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November 7, 2005
Join National Call-In Campaign!
National Call-In Campaign on House Budget Cuts that Include Foster Care and Medicaid
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a budget reconciliation bill that reduces foster care funding by $600 million and cuts Medicaid funding by $12 billion during the week of November 7. Child advocates from around the country will be joining others to flood members of Congress with calls throughout the week, urging them to vote against the House budget reconciliation bill. Advocates can use a free call-in number (800-426-8073) to make these calls.
Call your U.S. Representative this week! The vote on the final passage of the House budget reconciliation bill, that includes reductions in support for abused and neglected children, is going to be close. Your U.S. Representative's vote will make a difference! You can contact your U.S. Representative in Washington, DC by calling toll-free at 800-426-8073 or by calling the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202-225-3121.
Join advocates from across the country in a unified voice in proclaiming "No Caps on Kids!" and help us spread the message! Once you make your call, send this Legislative Alert on to others you know who care about children and families.
Vote NO on the House budget reconciliation bill.
The House budget reconciliation bill reduces federal foster care funding, severely limits supports for children who have been abused and neglected and are now living with grandparents or other relatives, and makes changes to Medicaid that would shift a portion of the cost to families.
This week, the House will be voting on their budget reconciliation bill that includes $600 million in cuts for foster care and supports for grandparents and other relatives caring for abused and neglected children and $12 billion in cuts to Medicaid. On November 3, the Senate approved their version of the budget reconciliation bill. The Senate bill does not include any cuts to federal funding for foster care. The bill does cut Medicaid spending, but not at the expense of health care services for Medicaid beneficiaries. The Senate bill also clarifies the use of Medicaid targeted case management for children in foster care. When the House votes on their version of the budget reconciliation bill, any differences between the House and Senate passed versions will need to be reconciled in a Senate-House conference committee.
The House budget reconciliation bill:
I. Repeals Rosales v. Thompson
Repeals a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, Rosales v. Thompson. That decision has allowed more abused and neglected children living with relatives to receive Title IV-E federal foster care support. The bill, contrary to Rosales, establishes that a child's eligibility for federal foster care is dependent on the eligibility of the original home from which the child was removed, not the home of the relative in which the child might have subsequently been placed.
This eligibility for federal foster care support allows relatives to step in and care for abused and neglected children when needed. As a result, the nine states and two territories directly impacted by the Ninth Circuit's decision (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Mariana Islands) estimate that tens of thousands of additional children living with relatives are now eligible for federal foster care assistance. Ultimately, children in other states may also be affected by this ruling.
Repealing this court determination would deny federal foster care benefits to these children. In California alone, over 5,000 children would lose federal support. Legislation overturning the Rosales v. Thompson court decision would also impact some children's ability to receive federal adoption assistance, as decided by a recent court ruling in Georgia. [For more information, got the CWLA's Rosales v. Thompson website.]
II. Implements a White House Proposal to Limit Some Forms of Federal Foster Care Assistance
Another proposal in the House bill implements a White House rule initially offered in 2001--that was blocked at that time due to protests from child advocates. This proposal:
Reduces federal funding for services to kids living with their grandparents and other relatives by limiting Title IV-E administrative funds to support only licensed foster care placements. This represents a reversal of longstanding federal policy to encourage the placement of children with relatives whenever possible.
Limits federal foster care assistance for children who are at imminent risk of entering foster care. The bill reduces funding (Title IV-E administrative funding) for services to kids who are considered likely "candidates" for foster care--in other words kids who could be prevented from going into foster care.
Limits funding (Title IV-E administrative funding) for services to kids leaving a non-child welfare facility, such as a hospital, psychiatric center, crisis center, or juvenile facility, and being transferred into foster care.
For more information on these proposals, go to the No Caps on Kids! Campaign page.
III. Enacts Changes to Medicaid
The House bill cuts Medicaid by $12 billion over five years. The cuts accrue from increased cost-sharing, which will result in fewer low-income people receiving health care. It is predicted that new premiums and co-payments imposed on the working poor would drive millions of families out of the Medicaid system. It is estimated 6 million children will be affected by the changes.
The House bill also adopts the same language approved by the Senate on the use of Medicaid targeted case management (TCM) for children in the child welfare system.
The bill allows TCM to be used for: assessment of eligible individuals to determine service needs by taking a client history, identifying an individual's needs, and completing related documentation; development of a specific care plan based on the information collected through an assessment that specifies the goals and actions to address the individual's needs; referral and related activities to help an individual obtain needed services; and monitoring and follow-up activities, including activities and contacts to ensure the care plan is effectively implemented and adequately addresses the individual's needs.
The bill specifies that TCM benefits for children in foster care would not cover: research gathering and completion of required foster care documentation; assessing adoption placements; recruiting or interviewing potential foster parents; serving legal papers; conducting home investigations; providing transportation; administering foster care subsidies; and making placement arrangements.
The bill codifies the ability of states to use an approved cost allocation plan for determining the amount that can be billed as Medicaid TCM services when case management is also reimbursable by another federally funded program, such as Title IV-E Foster Care and Adoption Assistance.
The impact of these TCM provisions is being analyzed to determine whether the legislative language could be regulated in such a way as to restrict access to funding for some TCM populations and services.
For more information, visit CWLA's No Caps on Kids! Campaign website or contact Liz Meitner, CWLA Vice President of Government Affairs, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 202-942-0257.
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How Debt Ruins Systems
Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb on fragility, centralization, and capitalism
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former trader and hedge fund manager, a bestselling author, and a groundbreaking theorist on risk and resilience.
