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The Higher Education System In These Countries (us, Korea Etc) Has Become Like A Theatre In Which Some People Decided To Stand To Get A Better View, Promoting The Others Behind Them To Stand. Once Enough People Stand, Everyone Has To Stand, Which Means No One Is Getting A Better View, While Everyone Has Become More Uncomfortable.

If We Are Really Serious About Preventing Another Crisis Like The 2008 Meltdown We Should Simply Ban Complex Financial Instruments, Unless They Can Be Unambiguously Shown To Benefit Society In The Long Run. This Is What We Do All The Time With Other Products-drugs, Cars, Electrical Products And Many Others.

There Is A Big Logical Jump Between Acknowledging The Destructive Nature Of Hyperinflation And Arguing That The Lower The Rate Of Inflation, The Better.

Once You Realize That Trickle-down Economics Does Not Work, You Will See The Excessive Tax Cuts For The Rick As What They Are -- A Simple Upward Redistribution Of Income, Rather Than A Way To Make All Of Us Richer, As We Were Told.

All The Alleged Key Causes Of Soe [state-owned Enterprise] Inefficiency - The Principal-agent Problem, The Free-rider Problem And The Soft Budget Constraint - Are, While Real, Not Unique To State-owned Enterprises. Large Private-sector Firms With Dispersed Ownership Also Suffer From The Principal-agent Problem And The Free-rider Problem. So, In These Two Areas, Forms Of Ownership Do Matter, But The Critical Divide Is Not Between State And Private Ownership - It Is Between Concentrated And Dispersed Ownerships.