Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 02:11 AM Report

Yes, when Tony Blair said slightly he was doing God’s work this made him too subjective to make important decisions.

Add George W. in as "The Decider" who prayed about it and well you know what happened.

So where is the cheap gasoline? God just wanted the war and not for America to have cheap gasoline?

I do not think these two were speaking to God after all.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 02:05 AM Report

He says we are all wired up now and that creates more fear.

Being all wired up means more truth so the fear mongers have less power. He has it backwards.

However, I will give him all the junk emails that are forwarded without a trip first to snopes.com.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 02:01 AM Report

Oh yes, a state of fear will give you predictable markets.

Where is all the money Osama bin Laden made on 9/11?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/17/2012 01:57 AM Report

Charlie, on creating future markets and Robert's statement about his fear when he read Bill Gates book and learned the markets are 75% traded by computer, let us not forget the movie "Pi".

In this movie a computer not only predicts the stock market but translates the unspeakable name of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28film%29

Gelles  02/14/2012 08:01 AM Report

Harris' anti-war bias is not my cup of tea. None (but evil bastards)want war for the wrong reasons and objectives. But Bush, Blair and Gelles wanted Saddam and his sons dead. The Arab spring may fail. But all its hope and good potential started with Bush and Blair not the peace-niks who believe history is on their side. Munich is on their side -- and it was a pitiful event. It need not be repeated in our history or the next.

Gelles  02/14/2012 07:47 AM Report

http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Harris/e/B000APBPA4/ref=sr_tc_2_rm?qid=1329223256&sr=8-2-ent

Gelles  02/14/2012 07:19 AM Report

Robert Harris is allowed only 17 minutes for his books “The Fear Index” and "The Ghost Writer" and his experiences in journalism and with fact-based novels that try to tell us the real stories history cannot.

He obviously has a talent, mind and life with whom we would be privileged to spend years. I am reminded immediately of the interview with the Facebook twins, Mark and Sheryl Zucker- and- Sand- berg. The latter interview is about connecting all our voices (fingers too,) together, to allow language, no matter how mundane, to make us one not 7 billion competing souls.

The former, Robert Harris, would connect computer stored memory recipes for data squeezing transformation of oranges into orange juice, to our recall of modern interpretative literature, as well as of one reader with another and an author.

The two interviews invite monumental time and talent to reflect on "where's the money to be found to connect our problems to solutions".

The modern algorithm is a very explicit set of simple steps to gather numbers from intermediate calculations to final answers that can be automated fully to allow for gambling at nearly the speed of light. It has always made us the victim of "garbage in gives garbage out".

When socialism first challenged capitalism (and its trump, the hand of God's invisible way to optimize utility), from 1848 to 1989, it needed computer algorithms to manage prices better than the crowd. It failed when police were used to crush the human spirit instead of crunching all the numbers hidden from the systems charged with producing all our needs.

Which is not to say that socialism will be triumphant and capitalism extinct. Keynes used the better words, "monetary system of production", for what we might use for full production of things and full employment of consumers content to make water, food and medicine as free as the air we breathe.

"The Fear Index", I fear, is about markets more than materialism. Materialism has received a bad rap because it was contrasted with spiritualism. There is another contrast that is fair and useful: materialism versus want. In our spiritual victory over fascism in the 1940's, we relied on the promise of Freedom from Want, (as well as Freedom of Speech and Religion and Freedom from Fear.)

We presently need Robert Harris, Mark and Sheryl (sugar and sand mountain,) and Charlie and the rest of us, to wrestle with Keynes, as far from casino capitalism as possible, to put our algorithmic talents to work the "Economic Security Agency". This ESA will learn from our NSA as much as possible about extracting pattern from data at near the speed of light.

We will thereafter pump money at gargantuan pressure at poverty and scarcity until we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

One man one vote must produce "one man no less than one rewarding job" or we may as well stay home on election day.

Taxes must be replaced by private cash savings to prevent hyper-inflation; savings must be indexed to the cost of living to do the preceding step; cooperation must be tenured and competition tamed, if the business Olympics is to offer peace and plenty instead of weaponry and war; society assisted education must begin with parental responsibility for our collective futures -- and never end before we're dead and gone; written and practiced rules and regulations must be sparse and open to immediate correction by living intelligence confronted with the real and special elements of the moment; at least two ancient summaries of our objectives must not be ignored:

..... 1. Reward other people as you would have them and Nature reward you.

..... 2. We the People, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America and for all its friends and neighbors who want the same or better in this world or the next.

.

[ http://www.ustaxreform.us/.crs.htm to be continued and corrected forever and a day ]

REMant  02/13/2012 11:31 AM Report

He's right, mkts panic and profit from it, but it's not new. Ricardo made his fortune that way. I think tho the time for a book of this sort would have been 4 or 5 yrs ago, both message- and money-wise.