Thoughts

Krugman Watch: Austerity Class? Or is it a Starve-The-Beast Class? http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/10/krugman-watch-austerity-class-or-is-it-a-starve-the-beast-class/ Source date (UTC): 2011-10-21 19:13:13 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/127462461812125696

http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2011/10/21/growing-pains-europes-dilemma/”It is much easier for poor countries to grow faster than it is for rich countries because they can import technology they do not already have. It is much more

http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/10/krugman-watch-austerity-class-or-is-it-a-starve-the-beast-class/Krugman Watch: framing the debate by tactics not strategy as a means of undermining the argument. Source date (UTC): 2011-10-21 15:12:00 UTC

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/Nyepositional.htmlMy postion is that Positional Goods (Status Signals, Signaling, Status Cues), are not redistributable. And that’s because status signals are NECESSARY, not preferential. Source date (UTC): 2011-10-19 13:45:00 UTC

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/Nyepositional.htmlJohn Nye writes more on Status Signals: “because the West is much richer, positional or status goods are consequently more important. The struggle over status goods can be masked when

I love Apple. Really. iPhone problem? Wait in line for 20min. Get a brand new one for a hundred bucks. Go home. Hit “restore”. Wait a few minutes. Done. Priceless.

No memory of yesterday. None. Reaction to sulfites is increasing as exposure decreases. Source date (UTC): 2011-10-18 14:57:00 UTC

“The Department of Transportation found that, in 2009, commutes by private car took, on average, 23 minutes. Public transportation, by contrast, took an average of 53 minutes. “ Public transportation

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=10259The types of inequality Source date (UTC): 2011-10-17 15:01:00 UTC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/does-americas-99-percent-represent-the-top-1-percent-on-earth/2011/10/12/gIQA5JVQfL_blog.htmlPerspective Source date (UTC): 2011-10-17 15:00:00 UTC

http://www.eif.org/news_centre/publications/eif_wp_2011_009_EU_Venture.pdfAn interesting paper on the weakness of the VC community, and general entrepreneurship in Europe vs the USA. Personally, my experience is that too much money is captured in government

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/opinion/how-to-stop-the-drop-in-home-values.htmlSomeone else catches on. If we had written down mortgages in 2007 when I suggested it, we’d have had almost NO recession and saved ourselves something on the order of

Power: “The opportunity to alter the probability of outcomes”. Sovereignty: “Power” Will to Power: “The Human Desire For Sovereignty” Given the diversity of individual ability, the diversity of individual knowledge,

In practical terms, Religions establish the terms by which the population consents to be ruled. Religions differ from systems of ethics, in that they are far harder to alter in

Well, technically speaking, she’s NOT in the 1%. Someone ELSE made the money and gave it to her. So that person is in the 1%. And she’s hoping everyone can

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/apple-in-the-enterprise-the-road-forward/18955A writer from IBM agrees that post-Jobs, the enterprise market is just too attractive to pass up. Source date (UTC): 2011-10-11 14:35:00 UTC

Weight of 192 today. That’s as good as my best 3 years ago. It’s some kind of barrier though. Hard to get into the 180’s in the past. 185 is

What makes the west special is competition: the balance of power, and every individual’s commitment to preserving the balance of power, and respecting the consequences of that conflict as beneficial.

Some human social mechanisms are black boxes filled with chaotic nonsense gears, which even under analysis are absurd. In fact, they work, in part, because they are absurd, chaotic, nonsensical

Numbers in financial statements are a record of your decisions, not a predictor of the future. They don’t predict your business. They predict your behavior. They are predictive to the