is a great

2010-03-30T07:06:00.001-07:00

The Sandra Bullock TradeBy DAVID BROOKSTwo things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk. So the philosophic question of the day is: Would you take that as a deal? Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow?On the one hand, an Academy

2010-03-18T09:35:00.001-07:00

Access, Access, AccessBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFFirst, a question: When in American history did life expectancy improve the most?Was it the late 1800s, when anesthesia made surgery easier and far more common? Was it the 1930s, when antibacterial medicines became available? Or recent decades, when CAT scans and heart bypasses proliferated?The correct answer is: none of the above. While data differ

2010-02-21T10:36:00.001-08:00

The Fat Lady Has SungBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANA small news item from Tracy, Calif., caught my eye last week. Local station CBS 13 reported: “Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year, which allows them to call 911 as many times as necessary. Or there’s the option of not

2010-02-19T09:52:00.001-08:00

The Power EliteBy DAVID BROOKSOne of the great achievements of modern times is that we have made society more fair. Sixty years ago, the upper echelons were dominated by what E. Digby Baltzell called The Protestant Establishment and C. Wright Mills called The Power Elite. If your father went to Harvard, you had a 90 percent chance of getting in yourself, and the path upward from there was

2010-02-16T07:21:00.001-08:00

Op-Ed Columnist - The Lean YearsFinancial crises stink. In their wake, public debt explodes. Nations default. Economic growth falters. Taxes rise. Unemployment lingers. The current financial crisis is no different. The U.S. will have to produce 10 million new jobs just to get back to the unemployment levels of 2007. There’s no sign that that is going to happen soon, so we’re looking at an

2010-02-13T11:20:00.001-08:00

Cultural CognitionDavid Ropeik, an instructor at the Harvard Extension School, is the author of “How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts,” to be published in March by McGraw Hill. He is also a consultant in risk communication. One side uses the weather when it helps their view. Then the other side does the same. The climate change disagreement is not about such

2010-01-26T07:34:00.000-08:00

My Thinking is I agree with Mr. Brooks populist theory.

2010-01-20T13:35:00.001-08:00

Op-Ed Columnist - Is China An Enron? (Part 2) - NYTimes.comLast week, I wrote a column suggesting that while some overheated Chinese markets, like real estate, may offer shorting opportunities, I’d be wary of the argument that China’s economy today is just one big short-inviting bubble, à la Dubai. Your honor, I’d like to now revise and amend my remarks. There is one short position, one big

2010-01-17T10:00:00.001-08:00

Op-Ed Columnist - Our Basic Human Pleasures - Food, Sex And Giving - NYTimes.comWant to be happier in 2010? Then try this simple experiment, inspired by recent scholarship in psychology and neurology. Which person would you rather be: Richard is an ambitious 36-year-old white commodities trader in Florida. He’s healthy and drop-dead handsome, lives alone in a house with a pool, and has worked

2010-01-10T09:43:00.001-08:00

Op-Ed Columnist - Who’s Sleeping Now? - NYTimes.comHong Kong C. H. Tung, the first Chinese-appointed chief executive of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, offered me a three-sentence summary the other day of China’s modern economic history: “China was asleep during the Industrial Revolution. She was just waking during the Information Technology Revolution. She intends to participate fully in

2009-12-31T10:05:00.001-08:00

p-Ed Contributor - Times To Remember, Places To Forget - NYTimes.comCambridge, Mass. TONIGHT, millions of Americans will raise a glass, sing the only three Scottish words they know and remember the past with an ineffable blend of sadness and delight. Nostalgia has all the hallmarks of a universal emotion, and it is only natural to assume that the yearning for “auld lang syne” that was shared by

2009-12-22T10:24:00.001-08:00

The Protocol SocietyBy DAVID BROOKSIn the 19th and 20th centuries we made stuff: corn and steel and trucks. Now, we make protocols: sets of instructions. A software program is a protocol for organizing information. A new drug is a protocol for organizing chemicals. Wal-Mart produces protocols for moving and marketing consumer goods. Even when you are buying a car, you are mostly paying for the

2009-12-21T11:11:00.001-08:00

A Dangerous DysfunctionBy PAUL KRUGMANUnless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week. Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement. It’s a seriously flawed bill, we’ll spend years if not decades fixing it, but it’s nonetheless a huge step forward. It was, however, a close-run thing. And the fact that it was such a

