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Scratches to Sketches
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
The Sparks of Religious War
This transgression of loving people does not help world peace nor any religious cause!
End Transfer Pricing that Allows Google, Facebook and Microsoft to Slash Their International Tax Liability
Hire international tax lawyers at the IMF and make a multilateral deal attractive enough to Ireland and The Netherlands to close the loophole, or else, put it to British Authorities to close the Bermuda loophole under a multilateral arrangement:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/30/AR2010103004613.html?wpisrc=nl_pmtech
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/30/AR2010103004613.html?wpisrc=nl_pmtech
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How to Close the Loophole that Allows Google, Facebook and Microsoft to Slash Their International Tax Liability
Hire international tax lawyers at the IMF and make a multilateral deal attractive enough to Ireland and The Netherlands to close the loophole, or else, put it to British Authorities to close the Bermuda loophole under a multilateral arrangement:
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Now to Create the Inverse Which is What I Want!
America Votes Republicans into Congress
The voters have made their choice and they favoured the Republicans. Now, Congress needs to get to work and sort out that housing headache! It's no good flooding the economy with more money to stimulate growth, but if people pay down debt that helps. One has to wonder whether in such a period of deflation whether paying off a mortgage is an attractive option. No! And, that's the problem.
The not so subtle message the American people may be sending Obama and Congress is that the real work to sort out the economy has not started and what has been done has not gone in the right direction.
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Confused World Economy At Odds on Money Issues
From The New York Times:
Looking for Investments, China Turns to Europe
As China puts money into infrastructure and European debt, it is seeking friends in currency and trade disputes.
Fear of inflation and deflation occurring in different parts of the globe. While America spends more dollars, other countries want to spend less, but are getting caught up in what could become a 1973-76 style world inflation resulting from a flight from dollars and a push to grab energy resources. Many countries have too much liquidity and seek to reduce inflationary risks without encouraging deflationary risks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704141104575588211544818170.html?mod=djemTEW_h
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778304575590093875291612.html?mod=djemTEW_h
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590061846845530.html?mod=djemTEW_h
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Hair Loss an Insurmountable Problem or Just a Challenge?
A radically new approach may work for you:
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The Confusing Arena of Left and Right Wing Politics Which is the Wrong Way to Understand Politics
It's not really an issue of democrat against republican or liberal against conservative or right against left wing. That's what makes modern political dialogue so confusing. We get wrapped up so much in labels that don't tell us very much.
It might be more helpful to understand politics in terms of large and small. Small things often grow to be large things. Children grow to become adults. Our treatment of small and immature things is very different from our treatment of large and mature things. We know that large things have a way of protecting themselves and gaining a handle on situations. Large people tend to have different issues from small people. Large companies have different issues from small ones.
We can also factor in age. If things grow large they then tend to be older. The needs of older entities and people are very different from the needs of younger entities and people. So to understand the position of things, we need to understand their age and size, or at the age and size of the grouping to which they belong.
What we find is that larger and older entities and people tend to have advantages at their peak and then disadvantages when they are over the hump.
Right and left wing reflects interests not of whether radical change is appropriate or not, but what the entity or person belonging to a particular grouping sees as it's interests.
What confuses the politics is that entity age groupings and people age groupings do not match and frequently work at cross purposes. An older company should have things sorted out for it's retirees, but we find that an older company to stay young hires young people who do not want the interests of older staff to be catered to. The mix between old and young causes political conflict.
Similarly, small company interests are very different from large company interests and their politics reflect that. It's too much of a short cut to say that large company interests reflect the interests of older people. The politics of large and small organizations is very different.
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The Competitive Inequity that Modern and Traditional Banks Create
Ever wonder why there is unemployment. It is not something to be easy found within the ideas of Keynes General Theory or within the ideas of innovation to be found in Schumpeter. To be sure, it is contained in both the long and short term approaches of these theories, but the fact is that the role of the banking system in both is somewhat misunderstood or just plain lacking.
Put very simply banks, especially large banks enjoy economies of scale. If they want to make money they do preferential lending to big customers. Big customers put more money in more branches mor widespread across the country or globe than small customers. Big customers demand that banks treat them preferentially.
So why is the British Prime Minister surprised that he cannot get big banks to lend to small business?
It should be obvious.
Big banks have both customer small and customer big as customers. Customer small asks the bank for a loan that will take away business from customer big. Bank says no to customer small because it wants the revenue of customer big to continue and figures customer big is the better bet. Banks research their customers competitive positions and get outside advice on business prospects.
If customer small and customer big are bidding for the same government procurement contract, do you think that the bank does not know. Think again because the bank has all the information of customer big and small it needs to decide which it wants to lend to. Customer big deposits in many branches and in key important branches, while customer small banks in a few branches somewhere! When the branch manager of a bank branch assesses customer big, there is a routine and similarly with customer small.
