Author: presidentofgalaxy.com

I'm Daniel Larsson, an internet veteran since 1993 with a specialization in digital marketing. As a father of two sons, a history buff, and a judo enthusiast, I bring a unique perspective to my writing. The views expressed on this blog are strictly my own and do not reflect the positions or opinions of my employer or company.

Robert Engle, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2003 for developing statistical models to predict events, such as risks in financial markets, should be the right person to speak out about the financial crisis. Speaking to the Brazilian newspaper Valoronline during his Brazilian vacation, he said that it is difficult to predict how the current crisis will develop. The reason is simple: the big question is no longer an economic or financial problem, but a political one. Read the article in Portuguese http://www.valor.com.br/internacional/993350/nobel-em-economia-ve-desafio-politico-para-crise-global?utm_source=newsletter_tarde&utm_medium=31082011&utm_term=Brasil&utm_campaign=informativo

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Oh, and today came the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO of the world's richest company, Apple, and is being replaced by Tim Cook. Steve Jobs is perhaps best known as a hippie type with a bit of left-wing ideas, but he has undeniably done well with Apple in various ways. A friend wrote this Steve Jobs quote on Google+ a few days ago that I think is really good… “When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are…

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I thought the world was in trouble and so I turned on Discovery to an astrology program where they were talking about dark energy. Apparently everything can always get worse, as proven by Murphy's famous law. Murphy's original formulation was: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways leads to disaster, then someone will do it that way". Dark energy is not to be trifled with and is a form of energy that is about the universe expanding and that the expansion is happening at an increasing speed, i.e. with acceleration. Dark energy is one of the…

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On the cool English marketplace Thincats, you can borrow money without a bank. By removing the bank, the company behind the site says that you can get better deals for entrepreneurs. The solution is perfect for business angels or venture capitalists and the advantage of keeping greedy banks away is obvious for those of us who are living through the aftermath of the great banking crisis. Each loan is put up as an auction and there are no membership fees... To borrow, you must be an English company with a high credit rating and borrow between 30,000 and 3 million pounds. Many of the lenders want to lend money on...

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Alexandra Pascalidou asks the question in today's Metro who will save Greece. If you believe the news later today, it sounded as if the Germans and the French would help... I'm probably a little too cynical to believe that any politician wants to give 400 billion dollars to the voters of another country. But a small part, more precisely 0.9% of the world's population, owns an awful lot, yes a whole 39% of the world's assets according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group. Taste the numbers once again and think about where there is money to be found now that nations like Greece have it...

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