2009-11-13T08:03:00.001-08:00

Free to LoseBy PAUL KRUGMANConsider, for a moment, a tale of two countries. Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result — but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than doubled. In Country B, employment has fallen only half a percent, and unemployment is only slightly higher than it was before the

2009-11-03T09:24:00.001-08:00

Cellphones, Texts and LoversBy DAVID BROOKSSince April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries. People send in personal accounts of their nighttime quests and conquests. Some of the diaries are unusual and sad. There’s a laid-off banker who drinks herself into oblivion and wakes up in the beds of unfamiliar men. There’s an African-American securities trader who flies around the

2009-10-26T09:22:00.001-07:00

October 25, 2009OP-ED COLUMNISTIn Defense of the ‘Balloon Boy’ DadBy FRANK RICHFOR a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated “balloon boy” spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up the nation’s unrestrained joy upon learning that the imperiled boy had never been in any peril whatsoever: “All of us are so excited that little Falcon is fine.” Then

2009-10-22T09:55:00.001-07:00

October 21, 2009OP-ED COLUMNISTThe New UntouchablesBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANLast summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our struggling public schools — was actually a critical, but unspoken, reason for

2009-10-14T08:55:00.001-07:00

Wall Street SmartsBy CALVIN TRILLIN“IF you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.”The statement came from a man sitting three or four stools away from me in a sparsely populated Midtown bar, where I was waiting for a friend. “But I have to buy you a drink to hear it?” I asked.“Absolutely not,” he said. “I can buy

2009-09-28T12:41:00.001-07:00

2009-08-28T13:37:00.001-07:00

The Great GradualistBy DAVID BROOKSIn the days since Ted Kennedy’s death, the news programs have shown and re-shown the unforgettable ending of his 1980 Democratic convention speech — the passage from Tennyson and the beautiful final lines: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”But if you go back earlier into the heart of that speech, you see

2009-08-28T13:36:00.001-07:00

Till Debt Does Its PartBy PAUL KRUGMANSo new budget projections show a cumulative deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade. According to many commentators, that’s a terrifying number, requiring drastic action — in particular, of course, canceling efforts to boost the economy and calling off health care reform.The truth is more complicated and less frightening. Right now deficits are actually

2009-08-09T10:42:00.001-07:00

August 9, 2009PROTOTYPEStaving Off a Spiral Toward OblivionBy MARY TRIPSASDRIVEN by the pressure to innovate, companies facing major technological change have wholeheartedly embraced management gurus’ advice on how to develop creative, breakthrough products. As a result, corporate America is flush with incubators, skunk works and innovation silos.But has the pendulum swung too far? New

2009-07-12T09:31:00.001-07:00

The Generation M Manifesto8:01 AM Wednesday July 8, 2009Tags:Economy, Generational issues, Global businessDear Old People Who Run the World,My generation would like to break up with you.Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences.You wanted big, fat, lazy "business." We want small, responsive,

2009-06-26T08:05:00.001-07:00

Human Nature TodayBy DAVID BROOKSHas there ever been a time when there were so many different views of human nature floating around all at once? The economists have their view, in which rational people coolly chase incentives. Traditional Christians have their view, emphasizing original sin, grace and the pilgrim’s progress in a fallen world. And then there are the evolutionary psychologists, who

2009-06-07T09:36:00.001-07:00

Rising Above I.Q.By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFIn the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us.Asian-Americans are renowned — or notorious — for ruining grade curves in schools across the land, and as a result they constitute about 20 percent of students at Harvard

2009-06-01T06:31:00.000-07:00

Reagan Did ItBy PAUL KRUGMAN“This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.He was, as it happened, wrong about solving the problems of the

2009-05-03T10:10:00.000-07:00

Genius: The Modern ViewBy DAVID BROOKSSome people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with

2009-04-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

The End of PhilosophyBy DAVID BROOKSSocrates talked. The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems. Find a just principle. Apply it.One problem with this kind of approach to morality, as Michael Gazzaniga writes in his 2008 book, “Human,” is that “

2009-04-03T07:24:00.000-07:00

Greed and Stupidity By DAVID BROOKS What happened to the global economy? We seemed to be chugging along, enjoying moderate business cycles and unprecedented global growth. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose.There are many theories about what happened, but two general narratives seem to be gaining prominence, which we will call the greed narrative and the stupidity narrative. The two overlap,

2009-03-27T08:52:00.000-07:00

March 27, 2009OP-ED COLUMNISTThe Market MystiqueBy PAUL KRUGMANOn Monday, Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, responded to criticisms of the Obama administration’s plan to subsidize private purchases of toxic assets. “I don’t know of any economist,” he declared, “who doesn’t believe that better functioning capital markets in which assets can be traded are a good idea.”

