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The first is Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, by Stephen Ambrose. This well-told and moving story centers on several members of a company that paratrooped into Normandy and took out German guns firing on Utah Beach, fought brutal warfare in the frozen trenches of Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge, and waltzed into Hitler's mountain redoubt, sipping on Himler's massive stash of alcohol, and driving Hitler's staff cars, through Bavaria, sometimes perhaps a bit drunkenly, after peace broke out.
Ambrose is a wonderful historian, and the book is lively, humane, and full of surprises. The main hero of the book is Richard Winter, ultimately Major Winter, a brilliant battlefield officer, a teatotaller who lets his men drink within reason, a gentle warrior who kills maybe twenty Germans in battle with the weapons in his own hands, but ensured that those who surrendered lived, and refused to shoot an injured Canadian goose.
The second book is Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Bauckham is professor emeritus at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and a fellow of the British Academy. He's not as colorful a writer as Ambrose, or even N.T. Wright, but in a slow and steady way, with some repetition, makes a strong, informed case that the four stories of Jesus' "band of brothers" that we call the gospels, are based on eyewitness accounts.
What struck me is that the sort of thing Bauckham is describing, Ambrose is actually doing. Ambrose is, in fact, writing something very like a "Gospel," in much the way Bauckham thinks the actual gospels were written.
The parallels are remarkably close:
* In both cases, the chief characters are a group of young men. (Scholars often forget that the apostles would have almost all been very young, as is always the case with such wandering bands.)
* Both groups travel across the countryside and have adventures. Traveling, they would naturally remember new places well -- that is my experience, anyway.
* This itineration lasts about three years for both the Jews and the Americans.
* While many of the men in both bands enjoy successful careers later on, this period of travel under a single, respected leader is the most intense period of their lives for many, perhaps most, and close bonds with fellows, despite occasional brawling, are forged.
* The strength of friendship and experience also mean they remember those periods of their lives intensely.
* An element of danger also casts an unforgetable aura on the "ministry" of those years.
* Neither group is on a picnic: they have higher ideals and strategic goals for which they are striving. They see themselves as part of larger movements.
* Both are indoctrinated in those ideals, putting "training" into practical action along the way.
* Both Mark and Luke, on the one hand, and Dr. Ambrose, on the other, rely on a combination of documents and oral testimony to write their "gospels."
* Ambrose apparently conducted interviews with surviving soldiers in the early 1990s. This would correspond to about 80-82 AD, about when Luke and Matthew wrote their Gospels, and 10-20 years after the Gospel of Mark was probably written.
* Both groups of men were young during the period recounted. The number of total disciples of Jesus was probably similar to the number of members of E Company who fought and were not immediately killed.
* Both sets of disciples were scattered after these few brief years of "ministry." Christians spread to small communities around the Mediterranean world. Ex-GIs from Winter's band scattered across the United States, building dams in the North Cascades, selling farm products in New Jersey, doing business in Connecticut, running a prison camp in Germany, fishing for sharks in California.
It seems to me that the parallels show how credible the traditional understanding of the gospels remains. In Why the Jesus Seminar can't find Jesus, and Grandma Marshall Could, I describe 50 characteristics of the gospels, most of which underline and support the historicity of the gospels. The "Band of Brothers" analogy helps show how it came to be that such strong accounts of Jesus' ministry came to be written.
Of course, no analogy is perfect. I can think of at least three differences between these two stories, that critics might point to as undermining the analogy.
Possible Objections
* "Dr. Ambrose was a better historian than St. Mark." No doubt he was. He certainly had more polish and literary flare. He probably didn't spend as much time with his primary sources, though. All in all, the two men seem to be doing similar things, and the end result in both cases is a realistic mix of action, dialogue, and scene, which gives every sign of deriving from events that actually happened to real people.
* "Life expectancy was so much shorter in the ancient world, than in modern America! American GIs enjoyed good health and plenty of food, and naturally lived longer to tell their stories."
This surely makes some difference. Epidemic diseases like small pox often ravaged ancient cities, and some of Jesus' followers could be expected to succumb to them. Christians were also often persecuted, and sometimes martyred. From ages 20 to 60, probably half or more of adults would succomb to some disease or other misfortune, in the ancient world.
But short life expectancy in the ancient world was inflated by an extremely high infant mortality rate. A large percentage of those who survived the diseases of childhood, could be expected to live reasonably long lives. If they didn't, people wouldn't have survived long enough to reproduce -- yet there was natural increase in the population, which is why Romans were able to engage in so many wars. In fact, many famous ancient scientists lived past 70, even into their 80s. So there is nothing at all improbable in the claim that the likes of John Mark found many witnesses still alive, probably still just in their 60s, perhaps even 50s in some cases, when he wrote.
In fact, some men of E Company got together as late as 2009. That would correspond to almost 100 AD, later even than when the Gospel of John was probably composed. As recently as last Sunday, I had a chat with a pastor who had been in Patton's army, who told me a story about guarding Hungarian prisoners who had worked in America before the war. He seems in fairly good health, and to remember events from the war well. That puts all the talk about "generations" and "traditions" for gospels that were written about 70 or 80 AD, in a different light!
* "They didn't have 737s in St. Mark's day. The early Christians were too scattered, for the authors of the gospels to interview them!"
People in the Roman world often traveled quite a bit. Paul's travels are well-known. What is clear from all accounts of early Christianity, is that the Church in particular cities was not isolated, but in frequent contact with its fellow churches. Much of the population of Palestine was scattered in 70 AD, after all. As Stark shows, a network of Jews was spread throughout most of the Roman Empire, and the Church seemed to follow that network.
Furthermore, the early church was a tight-knit sub-community. Distusted by Jewish leaders, misunderstood by Greeks, and persecuted by Romans, Christians were forced to band together, which they were eager to do, anyway.
It should have been easy, therefore, for someone like Mark to make contacts with surviving eyewitnesses, who would have been well-known. and no doubt eager to reminiscence. Because testimony was so highly valued in the early church, everyone would have known whom to ask, for details -- as Bauckham argues, Mark did know, and did ask.
Read Band of Brothers, and the gospels. With all their cultural, linguistic and technological differences, see if you don't recognize the similarities.


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This program contains three segments. The main one is with Dorthe Nors, who is most recently the author of Karate Chop. There is also a brief Blake Bailey interview. He is most recently the author of The Splendid Things We Planned. And our introductory segment involves the Save NYPL campaign.
