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Video: Quantitative Easing Explained | Credit Writedowns
To those of you who don’t understand what the Federal Reserve Bank is doing to, er, for the economy, this HILARIOUS video is for you. It features two little fluffy characters who speak of the ‘Bernanc’ and explain why the Fed is printing $600BN dollars.
Why? ‘The Goldman Sachs’
Judge Orders ConnectU To Pay Its Former Lawyers $13 Million In Facebook Case
The lawsuit against Facebook was filed in 2004, and a settlement agreement for both cases was reached in February, 2008, valued at $65 million. In May 2010, it was reported that ConnectU was accusing Facebook of securities fraud on the value of the stock that was part of the settlement, alleging the stock was worth $11 million instead of $45 million that the social networking giant had proclaimed.
The Winklevoss twins and Darendra then moved to get the settlement undone.
A Look Inside Facebook’s Green Announcements | Computing | GreenBiz.com
Facebook’s code from one that is easier for developers to write to one that runs more energy efficiently, and it cuts the energy used by its servers by 50 percent.
Impact Investor: Finance Guru Ron Cordes Is Pointing Billions of Dollars in Better Directions | Fast Company
Call it a midlife crisis gone terribly right. After 28 years in finance, Ron Cordes–co-chairman of the $21 billion asset management firm Genworth–is dedicating his energy to building an online portal that will make impact investing a whole lot easier.
Can Pot Defeat Alzhiemer’s? | PubMed.gov
Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, THC is a considerably superior inhibitor of Abeta aggregation, and this study provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism through which cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease.
Ralph Nader and EPIC Take On Full-Body Airport Scanners | Fast Company
For the love of God, they’re running the full body scanners on Windows XP: “The machines run an embedded version of Microsoft Windows XP Xpe that is prone to security vulnerabilities.”
PAY ATTENTION YOUR LIFE IS ABOUT TO CHANGE
The California Air Resources Board is about to finalize it’s AB32 Global Warming Final Solutions Act regulations. Some have stated that it will have big impacts on average people. Gasoline, for example, will certainly rise to over $4/gallon and could, over time, be double that.
Cost impacts on consumers would result from changes in energy prices. Households and small businesses that consume less energy (directly by reducing their consumption of energy or indirectly by utilizing goods and services that are produced using less energy) will be less affected by higher prices than those that consume more energy. Incentive programs available to small businesses and consumers will provide access to funds for investing in energy efficient technologies, which includes low interest loans, rebates and credits. Energy savings from efficiency improvements are likely to partially offset or fully mitigate the impact of any increase in electricity prices and could mean decreased energy bills. Most California businesses will likely pass along the cost increases to consumers in the form of slightly higher prices for their products or services.
Emphasis added. The link below will take you to a summary of the law. The public comment period ends December 16th, 2010.
How Positive Thinking Affects Your Sales Career | AllBusiness.com
Lots of salespeople seem to have forgotten, or perhaps have never even learned, the many ways they can improve not only their sales performance, but their life performance as well. The future of your sales career may very well rest on the frame of mind that you have in your daily life. Here are several tips that may help you improve this frame of mind and your future.
Pa. accuses debt company of deceiving consumers – BusinessWeek
A debt collection agency used phony hearings in a room decorated to look like a courtroom to collect money from unsuspecting consumers, according to a lawsuit filed Friday against the company by Pennsylvania.