2009-03-22T12:08:00.000-07:00

Are We Home Alone?By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANI ran into an Indian businessman friend last week and he said something to me that really struck a chord: “This is the first time I’ve ever visited the United States when I feel like you’re acting like an immature democracy.”You know what he meant: We’re in a once-a-century financial crisis, and yet we’ve actually descended into politics worse than usual.

2009-03-19T07:55:00.001-07:00

The Daily MeBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFSome of the obituaries these days aren’t in the newspapers but are for the newspapers. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest to pass away, save for a remnant that will exist only in cyberspace, and the public is increasingly seeking its news not from mainstream television networks or ink-on-dead-trees but from grazing online.When we go online, each of us

2009-03-14T08:58:00.000-07:00

What will business as usual look like?By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | March 15, 2009Are you ready for the new normal?Even as the casualties pile up, business leaders are sifting through the rubble of the current economic crisis for clues to what the postrecession business landscape might look like, what role their companies might play, and how to manage going forward."People are going to be in

2009-03-08T12:19:00.001-07:00

The Inflection Is Near?By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANSometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can’t resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June 2005 about America’s addiction to Chinese exports:FENGHUA, China — Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed

2009-03-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

The great Disruption

2009-03-01T09:45:00.001-08:00

March 1, 2009OP-ED CONTRIBUTORBack Online by 2010By ERIC SCHMIDTECONOMISTS hesitate to predict the future for good reason. But when looking at our economic decline, we can all agree on two things: we did not get here overnight and we will not recover tomorrow. There are, however, steps that need to be taken to speed up the process — getting credit flowing again, taking action to create jobs,

2009-02-20T07:47:00.001-08:00

Who’ll Stop the Pain?By PAUL KRUGMANEarlier this week, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of the most recent meeting of its open market committee — the group that sets interest rates. Most press reports focused either on the Fed’s downgrade of the near-term outlook or on its adoption of a long-run 2 percent inflation target.But my eye was caught by the following chilling passage (yes,

2009-02-17T07:24:00.000-08:00

I Dream of DenverBy DAVID BROOKSYou may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will give up their love affair with suburban sprawl and will rediscover denser, more environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent ways of living.Those dreams have been aroused over the past few months. The economic crisis has devastated the

2009-02-01T09:38:00.001-08:00

Elvis Has Left the MountainBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANDAVOS, SwitzerlandIn its own unpredictable way, the Davos World Economic Forum usually serves as a crude barometer of the latest mood or mania on the world stage. This year did not disappoint. What has struck me is the quiet urgency that infused so many panel discussions and private conversations here between investors, politicians and social

2009-01-21T07:24:00.001-08:00

Radical in the White HouseBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANFor one day, for one hour, let us take a bow as a country. Nearly 233 years after our founding, 144 years after the close of our Civil War and 46 years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, this crazy quilt of immigrants called Americans finally elected a black man, Barack Hussein Obama, as president. Walking back from the inauguration,

2009-01-16T16:49:00.001-08:00

An Economy of Faith and TrustBy DAVID BROOKSOnce there was just Newtonian physics and the world seemed neat and mechanical. Then quantum physics came along and revealed that deep down things are much weirder than they seem. Something similar is now happening with public policy.Once, classical economics dominated policy thinking. The classical models presumed a certain sort of orderly human makeup

2009-01-04T12:39:00.000-08:00

Creative Mill MindsIn January 1970, freshly graduated from college, Jud Leonard showed up for his first day at work at the old mill complex in Maynard. "I was so excited, I probably even wore a tie," he remembers.His employer hired him to write software for one of the minicomputers it made. Leonard was among the first 9,000 employees of Digital Equipment Corp., which during Leonard's 16-year