Guests: Dorthe Nors, Blake Bailey, members of the Save NYPL campaign, Matthew Zadrozny, members of Raging Grannies.
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Subjects Discussed: Mayor Bill de Blasio's failure to live up to his July 2013 promise to save the New York Public Library, the greed of rich people, political opportunism, Charles Jackson, The Splendid Things We Planned, the differences between biography and memoir, being the hero of your own story, subjectivity as a great muddler, the Bailey family's tendency to destroy cars, being self-destructive, contending with a brother who threw his life away, the problems that emerge from being cold, the differences between American and Danish winters, unplanned writing, the swift composition of Beatles lyrics, the courageous existential spirit within Swedish literature, Danish precision, the Højskolesangbogen tradition, the influence of song upon prose, Kerstin Ekman, Nors's stylistic break from the Swedish masters, Ingmar Bergman, Flaubert's calm and orderly life, the human-animal connections within Karate Chop, considering the idea that animals may be better revealers of human character than humans, animals as mirrors, emotional connections to dogs, the human need to embrace innocence, judging people by how they treat their pets, "The Heron," friendship built on grotesque trust, how the gift exchange aspect of friendship can become tainted or turn abusive, writing "The Buddhist" without providing a source for the protagonist's rage, how much fiction should explain psychological motive, the hidden danger contained within people who think they are good, how Lutherans can be duped, "missionary positions," Buddhism as a disguise, ideologies within Denmark, when small nations feel big and smug, Scandinavian egotism, Danesplaining, whether Americans or Danes behave worse in foreign nations, buffoonish American presidential candidates, how "The Heron" got to The New Yorker, Nors's early American advocates, being a tour guide for Rick Moody and Junot Diaz, how Fiona Maazel brought Dorthe Nors's fiction to America, Copehagen's Frederiksberg Gardens as a place to find happiness, happiness as a form of prestige, when happy people feel needlessly superior, Denmark's subtle efforts to win the happiest nation on earth award, setting stories in New York, how different people react to large tomato, Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, how measuring objects reveals aspects of humanity, the tomato as the Holy Grail, flour babies, why strategically minded people shouldn't be trusted, the creepy nature of control freaks, how human interpretation is enslaved by representations, competing representations of reality, whether fiction is a more authentic representation of reality, how disturbing ideas presented in books can calm you down, exploring the Danish idea of a den to eat cookies, working with translator Martin Aitken, what other nations get wrong about Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen, superficial knowledge of Denmark, Danish writers who need to be translated, Yahya Hassan, and Danish crime fiction.
Correspondent: I wanted to talk about the economy of these stories, which is fascinating. I mean, you have to pay very close attention to learn the details and to learn some very interesting twist or some human revelation in these stories. So this leads me to ask — just to start off here — I'm wondering how long it takes for you to write one or to conceive one. Is there a lot of planning that goes into the idea of "Aha! I'll have the twist at this point!" I mean, what's the level of intuition vs. the level of just really getting it down and burying all the details like this?
Nors: I don't plan writing. It happens. Or I get an idea or I see something. Or there's a line or a passage that I write down. And sometimes it just lies there for a while. Then a couple of days later, I will write another passage, perhaps for another story, and sometimes I put them together. They start doing things. But I write them pretty fast. When the idea and the flow and the voice and the characters are there, I just go into the zone and it kind of feels like I'm singing these. It's like you find the voice for a story and you just stick to it and write it. It doesn't take that long. Seven of these stories were actually written in a cottage off the west coast in Denmark. Two weeks.
Correspondent: Two weeks?
Nors: Yes.
Correspondent: For seven of the stories?
Nors: Seven of the stories.
Correspondent: Wow.
Nors: And then I would take long walks and I would go home. Boom. There was this story. So the writing process with this one, it was like that.
Correspondent: That's like the Beatles writing the lyrics for "A Hard Day's Night" on the back of a matchbox in ten minutes.
Nors: When it happens, it happens, right?
Correspondent: Well, to what do you attribute these incredible subconscious details? Are these details just coming from your subconscious and they're naturally springing? Or are they discovered in the revision at all?
Nors: I think they come from training. Because it has something to do with the neck of the woods that I come from. Scandinavia. I was trained in Swedish literature. That was what I studied at university. And the Swedes have this very bold and courageous brave way of looking at existence. I mean, it turns big on them. And they look at the darkness and the pits of distress and everything. Then if you take that richness of existentialism, you might even call it, and pair it up with the Danish tradition — which is precision, accuracy, Danish design, cut to the core, don't battle on forever. If you combine these two, you get short shorts with huge content that is laying in there like an elephant in a container and moving around all the time. And this style came from training. This came from reading a lot and writing a lot. Suddenly, I think I found my voice in these stories. I think this was a breakthrough for me in Denmark also. That I found out how I can combine the Danish and the Swedish tradition.
Correspondent: So by training, how much writing did you have to do before you could nail this remarkable approach to find the elephant, to tackle existence like this?
Nors: Well, I started writing at eight. And this book was written when I was 36.
Correspondent: But you didn't have the Danish masters and the Swedish masters staring over you at eight, did you?
Nors: No. But I had the Danish song tradition. We have a book in Denmark called Højskolesangbogen. You'll never learn how to say that. But it's a songbook.
Correspondent: (laughs) She says confidently. You never know. I might learn!
Nors: You wanna try? But that songbook — in the real part of Denmark that I come from, all the farmers, they would use that songbook a lot. And there was no literature in my household. It was middle-class. A carpenter and a hairdresser. But this book was there. And what I learned from that was that these songs, they were written by great Danish poets and then put into music. It would be so precise. I love that book. I sang these songs. I read these poems. And then later on, there was my brother's vinyl covers. It was Leonard Cohen. It was all these guys that he had up in his room and I could read. And a lot of the training came from that. And then later on, university, of course, and the boring part of training.
Correspondent: The analytical stuff. Well, that makes total sense. Because there is a definitive metric to these particular stories. You mentioned that they were akin to singing. And I'm wondering how you became more acquainted with this musicality as the stories have continued. And also, how does this work in terms of your novels? Which are not translated. There are five of them. And those are obviously a lot larger than a short story. So how does the musicality and that concise mode work with the novels?
