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of interest to Dave Lakhani, President Bold Approach (Mar 8) and Matt Ozga (Jan 29): "I write for the Washington Square News, the student run newspaper out of New York University. Geonomics seems like it has great significance, especially in this area. When was geonomics developed, and by whom?" About 1982 I began. Two years later, Chilean Dr Manfred Max-Neef offered the term geonomics for Earth-friendly economics. In the mid-80s, a millionaire founded a Geonomics Institute on Middlebury College campus in Vermont re global trade. In the 1990s, CNBC cablecast a show, Geonomics, on world trade as it benefits world traders. My version of geonomics draws heavily from the American Henry George who wrote Progress & Poverty (1879) and won the mayoralty of New York but was denied his victory by Tammany Hall (1886). He in turn got lots from Brits David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and the French physiocrats of the 1700s. My version differs by focusing not on taxation but on the flow of rents for sites, resources, sinks, and government-granted privileges. Forgoing these trillions, we instead tax and subsidize, making waste cheap and sustainability expensive. To quit distorting price, replace taxes with "land dues" and replace subsidies with a Citizens Dividend. Matt: "This idea of sharing rents sounds, if not explicitly socialist, at least at odds with some capitalist values (only the strong survive & prosper, etc). Is it fair to say that geonomics has some basis in socialist theory?" A closer descriptor would be Christian. Beyond ethics into praxis, Alaska shares oil rent with residents, and they're more libertarian than socialist. While individuals provide labor and capital, no one provides land while society generates its value. Rent is not private property but public property. Sharing Rent is predistribution, sharing it before an elite or state has a chance to get and misspend it, like a public REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paying dividends to its stakeholders – a perfectly capitalist model. What we should leave untaxed are our sales, salaries, and structures, things we do produce.
a way to redirect all the money we spend on the nature we use – trillions of dollars annually. We can't pay the Creator of sites and resources and are mistaken to pay their owners this biggest stream in our economy. Instead, as owners we should pay our neighbors for respecting our claims to land. Owners could pay in land dues to the public treasury, a la Sydney Australia's land tax, and residents could get back a "rent" dividend, a la Alaska's oil dividend. We'd pay for owning sites, resources, EM spectrum, or emitting pollutants into the ecosphere, then get a fair share of the recovered revenue. The economy would finally have a thermostat, the dividend. When it's small, people would work more; when it's big, they'd work less. Sharing Earth's worth, we could jettison counterproductive taxes and addictive subsidies. Prices would become precise; things like sprawl, sprayed food, gasoline engines, coal-burning plants would no longer seem cheap; things like compact towns, organic foods, fuel cells, and solar powers would become affordable. Getting shares, people could spend their expanded leisure socializing, making art, enjoying nature, or just chilling. Economies let us produce wealth efficiently; geonomics lets us share it fairly.
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
close to the policy of the Garden Cities in England. Founded by Ebenezer Howard over a century ago, residents own the land in common and run the town as a business. Letchworth, the oldest of the model towns, serves residents grandly from bucketfuls of collected land rent (as does the Canadian Province of Alberta from oil royalty). A geonomic town would pay the rent to residents, letting them freely choose personalized services, and also ax taxes. Both geonomics and Howard were inspired by American proto-geonomist Henry George. The movement launched by Howard today in the UK advances the shift of taxes from buildings to locations. A recent report from the Town and Country Planning Association proposes this Property Tax Shift and their journal published research in the potential of land value taxation by Tony Vickers (Vol. 69, Part 5, 2000). (Thanks to James Robertson)
more transformation than reform; it's a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this "autism" – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering "post-autistic economics". Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they're not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we'd replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents.
the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller, Rich Dad's Prophecy, says, "One of the reasons McDonald's is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate." (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action.
a new field of study offered in place of economics, as astronomy replaced astrology and chemistry replaced alchemy. Conventional economics, in which GNP can do well while people suffer, is a bit too superstitious for my renaissance upbringing. If I'm to propitiate unseen forces, it won't be inflation or "the market"; let it be theEgyptian cat goddess. At least then we'd have fewer rats. Meanwhile, believing in reason leads to a new policy, also christened geonomics. That's the proposal to share (a kind of management, the "nomics" part) the worth of Mother Earth (the "geo" part). If our economies are to work right, people need to see prices that tell the truth. Now taxes and subsidies distort prices, tricking people into squandering the planet. Using land dues and rent dividends instead lets prices be precise, guiding people to get more from less and thereby shrink their workweek. More free time ought to make us happy enough to evolve beyond economics, except when nostalgic for superstition.
