Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • MOREOVER: RETURN TO NORMAL You can hear normalcy returning to the nightlife. Tha

    MOREOVER: RETURN TO NORMAL

    You can hear normalcy returning to the nightlife.

    That’s a beautiful thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 12:48:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: BAGPIPES Its…. just out of place. Bagpipes in Kiev? Or,

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: BAGPIPES

    Its…. just out of place. Bagpipes in Kiev? Or, do I not know something about bagpipes?

    Someone in the neighborhood has been kicking it up on the street for the past hour.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-22 12:48:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2014/03/window-on-eurasia-five-possible-new.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-19 14:41:00 UTC

  • MASTERCARD AND BITCOIN Hierarchy of business is Amex->Visa->MC->Check-Cashing bu

    MASTERCARD AND BITCOIN

    Hierarchy of business is Amex->Visa->MC->Check-Cashing businesses. With MC having all the ‘low rent’ customers, and check cashing services having the … lowest.

    Now, why not build a MC ‘wallet’ and charge simple transaction costs for BTC’s – just for the convenience of processing the transactions?

    Because they assume that it would eat into their business. But if you thought like a check cashing company you’d understand that people evolve through the credit cycle. And that today’s payday loan and check cashing customer is tomorrow’s credit customer. in fact, this is the optimum business model for them.

    BTC transactions are zero risk for the vendor. It’s merely a transaction processing cost. That transaction processing can still be a profitable ADDITION to the existing business (i’d carry a MC product if it handled BTC). And by and large, people will buy btc with credit.

    I’d like to see people paid in BTC at the low wage end, so that the burden of the financial system is lessened for them. At present it’s an absurd burden – and it’s a trap for them as well, that they cannot easily get out of.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-19 11:32:00 UTC

  • RENT SEEKING AND JAPAN (now, I’m all in favor of rent seeking in an extended fam

    RENT SEEKING AND JAPAN

    (now, I’m all in favor of rent seeking in an extended family – that’s a choice. but I”m not in favor of rents on my family by competing families.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-18 08:45:00 UTC

  • THANK RUSSIANS AND CHINESE: THERE IS NO NEW WORLD ORDER WITHOUT THE MYTH OF INTE

    THANK RUSSIANS AND CHINESE: THERE IS NO NEW WORLD ORDER WITHOUT THE MYTH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

    Maybe we should just thank the Russians and the Chinese for their contribution to anarchy.

    I mean, first they disprove socialism.

    Now they disprove postmodernism.

    I mean, the bad guys really do all the hard work for us, don’t they?

    The collapse of the progressive fantasy continues.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-18 08:31:00 UTC

  • RESEARCH ON LIFE IN 2025

    http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/PEW RESEARCH ON LIFE IN 2025

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-17 20:59:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 23:22:00 UTC

  • THREATS ARE SAFER

    http://www.internationalrealist.com/2011/11/why-we-will-soon-miss-cold-war-john.htmlWHY THREATS ARE SAFER

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:58:00 UTC

  • Having fun this morning watching the pundits around the world reposition themsel

    Having fun this morning watching the pundits around the world reposition themselves on all sorts of things. The most interesting is that given European energy dependency upon Russia, the eastern turn of Russia to the Chinese model,

    In 2008 and 2009 it was very interesting to watch all the economists change their point of view on the trajectory of the economy. Right now it’s pretty interesting to see them change their view on the trajectory of social democracy.

    I might have been blinded by being emotionally so involved in the passions in Ukraine. But, as long as Ukrainians remain free of Russian occupation, the net result here might be the end of the “end of history” and the illusion of a unified world.

    I want to put a bullet in the European Union, the American Federal Government, and “Universalism”.

    And this actually helps. And an emboldened china helps even more.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-03-16 22:50:00 UTC