Remember, people do not limit. When you think you to the limit when, in fact everything is just beginning," said Chen Sheng Wang Meng. Lam MBT Sapatu Fung tired nodded. Duel. The wind is expected to have a forest. Wang Meng has had that special, but also at the lungs is that weak, "Cyclone" forest wind ten predict with confidence that the game themselves. Wang Meng game developed by the beginning of the wind to forest exhaustion and then back onto the lore of Noah’s strategy, has been scoffed forest wind. But the real sense after the game. He did not have a chance, no chance to exert their kill. Noah did not give forest wind ghost of a chance. Wang Meng Lin eventually wind direction only according to race. However, this is the case, Lin also consumes huge wind strength. It can be said that the three rounds can sustain down, really is to rely on willpower.
Others can not imagine the willpower. Lam Fung who now speak, generalized weakness, almost collapsed, just want to lie down. Comfortable to lie down. But as long as the MBT Tariki spirit of the people a little slack, I know that the old days the last ordeal, the kind of collapse in the limit of people scraping training, so that Lam Fung teeth again. Continue. After all, this time himself lose. To friends. Also to the Chinese martial arts, their lose. The fourth round of the gong sounded again, a heavy forest wind dragged the pace went up slightly. Noah, as always, Kuanggong, but Lin can clearly feel the wind strength of Noah began to fall. No longer so sharp attack began, the pace has not started so flexible. Keep, keep, as long as the stick that he will win Lam Fung secretly encouraging. "Huo, Huo, Huo," Noah burst of anger among the Menheng nasal sound.
He is going MBT Shuguli frantic. No matter how he attacks, then the forest the wind like a loach slippery, always able to escape in the least bit between his fists, and occasionally become obvious to go, taking advantage of his boxing ability is the most weak, most do not let Noah comfortable. How long a portfolio is also prepared to fight for long. Noah cursed mother. Go on like this. When will it stop, but not regular boxing match that will eventually rely on points to win. This points to win this duel is not to say, unless the MBT Fanaka party to admit defeat. Otherwise, will always lose out. Noah can certainly learn forest wind, to wait at Plaza, waiting for Lam Fung attack.
2011年2月18日星期五
Different Choice-MBT Shoes Outlet
The shoe industry at the moment is seeing one of the biggest new markets ever – that of the ‘toning’ or ‘fitness’ shoe. Originally a niche product produced by a small number of producers, this type of shoe has exploded into the latest footwear must-have.
One of the first companies to produce this style of shoe was MBT. Created in 1999, the company’s ‘Masai Barefoot Technology’ shoes mimicked walking on soft, uneven ground, with the intention of promoting the body’s ‘natural instability’.
For many years, MBT Goti developed a loyal following, however the product remained a very niche product. Retailers were very carefully selected and all underwent training specifically on this product. Only traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ stores were allowed to become MBT Maliza stockists.
In 2007, a new player emerged. FitFlops were the brainchild of Marcia Kilgore. She originally created them as a solution to fight cellulite.
Skechers entered the market in the middle of 2009, with their ‘Tone-Ups’ and ‘Shape-Ups’ ranges. Looking similar to FitFlops and MBT Kisumu, the products were backed up by a huge marketing campaign. Previously mainly a fashion shoe retailer, the fitness part of Skechers range has now become a core part of their business.
Undercutting the traditional brands and welcoming online retailers, Skechers took a large section of the existing market and open up this kind of shoe to the masses. According to a survey published recently, Skechers now have around fifty four percent of the toning shoe market.
Not to be left out, many other retailers have also developed their own styles of toning shoes, including the Truebalance range from New Balance, the EasyTone from Reebok and Puma’s Bodytone.
FitFlops and Skechers have also expanded their ranges dramatically since launch, with the fitness platform now used on anything from Flip Flops to Ugg-style boots.
From a niche product created by just a handful of manufacturers, over the last few years, the toning shoe has expanded into a huge part of the global MBT Nuru footwear business. In 2008 this market was worth $17 million, it increased to $145 million in 2009 and an estimated $1.5billion in 2010.
One of the first companies to produce this style of shoe was MBT. Created in 1999, the company’s ‘Masai Barefoot Technology’ shoes mimicked walking on soft, uneven ground, with the intention of promoting the body’s ‘natural instability’.
