The vast majority of people – including Wall Street analysts who should know better – think that Facebook has a promising future.
After all, since its launch its share price has crawled steadily higher.
The fact that an unknown percentage …
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Unglamorous things that make money
If there is one mistake I see beginners – and experienced people – make over and over and over again it’s focusing on the complicated, the exotic and the glamorous while ignoring the simple, common sense things that make money …
Deflation: What it is, why it’s coming and what to do about it
There’s a world of difference between positive thinking and delusion.
Healthy positive thinking says: “Let’s put our energy into productive activity and let’s meet setbacks with equanimity, learn from them, and work to turn them around.”
Delusion says: “I won’t …
How I woke up one day in Guatemala and realized I was a Libertarian
I just got back from three months of traveling in Latin America.
There were a few reasons I made the trip:
1. Latin America is an extremely pleasant place (if you know where to go)
2. It has a dynamic, …
Stop the mass media crooks from torpedoing the Internet
By Ken McCarthy in Consumer protection, Human rights and justice, Internet history, Media Industry 9
Disney, NBC, CBS and other corporate slime balls would like to make common, everyday Internet activity – activity they actively enabled and promoted – a felony.
This analyst is loud and brash, but hang on. He’s got the goods on …
Keep giving simple
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, Consumer protection, Internet TV, Marketing news, Videos to Watch 20
I never cease to be amazed, and annoyed, by how complicated most software is to learn.
I just don’t get it.
Why should any software be any more complicated than using an ATM machine? No one needs a manual or …