This Week's NYFF09 Schedule

So I'll be arriving to New York on Friday. Until then—and possibly through the weekend, depending on how many films I go see—things might be light around here, with the occasional review popping up here and there. But in the meantime, the 47th New York Festival continues. This week, the NYFF continues with their Masterworks series focusing on movies made by the People's Republic of China. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:04:00

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The Shadow Gold Price

“The Shadow Gold Price” Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York.” ~~~~ Conclusions: Spot Gold is fundamentally cheap versus its intrinsic monetary value by a factor greater than 10 Stocks are empirically very cheap versus the current quantity of paper money bank reserves [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:00:25

CREDIT REPAIR COMPANY VIDEO: Can They Improve Credit Score Better Than You?

Posted By: admin| 2009.09.27 being a law firm to make consumers feel more attracted to them. In reality, you don’t need an attorney to provide you with credit help or legal credit repair. What you need is someone who knows what they are doing in the field of credit restoration. This can be your or someone else. Be careful. It’s jungle out there. Please sign in to rate this video. Thank you. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 08:08:54

Red Ink, Green Proposals, No White Smoke (Yet)

The chatter continues over California's $40 billion budget hole, as Democrats pitch some new economic stimulus ideas, all sides continue to meet in private, and the Republican faithful start ratcheting up the pressure on the issue of a tax increase. Talks continue today between legislative leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:42:50

Identity Theft Labs Shares Some Advice On How YOU Can Protect Yourself

Although it is not strictly business related, identity theft is no stranger in the world ... from dumpster diving, shoulder surfing, credit card skimming, stealing - purses - wallets - laptops - data ... of wireless communication under the motherboard of credit card readers made in China and distributed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:05:07

Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Surviving the Financial Crisis?

Are you surviving the financial crisis? While the mainstream media seem more interested in spinning stories of foreclosures, ... a credit card balance, or like my wife and I, added a photovoltaic system to power our all-electric CitiCar ... Americans are exiting the debt-based economy, paying off credit cards, canceling car loans, paying [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 04:12:42

Texas Faith: The gift of recession this season

The economic downturn brings with it a host of negatives, no doubt - and not just material, but psychological as well. As columnist David Brooks of the New York Times wrote recently, recessions reorder the social order and breed a certain pessimism. But in this holiday season, it is possible to ask another question: [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:20:32

FALLING PRICES ARE NOT DEFLATION

FALLING PRICES ARE NOT DEFLATION BUT THE ANTIDOTE TO DEFLATION GEORGE REISMANThis is the first in a series of articles that seeks to provide the intelligent layman with sufficient knowledge of sound economic theory to enable him to understand what must be done to overcome the present financial crisis and return to the path of economic progress [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:07:00

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

First Draft Of Stimulus Package

SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT Action and Action Now! The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months the country has lost 2 million jobs and we are expected to lose another 3 to 5 million in the next year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:03:30

Wedvice: Gifts and Registering

Beach-inspired Tabletop. Scroll down for details and description! They always say it’s better to give than it is to receive. That may very well be the case- especially since it seems like etiquette for this arena of weddings seems to either be outgrown by the industry, or difficult to decode for most [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 16:00:50

Protestant Revivalism, Pentecostalism and the Drift Back to Rome

The sixteenth century rediscovery of Paul's objective message of justification by faith invaded the consciousness of men with a tempestuous fury and changed the course of history. The Protestant movement was founded upon a restoration of the primacy, supremacy and all-sufficiency of justification by faith.No one would want to contend [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:36:00

Stimulus Package 2009: Lightning Round Reactions

The Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced legislation this week containing $825 billion in new tax credits and government spending, ... cuts for clean, renewable energy including a new enhanced tax credit for research and development ... extension of the production tax credit for wind, hydro, geothermal, and bioenergy.  Ditto.  Go to hell [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:30:30

The Reverse Stimulus

The national media is starting to pick up on the developments with the California budget, and their potentially devastating impact on the larger economy. Bloomberg has an article on the shutdown of infrastructure projects and the impact statewide: Just $5 million of work is needed to complete a new California Court of Appeals building in Santa [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 19:34:08

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

favorite thing friday

One of the most glorious things in my life ... is after taking a hot shower, using a nice plush towel to dry off ... with Turkish towels from Restoration Hardware. We bought bath towels, hand towels and face cloths ... our entire house, we turned to Restoration Hardware to buy a few new pieces of furniture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:30:00

Couldn’t Help But Comment (011309, Morning)

The New York Times wouldn’t be in serious financial trouble if, instead of inventing stories to hurt people it didn’t like, it had employed more on-the-scene reporting like this (HT Taranto at Best of the Web) over the past seven years (bolds are mine): A car arrived (at Shifa Hospital in Gaza) with more patients [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:13:07