Nors: Well, I think my first novel was extremely influenced by a Swedish writer called Kerstin Ekman, who I wrote my thesis on. And it was so influenced by her that I kind of shun away from it. Because I don't want to sound like her anymore. And then on my third book, I started to find that the voice that blooms in Karate Chop — and there's a breakaway there; it's like a break in my writing.
Correspondent: A karate chop!
Nors: It really is! Because the first three of my novels were classic structures. They had plots and peaks and this whole Swedish abyss of existentialism and darkness. But then with this one, I broke away. And the next two novels I wrote are short novels. And they're more experimental in their form and they're very close to the whole idea of accuracy. And that line, that sentence, has to be so precise. And it has to sing. And it has to have voice. And it has to be just so accurate. That's the sheer joy for me: to actually be able to write a sentence and to know people will get this.
Correspondent: This is extraordinary. Because if you're writing a short story so quickly, and it's not singing, what do you do? I mean, certainly, I presume that you will eventually sing in this mode that you want to. But that's a remarkable speed there. So how do you keep the voice purring?
Nors: Well, actually, I do a lot of reading out loud while I do it. And the rhythm has to be good when I read it aloud myself. I talk a lot. I walk a lot. And I think literature like this has a lot to do with listening to how the words sound and how they work together. But that's an intuitive thing. There's no math in this. Either you can carry a tune or you can't perhaps, right?
Correspondent: Sure. Absolutely.
Nors: So it's something instinctive, I think.
Correspondent: I'm curious to know more about the tension between the Swedish existential dread and angst and the Danish identity. You touched upon this a little bit. I saw your little Atlantic soliloquy about Bergman and how you looked to him as a way of living a tranquil life and not living a wild life, which gets in the way of…well, gets in the way of living, frankly.
Nors: Exactly.
Correspondent: I'm wondering. What do you do to live or draw upon experience or to move into uncomfortable areas? Or is your imagination stronger than that? That you don't really need the life experience. Your imagination in combination with the singing that we're identifying here is enough to live a tranquil life? Or what? And also, I was hoping you could talk about the tension between the Swedish and Danish feelings and all that.
Nors: First of all, I try to live my life as any other human being. I just try not to really be destructive about it. I'm 43. I'm not afraid to tell you how old I am. So I tried a lot in my life and a lot of it has been dramatic. And it has been filled with emotions and breakups and stuff like that. And, of course, I draw on the experience from that. But these days, I think the discipline is very important. I don't need more drama in my life. I don't know why you should seek out drama. Causing pain in your life? That's an immature thing to do at my age, I think. You can't avoid it. It's going to happen anyway. People you love will pass away. Your cat will be hit by a car. Or stuff like that. You don't have to seek it out. It's coming to you.
Correspondent: But I'm wondering if that impulse isn't necessarily a writerly impulse, but just a human impulse. Because when we get closer to forty, we start to say, "Well, do we really want to live this way?" Our choices sometimes become a little more limited. Our responsibilities are greater. We now have a duty to other people. And so is that really a writerly thing? I mean, is the writer doomed in some sense to almost be a child to some degree?
Nors: I think you're absolutely right. I don't think it's necessarily a writer thing. I think it's a time in your life where you think that. Or you go haywire and you go right into the abyss, right? Ingamr Bergman was around 47 when this happened for him. Because he lived a pretty crazy life. Having children all over the place and women. Pretty destructive.
Correspondent: Locking Liv Ullmann up.
Nors: Yeah, exactly. Being very chaotic. An emotionally chaotic life. And then around this age, he took this path also of not living like a monk. Because he certainly didn't. But he was just very structured and disciplined. And I enjoy that. It sounds boring to people. But I really enjoy it. Don't need more drama in my life.
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"Hydrogen Generation by Laser Irradiation of Carbon Powder in Water"
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water — one of the keys to the much-discussed "hydrogen economy" — scientists are reporting that powder from high-grade charcoal and other forms of carbon can free hydrogen from water illuminated with laser pulses. A report on the discovery appears in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Ikuko Akimoto and colleagues point out that traditional approaches to breaking down water, which consists of hydrogen and oxygen, involve use of expensive catalysts or electric current passed through water. Since economical production of hydrogen from water could foster a transition from coal, oil and other fossil fuels, scientists have been searching for less expensive catalysts. Those materials speed up chemical reactions that otherwise would not work effectively. Based on hints from research decades ago, the scientists decided to check out the ability of carbon powder and charcoal powder, which are inexpensive and readily available, to help split hydrogen gas from oxygen in water.
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The authors acknowledge funding from the Original Research Support Project of Wakayama University.


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"For some organizations, near-term survival is the only agenda item. Others are peering through the fog of uncertainty, thinking about how to position themselves once the crisis has passed and things return to normal. The question is, 'What will normal look like?' While no one can say how long the crisis will last, what we find on the other side will not look like the normal of recent years."
These words were written 11 years ago, amid the last global financial crisis, by one of our former managing partners, Ian Davis. They ring true today but if anything, understate the reality the world is currently facing.
It is increasingly clear our era will be defined by a fundamental schism: the period before COVID-19 and the new normal that will emerge in the post-viral era: the "next normal." In this unprecedented new reality, we will witness a dramatic restructuring of the economic and social order in which business and society have traditionally operated. And in the near future, we will see the beginning of discussion and debate about what the next normal could entail and how sharply its contours will diverge from those that previously shaped our lives.
Here, we attempt to answer the question being posed by leaders across the public, private, and social sectors: What will it take to navigate this crisis, now that our traditional metrics and assumptions have been rendered irrelevant? More simply put, it's our turn to answer a question that many of us once asked of our grandparents: What did you do during the war?
Our answer is a call to act across five stages, leading from the crisis of today to the next normal that will emerge after the battle against coronavirus has been won: Resolve, Resilience, Return, Reimagination, and Reform.
The duration of each stage will vary based on geographic and industry context, and institutions may find themselves operating in more than one stage simultaneously. Today, a group of colleagues published "Safeguarding our lives and our livelihoods: The imperative of our time," which emphasizes the urgency of solving now for the virus and the economy, and thereby precedes our focus here on reimagining the future, post-pandemic.
Collectively, these five stages represent the imperative of our time: the battle against COVID-19 is one that leaders today must win if we are to find an economically and socially viable path to the next normal.
