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Non-US Money Market Tension Increased

Foreign exchange market yesterday haze. In addition to the euro area countries, investors remain worried about the debt crisis, the sudden spread of the Korean firing of the news market, the tension increased, the euro and other non-US currencies against the U.S. dollar lower. Weighed on the euro On Tuesday, Japan’s closed due to holidays, […]

Would You Give up Everything You Have to Volunteer For a Charity?

What would lead a person to give up an income of over $130,000 a year for the opportunity to volunteer full time for a nonprofit charity that pays him nothing? Further, besides using up all of his assets to help the charity get started, anything he gets now, like his social security, he tithes 100% […]

Singapore Wants to Complement and Strengthen the Clean Energy Industry in China

SGD 2.5 billion, 800 megawatt capacity, the world’s leading manufacturer of solar renewable energy companies of Norway (REC) plant in Singapore was started in early November. For Singapore, this is their third annual Singapore International Energy Week the best gift. Singapore is a resource-poor countries, but also a “clean” and known for its country. The […]

Why is the U.S. Policy of Quantitative Easing is Not the Result of the Anticipated

Quantitative easing monetary policy to purchase the financial assets, monetary expansion may not be expressed as price increases, nor does it reflect the exchange rate depreciation, but the performance of asset prices, to attract capital to enter, but currency appreciation or stability. Since March 19, 2009 United States adopted the quantitative easing monetary policy, the […]

Mid-Term Elections and Nonprofits

The mid-term elections have caused quite a shake-up for nonprofit art organizations as Republicans now have control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats still have the majority in the Senate. The good news: there are some returning and new champions of the arts- Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Representative Todd Platts (R-PA), and Representative […]

Christine O’Donnell, Witchcraft, And Education

(Summary: the big question is why the public schools waste so much time on weird non-academic topics, most of them hostile to traditional beliefs? The real witch in this story may be the Education Establishment.) This is a story about a missed opportunity. But first we have to ask what is the big deal? Still […]

Public Schools Are Worse Than Most People Believe (And Have Been For Much Longer Than Most People Realize)

In all the comments I see left on internet articles about education, two themes dominate: 1) The first is, average Americans have no idea how bad the public schools are. The Education Establishment has done a brilliant job at PR and misinformation. They have tried to deceive the public; and the public is deceived. Unfortunately. […]

G20 Summit Should Seek to Reach Consensus

Placed in the G20 Leaders Summit in Seoul, Korea is a tough battle before: to calm the currency smoke looming war, to eliminate the threat of protectionism, a compromise of domestic policy focus of the conflict and to avoid second bottom in the global economy, to prevent the emergence of new asset bubbles, reshaping the […]

Obama Defeat Would Advance a Lame

U.S. voters elect 435 House of Representatives, 37 senators and most of the governor, state senators and representatives and state department heads. The Democratic Party suffered defeat, losing the House majority, could barely more than half of the Senate. 37 seats in the Senate election, the Republican Party swept 23 seats, the Democratic Party had […]

Britain and the United States in the Win Over India

Prime Minister Cameron in the UK is about to leave for visit to China, the U.S. Democratic presidential Barack Obama has started on November 5 for a 10-day four-nation Asia-line. Obama will visit India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea, and India is the focus of Obama’s trip, exclusive of its 3 days visit schedule. Comparison […]