I wonder if this is in store for America...

Earlier on Facebook I mentioned a short MicroEcon essay I wrote ten years ago regarding an increase in Money Supply and relative asset prices, and then saw this from, "The Economist," on Japan:


http://www.economist.com/node/16591237?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/strengthamidparalysis


In my short essay, Japan's economy in the 1990's was the relative model I used as an example for this article regarding money supply:


http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/07/asset_markets_floating_exchange_rates_fiat_money_and_econmy


Although as mentioned in the second article, "coincidence does not prove causality," if Japan's problem is looked at through this twofold lens, it's easy to find a correlation to America's economy: Japan is an aging and decreasing population that is geared too heavily towards "self-interest." This "self-interest" results in a society where it's members primarily make "self-worth" investments and consumption choices that leads to a xenophobic mentality to only accept "like minded" individuals. If Japan had invested a greater portion of it's collective wealth over ten years in the education and assimilation of immigrants to become productive members of it's society, well...it might actually be experiencing growth than a contracting economy...who's to say how many more smart and driven 20, 30 and 40 year olds would be entering into Japan's ranks.


I always had a hard time understanding why other human beings don't understand that if you only "let in" smart, productive people, over time a population and it's productivity will diminish. However, if you welcome and establish an individual from a lower level in a different society and raise that level within your own society (primarily through education...all workers should have an understanding of how the society in which they live works), that person becomes more productive to BOTH societies, and literally a "high power" comes into play in the mathematics of it all, especially if that person has children who also become productive members of society.


As a closing note...remember who helped rebuild Japan after World War II. My grandfather was stationed there during the Allied Occupation...wanna ask him?

Study: Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock - CNN.com

Now isn't that ironic... Study: Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock - CNN.com

Inkjet-like device ‘prints’ cells on burns victims - Health care- msnbc.com

Inkjet-like device ‘prints’ cells on burns victims - Health care- msnbc.com

An eternal present moment...

Racing tangent thoughts rev my mind...
Today is the summation of my being,
Driven to the present by past failures and achievements,
Propelled towards a future of tomorrow’s hopes...
Stricken by fear of what might not be,
Pulled back to overcome yesterday’s mistakes...
Today is the summation of my being, its value eternal.
Do I dare forget to live today?

A broken heart is like having a cold...you've gotta let the natural healing process run it's course, no matter how uncomfortable the interim may be, before you feel well again.

Singularity...Part 1

Anyone who understands me knows I have a passon for writing...

Since I was 20 I've had this idea for a storyline of a man who through
his life struggles dealt with coming to terms with who he wanted to be
as an individual, but yet has ti deap with who he was by nature, and
that life changing ephiphany cingular to him in a cross county
journey...

I've pulled in to a gas station, and have a quarter tank of gas...and
I debate on filling up just to see how far a whole tank of gas can get
me...not to see who would care I was gone or so far away, but whether
I'd even feeling like there was any worth for myself in turning back
around...and where the tank empties if I feel the fuel it would take
to get back home would be better spent getting me even further from
it...

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Wow...Much Sooner Than I Thought

A Federal Lawsuit for Same Sex Marriage was Filed Today

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/m/FullArticle/p.rdt/CCANEWS/ndomesticNews_uUSTRE56768520090708

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