In almost all countries, crisis-response efforts are in full motion. A large array of public-health interventions has been deployed. Healthcare systems are—explicitly—on a war footing to increase their capacity of beds, supplies, and trained workers. Efforts are under way to alleviate shortages of much-needed medical supplies. Business-continuity and employee-safety plans have been escalated, with remote work established as the default operating mode. Many are dealing with acute slowdowns in their operations, while some seek to accelerate to meet demand in critical areas spanning food, household supplies, and paper goods. Educational institutions are moving online to provide ongoing learning opportunities as physical classrooms shut down. This is the stage on which leaders are currently focused. Please see "Coronavirus: Leading through the crisis" for more.
And yet, a toxic combination of inaction and paralysis remains, stymying choices that must be made: lockdown or not; isolation or quarantine; shut down the factory now or wait for an order from above. That is why we have called this first stage Resolve: the need to determine the scale, pace, and depth of action required at the state and business levels. As one CEO told us: "I know what to do. I just need to decide whether those who need to act share my resolve to do so."
The pandemic has metastasized into a burgeoning crisis for the economy and financial system. The acute pullback in economic activity, necessary to protect public health, is simultaneously jeopardizing the economic well-being of citizens and institutions. The rapid succession of liquidity and solvency challenges hitting multiple industries is proving resistant to the efforts of central banks and governments to keep the financial system functioning. A health crisis is turning into a financial crisis as uncertainty about the size, duration, and shape of the decline in GDP and employment undermines what remains of business confidence.
A McKinsey Global Institute analysis, based on multiple sources, indicates that the shock to our livelihoods from the economic impact of virus-suppression efforts could be the biggest in nearly a century. In Europe and the United States, this is likely to lead to a decline in economic activity in a single quarter that proves far greater than the loss of income experienced during the Great Depression.
In the face of these challenges, resilience is a vital necessity. Near-term issues of cash management for liquidity and solvency are clearly paramount. But soon afterward, businesses will need to act on broader resilience plans as the shock begins to upturn established industry structures, resetting competitive positions forever. Much of the population will experience uncertainty and personal financial stress. Public-, private-, and social-sector leaders will need to make difficult "through cycle" decisions that balance economic and social sustainability, given that social cohesion is already under severe pressure from populism and other challenges that existed pre-coronavirus.
Returning businesses to operational health after a severe shutdown is extremely challenging, as China is finding even as it slowly returns to work. Most industries will need to reactivate their entire supply chain, even as the differential scale and timing of the impact of coronavirus mean that global supply chains face disruption in multiple geographies. The weakest point in the chain will determine the success or otherwise of a return to rehiring, training, and attaining previous levels of workforce productivity. Leaders must therefore reassess their entire business system and plan for contingent actions in order to return their business to effective production at pace and at scale.
Compounding the challenge, winter will bring renewed crisis for many countries. Without a vaccine or effective prophylactic treatment, a rapid return to a rising spread of the virus is a genuine threat. In such a situation, government leaders may face an acutely painful "Sophie's choice": mitigating the resurgent risk to lives versus the risk to the population's health that could follow another sharp economic pullback. Return may therefore require using the hoped-for—but by no means certain—temporary virus "cease-fire" over the Northern Hemisphere's summer months to expand testing and surveillance capabilities, health-system capacity, and vaccine and treatment development to deal with a second surge. See "Bubbles pop, downturns stop" for more.
A shock of this scale will create a discontinuous shift in the preferences and expectations of individuals as citizens, as employees, and as consumers. These shifts and their impact on how we live, how we work, and how we use technology will emerge more clearly over the coming weeks and months. Institutions that reinvent themselves to make the most of better insight and foresight, as preferences evolve, will disproportionally succeed. Clearly, the online world of contactless commerce could be bolstered in ways that reshape consumer behavior forever. But other effects could prove even more significant as the pursuit of efficiency gives way to the requirement of resilience—the end of supply-chain globalization, for example, if production and sourcing move closer to the end user.
The crisis will reveal not just vulnerabilities but opportunities to improve the performance of businesses. Leaders will need to reconsider which costs are truly fixed versus variable, as the shutting down of huge swaths of production sheds light on what is ultimately required versus nice to have. Decisions about how far to flex operations without loss of efficiency will likewise be informed by the experience of closing down much of global production. Opportunities to push the envelope of technology adoption will be accelerated by rapid learning about what it takes to drive productivity when labor is unavailable. The result: a stronger sense of what makes business more resilient to shocks, more productive, and better able to deliver to customers.
How are you responding to coronavirus along the dimensions described in this article? We will curate and share back your responses.
The world now has a much sharper definition of what constitutes a black-swan event. This shock will likely give way to a desire to restrict some factors that helped make the coronavirus a global challenge, rather than a local issue to be managed. Governments are likely to feel emboldened and supported by their citizens to take a more active role in shaping economic activity. Business leaders need to anticipate popularly supported changes to policies and regulations as society seeks to avoid, mitigate, and preempt a future health crisis of the kind we are experiencing today.
In most economies, a healthcare system little changed since its creation post–World War II will need to determine how to meet such a rapid surge in patient volume, managing seamlessly across in-person and virtual care. Public-health approaches, in an interconnected and highly mobile world, must rethink the speed and global coordination with which they need to react. Policies on critical healthcare infrastructure, strategic reserves of key supplies, and contingency production facilities for critical medical equipment will all need to be addressed. Managers of the financial system and the economy, having learned from the economically induced failures of the last global financial crisis, must now contend with strengthening the system to withstand acute and global exogenous shocks, such as this pandemic's impact. Educational institutions will need to consider modernizing to integrate classroom and distance learning. The list goes on.
The aftermath of the pandemic will also provide an opportunity to learn from a plethora of social innovations and experiments, ranging from working from home to large-scale surveillance. With this will come an understanding of which innovations, if adopted permanently, might provide substantial uplift to economic and social welfare—and which would ultimately inhibit the broader betterment of society, even if helpful in halting or limiting the spread of the virus.
As we consider the scale of change that the coronavirus has engendered—and will continue to engender in the weeks and months ahead—we feel compelled to reflect not just on a health crisis of immense proportion but also on an imminent restructuring of the global economic order. How exactly this crisis evolves remains to be seen. But the five stages described here offer leaders a clear path to begin navigating to the next normal—a normal that looks unlike any in the years preceding the coronavirus, the pandemic that changed everything.


