Israel, Palestine and kids?

Hello,


The recent brutal news about killing of children in Palestine has left me devastated. The war is between Hamas and Israel but kids are being affected. About a week ago children playing in beach were targeted.

Save the children's UK, page in Facebook has pictures like,

Today in BBC there was a heated conversation between representative of both side, and it was nice to know how each of them share their perspective (LINK).

What is your perspective on this war? 

  

Review of "Applied Economics, Thinking beyond stage one".

Hello,


Recently I read the book, " Applied Economics, Thinking beyond stage one."  by Thomas Sowell. I enjoyed reading this book and this was by far the book I read in short time.

I learnt a lot, it has lot of examples of real historical situations. Since, I wasn't born during the Soviet Union period I got to learn about its economy from here. One of the most influential topic for me was chapter 2: Free and un-free labor and chapter 5: Risky Business.
Chapter 2 gave me idea of labor around the world, and productivity. Minimum wage and big industries shifting their production companies to lower wage nations.

While on Chapter 5: The book has lot of information to give. From insurance company to pay-checks. It explains the risk some industries and government faces.


This book helped me gain insights about economic world and definitely think beyond the stage one. I would recommend this book to an economics undergrad or anyone interest about economics.

(Cover of the book, image from amazon.com)

The book is available on amazon. (LINK)

Summer Readings

Hello

It has been pouring down in Seattle this entire week. During the rainy days, when I am free I like to read and drink coffee.
This week I read a couple of some interesting books.

1. The Alchemist

This is not my first time, I think it is my third time reading this book. I like to keep my memory refreshed and the book does not need any more explanation. (A must read for everyone)

                                                        




2. Applied Economics, thinking beyond stage one. 

I started this book on the later half of this week and I am still reading it. So far the book is filled knowledge. There are explanation of situation where the importance of long term thinking  are explained. I have finished the first couple of chapters and it is one of the most practical economics books I have read.

Pictures from the Northwest Trek

Hello,

I come from a very beautiful country, Nepal. It is a gift of nature from Mt. Everest to wonderful Rara Lake. I thought nature in USA would not impress me. I was so darn wrong. It brought back memories of home, and I learnt a lot. I am sharing some pictures. I hope you enjoy!

Lake and the hill behind. 

Roosevelt Elk

 Mother nature

Man made meadow

Bison

River Otter

Black tailed deer

There were other animals like Mountain goat, Trumpeter swan, Bighorn Sheep,  Moose and many more. I had a great day the park, and the maintenance of the park was amazing . I wish animals everywhere were taken care like this.  

I am not a great photographer neither an editor, but I love sharing. 

- Ciao! 

Multitasking

Hello,

How many of you do multitasking?
I am terrible at multitasking, I cannot even watch the TV and eat at the same time. I am constantly stopping and focusing on one task.
Before I used to try doing multitasking, but I have given it up.  So, far the all I can do is walk and listen to an audio books.

Also, I am not taking classes during the summer so I haven't come up with new economic topics to write. Meanwhile I am going through the courses provided in coursera and edx. Besides that I am going to the North West trek this Saturday! I am so much looking forward to it. I will surely blog and post lots of pictures about that.

:)

History and economics

Hello,

Economics is study of people's behavior, and history is the best place to look. Starting from colonization for natural resources and immigration of human all the actions impact in economy.

The economist magazine has a separate category called economics history. Here they connect the important historical even with economy. One of the article that I found interesting is "When did globalization start?"  (LINK). There is a picture in this article that reads, how did Christopher Columbus caused inflation. (Poor guy!, but remember inflation is not always a bad thing)

(Image form Google)

On the personal note: This week I struggled with a lot of things. I don't know why but I have been sleeping like 10 hours a day for a past few days and yesterday I slept less than 2 hours. (I have not idea what is going on with me!)

Well I also visited the pike place market this week. It was a beautiful day. My favorite thing to do in the city of Seattle is to walk in downtown, actually walking around downtown is my favorite thing to do in any city.

Public market, Seattle. 

What is your favorite activity to do in a big city?  

Stay cool! 

Summer Pictures.

Hello,

I wanted to include some pictures of my summer days.

Alkai Beach 

World Cup updates. 

Travel with friends! 

Cool salad and sun glass. 

These activities are filling up my summer. I will post some more pictures later. 

- Ciao. 

Bomb Diggity resource

Hello,

I may be the last person to talk about it but here is it. "Itunes U". I knew about this app but I really hadn't thought about using it until last night. I searched some courses and found so many interesting courses on different subjects. I think it has become my new summer obsession, right now I am listening to "Curry Economics by Eric Tagliacozzo" from Cornell University.

This is awesome, I am so thankful to technological progress and people who share such an incredible knowledge.

 snap shot of my phone

:) 

Economics and writing skill

Hello,

Firstly, Happy Independence day! (4th July)

(Image from Wikimedia.org)

Today I was analyzing about writing skills. It is so important to have a great writing skill if you are majoring in economics. For me, it is in my life's list to have an awesome writing skill.

Writing can develop through reading and practice. I have seen reading helps me get idea however writing makes my use it better. I tried to find some web sites that helps with writing and THIS is one with a lot of features. Nevertheless, I do have a book, "Academic Writing" that helps me go through my college home works.

There is one page that I found going through the web site, it has great information to the beginners thinking about economics major. I have the (LINK)  and you can see for yourself.

For tonight, This is my first fourth of July in USA and I am so excited to see the fire works.

Understanding Economy

Hello,

So, I was watching a documentary on economic system. I came across a movie called, "Four Horsemen: Revealing the fundamental flaws in the economic system" This is a movie worth watching. If you are interested in the field of economics, business, banking, or government policy forming.  The movies is about an hour and forty minutes but will get your mind thinking about it. (LINK)

I do not have large knowledge in economic but this gave me an insight on what is going on around. Of course I would not based my entire idea on this but it has opened a way towards thinking how it all works. Sometimes, after watching these articles, reading news I wonder what would I think if I knew more about economics. If I had deeper understanding how would I think about these articles and movies.

I do not have specific thought on these movies, but they are worth seeing and understanding different aspect of people.

(Image from Google image)


Besides that can you believe, it was 32 degree Celsius in Seattle today? It made me think about my adaption capabilities for the summer trip.