Archives for “Economics”
Tweet 90% of us think the economy stinks. #duh Double dip recession imminent. (or it could be renamed “take away the stimulus dollars and we’re still in the recession.”)
Tweet (This is a cross post. Please comment on “being on track with your life” on the chron blog here.) From a post on CNN about an unemployed iReporter: “I’m still fortunate to have a roof over my head and make do with what I can but I miss having a decent job and being [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on the original post on the official Schipul Web Design Company Blog here. September 1, 2011 is the 14th anniversary of starting the company. 14 years. Considering I was unable to hold a single job for more than 2 years before this (if you exclude teaching on [...]
Tweet “IV. At the same time, living systems adapt themselves to changes in their environment they learn, grow, develop, evolve. When the mouse population in a region suddenly declines because of an epidemic, the predators who adapt to a new prey survive; those who remain determined “mouse-avores” starve. Life events affect us and change us, [...]
Tweet “We don’t need to tell the rest of the world that anytime people in Congress start throwing a tantrum that we’re not going to pay our bills.” – Warren Buffett
Tweet You are being played to keep you on the corporate teet and make sure you don’t rise up. You have been convinced to do what you are told at a level that you no longer even realize it. Yes. You. There is no one “the man” that is keeping us down. It’s the entire [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on “Men, ask yourself, are you still a sexist pig?” on Chron.com. Yup, I’m calling the men out on subtle sexism. A lot of men, probably me too when I was younger, have a problem with their women making more than them. Rachel, my wife, made more [...]
Tweet A few things to consider when observing the needs of benefit programs (Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment, etc) for Americans. I believe the current strain on the system may be particularly bad at the moment, which means it will improve for future generations. The added stress is temporary. Here’s why. Three one-time events have occurred [...]
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Tweet “Hey wait. You’re the captain of the ship. We can talk about what direction we’re going. But we’re going in a direction. And if there’s a debate about what direction we’re going, it’s my ship, I’m gonna pick at the end of the day. I’m gonna take everyone’s input. But there’s gonna come a [...]
Tweet No tech bubble this time? Arrington’s thoughts on 2011 versus 2010 in Silicon Valley. Then a few comments of my own after the jump. From techcrunch blubble: A perfectly reasonable 2000 tech startup business decision – spend $10 million on a massive advertising campaign that may bring in $500k in revenue. The “branding” value [...]
Tweet Turns out Glenn Beck was right; buy gold. Because Gold is now over $1500/ounce! Radio and TV host Glenn Beck likes to talk about the potential collapse of the American economy. He also likes to talk about buying gold as a hedge against the unknown. Thanks in part to UT Austin buying 1 billion [...]
Tweet Because entreneurship is so misunderstood and suicide is such a sensitive subject I felt the need for a few disclaimers when I did this blog post on Governor Rick Perry’s business tax increases in Texas. I was very careful with my wording to be as respectful as possible, yet be honest about the visceral [...]
Tweet I don’t think we are even close to fully understanding the Nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan. Just read this on CNN: Radiation in water rushing into sea tests millions of times over limit Tokyo (CNN) — Another attempt by Japanese officials to stop the leaking of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor into [...]
Tweet The vote took under 20 minutes, without any debate among members, and resulted in 18-7 in favor. The (Texas) House budget proposes reductions in two major areas: public education funding by $8.8 billion and health care by $16 billion. For the 2010-11 biennium, public education received $50 billion and health care received $65 billion. [...]
Tweet As the company has grown over the years, I have hit a number of tipping points that were unexpected and hurt the company. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a book that predicts these moments accurately and I know few people who have organically grown a 30+ employee 13 year old technology and [...]
Tweet “This young lady does not realize that she has no capital in the bank to finance this request.” - Buchanan PR
Tweet Got a story for ya Ags! A long time ago when I was working at Circuit City as an Operations Manager I had days off during the week because I worked all weekend. Rachel, my wife, worked a normal job and the kids were in school with after school care so I’d get an [...]
Tweet Anonymous: The best way to describe it is freedom of speech, freedom of information and the freedom of expression. Taken to a logical extreme. Reporter: You’ve also been called thugs. Do you break the law? Anonymous: Some of the things we do are illegal. But sometimes we need to do illegal things to make [...]
Tweet “The whole new regulatory reform is a joke,” he said. ‘The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.” – Bernie Madoff
Tweet Some interesting excerpts, ones that I found interesting anyway, in Buffett’s 2011 annual letter. I read it every year and if you are interested in business you should too. I don’t own any Berkshire stock. I just like how Buffett thinks. All bold emphasis added by me. On Railroads, Trucking and the Environment (for [...]
Tweet “We really want to slash the budget, but not anything in it,” – Daron Shaw
Tweet Less fairy tale than fable about the consequences of collective hypocrisy, Andersen’s story bears a message that has become a proverbial truth… Choosing to ignore what is in plain sight and blindly acting as if there were nothing wrong are the targets of Andersen’s satirical barbs. That it takes an “innocent” child to divine [...]
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Tweet So which is it? WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy looks to be in better shape, but a full recovery will only be achieved once small firms begin to prosper, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday. …. The Fed’s most recent moves to boost the economy by buying bonds tend to benefit big companies more than [...]