How to "diminish" an issue to a manageable problem.

How to "diminish" an issue to a manageable problem.

Doing the opposite of what you say.

Using a lot of words.

Talking  much with adjectives.

Pursuing a more "systematic" approach.

How to use your influence and capabilities to solve a situation.

How to use your influence and capabilities to solve a situation.

Moderating one party.

Stepping up demands to that party to negotiate.

Putting pressure on the weak-looking party.

Denying accusations of interference.

Spreading sophisticated threats and then say they were taken out of context. 

Showing the situation is fully controlled.

Supporting the practical implementation of any  agreement.

When is difficult to get an answer

When is difficult to get an answer

When  who should respond doesn't ever expect to hear from you.

How many Americans live abroad?

How many Americans live abroad?

The State Department estimates that 7.6 million Americans live abroad.

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

The system cannot consider people inherently reasonable and inclined toward peaceful compromise and common sense.

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Because more money can mean you do too much and you don't have any focus.

Part of the success with a business is you have no money but you go out and raise it when you need it.

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Because we do not know each other.

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

Cashing out his investment by executing tax-free swap of assets.

Exchange defers or eliminates tax.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

The poor has less opportunities and less skills to implement the same impulses the rich has.

Who are the America's enemies?

Who are the America's enemies?

People desperate to belong to something.

Something like, al Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS.

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

Machine learning
Belief propagation
Markov chain approximation method (MCAM)
MATLAB
Natural language processing (NLP)
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR)
Default logic
Machine perception

Another issue of national security

Another issue of national security:

Close to half of black men drop out of high school. High unemployment and high rates of out-of-wedlock birth leave too many of them without guidance.

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics put the number of full-time equivalent sworn state and local police officers at 646,213 in 2011—up from 531,706 in 1991.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012: 22.0%   

How regulations are designed?

How regulations are designed?

They are designed to be  complex  and to create compliance advocates.

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Because you have a weapon to fight a risky dollar currency fluctuation.

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Because according to the IRS 2009 Data Book, IRS workforce counts up 93,337 employees , 91,082 of which being full-time permanent.

Because according to the IRS :

IRS FY 2014 Shutdown Contingency Plan (Non-Filing Season)


Total number of employees expected to be employed prior to implementation of the shutdown plan (direct and reimbursable)
    94,516
(as of 09/07/2013)    

Why nobody blames himself?

Why nobody blames himself?

Because Washington exists

A new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 71 percent of adults believe the United States is on the wrong track, and 60 percent think we’re in a state of decline.

Roughly 70 percent pointed the finger of blame at political gridlock for the current state of the economy.

79 percent are just fed up with the political system in general.

Finding something new to justify an existence

Finding something new to justify an existence

Any government, any political institution, any bureaucracy will always find something new to justify its existence, whether or not it's needed.

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Political patrons

What is productivity in Congress?

What is productivity in Congress?

H.R. 803 – Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Sponsor: Rep Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5)

2/25/2013    Introduced in House


3/12/2013    House Education and Workforce Committee amends and passes it. 


3/15/2013    Three days later, it’s passed in the full House by a vote of 215 - 202

[15 months passes with no action in the Senate.]


6/25/2014    Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.


6/25/2014    Passed in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by a vote of 95 - 3.


7/9/2014      Resolving differences -- House passes the Senate-amended version by a vote of 415 – 6.


7/15/2014    Presented to President.


7/22/2014     Signed into law.

How America works.

How America works.

Borrowing revenue from the future to pay for our spending today.

Playing the accounting game in Washington.

Kicking any can down the road.

Allowing  technically to game the system.

What will ignite the next economic crash?

What will ignite the next economic crash?

Cov-lite lending

The new gold standard of employment metrics.

The new gold standard of employment metrics.

Payroll to Population,  the number of adults in the total population who work for an employer at least 30 hours per week.

U.S. Payroll to Population Rate is 47%.

What is the difference between an opinion and a fact?

What is the difference between an opinion and a fact?

Sooner of later a fact happens

Examples of advanced technology

Invasive biosensor device developed with the use of novel nanotechnology for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

A battery operated, remote controlled, prototype device that can stream video and audio data to other platforms over multiple networks through an Android application.  The Android application will be used to control and operate the device.

Something difficult to overcome in modern society:

Something difficult to overcome in modern society:

Usually who wants to help has no authority, and who has authority doesn't want to help.