one of many words I coined over 20 years ago: geoism, geonomics, geonomy, geocracy, etc – neologisms that later others came up with, too. CNBC once had a Geonomics Show, and Middlebury College has a Geonomics Institute. If "economy" is literally "management of the household", then geonomy is "management of the planet". The kind of management I had in mind is not what CNBC was thinking – top-down. My geonomics is not hands-on, interfering, but hands-off, organic. It'd strive to align policy with natural processes, similar to what holistic healing does in medicine, what organic farming does in agriculture. Geonomics attends to two key components: One, the crucial stuff to track is fat — or profit, especially profits without production, such as rent, or all the money we spend on the nature we use. Society's surplus is the sine qua non for growth, needed to counter death – not merely more, but sustainable development, more from less. Two, the basic process to respect is the feedback loop. These let nature maintain balance automatically and could do the same for markets, if we let them. Letting them would turn our economies, now our masters, into a geonomy, our servant, providing us with prosperity, eco-librium (to coin a term) and leisure, time off — a hostile environment for economan but a cradle for a loving and creative humanity.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
not exactly Georgism, the Single Tax on land value proposed by Henry George. He did, tho', inspire most of the real-world implementations of the land tax that some jurisdictions enjoy today, and modern thinkers to craft geonomics. While his name and our remedy both begin with "geo" since both words refer to "Earth", the two have their differences. (a) George pegs land monopoly as the fundamental flaw while geonomics faults Rent retention. (b) To fix the flaw, George was content to use a tax, while geonomics jettisons them in favor of price-like fees. (c) George focused on the taking while geonomics headlines the sharing. George envisioned an enlightened state judiciously spending the collected Rent while geonomics would turn the lion's share over to the citizens via a dividend. (d) And George, as was everyone in his era, was pro-growth while geonomics sees economies as alive, growing, maturing, and stabilizing. Despite these differences, George should be recognized as great an economist as Euclid was a geometrician.
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Magothyrivergirl asked about the tension on my Voyager. It is doing better since I cleaned the tension assembly again, only railroads on the turns (just a bit), and I can live with that. I will no longer be using pre-filled bobbins (the extras will come to the retreat for anyone who can use them) as it doesn't like them much. It has developed a new quirk, when I push the stop button, it stops, but then starts sewing again. That opens a whole new can of worms.
I did get a letter from Nolting if I want to trade her in on a Nolting machine, they will give full value on the trade. I am going to see if the Nolting will work on my frame and may work a trade. DH said the threat of trading made her work again.
I am still happy to have her and won't throw her out the window.
Beverly I would love to have a quilting system!!! Your quilting that you have posted pics of looks wonderful, you caught on fast. Sounds like their customer service is good, but I would be really frustrated. The reviews I read about the Voyagers were good, maybe you just got a lemon????
Beverly-I typed out a long response last night, then my computer went dead! Basically - I think you have been given a golden opportunity to upgrade - how lucky you are! I would jump at the chance. Getting a Nolting - made by Nolting will allow yo to get service worry- free - or least take away the excuse it's not 'theirs'. I know you have bonded with the Voyager, and you'd have to learn a new system, but after almost 2 years - you know much more about what features you like and don't like, and what your needs are. I say go for it. I'd ask about a tradein on the frame if the machine you want won't fit your frame. Lucky you - you deserve it!
Rosa, I do believe I just got a lemon during the change over from Hinterberg to Nolting. Nolting has been very helpful with everything, but I would still like to have a good machine. I would love to try out some of their machines, but the closest Nolting dealer is in East GA. I may do some pleading and see if DH and I can stop by a dealer on our way to the retreat. If only my first Voyager had not been cracked. She sewed like a dream.

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Filled with examples of government failures and free market triumphs – from John Jacob Astor to the Wright Brothers, World War II amphibious landing craft to Detroit – Uncle Sam Can't Count demonstrates why the government should leave business exclusively to private entrepreneurs.
Burton W. Folsom Jr. is the Charles Kline Professor of History and Management at Hillsdale College, and the author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, The Myth of the Robber Barons, and FDR Goes to War, co-written with his wife. Anita Folsom has pursued a career in both teaching and politics, including teaching American history at Hillsdale College as well as directing the College's Free Market Forum. Both have written for the Wall Street Journal, American Spectator, Human Events, and other publications.
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One person extricated following crash in North Knox
One person was extricated and airlifted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center after a one-vehicle crash Saturday in North Knox County, officials said.
The name and condition of the person was not released, but Rural/Metro dispatchers reported the wreck occurred shortly before 5:45 p.m. on Norris Freeway just north of Raccoon Valley Road.
The vehicle ran off the road and struck a tree, officials said.
