No Costs Are Fixed
My first year in business was bewildering. The various services necessary to run a business took some effort to figure out and pull off at the right time. Insurance, credit card processors, telephone and Internet, payroll and accounting, and even ... guys handled. A smart company has IT report to finance because techies are like kids in a candy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 08:01:00
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Reader Mail #69
I liked this article, via Hacker News. Depressed people can more accurately measure reality than "normal" people. What if the reverse is true? If you're better at sensing reality, then you become depressed?Also, such scientific studies are usually blown out of proportion. They were writing about a single carefully-controlled experiment [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 17:00:00
News - Views - Commentary
Uncle Jay Explains the Year 2008Gaza: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die and the Lessons of History Are IgnoredBy Robert Fisk, Independent UK - AlternetQuite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more -- providing we [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 11:37:00
Aye Matey, Beware of Pirates!
A Sea of Unwanted Imports By MATT RICHTEL - The New York TimesLONG BEACH, Calif. — Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier. Ordinarily the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 10:00:00
FREE GiveAway - "The Quiet Millionaire" - We are doing a giveaway of Brett Wilder's fantastic book "The Quiet Millionaire." To have a go at winning it you've to leave a comment with 2 random digits. Yes, it's that simple, so check it out. $50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon CarnivalsI'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book hosted Book [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 04:28:03
become infamous for its ballooning costs, which have swollen to four times the original estimate in just three years. The velodrome and main stadium are also bulging beyond the confines of their original budget. That said, CLM can perhaps take credit that they're far from the greediest kitten at the teat. Olympic [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 16:12:03
Confusing Consumption With Investment
People are now waking up to the fact that what that real estate investment guru was pitching at the seminar wasn’t necessarily an "investment": ... of resources.Card credit credit score Credit repair forum Providian credit card application Va home mortgage loan rate Purchase prepaid credit card Christian consolidation counselor debt Experian [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 14:10:35
Rite Aid Single Check Rebate program update
the rebate for Crest Pro Health (#226), which was free after coupon and rebate last week. So you can get both! ... : Hooray for Free-bates! CFO recommends: Ebates - Shop and get cash back (review). MySurvey.com - Easily ... . In fact, I've already picked up some free shampoo and toothpaste. And I'm going to stop by this week [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 00:13:00
Treasuries Fall To Japanese Levels: 0.02%
September 17, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis The Federal Reserve went bankrupt today. Now, Treasuries are the last place left where the money people can park their loot. And Treasury bills collapsed in value. Lower than any time since the damn Great Depression. It is now at Japanese levels! Namely, below 0.05%. This is INSANITY [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 02:26:24
Debt Rattle, August 12 2008: A bursting leveraged speculating community bubble
National Photo Company Old Dutch Market 1920. The chain ("The Market of Cleanliness") ... , the tendency and direction in the financial world is one of an increasing tightening of credit. No matter ... have no more credit to lend out, not for individuals looking for a home mortgage, a student loan [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 20:43:34
Media & Politics
Media & Politics 13-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Our Little Shop of Horrors (by Pat Racimora at No Quarter) ... Credit (The Trail, Washington Post) President-elect Barack Obama will address Senate Democrats ... as negotiations unfold, Obama is expected to drop his least popular proposal, a $3,000 tax credit for companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:35:02
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Date: 2008-07-18 14:51:07
Weekly Roundup - December 19 Edition
Lots of news on the "Weekly Roundup" today, so once again I've recruited an army of paperboys to make the rounds in our neighborhood. Enjoy...Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot ProjectLibrary of Congress - News from the Prints ... comments and more than 67,000 tags, according to a new report from the project team overseeing the project [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:00:00
Debt Rattle, October 30 2008: Swamps and Swaps
Lewis Wickes Hine Ethel June 1911. Ethel Shumate has rolled cigarettes in Danville, VA, factory for six months. Says she's 13 years old, but looks much younger. Ilargi: The US is now 'officially' on the edge of a recession, This looks very much like another way of saying the government gave up on trying the cook the books and massage the [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 18:55:47
Victory in El Barrio
Victory in El Barrio East Harlem tenants win one as British 'predatory equity' landlord collapses. By Jennifer Janisch The global economic crisis that has shaken the real-estate industry has one tenant organization in East Harlem celebrating victory over a British [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 01:11:00
$50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon
FREE GiveAway - "The Quiet Millionaire" - We are doing a giveaway of Brett Wilder's fantastic book "The Quiet Millionaire." To have a go at winning it you've to leave a comment with 2 random digits. Yes, it's that simple, so check it out. $50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon CarnivalsI'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book hosted Book [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 01:35:55
FAP843: How to pick a student credit card, $25,000 scholarship
FAP843: How to pick a student credit card, $25,000 scholarship Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Bloomberg: 9% of companies plan to hire ... on the employment trail, there’s a difficult road ahead in the short term. Read Purple Cow and Free Prize ... personal information to big credit-card companies eager for young customers. + Using state [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 11:34:36
What’s the deal?
