Passing the Risk puts everyone to blame?

the financial crisis was a zeitgeist brewing for thirty years: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-financial-crisis-was-a-zeitgeist-brewing-for-thirty-years-535760.html?tickers=xlf,skf,%5Edji,%5Egspc,gs,c,bac

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China Raises Benchmark Interest Rate [CNN]

Just one way to try and combat Inflation (at least in the international environment). By taking a proactive measure, adding taxes on the front end is hoped to prevent or lower future troubles with this cushion.

http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~3/BWyGsOyzcJE/index.html

Balancing the Budget: The Debate

One might think that it is not difficult to agree that we need to balance the budget. But the problem these days is how. If you've taken a negotiation course in college (undergraduate, graduate, or otherwise), you'll recall that it is hard to get people to agree, especially when it comes to agreeing on something that they don't find valuable to their case or interesting to begin with. So you might be asking yourself, do I have a solution to the budget "crisis." The short answer is no. The backup is that when it comes to a statewide budget, the scope of what is on the budget is important (in other words, our perception of the budget). Everyone seems to talk about how they want the budget to be how it was "how they remember it." Well this is essentially impossible in that the scope of the budget now is so large (in part due to the population, items on the budget, and of course our favorite inflation). So the next question might be, well can the budget ever be balanced? The answer is yes, but we need to realize that everything is just as important as everybody's view on the topics. The simplistic route would be contribution to the actual budget. What this means if one geographic area (be it towns, cities, counties, etc) contributes more than another, their % of the budget should be weighted more than an area that contributes less (as far as money received as well as costs accrued). The problem that I can tell is that everyone wants the benefits but no one wants to pay the costs. I think this would be a good starting point to helping in balancing the budget as well as repairing the other problems caused by the financial meltdown.



Note: Although this is a simplistic model, when establishing the full report in who gets what and how much they have to pay, and showing people the figures, any reasonable person should be able to better make a case rather than going off of the basis of not liking a "competitor's" view and only wanting to have their own.

Headphones Podcast Episode 9.0 Selling the Sale

• Black Friday -The first Friday after Thanksgiving where business, generally retail but can include all sectors, before profitable (in the black)
• Cyber Monday = The first Monday after Black Friday where consumers buy their goods online due to great deals found on the internet and done using the high speed internet at work

• Cyber Monday is just a fad as more people get high speed internet at home
• Sales can be found anyways if you buy enough in any place due to loyalty programs already in place at many locations

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Headphones Podcast Episode 7.0 The Classic Tax

Episode 7.0 - The Classic Tax; Date: 11/22/2010; Description: I wonder if adding additional fees, taxes, surcharges or whatever you want to call it to each property based on value and position of the Monopoly board could work to better imitate real life scenarios. I think it can be done but would require a little additional effort beforehand to make it work. This would also create an additional role for another player (akin to another job in the real world).

Where in the World is My TV Show?

Today's posting is about creating a business model about the seemingly impossible internet tv "issue." I think that we are creating a bigger issue that it really needs to be. Rather than posting videos after they have aired on TV much like a blogger reviews a new product after it releases, these shows need to be shown online at the same time as the TV broadcast. How can this be profitable? There are a plethora of options, especially in this decade of technology. First off, if a person has a TV subscription and internet connection, both sources have gotten paid for the work being done. So showing it online, on the TV station's website is a form of over-the-air broadcasting. Since the show is essentially paid for, the station benefits by letting the viewer watch it online for free because they get to watch it on time and the piracy to get the show elsewhere disappears because there is no desire to get it from some other source. If the person does not have a means to get the TV show or station currently, charging a nominal fee for the show (charged through the ISP) allows the person to watch the show and piracy is again averted. Basically, approached the Pay-per-View and Apple hybrid model of watching TV shows live online brings the niche market of internet TV viewing into the mainstream because people now have a means of watching TV in more than one location than just the family room. Showing ads like regular TV still occurs much like Hulu does now but can be interactive moreso than TV can ever be, especially since it can be better catered to the viewer. Commentary can be done live, or afterwords but provides feedback to the show owners to get a better feel for how viewers enjoyed the show. In short, showing shows on TV at the same time as on the internet, with ads, is the business model that needs to be adopted. Allowing people to get the shows through Zune and iTunes simply allows for additional revenue and less work since the show has already been made available digitally.

Podcast Link: Episode 3.0

CNN Repost

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