An Ugly Truth From Professor Whoopie

Obama’s “stimulus plan” pipe dream makes me laugh harder than a tickle me Elmo doll with fresh batteries ... for consumers wanting to rebuild their lives. But most importantly it reduced the labor pool ... commodity. The result was plenty of high paying jobs building all the new technologies that rebuilt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 17:02:57

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Singapore: positioned to weather the global shock

Special Author: Pang Eng Fong, Singapore Management University Singapore’s economy grew by 7.7 per cent in 2007 ... without increasing the tax burden of future generations.  The large pool of foreign workers – ... cuts. Commodity and oil prices have fallen sharply [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 11:00:57

The Complement Cooperative

Well, that was a lot of money chasing nothing. It's not as if we're lacking in problems needing solutions--climate change, energy scarcity, almost every meaningful commodity priced at historical highs. A vast pool of money, and a growing list [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 01:55:47

Monday morning links

TOP STORIES U.S. Losses on Fannie, Freddie May Be $300 Billion, Poole Says - Bloomberg Fannie, ... in futures - Commodity Online Asian stocks soar after Freddie, Fannie bailouts - AP INTERESTING Cruise ... as Hurricane Nears, Dollar Eases - Bloomberg Coming Soon: Mother of all Market Crashes - Commodity Online [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 12:27:34

Townhouse Sells for $99 Million in Moscow

If a piece of real estate sells for more than $30 million these days, the buyer is probably an ARB: “Anonymous Russian Billionaire.” ... full baths and three half-baths, along with an indoor swimming pool and rooftop winter garden. It’ ... a rare commodity in Moscow). The development, which is within walking distance of the Kremlin, features [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 10:16:00

Brooklyn, NY - U.S. Commodity Futures Commission Bans Operator For Fraud; Ordered To Pay $1,350,000 in Restitution

Brooklyn, NY - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed and settled charges of fraud, filing false documents, and misappropriation of customer funds against a registered commodity pool operator, Innovative Capital Management, LLC (Innovative [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:02:05

Art's Birthday!

It's approaching Art's Birthday again! January 17th of each year.What is Art's Birthday you ask? Read on.. ... made not to be bought, sold or traded as a commodity, but given "freely" as a gift.Robert Filliou ... , underwater (pool) soundtrack, artist performances, open mic, children's workshops, happy birthday choral [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:23:00

I Love My Pool Table!

If it weren’t for 6 foot pool tables then I wouldn’t have a table! ... and all the rooms are occupied. Further, since we have a few children, space itself has become a commodity that is in short supply. A six foot pool table has been a God send since it takes up far less space than [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:13:07

Gas Price Deflation: Should It Affect What Automobiles We Purchase?

... when it comes to the future price of such a vital commodity with so many different fingers in the pool [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:00:02

foreign currency scam

UPDATE:  On May 22, 2008, the Congress passed H.R. 6124, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also known as “the Farm Bill”) ... a sharp rise in foreign currency (forex) trading scams. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 ... trading authority and operate pools with respect to retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:15:07

IT’S LIKE BECKS BUT BETTER

Manchester United soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo recently split with his girlfriend, ... Mendes and family, Ronaldo looked in good spirits as he basked in the sun by the pool at his luxury hotel. The 6′1″ international soccer star is a hot commodity these days, having won the European [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:44:28

The Choice to Farm

The following paper was written for Effecting Social Change, a semester-long course attended by the fellows and scholars of the 2007 Reynolds Program, ... commodity production, the increased use of fertilizers and pesticides, the genetic modification ... to narrow the pool of farmers consulted to those individuals who decided to start farming even while [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:10:33

Expansion plans for Disneyland

Managing director Andrew Kam Min-ho said yesterday that Hong Kong Disneyland would bolster its size by more than one-third and would cost half the ... it is willing to pool in funds or is ready to accept a smaller stake. Bill Ernest, Walt Disney Parks ... advantage of falling commodity prices and labour cost [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 17:12:44

Solar Power - Fantastic Power to Power Your Living Place

Many people are starting to switch their power to solar power since the finite fuel is starting to run out and become costly ... emissions or pollution. It will charge you lots of money for heating a swimming pool when you decide not to apply the solar power. You need gas, oil, electric or some other costly commodity to operate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 09:22:59

Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help

Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... in the future, they are faced with a doubt-laden present. Today’s economic statistics in the U.S. are a case in point. Consumer sentiment offered a mildly positive surprise, with a nice uptick in “future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44

HOT POSNER | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Constant ABC presence Rupert Posner takes a break from hanging by the pool in tropical Poland to chat ... available under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. Bankers are broadly ... that could grow into the largest commodity market in the world. Heavily emitting companies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 21:19:59

