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Chen, Y. J. and Zhu, C. L. and Wang, T. H. (2006) The enhanced ethanol sensing properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/SnO2 core/shell nanostructures. NANOTECHNOLOGY, 17 (12). pp. 3012-3017.
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes/SnO2 (CNT/SnO2) core/shell nanostructures were synthesized by a simple wet-chemical method. The thickness of the SnO2 shell was about 10 nm and the diameters of the SnO2 particles were 2 - 8 nm. Sensors based on the core/shell heterostructures exhibited enhanced ethanol sensing properties. The sensitivity to 50 ppm ethanol was up to 24.5, and the response time and recovery time were about 1 and 10 s, respectively. In addition, the fluctuation of the sensitivity was less than +/- 3% on remeasurement after 3 months. These results indicate that the core/shell nanostructures are potentially new sensing materials for fabricating gas sensors.
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Question. How many of you gals (or guys) reading this know how to tie a tie? I'm talking about the windsor or half windsor knot. The majority of the guys I ask have no idea how to tie their own tie, including my DB. Yes, that means I tie his tie for him anytime there's a formal event.
What's up with that? Even my dad doesn't know how to tie a tie. He keeps all of his ties knotted, hanging in his closet so that he can just re-adjust it and slip it over his head. Maybe it's because our generation is so laid back; Boys hardly wear ties on a daily basis anymore so there's no need to learn how to make a knot. Such a shame– ties are so cute on boys! I'd wear them all the time if I was a guy. Maybe.
Now onto the cookies.. they were not too shabby. If you like peanut butter and chocolate, then yes, you'll enjoy them. If you don't really care for that combination, then you won't really care for these cookies (like me). I did like the look of the hidden peanut butter center, though.
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For the peanut butter center:
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 sticks softened butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup cocoa powder (I used Hershey's special dark)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- First make the peanut butter centers. Mix the three ingredients together until smooth. Set aside.
- Beat butter and both sugars until creamy. Add in the eggs and vanilla.
- Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into the wet mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
- First roll peanut butter cookie dough into about 1 tablespoon balls with your hands. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop chocolate dough on top and on bottom of peanut butter dough. Pinch together on the sides, until the peanut butter dough is covered.
- Place onto baking sheet and bake for 14 to 16 minutes.

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A New Regulatory World for Banks, Thrifts, Mortgage Lenders, Credit Card Companies, and Consumer Financial Service Companies
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Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which, as of July 21, 2011, became the principal federal regulator of the consumer financial services industry. The statutory authority of the CFPB to regulate is extraordinarily broad, and includes the authority to examine large financial depository institutions and non-depository consumer financial entities, to engage in rulemaking for virtually all of the federal consumer protection statutes, and to exercise broad new enforcement powers to protect the American consumer.
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Lynne B. Barr, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston (also on faculty)
Joseph T. Lynyak, III, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Los Angeles (also on faculty)
Leonard N. Chanin, Assistant Director, Regulations, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Epperson, Legislative and Policy Counsel, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh-Durham
Nessa E. Feddis, Vice President and Senior Counsel, Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Affairs Group, American Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.; President, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
Thomas M. Hefferon, Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, D.C.
Timothy J. Heine, Senior Vice President/Managing Counsel, American Express Co., New York
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Margaret Liu, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Washington, D.C.
Ken Markison, Associate Vice President and Regulatory Counsel, Mortgage Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.
Lisa S. McGreevy, President and CEO, Online Lenders Alliance, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Strupp, Systemic Investigations Manager, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Washington, D.C.
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8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:55 a.m. Welcome and Administrative Remarks - ALI-ABA Staff
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9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks - An Overview of the CFPB - Ms. Barr and Mr. Lynyak
• Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act
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• Regulatory authorization and oversight of the CFPB
• The CFPB's jurisdiction over the federal consumer protection laws
• Authority over unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices
• Regulatory authority of, and interaction with, other federal and state regulatory agencies
9:30 a.m. Structure of the CFPB-Operating Offices and Divisions - Ms. Barr and Mr. Lynyak
• The CFPB's statutorily required functions and operating offices
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10:00 a.m. Networking and Refreshment Break
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12:45 p.m. Luncheon (provided by ALI-ABA) and Address - CFPB Assistant Director Leonard N. Chanin (not webcast or recorded; not for MCLE credit)
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B. Recommended Faculty Senate Replacements (Attachment 2)
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the people that make senz° today
Once, in a distant past - seven years ago indeed - senz° consisted of three cute students. Those students are now a lot less green and "respectable" guys (hush, they are still coming to terms with it!) and called CEO, Director, or - even worse! – Boss by the outside world. They are now being supported by a team of over 20 professionals. For those colleagues it is obviously out of the question to arrive soaking wet at the office or to wear a rain suit! With rain we have a love-hate relationship: good for the business, not always for our mood.
New colleagues we throw (wholeheartedly!) before the wind machine, lunch is something we do as a team and although we have heard that trainees are intended for the lousy jobs, we find them much too valuable to let them just do that.
the guys that started making senz°
Gerwin Hoogendoorn
Gerwin is the entrepreneurial mad scientist, our CEO and creative brain of the senz° family. We trust him to be our idea generator, which worked well for the umbrellas, but it's no surprise that his invention of 'a smoke alarm with a snooze button' never made it to the market... 'Cannot' is not part of Gerwin's dictionary and he prides himself for not being bothered by any foreknowledge in his creative process. He honestly believes that he can teach anything in 5 minutes and after 31 years of talking, he recently started exploring the art of listening. Gerwin is in training to win the egg eating world cup and he tends to come closer each Easter. Last but not least, Gerwin is the unofficial stuntman at senz°, which basically means we force him to try his own ideas first!
