Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

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“Taking a Spin in Social Media” with Metanomics on Second Life

Source: Taking a Spin in Social Media: Building a Virtual Advantage in Online Communities TRANSCRIPT OF METANOMICS INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS ABRAHAM METANOMICS: TAKING A SPIN IN SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING A VIRTUAL ADVANTAGE IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 ANNOUNCER: Metanomics is brought to you by Remedy Communications and Dusan Writer’s Metaverse. ROBERT BLOOMFIELD: Hi. I’m Robert Bloomfield , professor at Cornell University ’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 16:31:51

The Man Who Cried Ponzi

Michael Lewis, author of “Liar’s Poker,” looks at the many intertwined interests that kept Wall St. embroiled in such questionable practices ... Commission that Bernard L. Madoff couldn’t be anything other than a fraud. Mr. Madoff’s investment ... , as we now know, it was. Harry Markopolos sent his report to the S.E.C. on Nov. 7, 2005 — more than three [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 13:44:31

Fixing Credit Report – The Good… The Bad… And The Truth

Fixing Credit Report – The Good… The Bad… And The Truth by Tim BeachumYou are moments away from understanding the process of fixing credit. It’s really not important what your reasons are for wanting to repair your credit the fact is you have made a good decision. Repairing your credit is well worth the effort, and depending on your current situation repairing your credit can lower your monthly bills, open a bank account, rent an apartment, and even purchase a car. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 15:25:39

Stocks rise after big drop a day earlier

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street advanced cautiously Tuesday, as investors waded back into the market in search of bargains after Monday’s big selloff, ... wary of the health of the financial sector, following a report that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. could ... market turmoil. The report underscored concerns that banks will be saddled with more losses [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 15:37:07

Even Silicon Valley Isn’t Shopping

For many Web 2.0 start-ups, build-it-to-flip-it has been a mantra of sorts, with most hoping to get big payouts when Google, Yahoo or AOL cuts them a big check. Unfortunately, the credit crisis has turned those dreams into layaway plans. The 451 Group, a research firm, released an M&A report this morning that should [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 20:01:55

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/1/2009+

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 23:00:00

Fantasy Basketball, Week 5

by Emry DowningHall After dropping a fantasy column on Wednesday of last week, I’m back on short rest with this week’s column ... in the stats, overall they do a fantastic job and it’s certainly worth checking out when evaluating ... that credit the number of fourth quarters sat as a positive statistic; Kobe Bryant owners stand [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 13:33:34

Nabokov Steals Another, Sharks Take Division by Throat

There was a wall around Evgeni Nabokov Thursday night, and he earned his first shut-out of the year. And I mean earned it ... to defer credit. "The shutout was just icing on the cake. Everyone chipped in." His counterpart did ... when they do not dominate. Things were chippy early in this contest, with Brett Festerling checking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 22:26:43

CNN’s Lack of Perspective

Here’s another pattern to watch out for. A “Situation Room” segment that aired yesterday highlighted 11,391 infrastructure proposals from the U.S ... want to take credit for “free” projects that their constituents like, to increase their chances ... this as an example to argue against all stimulus. Scanning the report, the vast majority of projects [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:45:07

RIL, auto stocks slide in flat market

Key benchmark indices ended little changed after witnessing wild gyrations throughout the day. The BSE 30-share Sensex rose 7.71 points or 0.05%, off 61.06 points from the day's high, and up 75.19 points from the day's low. The BSE Sensex extended gains for third straight session while S&P CNX Nifty ended marginally lower. Market breadth was weak as small and mid-cap stocks underwent correction.IT stocks were in demand for the third straight day. However, auto stocks retreated on profit booking. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 12:10:00

Science fiction: Interesting idea on the nature of time and mind

Over at Jason Rennie’s Sci Phi: Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, Michael Spence offers “Requiem for a Harlequin: Two Perspectives on Time, ... to identify points on a t-axis. It rules the logbook, the shift-activity report, the tape emerging ... This is the moment I’ve waited for,” they speak of kairos. Various lexicons credit the playwright [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 15:54:40

DrumBeat: December 4, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember Most students of the subject at first thought that world oil production was going to peak for geological reasons --- the inability to find and produce enough oil to keep our annual consumption ... Lynch & Co. said in a report today. U.S. fuel demand during the four weeks ended Nov. 28 was down [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:07:31

DrumBeat: December 8, 2008

Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28

A must read for all landlords

Your job as a landlord just got a lot more bureaucratic and burdensome regarding tenant screening reports that you receive to help you select ... consumers against identity theft, a growing concern in our electronic age. These laws are the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Fair Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) In brief, 1. Keep [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:44:53

LOCAL GREEN BERET AUTHOR JOHN FENZEL RELEASES DEBUT NOVEL THE LAZARUS COVENANT

The Lazarus Covenant is an international suspense novel that explores the scourge of religious extremism, terrorism and war in an unforgettable tale of friendship, faith and forgiveness. It presciently assumes a resurgence of instability in the Balkans and a growing crisis that must be resolved in order to prevent a wholesale clash of civilizations. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 15:53:00

Derivatives and human hubris.