Head Office has the final say and takes two piles of files, one for customer big and one for customer small. Weighing both and taking into account relativities, customer big wins in the mind of the bank.
What happens in the government office is not so very different though it relates to familiarity breeds friendship. The supplier big is more prevalent and has more friends, especially the bank that finances or smoothest it's financial operations. Supplier big is well known and offers fewer head aches. Who would you think will win the government procurement contract? This is not yet eBay!
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The Lion's Den and What Business Banks are Really Interested In!
You might have thought that banks were interested in lending to firms for investment in activities that create jobs. No, that's the role of the stock market, angel investors, government schemes, and lions. Banks lend to consumers where they can get a strong handle on the risk. They don't like lending to companies if they cannot get a superb handle on the risk.
Banks lent to the property market because they thought it was risk free. Banks want a return on investment of 35 percent so this limits their choice of risk taking somewhat. If you want 35 percent growth, you will look for three times that before lending at risk. There is not much new activity going on that will produce a growth rate of over 100 percent per annum.
Generally, small firms take a hit before they break even. Banks want the hit to occur very soon and the break even point to be within a short period, the shorter the better.
The truth is that banks are not really suited for lending for innovation. If they lend to an innovating company, it might just put another customer out of business, which is not what they want. Even if that customer banks with another bank, they do not want to put companies out of business.
Capitalistic innovation requires winners and losers so banks are not in the game of innovation.
They want to make loans for working capital after a revenue stream has been well identified and established. Then there is low risk and they act as an insurance lender in the event of a hiccup. The gamble banks take is that the winners will always outnumber the losers and the and bad loans will be very limited. The 35 percent growth on capital is quite sacrosanct and the charges banks impose reflect this need to make profits in excess of interest rates.
The high rates on consumer credit create bad loans, but this does not seem to phase banks, who create a sheltered pattern of approval for new lending that maximizes the return on capital even if it is at the expense of customers. Consumer loans for credit cards are a two stage process of profit taking. Make a profit lending to the lending credit card bank and also make a profit lending as the credit card bank!
Both make a return of greater than 35 percent on capital which is built into their charges. So choose only addicted customers who are so desperate for money that they always maintain an excellent credit record. That this excellent credit record comes from playing the field of lenders is unseen or ignored. Borrowing is a secret addiction and the most common one, ahead of alcohol, and it leads to stress and premature death.
Growth in credit comes from the demand of established customers for working capital be this consumption or investment. This is what banks are interested in.
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Fighting Viruses and the Body's Immune System
These days, progress in medical science is the result of thorough research into the mechanisms of disease and the means at hand in the body to fight. We have all suspected that the strengthening of the body's own immune system would be the way of much future medicine. How do we do it, however? It's one thing to take vitamin C which apparently does not work very well, but what are the other options. Science has discovered more secrets about how the body fights it's enemies. You might ask whether it really knows how to identify them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/01/viruses-immune-system-antibody?CMP=EMCGT_021110&
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Monday, 1 November 2010
Apple, Google and RIM are Locked in Commercial Battle
Who do you think is winning?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/11/01/android-overtakes-iphone/
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Thomas and St Lucia
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=goHHcWTTFnk
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Tomas and St Lucia
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=o7MtZGi0Mnk
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What the British Museum Is Up To!
Ancient Egypt site of the British museum -
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
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Who Does Not Believe in a Second Energy Crunch, Please Stand Up!
You might be forgiven for feeling the past decade and its over-investment was a conspiracy of vested interests. What do you think about how a price war for energy might shape up?
As the excess production of dollar credit finances growth of production outside America, it will most assuredly help China and India as they bid against each other for more and more of the energy pie.
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/article863056.ece
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America Will Help Create a Second Dynamo Economy - India
In the UK, we have been tied to the mistaken notion that America is our strongest economic ally ignoring the fact that Germany is the powerhouse economy that enables the UK to relax over the dismal fiscal performance of Greece and Spain. What America has done in the past decade for Britain no friend would do.
Well, fighting wars in the Middle East boosted British arm sales and gave more control over the status quo of oil suppliers, but one wonders about this alliance of convenience to very large security interests, oil and arms is not the best way to grow an economy any more than banking and home sales.
Now, we are faced with a prospect of seeing India being transformed into a dynamo economy along American designs. The catch is that India will do much better than China over the longer term and it's economic influence will reshape the world economy more assuredly as it competes with China, Europe and The Americas.
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/article861605.ece
Will not time reveal the lasting importance of friends and mutual respect? Be kind to those who think well of you and those you know and try to add positive elements to your world. Promote peace in your heart and sunshine in the minds of those around you by your own good works. Elevate the level of discussion by thinking less of the issues and more of how you can reduce the tension of stress that arises with honest disagreement. Relax by breathing more deeply and consciously.
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