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[Today from The OBE Community] To make some sense of what is becoming an increasingly complex array of choices, I thought it would be useful to sort what is currently available into some broad categories, the lines between which can be a bit fuzzy.
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[(Un)Real Estate] Case Shiller shocker: Tampa Bay biggest monthly home price loser: There will have to be some escalation due to pending commodities increases that will begin as early as January but those will be in single digit percentages. With most land costs written off and an abundance of developed and/or entitled land available land replacement costs won't factor in for awhile.
[Social Media Explorer] Why Social Media Purists Won't Last | Social Media Explorer: Having said that, I do agree that the warm-and-fuzzy-join-the-conversation-we-are-all-one-spiritual-entity stuff will not sell the C-Suite on tools that can ultimately have a powerful affect on the bottom line. Amber's conversation at the Web2Open last week touched on some of these same issues.
[Gordon Campbell] Gordon Campbell » Blog Archive » On how The Lovely Bones affects ...: Al-Qaeda or a Taliban affiliate turned al-Balawi to the dark side. Gandhi and Martin Luther King taught us the proper response to social injustice (and it should not be forgotten that Gandhi had a significant following among the Pashtuns).
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[Clusterfuck Nation] Forecast 2010 - Clusterfuck Nation: Florentinian Banco Medici in 1494 and the rest of the mercantile Italian city states fit the latter category, Spanish monarchy bankruptcy in 1556 from overproduction of gold from Americas, Holland in 1637 with Tulipmania, Britain and France with the South Seas/Mississippi Bubbles in 1720 over the slave trade, the bankruptcy of the French Monarchy/Revolution/Napoleon starting 1789, the Commercial Crisis of 1857 centered in US and Germany, and 1929 Wall Street when the US was the workshop of the world, all were examples of new jacks too politically immature given the magnitude of the productive forces unleashed. This should give pause to those who are not focused on the impending massive crashes in the 'emerging markets,' eg, the China (and commodities) Bubble, where China is also the workshop of the world.
[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Lieberman also told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that he thought Obama might mention “some tough medicine for our economy” during his first State of the Union address expected next month. “We need it and I hope therell be bipartisan support in Congress for doing that,” Lieberman said of the fiscal belt-tightening some observers expect Obama to push for in the second year of his presidency.
[Comments for The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For January 13, 2010: of the Mortgage Bankers Association, recently told The Wall Street Journal that homeowners who default on their mortgages should think about the “message” they will send to “their family and their kids and their friends.” Courson was implying that homeowners ” record numbers of whom continue to default ” have a responsibility to make good. He wasnt referring to the people who have no choice, who cant afford their payments.
[The Choice] Rating Colleges by Their Contribution to the Social Good - The ...: Washington Monthly’s rankings will appeal to a narrow band of liberal activist students and parents, while most others will likely ignore this ranking. U.S. News inspires a lot fewer warm, fuzzy feelings, and it’s hard to put a lot of credibility in what university administrators think of other universities as a measure of the value of an education given that those administrators often know very little about the universities they rank, but at least these rankings will continue to have broader appeal.
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