For many years, MBT Goti developed a loyal following, however the product remained a very niche product. Retailers were very carefully selected and all underwent training specifically on this product. Only traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ stores were allowed to become MBT Maliza stockists.
In 2007, a new player emerged. FitFlops were the brainchild of Marcia Kilgore. She originally created them as a solution to fight cellulite.
Skechers entered the market in the middle of 2009, with their ‘Tone-Ups’ and ‘Shape-Ups’ ranges. Looking similar to FitFlops and MBT Kisumu, the products were backed up by a huge marketing campaign. Previously mainly a fashion shoe retailer, the fitness part of Skechers range has now become a core part of their business.
Undercutting the traditional brands and welcoming online retailers, Skechers took a large section of the existing market and open up this kind of shoe to the masses. According to a survey published recently, Skechers now have around fifty four percent of the toning shoe market.
Not to be left out, many other retailers have also developed their own styles of toning shoes, including the Truebalance range from New Balance, the EasyTone from Reebok and Puma’s Bodytone.
FitFlops and Skechers have also expanded their ranges dramatically since launch, with the fitness platform now used on anything from Flip Flops to Ugg-style boots.
From a niche product created by just a handful of manufacturers, over the last few years, the toning shoe has expanded into a huge part of the global MBT Nuru footwear business. In 2008 this market was worth $17 million, it increased to $145 million in 2009 and an estimated $1.5billion in 2010.
2011年2月9日星期三
Lymph Node Study Shakes Pillar of Breast Cancer Care
A new study finds that many women with early breast cancer do not need a painful procedure that has long been routine: removal of cancerous lymph nodes from the armpit.
The discovery turns standard medical practice on its head. Surgeons have been removing lymph nodes from under the arms of ugg australia breast cancer patients for 100 years, believing it would prolong women’s lives by keeping the cancer from spreading or coming back.
Now, researchers report that for women who meet certain criteria — about 20 percent of patients, or 40,000 women a year in the United States — taking out cancerous nodes has no advantage. It does not change the treatment plan, improve survival or make the cancer less likely to recur. And it can cause complications like infection and lymphedema, a chronic swelling in the arm that ranges from mild to disabling.
Removing the cancerous lymph nodes proved unnecessary because the women in the study had chemotherapy and radiation, which probably wiped out any disease in the ugg australia nodes, the researchers said. Those treatments are now standard for women with breast cancer in the lymph nodes, based on the realization that once the disease reaches the nodes, it has the potential to spread to vital organs and cannot be eliminated by surgery alone.
Experts say that the new findings, combined with similar ones from earlier studies, should change medical practice for many patients. Some centers have already acted on the new information. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan changed its practice in September, because doctors knew the study results before they were published. But more widespread change may take time, experts say, because the UGG Nightfall belief in removing nodes is so deeply ingrained.
“This is such a radical change in thought that it’s been hard for many people to get their heads around it,” said Dr. Monica Morrow, chief of the breast service at Sloan-Kettering and an author of the study, which is being published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The National Cancer Institute paid for the study.
Doctors and patients alike find it easy to accept more cancer treatment on the basis of a study, Dr. Morrow said, but get scared when the data favor less treatment.
The new findings are part of a trend to move away from radical surgery for breast cancer. Rates of mastectomy, removal of the whole breast, began declining in the 1980s after studies found that for many patients, survival rates after lumpectomy and radiation were just as good as those after mastectomy.
The trend reflects an evolving understanding of breast cancer. In decades past, there was a belief that surgery could “get it all” — eradicate the cancer before it could spread to organs and bones. But research has found that breast cancer can begin to spread early, even when UGG Nightfall tumors are small, leaving microscopic traces of the disease after surgery.
The modern approach is to cut out obvious tumors — because lumps big enough to detect may be too dense for drugs and radiation to destroy — and to use radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out microscopic disease in other places.
But doctors have continued to think that even microscopic disease in the lymph nodes should be cut out to improve the odds of survival. And until recently, they counted cancerous lymph nodes to gauge the severity of the disease and choose chemotherapy. But now the number is not so often used to determine drug treatment, doctors say. What matters more is whether the disease has reached any MBT Tataga nodes at all. If any are positive, the disease could become deadly. Chemotherapy is recommended, and the drugs are the same, no matter how many nodes are involved.
