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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By KAREL JANICEK AND VANESSA GERA, Associated Press
December 14, 2011
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Of all the twists in Europe's debt crisis one of the
oddest must be this: Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans, long the
recipients of massive amounts of Western aid, are being asked to contribute
to an emergency fund for indebted Western European states.
That plan, decided at a European Union summit Friday, is sparking resistance
— and some outrage — from eastern Europeans who see a huge injusti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1125 | 2 I don't agree with you. Default is not good, however indebt forever is the
same. Only fools think indebt forever is better than default unless u can
sell ur holding to other investors.
It's obvious than it became harder for US to find potential buyers for their
debt and the trend will continue.
Btw, I am a big fan of Russia investing and holding high stake in that
country. I believe their mkt will become more and more interesting to
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发帖数: 11545 | 3 The Most Indebted US Oil Companies
By Shobhit Seth | February 23, 2015
The effects of declining oil prices over the last few quarters have started
to show. January 2015 saw companies such as WBH Energy filing for bankruptcy
. A few others that met the same fate earlier include KiOR Inc., Endeavour
International, and Marion Energy. Consolidation is visible among major
players. For instance, the second-largest oil field services company
Halliburton Company bought the third-largest Baker Hughes. Ex... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5269 | 4 Here are 10 states with the highest share of residents with debt in
collections. The national average is 33 percent.
Louisiana: 46 percent
Texas: 44 percent
South Carolina: 43 percent
West Virginia: 42 percent
Nevada: 41 percent
Alabama: 40 percent
Georgia: 40 percent
Kentucky: 40 percent
Mississippi: 40 percent
New Mexico: 40 percent
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-united-states-of-indebted-america/ |
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发帖数: 6858 | 5 大棋局与9/11
来源: ognc 于 2013-02-22 16:08:44[档案] [博客] [旧帖] [转至博客] [给我悄悄
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The Moral Decoding of 9-11
By Prof. John McMurtry
(Journal of 9/11 Studies) - I was sceptical of the 9-11 event from the first
time I saw it on television. It was on every major network within minutes.
All the guilty parties were declared before any evidence was shown. The
first questions of any criminal investigation were erased. Who had the most
compelling motives for... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1904 | 6 SPIEGEL: Are the new austerity guidelines for countries like Spain, Italy or
Greece too tough?
Soros: They create a vicious circle. The deficit countries have to improve
their competitive position vis-a-vis Germany, so they will have to cut their
budget deficits and reduce wages. In a weak economy, profit margins will
also be under pressure. This will reduce tax revenues and require further
austerity measures, creating a vicious circle. Markets do not correct their
own excesses. Either there is ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9770 | 7 http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20170719/hna-debt-deal-hainan-airlines/dual/
海航集团背后的裙带关系网
Behind a Chinese Powerhouse, a Web of Family Financial Ties
DAVID BARBOZA
2017年7月19日
停在中国海南省海口美兰机场的海南航空飞机。中国大型企业集团海航集团从航空公司
起家，业务遍及全球。 Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
When Hainan Airlines wanted to expand in the 1990s, its top executives
turned to a little-known businessman in his early 30s, who helped the
Chinese upstart develop golf courses, resorts and seaside villas.
20世纪90年代，海南航空公司想要扩张时，高管们找来一个30岁出头... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Dr. Victor Davis Hanson拆穿奥巴马的各种此一时彼一时：2006年投票反对提高借贷
上限的奥巴马，现在说反对提高借贷上限是胡闹
Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible
for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own
contribution of $5 trillion? Why is there a debt limit standoff now, rather
than, say, in 2009 or 2010? Why did this latest $1.6 trillion Obama budget
prompt the current crisis? Why did not Obama earlier start debt limit talks
the moment that his own... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 By Victor Davis Hanson
Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the
perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist
Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the
masses (“bread and circuses”) in part because he knew there was no remedy
for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal
insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Any Roman emperor bold enough to
rein in the Praetorian Guard, charge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 10 Black Lives Matter Leader Slams the Clintons: They Just Use Us For Votes,
Photo Ops
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton may be overwhelmingly winning the black
vote (87 percent to 4 percent in the latest Fox News poll), but that doesn’
t mean all African Americans think she has their best interests at heart.
In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Alicia Garza, co-founder of
Black Lives Matter, didn’t mince words when it came to describing what she
thinks about the Clintons.
“After Bill Clin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8227 | 11 The Trouble With French Banks
A Bank Paribas executive makes his concerns known.