A finance professor at New York University and a research scholar at Oxford, Taleb drew wide attention after the 2007 publication of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which warned that our institutions and risk models are not designed to account for rare and catastrophic events. Among other things, the book presciently cautioned that oversized and unaccountable banks using flawed investment models could trigger a financial crisis. He also warned that the government-sanctioned housing finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were sitting on a "barrel of dynamite." One year after The Black Swan was published, Taleb's predictions came to pass.
Taleb doesn't identify as a libertarian, but he often sounds like one. He supported Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election and has cited the libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek as an influence. He has called New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman "vile and harmful," and he coined the phrase "Stiglitz Syndrome" after Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, referring to the phenomenon of public intellectuals being held utterly unaccountable for their bad predictions. The economists Paul Krugman and Paul Samuelson are among Taleb's other Nobelist bêtes noire.
Taleb's new book, Antifragile: Things that Gain with Disorder, argues that in order to create robust institutions we must allow them to build resilience through adversity. The essence of capitalism, he argues, is encouraging failure, not rewarding success.
Reason TV Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie sat down with Taleb in January for a wide-ranging discussion about debt, technology, the banking system, capitalism, and why he'll never take writing advice from "some academic at Cambridge who sold 2,200 copies." Video of this interview can be seen at reason.com.
reason: What is antifragility and why is it so important?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragility is something that likes volatility and likes variation, likes turmoil, likes stress—up to a point. The opposite would be robust. Robust is like a rock. It doesn't care. Diamond is perfectly robust. What is antifragile gains from disorder and may even need disorder for fuel.
reason: You talk about it in terms of materials, but antifragility applies more to systems or living organisms, right?
Taleb: Exactly. What people fail to understand—and this is what libertarians tend to pick up rather quickly—is that even when you read Adam Smith, you have this illusion that the economy functions like a machine. But it's not like a washing machine. A washing machine needs maintenance. It's more like a cat than a washing machine. A human body needs some stressors. And everything organic and complex communicates with the environment via stressors.
reason: Is it kind of a fractal system?
Taleb: Exactly. It's fractal because you have layers. Like the restaurant business. It's composed of restaurants. And for the restaurant business to be robust—or perhaps antifragile—you need every single restaurant to be fragile. It's the opposite of Nietzsche's "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." What kills me makes others stronger.
(Interview continues below video.)
reason: Because they learn?
Taleb: They learn from your mistakes. You have evolutionary forces where the individuals sacrifice for the collective. It works within your biological system. You're composed of cells. If you harm some cells, your overall health will improve.
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In a way, I'm conservationist. I want to not break things that have been around for a long time, things that have their own logic. [Successes] come from tinkering, not from some radical transformation of things.
Never have wiser words been spoken.
That's similar to Hayek's point in The Fatal Conceit.
Horse and buggy -- automobile = radical transformation
Dirigible -- airplane = radical transformation
Conventional ordnance -- atomic bomb = radical transformation
Three of the things that have, or have led to, the most positive advances in the last millennium were radical transformations.
Horse and buggy -- automobile
In the sense of getting the worst of pollution out of the cities, sure. Personally, I see the automobile more as an individualizing of the collectivizing train.
The change from dinosaurs to mammals was a radical transformation. Also, it was gradual, incremental, and the result of much field testing.
However, they were not created de novo like the SEC, Chinese state farms, or the French revolutionary calendar system.
How convenient to your point that you define "radical transformation". A man transforming into a solar system is a radical transformation. . . a multiwheel vehicle changing from a horse powered motive source to a mechanically horse-powered motive source is innovation not radical transformation.
Yeah, because that's the only difference in a horse-drawn buggy and an automobile. Nevermind the steering, brakes, electrical systems and several other components that dramatically changed almost overnight.
And "a man transforming into a solar system" is a theoretical, unles you know something I don't know. The three things I listed are real-world examples of what most people would have certainly called a radical transformation in the day they occurred.
You're both incorrect.
This is a radical transformation.
According to one of my kids (way back when, as a toddler): Trans-folders!
Not a "radical" difference.
So a new propulsion, steering, braking and electrical system for lighting among other things wouldn't have been viewed as "radical"?
Jeez, man. Just admit it would have been and move on.
No. Again you selectively represent something like a modern Honda with an early 20 century carriage. They had steering systems, breaking systems, and in some cases "lighting". Rudimentary modernization is not "radical".
Buy a dictionary and get out of the basement. Radical is about fundamental change in a short time, not major change over decades.
I don't even remember what the original point was . . . what a radical sidetrack we've taken.
No. Again you selectively represent something like a modern Honda with an early 20 century carriage. They had steering systems, breaking systems, and in some cases "lighting". Rudimentary modernization is not "radical".
Buy a dictionary and get out of the basement. Radical is about fundamental change in a short time, not major change over decades.
I don't even remember what the original point was . . . what a radical sidetrack we've taken.
This is not a radical transformation.
Nevermind the steering, brakes, electrical systems and several other components that dramatically changed almost overnight.
How is it radical? Electricity did not exist until cars were invented? Perhaps you mean light bulbs. How is a steering wheel radical? The wheel was not yet invented by that time? No one thought to use a wheel to run something before this? Automobiles sprang from the head of Zeus? Perhaps you mean internal combustion engines.
Technolgies generally undergo a long period of evolution. It just *appears* like magic to some people.
He's talking about a power taking a system by the horns and making huge centralized decisions...
One can say in the case of horse and buggy to car - that was a gradual transformation that occurred over a time period that was worked up to with many prior inventions - that's not "radical transformation from a centralized powers decision making".
I think a radical transformation in this case is "Glass Steagal thrown under the bus" - 1999 I think it was.
The financial crisis was a result of tinkering with a system that has an inherent catastrophic flaw, namely, the currency monopoly, which everybody (including Taleb) wants to tip-toe around.
Is there anything worth reading on Pages 2 and 3?
Dude seems to know whats going on over there. WOw.
