Japanese Yakuza go for retirement
January 26, 2009
Japanese newspaper Yomuri reports that economic chrisis has hardly hit Yakuza, the legendary – also quite scary – local mafia.
Yakuza has something like 90,000 “employees” and since 2006 a good share of them started queing for unemployment wages and further welfare support: Government is trying to stop this peculiar, fairly expensive (400m yen), activity. Not easy, though…
Noseweek.com: news about South Africa
July 28, 2008
Wanna know what’s happening of socially and politically “unproper” in South Africa? Visit Noseweek!
The Wisdom of Crowds
July 28, 2008
Quite unbeliavable, but it seems that experts are regularly “beaten” by a common crowd when committed to produce an extimation or conjecture.
James Surowiecki deeply explains this theory in his wonderful book “The wisdom of crowds” – which we highly recommend to your attention.
You can visit the Iowa Electronic Markets website www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem to introduce yourself to the matter…