Gerard Kool
Gerard has a creative background and is responsible for our finance (!). He hopelessly tries to create some sort of structure in the chaos that Gerwin and Philip manage to produce on a daily basis. He's also the commander-in-chief of our legal troops. Gerard seems to be a very decent guy, but appearances can be deceptive, in particular during the carnival season! The one thing that few people know about Gerard is that he's actually a big adrenaline junkie. He's a proud father, a role that he tends to bring to the senz° working floor unsolicited. Gerard loves grammar and even has a secret affair with several punctuation marks. He´s a master at pretending he knows everything, a skill that will undoubtedly take him very far in Hollywood, should this umbrella thing never work out...
Our flexible work spot is a big blue Gym Ball which sometimes is used as a beach, boxing or basketball too.
Something to celebrate? Then you find us in our yard for a cocktail party or barbecue, and company policy is that there is always a bottle of champagne kept cold!
The whole team has the same senz° drive: with great enthusiasm we are working towards our lofty ambitions. We feel that we have only just started, but if we look back on what we have already done we secretly feel soooooo proud!
Philip Hess
Philip is responsible for all sales activities at senz°, but most of the time he's abroad 'to boost the senz° brand´, while we all think he's taking a vacation... Philip always tends to lose his keys and wallet, but found a nice way of coping with this by blaming Manon, our office manager, for hiding his stuff. Philip doesn't know anything about cars and still describes them by their color. His phone is an extension of his body and his preferred way of using it is in horizontal position in the garden of senz°. Philip has a contagious laugh and is currently writing a book to share his accumulated wisdom, titled '100 ways to miss your flight'.


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Informix TimeSeries - Benchmarks
IBM has conducted several Proof of Concepts (PoCs) with a number of companies using Informix TimeSeries as the enabling technology in the customer's own MDM applications. In each PoC, Informix TimeSeries consistently outperformed the customer's existing solutions, at times enabling up to 50 to 70 times faster processing of meter data, while requiring as little as 30 percent of the storage.
The benchmark was conceived and conducted to illustrate these benefits in tangible ways. It tested the preparation, loading and validation, estimation and editing (VEE) of meter data for a 10 million–meter utility, as well as a "day-in-the-life" scenario for a 100 million–meter utility. If you compare the performance of Affinity Meterflow with other MDM solution offerings that do not use Informix TimeSeries software, we believe you will conclude that these performance and scalability results are exceptional.
The results of this benchmark demonstrate the substantial business value that use of Informix TimeSeries combined with a proven MDM application can deliver to the energy and utilities industry. We invite the reader to compare these results with other published benchmark results.
- Faster processing of meter data means faster business processes that use that data!
- Achieved daily billing calculations of 21,000 bills per minute while concurrently running the data load.
- Significant reduction in storage requirements.
- Total storage required for 1 month of interval and register data for 100M meters was less than 4 terabytes, a fraction of the storage required by any other competing solution.
- Average throughput exceeded 420,000 records/second in meter data load using standard storage disks.
- Consistent, scalable performance helps yield highly predictable costs.
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- Storage requirements remained linear over time.
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Informix TimeSeries will sit at core of UK Smart Energy Cloud
IBM and Cable&Wireless Worldwide announced their collaboration to develop a new intelligent data and communications solution, UK Smart Energy Cloud, using Informix TimeSeries to support the UK's Smart Meter Implementation Program which aims to rollout more than 50 million smart meters in the UK.
Coldset Printing Partners ... The IBM Informix TimeSeries solution helps company track usage trends and analyze data over time
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With tapestry crochet, one or more yarns are carried while another is single crocheted. This craft has the flexibility and portability of crochet, but the fabric looks as if it were woven on a loom. In the 1970's, Carol Ventura found the colorful tapestry crocheted shoulder bags made in Guatemala very inspirational. Since that time, she has explored the design potential of the technique, developed a system of diagramming patterns, and created a variety of flat and three-dimensional projects. This amulet bag project is a perfect introduction to tapestry crochet since it is done with a loose stitch and this pattern includes several tutorials. For more about tapestry crochet, please look at her web page at http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/ and for the rest of the story, please look at her blog at http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/. Don't forget to check out the video for this project!
Finished Size Before Felting: 3 1/4" wide by 3 3/4" high (not including the strap).
Gauge: 4 stitches equals 1 inch, 4 rows equals 1 inch.
Round 1: Starting with red, make a slip knot (leaving a three-inch tail), then chain 12. Increase in multiples of 6 chain stitches at this point to make a wider bag. Starting with the second chain, single crochet 11 stitches. Single crochet 2 more stitches into the last chain for a total of 13 stitches. Continue to single crochet using the new top of the chain until you come around to the first stitch, carrying the "tail" as you go. Single crochet 2 stitches into the last stitch. This first round should have a total of 24 stitches. This piece is worked as a spiral, not in concentric rings, so it is difficult to tell where each round ends. To keep track of where each round ends, slip a safety pin or stitch marker into the top of the last stitch of the round or lay a two inch piece of yarn of a contrasting color across the path of the last stitch. You will remove the safety pin or stitch marker from the last stitch as you come to it again and slip it into the new last stitch or cross the path of the last stitch with the end of the counting yarn at the end of each round.
Round 2: Cut the red tail flush and then start to carry the white yarn. Single crochet around without any increases, carrying the white yarn. The bag should still have 24 stitches when you finish this round. Turn the bag inside out (to make it right side out).
Round 3: You will begin to tapestry crochet the motif in this round. Remember, that to do a tapestry crochet stitch, colors are switched while 2 loops are still on the hook; yarn over with the white and pull it through the loops of the last stitch of the previous round to prepare for the tapestry crochet stitch. Rounds 3 through 7 correspond to the illustrated motif (read from right to left and bottom to top). Start the pattern as follows: tapestry crochet 1 white stitch, then 5 red stitches. Repeat this sequence 3 more times. As you tapestry crochet each stitch, the hook should point toward the inside of the bag. Every once in a while, untwist the yarns by holding the bag up in the air with one of the yarns while pulling on the other yarn. Let the piece spin around in the air so that the yarns untangle.
