Why politicians do not change their behavior?

Why politicians do not change their behavior?

Because they can’t change demographics.

How to keep something inefficient running?

How to keep something inefficient running?

 

Attacking a problem that doesn't exist.

What significantly predicts educational and occupational success for a child 8 years old 40 years later?

What significantly predicts educational and occupational success for a child 8 years old 40 years later?
Parents’ education level when the child is 8 years old.

Why do instruments of political power have been collapsing?

Why do instruments of political power have been collapsing?

 Because economic power has been consolidating.

How to go nowhere very fast?

How to go nowhere very fast?

Trying to get the slightest movement from people don't like you.

Why the education system doesn't work?

Why the education system doesn't work?
Because it teaches how to lose.

How much money makes IBM from Watson?

How much money makes IBM from Watson?

$100 million in revenue annually at most (0.12% of total revenue), according Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty.

How to define a succession?

How to define a succession?
Through recurrence.

Who are the owners of the U.S. Business?

Who are the owners of the U.S. Business?


A fifth of partnership income is earned by partners who cannot be classified into one of several categories, such as a domestic individual or a foreign corporation. In addition, some partnerships are circular, in the sense that they are owned by other partnerships, which could in turn be owned by yet other partnerships.

How to estimate uncertainty?

How to estimate uncertainty?

Mapping and assessing conflicts.

What is the most important asset of the elites in the U.S.?

What is the most important asset of the elites in the U.S.?

 A closed high social connectedness

What is violence?

What is violence?
An unconscious reaction to the complexity

What is the main culprit of institutional dislocations?

What is the main culprit of institutional dislocations?

 Globalization.

When a global enemy can survive?

When a global enemy can survive?

When its defeat is nobody’s priority.

Why the root causes are left unaddressed?

Why the root causes are left unaddressed?

 Because technology is incomprehensible by the elites.

What can establish a natural balance in exchange rates?

What can establish a natural balance in exchange rates?

 

A utopian expectation of growth on a healthy level in the major economies around the world.

What possibility is not completely implausible?

What possibility is not completely implausible?

Reasonable fear.

How to accommodate divisions of independent origin?

How to accommodate divisions of  independent origin?

Focusing on identity, rather than ideas or ideology.

Why your complication is not my problem?

Why your complication is not my problem?

Because I am the Federal Reserve.

What will be and where will be the median annual wage in the next 10 years in the U.S.?

What will be and where will be the  median annual wage in the next 10 years in the U.S.?

Of the 15 occupations with the most projected job growth, only four will ask for a bachelor’s degree; eight will require no formal education credentials and nine will offer median annual wages under $30,000.

What will not be improved by breakthrough innovations?

What will not be improved by breakthrough innovations?

The economic prospects of workers.

When are you really part of the game?

When are you really part of the game?

When you are a necessity.

Who destroyed the meritocracy?

Who destroyed the meritocracy?

The technology.

Where is there no interruption of profit flow?

Where is there no interruption of profit flow?

In the credit-rating agencies business.

How to maintain civil order?

 How to maintain civil order?

Avoiding economical, political and psychological polarization.

How to destroy a country easily?

How to destroy a country easily?

 

Sowing division.

Where would children of teachers unions members like to go?

 

Where would children of  teachers unions members like to go?

 

To the best private schools.

How to discuss a peace treaty?

How to discuss a peace treaty?

With a typified diplomacy of fruitless exchanges of proposals.

Why there is so much distance between the top and the bottom?

Why there is so much distance between the top and the bottom?

 

Because the over-class is now looking for protection. 

What is the difference between being fortunate and being better ?

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What is the difference between being fortunate and being better ?

The search for protection.

Who really runs the world?

Who really runs the world?

Unelected officials  from the Federal Reserve and federal agencies.

Who is interested in people who can't help you?

Who is interested in people who can't help you?

 

People who are there for you.

What is the most reactionary professional group in America?

What is the most reactionary professional group in America?

 

The teachers unions.

What is the difference between moving the problem and solving the problem?

What is the difference between moving the problem and solving the problem?

 

 Nastiness

How to kill ideology?

How to kill ideology?

With doses of  economic anxiety.

How to be protected from the public policy you make?

How to be protected from the public policy you make?

 

Creating a big  bureaucracy  .

Why you can't stop the upper class?

Why you can't stop the upper class?

Because brains have become radically more valuable in the marketplace

What is the underemployment rate (measuring those working a job for which they’re overqualified and underpaid) for young adults below age 30 in the U.S.?

What is the underemployment rate (measuring those working a job for which they’re overqualified and underpaid) for young adults below age 30 in the U.S.?
60%.

How to soar nowadays?

How to soar nowadays?

 

Defying logic and history.

What percentage of Americans live abroad?

What percentage of Americans live abroad?

 

2% according the IRS.

Why American exceptionalism is gone?

Why American exceptionalism is gone?

Because technology has destroyed egalitarianism

How much cost a campaign manager for a presidential bid in the U.S.?

How much cost a campaign manager for a presidential bid in the U.S.?

 

$240,000 a year

How to go to the bottom?

How to go to the bottom?
Dropping out of  the most basic institutions of American civic culture,  work and marriage.

What is the permanent political promise in the U.S.?

What is the permanent political promise in the U.S.?

 

The promise of a near-biblical restoration.

What technology is creating?

What technology is creating?
　
A new upper class , a new lower class, and nothing in between.

How to get, as a citizen of the United States, a gift beyond the wildest limits of your imagination?

How to get, as a citizen of the United States, a gift beyond the wildest limits of your imagination?

Receiving a new constitutional right to vote on the Supreme Court nominees.

Why there is no shortage of things to worry about it?

Why there is no shortage of things to worry about it?

Because technology has removed time and distance from the equation.

Why the how question never comes up anymore?

Why the how question never comes up anymore?

Because no one expects an answer.

How much oil prices have gone down?

How much oil prices have gone down?

75% in 18 months

How many top-secret-cleared private contract personnel are in the U.S.?

How many  top-secret-cleared private contract personnel are in the U.S.?

 

854,000 ,  a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government.