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Stench of hypocrisy wafts into sweatshops
OPINION: Politicians are often accused of being two-faced. It's the classic throwaway line from people unhappy at the antics of those elected to lead them, and paid handsomely to do so.
Dear Baz and the boys
OPINION: Mate, you asked us to dare to dream. We did. Now the reality is dawning.
Editorial: Better for girls to be teens first, mums later
OPINION: As Albert Einstein once said: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Te Rure plunder wounds Turbos
The signing of Manawatu Turbos first five-eighth Jade Te Rure by Scotland had me puzzling about the integrity of contracts.
Biggest shot at an endless summer
As Grant Elliott smashed the ball over for six, the crack of willow on leather was a cultural boom for the sport.
Bar staff now 'scared' to serve pregnant women
OPINION: You know hysteria over alcohol has reached a new level when a waitress refuses to serve a glass of wine to a pregnant woman.
Govt breaking social contract with sell-off
OPINION: The Government is, apparently, now flexible about a number of things, including who it sells houses to.
Boycotts are highly situational
OPINION: The atrocity avenged, we have basked in the warm glow of self-congratulation since.
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Extreme begets extreme
OPINION: Having witnessed the sacrifices these young rowers endure, I have a little bit of sympathy for their stance.
That which binds us needn't rule us
OPINION: No one needs rules. Rules are the refuge of the narrow mind, especially when it comes to language.
Editorial: Police let down Roast Busters' alleged victims
No police lost their jobs over IPCA's report of the police investigation of the Roast Busters.
Can reptiles derail a new house?
OPINION: Officials needed to know whether lizards or native geckos exist at the property ... and whether their lives are in danger.
Editorial: Bullying the bullies: The irony of it all . . .
OPINION: I only need to say two names and you will know what subject I'm about to cover. These two names caused controversy and sparked strong opinions in our nation over the past week.
Big trouble ensues
OPINION: Just a week after my thermos was summarily emptied by the gestapo, there was another incident.
Home care must be safe
OPINION: There is an old adage that suggests that the last place a person wants to be if they are ill is in a hospital.
Predicting the Northland by-election too hard
The Northland by-election will not serve an indication of how the country will vote in the next general election.
Editorial: Pressure goes on to discourage smoking
Is it time for outdoor dining areas to go smokefree?
In reality, raging dinosaurs boost TV ratings
Quite a few years ago, a colleague dreamed up what would have been the ultimate reality TV show.
Oil drilling waste a real issue
OPINION: That feeling of being smack dab in the middle of the twilight zone continues.
New team could be a winner
OPINION: It may be hard to tell, even with time, whether Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith is the leader of a "winning team".
Victory Church leader disputes claims of 'cult'
Tired driver who killed two near Longburn 'should have known better'
Massey University's veterinary students bare all for charity
Water storage in Palmerston North's Turitea dam falling
Nat Manville's positive outlook after suffering a spinal injury
Cricket fever hits Palmerston North school
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This tab thing makes Slashdot front page and the following didnt? Windows 7 way hotter than Vista off the line, now more popular than all OS X versions [engadget.com]. Okay then...
How is this tab things news or interesting at all? Here is what Brittany Behrens a PM for the editor team said:
Hi Brien,
Thank you for logging this issue. Before making this change we solicited feedback on the decision to combine Tab Size and Indent Size from a wide variety of sources, including public blog posts and forum threads, and found that the vast majority of user feedback was in favor of combining the two. If its seriously impacting your code to have Tab Size always equal Indent Size, it is possible to write a short editor extension to override the Tools->Options dialog and set the two options separately. If thats something youd be interested in, please let me know and Ill see about posting sample code for how to do this.
Im resolving this issue as By Design because we intentionally combined these options for VS 2010, but please feel free to post again here if you have any further questions or comments and well be happy to help.
Thanks for trying Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and sending your feedback!
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Gee, the team solicited comments, did some research and made a change that people wanted. Of course, any change will make somebody unhappy.
Brittany even volunteered to give folks a simple editor extension to make the settings different for those that want it. My assumption is that anyone using Visual Studio is a developer and capeable of using such an extension, or writing it themselves. It is not difficult.
I see this as the real example of where Open Source development shines - these things would be thrashed out in discussions long before a final release.
On the flip side - no matter what happens in any project, there will always be people who don't like certain features. The only thing that makes this case "special" is that they took away peoples option to set prefer
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Solimpeks Solar Energy Systems Co., has succeeded to combine its experience and know-how in the renewable energy sector gained in more than 25 years with the modern technology and have productions in world standards and moreover it has become one of the leading companies in the production of solar thermal energy worldwide by keeping the principle of "sustainable quality". Solimpeks, nowadays is proud of owning more than 10 certificates; exporting to more than 30 countries; growing fast with its more than 50 employees, experienced engineers, dynamic sales department and moral management; being conscious of its responsibility to the natural environment and focuses on continuous customer satisfaction.