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Middle Schoolers Using Science to Save the World
The above video of then 8th grader Michael Koehler from Pennsylvania explaining Bernoulli's Principle was my first introduction to the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation's premier science competition for middle school students. At that time, in 2008, the students were asked to explain scientific principles and Michael was a finalist for his submission, moving on to the in person competition. I was charmed by his presentation and shared it originally on my first incarnation of Joanne Loves Science.


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In my recent round-up post on ASTD TK11, Shelley left a comment that I'm not sure I can answer as I'm mostly working conferences these days rather than attending (but I will do my best!).
Here's Shelley's question:
"What things have you started doing as a direct result of attending the ASTD conference?"
And I open this question up to any training or elearning conference (Training, TK, DevLearn, Learning Solutions, etc….) as she goes on…
"Sometimes, it can be challenging to justify the cost of conference attendance. We all know that we learn new things, think up ideas, and feel inspired...but how does that translate into concrete benefits weeks later?"
So what about you? Care to share what you've brought home from a recent conference and actually put to work?
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4 Things You Need to Know About Adolescent Anxiety
Anxiety is like fire: It can keep us safe and warm, or completely devastate our property and our lives. It's good to be a little anxious at times. When walking down a deserted street at night, anxiety keeps us on alert and ready to fight or take flight should a dangerous situation arise.
But for many people, especially adolescents, anxiety can become the norm instead of the exception. Just walking into a classroom or being with a group of people they don't know can become crisis situations. And, the more they experience these scary events, the more anxiety becomes a chronic condition.
Here are 4 things parents and teachers should know about adolescent anxiety.
1. Anxiety Refers to Physical Symptoms Associated with Negative Thoughts
Negative thoughts such as, "No one will like me," or "Everyone is going to think I'm stupid" come first. These thoughts are then followed by physical symptoms such as a stomach ache, diarrhea, or shaking and shallow breathing. Young people need to learn how to not only shift their thinking ("This will feel awkward but I'll be okay") but also cope with the physical stress (take slow, deep breaths). This will help kids know without a doubt they can handle uncomfortable feelings instead of avoiding them.
2. Dealing with Anxiety Requires Problem Solving Skills
Life is full of uncertainties and gray areas. Parents of very young children help them navigate through these situations. But adolescents must be equipped with problem solving skills so they may tolerate uncertainty instead of avoiding it, as avoidance only makes things worse and gives anxiety more power.
3. The Adolescent Mind is More Sensitive to Environmental Stress
The adolescent mind is a jumble of chemical changes that can make any situation seem like time spent in a fun house. These hormonal changes make adolescence a particularly challenging time to cope with anxiety.
4. Anxiety is a Vicious Cycle
When young people are anxious, it's easy for the adults around them to become anxious as a response. But, the more anxious parents and teachers are, the more controlling and inflexible they may become.
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Typhoon Hagibis slammed into Japan over the weekend, dropping more than 35 inches of rain in some places and causing catastrophic flooding in communities in the region around Tokyo, as well as further inland.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK reports that the death toll from the storm is now at more than 50 people. That number could rise as the water continues to recede from residential areas, some of which flooded up to the roofs of houses after the storm caused rivers to jump their banks, breaking through levees and sending muddy water rushing into neighborhoods.
Nagano city in central Japan flooded after an embankment along the Chikuma river collapsed, NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports, and tens of thousands of military personnel were deployed to help rescue people who have been trapped by mud and water by raft and helicopter.
The typhoon is the most powerful to hit Japan since a record-setting storm that killed hundreds of people there in 1958.
The storm also knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, according to Reuters, and tens of thousands of households still did not have power on Monday.
Officials are warning that landslide risk is still high days after the storm made landfall. Saturated soil is unstable, and many of the hardest-hit areas are mountainous. At least one deadly landslide was reported by NHKoutside Tokyo.
The mud from river flooding, and the ongoing threat of further mudslides, will make cleaning up from the storm a slog for residents who must hose down homes and businesses in order to assess the damage.
The ultimate cost of the storm won't be clear for weeks or months. But overall global costs from hurricane and typhoon damage have ballooned in recent years, driven by a combination of more frequent and severe storms, rising seas and global development along vulnerable coastlines.
In 2017, Atlantic hurricanes caused $230 billion in damage, mostly in the United States. Last year, typhoons in the Pacific caused record amounts of damage in Asian countries, topping $30 billion, according to the global reinsurance giant Munich Re.
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Former Wall St. Banker Suggests Global Debt May Not be Owned by Humans
Lucas Dare, Staff Writer
Waking Times
Is the world economy a closed system or an open system? In other words, are the world's financial elite conducting transactions with off-planet entities, enslaving the human race to unseen actors?
The world's people are held in perpetual bondage to the fiat currency money masters who have saddled us with absolutely insurmountable debt obligations which are mathematically impossible to repay. At present, the CIA estimates the total global debt to be nearing $90 trillion.
"In 2013, according to the CIA's World Factbook, the GWP totalled approximately US $87.25 trillion in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), and around US $74.31 trillion in nominal terms." [Source]
The gross world product, the nominal value of planetary human endeavor per year, was recently estimated at $78 trillion, meaning nearly an entire year of the productivity of every man, woman and child on planet earth, some 7.4 billion people, is owed to someone, but who exactly no one really knows for sure. How is this possible?
As nations like Greece are forced into austerity and unnecessary hardship by private banks, it is becoming ever more clear to the people of the world that debt-based currency is being used to conquer nations and enslave free people. The fiat money scheme is so absurd, so detrimental to human progress, that any sane person has to wonder why the global debt cannot just be written off with a few key strokes, allowing the world's economy to again thrive.
In fact it can be written off, as was implied by former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan.
"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default." ~Alan Greenspan
In other words, the money, ie., the debt, is meaningless, only having value if governments around the world use law and the violence of authority to enforce their citizens into payment of these fraudulent obligations, which is indeed happening the world over.
"I thought about the core tools we EHMs (economic hit men) used in my day: false economics that included distorted financial analyses, inflated projections, and rigged accounting books; secrecy, deception, threats, bribes, and extortion; false promises that we never intended to honor; and enslavement through debt and fear. These same tools are used today." ~John Perkins, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
After years of investigative research into the trillions of dollars missing from the U.S. government, former Wall Street banker and former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, Catherine Austin Fitts has come to the conclusion that global debt may very well be owned by off-planet entities who operate planet earth as a real estate investment.