I like the concept but "antifragile" seems like a lousy word to describe it. He needs to come up with something catchier.
Er, no:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragility is something that likes volatility and likes variation, likes turmoil, likes stress—up to a point. The opposite would be robust. Robust is like a rock. It doesn't care. Diamond is perfectly robust. What is antifragile gains from disorder and may even need disorder for fuel.
creative destruction might do.
d capable of performing without failure under a wide range of conditions
Except what he's describing is something that does not perform well in stagnation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragility is something that likes volatility and likes variation, likes turmoil, likes stress—up to a point. The opposite would be robust. Robust is like a rock. It doesn't care. Diamond is perfectly robust. What is antifragile gains from disorder and may even need disorder for fuel.
Is it just me, or does this just sound like an intellectual talking to hear himself? Of course robust is a type of antifragility. It merely reacts differently to very particular stimuli.
The opposite of antifragile is fragile. You know, something that does not like volatility, variation, turmoil or stress under any circumstances. Whereas, robust is like Honey Badger. He just doesn't give a fuck.
Sorry if I sound crochety, but to me, this sounds like bloviating.
I'm reading the book right now.
I still haven't decided if I like it yet. The whole idea of coming up with a catch phrase and using it to simplistically explain everything, you know the Gladwell approach really annoys the hell out of me.
Anyway, what he does is place anti-fragile on a spectrum with fragile on the opposite end and robust in the middle.
Black Swan Management 101: nature (and nature-like systems) likes diversity between organisms rather than diversity within an immortal organism, unless you consider nature itself the immortal organism, as in the pantheism of Spinoza or that present in Asian religions, or the Stoicism of Chrisippus or Epictetus. If you run into a historian of civilizations, try to explain it to him.
My takeaway is that the best systems aren't the ones that don't fail, but the ones that fail constructively, or have room to improve in unexpected ways, like the market.
I read part of the Kindle preview, so I'm an expert.
From the interview, it seems that the best systems arent ones that fail, but that subunits fail. Like the restaurant example: The restaurant industry is strong because individual restaurants are allowed (even encouraged) to fail.
Yes, individual species may be fragile but evolution is very anti-fragile.
If individual restaurants are made robust, like say during in the old communist regime, the overall system is weaker or stagnant.
Well, it's more than that. The other subunits have to be improved by the failure, not made worse off. AIDS, for example, is the failure of a subunit (white blood cell) that makes all the other units worse off.
Perhaps the distinction is whether there is a possible replacement for the failing component - there is none in the case of an immune system but an industry has constituent firms that can be replaced if they fail.
But might that be because you're using a relatively short time span to decide what's helpful to the larger unit. Given a longer time span might not the other subunits working within the larger system or unit develop a response that makes the subunits and larger unit more resilient?
Bloviating? Dude managed to write an entire book devoted to his neologism.
I watched several of his lectures a month back or so, and found his slides and work worth one insight not difficult to observe, so I tend to agree with you to a degree.
However the OTHER university snoots require ten million words to explain a single common sense notion. He admits as much, that he went on this truly boring and long explanation because that's what is required for any other of the dummies in the sick system to notice.
His main thrust was: In a concentrated system danger of collapse or destruction is present because highly unusual events "cannot be predicted".
So he shows his single squiggly line graph chart of say 5o years with minor fluctuations and spikes, and then there is the anomaly spike up nearly off the top of the page 100X any other fluctuation.
That near vertical spike in the data is the dangerous "unpredictable anomaly" that can decimate the collectively concentrated system.
It was very nice of him to claim the spike cannot be predicted, and thus let all the criminals off the hook. I bet he gets invited to every cocktail party or is very safe from the usual hate filled missives.
So that's what he says - break it Ma Bell for competition because to big to fail concentration yields system wide collapse dangers when the bubble bursts...
No **** Sherlock !
No, sounds more like a Sufi poet than an academic.
It's not as if he invented the term fragility.
Semantics.....antifragile, robust, reward success, encourage failure.....
Apt descriptions of a free market obtained by looking at it from different angles. Build resilience through adversity sums it up nicely.
In other words; Stop fucking with the market and let it work. Invariably fucking with the market means the retarded cousin of a potentially successful model surviving at the expense of the robust.
I should have added inbred to retarded.
How about, "let them fail, no bailouts!"
You're broke, the answer is FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY, now get the hell out of my congressional office.
Our problem is of course, the destructive and should have remained illegal "newly modified laws for crooks of the last few decades" already created a starving leveraged spiderweb of precarious cliff hanging...
So they swore if they didn't bail humpty dumpty would die. So they bailed out the eggheads.
Then they made an even wobblier egghead superpac set atop a tipping and crumbling wall that the plunge protection team is having a hard time holding up.
Yeah, expect nothing but more stupid crime and more crashing crap - if it finally wipes them out they will transfer the wipeout to anyone and everyone else, covertly and overtly with lies.
That was an excellent interview.
Indeed it was, and I am surprised at all the flak from other commenters. Taleb is making core libertarian points to a wide audience. He should be cheered.
Taleb also reminds me of Michael Rothschild's Bionomics. It would be interested to read a discussion between the two of them. Of course Krugman dismisses bionomics.
Of course he does.
Ecosystems don't need top men like Krugman to design or direct them. In fact,do so fucks them up.
While many people claim to understand evolution, intellectually, few truly grasp the concept. As Daniel Dennett cogently argues in Darwin's Dangerous Idea, what makes evolution as a paradigm so "dangerous" is that it destroys the millennia-old concept of the Cosmic Pyramid (i.e. Chaos is brought to Order through application of Mind, which in turn, finds its origin in God). He argues that natural selection, as an algorithmic process, proves that Order can arise from Chaos without Mind.
