Amiram’s Observations

The free market:

The free market is free to go up.  Once it goes down, the government kicks in…
The market enjoys the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, the right to bear arms.  It doesn’t have the freedom to go the wrong way.  Only the government can do that…
The market doesn’t have free will, it [...]

I swear (and I can prove it) that I posted this one almost a year ago.

Nov 4, 2007 5:29 PM
Mortgages, Stocks, Real Estate, Jobs and Risks
from My China Experience by Amiram Hayardeny

I recently met this guy, a young successful professional who just bought a house.  Nothing very exciting about that (no offense of course).  We [...]

For a few days I’ve been struggling with myself.  The dilemma was whether to write about something that so many are writing about.  Asking myself whether or not I can provide a unique viewpoint, added value, anything.  Then it came to me.  I do live in Beijing, my family and I consume milk products, I [...]

It’s that time of year, as the leaves are about to fall off the trees, the temperatures are cooling down (at least in our hemisphere), the days are getting shorter, and the nights and sleeves get longer.  Fall is coming, and with it, the end of the year.  The Jewish calendar year that is.  And [...]

What a wonderful coincidence.  Two of my favorite women in the world have consecutive birthdays…

She is my firstborn, she was the prettiest baby in the New York Hospital nursery with no competition.  She grew up to be beautiful, curious, inquisitive and bilingual.  By the time she was six she could easily detect and associate people [...]