June 2011
5 posts
“Why should a financial engineer be paid four times to one hundred times more...”
– Andrew Sheng
Chief Advisor, China Banking Regulatory Commission via Inside Job (2010)
On the Booming Global Population
The 24-fold increase in global GDP over the course of the last century isn’t driven by population growth. It is growing consumption per person that is the problem. And that, of course, is not the fault of Africans.
Crazy fact:
The poorest 650 million people on the planet live on about 1% of the income of the richest 650 million. Each year, we add 1% or more to the incomes of those richest...
“คำว่าพระบารมีผมว่าเป็นสิ่งซึ่งวัฒนธรรมตะวันตกหรือสื่อตะวันตกไม่มีทางเข้าใจได้...”
– อานันท์ ปันยารชุน: การปฏิรูปประเทศ สถาบันพระมหากษัตริย์ และหนทางของประชาธิปไตยไทย
“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”
– Brendan Kennelly, the Book of Judas
“I studied rock and roll and I grew up in Dublin in the ’70s, music was an...”
– Bono 