Productivity in the United States

Productivity in the United States decreased to 106.12 Index Points in the first quarter of 2014 from 107.06 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013. Productivity in the United States averaged 64.10 Index Points from 1959 until 2014, reaching an all time high of 107.06 Index Points in the fourth quarter of 2013 and a record low of 31.67 Index Points in the first quarter of 1959. Productivity in the United States is reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How to alienate friends?

How to alienate  friends?

Sending a spy to spy on a committee set up to investigate whether you have sent spies to spy on your friends.

And your spy got caught.

The real inequality.

The real inequality.

Dow Jones closes above 17,000 for first time on July 3rd  2014

U.S. gross domestic product shrank by 2.9% in the first quarter of 2014.

What is a sophism?

A sophism is a false argument intended to mislead. A sophist is a person who reasons with clever but fallacious and deceptive arguments.

The new tool to win presidential, state and federal elections.

The new tool to win presidential, state and federal elections.

Using technology  to influence  the way people express their emotions  and how likely they are to vote.
 

How to manipulate share prices?

How to manipulate share prices?

Buybacking shares and reducing the number of shares the company has, it will make earnings per share to rise no matter if the total earnings go nowhere.

What is the first national-security matter?

What is the first national-security matter?

Obesity, the single biggest reason for failing to qualify for military service.

Why central-bank policies do not boost growth?

Why central-bank policies do not boost growth?

Because decision makers in larger companies do not have a clue regarding what is going on with technology.

Current job in demand:

Current job in demand:

Programming  multi-turret Okuma lathes using 3D models in NX software

Global warming and river pollution

Global warming and river pollution
 It is difficult to clean a river if you are in the river mouth

U.S. Government cooking numbers

U.S. Government cooking numbers:

 The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domestic product fell at a 2.9 percent annual rate, the economy's worst performance in five years, instead of the 1.0 percent pace it had reported last month.

How many people vote in the United States?

How many people vote in the United States?

57.5 percent of registered voters (197,828,022)  in the U.S. showed up during the 2012 presidential election.

Voting-Age Population:239,405,657
Voter Registration:197,828,022
Voter Turnout:126,000,000
Turnout of Voting-Age Population:57.5 % *Estimate
In 1960 the Turnout was 63.1 % and 49.1 % in 1996.

Source: Associated Press Election Research Group, George Mason University

The difference among venture capital, private equity and mutual funds .

The difference among venture capital, private equity and mutual funds .

In 2013, venture capital firms raised $16.9 billion according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters.
The private equity industry raised $216.56 billion in the same time period according to DJX LP Source.
In May, conventional mutual funds had net inflows of $30 billion in capital.
 In the first quarter of 2014, venture funds raised about $8.9 billion in new capital, or double the amount of the same quarter last year.

What does government teach people?

What does government teach people?

Government teaches people don't choose because you will choose wrong, let government to choose for you.

The new economy created by the entitlements.

The new economy created by the entitlements.

The Asset-Rich, Income-Poor Economy

In whom people trust

In whom people trust


Military 69%
High-technology industry 53%
President Obama 41%
The federal government 16%.
Internal Revenue Service  15%
Financial and health insurance industries 13%

Association between incompetence and convenience

Association between incompetence and convenience

 The Internal Revenue Service says it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner.

How to be aggressive and ambitious.

How to be aggressive and ambitious.

 Being undisciplined, rigid, volatil and extreme risk-taking.

Government reduction by attrition.

 Government reduction by attrition.

About 45% of the federal workforce was more than 50 years old in 2013, and by September 2016, nearly a quarter of all federal employees will be eligible to retire, according to the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human-resources department.

The relationship between the FBI and the IRS.

The relationship between the FBI and the IRS.
According to the Justice Department in October of 2010, apparently without a court order, the IRS sent 21 computer disks containing 1.1 million pages of tax-return documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Why Young People Can't Find Work?

Because old people have entitlements

What to do in front of two inviolable principles that are in direct contradiction?

What to do in front of two inviolable principles that are in direct contradiction?

Make the tough choice that is located always in a third way.

How to create a product or service that identifies the necessary job skills to predict success?

How to create a product or service that identifies the necessary job skills to predict success?

Creating an education system that doesn't prepare workers to be successful on the job but creating an education system that prepares workers to be successful being self-employed.