The new results do not apply to all patients, only to women whose disease and treatment meet the criteria in the study.
The tumors were early, at clinical stage T1 or T2, meaning less than two inches across. Biopsies of one or two armpit nodes had found cancer, but the nodes were not enlarged enough to be felt during an exam, and the cancer had not spread anywhere else. The women had lumpectomies, and most also had radiation to the entire breast, and chemotherapy or hormone-blocking drugs, or both.
The study, at 115 medical centers, included 891 patients. Their median age was in the mid-50s, and they were followed for a median of 6.3 years.
After the initial node biopsy, the women were assigned at random to have 10 or more additional nodes removed, or to leave the nodes alone. In 27 percent of the women who had additional nodes removed, those nodes were cancerous. But over time, the two groups had no difference in survival: more than 90 percent survived at least five years. Recurrence rates in the armpit were also similar MBT Tembea, less than 1 percent. If breast cancer is going to recur under the arm, it tends to do so early, so the follow-up period was long enough, the researchers said.
One potential weakness in the study is that there was not complete follow-up information on 166 women, about equal numbers from each group. The researchers said that did not affect the results. A statistician who was not part of the study said the missing information should have been discussed further, but probably did not have an important impact.
It is not known whether the findings also apply to women who do not have radiation and chemotherapy, or to those who have only part of the breast irradiated. Nor is it known whether the findings could be applied to other types of cancer.
The results mean that women like those in the study will still have to have at least one lymph node removed, to look for cancer and decide whether they will need more MBT sport 2 shoes treatment. But taking out just one or a few nodes should be enough.
Dr. Armando E. Giuliano, the lead author of the study and the chief of surgical oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., said: “It shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it will. It’s hard for us as surgeons and medical oncologists and radiation oncologists to accept that you don’t have to remove the nodes in the armpit.”
The discovery turns standard medical practice on its head. Surgeons have been removing lymph nodes from under the arms of ugg australia breast cancer patients for 100 years, believing it would prolong women’s lives by keeping the cancer from spreading or coming back.
Now, researchers report that for women who meet certain criteria — about 20 percent of patients, or 40,000 women a year in the United States — taking out cancerous nodes has no advantage. It does not change the treatment plan, improve survival or make the cancer less likely to recur. And it can cause complications like infection and lymphedema, a chronic swelling in the arm that ranges from mild to disabling.
Removing the cancerous lymph nodes proved unnecessary because the women in the study had chemotherapy and radiation, which probably wiped out any disease in the ugg australia nodes, the researchers said. Those treatments are now standard for women with breast cancer in the lymph nodes, based on the realization that once the disease reaches the nodes, it has the potential to spread to vital organs and cannot be eliminated by surgery alone.
Experts say that the new findings, combined with similar ones from earlier studies, should change medical practice for many patients. Some centers have already acted on the new information. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan changed its practice in September, because doctors knew the study results before they were published. But more widespread change may take time, experts say, because the UGG Nightfall belief in removing nodes is so deeply ingrained.
“This is such a radical change in thought that it’s been hard for many people to get their heads around it,” said Dr. Monica Morrow, chief of the breast service at Sloan-Kettering and an author of the study, which is being published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The National Cancer Institute paid for the study.
Doctors and patients alike find it easy to accept more cancer treatment on the basis of a study, Dr. Morrow said, but get scared when the data favor less treatment.
The new findings are part of a trend to move away from radical surgery for breast cancer. Rates of mastectomy, removal of the whole breast, began declining in the 1980s after studies found that for many patients, survival rates after lumpectomy and radiation were just as good as those after mastectomy.
The trend reflects an evolving understanding of breast cancer. In decades past, there was a belief that surgery could “get it all” — eradicate the cancer before it could spread to organs and bones. But research has found that breast cancer can begin to spread early, even when UGG Nightfall tumors are small, leaving microscopic traces of the disease after surgery.
The modern approach is to cut out obvious tumors — because lumps big enough to detect may be too dense for drugs and radiation to destroy — and to use radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out microscopic disease in other places.
