How to collide with reality?

How to collide with reality?

Trying to get everything you want.

How to understand the trade offs in life?

How to understand the trade offs in life?

Being lost without a map.

Why there is no supply and demand?

Why there is no supply and demand?

Because yields on long-term debt do not exist.

When uncertainty shows up?

When uncertainty shows up?

When there is no confidence in the probabilities used to make decisions.

How to learn systematically?

How to learn systematically?

Planning and building on ground that may open beneath you.

What reduces inequality?

What reduces inequality?

Catastrophic events.

Why is the GDP flat and the stock market hits record high?

Why is the GDP flat and the stock market hits record high?

Because technology and the system have destroyed supply and demand.

Why is no longer an important issue dealing with deficits?

Why is no longer an important issue dealing with deficits?

Because everybody in the financial industry needs to own government bonds for regulatory reasons.

How to develop you own identity and culture?

How to develop you own identity and culture?

Solving social problems beyond the scope of the state.

Who wants to be open to the world?

Who wants to be open to the world?

The one who gets the change signals first.

What percentage of the electricity generated in America is used to power air-conditioning systems that cool homes and offices?

What percentage of the electricity generated in America is used to power air-conditioning systems that cool homes and offices?

6%

What is making the rich richer?

What is making the rich richer?

Technology

What people want most?

What people want most?

What everyone else wants.

Why it is harder than ever for brains to break through?

Why it is harder than ever for brains to break through?

Because technology has entrenched an oligarchy.

Why the cost of living varies so much from city to city in the U.S.?

Why the cost of living varies so much from city to city in the U.S.?

The cost of living varies so much from city to city in the U.S. to control mobility.

Why the housing supply is regulated in the U.S.?

Why the housing supply is regulated in the U.S.?

The housing supply is regulated in the U.S.  to avoid houses to become a consumer good like a car or an electronic gadget.

How to be absolutely necessary?

How to be absolutely necessary?

Being always part of the solutions instead of being part of the problems.

Who owns half of the cash Americans firms hold abroad?

Who owns half of the cash Americans firms hold abroad?

Microsoft and Google.

How to get something?

How to get something?

Working towards it for decades.

How to be more judicious than anyone?

How  to be more judicious than anyone?

Having skin in the game more than anyone.

What is the first priority?

What is the first priority?

The first priority is to figure out what would be required to do what we want to do , followed by whether we can carry out the mission.

How to run a succesfull experiment?

How to run a succesfull experiment?

First, take two or three risky strategies.

Next expose them to a series of shocks.

Then wait several years to see which strategy survives.

Why does the banker get the bailout and the merchant goes bankrupt?

Why does the banker get the bailout and the merchant goes bankrupt?

Because systemic risk is not a justice-based possiblitity and the amount of debt determines on who the sky will fall (the bigger the debt the less chance to fall).

Why we are in an unknown environment?

Why we are in an unknown environment?

Because the whole society has turned into a "perfect" system

in hands of an alien power that has nothing to do with you.

What is the best way of wasting your time?

What is the best way of  wasting your time?

Doing things everybody does.

Why economic growth doesn’t raise living standards in the U.S.?

Why economic growth doesn’t raise living standards in the U.S.?


Because higher inequality is the dynamic of the American system and the middle and working classes are no longer the driver of growth in the United States.

Why there is no price inflation in the U.S.?

Why there is no price inflation in the U.S.?

Because new created fiat money stops in the first receivers, financial institutions, and the CPI (consumer price index) doesn’t reflect the prices of goods and service sold by the first receivers.

How to be the world’s most prosperous economy?

How to be the world’s most prosperous economy?

Allowing the interest rate to find their own market level.

How to stimulate demand in the U.S.?

How to stimulate demand in the U.S.?

Unregulating the financial sector.

How to misallocate capital resources?

How to misallocate capital resources ?

Suppressing interest rates.

What is the distance between where we are and where we are going?

What is the distance between where we are and where we are going?

Zero miles.

Who have the greatest ability to improve value?

Who have the greatest ability to improve value?

Owners.

How to be well above average?

How to be well above average?

Understanding incentives.

Who are the most powerful people in Washington?

Who are the most powerful people in Washington?

Un-elected people running so-called independent agencies created by unconstitutional laws.

Why public opinion is disconnected from public policy?

Why public opinion is disconnected from public policy?

Because population is marginalized.

What is the ideal solution for violence?

What is the ideal solution for violence?

Raising boys by their mother and their father.

How to build a perfect and free society?

How to build a perfect and free society?

Learning patterns of virtuous behavior.

How confidence in the system can be restored?

How confidence in the system can be restored?

Issuing new shares, shoring up the strength of the society at the expense of existing taxpayers . 

Who is always behind a bipartisan consensus in the Senate and in the House?

Who is always behind a bipartisan consensus in the Senate and in the House?

The trial bar.

What is the real law of the land in the U.S.?

What is the real law of the land in the U.S.?


Rules promulgated by never elected officials that people cannot remove from office. 

What is the difference between a rock and a hard place?

What is the difference between a rock and a hard place?


Something that it is of concern.

When are you invincible?

When  are you  invincible?

When you can learn faster without being  infatuated with your  own virtue.

What U.S. government agency is the fastest and strongest builder of monopolies?

What U.S. government agency is the fastest and strongest builder of monopolies?

The Federal Reserve.

How to make people ready to be influenced?

How to make people ready to be influenced?

Telling them the right thing immediately before you want them to believe you.

Why nominal GDP growth must be cut in half?

Why nominal GDP growth must be cut in half?

Because inventory-to-sales ratios across a variety of industries—manufacturing, machinery, autos, wholesale—are at the highest level since 2009. 

How to know if the problem is getting worse?

How to know if the problem is getting worse?

When projections are built on a foundation of wishful thinking.

Which are the emptiest words used by politicians and bureaucrats in the U.S.?

Which are the emptiest words used by politicians and bureaucrats in the U.S.?

Improving public infrastructure, better education, more encouragement for private investment, and more-effective regulation.

What is the goal of the Federal Reserve?

What is the goal of the Federal Reserve?

Manipulate financial markets.

Why Congress can’t even get the things done that they agree on?

Why Congress can’t even get the things done that they agree on?

Because they usually disagree which political points are going to get scored and by whom?

How to help yourself?

How to help yourself?

Asking regularly “What did I do wrong?”