EXCERPT: Funny thing: a lot of my creative (or if you prefer, bizarre) ideas present themselves to me in dreamland.  Where these ideas come from I don’t know.  All I know is I don’t own most of them. At least I don’t recognize them as belonging to my mental space.  But this one is a relatively mundane idea, as these nocturnal inspirations go, so let me share this example with you.     It struck me in dreamland the term would be a good term...

EXCERPT: "Now the system is gradually taking the paper and coins out of your hands.  Instant credit, direct deposit of your paycheck, and automatic bill payments are examples of transactions where you don’t even have to be aware of the transfer of the electronic impulses that represent your financial and economic value within the system.  You are not quite superfluous to this systemic pumping of your economic and financial lifeblood, but you are gradually being taken out...

EXCERPT:    ... and we welcome you to Munchkin Land! ...  As mayor of the Munchkin City In the county of the Land of Oz.. We wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land.  To begin your tour the village counsel wishes to recommend an excellent map of the yellow brick road as your tour guide while you are here.  The Confidence Game - Part 1 01/11/2006 - 11:19 AM The economy, huh?  Don’t get me started!  I guess my greatest worry is...

EXCERPT: The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: A Faulty Foundation. 06/19/2006 - 8:28 PM While the New Global View (NGV) that took form at Breton Woods during the closing days of World War II was very far sighted, there was a blind spot in the visionaries’ eyesight.  … 
 
America and the world suffered through the Great Depression of the 1930’s.  It emerged from the Great Depression decade right into the Second World War. ...

EXCERPT: AS stated by Robert Kiyosaki, there is a need for more entrepreneurs. Our educational system needs to be overhauled and begin teaching in a way that enables students to think like entrepreneurs.
education should emphasize interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. they should teach investing and money management. they should teach sales techniques and team building and leadership. they should teach students the basics of fund raising and writing business plans.
this overhaul is...

EXCERPT: as I have said before, I am trying to start a enterprise. Incorrectly, Average American said you need to be an immigrant to qualify for a sba loan. this is not true. first, you need your business plan. second you need thirty percent of the money borroed and third you need collateral like real estate or something. these are things that well to do americans have. and further more, the sba does not loan you the money, the bank does.
so how does a person start a business if they have no...

EXCERPT: I was watching Imus in the Morning this AM, and he said:  “USA Today is reporting that Ford Motor Company, which we were talking with David Kiley [Marketing Editor of Businessweek magazine] about, is considering going private.” I had just read in the Arizona Republican Snoozepaper’s Business Section’s sidebar column that “Buybacks set record:  Big companies bought back a record $116 billion worth of shares in the second quarter, up 43...

EXCERPT: Farewell to cowboys Cowboys are becoming a vanishing culture Aug 10th 2006
From The Economist print edition “GEORGE WILLIAMS, one of Scottsdale's last remaining cowboys, has been raising horses and cattle on his 120 acres for 20 years. The cattle go to the slaughterhouse, the horses to rodeos. But Mr Williams is stomping mad…” The August 10th issue of The Economist has an interesting article on our state, and the state of our state. It seems the...

EXCERPT: Do the companies we do business with really care if they keep us as customers?
Do these companies realize that every time they make us jump through the PHONE PROMPT HOOPS they come with in micro seconds of loosing our business?
When you get forwarded to a call center in India do you feel abandoned by the company you thought was an American Company?
This week changed the way our Company will do business goinig forward.
We will no longer purchase goods from any company that has a call...

EXCERPT: Investor’s Business Daily’s (IBD) Monday Special issue claims that Google has ambitious plans to become a powerhouse ISP, positioning itself for huge expansion over the next decade.
Allow me to share excerpts from the issue’s front page with you. 
Begin Excerpts Google has over recent years quietly purchased enough dark, or unused, fiber-optic cable – used to provide high-end broadband, to cover the U.S. It’s teamed with EarthLink to provide...