Learning of the kinds of exotic instruments used by Wall Street in the years before the crash can be a mind-boggling experience ... sums of “paper wealth” they produced. AIG and other firms sold credit default swaps in such massive numbers that there was at one point insurance on over $60 trillion in credit. In other words [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:32:03

A Ph.D. In Loss

A report from Oregon Public Radio. “In the last several years high-end resort communities have sprung up across the West. But those destination resorts are suffering big time under the housing slump and credit crunch ... Boomers were looking for vacation homes. Getting credit was easy and there was a huge rush in real [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:21:40

Short Term Positives, Long Term Questions

Good Evening: The forces of poor economic fundamentals clashed again today with government programs created to address them ... were sifting through a Q3 GDP report revealing that growth slipped to -0.5% last quarter, the Fed ... . Aside from still frigid conditions in the credit markets, perhaps the big reason why the Fed feels [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 02:48:41

How Bad Will The Bush Depression Be?

It looks like Bush is racing in his final days as occupant of the White House to see if he can beat Herbert Hoover's economic record as the most disastrous U.S. president for American families. Today's employment report puts Bush in good shape ... to the worsening credit crisis. That has put pressure on Congress and the White House to come [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 20:30:00

At Witz' End: Other Views on Detroit

Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, At Witz End"I hope GM goes bankrupt," said the young California man in the Japanese restaurant ... in some peoples' minds, and the UAW has been only one small part of their high-US-business-cost problem. Clearly ... and surrounding small businesses depend on it to feed, clothe and shelter their kids. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 00:50:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

Rick Warren and Rev. Wright

scrubbing his church Web site to remove language that talked about banning gays from membership (though the church's apparent PR firm (what church has a PR firm?) just emailed me to say they have no rescinded their language on homosexuality, but rather they've "repurposed" it (repurposed?) in a series of videos. Whatever [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:18:14

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/2/2009

In tonight’s news: Israel is poised to send ground troops into Gaza.A Muslim family was removed from a plane before takeoff, and is being compensated by the airline for the error. CAIR is in high dudgeon about the incident.Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway — is that a message for President-eject Bush? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:42:00

Loan Loses Continue To Mount: A Look At FDIC Graphs

You're probably not surprised to hear that loan losses are continuing to mount at financial institutions, but just how bad are things getting? ... paint the grim picture in his blog post below. chart11 More Institutions Report Declining ... for credit losses topped $50 billion for a second consecutive quarter, absorbing one-third [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 18:36:28

Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008

Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00

De-leveraging the Children of Wall Street

submitted by James Baker Welch, VP of Rothschild Investments One of the most stunning facts of the 2008 Financial Melt-down has been the wholesale ... regulatory agencies to determine if the institution has met the credit needs of its entire community. 1   The CRA began to compel banks to underwrite less credit-worthy mortgage loans in order [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:40:18

For Zimbabweans, A Cow Dung Christmas; AP Still Partially Deflects Blame from Mugabe

I held this item for a couple of days after I found it because I didn’t want to spoil Christmas. Readers can fairly criticize me for waiting. It is truly astonishing how little attention ... by Angus Shaw and the other unbylined report on December 25, won’t even clearly state why this is happening [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 05:01:08

Perspective: Santa Claus Rally?

Vincent Farrell, Jr. is Chief Investment Officer of Scotsman Capital Management LLC., a New York based investment management company ... to be accurate more often than not in my experience. What might help the market is the incredible flood ... supply via the creation of credit and I believe the New Year and the new Obama Administration will see [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 12:59:23

Highlights and Lowlights of BofA’s Earnings Call

Bank of America moved its earnings announcement up to this morning to soothe investors after The Wall Street Journal’s report that BofA would need ... and $27 billion in credit costs. Many of the problems originated at Merrill Lynch, which had a loss ... Goldman Sachs research analysts noted wryly in a research report this morning. BofA CEO Ken Lewis [more...]

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

Republic Windows Takes A Stand By Taking A Seat

The story of Republic Window and Doors started quietly last week, when Bank of America informed the company, located on Chicago's Goose Island, that it had canceled their $5 million line of credit. Then came the rumble. Republic's executives ... -- is refusing to extend credit to manufacturers like Republic while at the same time putting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 19:26:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009

The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00

Identify Credit Repair Scam in 6 Ways!!

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:23:45

First DVD Review

Full review can be found at the NewTeeVee website but it does contain minor spoilers for the DVD extras. Thanks to Dr. Horrible’s minions (OK, the very nice person who sent me an advance copy), I had a chance to explore the disc this week, and I’m happy to report that, no matter who you are, the answer is yes. The devoted fan who’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 17:27:03

Is Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Really 'Visionary'?

