Review of 2008 Economic Predictions
Here we go… My overall assessment is that: a) All major directions were right in this prediction b) Where I was wrong, I was either too early and (amazingly) too optimistic. It has hard to realize how long ago in financial terms Jan 2008 was. As you read these predictions, they look almost mild, yet in January 2008, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 13:48:45
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Digital Organization: Taming the Clamoring and Unruly Beasts
Once Upon a Giant, Snarling Collection... We creatives tend to be collectors. After all, collecting is a common consequence of having a passion. We collect tools, ideas, materials, and more, in preparation of creating. Our collections inspire us while connecting us to things we enjoy, to our lives, and to each other [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:26:44
Obama Comments on TARP Changes; Barney Frank Wants a New Bill
With President Bush conceding to the wishes of the president-elect and his economic transition team and agreeing to release the remaining $350 ... have been spent on helping people avoid foreclosure. “It is clear that the financial system, although ... on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. President-elect Barack Obama has asked President George [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 23:37:52
Ten years after
The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over. The rules have changed. The sky has fallen in. Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. Networks are connecting everyone and everything. Clocks run faster. In this topsy-turvy world, few things are predictable. %&#* happens [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 18:33:01
Notes from Today’s Economic Recovery Conference
Image via Wikipedia I spent today in Dublin at a conference organised by the UCD economics department and the ... Honohan and Brendan Walsh, and Morgan Kelly, who delivered the best rant of all time, ever. Kelly’ ... Morgan in private, for fear of divorce. But everyone else, look out. Below you’ll find my notes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 20:38:41
Battle of the Titans
For those of you that prepare yourselves, the OPPORTUNITIES will be abundant and limitless; for those that don't it could be a very difficult period ... asset deflation (Mother Nature) versus the Inflate or Die mandate of the G7 governments who have tried to print wealth through monetary and asset inflation for decades. The first law the G7 is trying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 00:00:37
TARP Oversight Panel Overlooks Underpants Gnomes Theory
Today a congressional oversight panel is releasing a report criticizing the Treasury's management of TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( ... With a Heart of Gold). Man, I think some people just like to hear themselves complain... "The panel's initial concerns about the Troubled Asset Relief Program have only grown, exacerbated [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 16:07:44
Sea level rise and the Maldives
Heightened fears for lowering landsOlivia Lang, BBC News 12 Jan 09;The Maldives' idyllic, pristine beaches and tropical reefs attract more than half a million tourists to the small Indian Ocean nation every year.But an unavoidable catastrophe awaits the Muslim nation and its natural beauty: the threat of global climate change and rising sea levels [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 01:09:00
Dubai freezes salaries, boosts spending 42%
Order my book online from this link The new Dubai Government budget is freezing salaries and hiking public spending by 42 per cent to $10 ... undermining local competitive advantages in tourism and real estate. $80bn debt However ... system rather than directly into real estate entities is preferable to avoid reigniting the boom [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 04:51:43
Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES
loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10
DrumBeat: January 12, 2009
A novel plan for economic stimulus What's different now? In the 1930s, even though the U.S. economy collapsed, we still had a surplus of natural resources -- we were then the world's No. 1 producer of oil and coal. Fast forward 80 years. Despite the recent temporary dip in the price of gas and heating oil, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:56
Scaling, Systems Required
People keep asking me about components that make up large scale systems. Below is a dump of the systems I typically see/build ... Caches Object Caches Software/Jumpstart Systems Asset software for deployment (Debiab/RHEL ... . I am sure people draw pretty pictures, but to me it is more of a check off list :) Asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:59:24
Dedicated Web Hosting : The Executive Summary
What is Dedicated Web Hosting? Dedicated web hosting can alleviate the need to share hardware or software with any other sites or web pages ... on the software and application updates necessary to maintain the dedicated web server and keep it running in its most optimal configuration. Increased reliability is another major asset of dedicated server [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:54:28
Paul Williams, Investigator and writer into all things islam! ... its stake in Smith-Barney retail brokerage to Morgan Stanley.To most readers, such news is economic ... which presents itself - - along with Well Fargo, J.P. Morgan Chase, and the Bank of America [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:19:39
How To Master SAP Components and Modules
By John CookEvery organisation has numerous departments, and it is essential to integrate every last of these departments to work uniformly. SAP software integrates all interior procedures by means of various modules. The advance SAP ... can be done efficiently if the company has set up SAP software. Irrespective of the size [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 11:06:00
Memo to The Banks
Memo to The Banks: Lend or Else DAVID SMICKBack in the early 1990s, when Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was still considered "the Maestro," I asked him what he thought of the Reagan administration's economic program. I anticipated a discussion of 1980s tax and interest rate policy. That's not what I got [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:01:00
Highlights From the Part 1 of the Barron’s Roundtable
Each year, Barron’s invites various investment experts* to their roundtable, asks them a bunch of questions, and then publishes it in three parts. Here are some highlights from Part 1 of the annual Barron’s Roundtable ($): Scott Black: A lot of the stock market’s performance will be contingent on public policy. The consumer is dead [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:47:52
How To Master SAP Components and Modules
