http://www.stockholders.com Communication Innovation for an Ownership Society Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My personal thesis is that the US Government (USG) is so large and calcified that it can no longer do anything. Today’s evidence: after 9/11/01 most officials at all levels of the USG and the governments of the State of NY and NYC agreed that the World ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=60 Of course the opposite of “making money” is “losing money.” According to a dictionary, losing is : (i) failing to win or (ii) to suffer deprivation of. One loses money when, as in the case of General Motors, if you add up all the costs of producing your ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=58 I was sad because my writings did not lead to a single person making a comment. Then I clicked on one of the control panels of this site in WordPress and discovered that over six thousand persons submitted comments. The problem is, looking quickly at those six thousand ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=59 Every one of us knows how painful it is to spend less, If you made and spent X dollars last week and make X minus 100 dollars this week, it is very painful to cut back on the things you spend money on. It may even be as ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=57 Quote If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=55 Metaphor is applying the attributes of one thing directly to a different thing. This differs from simile. In smile, one contends that the attributes of one thing are similar in significant ways to the attributes of another thing. A simile might read: “a good book is like a ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=56 Today I listened to an audio tape by a couple very famous academic lecturers about Renascence literature. I got the tape from our local library. To purchase it would have been quite expensive. The lecturers taught at Brown and Princeton and Yale and etc. They ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=54 Why should people who rent and people who thought that no down payment neg-amortization liar loans were not for them, subsidize people who bought real estate through iffy loans? Why is the government jumping in to favor one group at the expense of others? Calling them “homeowners” ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=53 Bailout 2008 passed in its second, even less attractive, form. I have expressed my opinion here and in comments on other blogs that the bailout was bad. Of course, I meant that it is bad policy because the effects will be more bad than good, or that in ... http://www.stockholders.com/?p=45 Is it not a conflict of interest for the govenment to take equity stakes in financial institutions that are heavily regulated by the government? Already the bailout bill has a reiteration that the SEC has discretion to relax mark to market rules to favor such banks. http://www.stockholders.com/?p=52