2009年3月31日星期二
When you are completely befuddled byphenomena that seem completely natural to most people, then you areprobably ready for your Ph.D
你问问科学家
因为,那个时候,据说就是共产主义了。
这难道不是一种幸运?
price discrimination?
2009年3月30日星期一
官
美国高中生怎样叩开大学门 申请和成绩必不可少
一、美国大学看SAT成绩和高中4年成绩,高中四年成绩是最容易作假的,特别是有关系的人的孩子
big3
p-p-p
一、银行自己的hedge funds去竞购toxic asset,那么这些资本肯定会被抬到很高的价格
一个逆市场行为的政策导致的战争,以及可能的国家分裂,社会动荡……
美国民主的残缺
2009年3月29日星期日
China’s Single Layer
2009年3月28日星期六
盈利模式or公共品
cap-and-trade program or tax
While Mr. Leonard says -- repeatedly -- that Entergy has nothing against solar or wind, "Our view is that government shouldn't be in the business of picking technologies. . . . And we're moving down a path where we're mandating renewables instead of a price signal to do it. We're . . . moving toward a planned economy by mandating a technology. Well, if we're a planned economy, if we're mandating technologies, then we don't have a whole plan."
排放权的原始发放需要收费吗?
当然,因为美国正需要这钱呢。但是如果不收费,效果会是一样的。
Filling in the Tax Gap
A few years later, however, with Congress clamoring for more tax revenue, Szilagyi's idea was dug up, rushed forward and put into law for tax year 1986. When the returns started coming in the following April, Szilagyi recalls, he and his bosses were shocked: seven million dependents had suddenly vanished from the tax rolls, some incalculable combination of real pets and phantom children. Szilagyi's clever twist generated nearly $3 billion in revenues in a single year.
Szilagyi's immediate bosses felt he should get some kind of reward for his idea, but their superiors weren't convinced. So Szilagyi called his congressman, whogot the reward process back on track. Finally, five years after his brainstorm became the law, Szilagyi, who earned about $80,000 annually at the time, was given a check for $25,000. By this point, his idea had generated roughly $14 billion.
Which suggests at least one legitimate reason to dislike the I.R.S.: if the agency hadn't been so stingy with Szilagyi's reward back then, it probably would have attracted a lot more of the anti-cheating wizards it really needs today.
Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt are the authors of ''Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.'' More information on the research behind this column is at www.freakonomics.com.
换种想法
银行把钱运输到最有效率的人了吗?
比如,现在大四下的同学打牌,你认为有机会成本吗?如果你去干别的事情,当然有。但是,如果你不去干别的事情,只是在那发呆,机会成本是什么呢?
这是人的强求吗?
2009年3月27日星期五
the coming lost decades
一、中国媒体和学者几乎没有公开说这个事情的
Europe, Aided by Safety Nets, Resists U.S. Stimulus Push
Indeed, to travel between the United States and Germany is to find two countries experiencing the economic slowdown completely differently. The severity of the downturn does not appear to have sunk in yet in for Germans. There was no real estate bubble here, and few people have a substantial portion of their savings or retirement accounts invested in the stock market. The unemployment rate has risen more than a percentage point, to 8.5 percent in February from 7.1 percent last November. But, significantly, the latest figure is still lower than it was just a year ago.
“In contrast to America, our social systems are not on the decline right now,” Mrs. Merkel said Sunday night in a widely watched interview on a television talk show. “Pensions are not cut, unemployment insurance is not reduced. On the contrary, we can register stable and, in some sectors, also rising expenditures, and this makes me hope that our social market economy will enable us to cope with this complicated situation.”
But rather than resorting to layoffs, Mr. Koppe asked half his employees to come in every other week. The government would make up roughly two-thirds of their lost wages out of a fund filled in good times through payroll deductions and company contributions.
The program — known as “Kurzarbeit,” which translates as“short work” — and others like it lie at the heart of a heated debate that has erupted on the eve of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of industrialized and developing nations and the European Union, creating a rift between the Obama administration and European governments.
2009年3月26日星期四
Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers
According to RealAge, more than 27million people have taken the test,which asks 150 or so questions aboutlifestyle and family history to assign a “biological age,” how young or oldyour habits make you. Then, RealAge makes recommendations on how to get “younger,” like takingmultivitamins, eating breakfast and flossing your teeth. Nine million of those people have signed up to become RealAge members.
But while RealAge promotes better living through nonmedical solutions, the site makes its money by selling better living through drugs.
Pharmaceutical companies pay RealAge to compile test results of RealAge members and send them marketing messages by e-mail. The drug companies can even use RealAge answers to find people who show symptoms of a disease — and begin sending them messages about it even before the people have received a diagnosis from their doctors.
