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[EarthBox® - News] Time Magazine Article - The Responsibility Revolution « EarthBox ...: America has always been a great laboratory of social innovation, from Ben Franklin’s creation of the volunteer fire department and the lending library to the rise of online collectives like Wikipedia and Facebook. Usually it has been an invention, some innovation in commerce ”” the car, the lightbulb, the television ”” that has changed how we interact with one another as well as how we think of ourselves.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » A Delicate Dance Between Ambitions And ...: The entire premise of the article is that *government* created all of the things that we enjoy, like air travel (Wrong remember the Wright Brothers, private commercial carriers, etc? Government intervention and regulation has only managed to stifle air travel), housing (private builders), food (private farmers and corporate farms), entertainment (Hollywood?

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Thank You, Barack Obama: If Fox News, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh were truly opposed to expanded government power, where were they when George Bush and Dick Cheney were expanding federal power in virtually every realm, driving up the national debt to unprecedented proportions, destroying middle-class economic security in order to benefit the wealthiest, and generally ensuring government intrusion into every aspect of people's lives? They were supporting it and cheering it on.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 11, 2009: I would blame the real estate agent also ,or maybe it was a Title Company mistake .A party who hires a real estate company /title company would have a reasonable expectation that the house shown and the key given was to the house that the real estate company was marketing .

[SSIR Articles: Nonprofit Management] Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : Rediscovering ...: For example, Greg Dees’s classic article, “The Meaning of ”˜Social Entrepreneurship,’” identifies “adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private value)” as central to the distinction between business and social entrepreneurs.14 He notes further that “making a profit, creating wealth, or serving the desires of customers ”¦ are means to a social end, not the end in itself.” Similarly, innovation guru Clayton Christensen views social change as the “primary objective” rather than a “largely unintended ”¦ byproduct” in distinguishing between catalytic (social) and disruptive (commercial) innovations, respectively.15

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 2, 2009: In a recent letter to the S.E.C., the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Wall Street’s lobbying group, complained about the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s requirement that brokerage firms advise their clients of material information before a trade occurs. “This burden may impinge on the efficiency of the markets and may make dealers less willing to enter into trades with retail customers,”

[Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor] RGE - On the Reappointment of Ben Bernanke: social group is the easiest to denigrate. Obviously, too, it is to the interest of the counterfeiters to distract attention from their own crucial role by denouncing any and all other groups and institutions as responsible for the price inflation.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For August 24, 2009: I structured all the CDs to just under the FDIC limits so that with interest accumulating they would not go over the FDIC limit. I also tried to ladder the CDs from 1-5 years with average maturity between 2-3 years because I knew that 5% CDs would be hard to get in 2009-2010, but after that inflation may kick in and I wanted to prepare for that.

[Chicago Reader: The Blog: Clout City] This just in--and this, and this . . . | The Blog | Chicago Reader: According to Mitchell, the district decided not to purchase the floors because 'we didn’t have the money then.' The fund ended up selling the building for about $61 million in June 2006 to a consortium that included Golub & Company, which has owned or managed more than $4 billion worth of commercial property around the world, and Wachovia Bank, based in North Carolina. (In December of that year Eugene Golub, who owns Golub & Company, contributed $50,000 to Mayor Daley’s reelection fund.) When the deal went through, the Park District was asked to start paying some of the building’s property taxes.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 9, 2009: Contractor is awarded a contract from Apple for tenant improvements…Contractor cannot bill Apple for material and labor until said materials and labor are installed…Apple requires a 45 day period for payable from receipt of the invoice…Contractor may have a 90 carry from the date he commits until the date he gets paid from Apple…The “Line” fills the gap…Pretty common practice really and without it many businesses cannot function very well…At the very least they cannot take on as much work…This example can be applied to most suspenseful business…

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