We can no longer borrow dollars. U.S. money-market funds are not lending to
us anymore," a bank executive for BNP Paribas, who declines to be named,
told me last week. "Since we don't have access to dollars anymore, we're
creating a market in euros. This is a first. . . . We hope it will work,
otherwise the downward spiral will be hell. We will no longer be trusted at
all and no one will lend to us anymore."
He's no... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5754 | 12
".....Two things are to be here considered —
that the gospel is by a heavenly mandate destined and offered to the wise,
in order that the Lord may subject to himself all the wisdom of this world,
and make all variety of talents, and every kind of science, and the
loftiness of all arts, to give way to the simplicity of his doctrine;
and what is more, they are to be reduced to the same rank with the unlearned
, and to be made so meek, as to be able to bear those to be their fellow-
disciples unde... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5754 | 13
知的心就昏暗了。
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was darkened.
"
For when they knew God, etc. He plainly testifies here, that God has
presented to the minds of all the means of knowing him, having so manifested
himself by his works, that they must necessarily see what of themselves
they seek not to know — that there is some God; for the world does not by
chance exist, nor could it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3888 | 14 如果去的法学院不是 Top-14，甚至不是 Top 50，没有很强的 patent 背景，希望你们
能避免弯路。下面的故事读起来像小说，但是我可以告诉你们，非常现实。
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&forum_id=2#20761498
In a couple short weeks, a new wave of hapless lemmings will crack open the
shrinkwrap on those heinously overpriced casebooks, boot up their laptops
for some heated note-taking, and commence their voyage down the road of
America’s most overrated, miserable, and saturated industry: the practice
of law. A pompous, overpaid professor will sau... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 361 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: 中国政府大力引导民众投资金银
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 3 21:24:28 2009, 美东)
China pushes silver and gold investment to the masses
A report suggests that the Chinese government is pushing the general public
into buying gold and silver bullion, which could have a dramatic effect on
the markets.
Author: Lawrence Williams
www.mineweb.co.za， Posted: Thursday , 03 Sep 2009
LONDON -
We are indebted again to Paul Mylchreest's Thunder Road Rep |
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发帖数: 5309 | 16 I don't see what good of it for China to loan large amount of RMB so that
the Turks can "buy" Chinese goods
with. In the end it will be Turkey that is deeply indebted to China. The
only ways to settle the debt is 1) pay
China in Gold; 2) pay in another currency (dollar or Euro); 3) natural
resource such as oil; 4) greatly increase
the price that China need and Turkey can offer; 5) ask China to forgive the
debt. Turkey is not the kind of
country that has good credit, and it cannot let China cont... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2305 | 18 http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201109&postID=1303
九一一那天在电视看到难属噙着眼泪逐一念出受难者的名字，我也有止不住眼泪的感觉
。那是多么长的一个名单啊，一直到快结束，终于念到了我的朋友的名字：Weibin
Wang。
王维斌与我是哥大的校友。他的孩子和我儿子一样大，所以时有接触。我的人寿保险的
经济人还是他领到我家来的（可惜那人是半个骗子）。王维斌瘦高，带副眼镜，一看就
是一位文质彬彬的学者。他是CUSPEA项目的学人之一。当年诺贝尔获得者李政道和中国
官方很熟，他亲自在中国各名牌大学挑了一批学物理的顶尖学生来美国深造，被称为
CUSPEA （China-United States Physics Examination and Application Program）。
李政道是哥大的教授，自然把最好的学生自己先留下，然后其他人在分到其他学校去。
所以王维斌可以说是精英中的精英了。
哥大的物理系很强。我当时与我合租宿舍的一位日本留学生就是学物理系的。他的项目
找遍全日本的学府和政府机构，没有人肯赞助他。哥... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1043 | 19 李文和的太太是正牌 CIA.
http://www.rense.com/general2/cia.htm
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Rense.com
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Accused Chinese Los Alamos
Lab Spy's Wife Worked
For CIA
By Dan Stober - San Jose Mercury News
http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/docs/cia23.htm
7-24-00
Wen Ho Lee's wife worked for the CIA when she was a secretary at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1980s, a revela... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2946 | 20 China's vice president and future leader Xi Jinping will meet with
President
Obama today, nearly 40 years to the day after President Nixon arrived
in
Beijing to radically reshape relations between the two nations. Xi is
in
the U.S. for a week's worth of meetings in Washington, Muscatine, Iowa,
and
Los Angeles.
Xi and Obama have some things in common. Xi's daughter, Xi Mingxe, is a
sophomore at Harvard, Obama's alma mater. Obama is a basketball fan, and
word is Xi hopes to catch a Clippers game... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 481 | 21 Analysis: In the U.S. housing market, recovery or Lost Decade?
