Iranian Warships Headed to Suez
Iranian’s taking on the west with ships headed to the Suez. Isreal has warned they may take action: http://fxn.ws/eL6pYQ
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Cognitive Economics (how things work) | Political Impact on Business | Smarter Business | Uncategorized
New York Stock Exchange Sold To German Boerse
The NYSE was sold out yesterday to the German Boerse exchange in a merger deal. A major icon of our American ingenuity and capitalist structure has truly been sold out to a foreign entity. Even if they try to say Americans still have an interest in it, it’s like you owning one share of Walmart…
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Dallas Ice Dome; Is There Winter Anymore?
Dallas, TX, home of the Super Bowl this weekend, and home of the avalanche roof over the stadium. Did you watch the video of the avalanche? Maybe they should rename the stadium or the bowl as the Avalanche Stadium. It’s just another sign, this frigid winter, that it is all Green Bay, the Packer’s Stadium and not…
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You Already Won the Lottery
Winning the lottery is easy because you have already won. Has everybody won the lottery? Yes! How is that possible? You’ve heard that the lottery is a “tax on the stupid”. You’ve heard that you can’t win, the odds are so stacked against winning that you shouldn’t consider putting your money and hope into it. …
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Manage Your Nerd Time
Life used to be simple. I used to have only one goal a day, to complete my task list. Today my simple task list is regularly bumped by the digital world. There is a constant need, more like a nagging, to update the computer with operating system downloads, security databases, software updates for safety and then…
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Facebook – A Singular Bubble
Let’s go back in time. Back in time to the 1990’s. It’s late in the decade and the stock markets are going nuts about something called “Dotcoms”. Everyone wants in, they see it as the thing to buy and make money on. Some did, and some just lost it all. Now it is just known…
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Planning Business for 2011? Upgrade Your Tech!
Really, upgrade your technology. It’s important. If you are still running XP or anything older, you need to get off your wagon and make the change. Windows 7, the latest Apple operating system, and Linux (Ubuntu version is best) run circles around the old platforms. The reason it makes a big difference, even if you…
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Is Facebook Bottle-Necked?
Facebook was growing fast, looking like the next big thing, able to leap past Google and other large internet information and social exchanges, but now it seems nearly dead in its tracks! What’s going on with this and why may it not work out after all? Yes, Facebook has found a niche with social networking but…
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The Lost Art of Investing
Call it Investing, call it Risk Taking, call it Speculation, call it Stock Picking, or even call it Gambling if you must, but realize there is an art to the process and avoiding such truth is the opposite of opportunity. Investors used to make money because someone worked at it, not simply because they made…
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How to Contact a Corporation
You can just about forget that. Many companies not only don’t answer the phone with humans these days, but now they are becoming harder and harder to contact through the internet. AT&T as an example, used to have their toll free customer service number plastered all over the web site. It was easy to call…
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Visualize Your “Big Picture”
Often, success in business is very much about your ability to see the big picture, to be able to visualize the potential size, scope, and impact of a venture or invention. Chester Carlson had an image in his mind of people communicating much faster and easier by allowing them to duplicate documents quickly without typesetting…
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Corporate Econ Disconnected From Society Econ
Large corporations continue to find ways to reduce overhead and sell enough to each other, distributors, and retail companies in order to raise earnings. This is great for stock investors and does a lot for those employed by them. At the same time we see that economic numbers in the real society which includes small…