Round 4: Tapestry crochet 2 white stitches, then 4 red stitches. Repeat this sequence 3 more times.
Round 5: Tapestry crochet 3 white stitches, then 3 red stitches. Repeat this sequence 3 more times.
Round 6: Tapestry crochet 4 white stitches, then 2 red stitches. Repeat this sequence 3 more times.
Round 7: Tapestry crochet 5 white stitches, then 1 red stitch. Repeat this sequence 3 more times.
Last Round: Continue to carry the red yarn. Crochet around with white. Cut the red yarn flush at the end of the round. Single crochet 4 stitches with white to bring it to the side of the bag.
To Finish: Crochet a chain as long as you want the strap to be (this one has 135 chain stitches). Attach the chain to the other side of the bag with a single crochet stitch, slip stitch, cut the white yarn (leaving a 6 inch tail), yarn over and pull it all the way through the loop. Work in the end for 1 inch to secure it, then trim it off. To felt the bag, wash it in a washing machine in hot water with mild soap (like Ivory Dishwashing Liquid) and a cold rinse twice. It will shrink a little more each time it is washed. Now it's time for you to show off your felted amulet bag and teach a friend how to make one!
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This pretty pink mousse from Linda Ahtiainen of Gibsons, British Columbia is a delicious treat to make for your sweetheart. With its creamy texture and tart-sweet flavor, it's a sure pleaser.
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Prep: 30 min. + chilling
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With unlimited quantities of fiat money, the day seems to have arrived when anything is possible. But this is an illusion. FULL ARTICLE by Patrick Barron
Why Monetary Expansion Must Stop
{ 51 comments }
- April 13, 2011 at 10:01 am
This is an excellent article! Very well written and spot-on.
- April 13, 2011 at 11:27 am
In the end, scarcity wins out. You can pretend that you have infinite resources, but we live in the real world. There is no way to avoid the fact, and it will catch up with you.
- April 13, 2011 at 12:24 pm
It seems our friends in power hope to avoid the hangover simply by not ever putting the bottle down. Intervention time.
- April 13, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I plan to issue my own "fiat" money. I'm a landlord and I sometimes buy groceries by paying "rent dollars" to the grocer. I accept these rent dollars in payment of rents on my properties, and the grocer has employees who rent from me, so he's willing to accept my rent dollars. My property is worth $500,000, so I'll start small and issue 100 rent dollars.
Next, I'll expand my issuance of rent dollars by 1000 times, even though I'm sure Patrick Barron would object. I will point out in my defense that the $100,000 I issued is adequately backed by my $500,000 in property.
I might then borrow $300,000 against my property and use it to buy another $300,000 rental property. Then I'll issue another $100,000 rent dollars and use them to buy back $100,000 of my own bonds, just like the Fed does when it buys government bonds. This would again double the quantity of my so-called fiat money. Patrick would probably be shocked to see that my rent dollars will still hold their value, since they are more than adequately backed by my property.
Now, if anyone can tell me any important difference between these rent dollars of mine and the green paper dollars that we all use, I'd be interested to hear it.
- April 13, 2011 at 1:34 pm
And then Mike Sproul realizes that the price of the groceries he buys in "rent dollars" spikes as the supply of rent dollars increases, and that the 'value' of his property (which he denominates in dollars) has no relevance to the money prices of the other goods which his 'fiat money' is chasing.
- April 13, 2011 at 1:47 pm
And then the housing market crashes and your $500 000 property is worth $100,000… what happens to your rent bucks then?
- April 13, 2011 at 3:22 pm
If the assets backing the rent dollars fall in value, then the rent dollars fall in value. That's the backing theory of money, and it says that money is valued just like any liability (see, for example, John Cochrane, "Money as Stock"). The quantity theory, which Patrick favors, says that the issuer's assets are irrelevant to money's value. So on that theory, a loss of assets causes no inflation, and an increase in the money supply causes inflation, even if the issuer's assets rose right in step with the money supply.
The claim that grocery prices will spike is the very point in dispute, and you have to do more than just assert it. As long as my rent dollars are backed by assets of adequate value, they cannot fall relative to federal reserve dollars. And since my activities have no effect on the fed's assets or its liabilities, there can be no effect on the value of fed dollars either.
Suppose that I minted some silver bullion into 100,000 one oz. coins. I doubt that you would claim that this would cause a spike in prices. Either the excess coins get melted and reflux to bullion, or other existing moneys become superfluous and reflux to their issuers. (See, for example "The Law of Reflux") It's the same with rent dollars. If money becomes excessive, either it or some other money will reflux to its issuer and there is no effect on prices.
- April 13, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I'm pretty sure John Law was disproved two hundred years ago.
- April 13, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Three hundred. And he proved that if a bank's issuance of money outruns its assets, then the money loses value, just like the backing theory says.
- April 14, 2011 at 5:52 am
Hey Mike, still waiting for you to explain what you mean when you say your house is worth $500,000.
- April 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm
The difference is that the people who accepted your fiat money did so voluntarily whereas we cannot. Presumably they did so based on their positive estimation of your ability and skill in coordinating future demands (maturity/liquidity risk) against your notes as well as your hard capital assets backing up those claims in case you are wrong.
No such estimation is possible with dollars nor are they backed by any hard capital assets. They are backed by nothing. A dollar is nothing more than a promissory note issued to you in exchange for your goods which will be repaid BY YOU through taxation out of YOUR OWN future production. That is a dollar. This is fundamentally different than your rent dollars as those do represent a claim against an actual good, just one that will be delivered sometime in the future.
