“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.” NeedsYearsIdeasStoriesEarthReligionOrderThreeHalfAtheismEventsProductsThousandMajorsArgumentMiracleClaimsIncludingOpponentsAbandonCollapseBiblicalFloodThousand YearsFossilsRelianceLiteralAssertionGenesisDistortionInvokeOf ContextCitations Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.” ThinkingGovernmentLosesRecordsEventsPolicySpringPerformancesUnionsSurpriseCaughtExpertsOwnersSovietCollapseClientsPhysiciansApologizingSoviet UnionBusiness OwnersBrokersPausingArab SpringMalpractice Author:Andrew Bacevich
“. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in which the idea of free-markets succeeded first, and then special events catalyzed a complete change of socio-political policy in countries around the world by Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.” ThinkingWorldFirstsIdeasCountryPoliticalRolesSpecialCenturyEventsPolicyLateSocialismAround The WorldCyclesAdamCollapseFree MarketTwentieth CenturyHayekRoad To SerfdomFriedrich HayekSpecial Events Author:Milton Friedman
“Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.” WayLongActionTermProgressPlansEventsIndependentResolutionFrankCollapseLong WayTransparencyLiquidityWinding DownDodd Frank Author:Jamie Dimon
“We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.” EventsHistoricalCollapseHistorical Events Author:Jean Baudrillard