Questions On My Mind

Can exhibitions be sufficient replacements for erudition?


Who should be weary of crowded rooms with crowded minds?


Can we conceive a lending rate as low as 0-1 per cent? 


Why does it seem easier to see the weaknesses and threats (as well as strengths and opportunities) in others and more difficult to identify one's?


What can lone voices do other than keep mute?


Are good works always useful and for how long?


Is the middle-class really disappearing?


The 'Visible Hand' can regulate the 'Invisible Hand', but who sufficiently regulates the 'Visible Hand'?


Can we have banks as good as family, with no money usage costs?


What would the global economy look like if everything was sold for free?


Which is superior, for-profit or the not-for-profit motive?


What is the price of a compliment?


When does giving a compliment become a necessary good?


What is the underlying philosophy of the poor?


What is the cost of arrogance?


Which is the better choice over the course of a lifetime, book smartness or life smartness?


What makes the smart poor remain pitiably so?


What has caring about how food is grown got to do with wholesome education?


What is the transmission mechanism via which the familiarity fuels jolly rides in cities?


When does hospitality reach the abuse threshold?


Can we estimate the price of wholesome parenting?


How could parenting be made a full time occupation in the global economy?


Why is it that mangoes do not fall far away from the mango tree?


Is there any other fearless animal other than the crocodile?


What is the opportunity cost of partial focus?


Should wailing and telling tales replace serious discourse and schools of reason?


What is the real cost of insensitivity to the audience?


Where lies the limit of show business?


How rewarding is reclining with the weak and sick at heart?


Doesn't the music of the age temper justice with mercy and grace? 


Is skill found in accomplishments or at patient endurance?


Why should newcomer traders specialise in berating the wares of forebears?


When does the plough know the ground is smooth enough for seed?


Why do the poor speak for themselves while the rich graciously allow others?


Shouldn't hot drinks be more acceptable during rains than cold ones?


How do we deal with irrational expectations?


What do imports composition say about the prevailing degree of self-hatred?

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