Things I Learned Today
2008-01-30 8:19 p.m.
A) Foreign direct investment has become a staggeringly large proportion of world gross product.
B) Currency speculation - as a practice, an entity, whatever - has reared up suspiciously close to most governmental/economic collapses.
C) The "global wage" crises, which is another way of terming that a bunch of the world's workers produce stuff for $3/day, while a smaller bunch of workers produce stuff for $100+/day, is rendering wage depression for the latter inevitable.
D) A+B+C= Not sure if I want to have kids anytime this century.
E) "The state of our union is strong", according to W. Didn't notice, gotta look that one up.
E) Squat-thrusts are an endeavor not to be taken lightly, much like plank push-ups and attempting to reupholster furniture by yourself.
F) The rent on Heath Ledger's apartment in SoHo is $24k per month.
G) My mom used to run three or four times a week.
H)AxEx charges you $17 if you are late paying your bill, even by thirty minutes.