All Blog Posts Tagged 'market' (12)

You ARE The Product

In which John discusses why facebook and other free products are free--and why they are so valuable.

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on May 22, 2012 at 3:56pm — No Comments

Because there is a bit of confusion about what IPOs are and, really, what the stock market is and how it works, I thought I'd take the IPO of Facebook as an opportunity to discuss it. In general, the "financial" part of our economy seems kind of crazy and embarrassing. Especially as, these days, a lot of what our economy does is just re-investing in our economy, seems…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on May 18, 2012 at 12:01pm — 1 Comment

Kill the Dollar Bill!

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In which John discusses the denomination effect and argues that we should stop printing one-dollar bills and transition to one-dollar (and two-dollar) coins, which according to the nonpartisan GAO will save the United States government 5.5 billion dollars over the next 30 years. (Also, John… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on July 9, 2011 at 3:56am — 2 Comments

I OWN WARNER CHILCOTT!

In which John purchases stock in Warner Chilcott, the pharmaceutical company that is trying to ruin his brother's life. You can contact Warner Chilcott here:… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on January 26, 2011 at 2:48pm — 3 Comments

Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, Analysis of Chapter 6: Better Living Through Chemistry

During the Cold War, India wanted to experiment with a program of sharing land between the government and the people. America also thought that they were in danger of falling to communism.

Like in the previous chapter, the response was for America to launch a

program of food and monetary aid. This caused the native production of

wheat to fall because they could not compete with the US aid program.

In order to keep India from falling to communism,…

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Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on July 31, 2010 at 12:23pm — 2 Comments

Hank's Life in a Day

In which Hank shows you his Saturday, which turned out to be a very busy day filled with friends, babies, water slides, juggling, Doritos, eggs, singing, dogs, and, yeah, other stuff. All because I wanted to be a part of the…

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Added by Ningmaster Tom on July 27, 2010 at 9:28am — 2 Comments

Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, Analysis of Chapter 5, The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to the Food System Business

While Chapter 5 of Stuffed and Starved is called The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to the Food System Business, it focuses very little on the customer. I am very interested in the customer's role in this

industry, but Raj Patel's real focus for this chapter is interesting as well. He focuses on the "crony-capitalism" of the food industry. Crony-capitalism are my own words, taken from Ron Paul…

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Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on July 12, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, Analysis of Chapter 4, A Cry for Bread

Chapter 4 of Stuffed and Starved is about how governments use abundance of food to prevent civil wars and insurgencies from their poor citizens. The British and American governments feared that if people went hungry for too long, they would turn to violence and throw an uprising.

Before I get into the main argument, I want to point out that Haiti is pulled out as a minor example that I don't discuss in my analysis here. It appears that Haiti has long gotten a bum rap. Like Mexico, we… Continue

Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on July 12, 2010 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, Analysis of the Chapter 3, You Have Become Mexican

Chapter 3, You Have Become Mexican, is about the relationship between Mexico and the United States, specifically about the poverty in Mexico and its causes. Most American's would think that it is the Mexican's own fault that they are poor, with their corruption problems in government, drug lords, and lack of America's natural business savvy. Raj Patel makes a strong case that the real problems with Mexico actually lie in America, even in some of our attempts to help Mexico.

When we… Continue

Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on June 29, 2010 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Free Market Approach to Health Care?

With John's last video promoting a "Free Market" approach to health care, I thought I would present my alternative Free Market approach. This is a presentation from Clayton Christensen to college students at MIT, but it shouldn't be too hard to follow. That said, it is a lot denser and longer than John's video.

The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis

Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on September 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

The "Customer Problem" in Government Spending

This is a follow up to my previous article on Taxes and Spending

Keynesian economic analysis looks at the economy as a series of money transfers between entities. With each transfer of money, there is a corresponding transfer of goods or services so that resources are now distributed slightly more efficiently. This analysis tends to ignore gifts, I think, which I am fine… Continue

Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on September 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Looking At My Options

So, the spring cleaning is moving along, slowly, but forward.

I've started to post things for sale on craigslist, but there are no interested parties at the moment. If no one buys, I need to figure out some other options. E-bay doesn't seem to be working, and I don't really want to keep wasting money on something that won't return anything.

Don't know if anyone here would be interested, but right now there are two listings. One is a box of Hero Clix that's never been… Continue

Added by William Redd on April 24, 2009 at 9:48pm — No Comments