ZT: Six Steps to Handling Money Questions

From: Monster
and it addressed some challenging questions we used to face when changing jobs.

Everyone wants as much money as an employer is willing to shell out. Yet when it comes to job interviewing, salary questions make most people squirm. One reason is that such questions pressure you to tip your hand during the negotiating game. Winning the salary you want requires some evasive action on your part. Choose your words carefully, and don’t be afraid to redirect a pointed question. These tips will help you stay in control of your compensation.

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ZT: Staying Positive Amidst the Global “Meltdown”

Original post from: Value Investment
(Comments from puzzlebird: the more I look into the current situation of financial crisis, I more I believe it is a great opportunity for us to grow rich when everybody is in panic)

The recent global stock market meltdown and the persistent and pervasive bad news in the media has made many of my peers and relatives worried and frazzled. Reading about retirees losing their life savings and people losing life fortunes to the stock market isn’t exactly uplifting news – it all points to dark and dreary days coming up and probably a lot more pain and suffering for the man on the street. However, thinking about things in perspective, having such a deep recession may actually be a good thing (I will elaborate further) and that it may not affect me as much as I previously believed. These are some of my thoughts on how to stay positive and how to weather the economic storm.

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ZT: 中国应对金融危机的唯一对策:3000亿美元投资俄罗斯

继续转帖刘洛军先生的文章。

战国时,六国的土地是秦国的五倍,六国的兵力是秦国的十倍。楚、齐二国在六国中是最强实力二国,楚齐联盟使秦国长期不敢进攻六国。于是,秦国就叫张仪带重 金出使楚国游说。张仪到楚国后重金买通许多楚国大臣,然后,拜见楚国国王楚怀王,许诺如果楚国与齐国断交,秦国会割让商於的600里土地于楚国。楚怀王见 地心动,拿了张仪重金的楚国重臣们也竭力称好。这样,楚国宣布与齐国断交。断交后,楚国按协议向秦国要地,秦国国王装傻不知,张仪改口是6里地,而非 600里地。楚国大怒,与秦国开战,齐国旁观,楚国大败并赔地于秦国。最后,六国在各种小利、各自小算盘与各类宦官贪财中被秦国全部消灭。

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ZT: 绝对精辟:10分钟让你全面了解当前世界金融危机!

From: wenxuecity

对金融危机最普遍的官方解释是次贷问题,然而次贷总共不过几千亿,而美国政府救市资金早已到了万亿以上,为什么危机还是看不到头?有文章指出危机的根源是 金融机构采用“杠杆”交易;另一些专家指出金融危机的背后是62万亿的信用违约掉期(Credit Default Swap, CDS)。那么,次贷,杠杆和CDS之间究竟是什么关系?它们之间通过什么样的相互作用产生了今天的金融危机?在众多的金融危机分析文章中,始终没有看到 对这些问题的简单明了的解释。本文试图通过自己的理解为这些问题提供一个答案,为通俗易懂起见,我们使用了几个假想的例子。有不恰当之处欢迎批评讨论。

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ZT:美国的国家社会主义者与2009年亚洲经济崩溃

From:刘军洛

更确定的定义,格林斯潘先生是一个标准的国家社会主义者。今天美国一栋房屋的平均价格在22万美元。现在美国计划一个收入在25万美元以下的家庭将不收税 实施的话,那么美国一个中产阶级家庭,将实现人类存在以来,所有地区,所以人种,所有文明史中最大的国家社会主义者工程,即一个美国中产阶级家庭工作一年 后,就可以拥有一栋非常宽敞与非常体面的中高档地区的房产。

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