3 ways to bring together environmentalism and human resources

With the green revolution in full swing, Human Resources executives may want to alter some of their workplace practices with the environment in ... a great pool of resources to derive information, and a little of your own creativity wouldn’t hurt either ... car pool prepared. It also saves them time, and this is something that everyone appreciates with [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:11:20

A technical look at how parallel processing brings vast new capabilities to large-scale BI and data analysis

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Greenplum. Internet-scale data collecting, swarms of sensors outputs, and content clouds from the mobile device fabric — as well as enterprises piling up ever more kinds of analytics metadata to analyze — have stretched traditional data-management models to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:12:18

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida

The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:24:17

DrumBeat: September 27, 2008

Lehman-Backed Muni Gas Bonds Trade for Cents; Deliveries Halted (Bloomberg) -- Tax-exempt bonds guaranteed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for a gas-supply contract may be worth little more than unsecured debt after the bankrupt underwriter's commodity unit stopped deliveries last week. Main Street Natural Gas, a financing vehicle [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 14:11:57

Santa is the Latest to Demand Bailout

NORTH POLE, December 24, 2008 -- Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the worldwide credit crisis sent world ... are so vast that they are exposed to just about every commodity and currency on earth. Others say Santa ... of commodity and currency swings," one trader said. "Any sensible person in his position would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 21:33:20

From the “I Can’t Believe I Just Read This” File

I’ve always kind of enjoyed the articles in Newsweek magazine.  While there’s a detectable tilt to the left, the publication always seems to manage some semblance of balance on most issues.  I’ve got to say, though, that I can’t remember ever seeing an issue with a positive word on guns or hunting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:33:41

Lovely dark and deep

Today was the shortest day. It was a bleak, wet and miserable day; the kind of day that this island of Britain is so adept at producing. If miserable days were a commodity to be bought and sold, soggy Albion would be surviving the global economic downturn with aplomb. Somewhat counter-intuitively, this place is also quite capable [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 00:09:19

DrumBeat: September 28, 2008

Are we running on empty: It's critical for Hawaii to identify another source of energy beyond the usual suspects Oil prices are spiraling upward with no end in sight. Consumers are pinching pennies to fill their cars with gasoline, and airlines are going bankrupt amid skyrocketing fuel costs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 14:14:15

Unit trust still a good bet for the long term

TheEdgeKUALA LUMPUR: The past 12 months has seen the erosion of wealth in virtually every type of non-fixed income investment, and unit trust funds have not been spared.Despite offering a modicum of security compared to traditional equities owing to its large pool of investors and its diverse portfolio of investments, trust [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 00:23:00

Modeling Tips

Modeling Tips Happy new year! New years always bring the promise of new experiences and the hope we will improve on what has gone before. Our calendars are new and blank, the year stretches out before us filled with potential. One topic I would like to talk about here is a topic I am faced with daily , “How do I get hired by your agency? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 18:36:57

Part One: The Alien Intent of Interstellar Epicures

Friday, December 26, 2008 Or, Successful Rural Farming Practices In The Agriculture of Consciousness “Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.” (Charles Fort) Tampering as A Lifestyle: The Human and Non Human Intercessors of Choice We, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 11:53:14

2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP

I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15

Job Hunting in An Economic Depression: A Changing Landscape

Job Hunting in An Economic Depression: A Changing Landscape My young ward and I (along with DH) make an interesting contrast in job hunters. He, having dishwasher experience and a few other odd jobs under his belt, wants to find work that will pay him enough money to exist with an apartment, a few roommates, and public transportation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:58:48

DrumBeat: October 13, 2008

Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00

♥ Obama For President

Download this poster as a full-size layered PSD. In a little over four weeks, there will be a new tenant in the white house. This tenant will get the nuclear codes, so who you pick is of global interest. If you’re reading this and you’re undecided or going to vote republican, I’d like to try and convert you [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 13:21:44

In search of Dodgers fans (a case for Joe Beimel?)

