Well, gold is up over $100/oz today, to another new all-time high
Meanwhile the markets are selling off hard again
As much as precious metals investors are loving this action, is anyone starting to worry that gold is sending a warning of systemic vulnerability?
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Last year I realised in horror that someone has been using my passport number for their AirChina account to get free tickets out of my mileage ( from doing London-Beijing multiple times a year). I spent an hour on the phone with an agent questioning them how on earth could this happen. Why wou…
Angelina, you are correct in that "Americans are poorly educated" . . . I'm an 89 year old Australian who has lived and worked around the world. The company I help found had a head office in London (where I lived for 15 years) branches in Antwerp, Cologne, Nice, Hong Kong, New York, and I am now settled in the USA . . . . But you are ill-informed on the notion that American children would be "educated even less by leaving it to "moms and pops."
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Roger, I see your point. However, leaving education entirely in their parents hands (vs. in addition to school), could lead to more troubles than we already got. Not all parents are suited to teach (nothing wrong with it), not all parents are educated well, so it would be the blind lead the blind, and as a parent, I do see many issues with above situation, and while it could be excellent in some cases, it also could be a disaster in the wrong hands. I think we'd be better off to raise an educat…
Homeschooled children consistently outperform their public school peers. There is no way I would recommend any parent send their children to public ‘indoctrination’ schools.
“Homeschooled students score about 72 points higher than the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The average American College Test (ACT) score is 21. The average score for homeschoolers is 22.8 out of a possible 36 points. Homeschoolers are at the 77th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.”