Protect Yourself in the Next Financial Meltdown

Posted by Matt in February 16th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Available Space, Bubbles, Collapse, Economic System, Feedback Guarantees, Feedback System, Financial Crises, Financial Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Forestry Department, Forests, Housing Bubble, Industry Averages, Long Term Capital, Long Term Capital Management, Massive Fires, Open Soil, Seeds, Sunlight, System Feedback

The seeds of the next financial meltdown have already been planted with rising debt in the Western world and massive spending in China. All of this spending is intended to keep the current economic system from falling apart, but actually it will make things much worse. So what can you do to protect yourself?
First, let [...]

Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Adult Guardian, Cataclysm, Charlize Theron, civilization, Cormac Mccarthy, Despair, Drift, Father And Son, Flashbacks, Movie Review, Multiplex, Nationwide, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear War, Nytimes, Sunlight, terror, Viggo Mortensen, Violence, Young Actor

The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear [...]

Summer Reading: Get Rich, Outsourced Espionage, Wine Fraud and More

Posted by Matt in June 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Aptitude, Balakrishnan, Cash Flow, Chennai India, Compulsion, Conventional Wisdom, Credit Rating, Delegate, Ditches, Endless Debate, Espionage, Fear Nothing, Greatest Entrepreneurs, Heart Beat, Investment Opportunities, Losers, Man Money, Nothing And No One, Paul Getty, Rich Man, Summer Reading, Sunlight, Team Spirit, Trial And Error, White Knight

How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
His 8 secrets are:
1. Analyse your need. Desire is insufficient. Compulsion is mandatory.
2. Cut loose from negative influences. Never give in. Stay the course.
3. Ignore `great ideas’. Concentrate on great execution.
4. Focus. Keep your eye on the ball marked `the money is here’
5. [...]