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Entries from December 2008

Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

New Year’s Eve is a time to look back:
2008 was a great year for my personal growth, for making new friends and business partners.
I have started and stopped working on my E-M8 book and have worked on a fictional book that will be a prequel to E-M8. The blog that was started mere 6 months ago has [...]

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Tags: E-M8 · Local Impact

Making small difference, so that we do not often have to make the major ones

December 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Dramatic rescues look good for Hollywood, but they are not a great way o run a business. Businesses do need to occasionally have an emergency to shake up the old settled ways, but it’s better if businesses and communities, are always looking for ways to improve and learn. They will grow healthier than the ones [...]

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Tags: 1. Entrepreneurial Management · 2. Engaged Manpower · 4. Effective Method · 8. Eternal Mission · Local Impact

Retirement, a holdover of the industrial age

December 29th, 2008 · No Comments

In the age of mass production, a person went to school, maybe college, worked 40 years and then retired. Everyone was expected to do the same exact thing.
Not so, in the information age. Our education, our work and our retirement all run concurently throughout our lives.
In this age, a person can be more valuable to [...]

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Tags: Economics

Why foreclosures are good

December 28th, 2008 · No Comments

There seems to be a lot of talk about foreclosures being a bad thing. They are nothing of the sort. They are a mechanism to clearout the funny money and deflate the bubble.
The more foreclosures, the sooner will the prices drop to levels that can be sustained without the meddling of the banks.
Yes, people are [...]

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Tags: Economics

A more efficient system for reducing drug related crimes

December 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

On the one hand, there are definetly negative societal costs from people using drugs. On the other hand, the war on drugs has been a complete waste of time and money, resulting in higher drug usages, more drug related crimes and multiple abuses of our liberties.
The traditional libertarian solution is make it legal but control [...]

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Tags: Politics