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Imagine 192 different glasses in a big table, all of them with different levels of a different liquids. Imagine that each of the liquids has a particular name and each glass has a different level of the liquid. There are also only three liquids that can be use to fill any glass, however some of them are connected. The name of the three liquids that most of the glasses will accept are Peter Dollar, Marie Euro and Kim Yuan, they are quite popular guys and they three have been fighting to see which one can fill more glasses.

There is a clause that allows all the other glasses to return back the liquid that they have received, however the clause says that they need to give a little more of the liquid that they have received, lets call this clause Jane Rate of Interest, yes she is married.

If  all the glasses whom received one of those three liquids, start returning back the extra liquid, plus Jane Rate of Interest, the glasses whom will receive back the liquid are going overflow, he is the last person that I want to introduce to the story, his name is Don Inflation. Don and Larry Unemployment are not very good guys and they’re always around the corner waiting to appear in the story, however I´m not going to talk about Larry today.

Now, that you met all the characters I´m going to invite you to see the video which is below. It was created with information from where´s George, which is a website that tracks where Peter dollar is located. It only tracks him when he is at home, however it worth see how he flows. Imagine if we´d be able to see his travels to the other 191 glasses.

In the glasses there are some banks, who are in charge of taking care of the liquid, those banks depends from glasses or glasses depends on banks I´m really not very sure today. Clicking here you´ll see how the top 20 financial institutions by capitalization, $bn 1999 – 2009 have changed, just drag the slider to view data for different years, you will be surprise with the information for the last two years, are not those years when happened one of the biggest crisis since 1930?

Finally I want to share a graphic about the glasses which are located in a special region of the table called Europe and I hope everything is a little more clear.

Couple days before Argentina 200 anniversary I started writing a post, I thought to explain our anthem or debate some questions about Argentina, however any of both completely satisfied me so May 25th passed and I published nothing.

During such especial event, I had dinner with Joe, a friend from US who is almost Argentinean, and a friend from Argentina, Maia, who is married with an American actor. It was a very cool dinner in a funky Argentinean restaurant and after it I went with Maia to meet some others in a bar of Santa Monica. The manager was from Argentina so we had some good fernets, it was the same bar that I first went when I´ve came to US with the people from RESULTS.com ☺.

One of the Argentinians who was there, was a lawyer from San Isidro who left the country in 2006 and he hasn´t returned back.

He told me two things that stay printed in my mind. First he told me that in one moment of his life dreams turn to hope, so with only hope he decided to come to US. I told him that he was not counting the possibility to dreams to turn to reality, where he has to be a participant and not only a viewer however he told me that he was tiered. I told him that one of my dreams is to see Argentina big.

The second thing that he said was a difference between US and Argentina, he said that in US you need much more effort to do everyhting but none is going to take what you got, I think some people have lost part of what they got with the last crisis, however it was the first big crisis in 80 years. In Argentina you can receive a lot with less effort but you may not keep it all, which is going to be different I also told him.

Our anniversary of independence it is going to be on July 9th 2016. During last Tuesday we celebrated the beginning of the revolution, which took 6 years after Argentina became independent from Spain.

We are a young country yet, we´ll be big and I have no doubts that 200 years ago started the best country ever .

I found a cool online tool to create clouds of documents, websites or a bunch of texts. It´s http://www.wordle.net and below you can see my blog´s cloud:

According to wordle.net it was develop by Jonathan Feinberg; who acknowledges his employer, IBM Research, for extending the privilege of using code, which he wrote on their time, for this personal project.

China has the world longest high-speed rail network. They found that stopping in each station was a waste of time and energy, loosing energy to stop and spending extra energy to accelerate. They have developed the prototype, which is in the video below. I haven’t found if the prototype has been implemented, however the idea seems brilliant.

People from the station get in to the platform, the high-speed train decrees the speed but doesn´t need to stop and it catches the platform, leaving one behind. The new people from the platform has time to move to the train, meanwhile the train continues its way to the next station, and the people who wants to get off moves into the platform, which is going to be deposit in the next station or they just stay on the train until the station they want to get off approaches.

When I was attending my classes in Australia I was honor to met Vittawath Athikhamanon, who is from Thailand. His name is a little difficult for the western languages so his nick name was King. Probably most of you have been reading about what is happening in Bangkok. I wondered if someone, from Thailand, can write the story so I asked King if he wanted to do it for us. He did an amazing job to understand what is happening:

about Bangkok…. As u know the the situation in Bangkok is getting worse many people death, many building had been burned and many people have to changed their life style for these day.

So, i think the main problem for this situation in “Taksin Chinawat”, who was our ex-prime minister, who is supported “red shirt”. Longtime ago many people voted him to be the prime minister because he is successful in the business and he is the rich person, so many people thought he is rich enough he won’t be cheat our country for sure and he could make the economic in Thailand to be better.

After he became a prime minister. we got, what we hope. The economic is better than before and drugs had been decreased. Almost of small agent had been killed by the police cos Taksin so angry about drugs due to he son was a drugs addict.

when he was on the position of the prime minister. He always use this time for his benefit to earn the money for his team such as Suwananphom Airport. We have a discussion to build this Air port at least 30 years. But the finally for the meeting always say no because that place had been cover by water. So it’s impossible to build the building on the water or if we want, we have to use much money for it. But when taksin become the prime minister, he started to build this airport because his family have much land around, so, they could sell to the government to build this airport.

