Saturday, 21 February 2009
Paul Krugman: What will stop the pain?
So people at the Fed are troubled by the same question I’ve been obsessing on lately: What’s supposed to end this slump? No doubt this, too, shall pass - but how, and when?
Housing aid won’t solve U.S. crisis
The U.S. government should just get out of the way and allow the crash in U.S. housing. The market is too big, has too far to fall and Americans’ finances are too strained.
China Starts Investing Globally
With the world suffering through a tight credit market, China has suddenly gone shopping.
Friday, 20 February 2009
Stimulus Package Explained
Shortly after class, a student approaches his economics professor and says, “I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?”
Some Humour
What is a kiss?
It’s an upper PREPARATION for a lower INVASION that will lead to further PENETRATION with fast ACCELERATION that will build next GENERATION.
Latest Statistics: What men do after sex? 2% eat. 3% smoke cigarettes. 4% take shower.5% go to sleep. 86% get up and go back home to their wives.
Why is your dick better than a credit card?
a) Once spent recharges itself.
b) It is accepted worldwide.
c) You can let your wife use it as much as she wants.
LITTLE GIRL: Mommy, I just found out that our neighbour’s son has a penis like a peanut!
MUM: You mean it’s small?
LITTLE GIRL: No it’s salty.
Women top 5 lies:
e) I am a virgin.
d) It is so big.
c) I can’t do that to my best friend.
b) I won’t gain weight after marriage
a) I am coming! I am coming!
A guy goes up to a girl in a bar and says: You want to play magic.
She says: What is that?
He says: We go Home, screw, and then you disappear.
What is the closest thing to a woman’s period?
Your SALARY... It comes once a month, lasts 4 or 5 days, and if it doesn’t come, you are F*CKED!!!
Teacher asked: Which part of the body goes to heaven first?
A Kid replied: The legs, because every night I see my mum’s legs up high and screaming “OH GOD! I’M COMING”.
Teacher: Why did you bring your cat to school?
Pupil: Because I heard my sister’s boyfriend say “TONIGHT I WILL EAT YOUR PUSSY”.
MUM: Didn’t I tell you if stranger touches your breast say “DON’T”.
And if he touches your pussy say STOP!
GIRL: But mum, he touched both, so I told him: DON’T STOP!
It’s an upper PREPARATION for a lower INVASION that will lead to further PENETRATION with fast ACCELERATION that will build next GENERATION.
Latest Statistics: What men do after sex? 2% eat. 3% smoke cigarettes. 4% take shower.5% go to sleep. 86% get up and go back home to their wives.
Why is your dick better than a credit card?
a) Once spent recharges itself.
b) It is accepted worldwide.
c) You can let your wife use it as much as she wants.
LITTLE GIRL: Mommy, I just found out that our neighbour’s son has a penis like a peanut!
MUM: You mean it’s small?
LITTLE GIRL: No it’s salty.
Women top 5 lies:
e) I am a virgin.
d) It is so big.
c) I can’t do that to my best friend.
b) I won’t gain weight after marriage
a) I am coming! I am coming!
A guy goes up to a girl in a bar and says: You want to play magic.
She says: What is that?
He says: We go Home, screw, and then you disappear.
What is the closest thing to a woman’s period?
Your SALARY... It comes once a month, lasts 4 or 5 days, and if it doesn’t come, you are F*CKED!!!
Teacher asked: Which part of the body goes to heaven first?
A Kid replied: The legs, because every night I see my mum’s legs up high and screaming “OH GOD! I’M COMING”.
Teacher: Why did you bring your cat to school?
Pupil: Because I heard my sister’s boyfriend say “TONIGHT I WILL EAT YOUR PUSSY”.
MUM: Didn’t I tell you if stranger touches your breast say “DON’T”.
And if he touches your pussy say STOP!
GIRL: But mum, he touched both, so I told him: DON’T STOP!
Migrants may flee Tibet as tourism stalls
Many workers and traders from other ethnic groups who moved to the remote region in search of a better living said they were considering leaving for good, driven away by the tourism slump and icy anger of local Tibetans.
Mengniu Dairy product is target of fresh inquiry
The mainland’s product quality watchdog says it is investigating the safety of a premium dairy product made by the country’s top milk producer, China Mengniu Dairy.
Memory chip trader gets 14 years for bank fraud
He admits to charges involving US$23 million in fake-trade swindle
Media giants race to expand online services
Government outlets shamed into pursuing greater internet presence
Japan ‘warned’ over disputed Diaoyu islands
Beijing said it had issued a sharp warning to Tokyo over media reports that Japan had positioned patrol vessels capable of carrying helicopters near a disputed island chain.
Graduates wishing for job ‘offer’ come a-calling at temples
Beleaguered university graduates are turning to Guangzhou’s temples of the reclining Buddha to boost their dim job prospects in the hope that a homonym will give them an edge in the labour market.
Foreign visitors barred from areas with big Tibetan populations
Western areas of the country with large Tibetan populations have been declared off limits to foreign visitors, local officials confirmed yesterday, ahead of the politically sensitive 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising.
DC rates may be cut in unforgiving market
One hot discussion topic is whether govt will revert to 50% formula for DC calculation in face of recession
China riots ‘won’t lead to rebellion’
The number of protests and riots in China is rising by the year, but there is little possibility that social unrest will result in an anti-government uprising, a Chinese academic said yesterday.
China detains building chief in TV complex blaze
In a spate of arrests announced Thursday, Beijing officials put the blame for a Monday fire that destroyed part of the government’s spectacular new media complex squarely on the shoulders of the state-run television network.
Chen launches essay competition
Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian appears to be doing all he can to liven up his days in detention.
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