Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Set Up Cameras Around Your House, Let Company Monitor Them for Marketing Purposes
March 3rd, 2012Oh sure. Why not? Via: Network World: The little cameras in your home are multiplying. There are the ones you bought, perhaps your SLR or digital camera, but also those that just kind of show up in your current phone, your old phone, your laptop, your game console, and soon your TV and set-top box. […]
And Now… Foreign Central Banks Will Buy U.S. Equities
March 3rd, 2012*chortle* The Bernanke better flip the confetti cannons to full-auto mode. Via: Zero Hedge: In other words, while the Fed’s charter forbids it from buying US equities outright, it certainly can promise that it will bail out such bosom friends as the Bank of Israel, the Swiss National Bank, and soon everyone else, if and […]
Inflation Rate on Typical Purchases: 8%
March 1st, 2012Via: CBS: Forget the modest 3.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the government’s widely used measure of inflation. Everyday prices are up some 8 percent over the past year, according to the American Institute for Economic Research. The not-for-profit research group measures inflation without looking at the big, one-time purchases that can skew […]
FDA Adds Diabetes, Memory Loss Warnings to Statins
March 1st, 2012As for the rest of this article, which is about how great statins really are *roll eyes*, I’d suggest reading, Cholesterol Drugs Are Dangerous, by Russell Blaylock, M.D. and Niacin Therapy, by Abram Hoffer, M.D. instead. Via: Reuters: Health regulators are adding warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, […]
McCaffrey Briefs NBC Executives on Upcoming War with Iran
March 1st, 2012Via: Salon: Apparently, not only does NBC continue to present McCaffrey to its viewers as some sort of objective analyst, but NBC News executives use him as some kind of private consultant and briefer on the news. On January 12, 2012, McCaffrey presented a seminar to roughly 20 NBC executives and producers — including NBC […]
FBI Building Insider Trading Cases on 120 People
March 1st, 2012Via: Herald Sun: FEDERAL authorities are seeking to build insider trading cases against roughly 120 individuals on and off Wall Street in an expanding criminal insider trading investigation that has shaken the financial and corporate worlds. The disclosure – the first time authorities have quantified the number of people under scrutiny – comes on the […]
Google Once Considered Issuing Digital Currency
February 29th, 2012Via: IT World: Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Tuesday. At the end of his keynote speech, Schmidt hit on a wide array of topics in response to audience questions. “We’ve had various proposals to […]
Short Film: ‘There’s No Tomorrow’
February 29th, 2012Graham let me know that Dermot finished his film, There’s No Tomorrow. Via: Incubate Pictures:
DOE/ARPA-E and GM Sponsored Envia Systems More Than Doubles Energy Density for Lithium-Ion Batteries While Reducing the Cost by Half
February 29th, 2012“What does all of this mean for GM? I have no idea. But if something really, really strange happens, it might make much more sense in hindsight.” —Obama Fired GM’s CEO; What’s Stirring Behind the Black Curtain? “The Manhattan Project, a project lasting roughly five years from start to finish, had cost $2.3 billion in […]
For Frack’s Sake: U.S. Wants Natural Gas as Major Auto Fuel Option
February 29th, 2012Via: Network World: Natural gas has never been much of an option for US car drivers and its going to take a lot of effort by the government and auto manufactures to make it a viable alternative to gas. But that’s just what a $10 million program from the Department of Energy’s advanced project development […]