The exchange is both voluntary and temporal in nature as it represents the promise of actual goods to be delivered/repaid at some future time, a fact the 100% reserve advocates like to blank out and evade when they rationalize FRB as fraud due to an alleged conflict in claims of ownership.
- April 13, 2011 at 4:41 pm
The only time I'm forced to use Fed dollars is when I pay taxes, and even then, the IRS will generously accept my house or car in lieu of Fed dollars. But the same is true of tenants who use my rent dollars. When I buy things, I can use checking account dollars, credit card dollars, Walmart dollars, etc. If I live in a border town, I can use foreign currencies.
Fed dollars are backed by taxes in the same sense that rent dollars are backed by rents. And I expect that some of my tenants would apply your "promissory note" description to my rent dollars, just as you apply it to Fed dollars.
Other than that, I agree with your assessment of 100% reserve systems.
- April 13, 2011 at 5:02 pm
You would be arrested for "undermining the legitimate currency" if you started issuing your own promissory notes.
Your rent dollars were exchanged for groceries from the grocer, goods that you did not "produce" and the grocer only accepted them because he expects to exchange them again for a time use of your land capital, something he did not "produce" but which you did.
Moreover, try going to your local Fed bank and "exchange" your dollar for…what? four qarters? The fed did not produce anything, nor does it plan to in the future. It plans on taking your production today and using it to buy your production tomorrow.
Production is not consumption; consumption is a consequence of production. You cannot get around cause and effect simply by applying arbitrary descriptions to various monetary concepts all the while ignoring the metaphysical referents and physical actions that make their use possible.
- April 13, 2011 at 10:43 pm
I can take my dollars to the IRS and use them to discharge my tax obligation. Taxes might be theft, but I must pay them just the same, so I value the dollars that can discharge them. I suppose some of my tenants might feel that their rent is theft, since I might have acquired the property by immoral means.
- April 13, 2011 at 11:09 pm
this is myopia. where did all of these goods come from? how did you get your dollars? how did you acquire your property? if it is presumed that you EARNED those things by trading the products of your efforts and are now issuing promissory notes against those assets e.g. "rent dollars" against Real Property in order to consume the goods produced by others e.g. the grocer then what assets did the FED produce to issue thier fiat dollars against? If a fiat dollar is the same as your rent dollar, as you claim, then how come you have to make it redemable against your rent in order for the grocer to accept it? If it is the same as a fiat dollar then all you would have to do is simply offer to pay the grocer back in groceries that you will demand of him tomorrow. Better yet, lets make this a true analogy and say that I will go to the grocer and issue your rent dollars in your name redemable to you for more than your property is worth and when they are all called in you can come to me and I will pay you back with more of your own rent dollars. That is what the FED is doing.
- April 14, 2011 at 11:17 am
The fed is just a branch of the government, and the government has a big asset: taxes receivable. That's what backs their bonds and their dollars. My assets is rents receivable, and that's what backs my bonds and my rent dollars. Just as I have to make my rent dollars redeemable in rent, the government has to make their dollars redeemable in taxes (or anything else of value).
If I have the ability to take things from the grocer (I'm a street thug, for example) then the grocer would accept my dollar as long as I accept it in lieu of the groceries I was going to steal from him tomorrow.
The fed does issue dollars that are a claim to the government's assets, but since the Fed is controlled by the government, it's not the same as you going to the grocer and issuing my rent dollars without my permission.
- April 14, 2011 at 12:57 pm
You keep missing the point. Taxes receivable are a claims against the goods that are available in the economy. They are an asset insofar as people are willing and able to produce things. a dollar is the medium used to facility the exchange of those goods, it is not, by itself, outside of that context, worth anything. The same holds true for gold or any other currency. It has value solely for the purpose of moving goods from one person to another.
That being said, the government does not collect tax dollars for the sake of tax dollars, they do so so that they can appropriate command of those goods, goods that they did not produce themselves.
You on the other hand already have command of an asset (your land) which you are selling its "time use" (rent) as rent dollars in exchange for goods produced by others (food). those rent dollars will be presented back to you in the future in exchange for use of your property, at which time you can destroy them or reissue them. the whole system is "backed" by goods that are produced by each individual and offered for exchange.
the fed and/or government does not produce anything, they appropriate. Moreover, they spend more than they appropriate. in doing so they create claims against more goods than anyone has yet produced in order to consume the goods that have already been produced (savings) and when they borrow via deficit financing they are putting up as their collateral (their "asset" as you call it) future tax revenues they have yet to collect, from goods that have yet to be produced, BY the very people whose capital stock seed they are consuming.
I find it very hard to see how anyone can compare these two systems and call them equivalent.
- April 14, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Hey Mike, why won't you answer a simple question? Let me repeat it, in case you've missed it:
What do you mean when you say property (or anything else) is worth $500,000?
Shouldn't be too hard, right?
- April 14, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Just as I have a claim to my land that enables me to collect rent, the government has a claim to land that enables it to collect tax. Just as my rent dollars are worth something because they are backed by rents receivable, the Fed's dollars are backed by taxes receivable. If my issuance of rent dollars outruns my assets, then the rent dollars will lose value, and if the government's issuance of Fed dollars outruns the government's assets, then Fed dollars will lose value.
- April 14, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Hey bitch, I'm talking to you!
- April 14, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Perhaps all capital letters will get Mike's attention:
- April 14, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I see we are just going to circle around this issue. You wrote:
"Just as my rent dollars are worth something because they are backed by rents receivable, the Fed's dollars are backed by taxes receivable."
Your "rents receivable" are, in turn, backed by the land capital you own/control. The land exists and it has improvement value that represents work ***already*** done (e.g. buildings).