这会让药品和医疗服务的消费者变得更加英明一点,不会被医生推着走。而我说的一个wikidoctor就是基于使人更英明的。
官
重庆大学100余学生疑饮不洁纯净水腹泻
一、清清牌桶装水还会有人会使用,因为人的特性
G20峰会在即 中俄欧盟发声挑战美元独霸地位
我犯错误了
2009年3月25日星期三
注册会计师考试制度改革的主要内容
(一)将注册会计师考试划分为两个阶段
第一阶段,即专业阶段,主要测试考生是否具备注册会计师执业所需的专业知识,是否掌握基本技能和职业道德要求。
第二阶段,即综合阶段,主要测试考生是否具备在注册会计师执业环境中运用专业知识,保持职业价值观、职业态度与职业道德,有效解决实务问题的能力。
考生在通过第一阶段的全部考试科目后,才能参加第二阶段的考试。两个阶段的考试,每年各举行1次。
基于第二阶段的考试侧重于考查考生的胜任能力,建议考生在参加第二阶段考试前注意积累必要的实务经验。
(二)调整考试科目
在现行考试制度5个科目的基础上,进行分拆、补充和整合,对考试科目作以下调整:
第一阶段,设会计、审计、财务成本管理、公司战略与风险管理、经济法、税法等6科。
第二阶段,设综合1科。
第一阶段和第二阶段各科目均不设英文附加题。
(三)调整成绩有效期
第一阶段的单科合格成绩5年有效。对在连续5年内取得第一阶段6个科目合格成绩的考生,发放专业阶段合格证。
第二阶段考试科目应在取得专业阶段合格证后5年内完成。对取得第二阶段考试合格成绩的考生,发放全科合格证。
新的考试制度与现行考试制度的衔接
新的考试制度于2009年开始实施。现行考试制度在2009年仍继续实施一年。
2009年,具有现行考试制度下有效期内任一考试科目合格成绩的考生,可以选择按新的考试制度或现行考试制度报名参加考试。
按新的考试制度报名参加考试的,其至2009年尚在有效期内的单科合格成绩转换为新的考试制度下有关科目的合格成绩。
按现行考试制度报名参加考试,取得全部5个科目合格成绩的,发放全科合格证;未取得全部5个科目合格成绩的,其至2010年尚在有效期内的单科合格成绩转换为新的考试制度下有关科目的合格成绩。
单科合格成绩的转换方式是,现行考试制度下单科合格成绩自动转换为新的考试制度下同名科目的合格成绩。其中,现行考试制度下财务成本管理科目的合格成绩,转换为新的考试制度下的财务成本管理和公司战略与风险管理2个科目的合格成绩。新的考试制度下,以转换方式取得的单科合格成绩有效期限统一至2013年。
其他考生从2009年起均按新的考试制度报名参加考试。
China Takes Aim at Dollar
借钱不还
2009年3月24日星期二
Nafta’s Promise, Unfulfilled
Treasury Chief Is Expected to Ask Congress for New Powers
再谈经济危机
当用Google搜不到自己想要的时候,
中税协组建9个专门委员会促行业发展
煤的开采
另一种地下采煤方法,是长壁开采法,占了百分之二十左右的生产。这种方法使用横跨400至600英尺的煤层(长壁)的切割机。这台机器上有一个旋转缸钨钻头切下煤,而后煤炭送入输送系统,再由其带出来的矿井。屋顶由大型钢铁支持,附于机器。由于机器向前推动,屋顶支撑也前进。近80 %的煤炭开采可使用这种方法。
其余百分之十一的地下生产,是由传统的采矿用的炸药法,爆破后煤炭被移除。
一、如果是直接税
满清入关屠杀了多少人及清军的性暴行考证
我已看不到记者存在的任何价值了
事故发生后,涪陵区委、区政府高度重视,立即启动应急预案,组织公安、消防、卫生等部门全力实施现场救援。接报后,市委、市政府主要领导分别作出重要指示,要求全力组织抢救伤员,妥善处理善后事宜,并举一反三,做好安全生产隐患排查工作。
副市长刘学普迅速率市有关部门负责人赶赴现场指挥抢险救援工作,当即成立事故现场指挥部,要求相关部门全力救治伤员,妥善处置事故现场,严防次生事故发生,认真做好善后工作,确保当地社会稳定。并要求各地各部门深刻吸取此次事故教训,针对薄弱环节和安全隐患采取有力措施,防患于未然。
目前,伤员已得到妥善救治,群众情绪稳定,善后工作有条不紊进行,事故原因正在调查之中。
在一个敢怒而不敢言的社会里,呻吟只是弱者在舔舐自己的伤口。
2009年3月23日星期一
汶川地震捐款尚有236亿元未拨付使用
央行拟在外汇市场建中央清算所
The U.S. remains the top buyer of Venezuelan oil despite long-standing political tensions.
