John Drake

Great! Now Thai cities can operate just as efficiently and safely as American cities.

Even worse people than Putin, if you can imagine that, are waiting behind the scenes. No, the problem is the countries that have aligned themselves with and become enablers of Putin. China and India, namely. And of course the gamesmanship Erdogan is playing in Turkey. The door is slamming on China because of their plotting. The same, however, has not been applied to India. It should be. India is a Russian lackey. (And, btw, in the biggest absurdity of all, futures are green across the board, nasdaq, Dow, S&P.)

I wish.

How many bankruptcy plans does this make?

The only thing that will fix this are automated guardrails that lower for pedestrians, while tire spikes emerge simultaneously from the road.

Perfect timing once again, as Russia and Putin declare mobilization and threaten the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Move all your belongings to the second floor--if you have one.

There is a lot of investment up there, including Thai investment. The only problem is it's across the river in Vientiane.

Nowhere was I making a case for a university degree to be utilitarian. That is the role of vocational schools and some community colleges in the US. As for your claim, indeed, some people successfully run companies and have no college degree whatsoever. Universities have more complex functions.

I'll give you one: business. I was continually asked to write 15-20 letters of recommendation at the end of every trimester to third rate graduate business schools. Amazingly, none of the students was ever rejected. If you want a real discussion on this issue, btw, you should attempt to be more honest, instead of trying to bait me with phrases such as "should be interesting." Why should it be interesting for you, in actuality? I doubt that it is, because you're trying to set things up for endless argumentation.

Because many of my students from Mahidol were going to the UK to get degrees from places like Oxford Brookes, which is third rate, as are a lot of the former polytechnics that got a facelift a decade or so ago. I've held full time faculty positions in Germany, the US, and Thailand. I've seen what happens. There is a pipeline from Thailand to the UK for worthless graduate degrees.

The one percenters in Thailand who buy property, businesses, and sports teams in the West. And who pay excessive tuition for their children to go to Western universities for third rate graduate degrees.

The "concern" is that so much of China's military hardware has been bought or stolen from Russia, whose technology appears to be just so much junk. That and the "modernization" of the PLA after the fashion of the Russian army should be giving Xi nightmares.

She looks like she's had hard times. She has aged more harshly than Elizabeth had at the day of her death.

The markets need to crash. Bring'em down. The housing bubble prevents young people from owning their own home and building their families. Getting rid of the stocks bubble will help send some of that excess liquidity to money heaven. Meanwhile, getting interest rates up to what used to be normal levels will reward savers and punish debtors, instead of doing things the other way around since 2008.

Because it's a troll.

"he said he would press Bangkok to reduce its dependence on oil and gas from neighboring Myanmar, where the ruling military junta is committing “horrifying atrocities," _______ Ought to be a popular figure right off the bat.

After these crimes against humanity, the Russian Federation needs to be unFederated. Leave a rump state in Moscow, and divide the rest of the "federation" into five or six independent countries. Playing nice with Russia after 1989 got the world to this point. You can never trust the current geopolitical entity never to return, as it inevitably seems to do, to tyrants and dictators.

Where's the laugh emoji when you need it?

One big loser is China, whose aircraft and missile systems are not even of Russian quality but Chinese copies of Russian designs. Nothing like seeing state of the art Russian military equipment blown to pieces by 30+ year old American HIMARS and the like. Meanwhile, the biggest winner of the war might be Taiwan, which is much more advanced than Ukraine. China looking to invade Taiwan with Russian military thinking and technology might be having second thoughts.

OTOH ng will be available and not at four X the cost in North America. The European situation is unique. They let the Germans determine their energy policy. And the Germans were in the pocket of the Russians. It's going to cost Europeans to rectify that situation--or forever be puppets on Putin's strings.