V****n
发帖数: 651 | 1 Does the United States still have the same level of control over the energy
resources of the Middle East as it once had?
The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of
the Western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the
Arab Spring is limited, but it’s not insignificant. The Western-controlled
dictatorial system is eroding. In fact, it’s been eroding for some time. So
, for example, if you go back 50 years, the energy resources -- the main
concern... 阅读全帖 |
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mw
发帖数: 525 | 2 我一贯的观点就是，以普选为基础的共和制度不是人类历史的主旋律，到最后，共和国
要么保持一个小家碧玉的状态在角落里孤芳自赏，要么做大了之后变成帝国。
二战之后，美国一夜暴富，整个旧世界的财富（黄金，科学家）都到了美国。早些年新
世纪的洛克菲勒们在欧洲人面前还稍微有点底气不足，这下子全都志得意满的开始得色
起来了。
可是这还不够。大家设身处地的想一想，如果你富可敌国，美女，游艇，拉斯维加斯，
还有像王启明说的颠覆小国家，都玩腻了，你玩什么？对的，you wanna be an
emperor!
可是遗憾的是，你生活在一个民主的republic，老百姓都是一群hard core WASP, 连达
尔文都不信，更别说你个暴发户了，怎么办？
很简单，如果wasp不买你的账，你就想办法让wasp变得无足轻重。WASP奴役和歧视有色
人种都几百年了，突然马丁路德金喊了一声stop，美国就stop了，这tmd可能吗？
黑人运动是美国从republic向empire转变的起点。从此开始，共和制度的基础---有着
相同价值观的voter base---开始瓦解。几千万呢个，几千万张新印出来的选票，代表
的... 阅读全帖 |
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b*******r
发帖数: 6655 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: mw (mw), 信区: USANews
标 题: 从共和国变为帝国, 是美国历史的必然
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Sep 15 03:37:28 2012, 美东)
我一贯的观点就是，以普选为基础的共和制度不是人类历史的主旋律，到最后，共和国
要么保持一个小家碧玉的状态在角落里孤芳自赏，要么做大了之后变成帝国。
二战之后，美国一夜暴富，整个旧世界的财富（黄金，科学家）都到了美国。早些年新
世纪的洛克菲勒们在欧洲人面前还稍微有点底气不足，这下子全都志得意满的开始得色
起来了。
可是这还不够。大家设身处地的想一想，如果你富可敌国，美女，游艇，拉斯维加斯，
还有像王启明说的颠覆小国家，都玩腻了，你玩什么？对的，you wanna be an
emperor!
可是遗憾的是，你生活在一个民主的republic，老百姓都是一群hard core WASP, 连达
尔文都不信，更别说你个暴发户了，怎么办？
很简单，如果wasp不买你的账，你就想办法让wasp变得无足轻重。WASP奴役和歧视有色
人种都几百年了，突然马丁路德... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 4 泰国知名换汇中心23日发出声明，拒绝接受顾客使用印有反政府字句，或政治相关标语
的港币纸钞进行换汇。
据泰国《世界日报》8月24日消息，香港暴乱持续延烧，已有香港民众陆续收到印有“
港独”口号的20元港币，甚至有100元纸钞上公然出现鼓吹“香港独立”的贴纸。
报道称，包括Superrich Thailand、Superrich 1965两家私人换汇中心拒买印有政治标
语的港币，因为这些钞票将无法转售给国内各商业银行。Superrich1965已在其公司社
交媒体账号上传两种印有不同反政府标语的港币，并贴出拒绝换汇说明。
换汇中心员工私下表示，包括大城银行、泰京银行与泰国军人银行都已知会中心，他们
不会购入印有反政府标语的纸钞。
换汇中心建议泰国旅客，若持有被标记的港币，最好于返回泰国前在香港境内进行兑换
，因为泰国国内可能没有任何换汇中心或银行会接受。 |
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l*****k
发帖数: 1059 | 5 http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021013488_chin
China’s wealthy paying cash for Eastside luxury homes
Eastside real-estate brokers say they’ve noticed a wave of affluent
mainland-Chinese buyers for luxury homes in Medina, Clyde Hill and other
millionaire rows in West Bellevue. Data and public records show they’re
right. It’s part of a cash-buyer phenomenon sweeping the home market.