Lessons from Reconstructing Iraq

America’s Financial Crisis Lessons from Reconstructing Iraq by Captain Timothy Hsia, Small Wars Journal Op-Ed Lessons from Reconstructing Iraq ( ... credit restoration, and it would be foolhardy for government officials to ignore these parallels ... out to be monetarily equivalent to the costs associated with the Iraq War. To alleviate credit concerns [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 18:07:25

NIC “Global Trends 2025″ Report: World to See Economic Growth At the Cost of Environment and Human Life

Read more of this story » Campaign politics dominated the headlines in 2008, making it a banner year for the armchair pundit and the politically uninitiated alike. 2008 was also a year that issues like energy use, climate change and carbon footprints came to the forefront of popular culture and political reality. And that’s where we came in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:16:34

Regrowing Borneo’s Rainforest– Tree by Tree

To save orangutans, scientist Willie Smits is restoring a rain forest—and creating new livelihoods for the Indonesian families who help him By Jane Braxton Little Source: Scientific American Just below the equator, on the island of Borneo, a tropical rain forest is rising out of a logged, charred wasteland [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:31:59

Understanding Deflation

Contrary to , deflation is not falling prices but a decrease in the quantity of money and/or volume of spending in the ... is a process of financial contraction. In our present crisis, it is a contraction of credit and of the spending that depends on credit. A fall in prices and, of course, in wage rates too, is the essential [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:15:41

Triggers, Co-Ops and Medicare Advantage, Oh My!

Campaign for America’s Future. Trigger and Co-Op Talk Fills The Air Pelosi soothes Blue Dogs, public option to be debated by full House. Politico: “During a breakfast with freshman Democrats on Wednesday, Pelosi her leadership team would start finalizing the bill toward the end of this week. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-24 22:51:56

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/13/2008

My favorite story tonight is the one about the Bedouin tribe in north Israel who claim Barack Hussein Obama as a long-lost member.Should be an interesting family reunion…Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, Diana West, Insubria, JD, Kahane loyalist, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 04:59:00

Luxury Marketing: Timing is Everything

Madonna for Louis Vuitton, Spring 2009I've been asked by a number of people to chime in on the latest advertising imagery produced by the house of Vuitton. I kept avoiding making my answer public because I was really hoping the hype would just go away. Sadly, I can run but I can't hide [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:07:20

Reflections on a Year of Blogging - 2008

It's hard for me to believe it. But I have been writing this blog since the summer of 2005. Like many other would-be bloggers, I began a blog... well, just for fun. I did not have a "voice" or cause or message. I just wanted to write. And I can still remember the exasperated look TaVon gave me when I told her to link my blog to the MSMBC website [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:18:00

"Greenspan's Folly"

Jeff Sachs says that Greenspan's bubbles and the problems they have caused make clear that it's time to abandon " ... to lend to these households, in part because the credit markets were deregulated ... can again obtain short-term credit to meet their payrolls and finance their inventories. The next [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 19:24:00

Open Call for Writers for Goodman Games’ New Book of Rituals!

Ever wanted to be a PAID RPG writer? (I have!) Goodman Games has just announced an open call for their upcoming Book of Rituals ... submissions become the property of Goodman Games, and contributors receive 3 cents per word, printed credit ... , restoration, scrying, travel, and warding. Submissions should be limited to rituals within the scope [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:41:24

FALLING PRICES ARE NOT DEFLATION BUT THE ANTIDOTE TO DEFLATION

This is the first in a series of articles that seeks to provide the intelligent layman with sufficient knowledge of sound economic theory to enable him to understand what must be done to overcome the present financial crisis and return to the path of economic progress and prosperity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:22:19

600 DAYS IN OFFICE: Fashola Continues Marathon Sprint—Opeyemi Bamidele

For the sixth time since the assumption of office of the Administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) exactly 600 days ago today, I am formally reporting again on the activities and programs of the Lagos State Government in fulfillment of the Governor’s personal innovation of giving an account of governance to the electorate every 100 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:34:08

Cuba and the Invasion of the Big-Box Stores

For Release January 11, 2009 Citiwire.net By Richard Louv President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly considering a new American relationship with Cuba. That’s long-overdue good news. But the new administration should consider this cautionary note: “An invasion of one Madonna is equal to ten Marine divisions, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:44:04

Franklin Lamb - Completing the task of evicting Israel from Lebanon

A job for the UN or Hezbollah? Franklin Lamb Northwest of Ghajar Village, South Lebanon     “We, as Lebanese, are here to confirm that we cling to freeing every grain of our soil. We will not abandon the great national cause, which is the continuation of the liberation of our land [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:51:42

Short Obama Honeymoon Is a Good Thing

Pick up a newspaper or (worse) turn on cable news and you'll hear a ton of reports about how Democrats in Congress are giving Obama a hard time even ... amount to anything more than good government, a restoration of a balance of power that's been missing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:46:37