By Michelle Conlin and Leah Schnurr | Reuters – Sun, Jul 15, 2012
(Reuters) - The worst U.S. housing crisis since the Great Depression has
been declared over. But is it?
What some of Wall Street's forecasts for a recovery may be underestimating
are tectonic shifts in the U.S. economy that make the housing market a
different place from a decade ago.
Record levels of student debt, 15 years of flat incomes and the fact that
nearly half ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 22 伪共又被抽脸了。
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. lawmakers Wednesday accused China of bullying its
neighbors to press territorial claims in the South China Sea but also raised
questions about America's capacity to police the region.
Three congressional panels this week are scrutinizing what they consider to
be the security threat posed by China and its human rights record.
With the presidential election two months away, Republican nominee Mitt
Romney has accused President Barack Obama of being soft on China,
pa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1057 | 23 最新一期（2013-03-14）的Nature杂志，在其“World View”专栏发表了一篇题为“
The unlikely wisdom of Chairman Mao”的文章。首先觉得题目挺好玩。作者建议科
学界尤其是西方科学界要学习毛泽东的自我批评思想。
节选一下作者的一些观点和信息：
1. 科学界要学习毛主席的自我批评。
2. 中国、日本、新加坡等国的科学家和政府部门会反省和剖析自己国家创新能力缺乏
的问题，而这种自我批评在西方科学界（欧洲、美国）非常罕见。
（我们国家真的意识到并正在努力解决科技界的问题吗？）
3. 美国文化并非反对自我批评，但负债累累、政治无能的美国现在却严重缺乏自我批
评。1998至2003年，NIH的经费翻番，但带来了哪些经济或健康收益？
4. （看看作者这个有意思的比较）2000年，中国R&D投入250亿美元，产出全球3%的科
技文献；美国则投入3000亿美元，产出全球27%的科技论文。十三年之后，中国经济增
长了200%，而美国为20%。
（中国经济发展跟论文产出与研发投入的比例有关系吗？）
5. 英国科学家很会在知名期刊上发表论文，但是其令人印象... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 24 http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/99-owe-debt-gratitu
The 99% Owe “A Debt of Gratitude” to the 1%: Harry Binswanger
By Morgan Korn | Daily Ticker – Tue, Sep 24, 2013 11:33 AM EDT
The 99% will not be happy with Harry Binswanger.
The former college professor and board member of the Ayn Rand Institute
wrote an incendiary column this month in Forbes, arguing that “the
community should give back to the wealth-creators” and the world should be
indebted to the rich and powerful for “their eno... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15191 | 25 总算腾出点时间，写了封信，以读者来信方式写的。大家看看什么地方需要修改，往哪
里寄好？离大城市太远了，不能去游行示威，只能写点东西尽一点微薄之力。信写的可
能按某些人的看法太温和了，不过我想还是一步步来，争取更多的听众。
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Enough is enough
Say NO to racism against Asians
Nowadays, Racism is a dirty word in the US. Rarely would someone openly yell
racial slurs, or make racial pranks and jokes in public against people from
most ethnic groups. But there is one exception: Asians have been easy
targets much more often than any other races. Let us look at a few examples.
There are people, like the r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 31 | 26 还在纠结这个。。。
看老美怎么评价
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/showbiz/jimmy-kimmel-china-apolog
亮点在最后一句
Maverick Mitchell • 5 days ago −
I wonder what would've happened if the same kid had said instead:
The USA is indebted to bankers, bankers are Jews, we should kill all Jews.
189 2 •Reply•Share ›
Kingslake Maverick Mitchell • 4 days ago −
If it was against Jews instead of Chinese, it most probably would not have
aired.
119 •Reply•Share ›
wiziwig ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 253 | 27 谁能恶搞一下JK的视频，把他们的配音替换一下，把Chinese替换成下面三个主题.
1. Japanese,这个日本人也买美国国债，直接改就行了。
2. Jews,就用这个
The USA is indebted to bankers, bankers are Jews, we should kill all Jews.