"Is earth an open or closed economy? I went to business school, I worked on Wall Street for eleven years, you know I've been involved in the economy my whole life and the whole time I was invited to assume that earth was a closed economy. So, if we issued debt, then other humans owned that debt. If we issued stock, other humans owned that stock. But if you look at all the economic experiences I've had over my whole life, in government, businesses, everything else, what I will tell you is, you know, if you ask me to describe the economic model on planet earth, I would say, 'well planet earth is a real estate investment trust because we're paying a dividend some place every year, and I don't know where it's going. It's going into that question mark, on the planetary balance sheet." [Source]
While she admits that she herself does not have the answer to this rather serious question, the fact that each year a major portion of the world's productivity evaporates into thin air, with no accountability whatsoever, does indeed beg this question to be asked by any serious economist. Even the government accounting agencies responsible for tracking and recording our expenditures can do nothing to answer the question. The money simply vanishes, the debt grows exponentially, and no one can explain who exactly the beneficiary is.
"Let me bring it down to some of the important questions you have to ask if you ask the question, 'is this an open or closed economy.' I got great statistics on who would issue debt, but for the life of me I couldn't get great statistics on who owned it. I don't know who owns it. I know they control. And they control through the debt because that's how you control a company in invisible ways, by controlling through the debt. Who owns the debt? Is it humans, or is it somebody else?" ~Catherine Austin Fitts
We have a decent idea of who controls the world's debt (the central banks, the IMF, and the private banking families), and we assume that these entities own this debt, but the cost to humanity is so great that something simply does not add up, unless the picture is broadened to include the possibility that earthlings are paying rent to other, as of yet undisclosed actors.
"Some people say that gold is the currency that will allow us to trade across planets, but for the life of me, I've spent many years trying to figure out what the gold inventory is on this planet, and I can't do it. In 2011, somebody jammed the price of gold down, and then moved an unbelievable amount of inventory out of the single largest inventory in the overt economy for the GLD ETF." ~Catherine Austin Fitts
It's almost as if someone bought the moon, she points out, yet there is absolutely no agency on our planet that can explain astronomically huge transactions like these nor bring accountability to the billions of people who are being subjugated by a slavish debt-currency system.
So who owns our debt? It is a practical and key question, given the impact the carrying of such tremendous amounts of debt has on the human condition, and how easy it could be to free ourselves and future generations from such unreasonable, criminal bondage by simply adjusting a few digits on a computer screen. The fact that this option is not on the table in any discussion at any level is itself telling.
About the Author
Lucas Dare is a staff writer for Waking Times, where evolution and revolution unite, and for Offgrid Outpost.
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This article (Former Wall St. Banker Suggests Global Debt May Not be Owned by Humans) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Lucas Dare and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution and author bio.


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You have heard of mites – minute arachnids that have four pairs of legs when adult, are related to the ticks and live in the soil, though some are parasitic on plants or animals. But what are vermiform mites? Maybe you have heard of vermi-compost, a composting technique that uses worms (like your earthworm in the garden) to decompose organic matter. So vermiform mites are mites with a body shape like a worm:
Why are they shaped like a worm, you may ask – To find out more I interviewed Samuel Bolton, former PhD student in the acarology collection at our museum, now Curator of Mites at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Sam's main research interest is in mites that live on plants and in the soil, especially Endeostigmata, a very ancient group of mites that dates back around 400 million years, before there were any trees or forests. Sam's PhD research with Dr. Hans Klompen here at OSU, was focused on a small family (only five described species) of worm-like mites, called Nematalycidae.
side note: You may have heard of Sam's research in 2014 when he discovered a new species of mite, not in a far-away country, but across the road from his work place in the museum.
When Sam started his research it was not clear where these worm-like mites in the family Nematalycidae belong in the tree of life. To find out Sam studied several morphological characters of Nematalycidae and other mites. He focused in particular on the mouth-parts of this group. As he learned more about the mouth-parts of this family, he found evidence that they are closely related to another lineage of worm-like mites, the gall mites (Eriophyoidea). Eriophyoidea have a sheath that wraps up a large bundle of stylets. They use these stylets to pierce plant cells, inject saliva into them and suck cell sap.
Although Nematalycidae don't have stylets, one genus has a very rudimentary type of sheath that extends around part of the pincer-like structures that have been modified into stylets in Eriophyoidea.
So what did Sam and his co-authors discover?
".. Not only are gall mites the closest related group to Nematalycidae, but the results of our phylogenetic analysis places them within Nematalycidae. This suggests that gall mites are an unusual group of nematalycids that have adapted to feeding and living on plants. Gall mites use their worm-like body in a completely different way from Nematalycidae, which live in deep soil. But both lineages appear to use their worm-like bodies to move around in confined spaces: gall mites can live in the confined spaces in galls, under the epidermis (skin), and in between densely packed trichomes on the surface of leaves; Nematalycidae live in the tight spaces between the densely packed mineral particles deep in the soil."
This research potentially increases the size of Sam's family of expertise, Nematalycidae, from 5 species to 5,000 species. We have yet to confirm this discovery, but it is highly likely that gall mites are closely related to Nematalycidae, even if they are not descended from Nematalycidae. This is interesting because it shows that the worm-like body form evolved less frequently than we thought. This discovery also provides an interesting clue about how gall mites may have originated to become parasites. They may have started out in deep soil as highly elongated mites. When they began feeding on plants, they may have used their worm-shaped bodies to live underneath the epidermis of plants. As they diversified, many of them became shorter and more compact in body shape.
I wish I could tell you now to go out and look for these oddly shaped mites yourself, but you really need a microscope. Eriophyoid mites are minute, averaging 100 to 500 μm in length. For your reference, an average human hair has a diameter of 100 microns.
Bolton, S. J., Chetverikov, P. E., & Klompen, H. (2017). Morphological support for a clade comprising two vermiform mite lineages: Eriophyoidea (Acariformes) and Nematalycidae (Acariformes). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22(8), 1096-1131.
About the Authors: Angelika Nelson, curator of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, interviewed Samuel Bolton, former PhD graduate student in the OSU Acarology lab, now Curator of Mites at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, in the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Division of Plant Industry.