Orthodox economists like Krugman hate, hate, hate this idea because it renders them as mere observers of a dynamical system, as opposed to the manipulator of a fully-known deterministic model.
Just as a Lamarckian biologist would be laughed out of today's Academy, Krugman and his disciples should receive nothing but derision, for their intellectual errors stem from the same hubris.
While many people claim to understand evolution, intellectually, few truly grasp the concept.
I'm probably one of those people that don't truly grasp the concept. In any case, one thing people seem to forget is that the majority of evolutionary lines run into a dead end and become extinct. This is also true of societal evolution.
Sorter version.
Krugman et al are economic creationists.
Yep, and Thomas Sowell said as much in Knowledge And Decisions. He called it "animist" thinking about social processes.
Digest Sowell and you can have some fun at the expense of the typical college atheist.
This is an excellent related book: Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler. It discusses how combinations of simple rules and chance can produce very complex systems.
Actually, Lamarck was (almost) right, depending on the scale of observation. It turns out that environment actually does influence genetic expression, even further than 3-4 generations remote.
I hope you didn't read my comments as "giving him flak". It certainly wasn't meant to be that way, except for this passage: [Successes] come from tinkering, not from some radical transformation of things.
I just disagree with that premise because I see successes coming from both, be they improving on a production system or developing an atomic bomb from whole cloth.
And yes, it was an outstanding interview and Taleb espouses libertarian principles in an outstanding manner. I just took exception to that one passage.
How about the great success concerning
" 911 has changed everything ! "
said the salivating hog troughers and those desperate to shake off the "cold war mentality" (whatever).
So there you have a media and talking head and politician absolute declaration that "in this hour, the world has radically changed (transformed of course) forever..
Now see how great that was for all of us ?
One of the absolute worst aspects of our current culture is widespread risk aversion. As much as I despise Trump, I have to admire his willingness to fail spectacularly and go right back at it.
The history of business is filled with successful people who failed big prior to getting it right, but it seems as if a lot of people look at any sort of failure as lethal.
Serious question: how many people failed big prior to succeeding in the past compared to now as a % of successful businessmen? History is filled with examples of wealthy people of meager beginnings that made it by being persistent and not letting their failures stop them from refining their products/starting over completely. Modern time may have a few examples, but risk aversion has created a generation of wealthy cronyists, rent-seekers and legacy billionaires.
There aren't nearly as many risk-takers, and much innovation is done by committee. I fully blame our "NCLB"-mentality when it comes to business/government relationships and a culture that tells innovators that their best path to success is to go to work for a big company for the security and benefits.
I actually met the people who invented microwave popcorn in the form that we have it today. It was their second iteration because the first iteration crashed and burned. They were on their last dime getting the second version out and it became a huge success. Now they are incredibly wealthy and have ventured into other businesses where they have multiplied their earning from the initial popcorn success.
Or you can call it the managerial revolution.
Good term. +1
Time to get my Hofstede on. Take a look at the countries compared by cultural dimensions. As a rule, the 3rd-World shitholes of Africa, Asia, and Latin America score high on "Uncertainty Avoidance" (UAI). Euro-Socialistland also scores high in UAI. The U.S. is somewhere in the middle. Interestingly, China's UAI is very low, which makes sense if one is familiar with the strong entrepreneurial spirit in Chinese culture. (Not even Maoism could hold it off for long.) The culture with the highest UAI is Japan, which until the Meiji Restoration, was a 3rd-World shithole where most of the populace lived in poverty and society was organized for the benefit of a privileged few. Indeed, without America's creative economy to fuel the engine of the Government-zaibatsu-Organized Crime axis; xenophobic, resource-poor, and risk adverse Japan would return to shithole status.
Thanks for that. I wonder how much of that is actually cultural or institutional? Those examples you gave of nations that are high on the UAI tend to have inherently restrictive institutions, be they an overly domineering system of regulation/legislature that create an imbalance of power between labor and those that innovate and form businesses (Europe) or have oppressive governments that covertly steal wealth through graft and corruption that cause entrepreneurs to leave for greener pastures (African, Latin and Asian dictatorships/juntas). China's being low is likely the result of their government's change in philosophy over the past 25 or so years toward an industrial and technological player. I think you pretty much nailed Japan's situation.
Again, thanks for that. I'll read it some time soon.
I wonder how much of that is actually cultural or institutional?
I believe Hofstede would answer "both". His work focuses on how culture shapes institutions. He argues that a culture with a high UAI will create institutions, like bureaucracies, to minimize what their culture sees as the negative effects of risk.
As for China, I would argue that its low UAI stems from a much deeper place in Chinese history. Taoism is all about being comfortable with ambiguity and being flexible due to ignorance of future events. Indeed, Lao Tsu wrote that "governing a nation is like frying a panfish". I'm sure you appreciate the simile, but for the culinarily impaired, when frying a small fish, you don't move it too much or the fish will fall apart. As an aside, my wife makes a mean fried bream.
I didn't know any of that about China. Thanks for the insight, dude.
I also wonder what that scale would have looked like 25 years ago...100 years ago and 250 years ago. I bet the results would be pretty similar in Africa, Latin america and Asia but woud be totally different in the US and especially Europe going back a century or more.
I thought it was interesting how similar the scores for the UK and US are.
Maybe it wouldnt have been that much different 100 or 250 years ago.
The UK's always been a bit of an outlier in Europe. I think it has a lot to do with being an island nation as well as their higher level of success (in it's own way) with Colonialism.
I find more interesting that the UK's UAI is 10 points lower than the USA's. My off-the-cuff theory is that the greater role of religion in American culture leads to a higher UAI than the UK's, maybe?