3. Blacks, 这个要想想，
尽量保持他们说话的原文和用字，以防别人说我们理解错了乱改。 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 28 “We indebted some folks.”。 |
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发帖数: 335 | 29 常春藤名校录取有多腐败？ 此博文包含图片 (2015-02-23 10:01:24)转载▼
标签： 杂谈 歧视 亚裔 分类： 美国见闻
读罗恩·昂茨（Ron Unz）的长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》
昂茨是一个犹太裔的商人，哈佛本科，斯坦福理论物理硕士。他试图获得共和党1994年
加州州长竞选的党内提名但没有成功，但当时他获得了34.3%的选票，被人笑称为“物
理学书呆子的竞选”。他写于2012年的这篇38页长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》（The
Myth of American Meritocracy）在美国教育界如同重磅炸弹，其翔实的资料（有120
处引文）和严密的逻辑使得他的论点极难被反驳。他甚至在论述中逐一讨论了反方论点
和论据，让人更难以挑战他的论述。
可惜的是，这样的真知灼见不能为今天的主流媒体所容，这篇文章很快就“沉下去”了
。他这篇文章的篇幅如此之大，以至于连华裔家长也没几个读完。
正因为此，我特意写了一个浓缩篇，算是节约一下大家的时间，但是本人水平有限，还
是强力推荐大家去读原文：The Myth of American Meritocracy
常春藤录取制度的... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17667 | 30 美元吸血从1971年就开始了，由于美国实际控制IMF, 导致改革一直无法进行。因此SDR
实际上没有成为当时预期的国际储备符号，现在也在总国际储备中占2-4%之间浮动。中
国的理想是建立一个新的超政权的国际储备货币，所有的贸易国家都要参加，避免大国
输出通胀和金融危机。但在IMF框架下，美国拥有否决权，如果以IMF的框架进行改革，
那么永远不可能实现。因此SDR加入不加入其实关系并不大。理论上如果IMF不让RMB加
入，则提供了让中国自立门户的口实，因此加入实际上是把球又踢给了TG, 自立门户的
时间又得推後。
At Bretton Woods in July 1944, the US dollar replaced the pound sterling as
the world reserve currency (WRC), backed by gold at US$35 per oz of gold.
Previously, the Western WRCs were first,the Portuguese escudo, followed by
the Spanish peso... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 872 | 31 http://www.wsj.com/articles/currency-war-u-s-hedge-funds-mount-
Some of the biggest names in the hedge-fund industry are piling up bets
against China’s currency, setting up a showdown between Wall Street and the
leaders of the world’s second-largest economy.
Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital Management has sold off the bulk of its
investments in stocks, commodities and bonds so it can focus on shorting
Asian currencies, including the yuan and the Hong Kong dollar.
It is the biggest concentrated wager t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 27852 | 33 Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue
(Jan. 1985-Dec, 1991)
T.T.Moh1
Dr. Zhang Yitang made a major advancement to the twin prime conjecture
as verified by Prof. H. Iwaniec, a famous number theorist. This is a
historic result. I congratulate Dr. Zhang, Yitang.
The concept of prime nummbers started with Greek mathematics. Euclid
shown that there were infinitly many primes. We may view the integers as
houses built on the integer spots on the real line, and put a light in every
prime number houses. Then in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 34 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40089609
Ping pong ding-dong: China champion sued over casino debts
30 May 2017
From the section Business
GETTY IMAGES
Image caption
Kong Linghui of China (in a 2005 picture) is considered one of table tennis'
all-time greats
One of China's best-known table tennis players is being sued by a Singapore
casino over alleged gambling debts.
Former world champion Kong Linghui owes Marina Bay Sands 454,375 Singapore
dollars ($327,600; ￡255,600), according to a Hong Ko... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 35 what crackin me up is the Bravado of all the Ameridumbs here that believe
that this shit could in any way shape or form be positive for a bankrupt
nation whose economy was once 70% based on consumption, full of broke and
indebted citizens who no longer can afford to consume....
yeah, China is in real trouble. |
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发帖数: 20965 | 36 Chet Seligman Point Reyes Station, Ca 1 hour ago
Why do so many Chinese study physics and math relative to Americans?
The answer may be similar to why Germans, Swiss and Danes studied physics
and math, relative to Americans, prior to WWII.
That being, a long history of intellectual cultures in those other countries
and the lack of one here.
It is hard to be a cowboy and a physicist simultaneously.
Reply 1Recommend
John Mardinly Chandler, AZ 1 hour ago
Hi-tech companies like Intel could not f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 37 Ummm.... but we are focusing on pumping out heavily indebted "college
graduates" focused on ethnic studies and psychology.
And we are unhappy when these Chinese foreigner's are getting all the PhD in
the "real subjects" at our universities.
Most of our universities need the "foreign student" high fee paying clients
(students) to subsidize our "low income kids who need to go to college". |
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发帖数: 778 | 38 告诉美国人这些在学real subject 的中国人整天琢磨改行
：Ummm.... but we are focusing on pumping out heavily indebted "college
：graduates" focused on ethnic studies and psychology. |
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发帖数: 1 | 39 I am always indebt to the trust of my judgements by the department. Only
very few of them misbehaved, bit the hands which fed them, none of them
intended to murder their parents/friends, almost all of them performed well
and became well-liked.
