How to make a problem bigger and unbreakable in the U.S.?

How to make a problem bigger and unbreakable in the U.S.?

Embedding the problem into the system, and the bigger the system, bigger is the problem and harder is to break it.

Why no longer the best ideas are able to rise to the top?

Why no longer the best ideas are able to rise to the top?

 Because tough problems never turn themselves into easy solutions.

How does the education system work in the U.S.?

How does the education system work in the U.S.?

Rising high school graduation rates, dipping students’ skills and knowledge and widening of the gap between higher and lower-ability students; according The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.

Why those in power cannot develop novel policy solutions to economic inequality?

Why those in power cannot develop novel policy solutions to economic inequality?

 Because they do not understand technology and technology doesn't run on autopilot.

What is the percentage of over-the- counter medication use in the U.S.?

What is the percentage of over-the- counter medication use in the U.S.?


38%

How to make your project knowable and understood?

How to make your project knowable and understood?

Rejecting peace as a matter of principle.

How to emerge as a champion of the dispossessed?

How to emerge as a champion of the dispossessed?

 Bringing to light frustrations, mistrust, and grievances.

How much money emotions can destroy?

How much money emotions can destroy?

$40.6 billion.

Yahoo turned down a $44.6 billion hostile bid by Microsoft in 2008.

The bids to buy Yahoo ’s operating business are today around $4 billion.

Why is equality of opportunity an utopia?

Why is equality of opportunity an utopia?

Because you don't choose your parents.

How to agree to talks to try to formally end a War?

How to agree to talks to try to formally end a War?
 
Dropping longstanding conditions.

Who can break the law in the U.S. and being rewarded?

Who can break the law in the U.S. and being rewarded?

1,146 IRS employees  who failed to  file their taxes and received $1.1 million in bonuses in 2011 and 2012 according to an inspector general's report.

What drives commodity prices?

What drives commodity prices?

Exchange rates, even at relatively high frequencies.

What is the main dysfunctionality in the modern society?

What is the main dysfunctionality in the modern society?

The need to feel loved for everybody.

How to sow division into a country?

How to sow division into a country?

 

With economic anxiety

What is the next step of the system feeding data

What is the next step of the system feeding data

Benchmarking individual ratings from other citizens.

What is the main characteristic of a psychopathy ?

What is the main characteristic of a psychopathy ?

 

The lack of empathy.

What is the poverty rate of children growing up in single-parent household?

What is the poverty rate of children growing up in single-parent household?

 26 percent.

What is the primary attention of all governments?

What is the primary attention of all governments?

Extracting resources from their subjects.

What is the biggest fool's errand?

What is the biggest fool's errand?

A forecast of the world in one year.

What members of U.S. Congress do best?

What members of U.S. Congress do best?

Easy stuff like naming post offices.

Why academics are not devoted to the truth?

Why academics are not devoted to the truth?

Because they struggle to understand arguments with which they disagree.

What is the more sophisticated way of taxation?

What is the more sophisticated way of taxation?

Extracting cash settlements.

Why the legislative process in the U.S. is unreasonable and impossible?

Why the legislative process in the U.S. is unreasonable and impossible?

Because  the only concern of members of Congress is  their own elections.

How to resolve the standoff between monetary and fiscal policy makers?

How to resolve the standoff between monetary and fiscal policy makers?

 Printing more money.

How to succeed in demonstrating that something is broken?

How to succeed  in demonstrating that something is broken?

Making the information unavoidable.

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.