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Turduckens Require Safe Food Handling
Club sandwiches, lasagna, and eggs Benedict are examples of foods assembled in layers. However, "turducken"—a layered poultry dish especially popular during the holidays—is an exceptionally risky one that requires safe food handling and thorough cooking to prevent foodborne illness.
The "turducken" is a deboned stuffed chicken inside a deboned stuffed duck inside a deboned stuffed turkey. The name is comprised of syllables from the words "turkey," "duck," and "chicken." Usually the tip end of the turkey leg bones and the first two wing joints are left on the turkey so that after assembly, the finished product resembles a whole turkey. Alternatively, the finished turducken can be a completely boneless roll with stuffing layered between each bird.
Stuffings may include cornbread dressing, sausage stuffing, oyster dressing, alligator, crawfish and shrimp. To serve, the roasted turducken is sliced crosswise so that servings consist of all the layers.
The idea for this multilayered, deboned fowl came from Louisiana where thousands of them are commercially prepared yearly. Turduckens are prepared in other States as well, and consumers also debone poultry and assemble them in home kitchens.
Critical control points involved in handling this risky assemblage are many, especially if the dish is made by a consumer and not in a USDA-inspected plant. Safe steps in food handling, cooking, and storage are essential to prevent foodborne illness. You can't see, smell, or taste harmful bacteria that may cause illness. In every step of food preparation, follow the four Fight BAC!® guidelines to keep food safe:
- Clean—Wash hands and surfaces often.
- Separate—Don't cross-contaminate.
- Cook—Cook to proper temperatures.
- Chill—Refrigerate promptly.
As when cooking any meat or poultry product, USDA strongly recommends using a food thermometer to ensure the turducken has reached a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F throughout the product. Here are specific recommendations from the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline for safely handling and cooking turduckens.
Safe Handling of Turducken Ingredients
- When creating a turducken at home, bring the raw birds directly home from the store and refrigerate (40 °F or below) immediately-within 2 hours (1 hour when the temperature is above 90 °F).
- Make sure the raw poultry is wrapped securely and place it on a plate or casserole dish to prevent cross-contamination, or raw juices getting onto ready-to-eat food.
- Store the raw turkey, duck, and chicken no longer than 2 days before deboning, assembling and cooking.
- If the turducken has been purchased through mail order, make sure it arrives frozen with a cold source in an insulated carton. Transfer it immediately to the freezer. If the turducken arrives warm, notify the company. Do not use the product.
Creating a Turducken
- Before and after handling any raw meat or poultry, always wash hands in warm, soapy water for 20 seconds.
- While handling and deboning the three birds, keep the raw poultry and their juices away from other food.
- Make the stuffing immediately before assembling the turducken.
- Make sure the birds and stuffing are not out of the refrigerator in the "Danger Zone"—between 40 and 140 °F—more than 2 hours while assembling the turducken.
- Pack the stuffing loosely, not too tightly, to promote efficient heat transfer during cooking.
- After cutting raw poultry, wash cutting board, knife, and counter tops with hot, soapy water.
- After washing, you may choose to sanitize cutting boards by using a solution of 1 tablespoon of unscented, liquid chlorine bleach per 1 gallon of water.
- Another good and easy way to wash the cutting board is to run it through the dishwasher after use. Non-porous acrylic, plastic, glass and solid wood boards can be washed in a dishwasher (laminated boards may crack and split).
Roasting the Turducken and Handling Leftovers
- For home-prepared turducken, roast immediately after assembly.
- Roast the turducken in an oven set no lower than 325 °F.
- When roasting a purchased USDA-inspected turducken, follow the package directions.
- When roasting a purchased frozen turducken without package directions, cook from the frozen state in an oven set no lower than 325 °F to a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F to ensure a safely cooked product.
- Use a food thermometer to ensure that all layers of the turducken and stuffing reach a minimum safe internal temperature of 165 °F. Check the temperature in several places in the birds and stuffings, including the center bird. For a boneless rolled turducken, the thermometer should be placed at the center of the thickest part of the turducken to determine the safe internal temperature.
- Slice and serve the cooked turducken within 2 hours after cooking. If it is not intended to be served within 2 hours then slice and cut in smaller portions before putting it into the refrigerator to cool fast. A whole cooked turducken may not cool to a safe temperature within the time needed to prevent bacterial growth.
- After slicing and serving the turducken, refrigerate any leftovers in a shallow container within 2 hours of cooking. Perishable food should not be left out more than 2 hours at room temperature (1 hour when the temperature is above 90 °F).
- It is not necessary to remove stuffing between layers of the birds because it is thin and cools quickly to a safe temperature.
- Use the leftovers within 3 to 4 days after cooking or freeze for longer storage.


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Cricut 3 Birds on Parade Cartridge (full size)
Cricut Oct. 31 Cartridge (fall mini)
Cricut Pumpkin Carvings Cartridge (fall mini)
Cricut H2O Cartridge (fall mini)
Can you say Halloween!? Lots to see on those!
Cricut 3 Birds On Parade:
I am loving this cartridge full of this little bird! It's almost like a paper doll cartridge for the little blue bird! We have him dressed as a pilgrim, as a vampire, football player, etc., mostly using the seasons as a guide for his outfits. And, let me tell you, this cartridge also comes with the CUTEST word art ever!
About my card: I needed a graduation card and thought that putting a mini envelope on the front would be a convenient way to store a check. The bird itself is keeping the envelope closed. I added a graduation sentiment inside at the top. Paper is from October Afternoon, ribbon from Papertrey Ink.
Cricut Oct. 31 Cartridge (Fall Mini):
This window is cut at 4-3/4" and the storm is cut at 2-1/2" and mounted on a 5" x 7" card. Paper is from Basic Grey's Eerie collection.
These eyes remind me of Scooby Doo....I cut them at 1-3/4" and mounted on an A2 card. Paper is by Basic Grey.
This cartridge is a single layer cartridge, typical of the mini size from Provocraft. This one is for the serious Halloween crafter who wants realistic images - no cartoony images here. All scary things! I cut a number of things before I decided on what to do. You can see them below. A word of advice - the more intricate images need to be cut LARGE. I tried to cut some of them smaller and it just didn't want to work.