By Sanjay Bhatt
Seattle Times business reporter
Real-estate agent Joseph Ho climbed the gilded stai... 阅读全帖 |
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M*V
发帖数: 3205 | 6 http://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-a-western-nanny-for-a-supe
A Candid Account Of What It's Like To Be A Western Nanny For A Superrich
Chinese Family
ADAM TAYLOR
JAN. 6, 2014, 2:33 PM 5
One British girl who used an agency to work as a nanny for a wealthy family
in Hangzhou (rich enough to have five Porsches) recently took to Reddit to
answer questions about her experience, and her answers are wonderfully
candid. |
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I********l
发帖数: 8702 | 7 里根上台后搞的deregulation，大市场小政府。
然后就是利润最大化，所以企业完全变成了购并游戏的玩物。80年代到90年代，企业购
并大幅增加，垃圾债券，恶意收购，金降落伞，管理层大发奖金，等等。造就了Enron
，worldcom这样的大骗子企业。
金融衍生品的deregulation，otc市场压根不监管，理由是两条，1）SEC没有足够的知
识和人才来理解这个市场。2）玩这个都是superrich，有足够的自觉性来自我监管。于
是就出来了各种各样名目繁多的衍生品游戏，最后把自己玩死。 |
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g*********e
发帖数: 14401 | 8 att
any numbers to illustrate? |
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G*******n
发帖数: 6889 | 10 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/chinas-superrich-buy-a-bet
Self-made millionaire Li Weijie runs his own ski and golf resort outside
Beijing and considers himself a patriot: A lifesize statue of Mao Zedong on
a four-meter base towers over the entrance to his resort. What would
Chairman Mao say if he knew Li was the proud holder of a Canadian residency
card? “I wanted access to the education system and health care of a
developed country,” says Li, 43, whose other businesses include one of
Bei... 阅读全帖 |
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g**1
发帖数: 10330 | 11 http://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-a-western-nanny-for-a-supe
A Candid Account Of What It's Like To Be A Western Nanny For A Superrich
Chinese Family
ADAM TAYLOR
JAN. 6, 2014, 2:33 PM 5
One British girl who used an agency to work as a nanny for a wealthy family
in Hangzhou (rich enough to have five Porsches) recently took to Reddit to
answer questions about her experience, and her answers are wonderfully
candid. |
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d********m
发帖数: 3662 | 12 only superrich can afford |
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发帖数: 1 | 13 Stone Cold Word
Longboat Key, Florida4m ago
AG Barr investigating a missing Twinkie is a joke.
So I am reading all these comments laughing and calling out "conspiracy
theories". It's easy to "throw shade"..... getting "shade to stick" is
another story.
I know this. A high profile prisoner, who supposedly tried to kill
himself just two weeks ago, this guy could not get near a 6 inch piece of
thread. Now that's not a "conspiracy theory".
The "shade slingers" want us to believe that this ego ... 阅读全帖 |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 14 the tax rate of doctor with income $500K is higher than the hedge fund
manager with income $4,500,000,000. No wonder the tax burden of middle class
is so high. 1930s, the tax rate for income more than $2 millions ($100
millions in current dollar value) is 81%. At that time the tax rate of
middle class is much lower, around 10%. So the rich is successful to merge
the superrich's tax bracket with middle class. |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 15 Democrat: grow goverment, tax everything moves (productive) and give free
money to lazy people, mostly black.
Republicans:grow goverment, spend money on war and big oil. Tax cut for
superriches and tax middle class.
So they are all for big goverment and wasteful spending. No difference here.
In fact, historically, republican goverment grows as fast as if not faster
than the democrat goverment. |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 16 John Steele Gordon, A Short History of the Income Tax. One original sin was
the separation of teh corporate and personal tax, giving lawyers,
caccountants and the wealthy a chance to game teh system. Wall Street
Journal, Sept 27, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
052970204422404576594471646927038.html
Note:
(a) The essay states, "After the Civil War, nearly all the wartime taxes--
including teh nation's first income tax--were repealed."
Taxing income above $600 a year (about $10,000... 阅读全帖 |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 17 yeye,blabla......
We people also select congress and senate. Yet their approval rating is
close to single digit. We still complain when elected officers corrupt.
