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• Online Retail Graveyard

  Aaaaand if this kind of thing really thrills you, you'll appreciate this web site dedicated entirely to dead malls. Thanks JBK, recreational mall scholar
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  • Date: Aug 13 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Doing Well By Doing Good - How Business Should Be!

  Lately, I’ve come to realize I qualify for being on the ‘lunatic-fringe of do-goodiness'. All my life, I’ve loved creating mutually-beneficial opportunities, and I tend to believe that most of us are this way – we’re happiest ‘doing well by doing good’. Sadly…too often the unfortunate few - who are clever and on the lunatic-fringe of bad-doing, tend to work their way into power and ruin things for the rest of us… Now, I’m standing up to represent the forces of good. I know more and more people are joining me. Seven years ago in Portland, Oregon, I founded DoughNation Services LLC – and became stunned to learn that not only had I founded a business, but apparently also created a new industry: donation services. The donation services industry proves ‘doing well by doing good’ is not only possible – it’s joyful. I believe this is the spirit that is meant to be at the center of how we conduct business locally, nationally and globally. DoughNation provides pickup, tax deduction documentation, and delivery for donations of quality clothing, furniture and household goods. Our most unique benefit is that the deductions we document for our clients actually get them back more money at tax time than they paid for service - usually at least 1½ again more than what they paid. Plus, we give people an easier way to help their community benefit from the good things they no longer use. There’s so much more in the donation services industry than this basic service. From working with families who had suffered the loss of a loved one, we created an amazing service called Gentle Disposition, where we clear an entire home through donation, recycling and disposal so that we can relieve that devastating burden and create as much benefit as possible from the things left behind. Similarly, we work with those who are downsizing to ease the stress of transition.. Walking this entrepreneurial road has been the most difficult journey for me ever – I never imagined it would be so difficult. Despite the hardships, build DoughNation and pioneering the donation services industry has been the most deeply fulfilling work I’ve ever done, and it was impossible for me to walk away from this wonderful work. Now, nearly seven years later, I’m so thankful I never quit. Two years ago I gained the best business partner I could imagine, Lorca Harrison, and with her we have begun reaching the next level, and the future looks bright. We have a nationwide vision for DoughNation and the donation services industry, and one day, I look forward to the joy of speaking before the national convention of the donation services industry. Until then….
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  • Date: Aug 07 2008
  • Posted by KimBreas

• Whatch'a gonna do?

  This is the situation that's drawn me to economics as a major. The hockey stick is going to be the symbol of our times, with exponential growth in so many areas equating exponential depletion in so many others. One of the fascinating things is how, despite everything, hunger is a political problem. Distribution most directly, but political most ultimately. Encroaching "resource peaks" are a consumption efficiency problem most directly, but a political problem ultimately. They are also technology challenges and since we've solved so many other challenges with technology we're tempted to rely on it. The analogy I like most is of a guy who was fat in high school but worked out a lot in order to make it on the football team so later he thinks can always do it again if he really needs to, even though he's becoming morbidly obese and a half-donut away from triple-bypass surgery. We got to the moon within a time-frame we set for ourselves and we win world wars and we built a country from nothing, so we can handle anything, right? So debt spirals out of control, numbers used to measure economic health and growth are changed in increasingly sneaky and dangerous ways (look up "hedonics" and you'll feel like the financial news show you watch totally cheated you), and we're at the wrong end of a housing market and credit bubble. Even GOLD could be overvalued right now. Smart financial policy, a major scaleback of the military industrial complex and a major increase in infrastructure investment and other domestic projects could save us. Bold technology investment would be part of that. Think Extra Bold, like mining asteroids. A lot of materials are difficult to mine because we have to dig so deep, but there's mountains of all kinds of inorganic, usually lighter metals. Sounds crazy, but communication satellites were laughable sci-fi 30 years before Sputnik. Just need the political will leadership.
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  • Date: Aug 07 2008
  • Posted by ConsumerX

• meh

  meh
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  • Date: Jun 09 2008
  • Posted by calique

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  • Date: Jun 26 2008
  • Posted by CaptainChurch

• always a coincidence...

  i just watched the movie thing and a pal of mine happened to be pierin over my shoulder at the same time. No longer than thirty minutes before that we watched the new batman movie. he says in response to the oil/corn thing, "where's our batman."
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  • Date: Jul 30 2008
  • Posted by foss

• might be

  i've heard others suggest this. good thoughts.
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  • Date: Jul 25 2008
  • Posted by jasonpost1979

• Peak Oil could be a myth

  Greg Palast, journalist for the BBC, has uncovered the State Dept plans for the Iraqi oil fields. They were cowritten by major oil company executives. According to the documents, the plans for the oil fields are not to control them to make oil CHEAP. They are to control them and turn off the flow. That would make the price of oil skyrocket, further increasing the record profits oil companies are experiencing due to the high price of oil. His book, "Armed Madhouse" contain the documents. This link, a speech Palast gives in NYC 2007 with RFK Jr., states the facts - 15 minutes in where he talks about the documents and speaking to the oil executive writers directly. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3954858769441262005&hl=en
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  • Date: Jul 14 2008
  • Posted by AMUD

• Better data

  This would be really good if you showed real data like the annual production vs. known reserves or something. There is plenty of data to make your point, which I think is a good one.
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  • Date: Jul 14 2008
  • Posted by khavalier

• Sinking up?

  It seems strange that you chose to post the currency/$ charts, since they are trending up. Instead of the dollar drowning, your $/Euro chart looks like we are just getting our head above water! Your charts (and the title) would be more effective if you used the reciprocals ($/currency).
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  • Date: Jun 09 2008
  • Posted by IanF