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On Health

This short paragraph will summarize ALL the health articles. Exercise every day. Quit strong liquor and smoking. Eat more fruits and vegetables with different colors. Reduce fatty food, bread / rice / noodles, food with nitrates, deserts and processed food including chips, ice cream and crackers. Make home cooking your priority.

If you follow the above, you live longer, need more money to last, and logically you need to buy my book “Complete the art of investing”. Convenient advertising. You will thank me when you’re not running out of money at your first 100^th birthday.

On ancient Europe

Why Europe is not over-populated? The Crusade started more than a thousand years ago has never been formally ended. The Black Death killed half of the population. Further they did not spoil water at one time and drinking beer instead of water saves many lives finally. My guesses only!

Why Europe is so rich? With less population, the natural resources including farm land is high per capita. In addition, they enslaved and stole all the gold / silver from the colonies. That’s why the countries with sea-faring ports are richer than the rest of Europe. Again my guesses only!

Coincident or belonging to conspiracy theories

The coronavirus spreads to countries that oppose to our policies: China, S. Korea, Iran and Italy.

Are the whole Korean family sharing soups with spoons and the close religious meetings the causes of the spreading?

Travel industry is suffering financially caused by this virus.

Market timing

It works at least for the last two crashes ending in 2009, but no one can predict the peak and the bottom. I have a simple technique to detect market crashes / recoveries described in most of my books on investing.

One best-seller tells us to exit the market in 2009 and the followers would miss out the 300% or so of appreciation from then to 1/2020. My system is well publicized and it is not my idea; sometimes it is self-prophesized when a lot of investors follow the same technique.

Many predict that a market crash is coming. Even the broken clock is right two times a day. Some become famous when the prediction is materialized and publicized. However, most are one-winner pony.

Representation without taxable

It is worse than taxable without representation. Should we take out the voting rights for those who do not pay any Federal income tax?

Trump

I do not like him as a person without moral. However, he is right in many policies. Being a Chinese American, I even like his China policy. However, it has carried to such an extreme that would backfire in the long term.  Again, I do not vote as I am politically neutral.

Richest folks I bet

More than 5 of the 10 richest folks are Jews or related.

The richest family is Rockefeller, but their wealth has not been publicized. The next one is Walton making money by importing goods from China. Sam Walton miscalculated the profit margins and he was a patriot. After he died, his heirs imported goods from China and the rest is history.

The U.S. middle class have better life than the ancient emperors. So, why you complain?

Adam and Eve

It seems that every civilization has its own legend on how the earth and human were created. How did they pass the legend from day one without language?

Prediction of the next president

As of 3/2020, there has not been a president not reelected with the unemployment rate less than 4%. The black swan could be the corona virus. The economy looked better than it actually was as in most presidential election year.

Five Eyes becomes One Eye?

United Kingdom and Canada seems to be letting Huawei in to install the 5G networks. Economy is more important than politics. Canada has massive trade with the U.S., so I do not know the above statement is right. Canada is not in war with any country, so why they care about military intelligence?

Australia has a strong economic tie with China, so most likely they will side with China eventually. They need China more than U.S. for both trade and peace.

The U.S. and China

To my surprise and with the exception of Vietnam, most countries think China is friendlier than the U.S. from the many YouTube videos I watched, and most of these videos were made by Chinese citizens and some by Europeans.

We have been given China a hard time in many fronts, and China will if not already do the same to us. The world will be a better place if the two countries do not fight against each other.

Foxconn and India

Foxconn has a tough time in India. Labor cost and tariff are not the only factors. Other factors are the quality of workers (education and work ethic), infrastructure (electricity and transportation) and governance.

Many factories are moved to Vietnam with similar problems even with the help of China in building their infrastructure. Many basic parts are still made in China and Vietnamese assemble them.

In any case, China will suffer a lot from the trade war with us and the coronavirus.  

Globalization

From the coronavirus outbreak, we find the strengths and weaknesses of globalization. The policy “China plus one” resurfaces. Trump could give negative tariff to some Chinese exports that we need desperately. No kidding!

Endless wars

When you see any of the many YouTube videos on Syria and/or Ukraine, you know what wars have bought. Hope all countries do not participate in foreign wars and let them fix their own problems / conflicts locally to reduce the disastrous effects of wars.

I hope China would solve the islet disputes with her neighbors, and U.S. would let the United Nations to be the global policeman. Am I just a dreamer?

Bangladesh

Watched some documentation on this poor country. Hope more Chinese factories are moved to this country. God is unfair. Thanks for a lot of charities from the west.