What is a good venture portfolio?

What is a good venture portfolio? 

One third of companies die, a third  pay back the investment, and a third  do well – one will have a 20-, 30-, 40-times return.

What percentage of ex-offenders returns to prison within three years?

What percentage of ex-offenders returns to prison within three years?

40%

Why extremes of both left and right are doing well?

Why extremes of both left and right are doing well?

Because the middle-class is disappearing

How many tons of carbon dioxide Americans emit annually?

How many tons of carbon dioxide Americans emit annually? 
In 2012 per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. totaled 16.15 tons.

When a society starts its decline?

When a society starts its decline?

When a political question is implemented as a legal one

How to solve a demand crisis?

How to solve a demand crisis?

 

With negative interest rate, with public quantitative easing (Government subsidizing jobs and salaries) and with war.

What is the place in the world where homeless people talk about science?

What is the place in the world where homeless people talk about science?
San Francisco

How many people earn less than half the official poverty rate ($15,853)?

How many people earn less than half the official poverty rate ($15,853)?


Nearly 20.8 million people, earn less than half the official poverty rate ($15,853).

What gives wealth and strength?

What gives wealth and strength?
Values often seen as cruel

What type of market form reigns in the American economy?

What type of market form reigns in the American economy?

Monopsony

What is the market share of the top ten banks in the U.S.?

What is the market share of the top ten banks in the U.S.?

70% (pure oligopoly)

If you have tried a succession of things and none of them has worked, what have you failed to build?

If you have tried a succession of things and  none of them has worked, what have you failed to build?

You have  failed to build an economy.

What is the most stable thing in America?

What is the most stable thing in America?

The U.S. poverty rate, that has been unchanged at 14.8% in the fourth consecutive year according to the Census Bureau.

What are the three main characteristics of the U.S. corporate cartels?

What are the three main characteristics of the U.S. corporate cartels?

They are bigger, less diverse and less dynamic than 20 years ago.

How to confront an insult?

How to confront an insult?

Apologizing for the provocation.

What percentage of U.S. IPOs involves tech companies?

What percentage of U.S. IPOs involves tech companies?

11%

What is the difference between perception and reality?

What is the difference between perception and reality?

Perception sees security as an abstraction and reality as reason to worry.

How does every corporate sector in America grow?

How does every corporate sector in America grow?

Through mergers, acquisitions and government lobbying , seldom through new product or service line.

How to ignore the fundamental risks involved in achieving your projections?

How to ignore the fundamental risks involved in achieving your projections?

Producing winners with outsize returns that cover the losers.

Why the Washington, D.C., homicide rate is 43% higher than it was a year ago?

Why the Washington, D.C., homicide rate is 43% higher than it was a year ago?

Because Washington, DC Local Government  is united on the policy but not the strategy against crime.

What is the best tool for ideology controllers?

What is the best tool for ideology controllers?

Unproven hypothesis of catastrophe.

Why Europe is a US territory?

Why Europe is a US territory?

Because collective European spending on defense amounted to some $250 billion in 2014 ((few billions more than the public pension retirement system in the U.S.), a $7 billion decline from a year earlier.

What are the consequences of doing nothing?

What are the consequences of doing nothing?

Events shape your life and not for the better.

How much is the local and state contributions to the public pension retirement system?

How much is the local and state contributions to the public pension retirement system?

$121.1 billion in 2014, and worker pension contributions  $45.5 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Why the median family’s income, adjusted for inflation, did not grow at all between 1973 and 2013?

Why the median family’s income, adjusted for inflation, did not grow at all between 1973 and 2013?

The median family’s income, adjusted for inflation, did not grow at all between 1973 and 2013  because lagging productivity growth has widened inequality.

What a powerful convergence of interests does?

 Ignoring  facts

How to train algorithms on large data-sets?

How to train  algorithms on  large data-sets?

Imitating human-like observation.

Why doesn't match growth and austerity ?

Why doesn't match growth and austerity ?

 

Because savers must be persuaded to accept  paltry returns.

Why are the Federal Reserve governors and bank presidents always wrong making projections of the GDP?

Why are the Federal Reserve governors and bank presidents always wrong making projections of the GDP?

Because they have a confusion between experiments and real economy.

What is the most exciting thing to watch in your life?

What is the most exciting thing to watch in your life?

High- risk movements when errors can pile up in a hurry.