Doubtful. The UK has a state religion and there's been an influx of hard-line Muslims into their country as well as a massive growth of Hindus and Sikhs the last 25-30 years, while religion in America has become more and more of a personal and/or less influential part of Americans' daily lives.
I'm fairly religious, so I may have blinders on about religion in America.
The UK has a state religion
Right, and like most European countries with a state religion, the average Joe gives fuck-all about it. My Brit friends always go on and on about how the popular view of America is that of frothing-at-the-mouth evangelical zealots. Indeed, from their point of view, the Colonies was where they sent all their "religious crazies" (Puritans, Methodists, Baptists, etc.) As for the children of the Raj, they're not "mainstream" enough to have that much influence on British cultural values.
In America, religion plays a greater role in the culture, precisely because it's a personal institution as opposed to a state institution.
Perhaps. But I see that being a smaller and smaller influence in America as time goes by. Look back at how religion influenced business in the past: blue laws, moral codes of conduct, etc. Those are by and large gone from America.
I've not studied the influence at all, so I'm speaking from a strictly anecdotal perspective.
As for the children of the Raj, they're not "mainstream" enough to have that much influence on British cultural values.
Just on the takeout menus.
"In America, religion plays a greater role in the culture, precisely because it's a personal institution as opposed to a state institution"
It also plays a greater role becuase there is no state monopoly and there are therefore a plethora of consumer choices in religion, which means more people will find a religion they care to consume. Thus, weekly church attendance in the U.S. is around 43%, whereas in the UK it is around 10%.
Well, as for 25 years ago, you don't have to wonder as Hofstede started his research in the late 1960's. I'm sure his historical data sets are lying around somehwere.
Oh, I assumed it was for a shorter time frame.
Meh. I was more interested in the difference from a century ago and the onset of the industrial revolution. I guess that data exists by using data from those times to see what %age of people because entrepreneurs or craftsmen vs laborers.
It's also interesting how different China and Japan are, particularly in the UAI. True, in the Chinese words reflect ambiguity, but Japan uses the same Chinese characters (plus adds their own phonetics) in their written language.
How did he come up with these ratings, I wonder?
I'm surprised that China has a low UAI on average. Yeah, they're good with the market and Chinese social rules have enough ambiguity to drive American batty, but look at their philosophy of government. The Ming dynasty, for example, were textbook stasists.
Lao Tzu, notably, did not become the state philosopher. Ideally, Confucianism has mechanisms to reduce corruption and over-centralization, but the rulers always seem to leave those parts out of their official interpretations.
There was a poll recently that found Chinese people have a more positive view of the free market than Americans do.
It's almost like, having lived under a seriously statist regime, the Chinese are happy that their government is liberalizing over time and is allowing free markets to finally flourish.
Meanwhile, Americans have lived with the fruits of capitalism and have grown decadent, and therefore don't realize how horrible statist philosophy truly is.
It's not Confucianism, per se, but Legalism.
Indeed, Legalism as a philosophy arose because at many times during China's history the power of the state was fairly weak. (This "lawlessness" also made a great environment for martial knights to wander the countryside and right wrongs with kung-fu!)
We also have to remember that UAI isn't the whole story. China, for example, has a Power Distance Index (PDI) of 80, which means Chinese culture assumes that inequality between people is natural. China's Individualism (IDV) score is 20, which means the cultural norms are highly collectivist.
From the Legalism wiki:
Progressivism, Libertarianism, Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism, Agorism, and Classical Liberalism are modern philosophies that reject core elements of Legalism.
Fascism, autocracy, and totalitarianism are ideologies with similarities to Legalism.
This list could use a little refinement.
Google Trump + bankruptcy + 1991, 1992, 2004, 2009, & Chapter 11.
There's a reason he's not averse to risk; he never feels the pain.
Quote: "I've used the laws of this country to pare debt. ... "
Game time!
Go Bobcats!
They lost to Denver in the NIT First Round.
So they are exactly as good as Kentucky.
Still weird that you spell out their school name all the time.
my classmate's mom makes $66/hr on the laptop. She has been without work for seven months but last month her payment was $14354 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Go to this web site and read more
^^This^^ is what Taleb was talking about. These people are innovators...sticking Mexican Coke bottles into their orifices for the pleasure of German men and earning a solid profit in the process.
Would Susan's classmate's mom be classified as a fragile, antifragile or robust? My money's on robust.
I'm going for "sleepy".
If failure of different parts of her body made her stronger overall, she would be antifragile. As it is, I'd say she's either fragile or robust depending on how well her body stands up to the strain of her "innovations".
Nolan. if you think Edith`s blog is something, yesterday I bought a great Jaguar XJ since getting a cheque for $7846 this last four weeks and more than ten thousand this past-month. it's actualy the most-comfortable job I've ever done. I started this 10-months ago and straight away was making more than $78 per hour. I went to this website, http://www.wow92.com
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This interview is just like Taleb's books, facile and full of vague buzzwords. "The island effect," "fractal," what a bunch of pseudoscience baloney. Someone gave me "Black Swan." I tried to read it but could only get three chapters in. It is shallow and poorly thought out. Now it's "antifragile." He's a "left-wing conservative." Dropping names and talking tough. He's a snake oil salesman.
Just because someone's goofy ideas seem to support your beliefs is not a good enough reason to buy what he's selling. The magazine is called "Reason" afterall.
Finally, a voice of...Reason.
This guy is a bozo quack posing as some kind of philosopher--economist--guru, reminds me of how Rothbard used bombastic rhetoric (and selective plargiarism of Ayn Rand) to convince a generation of juvenile losers on facebook that "capitalism is anarchy".
This is the face of what passes for science in this day and age: a bunch of intellectual snake oil salesmen who don't know the difference between metaphysics and epistemology and who can't see why there should be any difference between theoretical physics and zen buddhism.