The Pubs are already obstructing the stumulus bill, which ‘Bama was hoping to put in place immediately; ... our way out of it — the ‘liquid’ money that was to calm the credit problems hasn’t really ... Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers, The Progress Report January [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:09:51
Boycott Israel
Boycott Israel 16 07 2008 Boycott Israel Peter Chamberlin Here is a list of Israeli Trading Companies that specialize in the United States and North America, taken from this site http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Lexicon/Article.asp?ArticleID=3905&CategoryID=345 Notice the highlighted ones - Sears, General Electric Company, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 14:06:21
Victory in El Barrio: East Harlem Tenants Win One As British ‘Predatory Equity’ Landlord Collapses
UNMOVABLE: British landlord Dawnay, Day hoped to force rent-stabilized tenants like Filiberto Hernandez (Left) out of the 47 apartment buildings it purchased in East Harlem in 2007. However, Dawnay, Day’s plans went up in smoke after the global financial crisis struck the over-leveraged company. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 19:59:27
DrumBeat: October 24, 2008
Heating Oil Distributors Fear Tough Winter Amid Credit Freeze NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The tight credit market is forcing weak links in the heating oil supply chain, from wholesale ... to carry them into winter, despite the global credit crisis that has made it difficult for even solid [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:39
Daily Aid 26: How to understand how the economy is really doing
The Coming Financial Aid Crisis, $6 billion is too conservative a number. Much, much more will be required, because you’re only now seeing the financial markets losses bleed into the real economy, into Main Street. Jobs are being lost, hours cut, raises forfeited, for the average American family [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 11:55:29
3 lessons the individual investor can learn from JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase recently picked up the remains of troubled Washington Mutual for a mere $1.9 billion—a deal described by some as buying the company “for nothing.” Although the takeover carries a fair amount of risk for JPMorgan, the bank looks increasingly likely to emerge as a credit [more...]
Date: 2008-09-28 22:37:19
vacancies appearing in different English News Papers of Arabian / Persian Gulf,Arab Times
Join 4Shared Now!Your Ad Here Great and Updated Jobs by http://www.gulfjobsbank.com/ Job Openings in Arab Times (English Daily of Kuwait) as on: JANUARY 01 , 2009 - THURSDAYAgility provides leading edge supply chain and logistics solutions to private and public sector entities worldwide [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:22:00
10 American Financial Meltdowns in the Past Centuryonomy
Original Copy Of This Post @ Neatorama Banks failed, stock prices collapsed, and panic descended on Wall Street. Americans were holding their collective breath as a rescue plan was hastily drafted. The 2008 financial crisis? Nope - it was the Panic of 1907, and again in 1929, 1987, and so on [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 10:47:37
On Seventh Mass Media vs Sixth, and role of iPhone
I've been involved in a lot of discussion about concepts near the theme of the 7th mass media channel. A recurring theme is the "one web or two webs" thinking; and very closely involved with that is the iPhone and how it is changing perceptions of pocket sized, permanently connected internet devices [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 06:28:19
Seasonal Milestones
fish fans are still confused) No.10 takes a leaf out of Google's book and puts a beta site live. It's good ... , we have this news today 200811211047.jpg It seems we're approaching the annual peak for computer virus [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 08:43:09
FROM HIS GRAVE: SHERMAN SKOLNICK EXPOSES RAHM EMANUEL
True US History By Collection of Sherman Skolnick's Writings Nov 9, 2008, 20:11 Candace: When I saw this name picked for Chief of Staff I chringed terribly, remembering something that said this man should not have been selected. I was pleased to find this on Rense today, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:54:11
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/23/2008
Of interest tonight: the Spanish government is moving strongly to make sure that Russia doesn’t by a large chunk of the Repsol oil company. Prince Alwaleed intends to buy a 5% share of Citigroup. Kuwait lost $1.4 billion dollars in its investments in derivatives [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 04:05:00
Newspaper die-off... by gimleteye
We depend on the free and independent press for speaking truth to power, even though the mainstream press has been neither free nor independent for a long time. The industry's death-spiral began with the advent of television and info-tainment but quickly accelerated [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 13:59:39
Credit Card Or Debit Card, Which One You Choose ?
We now enjoy the convenience way of using automatic teller machine (ATM). The card we use at the ATM is known as a debit card ... to us at the rate which we agreed to, when applied for their credit card. This is known as the annual ... . Today debit cards look exactly like credit cards . Both types of cards can be used [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 08:40:57
ALLL Is Not Lost, But None Is Gained
8/2/2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis Today we are concerned with the deteriorating condition of the capital in banks across the entire planet. Central bankers across the planet struggle simultaneously with inflation and the desire to depreciate currencies for trade purposes [more...]