But doctors have continued to think that even microscopic disease in the lymph nodes should be cut out to improve the odds of survival. And until recently, they counted cancerous lymph nodes to gauge the severity of the disease and choose chemotherapy. But now the number is not so often used to determine drug treatment, doctors say. What matters more is whether the disease has reached any MBT Tataga nodes at all. If any are positive, the disease could become deadly. Chemotherapy is recommended, and the drugs are the same, no matter how many nodes are involved.
The new results do not apply to all patients, only to women whose disease and treatment meet the criteria in the study.
The tumors were early, at clinical stage T1 or T2, meaning less than two inches across. Biopsies of one or two armpit nodes had found cancer, but the nodes were not enlarged enough to be felt during an exam, and the cancer had not spread anywhere else. The women had lumpectomies, and most also had radiation to the entire breast, and chemotherapy or hormone-blocking drugs, or both.
The study, at 115 medical centers, included 891 patients. Their median age was in the mid-50s, and they were followed for a median of 6.3 years.
After the initial node biopsy, the women were assigned at random to have 10 or more additional nodes removed, or to leave the nodes alone. In 27 percent of the women who had additional nodes removed, those nodes were cancerous. But over time, the two groups had no difference in survival: more than 90 percent survived at least five years. Recurrence rates in the armpit were also similar MBT Tembea, less than 1 percent. If breast cancer is going to recur under the arm, it tends to do so early, so the follow-up period was long enough, the researchers said.
One potential weakness in the study is that there was not complete follow-up information on 166 women, about equal numbers from each group. The researchers said that did not affect the results. A statistician who was not part of the study said the missing information should have been discussed further, but probably did not have an important impact.
It is not known whether the findings also apply to women who do not have radiation and chemotherapy, or to those who have only part of the breast irradiated. Nor is it known whether the findings could be applied to other types of cancer.
The results mean that women like those in the study will still have to have at least one lymph node removed, to look for cancer and decide whether they will need more MBT sport 2 shoes treatment. But taking out just one or a few nodes should be enough.
Dr. Armando E. Giuliano, the lead author of the study and the chief of surgical oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., said: “It shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it will. It’s hard for us as surgeons and medical oncologists and radiation oncologists to accept that you don’t have to remove the nodes in the armpit.”
2011年1月17日星期一
South Korea Raises Rates As Inflation Stirs Concern
HONG KONG — South Korea unexpectedly raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point Thursday and announced measures intended to curb rising prices, the latest sign that policy makers in Asia and other emerging markets were increasingly concerned about inflation.
While prices in the United States, Japan and the euro zone have been creeping up slowly, inflation in many developing nations has risen rapidly alongside overall economic growth. Climbing vibram fivefingers shoes prices — in recent weeks, crude oil prices have increased to more than $90, the highest level since October 2008 — and adverse weather have helped drive prices up in some areas.
For example, India reported Thursday that a crucial index measuring prices had risen 16.9 percent in the week ending Jan. 1 from the level of a year earlier, while in China, the latest available data showed that consumer prices in November were 5.1 percent higher than a year earlier.
In South Korea, consumer prices rose 3.5 percent in December from the UGG ® Australia of a year earlier, driven by price increases in petroleum and farm products, and the central bank said Thursday that it expected inflation pressures to mount in coming months.
Double-digit price increases like those in India are the exception, and many economists argue that inflation remains manageable in many countries.
Still, food price inflation in particular is a sensitive issue in developing nations, where many people’s incomes go directly to necessities like cooking oil, vegetables and other foodstuffs.
As a result, many emerging nations have started to nudge interest rates back toward precrisis levels and have instituted other measures meant to tamp down prices. South Korea’s latest ugg australia — its third rate increase since mid-2010 — takes the country’s key seven-day repurchase rate to 2.75 percent.
After an economic policy meeting Thursday, President Lee Myung-bak said the government would watch to make sure that prices for gasoline and other oil products were “at an appropriate level.” In recent months, gasoline prices in South Korea have jumped to an average of $1.69 a liter, or $6.40 a gallon.
The government also announced a six-month freeze on charges for various UGG Nightfall, including gas and electricity, and requested that colleges and universities not increase tuition this year.
The Bank of Korea’s decision to raise rates on Thursday surprised many economists, who had not expected another increase until later in the year.
Still, many project that rates will gradually rise further in South Korea and other fast-growing economies as policy makers strive to battle higher prices.
