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To: stan_hughes who wrote (87446)	10/8/2007 9:27:35 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 110194

EU plans market reforms to avert crisis ft.com

To: stan_hughes who wrote (87446)	10/9/2007 6:22:53 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 110194

(Some) kids know that stuff too, don't kid yourself -g- US still has a virtual monopoly on CPU, but granted, lots of Asian and foreign students in the engineering/science programs. Well, former cyrix/NSM chip is in Taiwan, but is it any good? -g- Math/sciences is certainly the cornerstone obstacle for a lot of folks in college, even though not everyone needs it, but I've seen some very talented American kids who know this stuff. -g- High school education certainly needs some improvement, and it has been improving. ipho2007.ir Some gold medals for American high school kids in Physics, even though it was in Iran (surprised US participated). There could be more, but... the Chinese train their kids for months before the event. -ggg- Nobody questions the US leadership in sciences at a college level.

To: stan_hughes who wrote (87446)	10/9/2007 6:43:21 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

The problem is not really lack of knowledge, it's cheap labor, also some stealing of ideas to build stuff cheaply. So, US companies prefer to manufacture stuff overseas, while Americans are losing jobs and pile into debt. In doing so, US companies shoot themselves in the foot, but they have to compete. -g- Computers control these markets now. Historical price movement matters more than the coming recession, markets go up. Gaussian stuff makes money, so everyone is using it -g- Of course, there is a limit to all this, but there is also Fed put in those rare cases when the Gaussian stuff stops working, as we have witnessed in August and many times prior to August. Computers are really smarter than humans, making it very difficult to trade these robotic markets.