Do I say that board members are not selected by shareholders? you mean when
we select board members and board members waste our money. We should shut up
and look other way.
Oh you could say you should not invest those companies. But do we middle
class have times to look over thousands companies to select a few good one.
The answer is th... 阅读全帖 |
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Y****r
发帖数: 3473 | 18 Greed comes in many different forms,
on one hand people like you said dont want to work and want to live on
goverment handouts is kind of greed
on the other hand many superriches they pay tax at a lower rate compare to
middle class ( let's say 15% vs 25%) yet they want the same percentage tax
cut as the middle class |
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Y****r
发帖数: 3473 | 19 Greed comes in many different forms,
on one hand people like you said dont want to work and want to live on
goverment handouts is kind of greed
on the other hand many superriches they pay tax at a lower rate compare to
middle class ( let's say 15% vs 25%) yet they want the same percentage tax
cut as the middle class |
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s******e
发帖数: 2181 | 20 咱说不定哪年就归了，我想这里所有的人都是这样做两手准备的。那我要交它钱养屁个
老。
小毛小病有公司保险，要大病就跑回国看去了，万一绝症那就不用看了。要他屁个
obamacare。
减租减税才是货真价实。通胀所有的人都在承受，不管superrich还是不工作的懒人都
得买吃的，没啥好抱怨的。无所事事吃救济的懒人最着急的就是减租减税，首先他们本
来就不工作无所谓，其次这下谁来给他们原来那些救济金？
搂住和贫民窟的黑人是一队的 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 21 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-perfect-gop-nominee.html
WASHINGTON — SPEAKING of crazy …
All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can’t rally behind their
flawed candidate is crazy. The G.O.P. angst, the gnashing and wailing and
searching for last-minute substitutes and exit strategies, is getting old.
They already have a 1-percenter who will be totally fine in the Oval Office,
someone they can trust to help Wall Street, boost the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, cuddle w... 阅读全帖 |
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b**********5
发帖数: 7881 | 22 Andy Guo, an 18-year-old Chinese immigrant, loves driving his red
Lamborghini Huracán. He does not love having to share the car with his twin
brother, Anky.
"There's a lot of conflict," Mr. Guo said, as a crowd of admirers gazed at
the vehicle and its vanity license plate, "CTGRY 5," short for the most
catastrophic type of hurricane.
The 360,000-Canadian-dollar car was a gift last year from their father, who
travels back and forth between Vancouver and China's northern Shanxi
Province and made h... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 23 Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy: A Novel Paperback – Bargain
Price, June 24, 2008
Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he
polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-
rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few
other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day
insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall
overhears one or two things that maybe he ... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 24 for t superriches
it doesn't mean much |
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b**********5
发帖数: 7881 | 25 再说说为什么很多tech company support democracts. 从#DNCLeak证明， DNC是最容
易被收买的。 uber的CEO曾经说过， obamacare is the best thing happened to
the gig economy since sliced bread. 有了obamacare， uber这种公司， 根本就不
需要去考虑司机的insurance问题。 司机的insurance问题由政府解决。 其实就是我
们普通百姓在为obamacare买单， 我们普通百姓在为uber 买单！ 如果uber要pay
their drivers medical insurance的话， its valuation will be cut in half if
not more
现在的年轻一代， 已经dumb down了， 被liberal school从小就brainwash， 你读读
这个extreme example： http://nypost.com/2016/07/01/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white... 阅读全帖 |
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p********g
发帖数: 84 | 26 今天刚听人说美国的富人分两档,
一档叫'rich', 标准是年薪1million以上.
做事的限制是logic
另一档叫superrich, 年收入在100million以上,
做事的限度是: imagination....
margie的口气有点像第二类人了.... |
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S******a
发帖数: 2369 | 27 香港超市有很多力士SuperRich系列的。我才发现。下回你可以去香港超市买。哈哈 |
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p**********8
发帖数: 4234 | 28 共和党上来了肯定是superrich stays where they are now, 只能等着看了 |
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m*********e
发帖数: 121 | 29 In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times
the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China's per capita income
will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union, and
also much higher than that of India and Japan. In other words, the average
Chinese megacity dweller will be living twice as well as the average
Frenchman when China goes from a poor country in 2000 to a superrich country
in 2040. Although it will not have overtaken the Un |
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