"Taxes receivalbe" are, in turn, backed by goods whose improvement value has yet to be, value that represents work ***not yet done***.
When you say that your rent dollars have outrun your assets you are stating that the value of the ***existing*** assets you CURRENTLY own is less than the outstanding claims you have made against it, hence each dollar value is less. simple math yes, but the point is that those dollars, even being less in value, are stil backed by an asset that EXISTS (your land).
When you say that a Fed dollar has outrun the governments assets you are stating that the value the government's assets, which it has not yet appropriated, is less than the outstanding claims they have made against……who?….what? the government itself? its "assets"? but its "assets" are future receipts. the "outstanding claims" are against its own citizens future production, which DOES NOT yet EXIST. so it is not backed by ANYTHING.
perhaps you can make a case that it owns land (not nearly enough to cover) but I would like to see you try asking for federal land in "exchange" of your dollar, see how far that goes and be sure to let us know
- April 14, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Suppose my land is all vacant, and I got it by swindling an old lady. The net present value of all future rents is $500,000. The government, on the other hand, built roads, waterworks, etc., and the present value of the taxes that it will be able to collect from my land is $500,000.
I can safely issue up to about $300,000 of rent dollars against my rents, and the government can safely issue about the same against its taxes. If either of us exceeds that amount, people will start to worry about our reckless behavior, and the value of both of our dollars will fall. If our issuance exceeds 500,000, then inflation is certain.
Just for fun, I might try issuing about $10,000 and use it to buy 10,000 oz. of silver (assuming 1 oz. sells for $1) and then announce to people that I stand ready to convert my rent dollars to 1 oz. of silver. That might actually work for a long time, as long as nobody demands more than 10,000 oz. at one time. But eventually, I'll suspend convertibility into silver and return to my old system of just accepting them for rent. The fun will come when the folks at Mises.org, observing that my rent dollars are no longer CONVERTIBLE, wrongly conclude that they are UNBACKED. Obviously, inconvertible does not equal unbacked, but that wouldn't stop them from yelling "Fraud!", "Thin air!", "Counterfeiter!", "Crude inflationist!", etc.
- April 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Well, we are in agreement that inconvertable does not mean unbacked. I would say its more like a loan default than outright fraud. But, that still does not erase the distinction between government assets vs private assets.
In your example, no matter how you came by the land, via right or by fraud, the person you got it from must have done something to establish claim of title, either by homestead or by purchase, or by fraud of someone else who did. At the end of the line someone had it by right for it to be appropriated.
Moreover, if the government improved your land, where did it get the funds to pay the workers and buy the materials to build it? Those things must have come from somewhere, so who produced them for the government to take and to use to make your improvements. No matter how you approach it, there is simply no such thing as a free lunch. The goods that paid the taxes must have come from somewhere by some means, NOT from the government fiat issue of paper.
- April 14, 2011 at 11:00 pm
It doesn't matter how I got the ability to collect rent on the land, and it doesn't matter how the government got the ability to collect taxes. I can take my promise of future rents to a bank and the bank will lend me money on it. The government can do the same with its promise of future taxes. Nobody will ask us how we came into possession of our assets, or whether we have been, or will be, 'productive'.
And when the government and I each start issuing dollars (backed by rent or taxes), the only thing anyone will care about is how much our assets are worth. The value of those dollars will be determined only by the value of the assets that we back them with, and not on our productivity.
- April 15, 2011 at 8:43 am
I disagree. Productivity is all that matters. An asset is, by definition, valuable only because of its productivity. If your building was not able to produce rents because of condemnation then it would cease to be an asset. Likewise, if the US taxpayer was no longer able to produce goods to tax then they would cease to be an "asset" of the Federal Government, as repugnant as that sounds it is no less true.
Take Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid for example, obligations the government has made which are presumably backed by its assets right? What are those assets backed by? US Treasuries. What are US Treasuries Backed by? Taxes. Where do taxes come from and who will pay them? The people who will produce the good and services that the government has spent on their behalf, NOT some government printing press. If the obligations exceed the productive capacity of those who are producing then the difference must come from somewhere or the obligations would not be met. There would be no "cakes" for anyone to "eat". The difference comes from our investment capital, the stock seed that generates future returns. If the obligations consume all of the investment capital faster than it can be produced you have bankruptcy, the physical inability to satisfy the obligation.
If productivity does not matter, as you seem to be asserting, then our nation's fiscal problems should be solvable via a government printing press, the fact that it cannot be solved that way is proof that your position is false, that there is a very real physical difference between the value of a rent dollar backed by a real physical asset you call your land vs. the value of a Fed dollar backed by a promise to deliver an asset that has not yet been brought into existence AND which the government has not yet appropriated.
- April 15, 2011 at 10:58 am
I expect that you understand that I myself might be a worthless, unproductive slob, but that if I own vacant, unimproved land worth $500,000 (swindled from an old lady), then I can walk into any bank and easily get a loan for $300,000 or so, based only on that land. I could also issue about $300,000 of my rent dollars against that land without much trouble.
Of course productivity matters, but not necessarily MY productivity. My land has value because other people are productive, and their productivity creates a demand for my land.
It's the same for the government. They might be thugs, and taxes might be nothing but protection money. But a government with a secure stream of future tax revenue with a net present value of $500,000 can easily get a $300,000 loan, and just as easily issue $300,000 in Fed dollars. Naturally, that tax stream only exists because there are productive people in the world.
- April 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Well, there are only so many ways to explain that a duck is a duck so its getting redundant to say the same thing over and over. Either you are going to see the duck as a duck or as something that it is not, either way the duck will still quack no matter how much you claim it should bark.
The Duck:
Your $300K dollar loan from a bank OR your issue of $300K in rent dollars are both backed by the use/utility that land brings to those other productive people, therefore both the $300K loan or the $300K rent dollars are backed by the land.