Yep, he's another lefty dilettante posing his brand of rationalistic bs as the latest and greatest of avant garde dandyism.
Wait. I thought he was a righty dilettante.
I guess it's hard to keep track when you are facile and full of buzz words.
... buzz words like dilettante, and your mom's basement. I wonder if this kid is a Randroid because he seems to think people go around plagiarizing Ayn Rand. What would really be funny is denouncing someone as a moron who shares so many of your opinions that you suspect they have plagiarized your hero.
I tend to agree with this assessment. He echoes great thinkers but in a Deepak Chopra sort of way that does not apply as he presumes.
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"Debt leads to fragility. We've discovered since the Babylonians that debt has systemic consequences whereas equity doesn't. Let's say that you have two brothers. One of them borrowed and they both had predictions about the future—forecasts. One brother borrows. The other issues equity. The one who borrows will go bust if he makes a mistake. The one who issues equity will fluctuate but will be able to survive a forecast error."
This is nonsense. The problem is fractional reserve banking, not debt. If like in the movie "The Producers" you issue more than 100% equity in your firm you will get into the same problems.
If the situations are identical, say both of the brothers have lost half of the funds obtained from others, then someone has to take the loss. Sure the one brother is ruined on debt if his creditors call in the loan, but those creditors take a 50% haircut. Then again if both brothers held the same cash balance then why would the creditors do that, but not the shareholders? The same happens to the other brother if his investors vote him out with their shares and take their 50% haircut. He loses everything and they take their loss.
Ponzi schemes happen all the time with equity issuance. However that is illegal. The same Ponzi scheme done with debt however is called fractional reserve banking. Were fractional reserve banking illegal (or ponzie schemes legal) there would be no difference in stability between the two.
No. Fractional reserve banking is not the problem, central banking is. You sound like one of these anarchist dullards who don't know the difference between the two.
Fractional reserve banking works wonderfully under a laissez-faire system of free banking, look up George Selgin's work on the subject. I've wondered how you supposedly pure free market anarcho-nihilists rectify your alleged advocacy of laissez-faire and a stateless society with the idea of making fractional reserve banking illegal. In Rothbardian lalaland, who exactly is supposed to make FRB illegal? The mad max anarchist mercenary cops I hired not to kill me, and to keep the evul "banksters" from instituting FRBing? lolz You anarchists should just stay home (in your mom's basement), nevermind you're doing that anyway lolzlzolzlzolzzlz
There's no such thing as a contradiction. It cannot exist. So observe the alleged dichotomy between anarcho-nihilism and whoever is supposed to outlaw FRBing in anarcho-nihilism land, and discover for yourself which is wrong (in this case, both premises are absurd and false).
You sound like someone who jumps to false conclusions, and therefore cannot be trusted to think correctly. I am not an anarchist, nor an anarcho-nilist, nor a Rothbardian.
I'm quite familiar with George Selgin's work. His beliefs about Scottish free market banking are flawed and worthless. Rothbard wrote a devastating takedown of this myth titled "The Myth of Free Market Banking in Scotland". No, fractional reserve banking does not work wonderfully under any system, whether fiat or commodity based currency, despite your devotion.
Although Selgin does argue like you, in a trollish manner. In fact to the point that people walk around with T-Shirts on which are written "I Am a Member of a Moronic Cult." Are you his sock puppet, perhaps?
Nice off topic rant though on lalaland and mercenary cops.
BTW, Rothbard actually had proposed a banking scheme identical to Selgin's as a second best solution in his book "The Case Against the Fed". Selgin himself is essentially a Keynesian and was a proponent of QE1. So apparently Selgin doesn't understand the problems with central banking. Read the article "The Selgin Story By Joseph Salerno" to reduce your ignorance in that arena.
Hell, I am not even a libertarian. I for instance believe that the government can justifiably force someone to purchase insurance.
Also see "George Selgin's Balls-Out, Over-the-Top Ferocious Attack on Rothbardian Banking Theory"
Great interview, Nick... All the best, Jay K.

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Over the years, I personally have had at least two visits from the city police asking if everything was OK. I have had at least three call-backs from 911 asking the same question. In every case, I had not intentionally dialed 911, but did so accidentally because of the requirement to dial 9 for an outside line at work. I simply forget that I was at home and no 9 was required.
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Niko Hammer recaptured some of the form that allowed him to emerge as an impact player a season ago, leading Sequoyah with 12 points and four assists en route to a gritty 38-32 victory over Metro Christian on Tuesday.
The Indians led by as many as 12, but failed to blow the game open on a night when the long range shots refused to fall.
"We didnt' shoot the ball like we want to," Sequoyah coach Jay Herrin said. "When people zone us, it opens up the three and that's usually a strength of ours, but we just didn't have a good shooting night. I'm proud of my kids and the way that they played, and we'll be back at full strength for the next game."
The Patriots appeared to be on the verge of falling victim to a blowout, but managed to fight back just enough to keep the game within reach for much of the night.
"Give a lot of credit to them," said Herrin. "Those kids played hard. It just wasn't pretty. We had a chance to extend our lead when we got up 10-12 points and we just didn't hit the gas like we usually do. We were a steal away or a three away from getting up 15-17 points. Then maybe the game changes. But the way we finished the half carried into the third quarter. It was a good defensive game, the offense just wasn't very good."
Metro pulled within one-point before Hammer buried a three-point bucket to push the lead back to two possessions with just over three minutes to play.
"That's the best that Niko has played," said Herrin. "He's just maybe now getting into the flow of it. Ryan (Helsley) had an off night and Niko picked him up. That's what seniors do."
Despite the off night, Helsley added 10 points for SHS. B.J. Leach and Trinton Herron contributed six points a piece.
Metro Christian forward Cole Petrich led all scorers with 14.