Solar thermal systems and other renewable energy sources, which used to be named as alternative energy in the past, has become an urgency for the world under the global heating. According to the Kyoto Protocol, the countries are responsible to decrease their oscillations between the years 2008 and 2012 by 5,2 % as compared to 1990. Obtaining such a decrease is only possible through using renewable energy sources. Now the countries induce the solar and wind energy seriously. Of course only those, who produce high quality products, will survive in such a serious market.
The amplitude of the producers of Solar thermal energy system has caused the introduction of low quality and weak products into the market. Many countries, mainly Germany and USA have set standards for the production of energy systems and started to issue durability and quality certificates for the products tested at respectable institutes. For instance, the "Solarkeymark", being issued by ESTIF and become a valid certificate in all over Europe on solar thermal products has become obligatory for all products entering the German market after January 2007. Further, the "TÜV"( Technischer Überwachungs Verein) certificate issued in Germany and the certificate of "INTA (International Trademark Association)", which has its headquarter in New York and being registering the quality for over 100 years, "ISFH"(Institut für Solarenergieforschung) certificate issued by the Institute of Solar Energy Researches at Leibniz University, "ITW"( Institut für Thermodynamik und Wärmetechnik) certificate by the Institute for Thermodynamics and Heatingtechniques at Stuttgart University, "SAI"(Standards Australia International) for Australian standards, "SEI"(Sustainable Energy Ireland) in Ireland, "SP" (Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut) certificate issued by Swedish Technical Researches Institute, "CE" (Conformité Européenne) certifying the health and safety in Europe and the English "CLEARSKIES"(Renewable Energy Grants) which is issued only for the environmentalist organisations as well as the German "Der Blaue Engel". Having a few of such documents and certificates granted, means at the same time a high quality production. Solimpeks Solar Energy Systems Co. has all of these documents and certificates.
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Between Two Worlds
My Life and Captivity in Iran
Roxana Saberi
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On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage—a charge she denied. For several days, Saberi was held in solitary confinement, ruthlessly interrogated, and cut off from the outside world. For weeks, neither her family nor her friends knew her whereabouts.
After a sham trial that made headlines around the world, the thirty-one-year-old reporter was sentenced to eight years in prison. But following international pressure by family, friends, colleagues, various governments, and total strangers, she was released on appeal on May 11, 2009. Now Saberi breaks her silence to share the full account of her ordeal, describing in vivid detail the methods that Iranian hard-liners are using to try to intimidate and control many of the country's people.
In this gripping and inspirational true story, Saberi writes movingly of her imprisonment, her trial, her eventual release, and the faith that helped her through it all. Her recollections are interwoven with insights into Iranian society, the Islamic regime, and U.S.-Iran relations, as well as stories of her fellow prisoners—many of whom were jailed for their pursuit of human rights, including freedom of speech, association, and religion. Saberi gains strength and wisdom from her cellmates who support her throughout a grueling hunger strike and remind her of the humanity that remains, even when they are denied the most basic rights.
Between Two Worlds is also a deeply revealing account of this tumultuous country and the ongoing struggle for freedom that is being fought inside Evin Prison and on the streets of Iran. From her heartfelt perspective, Saberi offers a rich, dramatic, and illuminating portrait of Iran as it undergoes a striking, historic transformation.
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Morton Graduate and WWII Vet Honored at Ceremony
John Chrenka lives a relaxed life at his Berwyn residence. He goes on accompanied walks with his caretaker, and at 93 years old, still yells at the TV. when the Cubs are losing. "Been a Cubs fan my whole life," says the former baseball player. "But they win one game and lose ten! Got me thinkin' about switching over to the Sox," joked Chrenka.
The Berwyn native has experienced nine decades of life, a life filled with baseball, family, war, and of course--a little Mustang pride. "I was a pitcher, started playing my sophomore year of high school" says Chrenka of his baseball playing days. Chrenka attended Morton East High School for four years, and graduated in 1939. "Loved my time there, my coaches were great and they really pushed us to do our best, they really looked out for us," recalls the Morton Alumni. "I remember my teachers taking the time to get to know us and really putting effort into giving us the best educational experience."
But nothing would prepare Chrenka for the next experience life had in store for him. "Didn't need a reason," he responded, when asked why he chose to enlist in the military during WWII, "my country needed me, and that was my reason." At the young age of 22, he was a soldier in the infantry branch, a division of the military that took part in the hardest face-to-face combat during the war. "I've got memories that aren't worth remembering," grievously recalls the WWII veteran. "But my service to the military is a memory I will always be proud of."
