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• Positive Mental Devices You Can Use To Protect Your Principal

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 153
  Let’s talk about positive mental devices you can use to protect your principal. ? During the trading day repeat to yourself over and over, “At all times, I protect my principal.” Say it out loud. Don’t just murmur it, shout it with enthusiasm! Sound crazy’.’ Try if. It works. ? Before you click on the ...
  11 hours ago

• Why mind matters

  
  Buyer Behaviour — Authority: 133
  Ive always been one whos believed in consumer sentiment and how that has an impact on consumption patterns, which then have macro repercussions. Note an earlier post, I fear the biggest fallout of this recession would be on consumer sentiment. People, cutting back on purchases, on speculating on a depressed ...
  1 day ago

• On decision-making in terrorist-hostage situations

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy thinks that in terrorist-hostage situations, the commander of the first-responding units should be the prima facie decision-maker whose directions need to be followed even by (more high-powered) reinforcements because of the Hayekian reason that person may be presumed to have the ...
  1 day ago

• Inflation Detour: Trimmed Mean PCE

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 610
  Todays release by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas of Octobers Trimmed Mean Personal Consumption Expenditure gives us a chance to check this "alternative measure of core inflation." The clearest thing is that it does what the FRB Dallas intends: generally reduces the measure of inflation: For the graphic ...
  1 day ago

• Inflation and Expectations

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 610
  Ken Houghton follows up on his previous post . One of the few honest statements that came out of the Reagan Administration was in late 1982, when the Volcker policies were working but the market was still spooked. "People expect that inflation will be higher than it will be." The above compares the ...
  2 days ago

• On gut reactions and why we can all do better.

  
  Pragmatik — Authority: 129
  Where has all my patience gone? I’ve noticed that I’ve been kind of a Dee I See Kay lately, at least on my blog. I’ve been reacting strongly to strong stimuli, but I’ll not cop to over-reacting. I have grown exceedingly impatient with people’s dismissals of things they don’t agree with. Isn’t that ...
  3 days ago

• The altruism instinct

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Theres a reason that all social groups should fall apart, which can be illustrated by the following scenario. You are a cattle farmer, sharing open pasture with 100 other farmers, and are trying to decide whether to add another animal to your herd. Like any rational person, you weigh the costs and benefits of this ...
  3 days ago

• Keyes blasts Obama policies in speech [in KS for Jim Anderson]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Former ambassador and presidential candidate Alan Keyes blasted President Obama and his policies in a speech to a Wichita audience Saturday night. "It looks like nothing any rational person would do if he was hoping for a positive outcome," Keyes said. Keyes spoke to about 200 people at the Beech Activity Center, 9710 ...
  4 days ago

• The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wants you to buy his book. He wants royalties and he wants fame. He wants the book to promote his consulting business. The text may well be full of self-promotional tall tales and calumny — unless the author calculated that the costs of dishonesty (potential intellectual disrepute) outweighed ...
  4 days ago

• How Do We Predict Inflation?

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 610
  Ken Houghton notes that playing with data is dangerous. Predicting the future tends to be easy. There are several ways to do it. First, you can predict that everything will grow as it did this year—or last year, or the mean of the past x years. Or you can predict that it will be great if a Republican is in ...
  5 days ago

• Dignitas in Switzerland buys a house

  
  Assisted-Suicide Blog — Authority: 108
  There is a long and extremely interesting article in the Guardian in London. Worth reading. To read it, go to (you may need to copy/paste this URL)http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/assisted-suicide-dignitas-house———————————-Inside the Dignitas houseMore than 1,000 people have ...
  6 days ago

• Rational Ration for 2009-11-20

  
  Possibly Wrong, Probably Right — Authority: 100
  @ bigenya can I have one? in reply to bigenya #
  1 week ago

• “Most Real People Seem to Be Losing Faith”

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 124
  Carl Richards offers that encouraging word in a blog entry entitled “What If Markets Aren’t Free.” Juicy Excerpt: If traditional buy and hold investing is a bet on the concept of free market capitalism, what if the current version is  not quite as free  as the model assumed it would be? I blame the ...
  1 week ago

• Waste to energy. Ecoenergy. Biogas. Donetsk, Ukraine.

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  EcoEnergy Scandinavia AB has reported the commencement of construction work for a waste to energy facility in Donetsk, Ukraine.According to a Release from EcoEnergy Scandinavia AB; Alexander Lukyanchenko, Mayor of Donetsk City, Ukraine, has said:“The plant in Donetsk is the first plant of such kind built in the ...
  1 week ago

• Realistically, assisted suicide for the troubled is not available

  
  Assisted-Suicide Blog — Authority: 108
  Time was when right-to-die groups were looked to for help exclusively by terminally ill, and sometimes hopelessly ill, persons. But nowadays with our greater public visibility, credibility and legislative progress, many mentally ill persons are approaching us expecting positive help.
  1 week ago

• Sales—Malo Multi-Designer Sample Sale, Victor Cohenca at DWR, Krys N Jack at EM & Co, EM Productions Sample Sale

  
  BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER — Authority: 440
  Looks from Grey Ant THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 WHO: Multi-Designer Sample Sale at Malo WHAT: Jenny Han, Raven Denim, Junk Food, Ezekiel, Jessica Elliot, Rhys Dwfen, and more; $1 tacos and happy hour drink prices; DJ My Shimoda; cash only WHERE: 4326 West Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake, 5pm-10pm THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 ...
  1 week ago

• 5 Things Napolitano Says Will Provide a Path to Legalization

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 144
  Requiring undocumented immigrants to register with the government, pay all taxes they owe, and face certain penalties as part of earning legal status is a “tough and fair” path to legalization that’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Reducing Marital Stress Through Communication

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 594
  One heavily researched area within psychology is couples’ and marital communication. How a couple chooses to communicate — especially during a conflict — affects all sorts of things in the relationship: stress, relationship health, intimacy, even each person’s health. As Gouin et al. (2009) note in a summary ...
  1 week ago

• Theres more to statecraft that expected utility calculations

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 605
  Last night, the Indianapolis Colts stormed back from 17 points down against the New England Patriots to win a gripping game by the score of 35-34 .  After the game, the most talked-about play was the Patriots decision to go for it on a fourth down play with two yards to go at their own 28 yard line with a little ...
  1 week ago

• RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer

  
  EDA Geek — Authority: 138
  Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, and Prolifics, the world’s largest end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, announced the immediate availability of RAVEN Visual Analyzer for IBM Rational Requirements Composer, a seamless embedded plug-in for IBM Rational ...
  1 week ago

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