Every organisation has many segments, and it is important to integrate every last of these sections to operate uniformly. SAP software integrates all interior procedures by means of several modules. The advance SAP ... can be done efficiently if the company has put in SAP software. Regardless of the size of the business, SAP [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:51:43
Yahoo said to be tapping tech veteran Bartz as new CEO
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:02:04 -0500Yahoo said to be tapping tech veteran Bartz as new CEOYahoo is expected to name respected Silicon Valley veteran ... results, asset-management firmswill likely turn a spotlight on some of the worst-ever numbersreported by the sector, as. borne out by falling asset values,investor redemptions and declining margins [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:13:00
LiveTime updates ITIL Service Management Software with Technician Scheduling and Multi-Item Requests
LiveTime 5.5 also introduces KPI reporting, context sensitive quick calls, team based separation and localizations for Chinese, Spanish and Romanian ... Management and Help Desk Software, today announced the general availability of LiveTime Service Manager v5.5 and LiveTime Help Desk v5.5. This release focuses specifically on streamlined request manag [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:50:04
Twitter - 6 little things on why twitter is great
6 little things on why I <3 twitter and why you should be a part of it Twitter is where it’s at! Geeksville has flocked Twitter is an absolute phenomenon, it’s redefining and shaping so many things, you only have to look at its growth in trend tools like google insights or Google trends to get an idea of its ever accelerating popularity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 23:16:03
Roger Baker : Capitalism and its Minsky Moment
Roger Baker : Capitalism and its Minsky Moment Minsky's Burlesque. ... to a collapse of asset values," Mr. Minsky wrote. When investors are forced to sell even their less ... Management Co., the world's largest bond-fund manager, in an email exchange...This stuff [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 03:01:57
Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect
Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28
Cyber warfare and possibility of cybergeddon
Cyber warfare and possibility of cybergeddon Filed in Information Warfare on Jan.14, 2009 ... Acquisition - control power grids in all the utilities) “systems are used in industry to monitor ... is a connection between control systems and the switches. Cyber attackers have already led to multicity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:56:35
1003Power.com, The Incomparable Mortgage Web-Based System Implements New Interactive Features To Its Recently Released Version 2.0
Company aims to help in the plight of both professionals and homeowners in crisis with upgraded user-friendly tools designed to keep brokers in ... % online tool of its kind, surpassing and building upon every feature of competitive software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:19:15
David Harvey: Capitalism and the City (Part 2)
This post is excerpted from a longer article originally published in New Left Review. This the second of two parts that Kasama is posting ... of terrain occupied for a whole generation. Capital accumulation through real-estate activity booms, since [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 16:00:09
The EUSSR wishes you all a happy New Year !(And an even more totalitarian 2009...)
The centralisation of power in the European Union continues apace. Last week, the Bruges Group exposed the policies that the EU wants to force on Europe over the coming year. These latest EUSSR power grabs are the challenges that we must face in 2009 and are coming regardless of the fact that the EU Constitution (a.k.a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 09:55:41
Outdoor Channel Announces Acquisition Of Winnercomm Inc.
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Temecula, California - Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OUTD) ... capabilities, and add a rapidly growing asset in the Skycam and Cablecam systems. Outdoor Channel ... . The patented Skycam and Cablecam systems center around a sophisticated, computer controlled cable suspension [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:55:40
How To Master SAP Components and Modules
How To Master SAP Components and Modules Posted By John Cook on @ 1:50 pm by John Cook Every organisation has numerous departments, and it is essential to integrate every last of these departments to work uniformly. SAP software ... efficiently if the company has set up SAP software. Irrespective of the size of the business, SAP helps [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 08:02:59
Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs
ByPaul L. Williams(author of The Day of Islam) Oh, you Muslims everywhere, sever the ties of their nation, tear them apart, ruin their economy, ... that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The megabank, thus far, has received [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:37:00
How to Successfully Navigate Your Business through an Economic Downturn
How to Successfully Navigate Your Business through an Economic Downturn January 13th, 2009 admin Posted in Business success | No Comments » by: Terry H Hill An economic downturn is a phase of the business cycle in which the economy as a whole is in decline.This phase basically marks the end of the period of growth in the business cycle [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 03:21:20
D.E. Shaw & Co (David E. Shaw): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008
This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the series we're doing on Hedge Fund 13F filings here. Next up is D.E. Shaw & Co. D.E. was founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw and manages around $33 billion as of December 1st 2008 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:01:00
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:05:52
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:05:51
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings
Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... , providing human capital and financial management consulting services. The Company focuses on delivering ... opportunities in human capital management. It also provides independent financial advice regarding [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:02:52
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed they’re merging their wealth management units into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan ... shrinking. Citigroup’s (C) deal with Morgan Stanley (MS) is just one part of its radical restructuring [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:15:28
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed they're merging their wealth management units into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan will pay $2.7B for a 51% stake with the option of taking full control after five years. Citi [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:15:31
A COMMON MARKET-A BLOODY MASSIVE LIE!!
