"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Driving to and from work is good practice for my backup [recession] career as an
Ice Road Trucker. Seriously Illinois...plow the streets. And seriously me...don't drive a rear wheel drive car in the winter. For your benefit I just deleted this huge economy rant that took me 45 minutes to write--you can thank me later or more specifically thank my editor--Katie. Anyways, on to the madness:
Some things that don't suck:
Free Music is back! Take a lot of iTunes and add a dash of Facebook and you are left with Mojo--probably the sweetest source of free music since Napster. Once you and some friends install the software, you add their name to your friends list and hit the little '+' button which sends them a friend request. Once approved you can download any of their music at your leasure. As a bonus, it greys out any of their songs you already have, and
bolds songs in red if they downloaded them from itunes ie DRM protected.
Blago in a Minute.... The correction continues...I felt like it was Christmas morning when I saw the morning headlines that G-Rod was going to jail, and it only got better when the quotes started rolling out. My opinion of him has shifted slightly though. The past couple of years, his behavior had lulled me into thinking that he was an idiot. But in reality his balls are too big for his own good. He looks like a chipmunk, but in his mind he is one hell of an untouchable chipmunk and that is why if it wasn't already obvious--he is not resigning anytime soon. In fact, if he is not in jail this time next year (which he probably wont be) he will probably be running for some other public office.
He should have had one of these, Note to the next governor of Illinois: Everything you say on the phone will probably be recorded...so you might as well know for sure.
Money Masters, learn more in 3.5 hrs than you learned in college...then tell all your friends. I strongly recommend setting asside some time to watch this documentary if you want to fully understand why the world is crumbling around us and potentially the steps that need to be taken to put us back on track.
AVG Free Anti-Virus, I recently fired up my computer from school for just about the first time since July and found that not only was my virus scanner way out of date, but it was running slower than Kennedy. I solved this problem just like most people problems these days--Google. It only took me a couple of clicks to find 'The best free anti-virus software on the internet'. On a similar note, if you computer is running slow, try out CrapCleaner...it cleans the crap off of your computer and was also nominated as one of the top ten downloads of 2008s. I used it and so should you...right?
Some things that do:
Supply and Demand is a real SOB, when we need more gas, OPEC makes more and the price goes up. When we use less gas, OPEC makes less...and the price goes up. All because the Saudi King Abdullah says that $75-a-barrel is reasonable...While I do appreciate cheap gas I am very aware that as long as oil is below $100 a barrel electric cars and oil sands aren't very economical--thus will be ignored until next time.
On a scale from 1 to Creepy, Gone are the days of little white lies, pretending you didn't see something that you did, and the judicial branch. Now computers can read your brain waves and literally project the images that you have seen--a little minority report if you ask me--but you didn't, so just be careful what you look at.
The fastest way to destroy what is left of America's economy would be to pass this bill, [
2] blocking the "minimum advertised price," or MAP will pretty much guarentee that local manufacturers will have no way to ensure profitability as major discounters slash the value of their products into the red. Not only would this be bad for manufacturers, it would be bad for brick and mortar stores. Check the wording...'advertised' is the key component, XYZ.com can still sell your widget for 90% less than your downtown storefront, but they CAN'T run adds all over television and the internet to steal your customers from you. At least for now...And if you do not produce things or own a store then why should you care? Because if our ecomony is set up to to run new product's value to nearly zero within a year of coming to market then it will be impossible to maintain any kind of growth to pull ourselves out of recession. On the other side of that same coin, consider liquidity....maybe you bought a $2000 TV on credit 3 months ago, you still owe $1400 and now your tv is selling for around $500...sucks doesn't it?
MAP is a good thing
And then there is the Amero...I am moving to Canada--well that won't work...let's all go hide out in Mexico--shit that won't work either...Europe is out of the question too. I think it is time to buy a big boat and wait for the flood or trade in your cash for gold, bury it in the backyard and plant some crops. Maybe this is a conspiracy theory...like the theory that the Great Depression was an orchastrated campaign to empower the Federal Reserve (FYI: the Federal Reserve is not part of the Government)...but because that is pretty much exactly how it went down maybe we should watch this thing closely.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
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