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by rajpaul 15y ago
I think he's saying that when you borrow money, it stimulates the economy and increases people's incomes. That allows people to borrow even more money. Which stimulates the economy and increases people's incomes even more. It's a feedback l
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Dalio, Biggest Hedge Fund Manager: "developed world has reached its debt limit"(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
84 points by rajpaul 15y ago|45 comments
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by rajpaul 15y ago
The root cause of speculation is cheap and easy money. The cheap and easy money comes directly from the Federal Reserve. They provide it in the misguided hope that it will be put to work in the real economy.
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by rajpaul 15y ago
From what I've read, from the beginning Zuckerberg has been pretty clear in his desire to make everything everyone does public and on facebook. So this seems consistent with his vision.
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Ron Paul: "Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis" wsj OpEd(online.wsj.com)
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Occupy The Barn After The Horse Has Bolted(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
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Apple misses quarterly sales; disappoints for the first time in years(washingtonpost.com)
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Nerds Rejoice, Anti-Fog Glasses Invented(seeforlife.blogspot.com)
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by rajpaul 15y ago
This sounds a lot like SAP's in-memory database, HANA: "SAP HANA is an integrated database and calculation layer that allows the processing of massive quantities of real-time data in main memory to provide immediate results from analyses an
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by rajpaul 15y ago
I agree, it's not the governments job. But I've always wondered, what came first, the corrupt government, or citizens who don't pay tax? I see the same thing in Greece. The government is corrupt, but the people don't pay taxes. Does the gov
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by rajpaul 15y ago
I have a co-worker who's from mainland China. He tells me that many Chinese feel that the stock market is immature, corrupt, and rigged to work against the "average joe". The perception seems to be that unless you know someone and can get i
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by rajpaul 15y ago
Sino-Forest was a $5 billion dollar company that was listed on the Toronto stock exchange until recently trading was halted on the stock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Forest_Corporation Difficult economic times always expose fraud. I
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by rajpaul 15y ago
A gold based currency can still be devalued. Simply change the amount of gold it is backed by. For example: "Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act on 30 January 1934;...The act also authorized the president to devalue the gold dollar so that
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Radiohead To Play At Occupy Wall Street Event At 4 pm(occupywallst.org)
2 points by rajpaul 15y ago|0 comments
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by rajpaul 15y ago
i've never programmed ruby before, and i'm really enjoying the tutorial so far. i'm going to forward it to some non-programmer friends and see what they think.
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by rajpaul 15y ago
"webcopy that sells" speaks about a lot of this, and other ideas on how to communicate to users. http://www.amazon.com/Web-Copy-That-Sells-Revolutionary/dp/0... woot.com is a great example of how to sell through persionality, and not by b
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Shocking "BBC Trader" Talks About Himself (I dream of recession)(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
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Are Mutual Funds A Scam?(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
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by rajpaul 15y ago
No, the optometry site is my sister in-law's :P
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by rajpaul 15y ago
I understand why you might say that, on the surface it does look cheesy. But the "miracle vitamin" site is blog run by an optometrist and the article references a per-reviewed study. "A recent study in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology
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Anonymous Correctly Predict The De-listing $1B Company(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
175 points by rajpaul 15y ago|52 comments
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Never Defragment an SSD(micro-isv.asia)
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Europe In State of Financial Collapse(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
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by rajpaul 15y ago
can someone define these for me? ISK, PVP.
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by rajpaul 15y ago
does twitter still use mostly ruby? i remember hearing something about scaling problems that were supposedly caused by ruby.
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Google App Engine Leaving Preview (99.95% uptime SLA, Premium Support option)
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by rajpaul 15y ago
Who is NPR? The article doesn't say.
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by rajpaul 15y ago
It seems that corrupt officials and citizens who don't pay taxes go hand in hand. I wonder which came first. Regardless, intuitively it seems to me that these problems will be solved when poverty is reduced and everyone moves up the economi
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by rajpaul 15y ago
"took a report and dusted for prints, performed typical forensics" I'm impressed that the police dust for prints in England. I've never heard of someone getting that kind of thoroughness for a domestic burglary where I live.
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Is The Crash Of 2011 Over?(nerdinvest.blogspot.com)
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