Watchmen_manhattan The Watchmen movie trailers we've seen so far offer eye-catching insight into how Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' canonical comic ... of source material, and I can report that he was committed to taking panels right from those acclaimed ... that audience wants is for a relatively new Hollywood director to take credit for the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:42:54

Oversight Panel Report Grim, Tough, Inviting

Americans are being formally invited to participate in discussingthe ongoing federal program to stabilize the ... the program’s implementation. The panel also issued its first report yesterday, signed by the panel’s Chair ... and New York Superintendent of Banking, Richard Neiman. (One panel member, Rep. Jeb Hensarling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:13:12

To p2pnet — ‘You’ll be sorry!’

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: “You a fucking washed out loser. You can not make a living in any other way except by running a site which says it is a new site that which is nothing but you shooting your mouth off.” That’s part of several emails I found waiting for me following yesterday’s Trolls? Not. But flames? OK (mostly) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 15:27:24

The retail crash bodes ill for services

This is bad any way you slice it: Retail sales plunged far more than expected in December, a record sixth straight monthly decline as consumers were battered by a recession, a severe credit ... of the housing slowdown continued to seep into the local economy. According to a report Tuesday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:06:15

Rachel explains: "The hidden perils of poorly-connected streets, or why I’m afraid of German Shepherds"

Today I am able to treat you to another guest post by my colleague Rachel Sohmer, who hits it out of the park: I grew up in a typical subdivision of detached single-family homes built in the 60s, where cul-de-sacs and long blocks ruled the day. On the plus side, our small houses and lot sizes made the neighborhood somewhat walkable, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 15:20:27

Decoupling to world: "I'm still not dead yet!"

The last time that some version of the title you see above appeared in these pages was way back in November, ... at such things as internal credit markets, saving rates, and a host of other factors while at the same ... . Such is the case in this report in The Economist: Over the five years to 2007, emerging economies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:17:06

Recognizing a Credit Repair Scam

by David Wada Everyday, companies target consumers who have poor credit histories with promises to clean up their credit report so they can get a ... . The truth is, these companies cant deliver an improved credit report for you using the tactics they promote. Its illegal: No one can remove accurate negative information from your credit report. So [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 06:24:58

For stores, the holiday season may already be over

NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday shopping season begins Friday with a blitz of early morning specials. For some merchants, though, it’s practically over already. Piles of jewelry, clothing and electric drills are bypassing store shelves and heading straight to liquidators by the caseload as stores try to save as much cash as they can [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 02:37:40

Fed Watch: New Month, New Data, Same Story

Tim Duy says the Fed needs to be more definitive about the type of policy rule it is following: New Month, New Data, Same Story, by Tim Duy: ... speak clearly of a deepening recession. If you had any doubt that the credit crunch is causing firms ... weakness extended into November, a hypothesis that is likely to be confirmed by this morning’s ISM report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 08:33:00

Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 8

By Joseph Romm A U.S. climate bill should set a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 ... the risks of dangerous impacts of global warming. That is the executive summary of a new report I have written for the Center for American Progress (Full report here PDF ). I have changed my thinking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:42:02

Credit Craze

Credit Craze Credit Craze, Part 1 Roger Lehman of Merrill Lynch is out with a report on problems at a Merrill Lynch commercial mortgage ... that put it all together and syndicated property ownership to individuals via what are called “tenant ... .) Credit Craze, Part 2 Following are excerpts from a Bloomberg article today by Chris Bourke [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 18:53:18

U.S. Suppresses Torture Testimony at Terror Trials

Hey, this is going to come as a big shock, but it turns out that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners on trial for plotting Sept ... the military commission trials on a video monitor to the select group of people the government ... of the 14 “high-value” detainees held at Guantanamo. Meanwhile, a widely-cited report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:16:14

DrumBeat: December 31, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead ... College had released a report talking about preparing for civil unrest in the U.S. When you read the report, it turns out to be yet another warning about generals preparing for the last war. It devotes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:58:02

Sirius XM: Is Auto Maker Rescue a Lifeline?

The Detroit Three auto makers have been thrown a lifeline by the White House, but there is no such luck for Sirius XM Radio ... Morgan analyst Barton Crockett in a Nov. 13 report. Since then, Sirius XM’s providers have called ... in January. Ford plans to cut its first-quarter production 42% from last year and Credit Suisse expects a 52 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 17:30:50

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/8/2009

The latest word is that an agreement with Russia has been reached, and the flow through the gas pipeline will resume.Also, look for the storming of the Israeli consulate in Montreal, as well as other Gaza-inspired violence around the world.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, Insubria, JD, Tuan Jim, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:49:00

You Can Stop a Junk Debt Buyer’s Collection of Your Older Credit Card Debt

by Matthew Highlander A consumer with knowledge of existing consumer protection laws can stop a junk debt buyer’s credit card debt collection attempts. Junk debt buyers are companies that buy batches of thousands of discharged credit card accounts from the credit card banks for pennies on the dollar (under 10 to 15 cents per dollar of debt). Junk debt buyers also resell these accounts to each other for as little as less than one cent per dollar of debt. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 18:47:03

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