The Gaza Diary

I saw this posted on Syria Comment and found it so moving and real that it was worth promoting here, and elsewhere.It's an excellent read.[ ... But we had to see the scores” they retorted after being severely reproached”. They’re becoming desensitized [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:52:00

The Top Franchise Trends For 2009

Two words will be dominating the franchise landscape for 2009: cautious optimism ... credit score, and low personal debt, will increase the chances of getting a franchise loan.  More tips ... business produces goods and services worth over $880 billion yearly (Figures above obtained [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:30:34

Portman’s in

Here’s the release: Cincinnati, OH - Rob Portman announced today that he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by retiring U.S. Senator George Voinovich. Senator Voinovich recently announced that he would not be seeking a third term in 2010.   “My heart is in public service [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:34:30

A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2)

We have swallowed the red pill, which now makes its way to the stomach. The coating dissolves. The rotor spins up and the device begins to operate. Inside, the sodium-metal core remains intact.And we begin the treatment. Again, our goal is to detach you - by "you," of course, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:44:00

Old growth, ancient tropical forests can be restoredJanuary 16, 2009

More protection from deforestation of old growth tropical forests is needed to fight climate change and protect the biodiversity of life on earth. “I am gravely concerned about what is happening with tropical forests,” William Laurance, a researcher with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama told AFP [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:06:04

Bright House Networks apologizes for outage and says you'll see automatic credit

Bright House Networks says it's very sorry for the outage that wiped out service for many viewers from 3 to 11 p.m. Monday. Biggest loss? ... apologized from the beginning and that customers would see an automatic credit on January bills. She said ... -- but that the restoration took time. Here's the statement she issued: "We at Bright House Networks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 17:09:40

$45,900 duplex: No, that's not a typo

Just what is the Cleveland-L.A. connection? ... of Cleveland Restoration Group asking if the price on the five-bedroom, two-bathroom house was a typo ... Thoughts? Comments? Photo: A Halloween day street scene in Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 14:48:22

The economic lessons of World War II

As it has become evident that the financial crisis is comparable, in important ways, to the early stages of the Great Depression, there has been a lot of debate about the lessons to be learned from the responses to the Depression in the US, most notably the various policies that made up the New Deal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 05:43:34

The Top 10 MT Stories of 2008 OR Why Rusty Kicks So Much Ass

Sorry it’s so hard to read…but never fear, I’ve gone through the trouble of enlarging and putting the important parts in bold! Enjoy!! Top 10 Montana stories 2008: Presidential election No. 1 By MATT GOURAS Associated PressHELENA - The presidential election that unexpectedly hit Montana, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:07:21

Big Sugar deal approved

By Curtis Morgan Miami Herald Water managers on Tuesday narrowly approved a $1.34-billion deal to buy a sprawling swath of sugar fields, a landmark purchase with promise to dramatically reshape Everglades restoration and surrounding farming communities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 00:12:49

How big? How low? How now brown cow?

David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 19:00:47

The Green Quote: Bette Midler Praises New York’s New Plastic Bag Recycling Law

“Americans use over 84 billion plastic bags annually, about one billion of them in New York City ... of the problem and your cooperation in finding a solution.” – Bette Midler, founder of the New York Restoration ... records for three years describing the amount of plastic bags collected and recycled. Photo credit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:18:59

Bambi's got some work to do

IBD ran a piece a while ago on the many campaign promises of Bambi. It's good to list them here ... businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every job they create in the U.S. • Eliminate capital gains taxes ... Expand the child and dependent care tax credit. • Expand the earned income tax credit. • Create [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:37:00

What I was reading...

Some of you may know that I was out of the Kingman area for the holidays. My travels included a plane ride to the land of 10,000 ice rinks as I call it this time of year. As customary I purchase an issue of The Economist for reading on such trips that begin at an airport [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:54:00

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... ) agent, I found the HS ???threat picture??? report inadequate and misleading. In fact, I found the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

Food, Future, Famine?

Read more of this story » planet earth A new report prepared by the National Intelligence Council has projected that the world would be ... . Depletion of Natural Resources The new report paints a very grim picture of our future. While [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:55:02

Estate Tax Bill Submitted to House Ways and Means Committee

A bill entitled the Certain Estate Tax Relief Act of 2009 was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill retains the current $3.5 million federal estate tax exemption, freezes the estate tax rate at 45%, and repeals the carryover basis rules which would otherwise be in place next year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:04:21

Growing Green Collar Jobs

It's taken a devastated economy and years worth of job losses to get here, but politicians, business owners, ... loan pool, which they can dip into for hiring and training workers. Amid a credit crunch, the low [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:57:54

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