Flash Crash of 2010, they find the man responsible

The man responsible for the 2010 "flash crash" has been found and now being tried for charges such as wire fraud, commodities fraud, commodities manipulation and spoofing. He would buy stocks and then quickly sell them giving false hope that the money he would be investing would benefit the company. He would make close to $800 a day. He found a way to beat the system and make alot of money doing it, but also costing others a lot of money in the process, that is why he is in trouble. Why is the stock market susceptible to an event such as this. how can one man do this to an entire economy. 

Cheating

Recently Stanford has discovered that a shockingly large percentage of their students are not earning their grade but cheating to get what they have. A statistics professor conducted an experiment and found out that out of 86 students 40% of them admitted to cheating at one point while attending Stanford. Stanford is a very prestigious and competitive school and unfortunately sometimes when someone's cheats they are getting better grades than those who did not cheat. Now the competition isn't who is smarter, it's who is cheating. Leaving those who don't cheat with a chose, let the cheaters get better grades then them, or join in on cheating. When you cheat you learn close to nothing and that's only hurting yourself. Of course you could slide by in college but when it comes to your profession and you don't know what you're doing it will not pay off. Cheating is not beneficial in the long run. It "cheats" you out of an education and makes you think lying and dishonesty is ok. People cheat because they don't want to put in the effort to study and think it's ok just this once to cheat until it becomes a normal routine. "Oh there's a test this week, time to cheat". A cheater doesn't wake up one day and say I'm gonna start cheating now, it's a process just like every other bad habit it starts slow then gets bigger and bigger. Everybody is tempted with cheating it's your choice wether or not you give in to that temptation. 

The Softening of a Generation

Most people know that the law in China is that you are allowed to have one child this has been going on for 30 years. Now new recruits joining the military are breaking down and not being able to handle basic training. Because they are an only child they are used to being babied and being the apple of their parents eyes, this is not a good quality in a boy who is entering the military. There were reports that half of the boys in a unit were crying and wanting to drop out, is that the kind of people you want fighting to defend your country. I think as life gets made easier by technology and everything else the world is getting softer in the more developed country. Of course there are exceptions the people that are tough, have courage, stand up for themselves and aren't pushed around by people. Even in the U.S you see this softening of characteristics in the young people. This country was founded on tough, courageous, bold, and strong men. This sets a precedent and something that worked and why are we veering away from this truth. People want a perfect world where their children all get playing time on a team even though they may be terrible at that sport, and a place where their kids are not made fun of or pushed around. That is what makes people stronger. Just like God tests us and puts us through trials to make us stronger in our faith. We should not be raising whimps who can't stand up for themselves. Of course everyone's different and not everyone's gonna be alike but, we founded this country on certain characteristics and we should try and input these things into our children

marriage

In today’s society most mothers under 30 are not married to the fathers of their children. About Half of all marriages end in divorce and these rates are going up. People don’t see marriage as sacred as it once was seen. It has been distorted with the growing corruption of today’s culture just like everything that was meant for good. I think today people don’t think it’s a big deal to get a divorce it’s just like a breakup. It is the man’s responsibility to keep the marriage and in today’s society boys are not turning into men. Boys should not get married and I think people aren’t ready for marriage when they start talking about. They get married because of their infatuation and not love. Love is when you care for someone more than you care for yourself. 

Growing up a child needs a mother and a father, separate needs from each parent. Divorce ruins that first off it gives them a bad example of what marriage is supposed to be and second of all it ruins their relationship and leaves them with empty places in their heart. When there is only one parent in the home the kids don't get the parental needs that a mother and father provide. It forces one parent to try and meet both those needs which is close to impossible. When a child doesn't have its needs met it looks to fulfill the love and abandonment in other things and the things of this world are perfect for ensnaring hurt children in its traps to make them think they belong and gives them a false sense of fulfillment. We don't need as a society any more broken children who will grow up to be broken adults and set worse examples. When people get married they have a chance to set a precedent for the people around them and their children. Divorce is never pretty no matter what anyone says it is a destructive thing that ruins relationships and the ability to maintain future ones. I'm not going pretend like I know the challenges that come with marriage cause I don't at all but I know that it is for sure possible to keep a a marriage and that is extremely important in today's society more important than people think.

Can there be a harmless wrong?