...because I need your help on this one. I, like mostly anyone else who will be reading this, ... of a commodity. Is this the relief market we're in? Or, Dodgers fans, has Beimel completely turned ... , but a 1.727 WHIP. Obviously, not the work of a pitcher you'd look at signing in the free agent pool [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:54:23

HEALTH POLITICS: Truthful—and Helpful—Moments in Presidential Debate

The debate last night touched on health care reform a fair bit, and there were two really great moments, in my view. One was when John McCain said loud and clear that our economic hard times do not mean that people who are hurting should have to wait for help to buy health insurance [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 19:20:06

Acer Aspire One review - two months in

1> The basic mode - the way the machine arrives - is pretty much all you need for Grandma, if you put Skype on it. There are guides. 2> The “advanced mode” which gives you terminals and a repository to install more software from and so on is a Bad Place To Be. Here’s why: it nearly works. But it doesn’t [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 02:49:14

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering “It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable you to come to an understanding. If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 11:58:29

100 Things I Didn't Know Last Year

At the start of last year, I came across a very interesting article from BBC News Magazine Monitor. Each week the site's writers compiled a list of ten things which they did not know the previous week; their list published on January 1, 2008 pulled together one hundred of the more notable items from those weekly lists [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 08:00:00

Afghan article says US Bin-Ladin hunt phoney

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. It says that a forthcoming French documentary containing interviews with the French soldiers provides proof for [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 05:58:11

What Cloud Computing exactly is?

First off, what is cloud computing? It’s an emerging style of infrastructure that allows companies to utilize the Internet ( ... with cloud computing that data storage and software as a service (SaaS) relies on the Internet to hide ... . On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:56:39

Townhouse Sells for $99 Million in Moscow

Townhouse Sells for $99 Million in Moscow If a piece of real estate sells for more than $30 million these days, the buyer is probably an ARB: ... swimming pool and rooftop winter garden. It’s located in the ritzy development of Christie Prudy, which means “Clear Ponds” (transparency being a rare commodity in Moscow). The development, which is [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 15:45:28

China sneezes; will Latin America catch a cold?

Via the Baron, three articles from Asia News: Government officials arrested: Beijing powerless against corruption Economic growth has benefited the corrupt politicians and businessmen. This is the opinion of experts, in the face of continued serious corruption cases [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 21:24:04

Santa Claus demands massive bailout

By Alex R. Dahl Special to TV Barn NORTH POLE, December 24, ... operations are so vast that they are exposed to just about every commodity and currency on earth. Others ... at the mercy of commodity and currency swings," one trader said. "Any sensible person in his position [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:22:02

Howard Lyman

We’ve been excited for weeks in anticipation of our interview with Howard Lyman. Why? ... agricultural commodities for livestock are selling them below the cost of production. The American taxpayer is putting up the subsidies which allow the large multi national companies to feed grain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:08:24

Intellectual In-Breeding and Mutations of Corporate Governance

Why do people resist change?  What causes stasis in organizations? Why do groups run for a while and do really well, then get bogged down? (And why do I feel I can answer this in a blog post?) The meeting of social forces and business forces sets the stage for answering the questions above [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 04:56:23

I Meant to Do That

I Meant to Do That December 19, 2008 By John Mauldin The Fed has taken interest rates to zero. They have clearly started a program of quantitative easing. What exactly does that mean? Are we all now Japanese? Is the Fed pushing on a string, as Japan has done for almost two decades? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 13:29:22

A Lesson In Geo-Political Energy + Gold News

My Note- Today I present an interesting article about the Geo-Political ramifications of the Battle for the Caspian Seas, plus some of the latest Gold News. Gold today is making a much needed correction in prices, if Gold can hold here and/or we have any increase in tensions of the Middle East; [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:46:26

January 10 2009: Hornswoggled Absquatulation

Russell Lee Tobaccy Candy 1940 Pool hall, Shasta County, California Ilargi: The revolving doors between Washington and Wall Street are swinging like never before. Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin are the finance powerhouses in the upcoming Obama administration. They were in the exact same place 10 years ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:28:00

The Economic Crisis: We Have Been Here Before.

The speculative bubble in the housing market has burst, devastating the global economy. The bubble is huge, dwarfing previous financial fiascoes. Over $7 trillion has simply evaporated from the global economy. The financial loss to pension and retirement funds is massive, disproportionately affecting the elderly, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:56:59

iTunesU points to a future where colleges are free

Your iPod can open up the universe. If you frequent the popular Apple iTunes music store you may have missed iTunesU, a little link to free lectures from Stanford, MIT, Yale and other leading universities. Glance elsewhere online and you'll find the similar MIT Open Courseware site, Peer 2 Peer University, and loads of lectures on YouTube [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:35:33

Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff

Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff - by Stephen LendmanOn December 12, 2008, the Wall Street Journal headlined: "Top Broker Accused of $50 Billion Fraud. Bernard L. Madoff....was arrested by federal agents (the previous day) after his sons turned him in for running what they said their father called a giant Ponzi scheme [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 11:22:00

New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.

As you likely have seen Sun has posted the new SpecJAppServer Results More information from Tom Daly can be found here These results are quite ... of us because commodity x86 based hardware was used for the test. So it is not just about Sun it is about OpenSource hardware on Commodity Hardware. As usually with results from such benchmarks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 05:04:19

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