My Plan for Bad Bank Assets
The private sector will set prices. Taxpayers will share in any upside.
By TIMOTHY GEITHNER wsj
U.S. Rounding Up Investors to Buy Bad Assets
Stimulus Dilemma for China
Spending on Public Works Risks Making Production Glut Worse
难为市场经济
the reform of education in us
A better way to fix the banks
Here’s a plan that could solve the toxic-asset pricing problem voluntarily—without requiring Uncle Sam to nationalize the whole industry—and make (pretty much) everyone a winner.
市场前后
2009年3月22日星期日
Now Is No Time to Give Up on Markets
一、经济可能复苏
一、经济肯定会复苏,时间长短未知
put lend interet under zero!how dare you say that!
西方学者应该接受的另一个学说
搜索论文就两步
russia's rule of lawlessness
一、公民的法律意识,这需要一代的教育
Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa
Money from rich countries has trapped many African nations in a cycle of corruption, slower economic growth and poverty. Cutting off the flow would be far more beneficial, says Dambisa Moyo.
2009年3月21日星期六
David Brooks、Paul Krugman、Greg Mankiw都说奥巴马做得不好,但是借口不一样!
2009年3月20日星期五
塔利班和游击队
House Passes Heavy Tax on Bonuses at Rescued Firms
2009年3月19日星期四
Would an AIG-Bonus Tax Pass Constitutional Muster? (A Tribe Calls ‘Yes!’)
It’s the puzzle of the week down in Washington: how to get the money back from the AIG bonus-recipients. As we’ve written before, the Obama administration seems inclined not to play legal hardball for a variety of reasons, one of which seems to be that it could wind up on the hook for more than it would stand to recover.
The most current proposal: tax the bejeezus out of the recipients. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional Democrats have proposed a 91 percent tax. There are problems with this, too. The NYT writes that some of the AIG employees are thought to be foreigners based in offices abroad and not liable for U.S. taxes.
But could such a tax also run into Constitutional problems? Some pundits (for example, here and here) have suggested yes. The most commonly mentioned difficulties include the prohibitions on so-called Bills of Attainder and retroactive laws (laws passed Ex Post Facto) mentioned in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution. Other possible problems brought to our attention deal with the Contract Clause of the Article I, Section 10; the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment; and the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
For a little help with this, we turned to Harvard’s Laurence Tribe, he of the canonized treatise “American Constitutional Law.” In an email exchange, we asked Tribe to address each of the five possible constitutional problems and he determined none of them likely poses a problem.
Bill of Attainder: Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibits Congress from passing Bills of Attainder, laws that punish a single person or specific group of people without affording them a trial. Would a law that targeted AIG executives violate the prohibition on Bills of Attainder?
Responded Tribe:
I do think Congress (and the Executive Branch) could avoid serious Bill of Attainder problems by passing a sufficiently broad law … rather than targeting a closed class of named executives even though the prohibition against Bills of Attainder, unlike that against Ex Post Facto laws, potentially reaches civil as well as criminal penalties.
Ex Post Facto: Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution also, generally speaking, prohibits Congress from passing laws that apply retroactively. Would a law that imposed a tax on past-gotten earnings violate the Ex Post Facto Clause?
Responded Tribe:
The Ex Post Facto Clause applies exclusively to criminal punishment and poses no difficulty here. And the fact that the measure contemplated would operate retroactively as well as prospectively doesn’t distinguish it from any number of tax and other financial measures that the Supreme Court has upheld over the claim that fundamental fairness precludes retroactively undoing contractual obligations.
The Contract Clause: Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution states: “No state shall . . . pass any Law . . . impairing the Obligation of Contracts.” Now, what about this? With the passage of the law, wouldn’t the government effectively be impairing contracts made between AIG and its executives?
Tribe had a quick dispatch for the ol’ Contract Clause:
The Contract Impairment Clause applies exclusively to state legislation and has no federal counterpart that would pose any difficulty in this setting.
The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment: The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment states: “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
On the issue of procedural due process — generally speaking, on whether a person is given adequate access to the legal system and its procedures — Tribe said this also isn’t a problem.
There’s no suggestion that people would be targeted for payback obligations without notice and a fair opportunity to be heard on questions such as mistaken identity, so procedural due process would be satisfied.
On the issue of substantive due process — that is, whether a “liberty” has been taken away by a given act of Congress — Tribe said:
And, as to substantive due process, the only relevant requirement would be that the challenged measure be rationally calculated to achieve a legitimate government purpose, something nobody could deny in this instance.
