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My 20 minutes of Zen

The stock market doesn't like Obama's performance, and Joe Nocera talks about AIG's scam.

The part where he calls Maria Bartiromo as someone who makes nice to CEOs aka a word that rhymes with "bore"....touche!!!

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Will China be strengthened by adversity? * Robert Peston * 2 Mar 09, 08:20 AM What's been most disturbing has been the precipitous fall in China's overseas trade over the past few months (there was a 17.5% year-on-year fall in exports in January). You and other in-pee-rear Western experts don't und...

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Bade Saar/ Bose Saar, I'm not jumping up and down or laying the blame on someone. I understand Ben Graham's statement as "you cannot precisely forecast anything" and if one claims to do so then he/she is speculating. If all the gleat pizzicists on Wall St. remembered the Heisenberg uncerta...

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A quote from " The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham In 44 years of Wall Street experience and study, I have never seen dependable calculations made about common-stock values, or related investment policies, that went beyond simple arithmetic or the most elementary algebra. Whenever...

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for those in us academia. how does a typical grad CSE/EE student spend his summer after a couple of semesters of MS? is it the norm to do internship somewhere or to just work for the professor(s) and get paid during the summer break?how long is the summer break? how difficult is it these days to ge...

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IMVHO all the fab projects except that of Moser Baer are a huge fraud to rip-off the government subsidies. After the UPA government announced the India semiconductor policy or something like that there were a million companies including the "greatest wealth creator" that mushroomed overnig...

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2.Such a crowned terrible case only happens during week-long vacation of CHinese new year , when half of 1.3 trllion Chinese are on the train,buses ,ships and planes,because during the week of CHinese new year, All chinese should return back to their families,however far they are away from families...

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well, In the past several decades ,CHinese domestic consumption has kept growing 10+% every year while it export has kept growthing 20+%. So,in fact ,it is not that " CHinese domestic comsuption performs too poorly" ,but that "China's export performs too well". Thanks for your g...

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Getting back to business Chinese Exporters Look to Sell in the Home Market Over the past three decades hundreds of thousands of small factories making everything from rivets to refrigerators have popped up across China. While competition was always cutthroat, many of these companies—both domestic an...

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Suraj, can you please clean up this thread and move some posts like RayC's to the "Let Us Understand the Chinese" thread. Very interesting posts IMO. Thanks.

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FWIW, a PhD at the least trains one to set up intelligent experiments. You gain a lot of classroom and practical knowledge up to the MS level. But applying this knowledge to solve problems (we are not talking fundamental scientific discovery but even applied science or basic R&D) requires a lot ...

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Dude, I never posted on BW, these chaptay chootiyas got it wrong, fyi I dont post under 'Nayak' alias. There is a uddin added to my alias. Most of the cheeni posters here suffer from extreme case of bamboo poisoning as the Chicom party forgot to remove the shoot from their poop-chute. I know a jing...

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I am glad BR is famous among Chinese folks (wrdos, gudwolf) but please show facts and figures while you argue. Back your arguments with links/proof. It's like aiming darts in the dark. I request the Mods to discipline the janta. I've been noticing recently, whenever there is an article comparing In...

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Need advice fron the people here!!!! I am planning to buy the RE Machismo 350...kinda like the bike. Could someone tell me answers to the following three things How good( read fun) is it to maintain compared to the Std (cast iron engine) 350. What is the kind of mileage i could expect (35-40???) an...

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And now a musical perspective of the global economic meltdown :rotfl: Economic downturn gets a soundtrack Johannes Kreidler generated the unusual melodies by closely following global shares and stock market indexes. He then fed the data from indices such as the Nikkei through the Microsoft Music pro...

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Experts blame this disorder on the herd mentality of employees in IT hubs like Hyderabad. Preeti Sethi, a lifestyle therapist says, “The problem with jobs in IT firms is that people from different economic backgrounds work together. If you take any group of people who spend extravagantly on eating ...

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@ vina --> Not trying to be rhetorical. I'm just curious about how you are so sure about the ethics of Infosys and Wipro. They are little more than body shoppers themselves, aren't they? Sometimes , when you don't know something, it is better to listen. Obviously, you have no first hand experience ...

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@ vina --> Not trying to be rhetorical. I'm just curious about how you are so sure about the ethics of Infosys and Wipro. They are little more than body shoppers themselves, aren't they? Andhra is not the only state to have non-ethical businesses. A certain liquor baron from KA was known to be the f...

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Wasn't Infosys part of the "land mafia" that wanted a gazillion acres of land all over KA? I'll trust TCS as part of the TATA group. But IMO Infosys is just another bunch of crooks. Any time a company is praised too much by themselves then it's a sign that there is something fishy. JM2P.

