FOUND & FORGOTTEN?

The degree of coordination sends a message to the markets that global leaders are going to do whatever they need to do to instill confidence in the markets.

‘Let us show the doubters that our international discourse doesn’t depend on governments.’

For the NBA owners and players to shut down their league during the worst economic times in more than 60 years has got to be the dumbest thing they could imagine doing. At a time when so many businesses are fighting for every last dollar, the NBA players and owners are giving back money to their season-ticket holders — their die-hard fans — and saying we don’t want it. Put that money back in your pockets for now, and when we decide to start playing again, think about whether we are worthy of your investment.

This is how self-control “cashes out” in the real world: as an ability to direct the spotlight of attention so that our decisions aren’t determined by the wrong thoughts.

Aggression was best assessed in terms of what Mischel called “if-then patterns.

Mischel argues that intelligence is largely at the mercy of self-control: even the smartest kids still need to do their homework.

Today, California’s public schools are a disaster, and the state spend twice as much on prisons as it does on education.

Pew found that Millenials prefer the President by 26 points, while Silents tilt to Romney by 10 points.

Full-time workers in the U.S. who are overweight or obese and have chronic health problems such as high blood pressure or asthma cause $153 billion in lost productivity each year

Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill didn’t figure to get a single GOP vote, even after his weeks-long campaign-style effort to drum up support for a measure he said would reduce the jobless rate from its current 9.1 percent.

The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.