2008-12-24T13:21:00.001-08:00

December 24, 2008OP-ED COLUMNISTTime to Reboot AmericaBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANI had a bad day last Friday, but it was an all-too-typical day for America.It actually started well, on Kau Sai Chau, an island off Hong Kong, where I stood on a rocky hilltop overlooking the South China Sea and talked to my wife back in Maryland, static-free, using a friend’s Chinese cellphone. A few hours later, I took

2008-11-24T21:49:00.001-08:00

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -

2008-11-04T06:47:00.000-08:00

Nov. 4, 2008, is a historic day because it marks the end of an economic era, a political era and a generational era all at once.Economically, it marks the end of the Long Boom, which began in 1983. Politically, it probably marks the end of conservative dominance, which began in 1980. Generationally, it marks the end of baby boomer supremacy, which began in 1968. For the past 16 years, baby

2008-09-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

Green the BailoutBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANMany things make me weep about the current economic crisis, but none more than this brief economic history: In the 19th century, America had a railroad boom, bubble and bust. Some people made money; many lost money. But even when that bubble burst, it left America with an infrastructure of railroads that made transcontinental travel and shipping dramatically

2008-08-08T08:56:00.001-07:00

Lord of the MemesBy DAVID BROOKSDear Dr. Kierkegaard,All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual, sprinkling quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and making my friends feel mentally inferior. But over the last few years, it’s stopped working. People just look at me blankly. My artificially inflated self-esteem is on the wane. What

2008-07-29T07:52:00.001-07:00

The Biggest IssueBy DAVID BROOKSWhy did the United States become the leading economic power of the 20th century? The best short answer is that a ferocious belief that people have the power to transform their own lives gave Americans an unparalleled commitment to education, hard work and economic freedom.Between 1870 and 1950, the average American’s level of education rose by 0.8 years per decade.

2008-07-22T09:25:00.001-07:00

The Culture of DebtBy DAVID BROOKSOn the front page of Sunday’s Times, Gretchen Morgenson described Diane McLeod’s spiral into indebtedness, and now a debate has erupted over who is to blame.Some people emphasize the predatory lenders who seduced her with too-good-to-be-true credit lines and incomprehensible mortgage offers. Here was a single mother made vulnerable by health problems and divorce.

2008-07-19T08:39:00.001-07:00

Yes We CanBy BOB HERBERTAs I was listening to Al Gore on the telephone, I was thinking: “Uh-oh, the naysayers will have a field day with this one.”The former vice president was giving me an advanced briefing on the speech that he delivered on Thursday, calling on the United States to behave like a great nation and actually do something real about its self-destructive and ultimately unsustainable

2008-07-17T09:30:00.001-07:00

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESSLessons in Love, by Way of EconomicsBy BEN STEINAS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.My primary life study has been about love.

2008-06-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

The Frozen GazeBy DAVID BROOKSRocco Mediate’s head swiveled about as he walked up the fairway of the sudden-death hole of the U.S. Open on Monday. Somebody would catch his attention, and his eyes would dart over and he’d wave or make a crack. Tiger Woods’s gaze, on the other hand, remained fixed on the ground, a few feet ahead of his steps. He was, as always, locked in, focused and

2008-06-14T09:31:00.001-07:00

Retirement income likely to be adequate when you eliminate child-care costsJune 13, 2008How does the cost of raising a family affect retirement planning? The answer is good news, in a backhanded kind of way.When we have children, we voluntarily reduce our adult standard of living so we can raise the kids. Since our adult standard of living is lower than it would otherwise be, we don't need to

2008-06-13T12:39:00.001-07:00

The Seven Da Vincian Principles are: Curiostia-An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning. Dimostrazione-A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and willingness to learn from mistakes. Senazione-The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience. Sfumate (

2008-06-08T11:07:00.000-07:00

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2008-06-08T09:43:00.001-07:00

ECONOMIC VIEWThis Global Show Must Go OnBy TYLER COWENTHE last 20 years have brought the world more trade, more globalization and more economic growth than in any previous such period in history. Few commentators had believed that such a rise in trade and living standards was possible so quickly.More than 400 million Chinese climbed out of poverty between 1990 and 2004, according to the World