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U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China

The title says it all! And The Messiah said "Let there be money!" and he heard "The Chinese aren't buying T-Bills anymore" Maybe they will invest in the Indian rupee

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Priming the Economy Will Obama's stimulus plan really work? We should resist the temptation to see the forthcoming "economic stimulus" package as a panacea. It won't be. At best, it would represent traditional "pump priming." This familiar metaphor is worth pondering. To get the...

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The argument made by "karthiksan" was simple (no need to look at multiple dimensions here) - he claimed govt schools in India are much better standard than their counterparts in US (and any more funding of education using tax-payer money in US was waste according to him). When asked for p...

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markos --> Roughly 90% of my relatives live in a small town in TN. About 70% of their kids go to the local government school and IMO they are as good as anybody else. They don't speak English very well because their medium of instruction is Tamil. Other people send their kids to private school only ...

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Okay, now your examples are from an india 30-50 years ago. I am talking about the current situation (as of six months back when I visited India). When I told my relatives that my kids were going to a public/govt school in US, they looked at me in disbelief because according to them no responsible p...

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Most of the kids go to state govt schools. As far as I know, there may be a handful of so-called "kendriya vidyalayas "usually associated with central govt institutions like army, navy etc. Usually the kids of govt servants working in those institutions go into those schools. So profile o...

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This is one of the most foolish arguments that I have ever heard. Just because the banks were bailed out doesn't mean that they are going to keep you employed (as a matter of fact, bailed out banks are announcing staff cuts). The reason for banks were bailed out to free up the frozen credit lines w...

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Instead of reasoned arguments, we get more anecdotes and stereotypes from Karthiksan. I am not surprised. I apologize for that comment. It was meant to be a metaphor for all the mistakes people did but it came off wrong. I understand that sub-prime loans were made to people with less than average e...

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So when these same (failing) corporations were given trillions of tax-payer money, wasn't that "typical commie attitude" ? Wasn't US "Socialist states" when they effectively bailed out idiotic corporations with trillions of tax-payer money ?(largest recepient of tax-payer bailou...

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* modernize classrooms, labs and libraries; --> I don't know what else their classrooms need except for students! what they need is social engineering to make the students as dedicated and hard working _on average_ as the yindu, yahudi, korean, taiwanese, japanese, chinese. . typical racist stereot...

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Americans voted for Obama overwhelmingly, becuase they agreed with his policies. Most of them care little if taxes go up on crooked corporations (which seems to be your core concern in this post). At this stage average american would rather see the tax money going to help his laid-off neighbor than...

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John Snow wrote:If some one wants V6 3.0 liter or monstorus V8 with 4.5 liter thats a fine Lorry (aka Truck) in India.

Most of the pick-up trucks that are used in Massaland will be most effectively used as a "Tempo" in India

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Obama sketches out recovery plan President-elect says he wants to double renewable energy production, rebuild roads and schools and cut taxes. Next step: Consulting with Congress. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday offered the most detailed statement yet of his econ...

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Vipul wrote:Is war a solution to global recession?

The only problem is we don't have our ole friends Adolf, Benito and His Royal Highness of Japan to fight against. Heck we don't even have the Axis of Evil anymore. It is just Lil Kim and the guy with the funny name from Eye-Ran

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The Worst Predictions About 2008 Here are some of the worst predictions that were made about 2008. Savor them—a crop like this doesn't come along every year. 1. "A very powerful and durable rally is in the works. But it may need another couple of days to lift off. Hold the fort and keep the fa...

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China makes yuan an international currency The government wants to implement some aspects of this dream in a limited fashion. It has allowed businesses in certain regions of China to make payment settlements in Yuan instead of using a reference currency like the US dollar, with countries like Singa...

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Karthik, Nano will definitely not be introduced in Europe, US immediately and my comment was more of being introduced at home given the world-wide credit crunch and the reception it would get....I am not sure about your USD1000 statement though, sell your current car and apart from buying you a 100...

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^^^ I agree with the target market and no financing. But the problem is psychological. Indians are not careless spenders even in good times. Now with the talk of the world economy tanking and potential layoffs, pay cuts etc in India they will just hoard their money under the mattress and wait it out...

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:mrgreen: It would be one helluva time to introduce the Nano... I should respectfully disagree with you. All the patriotism and jingoism apart, the Nano is still a very basic auto for a mature market like the US or Europe. It might be great for people who upgrade from a two wheeler but for others i...

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Sorry for not responding earlier. Been occupied with work. ssmitra and vera_k...thank you very much for the response. I have nothing against AID or any other NGO personally. But these organizations consider the A Roy types as their role models and will repeat their worthless uttering like our DDM. J...

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A good read on the corruption and stupidity of Wall St. Too long to post an excerpt. So I'll just post the link

The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

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