“Inflation is on the rise, in Korea as elsewhere,” Kim Song-yi, an economist at HSBC in Seoul, wrote in a note on Thursday, adding that the central bank’s “pro-active stance” was a “good thing.”
Thailand nudged up its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage MBT Shuguli to 2.25 percent Wednesday, adding to similar moves in recent months, while China has raised rates twice recently and restricted lending by state-controlled banks, actions aimed at slowing its economy’s breakneck growth.
Mark McDonald contributed reporting from Seoul.
While prices in the United States, Japan and the euro zone have been creeping up slowly, inflation in many developing nations has risen rapidly alongside overall economic growth. Climbing vibram fivefingers shoes prices — in recent weeks, crude oil prices have increased to more than $90, the highest level since October 2008 — and adverse weather have helped drive prices up in some areas.
For example, India reported Thursday that a crucial index measuring prices had risen 16.9 percent in the week ending Jan. 1 from the level of a year earlier, while in China, the latest available data showed that consumer prices in November were 5.1 percent higher than a year earlier.
In South Korea, consumer prices rose 3.5 percent in December from the UGG ® Australia of a year earlier, driven by price increases in petroleum and farm products, and the central bank said Thursday that it expected inflation pressures to mount in coming months.
Double-digit price increases like those in India are the exception, and many economists argue that inflation remains manageable in many countries.
Still, food price inflation in particular is a sensitive issue in developing nations, where many people’s incomes go directly to necessities like cooking oil, vegetables and other foodstuffs.
As a result, many emerging nations have started to nudge interest rates back toward precrisis levels and have instituted other measures meant to tamp down prices. South Korea’s latest ugg australia — its third rate increase since mid-2010 — takes the country’s key seven-day repurchase rate to 2.75 percent.
After an economic policy meeting Thursday, President Lee Myung-bak said the government would watch to make sure that prices for gasoline and other oil products were “at an appropriate level.” In recent months, gasoline prices in South Korea have jumped to an average of $1.69 a liter, or $6.40 a gallon.
The government also announced a six-month freeze on charges for various UGG Nightfall, including gas and electricity, and requested that colleges and universities not increase tuition this year.
The Bank of Korea’s decision to raise rates on Thursday surprised many economists, who had not expected another increase until later in the year.
Still, many project that rates will gradually rise further in South Korea and other fast-growing economies as policy makers strive to battle higher prices.
“Inflation is on the rise, in Korea as elsewhere,” Kim Song-yi, an economist at HSBC in Seoul, wrote in a note on Thursday, adding that the central bank’s “pro-active stance” was a “good thing.”
Thailand nudged up its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage MBT Shuguli to 2.25 percent Wednesday, adding to similar moves in recent months, while China has raised rates twice recently and restricted lending by state-controlled banks, actions aimed at slowing its economy’s breakneck growth.
Mark McDonald contributed reporting from Seoul.
2011年1月12日星期三
Trickle Up Economics
According to a new study, women are attracted to intelligent men for both long term relationships and for hook-ups.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5951979&page=1
The only time women are not attracted to intelligent men is when they have the option of a good looking guy who is dumber than pants on fish. Still, it's comforting to know that given the choice of two Jimmy choo shoes, women usually prefer the one who is not a moron. And obviously many women will still pick the guy who is both ugly and stupid if he has lots of money, good hair, is tall, or plays in a band. I did my own study to reach that conclusion. It's titled "Duh."
In my vast experience as an unattractive smart guy who was not always a syndicated cartoonist, there are in fact women who have fetishes for smart men. Not many, but they exist. My guess is that about 3% of the female public is in that group. That's probably good enough to keep the inventions flowing for a few more evolutionary steps.
The only risk to the future of UGG Nightfall is that nerds will invent a technology that is better than sex with another human being. I'll try to keep this next part rated PG-13, so please be patient with the indirectness.
I assume some entrepreneur is already working on creating a business where guys will be able to buy a lifelike female body part that plugs into a standard USB port, and can be controlled by someone else across the Internet. That artificial body part could mimic a hand, mouth, or woo-woo. In the short run, the business model would involve paying women, in countries where such things are legal, to control the device and appear on a web cam chat. In the long run, artificial intelligence and CGI women will be controlling the action, so the whole system would only cost $100, with no recurring fees. And that will be the end of humanity because nerds will stop mating, their genes will die out, humanity will revert to the Bronze Age, and all the attractive, dumb Christian Louboutin will be eaten by wild dogs.