Cricut Pumpkin Carvings (Fall Mini):
This is a great cartridge for those of you who like to carve pumpkins! You can cut these out with vinyl (or even paper and tape it on the pumpkin) and go to town! But, there are also some images that are perfect for cards....so, even if you don't carve pumpkins, there is something on here for you. Again, single layer images only.
This bat oval is cut at 3-1/2". It does not come with a background oval (since this is primarily for pumpkin carving) so I had to improvise. I got out the A Child's Year cartridge and used the oval on page 40 using the Tag feature key at 3-1/2" using the Real Dial Size. Then I trimmed a hair of it off. Paper from American Crafts.
Cricut H2O (Fall Mini):
In a similar style to the recently released Cricut Lite Block Party cartridge, this offers a retro look for your swim/water theme projects. Lots of people images on this cartridge with many little pieces. It appears you need to cut the "little piece" layers many times in different colors. Lots of word art on this also!
I cut this slide at 9" and the "water park" word art at 4". I like the layering on the slide! Paper from DCWV!
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For an application that uses JSP w/ glassfish app server with a multi-tiered s/w architecture that has a business logic layer and a data access layer (db access) used by the business logic layer (the business logic and data access logic are java classes in a separate Jar file that's used by the JSP), how does the data access layer get access to the connection pool created by the glassfish app server? I'm wondering how this would be done when using plain old JDBC (and then I'll research how it's done for both hibernate and JPA).
NOTE: I'm currently having the JSP layer pass down the connection to my business logic object (which passes it to my Data Access logic object) -- not a good thing, of course.


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Victorian Library Build Day Two August 20, 2011 1 Comment
As day two comes to a close we have made a great deal of progress. As you can see from the photo above we have two bookcases fully assembled. The rest of the pieces are waiting for assembly tomorrow morning.
We also finished all the electrical and home theater wiring. Now is the time to plan ahead and make sure you have everything you need because once this is all sealed up its very hard to access. Luckily for us, this isn't the first time we've wired a theater. We leave 'chases' for ourselves so we can fish more wires in and out as technology changes. We also ran two CAT6 cables in, just as we do for each room we work on.
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Så er den nye econstories video her!
Here we are… peace out! great recession
thanks to me, as you see, we're not in a depression
Recovery, destiny if you follow my lesson
Lord Keynes, here I come, line up for the procession
We brought out the shovels but we're still in a ditch…
And still digging. don't you think that it's time for a switch…
From that hair of the dog. Friend, the party is over.
The long run is here. It's time to get sober!
Are you kidding? my cure works perfectly fine…
have a look, the great recession ended back in '09.
Surely, I deserve credit. Things would have been worse
All the estimates prove it—I'll quote chapter and verse
Econometricians, they're ever so pious
Are they doing real science or confirming their bias?
Their "Keynesian" models are tidy and neat
But that top down approach is a fatal conceit
Which way should we choose?
more bottom up or more top down
…the fight continues…
Keynes and Hayek's second round
it's time to weigh in…
more from the top or from the ground
…lets listen to the greats
Keynes and Hayek throwing down
we could have done better, had we only spent more
Too bad that only happens when there's a World War
You can carp all you want about stats and regression
Do you deny World War II cut short the Depression?
Wow. One data point and you're jumping for joy
the Last time I checked, wars only destroy
There was no multiplier, consumption just shrank
As we used scarce resources for every new tank
Pretty perverse to call that prosperity
Rationed meat, Rationed butter… a life of austerity
When that war spending ended your friends cried disaster
yet the economy thrived and grew ever faster
You too only see what you want to see
The spending on war clearly goosed GDP
Unemployment was over, almost down to zero
That's why I'm the master, that's why I'm the hero
Creating employment's a straigtforward craft
When the nation's at war, and there's a draft
If every worker was staffed in the army and fleet
We'd be at full employment with nothing to eat
jobs are the means, not the ends in themselves
people work to live better, to put food on the shelves
real growth means production of what people demand
That's entrepreneurship not your central plan
My solution is simple and easy to handle..
its spending that matters, why's that such a scandal?
The money sloshes through the pipes and the sluices
revitalizing the economy's juices
it's just like an engine that's stalled and gone dark
To bring it to life, we need a quick spark
Spending's the life blood that gets the flow going
Where it goes doesn't matter, just get spending flowing
You see slack in some sectors as a "general glut"
But some sectors are healthy, and some in a rut
So spending's not free – that's the heart of the matter
too much is wasted as cronies get fatter.
The economy's not a car, there's no engine to stall
no expert can fix it, there's no "it" at all.
The economy's us, we don't need a mechanic
Put away the wrenches, the economy's organic
so what would you do to help those unemployed?
this is the question you seem to avoid
when we're in a mess, would you just have us wait?
Doing nothing until markets equil-i-brate?
I don't want to do nothing, there's plenty to do
The question I ponder is who plans for who?
Do I plan for myself or leave it to you?
I want plans by the many and not by the few.
We shouldn't repeat what created our troubles
I want real growth not just a series of bubbles
Let's stop bailing out losers and let prices work
If we don't try to steer them they won't go berserk
Come on, Are you kidding? Don't Wall Street's gyrations
Challenge your world view of self-regulation?
Even you must admit that the lesson we've learned
Is more oversight's needed or else we'll get burned
Oversight? The government's long been in bed
With the Wall Street execs and the firms that they've led
Prosperity's all about profit and loss
When you bail out the losers there's no end to the cost
the lesson I've learned? It's how little we know,
the world is complex, not some circular flow
the economy's not a class you can master in college
to think otherwise is the pretense of knowledge
You get on your high horse and you're off to the races
I look at the world on a case by case basis
When people are suffering I roll up my sleeves
And do what I can to cure our disease
The future's uncertain, our outlooks are frail
Thats why free markets are so prone to fail
In a volatile world we need more discretion
So state intervention can counter depression
People aren't chessmen you can move on a board
at your whim–their dreams and desires ignored
With political incentives, discretion's a joke
The dials you're twisting… are just mirrors and smoke
the market's a process where we can discover
the most valuable ways to serve one another
we need stable rules and real market prices
so prosperity emerges and cuts short the crisis
Which way should we choose?
more bottom up or more top down
the fight continues…
Keynes and Hayek's second round
it's time to weigh in…
more from the top or from ground
…lets listen to the greats
Keynes and Hayek throwing down