The EUSSR wishes you an even more totalitarian 2009by IanPJ on Mon 12 Jan 2009 15:54 GMT | Permanent Link | Cosmos The EUSSR wishes you an even more totalitarian 2009 !The centralisation of power in the European Union continues apace. Last week, the Bruges Group and the Dutch libertarian website Free-Europe [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:09:13
ToutVirtual Rolls Out Virtualization Management Upgrade
Carlsbad-based ToutVirtual, which develops software for managing virtual computing products, announced today that the firm has upgraded its VirtualIQ Pro product. The firm's software is used ... . ToutVirtual said the upgraded VirtualIQ Pro 3 product adds new auditing features to track physical asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:48:00
Security: The Essential Element
Security: The Essential Element By Harry Hiles, HBH Technology LLC Whether recognized or not, security is perhaps the most critical component of any IT service. Security is integral to the architecture of all applications and services, and must be built-in from the ground up. The security [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 02:30:39
The Crisis and the Policy Response - Benanke
SpeechChairman Ben S. BernankeAt the Stamp Lecture, London School of Economics, London, EnglandJanuary 13, 2009The Crisis and the Policy ResponseFor almost a year and a half the global financial system has been under extraordinary stress--stress that has now decisively spilled over to the global economy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:16:00
Paul L. Williams: Bailing Out Jihad
SupertrampCrime of the CenturyEconomic Jihad:$700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs By Paul L. Williams(author of The Day of Islam) ... million that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The megabank, thus far, has received [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:04:00
Opinion: Housing bubbles and market sense
By Hugh Pavletich Recently - Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton University wrote within a brief New York Times article Bubble Blindness – “The ... things were going on in the housing market. Lots of firms [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 23:59:21
Carnival of Personal Finance
Welcome to the Carnival of Personal Finance, where we gather the best articles and posts of all things personal finance related ... from Amateur Asset Allocator presents Arguments Against Investing In A 401k, and says, “Three [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:15:48
Hip-Hop Pioneer Kanye West Incorporates AKG Wireless Systems Into “Glow In The Dark” World Tour
Stage Audio Productions Inc. Selects The WMS 4000 And IVM 4 For The Worldwide “Glow In The Dark” TourDemonstrating the versatility and performance of ... with the optional HUB 4000 Q. With the PC control software System Architect™ the WMS 4000 can be remotely [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 20:37:00
iJET Marks Record Year
iJET Marks Record Year New Service Offerings, Continued Thought Leadership and 40% Revenue Growth Contribute to Successful 2008 ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan ... management and business resiliency. "An increasing number of businesses are turning to iJET [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:46:15
Personal Finance Blog Posts for this Week
Personal Finance Blog Posts for this Week Personal Financial Blog Articles of the Week Carnival of Financial Planning - January 10 2009 Edition ... needs trust (SNT) is a tool that lets families provide money to take care of their adult kids without [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 23:35:37
Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs
Posted by request: Economic Jihad: $700 Billion Bail-Out Aids Oil Rich Arab Sheikhs By Paul L. Williams (author of The Day of Islam) ... the principal beneficiary of the $350 million that has been spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:02:13
Times: Madoff Losers List
Top 86 Madoff losers from the Times (1/13/09). In descending order, rounded with explanations removed.1. Fairfield Greenwich Group, $7.5 billion2 ... . BNP Paribas, $478 million17. BBVA, $404 million18. Fix Asset Management, $400 million19. Man Group ... . Kingate Management, $3.5 billion3. Tremont Group Holdings, $3.3 billion4. Banco Santander, $3.1 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 16:04:00
Is Bush Tanking Stocks to Grab the Remaining $350 Billion TARP? ... (as defined by incumbent senior management who are wedded to hanging on to turf) is in the best [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 21:43:00
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