Category Archives: Finance

OH FUCK YES: Abolish marriage. For everyone. Problem solved. – Notes & Errata by Mark Morford

Notes & Errata by Mark Morford Abolish marriage. For everyone. Problem solved. By Mark Morford on February 19, 2015 3:10 PM  |NO MORE marriage. Can you imagine? Clearly these two mean to wreak all sorts of vile havoc on Alabama by daring to get married. Who will stop their malicious ways? Sometimes wisdom comes from… Read More »

Do Google Adwords really work?

It is affectionately known in the industry as the Google Idiot Tax and applies to people who have set up their own account and don’t know what they are doing. Google is doing itself a disservice in this regard, as those who experience such failure are often then skeptical about the value of utilising AdWords.”… Read More »

Your employer does not own you! But they think thy do….Apple Sued for Poaching Employees From Battery Maker | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Apple is being sued for allegedly poaching employees from lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems. The Massachusetts-based manufacturer filed a complaint earlier this month, claiming Apple hired away workers who have knowledge about A123’s battery business. According to the filing, Cupertino snagged five employees, all of whom had signed non-disclosure agreements with A123 that prevented them… Read More »

Banks WILL LIE to stock holders of firms they want to do business with:fined by US regulators over Toys R Us research

The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) alleges the banks offered a favourable rating to the US toy retailer in return for being employed on its 2010 stock offering. The banks include Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Barclays. They were fined a total of $43.5m. via BBC News – Banks fined by… Read More »

DOCTORS AS BULLIES Medical debt collection, reporting under scrutiny – Chicago Tribune

BULLIES: Many consumers don’t know they owe money for medical procedures until they get a call from a collection agency or they discover it on their credit report, a federal consumer watchdog says. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday released a report spotlighting concerns about how medical debts are collected and reported. About 43… Read More »

How to Successfully Kickstart Your Crowdfunding Campaign

How to Successfully Kickstart Your Crowdfunding Campaign Get your project rolling with Kickstarter   Andrew Ward Sep 26th 2014 7:48AM   1232011   Facebook/Kickstarter Over time, countless entrepreneurs have had their endeavors thwarted by their inability to secure proper funding. In recent years crowdfunding, the practice of funding a project by a large number of… Read More »

The Average U.S. Work Week Is Nearly 6 Days

For many full-time employed adults, the weekly grind is feeling more like six days, rather than five. They aren’t wrong. That’s because a recent Gallup poll indicated half of America’s full-time staffers are working more than 40 hours per week, with four in ten stating they work 50 hours or more. Only 8 percent polled… Read More »

Carlsbad woman who shot husband to death not guilty of 1st-degree murder | UTSanDiego.com

  VISTA — For two weeks, jurors heard a Carlsbad mother’s story of a dysfunctional marriage, abuse by her schoolteacher husband, and the fear she felt right before she shot him to death in their bedroom. On Wednesday, after two days of deliberating, the Vista jury found Julie Harper, 41, not guilty of first-degree murder… Read More »

How Much Money Does Your Doctor Get From Medical Companies? | TIME

How Much Money Does Your Doctor Get From Medical Companies?   Pratheek Rebala @pratheekrebala Chris Wilson @chriswilsondc 10:25 AM ET   Use this search tool to find out   Doctors received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and device makers over a five month period in 2013, according to figures the federal government released this week.… Read More »

Database shows $3.5 billion in industry ties to doctors, hospitals – LA Times

Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5 billion worth of financial ties with drug and medical-device makers in the last five months of 2013. The details published Tuesday in a new government databasehave been sought for years by consumer advocates and lawmakers… Read More »

These romance writers ditched their publishers for ebooks — and made millions – Yahoo Finance

These romance writers ditched their publishers for ebooks — and made millions By Mandi Woodruff August 1, 2014 6:03 PM Yahoo Finance     . View photo Photo: Romance novelist Bella Andre earns eight figures as an independent writer. In early 2010, things weren’t going very well for San Francisco-based romance novelist Bella… Read More »

Banks Face Hit on $30 Billion in Overdraft Fees From CFPB Rules – Businessweek

The $30 billion banks collect in overdraft fees each year may shrink as the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau imposes rules aimed at shielding customers from harm. The agency is weighing regulations to improve consumer awareness of overdraft costs and restrict how banks can debit transactions and impose fees, according to a senior agency official.… Read More »

You are under the control of Facebook and it will control you and your “friends” Now proven with Its Emotion Manipulation Study

As the Main Stream Media has less influence on some people because they are now addictive to sites like Facebook the level of influence and depth of reach of information control needed to be quantified if the population is to me kept under control.  In an experiment facebook conducted earlier this year, Facebook injected the feeds of… Read More »

BMC Infectious Diseases | Full text | How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review

  Table 1 Persistence of clinically relevant bacteria on dry inanimate surfaces. Type of bacterium Duration of persistence (range) Reference(s) Acinetobacter spp. 3 days to 5 months [18, 25, 28, 29, 87, 88] Bordetella pertussis 3 – 5 days [89, 90] Campylobacter jejuni up to 6 days [91] Clostridium difficile (spores) 5 months [92–94] Chlamydia… Read More »

Lies, Damned Lies, and Vegetarianism: Part 1. « AnthonyColpo

Lies, Damned Lies, and Vegetarianism: Part 1. Posted In Cardiovascular Fitness,Health,Nutrition “In earlier times, they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies.” -Original author unknown — Hey everyone, Last time we spoke, I promised my next article would discuss the type of diet that’s been shown in clinical trials to… Read More »

Capital Controls ahead of currency crisis! WTF!!

Free market economists are not going to be happy about this… A major financial news source just published shocking details about a research report by two employees at the Federal Reserve Bank. The 36-page report applauds the use of “capital controls” in global markets. Here is the report on the fed website If you’re unfamiliar… Read More »

Agenda 21 in action! ‘This is our heaven’: Colorado couple fights to save land from eminent domain | Fox News

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. –  “They’re spending us to death,” said landowner Andy Barrie. He is not talking about property taxes, inflation or even the cost of skiing in glitzy ski country. Rather, he’s talking about the legal fight he and his wife have been waging to save their pristine piece of mountain property — with breathtaking views… Read More »

Former World Bank Senior Counsel Karen Hudes Says “Second Species” Controls Human Civilization

Former World Bank Senior Counsel Karen Hudes Says “Second Species” Controls Human Civilization – disinformation.   Former senior World Bank lawyer Karen Hudes claims so: “These countries are not monolithic, there are forces fighting the corruption and there are forces that have totally been co-opted…The group that’s behind the network of control are the Jesuits,… Read More »

Survey finds only 3 out of 4 Americans do not support the new health care law

Survey finds only 1 in 4 Americans support the new health care law | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour. the comments on the page above are truly worth reading…. The real truth : 1. Obamacare is a tax on the working poor and middle class. 2. The US health care system run and regulated by… Read More »

The End of Civilization As We Know It Is Nigh, According to NASA | Bustle

Avoid the END: Kill and EAT the 1% now; People taste like PORK!   Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center: Here’s how it happens: First, the “Elite” population starts restricting the flow of resources available to the “Masses.” This results in the Elite hoarding a surplus for themselves — one that’s high enough… Read More »