Next up for Sequoyah is a Jan. 5 home date with Cascia Hall, during which the Indians will welcome Caisen Green and Zachary Parish back into the lineup.
Sequoyah 38, Metro Christian 32
Metro Christian (3-5): Petrich 14, Freese 7, Canady 5, Woolslayer 4, Strickland 2.
Sequoyah (4-3): Hammer 12, Helsley 10, Leach 6, Herron 6, Johnston 4.
Sequoyah 51, Metro Christian 42 (girls)
Freshman Jakkie Wright scored a career-high 12 points to help lead Sequoyah to a 51-42 victory over the visiting Metro Christian Patriots on Tuesday.
"Jakkie stepped up and played really well," said head coach Larry Shade. "Especially for a freshman. She's got a good ball sense."
The short-handed Indians were without the services of Baylee Ratliff, Kelsey Leach and Loren Young for an assortment of reasons ranging from illness to disciplinary.
No matter, Sequoyah jumped out to a 22-8 lead and never looked back, holding off a late Patriot surge to notch to its fifth victory of the season. The Lady Indians got big minutes from sophomore Sierra Polk, filling in for Young, who contributed 7 points and 13 rebounds.
Metro Christian cut the margin to 35-34 with 6:52 remaining, but could draw no closer.
"We kind of got passive," said Shade. "Plus, with just eight players we got a little bit winded, and we tried to play conservative, but we got stuck in conservative mode, too much."
Senior Courtney Jones led all scorers with 15 points – nine of it coming in the final period.
Shay Stegmann set the pace with 14 points for the Patriots, who drop to 1-7 with the loss.
Sequoyah will now have an opportunity to return to full strength, with an 18-day lay-off before its next contest versus Cascia Hall.
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George Neff and Laurie Baronti were married on April 20, 1963, at St. Hugh's Catholic Church in Lyons, Ill.
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On Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Smith Chapel on Simpson College Campus in Indianola, Paige Louise Johnson and Joseph David Keller were united in marriage by the Rev. Jonathan Vehar, Joseph's brother-in-law.
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Joseph is the son of Ron and Sue Keller of Centerville and grandson of Max and Freda Keller of Indianola and the Late Norbert and Donna Harmeyer of Fort Madison.
Paige was escorted down the aisle by her father in a strapless Mori Lee by Madeline Gardner soft satin gown. The groom wore a black tuxedo with red vest. Joining them at the altar, blessing the married, were the bride's mother and the groom's parents.
The bride's matron of honor, Jenny Walker, wore a long black party dress. Paige's other attendants were her sisters, Bridget Johnson of Des Moines and Jaemi Poncy of Altoona; the groom's sister Kara Vehar of Scotland, S.D.; and friends, Missi Bryan of Indianola and Sheena Kauzlarcih of Chicago, Ill. All the bridesmaids wore black cocktail dresses. Taylor Dorbeck, cousin of the bride and Hannah Vehar, niece of the groom were flower girls. Guest book attendants were the bride's cousin, Amber Swan of Powersville, Mo. and bride's friend, Riley Drake of Centerville.
The groom's best man was Jason Cooper of Des Moines. Joseph's other attendants were Jared Johnson, bride's bother, of Centerville; friends; Kenny Purcell of Chicago, Ill., Travis Bennett, of Des Moines, Gib Johnson of Centerville and David Buss of Raeford, N.C. David Buss was unable to attend due to his participation in the armed service overseas. Calif Poncy, nephew of the bride and Tanner Dorbeck, cousin of the bride served as ring bears. Tony Strode of Ankeny, Nathan Houser of Des Moines and Adam Whisler of Des Moines were the ushers and candle lighters at the service. All the groom's attendants, ushers and ring bearers wore black tuxedos with white vests.
Following the ceremony a dessert and cocktail reception held at the Indianola Country Club was hosted by Dave and Kim Keller and Ric and Lynn Sandoval, godparents of the groom. Music and a photo booth for the dance were provided by A Special Event DJ service.
San Diego was the destination for their honeymoon. The couple currently resides in Des Moines.
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Ok, I got it. I missed the dinosaur swap. The people are running into the waiting arms and jaws of the terrible T. Rex, pictured here in the match's now-distinctive 60s science textbook style. (Interestingly, just as the Brontosaurus name is being scrubbed from our current scientific understanding, the "tyrant lizard" probably had feathers and looked more like a bird than a lizard. Mesofacts!)
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Il Casale has 7 apartments with bathroom, kitchen, satellite TV, air conditioning, stylish furnished and mural decorated by inspiring the Sicilian grapes (Nero d'Avola, Marsala, Zibibbo ecc), very panoramic and silent.
Moreover, in order to make your vacation healthy and relaxing, the Country House offers you a beauty farm, an outdoor swimming pool, a reading room with fireplace, a canteen to taste Sicilian wines, a large solarium and a sqm 3.000 garden with olive and almond trees.
We look forward to offering you an exclusive stay at Il Casale di Caterina, delighted also by a breakfast with local specialties and served in front of an astonishing panorama!!!
PLANE: Nearest airports are Catania (CTA) 34 miles or Palermo (PMO) 160 miles. From Catania airport the "Etna Trasporti" bus company connects hourly to Taormina's bus terminal (70 minutes journey) between 07.00 and 21.45.
TRAIN: All major trains from northern Italy, starting in Milan or Rome leaving for Syracuse or Agrigento, stop at TAORMINA-GIARDINI. Outside the station you will find taxis to the directly to our Casale (3 miles).
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NRCTC has been showing marked increases in enrollment and has added several programs during the last few years.
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Almost 15 months after breaking ground on a new central campus, New River Community and Technical College is still searching for a bid under the total construction budget of $14.5 million.
