Posts Tagged ‘More’

Life is more hard with middle aged women?

Good looks, beauty, youth, etc, tend to be regarded as “assets”for women. Meanwhile experience, madurity, richness, tend to be associate to men.

So I wonder, when women reach middle age, and their looks and beauty drops, do they suffer more than middle aged men?

Is investing in commodities more or less risky than stocks and should it be a long or short term investment?

I think less but i can’t really find a specific answer

economy & mass media: lies & more spin than ever; vs the HINDENBURG OMEN

Jim Puplava talks about the mainstream media and how they spin the economic news and Max Keiser talks about the Hindenburg omen recorded on August 14th 2010

Eurozone under pressure to aid euro with more cash

Eurozone under pressure to aid euro with more cash
Germany, Europe’s bankroller, quickly ruled out the notion of pan-European bonds and said the bailout fund was big enough.

Read more on The Oregonian

Does FDI do more harm than good?

What is your opinion on the contribution Foreign Direct Investment makes in developing countries?

Does a real transfer of knowledge and technology occur or is it just a matter of exploiting that particular country’s national advantages?

Should countries continue to vie for FDI or develop alternative strategies?
Juan, buying shares in a foreign company isn’t a form of FDI it is known as ‘portfolio investment’.

Kansas school districts bracing for more budget cuts

Kansas school districts bracing for more budget cuts
  There could be some bad news on the horizon for Kansas school districts: More budget cuts.

Read more on The Dodge City Daily Globe

Did Obama promise far more than he can deliver? Look at this list of promises?

Improve options for displaced workers
Help community and small business development agencies
Improve rural schools and availability of doctors
Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems
Give new farmers tax incentives
Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses
Create rural revitalization program
Improve high school graduation rates
Double the number of high school students taking college level courses
Double charter school funding
Include more technology in public schools
Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service
Recruit teachers and principals
Recruit science and technology teachers
Provide pay raises for teachers and principals
Pay tuition for students going into teaching
Increase Head Start and Early Start
Create Classroom Corps
Double funding for after-school programs
Improve No Child Left Behind
Lower dropout rate
Provide incentives for rural teachers
Increase assistance to land-grant colleges
End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years
Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars
Double renewable energy within four years
Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years
Cap carbon emissions
Create new green-collar jobs
Help U.S. automaker adapt
Reduce oil consumption
Help manufacturers go green
Double clean-energy funding
Create Green Jobs Corps
Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund
Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies
Push cellulosic ethanol
Create energy-efficiency grant program
Provide universal health care
Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system
Expand nurse-family partnership program
Help individuals purchase private health insurance
Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
Address women’s health issues
Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses
Help homeowners
Create an affordable-housing trust
Protect New Orleans
Invest $60 billion in infrastructure
Invest in rural infrastructure
Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs
Provide every American broadband access
Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area
Support a global education fund
Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence
Expand Army and Marine Corps
Provide soldiers with necessary equipment
Target every source of fear in the Americas
Create information declassification center
Ensure military has enough training
Strengthen civilian agencies
Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest
Create international anti-terrorism network
Make cyber-security a federal priority
Update Veterans Affairs hospital system
Ensure all veterans are covered
Ensure adequate number of VA clinics
Increase housing assistance
Fully fund VA
Improve military’s mental health screening and care
Improve care for various injuries and women’s health through VA
Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html

Is it true that over the centuries Real Estate created more wealth than any other industry?

“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”

- John D. Rockefeller

“Buy real estate in areas where the path exists…and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own.”

- David Waronker

“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.”

- Gladys Taber

“There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.”

- Harriet Martineau

“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”

- Thomas Jefferson

“Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”

- Winston Churchill

“I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.”

- Jesse H. Jones

“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.”

- Anthony Trollope

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.”

- John Stuart Mill

“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”

- Marshall Field

“Land increases more rapidly in value at the centers and about the circumference of cities.”

- William E. Harmon

“The best investment on earth is earth.”

- Louis Glickman

“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”

- John Jacob Astor

“Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.”

- Will Rogers

“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.”

- Andrew Carnegie

“The West is the best, get here and we’ll do the rest.”

- James Douglas Morrison

“I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.”

- Hetty Green

“No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.”

- Grover Cleveland

“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.”

- William Jennings Bryan

“Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.”

- Russell Sage

“Don’t wait to buy land, buy land and wait.”

“Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.”

- Will Rogers

“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”

- William Shakespeare

http://wealthbyland.com/

So is this true??

Here’s Another Reason Gold Can Surge A LOT More

Here’s Another Reason Gold Can Surge A LOT More
From Paul Kedrosky and JPM’s Michael Cembalest, this is a really interesting chart, and suggests that if the paper-to-hard-assets trend continues for awhile, gold could run WAY more.

Read more on Business Insider

So let’s say we completely open the U.S. for more oil drilling. What then?

First, for the sake of argument let’s eliminate certain concerns, and make some unlikely assumptions: 1. There is no such thing as global warming or climate change, or if there is humans don’t have, couldn’t have any positive or negative impact. 2. The U.S. could have enough oil rigs and refineries up and running to reduce the U.S. population’s reliance on foreign oil to 0% within a year or so. 3. The increased drilling would have no significant ecological impact on the U.S. How long could U.S. oil production last? 10 years…100…1,000? Oil is a finite resource. We’re using it up a million times faster than it’s being made. I see allot of charges of “unamerican” being made on YA. How American is it to say to future generations, “We have what we need now. Screw you in the future.”? If we put serious time and money into viable green energy alternatives, wouldn’t future generations thank us and praise our wisdom? Not the kind of investment the free market values is it?