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isaac Mao

我的TED故事、译言与其他 - 0 views

  • 认识 TED 这东西纯属 serendipity(意外的收获),记得好像是在 iTunes 上看到的(那时还在用一个叫 Windows 的操作系统,而 iTunes 则是当时最让我欣赏的软件之一)。一开始的时候只觉得好玩,载了好几个下来,待到暑假慢慢听。有一次听到 David Pogue 的演讲 , 感觉顿时被征服了。David Pogue 早年曾在百老汇当过导演,后来又跑到《纽约时报》当起了科技版专栏作者。他在2004年的 TED 大会上做的那个演讲真可谓声情并茂:演讲以一段唱词(加即兴钢琴伴奏)开始,而后 David 以十分诙谐幽默的语言来演绎出缺乏人性化设计的产品如何为用户(最终是为企业)带来苦恼的故事。听过这个演讲后,我才真正体会到学好英语所带来的乐趣—— 就是能听得懂人家演讲里头的笑话、双关以及各种文字游戏!
shi zhao

Solidot | 比尔·盖茨在TED大会上放蚊子 - 0 views

shared by shi zhao on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
  • 演讲的时候,盖茨还在会场上放蚊子,他说,“没有理由仅仅是让穷人去体验被蚊子攻击的滋味……”"
isaac Mao

学校扼杀了我们的创造力?---Sir Ken Robinson在TED讲坛中的演讲 - 译言翻译 - 0 views

  • 但是去了美国之后以及后来游历全球的时候,我被这个现象震撼到了:地球上所有的教育系统都有着相同的学科等金字塔。我总想肯定有某个地方会例外的吧,可是无论到哪都是这样。塔尖是数学和语言,向下是人文学科,艺术在最底端,全球普遍如此。
  • 就在他们离开房间的时候,医生拧开了桌上的收音机。走出房间后,医生对Gillian妈妈说:“就在这儿吧,看着她”。后来Gillian回忆起当时的情景,称他们刚离开房间自己就从椅子上站了起来,和着音乐移动着步伐。在外面观察了几分钟后,医生转向Gillian妈妈说道:“Lynne夫人,Gillian并没有生病,她是个舞蹈家。送她去舞蹈学校吧。”
evawoo

RGE - Adapting to the state's growing role in global equity markets - 0 views

  • Central bank purchases of traditional reserve assets still dwarf sovereign wealth fund purchases of riskier assets -- as well as central bank purchases of equities. But over time, it is reasonable to expect that many over-reserved sovereigns will diversify their portfolios. The recent decision to increase the share of the CIC's initial $205-210 billion in capital that it can invest abroad and SAFE's increased willingness to purchase equities as well as bonds are examples.
  • A far more challenging issue is how the huge increase in financial assets managed by potentially non-economic agents will affect the efficiency of the global capital market and the allocation of risk and resources. ….
  • And then there is China. China enormous foreign asset growth in the first quarter implies that it might be able to add more to its reserves and sovereign fund in 2008 than all the oil-exporters combined even if oil stays at its current levels.
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  • China consequently has an enormous latent capacity to alter the composition of global capital flows by changing the composition of its portfolio:
  • The offsetting risk is that state owners of assets will in some sense abuse their ownership rights, and use their rights to promote “state” objectives.
  • Qatar’s advertising in Forbes says as much: the QIA's evaluation criteria include “added value to the State of Qatar" such as "economic synergies or benefits for Qatar and its people."  Mubadala has made a string of investments (Ferrari, the “National”) designed to elevate the profile of Abu Dhabi.
  • China’s fund, like Singapore’s fund, reports directly to the top levels of China’s state. It has yet to build up enough of a track record to show how it will be used. However, China’s management of its state stakes in domestic industries suggests the need for some caution. One example: Three of China's four large state commercial banks have been listed, but they still aren’t managed in a fully commercial manner.
  • The Peterson Institute’s Ted Truman recently updated his “sovereign wealth fund scorecard.” His impressive and detailed work is worth reading carefully. Truman’s latest scorecard illustrates how the practices of many large existing sovereign funds – particularly those originating in non-democratic countries – differ from the practices of US state pension funds as well as Norway's government fund.
  • Kjaer’s framing implicitly raises a third issue, one that I don’t think has gotten enough attention. The surge in sovereign investment in safe government bonds that accompanied the surge in global reserve growth likely contributed to a “bond market bubble” – one that pushed down the real yields on government bonds in both the US. That contributed to a host of additional market distortions, as private investors scrambled to find higher returns.
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    中国外储投资对于世界资本市场的终极影响
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