The value of the rent dollars are backed by the land.
If the land is rendered useless (via flood, fire, pollution, infestation, condemnation etc.) so too would be the rent dollars you issued and the mortgage note the bank held against the loan (assuming you spend the money on the land).
The value of the mortgage loan is backed by the land.
The land backs both the value of the mortgage loan and any rent dollars you issued.
Land, and the things people use it for, is what backs any derivation or proxy one can think of concerning its use in any way shape or form.
The NOT-a-Duck:
A "secure stream of future tax revenue" that "only exists because there are productive people in the world" conflates the potential with the actual.
A potential is not an actual. Land is actual. "Future tax revenue" is a potential.
Therefore, Fed dollars are only backed by a potential i.e. by nothing
- April 15, 2011 at 4:01 pm
For that matter, my future rental stream is only a potential, as are the future profit streams of every firm. So that leaves every share of stock, every rent dollar, and every fed dollar, backed by nothing.
Or you could take the correct view, as explained in every finance text, which is that a potential stream of future payments has value today. Thus stocks are backed by potential future profit streams, my rent dollars are backed by potential future rent streams, and fed dollars are backed by potential future tax streams.
- April 15, 2011 at 4:23 pm
No, you did not listen to what I wrote.
Stock and rent dollars are backed by the actual real assets held by those owners PLUS the future potential income.
Fed Dollars are not back by any actual real assets, ONLY the future potential income.
You asked for someone to tell you:
"any important difference between these rent dollars of mine and the green paper dollars that we all use"
and I am telling you that the important difference is one of actual vs potential.
Use it as you will.
- April 15, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I could point out that the present value of a future income stream is equal to the current selling price of the asset, so that counting both the stream and the asset is double-counting, but you were already talking about quacking ducks and barking dogs two posts ago, so I've obviously exhausted your patience.
- April 15, 2011 at 8:25 pm
yes, and an NPV necessarily includes an assumption of a discount rate, which is only a potential. the fact that you lumpted together two seperate values (the actual current market value of land plus the npv of potential future cashflows from the land) and attempted to pass them off as one in order to make your case that there was no difference between that number and the NPV of cashflows from taxes absent any real asset indicates that you already knew the answer to your question. so why bother with this long post?
- April 15, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Tell me, do you think that the value of a secured line of credit has the same value as an unsecured line of credit? why would the two be different? does the equity in a secured line only represent a potential asset or does it represent an actual asset and how, do you think, does that add to the value of the total line? please do tell.
- April 13, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Taxation is theft. Federal Reserve notes are backed by the theft of private assets by the government.
- April 13, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Hey Mike, what do you mean when you say your property is worth $500,000?
- April 13, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I think he means, that IF he wanted to get rid of the property, THEN he would exchange it for $500000, whatever that may be. Or more =)
- April 13, 2011 at 7:39 pm
However, IF he does NOT WANT to get rid of it, its 'worth' is undefined
- April 13, 2011 at 3:33 pm
"End all regulation of banking, including deposit guarantees, which only cause moral hazard. But enforce 100 percent reserves against money certificates and demand deposits."
These two statements contradict each other.
- April 14, 2011 at 11:29 am
No, they do not. Enforcing 100% reserves on money certificates in demand deposits is in harmony with the free-market in that it punishes fraud.
- April 14, 2011 at 1:06 pm
By fraud you mean how a bank can make loans of the money that you loaned to it? That is not fraud it is finance. If you did not want to loan your money then dont put it in a bank, or if want a safe place to keep it put it in a safety deposit box. Putting it in a demand deposit is a loan, the bank is free to use it as it sees fit (presuming of course that that is what was agreed to before you opened the account). The fact that such a loan may not be paid back is the risk that is voluntarily accepted by putting your money into the hands of another with a primse to repay, on demand or on schedule, makes no difference.
- April 14, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Murray Rothbard explains the distinction in The Mystery of Banking. It is really rather simple. The bank is divided into two sections–the deposit bank, for which the banker must maintain 100% reserves (enforced by the courts as part of the commercial code), and the loan bank, by which one "loans" the banker his money for a set period of time and, thereby, gives up his ownership in the money for that period of time. So, the banker cannot loan out money from his deposit bank side, but he can loan out money from the loan side. As I said, Rothbard explains this very well.
- April 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm
I have no doubt that he does however, there really is no valid reason why a bank "should" be structured that way and therefore no valid reason why it should be enforced through regulation. Perhaps a bank would choose to do business that way and perhaps people would choose to deposit their money with those banks, and then again, perhaps not.
The beauty of a free market is its freedom to choose which system is more preferable. There is certainly no valid principle that would prohibit an FRB bank just as there is no valid principle that would prohibit one with 100% reserves.
Calls to enforce one over the other is contrary to freedom, and to capitalism.
- April 15, 2011 at 9:23 am
The importance of 100% reserves is not really a matter of choice but a matter of common law. Lending something that does not belong to you, after you have been entrusted to safekeep it, is fraud. Fractional reserve banking should be prosecuted as fraud, just as would happen in other businesses such as grain storage. The same resource can be owned only by one entity at a time. Fractional reserve bankers create additional owners of deposited money without compensation, a violation of Say's Law and the common law.
- April 15, 2011 at 9:42 am
A demand deposit is not the same as grain storage. A safety deposit box would be the equivilant of grain storage and there I would agree with you on the standard of title, Say's Law and fraud however, a demand deposit is an unrestricted loan to the bank, a loan that can be recalled "on demand". If you make a loan of your goods to another then they can use it as they see fit while it is in their possession (other contractual positions notwithstanding), if they fail to repay the loan when it is demanded that is not a fraud it is a default. Title is transferred on a condition of repayment, that is not a violation of Say's Law, it is a Loan and loans are not violations nor are they fraud. Insisting that demand deposits are not loans of property is a refusal to accept the idea of loans as such. Anytime one transfers possession of a property on a condition of getting it back in the future is a loan. Depand deposits are loans. If they were not then people would just put their money in safety deposit boxes or keep them under thier mattresses. The fact that they bring them to a bank and expect to get it back the next day makes it a loan and not a violation of Say's Law.