On June 7th, 2014 John Chrenka was honored in a special DDay Commemoration ceremony in honor of DDay's 70th Anniversary this year. The ceremony took place in Wheaton at Cantingy Park. He was one of the many veterans being honored for their brave service during World War II. He is one of the many graduates that Morton is proud to call their own.
J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 provides quality educational experiences that challenge and enable more than 8,000 students from the communities of Berwyn, Cicero, Forest View, Lyons, McCook, and Stickney as lifelong learners to be productive and responsible members of the global community. The district's Board of Education is comprised of Board President Jeff Pesek, Vice President Joe Keating, Secretary Jessica Jaramillo-Flores, and members Mark Kraft, Margaret Kelly, Michael Iniquez, and Kasumba "Kal" Lwanga. Visit District 201 online at www.Morton201.org.Copyright © 2015, Chicago Tribune


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Today is an auspicious anniversary, though it's one I suspect many people may not recall. On Sept. 23, 1998, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and William McDonough, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, managed to orchestrate the rescue of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management.
It was a strange exercise in both herding cats and moral hazard. It wasn't a government bailout, since no taxpayer money was involved. More than a dozen Wall Street banks, many of which had exposure to LTCM, ponied up $3.65 billion to unwind the fund's complex leveraged bets.
Still, the lesson learned was that in the event of troubles, the Fed could be counted on to lend a hand to a) avoid disruption; b) add liquidity and; c) protect the Street against catastrophic losses. In hindsight, it looks like the lessons learned were the wrong ones.
Recall the summer of 1998 when Russia — a hot investment for bond underwriters — defaulted on its ruble-denominated debt. This triggered a chain reaction of losses for anyone who either held Russian debt or had assets denominated in rubles.
The biggest of those suffering losses was the wildly overleveraged giant hedge fund. Continues here
Category: Credit, Hedge Funds, Really, really bad calls
The news last Monday was a shock — the Calpers California earthquake. For a variety of reasons, the California Public Employee's Retirement System, the nation's largest public-pension fund, said it was dropping hedge funds from its roster of investment allocations. This tremor will be felt far and wide. We are unlikely to know the full…Read More
Category: Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds, Investing
This was the big news yesterday out of California: The California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) today announced that it will eliminate its hedge fund program, known internally as the Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) program, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce complexity and costs in its investment program. The staff recommendation, supported by…Read More
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This week's Masters in Business Radio show is on at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm on Bloomberg Radio 1130AM and Siriux XM 119. Our guest is famed short seller and hedge fund manager Jim Chanos. You can listen to live here. All of the past Podcasts are here and at Soundcloud and coming soon to…Read More
Category: Hedge Funds, Media, Philosophy, Podcast, Short Selling
Slipping back into my regular routine is sometimes a challenge after a few days of traveling. The first day back in the markets — especially following a week like we had to end July and begin August — can be a bit of an adjustment. A few days away allows the accumulation of jaded skepticism…Read More
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During the past few months, we have posted a few words here on the quandary that is hedge funds. One such effort was titled "The Hedge-Fund Manager Dilemma," and it explored the public's fascination with the hedge-fund crowd. The next, "Why Investors Love Hedge Funds," looked at why, despite stunning underperformance during the past decade,…Read More
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click for larger chart Source: Pension Partners Hedge-fund assets recently eclipsed $3 trillion. One of the more popular strategies for hedge funds has been the long/short equity fund. Charlie Bilello, director of research at Pension Partners and the source of our chart today, writes: Continues here
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Last summer in Boston, the Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security held its annual meeting at Harvard's Kennedy School. Trustees and representatives of various state pension funds listened to explanations about the challenges facing endowments and pension funds. The conference is an attempt to explain why so many state pensions are underfunded and underperforming. The…Read More
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With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.
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From Milwaukee, Madison and beyond, a daily dose of political news and glimpses behind the scenes
Amid debate over gun laws, Washington County business gives away guns, ammo
While Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a founding member of the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns group, has been pressing for measures such as universal background checks for gun purchases, a suburban business has been giving away guns and ammo.
Delta Defense, a Washington County business profiled in the Journal Sentinel in January, says it gave away 30 new guns last month and plans to give away 31,000 rounds of ammunition this month.
The company also says it's hiring and seeking to become a $250 million business.
The company advocates for concealed carry of handguns and self-defense.
Nearly two dozen Wisconsin mayors are members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
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Is the symbol, where Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding begins.
Should be able to Google it,.
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