I like to end on a positive note, so let's take a moment to be happy for the wild dogs.
In the recent debate, Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said the wealthy would gain by paying higher taxes to lift up the middle class. The theory is that a healthy middle class is necessary for the wealthy class to thrive. Let's call that Trickle Up Economics.
Viewed in that light, the unwealthy are more like an investment opportunity than a tax burden. If you can make the poor and middle class more educated, healthy, and better MBT Shuguli, everyone wins. That makes sense, to a degree. But would the wealthy gain enough financially to make the extra taxes a good investment? I wonder if that has ever been studied.
Perhaps there are too many variables to make any kind of general statement about the benefits of taxing the rich. If the government raises taxes on the wealthy and pisses away the money on sketchy wars and pork, that's probably a poor investment. If the money goes into education, healthcare, and alternative energy, that starts looking a lot more like an investment with a 10-year payoff.
Obviously higher taxes on the rich are counterproductive if it stops them from building new factories, or causes them to invest overseas. Maybe corporate taxes have to remain low no matter what, or everyone moves their operations to Ireland. You can always tax the retro jordan, since most people won't leave the country just to save money on taxes.
Henry Ford famously paid his factory workers more than the market rate so they would be able to afford cars. I've never seen a study of how that worked out for him. Does anyone have a link to tell me if investing in poor people benefits the rich?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5951979&page=1
The only time women are not attracted to intelligent men is when they have the option of a good looking guy who is dumber than pants on fish. Still, it's comforting to know that given the choice of two Jimmy choo shoes, women usually prefer the one who is not a moron. And obviously many women will still pick the guy who is both ugly and stupid if he has lots of money, good hair, is tall, or plays in a band. I did my own study to reach that conclusion. It's titled "Duh."
In my vast experience as an unattractive smart guy who was not always a syndicated cartoonist, there are in fact women who have fetishes for smart men. Not many, but they exist. My guess is that about 3% of the female public is in that group. That's probably good enough to keep the inventions flowing for a few more evolutionary steps.
The only risk to the future of UGG Nightfall is that nerds will invent a technology that is better than sex with another human being. I'll try to keep this next part rated PG-13, so please be patient with the indirectness.
I assume some entrepreneur is already working on creating a business where guys will be able to buy a lifelike female body part that plugs into a standard USB port, and can be controlled by someone else across the Internet. That artificial body part could mimic a hand, mouth, or woo-woo. In the short run, the business model would involve paying women, in countries where such things are legal, to control the device and appear on a web cam chat. In the long run, artificial intelligence and CGI women will be controlling the action, so the whole system would only cost $100, with no recurring fees. And that will be the end of humanity because nerds will stop mating, their genes will die out, humanity will revert to the Bronze Age, and all the attractive, dumb Christian Louboutin will be eaten by wild dogs.
I like to end on a positive note, so let's take a moment to be happy for the wild dogs.
In the recent debate, Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said the wealthy would gain by paying higher taxes to lift up the middle class. The theory is that a healthy middle class is necessary for the wealthy class to thrive. Let's call that Trickle Up Economics.
Viewed in that light, the unwealthy are more like an investment opportunity than a tax burden. If you can make the poor and middle class more educated, healthy, and better MBT Shuguli, everyone wins. That makes sense, to a degree. But would the wealthy gain enough financially to make the extra taxes a good investment? I wonder if that has ever been studied.
Perhaps there are too many variables to make any kind of general statement about the benefits of taxing the rich. If the government raises taxes on the wealthy and pisses away the money on sketchy wars and pork, that's probably a poor investment. If the money goes into education, healthcare, and alternative energy, that starts looking a lot more like an investment with a 10-year payoff.
Obviously higher taxes on the rich are counterproductive if it stops them from building new factories, or causes them to invest overseas. Maybe corporate taxes have to remain low no matter what, or everyone moves their operations to Ireland. You can always tax the retro jordan, since most people won't leave the country just to save money on taxes.
Henry Ford famously paid his factory workers more than the market rate so they would be able to afford cars. I've never seen a study of how that worked out for him. Does anyone have a link to tell me if investing in poor people benefits the rich?
订阅：
博文 (Atom)