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14 years ago @ Redeye VC - Fun Fact of The Week: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

we've seen broad increases in the US money supply (as measured by M2 and MZM issued by the federal reserve) -- this always fuels bubbles which in turn creates more liquid markets with more short-term speculators. that is the primary cause IMHO. also of relevance is the dramatic decline in startup costs which reduces the dollar amount required for many of these investments which in turn lowers decision cost and thus facilitates a faster checkout process.

i suspect both these trends will continue; i consider ongoing expansion of the money supply to be nearly inevitable, and i believe the same can be said for the costs of launching and operating a startup.

14 years ago @ Don Dodge on The Next ... - Fear & Greed - how hou... · 0 replies · +1 points

nope. if economies always bounce back, why does most of the world live in poverty? it's because governments keep them that way and people don't care enough or are not educated enough to bring about the change that is needed. let's see if the internet change anything. i remain optimistic that it will, but ultimately technology is just a tool. everything comes down to choice.

15 years ago @ http://www.jeffnolan.c... - Lessons from the Rise ... · 0 replies · +1 points

hahahhahaa......good one jeff!

15 years ago @ Don Dodge on The Next ... - What happened to AltaV... · 0 replies · +1 points

i know steve is worshipped for his alleged greatness, though sculley's contribution to apple is grossly understated. he grew apple sales from $800 million to $8 billion, and developed distribution channels that would prove to be immensely valuable for when steve came back. the product visionary is valuable, but so is the salesperson.

and of course, what is the story of steve at NeXT? a great OS that couldn't get sales right and was perpetually in financial distress. than NeXT gets acquired by apple, steve's product gets plugged into the distribution outlets sculley helped create, and voila! the world was conned again into using apple's products.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/16/business/compan...

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Chris Sacca: "The Obam... · 0 replies · +5 points

no, president soetoro's administration is fully embracing the people who got him elected. goldman sachs, jp morgan, and citigroup are three of the top 7 contributors; companies in the list of top 100 defense contracting contractors, like GE and IBM, are not far behind. and who has profited the most from the policies of the soetoro administration? banksters and warmongers. now that's what i call quality customer service!
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cyc... http://www.govexec.com/features/0807-15/0807-15s3...

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - The Many Bottom Lines ... · 1 reply · -7 points

real capitalism doesn't exist without the gold standard. when the supply of money is dictated by government, all money becomes political, which inevitably leads to a merger of state and corporation -- i.e. fascism. then we see things like goldman sachs, jp morgan, GE, etc. under the gold standard, we see stability and opportunity for all. the essay "gold and economic freedom" by alan greenspan, published in ayn rand's journal, elaborates on this.

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - European Ministers Pus... · 1 reply · +2 points

no, not good. folks need to read "the report from iron mountain," amongst many other documents that openly state the globalists agenda to use carbon and environmentalism as the pretext to create a global government. global government is bad because it represents ANOTHER layer of taxes (city, state, nation, globe) and represents more power taken away from local government. if you think you have no control over washington, imagine how little you'll have over world government.

plus the carbon tax and carbon fraud market....there is no need for any of this stuff. it is just a pretext to introduce more control, ultimately leading to population control, because hey, humans emit carbon!

hope folks will wake up to this stuff. look around you, the VC industry is collapsing, the dollar is crumbling....the only way out is the truth that sets you free. the truth is not a message of doom, it is the foundation of all solutions.

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Direct Deposit Makes G... · 1 reply · 0 points

two points:

1. saving trees? what, they don't grow back? same with oil, look into abiotic oil. it's not as scarce as we are led to believe.
2. the larger issue, though, is that the focus should be on finding ways to expand energy and supply. so, while i don't think oil is as scarce we are led to believe, the larger issue IMHO is that there are alternative energy sources that are far superior to oil, but they are suppressed.

the current focus of much of "green tech" is on martyrdom, rather than innovation and increased consumption for all. why is that? who benefits?

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Direct Deposit Makes G... · 3 replies · -1 points

no, there is no benefit to the reduction stuff. it is just a scam to find stuff to tax, and eventually, to introduce legislation to limit population growth (i.e. "we have to do it for the environment" and that type of pseudo-logic). there is no scientific justification for any of this. there are free energy solutions already, but those types of things will suppressed by companies that profit from war and control of existing energy supplies. in other words, companies like GE.

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Direct Deposit Makes G... · 5 replies · -1 points

the fake green movement is about trying to sucker people into reduction. the real energy movement is about expanding the supply of energy and improving its distribution. this post deals with the fake side of things.

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