Conservatives and Liberals always have had opposing viewpoints, but one thing they agreed on is that most things that they see immoral there is a most always a victim. For example murder (murderer and murdered) abuse (abuser and abused). New York Times said, “The absence of victims occurs only in the absence of immorality.” Which means if there is no victim them there is no immorality. One of the big topics brought up while talking about this is the conflicting act of homosexuality. Who is directly affected by homosexuality? From a Christian view point we know that it’s immoral and causes people to stumble and it’s a sin, but not everyone is a Christian. So how can we tell non-Christians who the victims are in homosexuality? People see things as harmful not to antagonize the opposing view point but because they think it is immoral. Conservatives may think homosexuality and gun control are wrong but liberals may think that religion in school is harmful to society. Besides having a religious bias how can we say that one or the other is right. You need prove to persuade peoples mind. No one will agree with you when you say it’s wrong because God says and I believe in God. Some say that the outbreak of homosexuality is equivalent to a nuclear holocast, but why? Who are actually effected by homosexuality besides the ones struggling with it thenselves. When you grow up with morals and beliefs and then something like this comes along making you question wether or not it's right, it makes you question whether or not you're whole belief system is right. Homosexuality distorts the sacred act of marriage. Marriage has always been between a women and man why should someone who agrees with that be forced to entertain the immorality of others. Conservatives and liberals like I said both believe that for something to be immoral there has to be a victim why then are they having conflicting views on topics? Shouldn't they have the same views if they both believe this? In conclusion there has to be harm for something to be immoral and wrong so to prove something is immoral you need to find what the harm and/or victim is.

Moral Conflict on Investing in Marijuana

The legalization medical marijuana is a growing issue in the U.S. Marijuana is legal or medically tolerated in about half of U.S states and starting to be a possible profitable investment to investors. Weed has its own moral convictions and whether you are against it or not it is making money, that catches the eyes of investors. Investors are investing to make money but some investors that invest into marijuana don't necessarily agree with it, is it wrong? If you think something is wrong you shouldn't support it, if you don't mind marijuana then you should have no convictions investing in it. There are some things that you strongly disagree with and some things that you just somewhat don't agree with me personally I would invest in something that I don't agree with if it makes me money. If there was something I strongly disagreed with I would not invest, because I don't support it. People are in it for the money.

Charlie Hebdo

On January 7^th 2015 the magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked my Muslim extremist resulting with 11 of the Charlie Hebdo editors killed and also a policeman when the gunman fled the building. The reason the Muslim extremist acted in this was the previous post by the magazine making fun of their prophet Muhammad which they took great offense to. They did this trying to put fear in the heart of the people and stop the offensive cartoons, their goal was not accomplished. 5 days after the attach Charlie Hebdo responded with a cartoon of Muhammad holding a sign that reads "Je suis charlie" which means, I am Charlie. They took a stand against terrorism and pretty much said we will not lay down and let you win we will fight for freedom. On a everyday magazine they will publish 60,000 and sell about 25,000 to 30,000, but of their most recent cartoon the one in response to that attack they published 3 million and sold out in one day. The way terrorism wins is by people being scared and quiting so if we take a global stand and fight against them they will lose 

Oil prices

Recently gas prices have dropped roughly 50% in the past few months. This is a big break for the hard working American, gas going from around $4.oo to a national average of $2.20 is a big deal. Most people think that only good can come out of this recent drop in gas prices. In the 2008-09 financial collapse oil prices went from $100 a barrel to $40 a barrel in just a few months. This is the last time that oil prices have been this low. So this could be dangerous for our nation’s economy. Also with the drop in oil prices there has arose another problem in the oil industries, layoffs. Thousands of workers are being let g because of the drop in oil prices. So there are positives and negatives to this dramatic drop in oil prices. OPEC is an oil organization which Saudi Arabia (second largest producer of oil) belongs too along with several other countries. Oil prices is globally going down in the past few years the US has been going for hard to get oil and that combined with OPECs continuation of oil production and Europe and Asia’s decline of oil petroleum use has caused a price crash. The supply of oil is greater than the demand therefore resulting in the sudden drop in prices. Usually OPEC would slow down production balancing out the prices but they are not doing that this time. There are hoping that this drop in prices will make the newer producers of oil unprofitable and have to close down leaving them with more control of the oil industry. If gas stays under $2.50 that will be $1,100 in savings per year for the average family, this will boost our economy. So for the everyday American this drop in gas prices is good but could be dangerous because of the possibility of the financial collapse. For certain oil companies in the US this could not be a very good situation.