Where is the US economy headed?

You are a booby, ican. George Soros is completely irrelevant. You are, however, even more irrelevant than Soros. Try to find something that contributes to the discussion rather than your own navel gazing.

Touche! You are on a roll tonight!

It's probably because bush majored in business rather than a real subject.

Yes I thought that you may think that, "they should be seen and not heard! We could devolve ourselves even more and make them wear veils !

Our laws have nothing to do with it. Human nature trumps all laws. Humans squabble. The court is nothing but an arena in which to fight.

Shouldn't that be animal nature? The fith ape?

I don't mean to be disrespectful, RL. Evidently this 11 minute interview was important to you. But I follow a lot of stuff on A2K and elsewhere which takes a bunch of my time (want to know more about the political mess in Ivory Coast?). All I ask is that you take the time to write a few paragraphs summarizing the 11 minutes.
If you can do that you are more likely to get some feedback, I think, from the rest of the folks here. I hope you don't think that is an unreasonable request.

Perhaps. But, why insult animals?

They do wear veils rl. Have you not noticed? Would you care to make the argument that veils should be optional?

I am not trying to be disrespectfull neither only trying to help humanity! I am not sure if you are aware but most videos including that one has a summary below it," all you have to do is click on the litle tab to expand it.

I could copy and paste it for you if it would be helpful. To be honest I do a very poor job of summarizing on someone else's fine work. "Sory" Not all of us have the same abilities as each other but that does not mean that we do not have anything of value to offer.

Interesting that you don't think a business degree is a "real" degree.
I'm curious why you think that.

Do you live in a place where woman have to wear veils Spendius?

I do not know much about the Ivory Coast but I did see a few good videos about the toxic waste that started from oil that came from usa which was hard to process which left a toxic sludge to be dealt with. I hear it was dumped on the Ivory Coast if I am not mistaken.

I hear that there was a very big cover up by the judges.
Is that what you are refering to? If you have any news that you would like to share please do so as that is what I do every day analyze all news sources!

1.) When I was in college, one could still become a CPA without ever having taken a college course. If a person had experience as a bank teller, that person could sit for the exam in sections after studying on their own. Today's accountants either have law degrees or master's in business administration. Perhaps, all that 'education' is the reason why the accountancy scandal of a few years back was so all encompassing. Perhaps, not.

2.) When I was in college, the people who majored in business generally did so after failing in at least one . . . sometimes three or four . . . other majors.

3.) I worked as a temp at the business school of a state university. I thought it was a joke. Anyone with any amount of decency or intellect or who knew what year it was without consulting a calendar was in and out of its administration in less than a year. Let me tell you: that office was a mess because the people who ran it were like chickens whose heads had been cut off.

In fact, when I think back on my temping days, I think of businesses that were so badly run that all I wanted to do was to escape from them. When I think of working in retail, I think of businesses so badly run that all I wanted to do was escape from them. The Peter Principle is alive and well.


4.) I took courses in a graduate level certificate program. Now, let me explain. I am older than you and, for my generation, because of #2 above, business was something of an embarrassment. However, as I had been out of the job market for cultural reasons (having moved to New England in the 70s when this area still looked down on the rest of the country) and because I was by choice and philosophy a full-time mother, I thought a certificate in business with distributive credits in environmental science might help me find work as a writer for an environmental engineering firm. A certificate is not an MBA. Well, I loved the first class and the second class. By the third class, I was beginning to sing the Peggy Lee song: Is that all there is? The third class was ok and the fourth class was so irritating that I withdrew in the middle of it.

5.) As my daughter, about to turn 33, a Spanish teacher with wonderful academic credentials said, "There is no reason to take business or education courses. Common sense and logic should enable you to understand both fields." She was being groomed for management by a bi-lingual press but absolutely hated the business end of things.

6.) Once upon a time, people went to college to be educated. Now, they go to college to be trained. There is a big difference.

Finally, despite the fact that you are younger than I am, are you so unworldly that you have to ask why?

Well said of you Plainoldme, Your education stands out well in what you have just wrote.

pom, The CPA exam is nothing to sneer at; it's a three day test that includes not only accounting but business law. I learned at that time that no first year law student would pass that section of the CPA exam. When I was in my senior year, there were only three of us in Advanced Accounting class that studied for the CPA exam, but my friends were genius' level students who carried 26 units in our quarter system at Cal State Hayward with mostly A's. I had to drop out studying with them, because my other classes were suffering, and I couldn't afford to flunk out at that stage. They both passed the CPA; both ended up going to UC Berkeley for their MBA.

Then he should know how difficult it is to drive in and out of cities versus airports.

You've never been to SAn Jose International Airport.

I can't believe you had to ask that question MM.

Surprised by the answer you got?

The criticisms you offered for Business Administration curricula could as well also be directed at those involving Sociology, Political Sciencs and other currently fashionable topics like Women's Studies and all the rest of the politically favored specialties.

It is evident that the lack of a business education hasn't inhibited your own career in business.