Why the U.S is becoming a complicated place?

Why the U.S is becoming a complicated place?

Because everybody demands things from government that it can’t provide, and politicians are not honest about that.

How to solve human problems?

How to solve human problems?

Being willing to pay the price of the solutions.

How to predict the future?

How to predict the future?

Agreeing about the past.

Why you cannot look at the data objectively?

Why you cannot  look at the data objectively?

Because answers to empirical questions are predicted by moral answers .

What is the usual legislation that the Senate, the House and the President come together to pass?

What is the usual legislation that the Senate, the House and  the President come together to pass?

Grant Approvals

What is political correct?

What is political correct?

Everybody thinking in the same way.

How to make existing problems significantly worse?

How to make existing problems significantly worse?

Thinking on easy solutions.

Who is not a good leader?

Who is not a good leader?

Someone who is always trying to demonstrate that he is the smartest guy in the room.

Why did you receive the answer with an abstracted interest?

Why did you receive the answer with an abstracted interest?

Because they didn't understand your question.

How to tax the robots in order to avoid Social Security bankruptcy?

How to tax the robots in order to avoid Social Security bankruptcy?

Using deep learning (a branch of machine learning)  to fill in the Form 941 .

Why monetary stimulus no longer gives the economy a boost?

Why monetary stimulus no longer gives the economy a boost?

Because there is no window between short term liabilities and long term assets.

How much money Americans spend on bread?

How much money Americans spend on bread?

U.S. consumption of wheat products-such as breads, pastas, and pizza was 132.5 pounds per person for 2011.

Average Retail Price of Wheat is :$0.525

Total cost of U.S. consumption of wheat = 132.5x:$0.525x320=
22,260 millions.

 Drug users in the United States spend on the order of $100 billion annually on all four drugs [cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine (meth)] in 2010 dollars, according The RAND Corporation.

Why the U.S. yield curve is distorted?

Why the U.S. yield curve is distorted?

Because of negative interest rates abroad

Who are the most advanced soldiers?

Who are the most advanced soldiers?
Young hackers

What is the government agency that controls the fate of more people in the U.S.?

What is the government agency that controls the fate of more people in the U.S.?

The Food and Drug Administration.

How to be unable to make choices?

How to be unable to make choices?

Delaying decisions.

Why population that deals professionally in public policy cannot change their minds?

Why population that deals professionally in public policy cannot change their minds?

Because people with high IQs are usually prone to use their intellectual powers to convince themselves of something despite the evidence.

What is reality?

What is reality?


The result of the words we use to describe it.

Why do modern conflicts are more complex?

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Why do modern conflicts are more complex?

Because modern parameters change radically by the day.

How to make your mistakes bigger?

How to make your mistakes bigger?

Being surrounded by experts.

What does give a sense of security in a complex world?

What does give a sense of security in a complex world?
 
Control someone

How to trust politicians?

How to trust politicians?

With less predatory governments.

How to learn lessons very well?

How to learn lessons very well?

Confronting  the possibility of being under attacks on a regular basis.

What is the new politically correct definition of terrorism?

What is the new politically correct definition of terrorism?

Another theory on everyone's mind.

(Attributed to the French President)

Why is especially intense the rivalry between activist and the establishment?

Why is especially  intense the rivalry between activist and the establishment?

 

Because the new order doesn't accept outsiders.

Where currencies go?

Where currencies go?

 

Where the FED wants.

Why is Washington intractable?

Why is Washington intractable?

Because there is no a sense of grater purpose for its residents.

How many people live in the Islamic State territories?

How many people live in the Islamic State territories?

Six and a half million residents.

What is causing distress ?

What is causing distress ?

Uncertainty and complexity.

Why do small concessions generally lead to greater concessions?

Why do small concessions generally lead to greater concessions?

Because the receptor of the small concession knows that nothing is so morally flexible as a concession giver desperate to avoid tough choices.

How much money the average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns?

How much money the average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns?

 The average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns 77% of the income of the average citizen, up from 69% in 2008.

How to make a problem appear to be smaller than it really is?

How to make a problem appear to be smaller than it really is?

Rotating it.

How the U.S. is redistributing income within the family?

How the U.S. is redistributing income within the family?

 Shielding perks for well-off pensioners while reducing payments for those of working age.

What does it always suggest the least imperfect solution in human affairs?

What does it always suggest the least imperfect solution in human affairs?

History.

How to live on probability instead of certainty?

How to live on probability instead of certainty?

Making choices with no fear.

Why do large swaths of the populations in America and Europe feel alienated from their institutions or government?

Why do large swaths of the populations in America and Europe feel alienated from their institutions or government?

Because they are increasingly less dependent on elites for information, access, guidance, or platforms.

Why you will not be able to repair this?

Why you will not be able to repair this?

Because you have no idea why it is shattering.

What do you learn in America?

What do you learn in America?

Fighting like a hell over just about everything.

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.