- April 15, 2011 at 11:06 am
A demand deposit in a bank IS the same as a deposit in a grain warehouse, because both commodities are fungible, meaning that your dollars are mixed with the dollars of other depositors because they are indistinquishable from one another, just like grain of a certain quality in a grain warehouse. But the key point–and I know you do not agree with this–is that the deposit is NOT a loan. Unfortunately our banking system is saddled with two bad court rulings from 19th century Britain which say otherwise. These rulings are discussed by Rothbard. He (and I and most Austrian economists) believe that these were bad rulings. So the de jure law says, as you do, that a deposit is a loan to the banker, but this is just an unfortunate man-made rule, and we are saddled with many such bad laws.
- April 15, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I dont see how fungibility of a thing has anything to do with whether or not it was borrowed or loaned. The two are completely different concepts and are causally unrelated, the former is a shared attribute of utility a good while the latter involves the actual transfer of the good itself. I can see how the fungibility of a thing would increase its usefullness in trade (e.g. loans or payments) but its status AS a payment or AS a loan or AS a thing "held in trust" (not a loan) is entirely determined by the agreements made between the parties involved in the transfer and THAT is a function of voluntary contract NOT of Rothbardian or Austrian economic dogma.
- April 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Good article. The same rules could apply to the futures markets were prices are set. There is a ton of fiat contracts issued every day that has nothing to do with the underlying supply of commodities. The GLD requires a fractional reserve, oil contracts are traded that exceed the current and future supply, same applies to every commodity on the market.
- April 13, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Those in positions of power, such as all of you here, must be guided by reason and not emotion. Adopt as your motto Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative. Pass only laws that are universally applicable — that benefit all men at all times and in all places. Treat men as ends in themselves rather than as means to other ends, such as national or regional pride.
This is a ridiculous request. Those who hold power are being reasonable when they exploit the public through the issuing of unbacked currency. That is what human beings are programmed to do. They look after their own personal needs and wants first, then they look after their family and friends, and finally they may have some residual, weak and theoretical concern for the welfare of the billions of anonymous, unknown people whom they will never meet. It is absurd to think that any creature could exist in nature which is psychologically programmed in any other way than this.
Barron is saying, "Be rational, use the power you possess for the benefit of others and not for the benefit of yourself." But it is the other way around – he is really appealing to their emotions and asking them to diminish their own wellbeing in the name of helping completely anonymous people.
The people holding tremendous power over the wealth and happiness of billions of subjects are not acting irrationally – they are entirely rational, sane and pragmatic. The problem is that the power exists. The reason why the power exists is that the billions of people who are exploited by this power structure continue to believe that it exists for the public benefit and not for the benefit of the elite.
The situation will not improve for the vast majority of people until they finally comprehend that being exploited by people holding power over them is not due to character defects or the lack of knowledge or pragmatism among their leaders. The exploitation is an entirely natural and reasonable outcome for any society in which such power is allowed to exist.
If you can't bring yourself to denounce the Brussels government to their faces for being the gang of murderous thieves that they are (and always will be), then it would be better to shun them entirely and denounce them by direct appeals to the public, as you would shun and denounce any ordinary gang of brigands.
- April 14, 2011 at 3:22 am
Amen. I was about to share this article on my facebook page when I came to this paragraph. That's when I realised I couldn't.
- April 14, 2011 at 3:20 pm
You are right, of course, but you have to remember my audience. I was invited to speak to them, so I felt it necessary to appeal to their reason. Who knows?…maybe a few will take it to heart.
- April 14, 2011 at 6:48 pm
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MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor
Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you …
Not even QNX, or eCOS/redboot, or whatever. Linux.
Not that I don't like Linux, but I don't like green being described as red simply because PHBs are known to be 98% red/green colourblind.
Suddenly something reliant on and running on Linux can be described as "bare metal". Howcome? Oh, it's IT, usual engineering rules re truth in technology don't apply here, usual competence rules don't apply here either.
Yet more snake oil.
Mind you, at least this one sounds like interesting and relevant snake oil. I wonder if they're recruiting.
Picture please, answers too.
I've read the article several times and am still not sure what's being described. A picture would probably be helpful.
What I *think* is being described is
the bare metal (not TM) hardware runs a (hidden subset of a) common widely known Linux which is available for free.
Hidden Linux runs VMware Player (available for free) and some added value "management apps" e.g. the MokaFive Console (this management layer is laughably called BareMetal (tm)).
VMware Player runs the end user OS (probably not free).
I am reasonably familiar with VMware Player; I use it full time at work because various aspects of the work I do need Linux, and the Church of the Subgenius disciples in the IT department refuse to acknowledge the existence of Linux other than to ban it whenever they see it.
Anyway, to more general questions related to GPL in this picture, and one on the overall economics.
How much of the software in this picture would *need* to be GPL'd in addition to the already GPL'd GNU/Linux stuff?
How much of this picture could be used to justify $150/year per desktop at the level of hundreds of desktops, when the ingredients are largely already GPL'd ?
Why is this scheme costing $300-500 over the life of a desktop PC better than paying a one off $100 or so extra per desktop each time desktops are renewed to get a corporate-class PC with a long-lifecycle common build where the vendor guarantees to maintain compatibility for two or three years, rather than the usual bargain-basement PC which changes incompatibly every six months? Or do Intel/HP/Compaq/Dell no longer do this kind of thing for corporate desktops?
