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"the Bank of Japan found that despite lowering short-term interest rates to zero it could not get its zombie banking sector to lend. Credit, the life blood of our fractional reserve banking system, was just not increasing. Therefore, the Bank of Japan began buying Japanese government bonds (JGBs) with money that it created out of thin air — that is they bought existing assets with money that did not previously exist. Central Banks can do this because they control the electronic printing presses. Now, the likes of Murray Rothbard, an Austrian School economists calls this counterfeiting. However, regardless of how you see this, this is how our monetary system works." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"The deepening world economic crisis and a possible spat over currency levels hung in the air as the United States and China sat down Thursday to discuss the future of their economic relations. U.S. officials say Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will press Beijing to let its yuan rise against the dollar to ease trade tensions at the two-day Strategic Economic Dialogue. American companies contend that China keeps the yuan undervalued, giving its exporters an unfair advantage and adding to its swollen trade surplus." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"In a landmark deal that could provide much-needed cash to America's anemic economy, China agreed today to acquire the naming rights to the U.S. for a reported $1.4 trillion. The deal, which is expected to be signed by President George W. Bush and Chinese president Hu Jintao sometime before Inauguration Day on January 20, was hailed today by Mr. Bush as a "win-win" for both countries. "We get 1.4 trillion dollars, and all we have to do is change our name to 'Panda Garden,'" Mr. Bush told reporters at the White House. - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"A great way to gain more understanding about web analytics and internet marketing is to learn from the experts and hear what they are saying." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"The reason people publish content on the web varies: to promote a product, their company, or themselves as an expert. If you are looking for a shortcut to fame and fortune stop reading. Publishing and promoting your content should be looked at as a process with a distinct goal in mind. Gimmicks and other tricks are short-sighted unless you want to be the next Tommy Tutone or Devo it’s worth your time to come up for a complete content and promotion strategy." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

by Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM - Hayk

FundingUniverse connects qualified entrepreneurs with active VC's, angel investors and lending sources. In addition, FundingUniverse provides services to help entrepreneurs prepare for investment, such as helping them create compelling business plans and pitches, advising them on strategic business direction, and preparing them for investor scrutiny. - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"They recently announced what they're calling the Project 10 to the 100th contest where they're looking for "ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible." Their reasoning is that helping other people is the one thing (besides material wealth) that increases an individuals happiness over time. As a result, they're looking for ideas that not only help people - but ideas that will help the most number of people. Not only will you get the benefit of helping others, they'll also invest $10 million (yes, $10 MILLION) to make it happen themselves." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

DO NOT WANT! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHh took me too long to get that - Allen Stern

Allen is slow today... too much turkey for ya Allen? LOL - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

"Rhizome takes it name from plants such as bamboo, aspen, or ginger that spread via a connected underground root system. As metaphor, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari used rhizome to refer to a non-hierarchal form of organization. I have extended this metaphor, refering to rhizome as an alternative mode of human organization consisting of a network of minimally self-sufficient nodes that leverage non-hierarchal coordination of economic activity. The two keys concepts in my formulation of rhizome are 1) minimal self-sufficiency, which eliminates the dependencies that accrete hierarchy, and 2) loose and dynamic networking that uses the "small worlds" theory of network information processing to allow rhizome to overcome information processing burdens that normally overburden hierarchies." - Hayk

i love watching ants where i live, several varieties and sizes in the same place .. particularly cool are the ants that travel in squads of about five, like army patrols out on recon ... life is sublime - Gregory Lent

I also like watching ants. I especially admire when they make so-called bridges!! Watching them brings up quite few ideas in my head usually!! good stimulus and source of creative thinking :) - Hayk

"However, I did not use the search keyword “list of advertising agencies”, but particularly looked for McCann-Erickson, Leo Burnett, and some agencies I heard from the advertising congress I attended the year before. So here, I made this list of major advertising agencies based on Wikipedia’s, hoping that I would help students, or anyone who is in search of advertising agencies. Just click the links to go to their official websites." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

Esquire.com is proud to be the exclusive online host of Between, a brand-new title from Jason Rohrer, the creator of breakthrough online game Passage and one of Esquire's Best and Brightest 2008 honorees. - Hayk

The next decade holds mind-bending promise for American business. Globalization is prying open vast new markets. Technology is plowing ahead, fueling--and transforming--entire industries, creating services we never thought possible. Clever people worldwide are capitalizing every which way. But because globalization and technology are morally neutral forces, they can also drive change of a different sort. We saw this very clearly on September 11 and are seeing it now in Iraq and in conflicts around the world. In short, despite the aura of limitless possibility, our lives are evolving in ways we can control only if we recognize the new landscape. It's time to take an unblinking look. - Hayk

"An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

weird!...and very interesting! i wonder how they did certain aspects in life... - Mohomed=genieyclo

thanks for this, many important implications for english here ... alerting sean mcbride - Gregory Lent

"Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously. According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

with just a few years of meditation it becomes a very reliable tool, nearly infallible, and is actually not a thing called "intuition", it is just a subtler part of normal consciousness, just "how things are" - Gregory Lent

"I recently read a quote that inspired me and thought, "Why not share it with others?" I've also collected a list of quotes from entrepreneurs and other quotes that are relevant to entrepreneurship. Skip and I included our own at the bottom of the post. I hope one of these quotes inspires you as well." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"Here is an amusing guide to show you the difference types of promotion." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

"With Edicy everyone can create a website with ease. There are tens of designs to choose from and a website can be up and running in minutes — for free. Edicy is mostly used by small businesses, startups, non-profits and freelancers alike." - Hayk via Bookmarklet

Reshared in Apps room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/we... - Mohomed=genieyclo

"Under state law, God is Kentucky's first line of defense against terrorism. The 2006 law organizing the state Office of Homeland Security lists its initial duty as "stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth." Specifically, Homeland Security is ordered to publicize God's benevolent protection in its reports, and it must post a plaque at the entrance to the state Emergency Operations Center with an 88-word statement that begins, "The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God."" - Hayk via Bookmarklet

Separation of Church and State FAIL. - Mohomed=genieyclo

Sales during the day after Thanksgiving rose 3 percent to $10.6 billion, according to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago-based research firm that tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets. Last year, shoppers spent about $10.3 billion on the day after Thanksgiving, dubbed Black Friday because it was historically the sales-packed day when retailers would become profitable for the year. - Hayk

People are still asleep in the matrix. - TStowers

"I've been thinking about that since I read it midweek. A lost decade in which if you owned the Dow, you'd have lost money on stocks.But there's a problem with indexes and that is the average doesn't really tell you that much. So I want to look at the Dow stocks and figure out which ones were big winners this decade and which ones were big losers." - Hayk

We're pleased to present our list of The Biggest Losers: 20 global moguls who have gotten creamed in the recent economic collapse. Bill Gates, loser. Sumner Redstone, loser. Kirk Kerkorian, loser. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, losers. And those folks haven't lost jack next to the Biggest Loser of Them All... - Hayk

In the past decade, Jeff Bezos's online bookstore has exploded into an enterprise that sells everything — snowplows, canned goods, you name it. More recently, Amazon.com (AMZN: 42.70*, -1.26, -2.86%) has ventured into selling its own back-office software to other e-commerce businesses, not to mention music and movie downloads, taking on veteran giants Apple and Netflix. And now, of course, comes one of Bezos's gutsier innovations: the Kindle, an electronic reader that some analysts have called the next iPod. - Hayk