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USA Needs A Turnaround!

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Tattered Flag depicting the turnaround USA needs
Tattered Flag depicting the turnaround USA needs

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is telling us the USA needs a turnaround.

The WEF is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Each year, this venerable, thoughtful and independent group, publishes the Global Competitiveness Report. The group essentially review a broad number of factors (111 this year), many objectively measured, to determine ability of each country (144 this year) to provide a good life for their citizens.

This report is the closest thing we have to an objective ranking of national competitiveness on a global scale. I have found it to be thorough, unbiased and reflective of economic reality. You can access this years report here.

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Down With Doom

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A really really bad day spelling doom?
A really really bad day spelling doom?

By then I had begun to notice that this terrible future was not all that bad. In fact every single one of the dooms I had been threatened with had proved either false or exaggerated. The population explosion was slowing down, famine had largely been conquered (except in war-torn tyrannies), India was exporting food, cancer rates were falling not rising (adjusted for age), the Sahel was greening, the climate was warming, oil was abundant, air pollution was falling fast, nuclear disarmament was proceeding apace, forests were thriving, sperm counts had not fallen. And above all, prosperity and freedom were advancing at the expense of poverty and tyranny.

From Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists

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Reason To Avoid A Hospital!

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Hospital stay, its a roll of the dice
Hospital stay, its a roll of the dice

So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t. Such are the vagaries of life.

Quote from SuperFreakonomics

Statistics suggest Hospitals are for serious problems, and a clinic or your doctor’s office might be a better choice for all else! What has been your experience visiting a hospital?

Where Does Talent Come From?

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Sara Shivamber showing her talent as a dancer
Sara Shivamber showing her talent as a dancer

Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer, golf, surgery, piano playing, Scrabble, writing, chess, software design, stock picking and darts. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers.

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