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment: The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment states: ” . . . nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” The clause is the one that requires payment for property “taken” by the government’s eminent domain power — the power to, say, grab a piece of property to build a public road. In response to our question on whether tax on AIG executives might constitute an unconstitutional “taking,” Tribe responded:
Tax measures [generally speaking] are simply not vulnerable to challenge under the Takings Clause. . . The point of the Takings Clause is to require compensation for the fair market value of private property validly confiscated for the public’s benefit, not to prevent the exaction of a tax that Congress is within its constitutional authority to impose.
The Daily Me
When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about.
Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T. has called this emerging news product The Daily Me. And if that’s the trend, God save us from ourselves.
market myopia
Study Shows First-Time Online Donors Often Do Not Return
People who go online to donate to charity for the first time often do not return to the Internet to make later gifts, according to a newstudy examining the experience of 24 nonprofit groups.
The findings suggest that while the Internet can be a valuable fund-raising tool for charities, particularly in soliciting gifts after disasters like Hurricane Katrina, it is not a replacement for direct mail or other forms of fund-raising.
“Online giving is higher than offline giving, and the demographics of online givers are more attractive — better educated, higher income,” said Tobias Smith, director of online communications at CARE, which took part in the study and works on issues faced by poor women. “But how you get people to routinely give online is a nut no one has yet cracked.”
The study was done by Target Analytics, a unit of Blackbaud Inc., which provides software and services to nonprofit groups.
为什么美国没有网址导航?
2009年3月18日星期三
Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?
The basic idea of Reaganomics was that the economy grows from the top down. Lower taxes on the wealthy make them work harder and invest more, and the benefits trickle down to everyone else. Rarely in economic history has a theory been more tested in the real world and proven so wrong. In point of fact, nothing trickled down. After the Reagan tax cuts, increases in the median wage slowed, adjusted for inflation. After George W. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, the median wage actually dropped. Meanwhile, most of the income went to the top. In 1980, just before the Reagan revolution, the richest 1 percent took home 9 percent of total national income. But by 2007, the richest 1 percent was taking home 22 percent.
2009年3月17日星期二
The Commercial Republic
revolution
赤壁和试错法
诸葛亮:什么都略懂一点,生活就多彩一些。
工程经济学?
非常个案 中船重工调节利润
经过一系列审计程序之后,中国船舶重工集团公司 (下称 “中船重工”)2008年财务报告形成在即,此时,一则据称是“来自上级政府部门”的通知使得这一收尾工作被迫延后。
参与中船重工年报审计的注册会计师3月12日对本报称,中船重工突然通知先不要出审计报告,2008年的利润要调低一点。刚开始以为这是中船重工内部的决策,但随后他被告知:这是“上级”的要求,“2009年是个困难的年份,把国企2008年的利润调低一点是为2009年继续保持增长打下基础”。
这不是个案。“同行的一些其他注册会计也遇到了类似的情况。”这位注册会计师称
上述注册会计师称,国企的利润最讲究艺术,做低了不行,达不到考核的要求,做高了也不行,还要为下一年的增长留下余地。
2009年3月15日星期日
My New Twitter Flock
After I wrote about Twitter last week, I went almost overnight from feeling like no one was listening to having 1,683 followers.
My large flock of followers, or people who signed up to receive my Twitter messages, showed me that Twitter wasn't just people shouting into a virtual abyss. Actual conversations were going on. Members of my newfound audience were soon sending me messages, or tweets, constantly, letting me know they welcomed, expected and wanted my feedback. It was part of being part of a community, they said.
I realized Twitter -- the mass text-messaging service that lets you send out 140-character messages to a group of followers -- wasn't just about broadcasting. While I had held off replying to people in the past for fear my replies would be viewed as spam since they hit everyone, my new flock was telling me to start hitting reply all.
2009年3月14日星期六
The Rules Apply To Everyone
Smart Management for Tough Times
Reading the Body Language of Leadership
2009年3月13日星期五
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street
Wal-Mart Plans to Market Digital Health Records System
大家应该听过云计划,初衷是统筹运用资源,但是可以借鉴到这,农民等人不是不会装系统不会装软件吗,不是不会打字吗,完全可以通过云计划来一个规模效应。
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis
www.4trillion.com
Smart Grids for Smart Energy Marketing
2009年3月11日星期三
In Afghanistan, Less Can Be More
2009年3月10日星期二
2009年3月9日星期一
How to Twitter
2009年3月8日星期日
三条标准“丈量”居民企业 假外资难了
据本报了解,目前已经有诸多外企争相寻找会计师事务所或者律师事务所重新设计控股结构和收入结构,希望能够未雨绸缪,避免成为中国居民企业。
另有业内人士指出《办法》认定居民企业的条款过于苛刻,不具有实际操作性,在实际认定中容易造成理解上的分歧,甚至摩擦。例如,《办法》中对于企业的50%以上的经营收入来源于中国境内的说法过于模糊,税收机关很容易做出一个宽泛的解释,或将不利于国际贸易的正常开展。
真的很难。






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