The Warning

This blog is my opinion on the PBS Frontline Special: The Warning.  As I sit here on a Friday afternoon I am doing this blog for class.  This video is very boring and making me sleepy.  But writing something and throwing some pictures in the blog is better than getting zero.

I did not like this video. I enjoyed watching The Meltdown video on PBS better. "In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."  "At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008."  They talk how they didnt really like Brooksley Born and she was a women.

RS Regulators Mount Up

This blog is my opinion on the Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy produced by WGBH interactive.

The point of this whole video is how the Wars affect the World's economy.  They talked about the economy as far back as the 1900's.  The economy is different now, and was different then, & will be different in the future.

I didn't really like this video it was bording.  But Money make the world go round!!

RS: Not Everything Sucks

"Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four"

The YouTube video "Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four" I watched was very interesting.  I think it is not surprising because the world keeps on growing and getting smarter.  Humans have been figuring out how to do and change to make things better forever.


The Ted video Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future I watched was good I agree with Peter Diamandis.  He is right that everything is getting better and better, people are living twice as long it is great.   "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.”  Humans and the power of science lets us figure out just about thing over time.  Anything is possible, I bet in my lifetime cancer will be cared.  Like he said a cell phone now is way cheaper than a cell phone then.  Everything is basically available on a phone with all the apps now.  

Diamandis talks about this education and health app that can do testing better than humans. Thats honestly crazy and awesome.  The earth now has 7 billion people and everyone is going to get education and healthy.  Only 2 billion use the internet by 2020 3 more billion will join so it will 5 billion strong on the internet.  Everyone will be smarter, safer, healthy, and more educated. This is great for the world!

RS 10 Spring Break: A Time to Reflect

1. What is your strongest memory from this class so far?
My strongest memory from class so far is when you always talk and show my blog. MVB (Most Valuable Blog/Boss).


2. What is your strongest memory about an economic concept?
My strongest memory about an economic concept is when you talked about it would be better for you to run in a race and A-Rod to enter home run contest.  From this semesters probably the GDP.


3. What was your favorite topic to write a blog post about? Why?
My favorite topic to write a blog on was RS 7 because it was interesting about killing creativity.


4. What blog post do you think you did your best work on? What was good about it?
I think the blog I wrote the best was RS 8.  It was good because it was funny and truthful.


5. What about the Engel Indoctrination Program (this class) has made you a better person? Or are you worse? If so, why? As always, creativity counts.
Well I learn how to write a blog and make it look cool.  I couldn't say I'm a better or worse person because of this class, but I would say I'm smarter and more informed on real life issues.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfjwNrloDZg

Spring Break^^^^^^^^^^^^

Spring Break What I am really going to do ^^^^^^^


BUT STILL

RS 9 CPI

This blog is my take on the podcast The Price Of Lettuce In Brooklyn by Planet Money.  This podcast was aired on October 22, 2010.  

CPI is Consumer Price Index.  CPI show the price change is all items from housing to food to education.  The CPI shows the prices change from month to month. "There are two different types of CPI. There is Headline CPI which is all prices collected by these assistances and there is Core CPI which cuts out food, oil and things that fluctuate dramatically because it gives a more accurate reading of CPI." I have never heard of this until now.  If you knew the CPIs early u could be rich.  I looked up some graphs on CPI.  They were interesting.

In my opinion this guy George Minichiello is weird and creepy.  He cant tell anyone what stores and the store owners name he goes to figure CPIs and sent it to the government.  Its a weird and time consuming job i think.