Birth control, among others, was recommended by this committee. Though this was at first rejected by the conservative elders of the Kuomingtang, it was later approved in May 1945. But the waning fortunes of the Kuomingtang government gave no time to implement this tremendous reform. What the policy of the communist government towards this question will be, time alone can say.

As I am a member of that political party, my views must come with a health warning.

Remember that day? First day I was there. I knew that I couldn't get into your pants unless I said… um… what did I say? Oh yeah, “May I have my bill please, I have to leave?”

In the face of black swans — also known as fat-tail events, for the way their occurrences are distributed along a probability curve — market pricing may be impossible.