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Hyundai Tiburon Engine Questions
2004 Hyundai Tiburon
It looks like a 4, but I am told it is a V6. I have only the photos to go by, so it's hard to tell. Any input would be appreciated.
It looks like a 4, but I am told it is a V6. I have only the photos to go by, so it's hard to tell. Any input would be appreciated.
skiz10101 Posts: 2I have a 2003 Tiburon. No GT and standard transmission. I have 95,000 miles on it. No major problems (yet) except for the #3 and 4 settings on my A/C going out a couple times....which were fixed.
My question(s) is I have yet to have my timing belt changed. From what I am told is that it's not covered under the warranty. Is it bad that I havent had it changed yet? How much longer do I have? Should I get it changed at the dealership? They quoted me $600 to change it, or should I go to a smaller mechanic? What is an average cost to have this done? The large majority of my miles are highway. I drive 85 miles/day to work...75 of which are highway. What would happen if the belt snapped?? Someone told me that if the timing belt snaps on Korean cars than the engine will no longer run, ever.
Please help me with this. I dont make a ton of money and cant afford a new car...at the same time $600 for a new timing belt is extremely steep as well. Any and all advice will help. Thanks!!!
tibracing Posts: 2whomever told you that if the belt snaps your engine wont run again should be shot, if your timing belt snaps there is a small posssibility of it hitting minor functioning pieces of the engine. but what will happen when it breaks is your engine will shutdown you will lose all functions throughout the vehicle other than your stereo which will stay with you for a while until your battery is depleted of its power. now dont pay 600$'s for your timing belt to be changed out i work at a small mechanincs and you would be charged about 25$'S for the belt and about 100$'s for the service
dont be fool search around for the best price and quality of product, 600$'s is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy to much
kdmkrazy Posts: 1I have an 03 gtv6 5 spd, with 64000 miles, you are supposed to change your timing belt and tensioner and water pump at your 60000 mile check-up, there is a korean company called seoulful racing that sells a timing belt package for around 300 bucks for the 2.7L and about 200 for 2.0L
A set contains of Timing Belt,Tension Assembly,Idle Pulley,Water Pump Assembly,Water Pump Gasket,Power Steering Belt,Water Pump Belt, and A/C Belt
I suggest doing it all at once if you are doing it at all!
2.7L Timing belt package
2.0L Timing belt package
hope this helps a little or alot...and correct me if im wrong about anything...
jae5 Posts: 1,205It depends if the engine is an interference-engine of not. If it is an interference engine and the timing belt breaks, the pistons are going to smack, yes smack, the valves, bending them and causing major engine damage. Again, everything runs based on a specific amount of space, so if the timing is off due to a jumped cog, or if the belt breaks, the internals will come into contact with each other and the engine will be damaged.
If it is not an interference fit, the valves won't come into contact with the pistons and the valve-train will be ok.
Te $600 cost is not that bad, really. As the others responded, it's mostly the labor in removing all the components to get to belt. Also stated, the common practice when changing out the belt is to replace the water pump. Not that the pump goes bad at the same time, but it's really for insurance. The area is open anyway so might as well replace it; the labor for it should be free or very little. You don't want to do a belt replacement then a month down the road the water pump takes a dump. Then you looking at another huge $$ repair.
Hope this helps.
europa_71 Posts: 1I am trying to get information on changing the spark plug in my V6. I would like to know how you change the back 3 plugs? It looks like I need to remove the top of the intake manifold. If anyone has the necessary information I would appricate it if you could forward this information to me.
Thank you.
moger Posts: 1Hey ,I just purchased a new 08 GT Tib about 2 months ago. I have nothing but good things to say about it , but I was wondering if theres anyway to put more HP / Torque into it. Is the 2.7L V6 capable of being upgraded ? Is it Turbo accessable ? If anyone has any info on this topic please respond. Thank you for your time and help. :lemon:
I have a 2006 Tiburon with the 2.0 4 cylinder and i am looking for a turbo kit for it. I have not been able to find one for a 2006 but i found one for a 2003. If i can remember right they didnt make tiburons in 04 or 05. Will the 2003 kit work on the 2006 ebgine package? Does anybody know??
White smoke is usually a sign of water in the cylinders. Could be that you have a leaking head gasket and a bit of water is seeping into a cylinder.
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I didn't think of that. I was going more in the direction of crank sensor, fuel filter, bad injectors. It progressively got to this point and now just a real pain to start. I smell raw gas when it starts so i thought it was the fuel flooding the cylinder and burning off.
Well you may be right too. Maybe I'm overreacting to the white smoke. Since you're smelling gas, it's possible you're losing fuel pressure in the line overnight due to a small leak. Try the following to test the theory.
Before you turn the key all the way to start, just turn it to the ON position then turn it off. That will run the fuel pump for a few seconds. If you do that a couple of times it will re-establish pressure in the line and you should start right up if that's the issue.
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That's sounding more like a fuel pressure issue since it's the mornings after the car has been sitting for a number of hours.
When you turn the key you should hear the electric fuel pump running for a few seconds. If it is that you're leaking fuel pressure, this key trick will be a good workaround until the leak gets bad enough to be easy to find.
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we'll i tried it and it's still the same. Cranks for 5 or 6 times then it starts with the white smoke. The engine revs to about 2000 rpms and slowly drops back to an normal idle. we're going to see what our dad has to say and if no luck just give in and take it to a Hyundai dealer and see what they can make of it.
mr_clean Posts: 1I am Hyundai Salesperson. I also play with my '06 Tiburon GT.
My son is a Hyundai master mechanic.
My Tiburon will eat GT Mustangs.
That is not to brag but to give you a little background.
Your engine is a 2.0 litre 4-cylinder.
Lots of performance parts available. Go to Next Generation Motorsports.
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