Questions I'm pondering here as well.
Except for the fact that I'd peg it as $450 to $750 (three to five, if not in some cases more, PC lifetime), those are similar to the points I'm wondering about. I've been using VMWare player since its first appearance in beta for exactly just such a purpose, especially for a browser appliance. Go ahead and hack it, I don't care, it'll get destroyed at the end of the session. [Actually I have been doing such, as well as server virtualization, since VMWare 1.3.0.] The only secret sauce I can see here is the deduplicated block updates to the server-side image although that is achievable using other, proprietary for the most part, tools as well. Come to think of it, there are at least one OS and one virtual appliance that come immediately to mind that have such a capability built-in. I guess you are paying for the system integration. Still interesting though.
One more observation. Keep in mind deferred application update costs (think XP mode, among may others) and extension of hardware life in limited cases. That alone might justify the price tag, speaking from a holistic IT perspective.
maybe just tinplated
or turkey foil . opps
Gilded Linux mmmm good name (c) 8.07pm PT sept 02 2010
Galvanized VM mmmm BTW MokaFive if you read this that's the name to use.
The real benefit of MokaFive is not in just the "bare-metal" VMware Player on stripped down Linux. It is in the VM synchronization with a back-end server. Pick a cubical, any cubical, login on the supplied VM terminal and there is your desktop in your individual VM. Then when you go on a business trip or simply need to work remotely, IT supplies you with a laptop (or you supply your personal), you login to the MokaFive/VMware Player and your work VM is automatically synchronized to it. While you're on the plane or during Internet service interruption it still works (unlike with a standard remote VM). When you have Internet access any changes are automatically synchronized to the backend server. If your laptop is ever lost or stolen, the encrypted VM is inaccessible to the new "owner" and can be blasted remotely. You, on the other hand, simply acquire a new laptop (or an available terminal), login and your personal VM is instantly available.
"VM synchronization with a back-end server. "
Let's take the "mobile worker" topic a bit further.
I did that kind of thing over a decade ago, working from whichever desk in whichever office (or home) I happened to be in on the day. It can be a nice way to work, it certainly was for me, but there are non-technical reasons why it didn't really catch on, at least in Blighty.
I could in principle be a "mobile worker" again today, and be far more productive than I am chained to a desk in an inappropriate environment in an inappropriate building with inappropriate IT services , but sadly many managers seem to feel exposed if they cannot see their staff chained to their usual torture stations during mandatory working hours (or preferably more). It seems that this applies regardless of any possible impact on morale or even on productivity.
So, afaict the technology is not the main issue on the "mobile worker" front. Not in the UK anyway.
Be nice to see those attitudes change, though. Mobile/flexible working isn't for every employer or every employee, but where it works well it's marvellous.
So put all that to one side, and try a simpler less controversial setup. Let's try a "call centre" or other admin-factory setup. A couple of hundred identical cubicles with any worker using any one of them, and they all have compatible (not identical) PCs. MS would claim roaming profiles etc already does that as part of the existing MS infrastructure. What does MokaFive add that's worth a quarter of a million dollars a year?
Looking for a USP, not seeing it yet.
While I'm pretty sure you wouldn't pay nearly full price for large quantity purchases, what MokaFive offers is not really a call-center or factory setup advantage. VMware and others already offer the central desktop VM infrastructure described. While there are distinct game-changing advantages to centralizing desktops on VMs that roaming profiles can't even touch (centrally administered individualized hardware independent OS, independent individualized registry, applications and app settings, etc. - think 'individual PCs without the hardware driver dependencies and reconfiguration time'), MokaFive allows those advantages to go on-the road (remote working and business trips) by synchronizing the centralized VM to a VMware Player on a portable PC.
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Christopher Hitchens Wants You to Know That He's Far Too Smart to Find Jon Stewart Funny
Also, he's too intellective to find Stephen Colbert riotous and too cerebral to find Al Franken jocuse.
But I'm apparently too dumb to claw my way through the byzantine* logic behind his conclusions…
If you chance to like this sort of thing, then this is undoubtedly the sort of thing you will like. It certainly works very well with audiences who laugh not because they find something to be funny, but to confirm that they are — and who can doubt it? — cool enough to "get" the joke.
What you will not find, in any of this output, is anything remotely "satirical" about the pulpit of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or any straight-faced, eyebrow-raising (and studio-audience-thigh-slap-triggering) mention of, say, The New York Times's routine practice of captioning Al Sharpton as "the civil rights activist." Baudelaire wrote that the devil's greatest achievement was to have persuaded so many people that he doesn't exist: liberal platitudinousness must be a bit like that to those who suffer from it without quite acknowledging that there is such a syndrome to begin with.
Fair enough. Fair enough. Just, I'd be a little more convinced if any of that made sense. Or if it was at all clear that he had ever watched more than two episodes of The Daily Show with which to reference. Or took into account that creating "satire" does not preclude one from having a world view or political bent.
In general, I'm a fan of Christopher Hitchens. But I prefer the Hitchens who knows from whence he speaks to the Hitchens that just decides to vamp on an unpopular theme for a dozen or so paragraphs to keep his reputation as a contrarian before calling it a day and hitting the liquor cabinet. (Remember his "Look at me!" treatise against vagina-bearing comedians?)
Now, I don't wanna give the impression that there's no room for criticizing Stewart, Colbert or Franken. (Actually, I have a lot of problems with Franken and his party-line Democrat attitude.) But this article, to me, comes off as shallow, uninformed and silly.
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KELLEY SAYS: One dish that I'm particularly fond of around the holidays is Oysters Rockefeller. I thought about doing them for this month's Courter's Kitchen, but I didn't want to buy a bottle of Pernod.