my comment on :The cloud and the dune at Paulo Coelho’s Blog

The story was wow go read it!

I send messages to myself to remind of the days when I find myself with a lightness of being and an unexplainable happiness.
I woke up, went to church then, afterwards whilst commuting for work I just had that feeling and sms myself.
I open my computer at work, and read this story, I find myself in such a happy state of self!
Thank You! Thank You Very Much!
The cloud and the dune at Paulo Coelho’s Blog.

The Cure To Our Economic Problems « blog maverick

The impact of tax rates on productivity and development is something economists masterbate about, enterpreneurs don’t waste their time thinking about it. We have business to do.
Entrepreneurs live to be entrepreneurs. I have never had a discussion with anyone about starting a business that included tax rates. Ever. If anyone that wanted an investment from me made a point of discussing tax rates as an impact on their business, I wouldnt invest in them. Ever.
Entrepreneurs live for the juice of making their dreams come true. Of having a vision and fighting to see it come true. The joy of mission accomplished and the scoreboard of the financial rewards.
The Cure To Our Economic Problems « blog maverick.

scary stuff-Bronte Capital: It's about the real economy now

In the Philippines we have a chorus of companies extolling the assertion that because one call center agent position in the states pays for 5 here the downturn only means more jobs. I don’t think so. The real economy is down, and when that happens some companies do dumb things, those dumb things that companies do, they mean lost jobs for countries like the Philippines.

Wal Mart has always had a pay-check related shopping spike – with a substantial number of customers living (as I did when a student) from pay stubb to pay stubb.
But for the first time they are having pay-check driven spikes in the sales of baby formula suggesting the economic pressure is more widespread.
It is about the real economy now.
Bronte Capital: It’s about the real economy now.

-Lost Amid The Financial Meltdown News-Marginal Revolution: China policy proposal of the day

wow this is like big, wow speechless
wow! if this works I don’t know peace nobel for the whole politburo?
from marginal revolutions blog:

China policy proposal of the day
Shouldn’t this story be on p.1 of every newspaper?
Now China’s government has unveiled a controversial plan to achieve universal care that would both increase health-care funding and control prices.
As this morning’s WSJ explains, the proposed plan would be quite a shift for China. The draft plan’s overall goal is to cover 90% of the population within two years and achieve universal care by 2020. It aims to return to non-profit national health care, an idea that was largely abandoned in the country 1980s.
This all stands in contrast to China’s current system, which provides little government funding to government hospitals and requires patients to pay heavy out-of-pocket expenses. The WSJ notes that out-of-pocket payments made up more than 60% of health spending in China at the end of the 1990s.
The plan — drafted in consultation with groups including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, consultant McKinsey & Co. and a few Chinese university-based public health experts — requires all revenue raised by public hospitals to be funneled to the state. The government also aims to set pricing standards for medical services.
Marginal Revolution: China policy proposal of the day.

This is Extremely Dangerous–Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Remembering to forget

I’m beginning to think that this if ready for human ingestion must be regulated.
I believe primarily for people with depression or people who can’t cope with the memory. Basically suicide risks.
We learn by experience and personally pain for me leads to compassion and if we erase every painful memory then maybe we cease to really exist.

The memory losses, report the authors, are “not caused by disrupting the retrieval access to the stored information but are, rather, due to the active erasure of the stored memories.” The erasure, moreover, “is highly restricted to the memory being retrieved while leaving other memories intact. Therefore, our study reveals a molecular genetic paradigm through which a given memory, such as new or old fear memory, can be rapidly and specifically erased in a controlled and inducible manner in the brain.”
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Remembering to forget.

Great Keynes quote – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog

This is what one loves about the net the anonimity brings out the worst and the best from everyone!

John Maynard Keynes is my economic idol, which is why I jumped at the chance to write the intro to the new edition of The General Theory. But I’d never heard this quote, from today’s FT:
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Presumably that was said in response to someone who called him shrill.
Great Keynes quote – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog.

flip Pride-NBA Edition-Head Coach of Miami Heat Half-Filipino

The youngest Asian-American Head Coach in the NBA is a Filipino!
If you’ve been to the Philippines (like Gilbert Arenas), You know how basketball crazy the Philippines is!
Another reason to cheer for Dwade and the Miami Heat!

ESPN – Monday Bullets – TrueHoop By Henry Abbott
New Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra to Sports Business Radio (subscription): “I am half Filipino. I’m proud of my heritage. I didn’t know when I got hired that I was the first Asian-American head coach in the NBA. So, I took that with a great deal of respect and honor. I think any time that you can be a part of something to possibly break down any kind of barriers or stereotypes, then I’m all for it. And if it’s at all possible for somebody down the line to have a door opened or see an opportunity that might not have been there before, then I think that’s a tremendous opportunity.”
ESPN – Monday Bullets – TrueHoop By Henry Abbott.