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A Marriage Market, Full Of Lemons

Hina SajidKhan March 20, 2009

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#22 Posted by ssoomro on July 6, 2009 12:23:59 pm
Hi Hina,
This is Saleem Soomro. Can you please let me know where can I find the Urdu Peotry?

Thanks

Saleem Soomro
(510) 565-4744
saleem@soomro.us
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#21 Posted by tahmed32 on March 23, 2009 10:19:58 pm
Mr. Madani: Why you no letting Mr Anil perform the interaction with Prof. Masadi?? Why you thinking only you person who must be clapping Mr. Masadi like him is to be Prof. Musharraf who is rising sun as everyone knowing???!! And whating abouting Altaf Bhayya?? Why he keep talking on telephone loudspeaker and not coming to karachi??? What is going on??
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#20 Posted by majumdar on March 23, 2009 10:19:05 pm
Ahmed madani sahib,

Advani and Thackeray are Kashatriyas (upper caste people). Narendra Modi is a ghanchi (or teli), OBCs- oil millers by profession.

Regards
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#19 Posted by tahmed32 on March 23, 2009 10:17:08 pm
Mr Masadi: Bad news for communists. The stock market did well today. The housing market did well today. Stalin rolled over in his grave.
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#18 Posted by ahmedmadani on March 23, 2009 10:04:06 pm
May be better all Indians should now tell who will get how man seats in democratic farce in India. Then we can see with accuracy theie scholarship in political understanding. This time to put up in writing or shut up.
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#17 Posted by ahmedmadani on March 23, 2009 10:00:07 pm
Re: # 14, 13.... AnilSahib.... why you go on pestering masadi.He once said n fun you are acting like servant, what ever he writes you react like chaparsi has to watch boss. You can write without reference to Masadi. I said befoe and you have admitted you have not read his writing but you give opinions as if you have studied.It is more civilised specially after going to elite college in usa , if you do not know o ned to talk about let it go.You re creating just hatred and heat no light.
Other thing tell me this advani, Thakare and modi are upper caste people ?
Just suggestion.
Good day.
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#16 Posted by ahmedmadani on March 23, 2009 9:53:05 pm
Re: # 13 Masadi you have point.
Now I have heard the ford car co and GM car company made secret deal long time ago when this industry started. They wanted to close buses so poor people will be forced tobuy cars which they can not afford. Some body told me ford and gm ar company brought all NY City and Shikago city los angales city etc city buses company. they after few yeras they just closed busses. So poor people were forced to buy cars which they can not afford. This destroyed families in us. A poor low class whites and blacks could not afford to buy car their women folk were forcd to work outside and children grew as wild weeds started smoking drugs. Then doctors started "big business" of medicines for addiction etc. Poor beghan to buy used cheap throw away cars and klling themselves in accidents, so insurance businss went up. To kill poor brown and blacks cheaply thy build refineries of oil in poor areas and polluting poo area air. This cheap used junky car gave mobility to poor which resulted in increasing crime. It made possible to mrder and be hundred miles away in few hours.I have heard there is proper us or train transport in usa for ppor people and so they have no mobility that way blacks and trash 2white class is destined to poverty. Lot od black and white liberals thought obama will be cure for racism but in fact probably it has very little effect. Ican second your opinion when you give any thing to american elite capitalism to play with, it always goes against poor white ad black and brown peope. We are always loosers and they are winners. This is not fair but then elites say life is not fair is nonsense. Thanks, please go on bulldozing elite prowest, chaparsi for white chamadi local elites who are more loyal (slave) to western elites than eltes themselves. They will justify every bomb ttack by west on arabian and muslim countries and cut their own nose. They are stupid, elites west will pull thier gold teath they will thank them.( Western elites is taking black liquid gold from arabian countries and giving them funny sinking dollars and and they will try to support dollars by buying arms and they will use against brothers) Here I am comparing gld tooth to black liquid gold a when you loose tooth thee is void, same way when hungry west extracts liquid gold from aabian sands that gold is lost for ever and you get fast shrinking dollar.)
Good day
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#15 Posted by anil on March 23, 2009 2:07:12 pm
Masadi sahib:

You might like to join "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Masadi (Market) Mechanism"; and go to the denials group.
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#14 Posted by anil on March 23, 2009 2:02:10 pm
Re: # 13

Masadi Mian:

"...Unless the bus service is handed to the US corporate economy..."

Just as Masadi trusted his education to the U.S., and it became "God Damm Education". Man's only ride to the Moon does not count, because that was not a bus.
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#13 Posted by masadi on March 23, 2009 12:46:31 pm
Ahmad madani writes "there is always next bus...."

Unless the bus service is handed to the US corporate economy, then it will go down like the banks...you might be waiting a long time at the bus station (for recovery)....

TNITC masadi
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#12 Posted by tahir on March 23, 2009 12:39:05 pm
I forgot to say:

Welcome to Chowq (at your own risk)!
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#11 Posted by tahir on March 23, 2009 12:36:08 pm
Miss Khan,

"correlate an economics paper i read, with real life"

Correlate? Economics? Paper? Real life? You're mixing up many things now!

Don't listen to demented dime-a-dozen advisors.

Good men exist in abundance, but the hopeless romantics (I call them HR types) are the ones that are the most difficult to find, leave alone own for life!

Keep looking up at the sky, the rainbow will appear one day...
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#10 Posted by parthaab on March 23, 2009 7:23:02 am
Girls -- Please have a sense of humor! I never quite figured out what drives men and women!


FOR EXAMPLE:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, 'I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me.'

I said, 'WHAT??!! What was that?!'

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...

'You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.'

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, 'Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?'

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all.

She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, 'Lets get a pair for each outfit.'

We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis.

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, 'That's fine, honey.'
She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, 'I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier.'

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, 'No honey, I don't feel like it.'

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, 'WHAT?'

I then said, 'Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.'

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, 'Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?'

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least the bitch knows I'm smarter than her.
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#9 Posted by nkg on March 23, 2009 6:17:49 am
Hina Sajid Khan,
You can rely on Indian astrology....a good astrologer will be able to tell you, whether you and the person you love, are compatible and make a happy couple....
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#8 Posted by sarah1983 on March 23, 2009 5:12:30 am
Check Gary becker's model on marriage markets and power couples..he also got nobel prize, there is a whole lot of literature on information asymmetry and moral hazard;) in marriage markets,
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#7 Posted by zooropa on March 23, 2009 4:09:51 am
as a wannabe game theorist, I have to say this was a delightful read! the mesh between the formal academic writing style and the casual narrative style flows seamlessly, and that concluding line is simply brilliant! and it's good to hear that an astute woman like miss khan is not anti-marriage. if there were more women like this out there, the state of the marriage market wudnt be as grave as it supposedly is right now!
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Interact Index

    #22 ssoomro
    #21 tahmed32
    #20 majumdar
    #19 tahmed32
    #18 ahmedmadani
    #17 ahmedmadani
    #16 ahmedmadani
    #15 anil
    #14 anil
    #13 masadi
    #12 tahir
    #11 tahir
    #10 parthaab
    #9 nkg
    #8 sarah1983
    #7 zooropa
    #6 omerakif
    #5 akcheema
    #4 hskhan
    #3 akcheema
    #2 VRV
    #1 ahmedmadani

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