tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170591342024-03-18T23:35:45.452-04:00Another Dirty SoapboxA great way to waste your time, anytime.B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-68373992107917656892010-02-19T07:29:00.004-05:002010-02-19T07:32:55.060-05:00it's been a long timeI haven't written in a LOOONG time.I stopped writing because, frankly, nobody was listening. That sucks, but reality does that sometime. Now when i first got wind of a web page builder called "geocities" oh so long ago, I used to read thesis statements of grad students on biology, the kaballah and all kinds of things. I pined for a world (yes, i said 'pined') where people could write their B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-78563263518563137032009-03-19T14:18:00.002-04:002009-03-19T14:21:50.246-04:00fair and balance in tax reportinga friend of mine sent me this link to consider: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106769/Do-the-Rich-Really-Deserve-Such-a-Bad-RapIt actually gave me an opportunity to do a little research on what i think the 'real deal' is. What I mean by that is uncovering just exactly what the super rich people make in relation to how much they pay taxes, so after a little "research" i wrote B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-64271234064243060362009-03-11T14:43:00.003-04:002009-03-11T14:48:07.996-04:00Keynes on Stable Interest RatesA good buddy of mine was recently critiquing my admonition that the Fed/Treasury or whatever should post its long-term interest rates. My position is that the volatility that the Fed creates to put the pedal and brakes on the economy (to fight inflation and deflation) actually create some of the volatility in the market (as in how the Real Estate boom was created due to the low interest rates theB the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-46977331673786673652009-03-02T08:30:00.003-05:002009-03-02T08:57:41.214-05:00Spoiled Rotten and Piles of termite woodAmidst my moaning and complaining about everything, i just saw this video from a blog that i follow that puts things back into perspective.Glad to be alive.Now that that spasm of gratefulness has passed: back to the moaning.A few days ago i ordered the book Termites Turtles and Traffic Jams by Mitch Resnick. Resnick was a computer programmer who wrote a program that turned scientific thinking B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-51485575516759542722009-02-28T12:12:00.003-05:002009-02-28T12:30:27.178-05:00What's up with the root?I miss that light-skinned black guy who used to come on BET news, what's his name? Courtney Malloy. He's so buried in history that it took me about eight searches to verify that this guy even existed. Apparently he was a columnist for the Washington Post. and pretty much all i got was this article on www.blackcommentator.com, which by the way is going out of business. But that was just a B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-52044809635383518432009-02-25T13:06:00.001-05:002009-02-25T13:10:14.689-05:00Nassim Taleb on bonuses1. I was just saying that i was sick of the bailout. and this comes along.2. I'm beginning to like this guy (Nassim) more than the wizard of omaha.How Bank Bonuses Let Us All Downby Nassim Nicholas Taleb One of the arguments one hears in the compensation debate is that the bonus system used by Wall Street - as John Thain, former Merrill Lynch chief executive, put it - is there to "reward talent".B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-77018749443924820182009-02-25T11:44:00.004-05:002009-02-25T12:00:31.616-05:00Sick of the BailoutRemember the last time you drank too much? You didn't know until the next morning. Right now, with all this talk about the bailout and tarp and the stimulus . . . it's too much. I'm already having a hangover. There is only so much that i can do or say about it:I don't agree with the bailout.I don't agree with the stimulus.I think we should have let the idiot bankers rot. I think the stimululs is B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-28101806372093219202009-02-16T13:12:00.002-05:002009-02-16T14:47:53.440-05:00More on the wealth capSo, the last post was about a wealth cap. The condition behind this argument is the gaping hole in the wealth between rich and poor people, especially in America. The intent i have in proposing a limit on the amount a person can "be worth" is to equalize the chances of people being able to feed and support their family.I think i've added an option, here they are so far:Cap incomeI would limit theB the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-38687466547109191032009-02-12T10:46:00.003-05:002009-02-12T10:56:23.136-05:00MinimalismA good friend was complaining that nobody wants to hear that we have to save money. Not Wall Street or the people on Main Street (Market if you're in Philadelphia). He aptly says " . . want to still have their toys". I agree. Having been unemployed for a while, and not a big spender i know this intimately.I only have two credit cards, both of which are half full, and I only got those so i could B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-85070282951019045072009-02-09T17:55:00.003-05:002009-02-09T18:38:50.306-05:00What's wrong with the stimulusSo, we've been talking about fiscal policy and wall street bailouts, now let's talk about the Democratic "stimulus" plan.I'm against it.TaxcutsLook, I like the taxcuts for lower income people. Especially when the Bush tax-cuts for the upper income people will expire soon, great i think, balances revenue a bit. The problem with tax cuts is two-fold. The last two tax cuts and rebates that Bush B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-91137030997505364042009-02-06T12:48:00.003-05:002009-02-06T13:31:40.893-05:00Trickle Down ObamanomicsSo, apparently people have been heeding my warning. I have been saying for a little while on this blog in this post that the disparity in incomes has got to stop. I say the thing to keep an eye on was the multiple. What i mean by the multiple is how much a top-level executive makes as a multiple of how the least compensated person in the company (janitor, etc) makes.Over all but the last couple B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-73991498868829042262009-02-02T10:06:00.003-05:002009-02-02T10:24:45.233-05:00Homo Economicus Must DieSo, there's a depression setting in, not just a recession going on. It seems that the news media, business people, economists and everyone reading what they have said are stuck in the same trap. They think money is the problem and money is the solution."No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" -EinsteinI'm sure that someone else said it before, but he's the B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-17935025632022892532009-01-29T07:53:00.004-05:002009-01-29T08:11:12.978-05:00why there is a credit crunchMoney is too cheap.Let's talk supply and demand. When i