Coming to the situation at these day……

Taksin want to break down the King. He support the red team to fight with the government and cut off some position of people who is working instead of the king because if he can cut this group of people of, it easy for him to use the money to break down the King and he can become a president easier. (He always use money to buy the people).  Almost of red shirt are poor people who from country side and have a few education, so they even know, why they came to Bangkok, some people said he/she came because some people invited them. I have been talking with some people who doesn’t know that Taksin want to break down The King and always dever the wrong information to discredit The King. That people still said he love The King and he is not allow any people to break down The King.

The solution for this problem is…..

Taksin die or give up his aims to break down The King and stop feeding the red shirt. The main problem is Taksin, so if he stop every things will be stop and Thailand will become a land of smile same as before.

or if some country catch him and send him back to Thailand to be on the process of fair system. That will be the best solution for it.

I learned that keep things simple is a must to develop business, Facebook privacy has more than 50 different settings, with more than 170 options. The page that explains them has more than 45.000 words and its policy is longer than the US constitution, according to a report released by the NY Times, which is below.

It is very important to understand the shift of paradigm that they are implementing, before was what I do public and today is what I do private.

The graphic below is not completely relevant to the previous part of the post, however I believe is also important to understand some facts about what facebook is doing, how many people is affected and who is the modern media consumer.

• 400 million active users
• 50% check in daily
• Average user spends 55 minutes per day
• 35 million update status every day
• 3 billion photos uploaded each month
• 5 billion pieces of content shared every day
• 70% of users are outside the United States

There is always the possibility to turn off your account, I wonder if it is going to start happening or if they are going to succeed with the implementation of the new paradigm.

Source:

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html
• http://www.flowtown.com/blog/who-is-the-modern-media-consumer
• http://www.pamorama.net/2010/03/29/amazing-facebook-facts-infographic/#ixzz0o8IEbLaz

(If you prefer read this post or the different articles about BRIC in English, please use http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ thanks).

Uno de los mejores periodistas en Argentina, según mi opinión, y debido a su forma de trabajo y de profundidad en la investigación es Jorge Lanata. Todavía tengo memoria viendo Día D y no entendiendo como era posible que, en democracia, un gobierno decida sacar a alguien de la television, pero tenia solo 13 o 14 años.

Junto a un equipo de 4 personas, Tamara, Guido, el Nene y el Oso, según lo que encontré en una de las notas, desde el 1º de diciembre del 2009 viajaron a Rusia, después a India, Brasil y a China, para producir un investigación sobre los 4 países que para 2050 podrían opacar las economías mas ricas del mundo. Produjeron mas de 250 horas de material grabado que serán editadas por Infinito, para ser emitidas después de mitad de año y  4 notas para el diario perfil que quería compartir con ustedes:

1. Brasil
2. Rusia
3. India
4. China

y Argentina, para 2050, también va a tener un rol fundamental en la economía mundial, sera cuestión de trabajar muchisimo, pero no tengo duda de que lo vamos a lograr.

During this week I received three invitations to participate in different entrepreneurship challenges in Argentina and Latin America, so I want to encourage all of you who has a project or an idea in mind to participate!

First invitation:

• What: BiD Challenge 2010
• Who is behind?: Fundación Business in Development Network de Holanda y FUNDES Argentina
• For whom it was created?: Convoca a emprendedores de Argentina y otros paises de Latino America que sean empresas Micro o Pyme ya establecidas o simplemente buenos proyectos aún sin arrancar, que busquen una inversión entre los USD 10,000 y los USD 1,000,000
• How can I apply or receive more information?: www.bidnetwork.org/argentina o escribí a Andrea Vilán avilan@fundes.org

Second invitation:

Third invitation:

Although Naves, from IAE, and Desafio Joven from ACDE and Shell are still accepting participants, they both gave me an awesome view of how to start a business when I participated.

I´m always impress by people who is smart, who is innovative and who thinks different to make things happened. Alec Brownstein has become to the top, please spend 5 minutes browsing his website and looking his Google Job Experiment if you are impressed by the same people.

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When I wrote some thoughts about United States of America I thought to expand the idea of why I believe United States is a potency. I´m not going to reefer why is an economic, military or politic potency because I believe they all are affected with this idea.

I think in developed or developing countries, except for India, the percentage of amazed talented people is relativity constant, what means the number of “genius” who born and raise in US is not very different the percentage of “genius” who born and raise in Panama or Germany, what is different is the education system that the people from those countries receive, what could miss some potential of the “genius” if the education system is not good. The case of India is different, and I´d like to read about Indian education system because I think the percentage of “genius” is much higher there, what could be increasing potential.

The country who can increase the migration of those people has an advantage among the others. As a first step people usually come to study, then they start investigating, developing business, working for the government or in companies and only very few of them return to them countries after the four years of classes. This people not only bring their minds and backgrounds they although bring many local contacts from them countries, which makes the goods from the US been trade much easier, sometimes with just a call or an email. Although all this people come to study or work and this is a priority of them, and they probably will do their best in those fields.

This is why, I believe, meanwhile this amazed talented people, from the entire glove, continue coming to US, and the US government continue investing in Development and Research, it is going to be the potency of the world.

Little note: with genius I´m not only referring to Einsteins or Hawkings, there is a much more normal level of genius who make things happen.

Second note: My third note about US is going to be about the power of the dollar in the global economy, however is going to be in couple weeks.