Date: 2008-08-02 20:59:25
Free all access Backstage pass to OSi Rock Stars
In this Success Newsletter: Free All Access Pass to OSI Rock Stars – no credit card required & ... Radio, Marketing with Marcus, want a free report on your websites seo, social networking and Google rank ... . - Mark Twain What will you do with your FREE All Access Pass to OSI Rock Stars? So I always used [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 06:53:16
0% Global Interest Rates Totally Destroys Banking
October 29, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis Dear readers of this edition: Typepad stupidly changed their coding. It is very buggy! ... , everyone who pretends to be economic experts marveled at how cheap credit was and how low inflation [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 15:09:33
The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising
Updated List Of The Best Credit Card Cash Back Rewards For Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, ... savings and free online advertising, or taking advantage of credit card offers to earn cashback rebates ... and MSN AdCenter As a personal finance blogger and a dot com mogul-super affiliate tycoon wannabe [more...]
Date: 2008-07-17 03:47:54
Another Consumer Scammed By FreeCreditReport.com [Freecreditreport Com]
Freecreditreport.com is NOT actually free, nor is it related to Annualcreditreport.com, the free credit report that you are entitled to under federal law. So why are people still ... of my credit report. All of the major credit reporting agencies seem to strong arm you towards [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 16:29:44
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ZENITThe World Seen From RomeDaily dispatch - January 13, 2009VATICAN DOSSIERPope Bids Farewell to Diplomat at God's ServiceChurch Planning a Family Party, Says OfficialWORLD FEATURESEnthusiasm and Numbers Grow for Family MeetingCardinal Brady Speaks of Hope Found in GazaUS, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 01:28:00
10 American Financial Meltdowns in the Past Century
Banks failed, stock prices collapsed, and panic descended on Wall Street. Americans were holding their collective breath as a rescue plan was hastily drafted. The 2008 financial crisis? Nope - it was the Panic of 1907, and again in 1929, 1987, and so on [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 09:45:59
Wall Street Lays Another Egg
Finance: Wall Street Lays Another EggBy Niall Ferguson, VanityFair | December 2008 Not so long ago, the dollar stood for a sum of gold, ... markets. And all the time new financial life-forms were evolving. The total annual issuance [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 20:20:00
10 of the World’s Most Dramatic Financial Crises, and Their Lessons
Financial crises are consistent in one way, and one way only: They’re far more sexy when your neighbors are wearing them ... : In 1985, Sweden deregulated its credit market, leading to a commercial property speculation bubble [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 00:06:51
Sunday Reading: Broder Hammers Obama
Sunday Reading: Broder Hammers ObamaPresident-elect Barack Obama's popularity ratings may still be sky high but the Post's David Broder -- dean of the political press corps in Washington -- isn't happy with the performance of the former Illinois Senator in recent weeks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:15:00
West Coasters! Blast off with “SPACED”!
West Coasters! Blast off with “SPACED”! Thursday 3 July 2008 @ 12:53 pm If you love “Shaun” and “Fuzz”, then how the fuck can you not love “Spaced”? Right before the start of ComiCon, get your ass to the Stash for the British Invasion! Get all the info right here! [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 16:53:27
Carnival of Everything Finance: # 21
Welcome to the September 3, 2008 edition of Carnival of Everything Finance.We had over 100 really good articles submitted for this edition ... to contribute after-tax dollars but then withdrawal tax-free dollars during retirement." Sandy Naidu [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 12:28:00
Financial Crunch! Economic Collapse! (Part 2)
*******Continued from Financial Crunch! Economic Collapse! (Part 1) posted on 31 July 2008.******* *******Wallstreet Bailout: Where's the Money Going?By Lynn StuterNovember 18, 2008NewsWithViews.comhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter130.htmWhen the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 18:31:00
WHY WALL STREET ALWAYS BLOWS IT (and where the money went)
Atlantic Article Submitted by multiple readers, I read this as soon as my issue was delivered. It’s true ... all of us are to blame.by Henry Blodget WHY WALL STREET ALWAYS BLOWS ITImage credit: John RitterWell, we did [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:31:41
Ep #60 Personalities & How They Impact Your Business and Life
Elizabeth speaks to Marquesa Pettway, International Keynote Speaker and Author about recognizing how your personality impacts your business and personal life. Marquesa shares the Four Distinct Personality types and the fact that everyone actually has two, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 21:48:59
10 SEO Questions with Aaron Wall from SEOBook.com
Barack Obama Web 2.0 campaign. Barack Obamas Twitter account currently holds 137,340 followers! How much is that account worth? ... users would pay $5 a month to keep Twitter. That’s $99 million in annual revenue before ads or any [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 05:47:53
Wag the Blog: The Geithner Dilemma
Wag the Blog: The Geithner DilemmaDoes Timothy Geithner's issue with back taxes disqualify him from serving as treasury secretary? (Chip Somodevilla/Bloomberg News)Revelations yesterday that Tim Geithner, the secretary of treasury designate for President-elect Barack Obama, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:30:23
Weekly Market and Industry Report: Russian Cosmetics Market Overview
cosmetics.jpg Download the PDF version of the report Cosmetics Market Research Summary I. Global Cosmetics Market II ... during this same time period. (2) Euromonitor International forecasts annual global growth of 3.7 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 01:00:29
Mass extinction on Planet Finance
(After the post bubble revulsion, asset holders are awakening from the the dream that the moneyness of credit is 100%. The current turmoil is nothing less than the market in search for the security [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 23:37:53