sell eggs, let's say they're normally priced at $2. Let's say i go to the market and mark them at $2.50. nobody is going to buy them because they're too expensive. I mean with a dozen eggs, people are price sensitive. If i go to the store, and the grocer says that i have to sell them at $1.50, then i'm not going to sell them because i can't B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-11800742752580059952009-01-27T16:35:00.004-05:002009-01-27T17:02:30.567-05:00houses houses everywhere, but no one to live in themI read two articles today so i could prove a friend wrong. we had a discussion, on the way to the inauguration, about housing prices. My position was that housing prices have been way above historical averages for the last 20 years and need to be reset to those levels. Her position was that housing bubble doesn't need to be deflated back 20 years, but to the start of this bubble. I felt a little B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-17537804152692648732008-12-29T17:39:00.002-05:002008-12-29T18:28:53.926-05:00One giant Ponzi SchemeFor the last couple months i've been thinking about the spiraling downfall of the American economy as based on the loosening of credit standards. In a conversation with my father, he reminded me that historically, banks only made business and corporate loans. For the majority of the American experience, if you wanted to buy a house, you talked to the person that owned the land and made some kind B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-20140702704088639122008-12-16T00:00:00.005-05:002008-12-16T00:15:56.940-05:00we elected the auto bailoutEvery once in a while a couple things swirl into a theme. I was listening to NPR earlier today and they were interviewing people who went overwhelmingly for McCain, and are still weary, not hopeful, of an Obama presidency. That was one. Two, i read about the Madoff scandal, I only got interested due to another story on NPR, but that is besides the point, so that's not actually point #2.The real B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-37107697237569907652008-12-11T12:26:00.004-05:002008-12-11T12:28:51.283-05:00typalizeri just happened upon a link to the typealyzer website. It analyzes blogs to figure out where they sit on the Myers-Briggs typology scale. I'm an ISTP, or rather my blog is an ISTP. Not bad, in college i was an INTJ. So this means that i'm more connected to the world than my intuition, and i'm less judgmental. Not bad. Not good either. Just is.B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-71758201515499916492008-12-08T23:50:00.004-05:002008-12-09T00:23:24.316-05:00being in communicationSo this weekend i helped out on production for a communication course run by Landmark Education. It was fantastic. I already took the course, and it was nice to be able to be a gadfly enough to be able to leave the room, but in there enough to sample the course again.What i want to talk about is the different perspectives of NLP and LE (Landmark Education). They both deal with humanity, NLP dealsB the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-30893713531102659772008-12-08T11:24:00.005-05:002008-12-08T11:32:55.279-05:00network of conversations 'bout marriageSo, i'm engaged. And i was exchanging messages with an old friend on facebook, and she asked why i didn't respond to her "congrats". At first, i thought not much of it and said that i started to take the congrats for granted. Then i left it at that.Not two minutes later i realized why i take the congrats with a grain of salt. What happens is that i find that a lot of people my age are getting B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-54498815105853715422008-11-30T09:04:00.003-05:002008-11-30T11:07:23.737-05:00busy busy busyI worked on the Philadelphia Marathon last week(end). I also told my friend Johnathan that i would do the Philadelphia Triathlon with him in June. Right now I'm leaning toward doing the sprint triathlon, but in the back of my mind i'm thinking that the sprint triathlon is for suckers, i might just do the whole thing. The thing i've got going for me is that i'm a decent swimmer, and apparently B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-58841059547621313872008-11-17T16:45:00.003-05:002008-11-17T18:07:52.904-05:00no overtime for youHey, i like the idea of spreading the wealth around. In the upcoming weeks, there will be tons of discussions about how to bail this economy out. It will center heavily on rebuilding the physical infrastructure of the company, and promoting green jobs. I have something to add to this to make sure that everything is cool:1. that no one person can recieve from a company more than 30 times the B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-3576332607073318192008-11-17T08:19:00.004-05:002008-11-17T08:30:57.807-05:00been workin hard for no moneyI've been working hard on my website Keystone Business Systems. I'm building it so that i can create a community of professionals, business-owners and non-profit organizations that will create a black business class in philadelphia.When looking around at the state of Philadelphia politics and economics, we're drastically behind the curve. What i want to do is create a centralized location that B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-79018244762072088352008-11-11T16:19:00.002-05:002008-11-11T18:14:32.794-05:00America's New Weapon, the slingshotApparently, people are saying the Pentagon's budget is bloated. You don't say! in a relatively detailed article that i read on reference from another article i realized that Obama can really cut the budget deficit down by shedding overly-expensive, and frivolous military spending. Though the article says that a lot of the budget is for personnel, there's still gonna be a lot of cost-cutting for B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-76730899952423416392008-11-09T09:51:00.004-05:002008-11-09T10:13:57.045-05:00Obama-lovin' lateI bumped into some people and they asked why i haven't blogged in a while. I stared at them with disbelief that they knew i had a blog, much less read it.Well, i'm almost stunned that Obama won. I thought that when he beat Hillary, he had it in the bag. So that's why i'm not stunned. But i get the shivers at thinking that he actually won. A facebook friend of mine, which means he knows people i B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-87804732035766963542008-10-29T09:05:00.004-04:002008-10-29T09:09:22.540-04:00new-age linkini just recently read the book The New Influencers by Paul Gilliam (sorry the website looks cheezy, but the book is okay) and learned the wonderful benefits of linking.He says that linking to other websites and articles are good for growing your blog followers and thought community etc. I think linking to other websites is good to remember where exactly i came up with the crap thoughts i have.so, B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.com