脑子有问题吧 |
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发帖数: 1 | 40 中国NM500强不少都是NM资不抵债的, 欠债1137亿美元
There's a lot working against China's most indebted property firm. China
Evergrande Group is sitting on $113.7 billion in debt and its core profit
fell 45% in the first half of the year. Real-estate growth is slowing, with
banks under orders to curb home loans. President Xi Jinping’s refrain that
houses are for living in, not speculation, has been cropping up more
frequently |
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发帖数: 3150 | 42 China's vice president and future leader Xi Jinping will meet with
President
Obama today, nearly 40 years to the day after President Nixon arrived
in
Beijing to radically reshape relations between the two nations. Xi is
in
the U.S. for a week's worth of meetings in Washington, Muscatine, Iowa,
and
Los Angeles.
Xi and Obama have some things in common. Xi's daughter, Xi Mingxe, is a
sophomore at Harvard, Obama's alma mater. Obama is a basketball fan, and
word is Xi hopes to catch a Clippers game F... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25644 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: bluedropddk (bluedropddk), 信区: Military
标 题: 常春藤名校录取有多腐败The Myth of American Meritocracy
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 23 20:35:25 2015, 美东)
常春藤名校录取有多腐败？ 此博文包含图片 (2015-02-23 10:01:24)转载▼
标签： 杂谈 歧视 亚裔 分类： 美国见闻
读罗恩·昂茨（Ron Unz）的长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》
昂茨是一个犹太裔的商人，哈佛本科，斯坦福理论物理硕士。他试图获得共和党1994年
加州州长竞选的党内提名但没有成功，但当时他获得了34.3%的选票，被人笑称为“物
理学书呆子的竞选”。他写于2012年的这篇38页长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》（The
Myth of American Meritocracy）在美国教育界如同重磅炸弹，其翔实的资料（有120
处引文）和严密的逻辑使得他的论点极难被反驳。他甚至在论述中逐一讨论了反方论点
和论据，让人更难以挑战他... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8363 | 44
Why does US carry 100 trillion debt plus unfunded liability? Why does US
become the most indebted nation? Why are you liberals so fucking blind
to all the debt the comes off the endless government programs?
Do you have any idea what 100 trillions mean? That's 300K burden on each
person, meaning you have a mortgage on your shoulder and you don't have
the house for it. You foolish spenders are asking for a mass inflation
that will completely destroy this economy.
Stop spending, imbecile. If it me |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 David Cameron has risked souring Britain's relations with Berlin in the
runup to next week's crucial European summit by calling on Germany to play a
larger role in safeguarding the single currency.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, the prime minister said
resolving the ongoing crisis was not just the job of indebted countries such
as Greece and Italy, which have been forced to adopt punishing austerity
measures; "surplus" countries, such as Germany, should also have to play
their par... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 MF’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JP Morgan, Memo Says
By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush - Mar 23, 2012
Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer,
gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund
account to meet an overdraft in a brokerage account with JPMorgan Chase & Co
. (JPM), according to a memo written by congressional investigators.
Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said in an e-mail quoted in the
memo that the transfer was “... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 By CHARLES FORELLE And DAVID ENRICH
LONDON—Investors fled from Spanish government debt on Monday, an immediate
rejection of the country's planned bank bailout by the constituency it most
desperately needs to impress: the buyers of its own government bonds.
The market rout puts Spain and the euro zone in a dire position. The bailout
plan—in which Spain agreed to accept up to €100 billion ($125
billion) to recapitalize banks—was hatched to alleviate the concern that
Spain itself could be d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 The Decline of America
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 14, 2013 12:00 A.M.
Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?
Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of
the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and
excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, when historians
attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs,
and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward
Gibb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Conn Carroll: California becoming a feudal society
March 2, 2013 | 8:00 pm
For most of its history, California has occupied a special place in the mind
of most Americans. From the height of the Gold Rush through the 1980s,
California's warm weather and booming economy drew enterprising, educated
and talented immigrants from across the country. California was the melting
pot of America's melting pot, leading all states in the number of residents
who were born in other U.S. states.
As I wrote in T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: pokerpro (专业的), 信区: Military
标 题: 当下火爆劲文: The 99% Owe “A Debt of Gratitude” to the 1%: Harry Binswanger
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 25 13:38:20 2013, 美东)
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/99-owe-debt-gratitu
The 99% Owe “A Debt of Gratitude” to the 1%: Harry Binswanger
By Morgan Korn | Daily Ticker – Tue, Sep 24, 2013 11:33 AM EDT
The 99% will not be happy with Harry Binswanger.
The former college professor and board member of the Ayn Rand Institute
wrote an ... 阅读全帖 |
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