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I will be interested to see how long they survive in the wild.
Typical Indian law firm
This phenomena is typical of Indian firms. They don't let you grow fast enough and ultimately they suffer with quality people leaving.
Wake up call?
Mr. Pease says it all. The deal was only with the 5 who stayed back. No wonder the others left. The newer lot should get worried...
Personal fiefdom
Sounds a bit like a certain offshore law firm out in the Atlantic...
These three conquered the wild....
I have no doubts about their ability to survive, and do much better than just survive. The last decade has been spent in the wildest parts of the legal world, so its unlikely that the future will have anything more difficult to throw at them...
Sometime soon
When Indian lawyers see how many opportunities are presented by international firms it's just a matter of time before they liberalise. The present regime is held up by vested interests dominating law societies, but the vested interests of a minority can't hold back the majority for ever - India is still a democracy, after all.
A&O Strategy
Wonder whether A&O should be rethinking anout its strategy to pay a premium to only a few owner-partners and expect these owner-partners to deliver a quality team when the market opens up in India. Chances are that they will end up getting just the owner-partners along with a lot of juniors and would have paid a premium for nothing... The strategy of Linklaters seems more prudent in these circumstances.
International law firm
New lot are fronting for one more international firm. Greed is good.
Remaining partners are bigger names
All the best
There's definitely space for more law firms offering quality work to clients. The move should be seen as a gain for the legal sector rather than a good or bad one from individual firms' perspective! We wish Phoenix Legall all the very best!
Factual Inaccuracies
I am surprised on the comment on how the new firm would survive in the wild. Probably Mr. Anonymous has little knowledge about the capabilities of the 4 partners. If Manjula could bring great success to the Kochhar firm, there is no reason why she cannot do it again with the help of other capable partners.
Factual inaccuracies!!!
Whoever thinks Kochhar & Co. is where it is today because of MC (oops Manjula Chawla) cant be further from the truth... infact she was the one holding that Firm back with her cynicism...I'm quite curious to see the fate this new baby of Ms. Chawla.
Italy revisited
the history of globalisation in europe, parts of asia is replete with examples of large teams of quality partners leaving firms to set up on their own or join independant firms, especially when foreign alliances are formed. the culture differences are too stark. the trilegal- A&O example and the exit of a very important part of the firm proves this. as alex pease said, the deal is only with the core partners and, this may actually be part of the grand plan to get rid of non-core partners. this should be a lesson for indian firms seeking alliances as to what is in store for them. trilegal should have done its homework and seen the havoc that A&O caused in italy by destroying many many firms through thier imperialistic strategies. this is just a eye-opener of what happens whilst joining hands with the british.
Both will flourish
There is no reason why both firms will not flourish.
Trilegal has built tremendous brand equity in the market and seems to be of the first with a lockstep. People continue to join expecting to become partners.
The three leavers are decent lawyers and should also do well in a market short of good commercial lawyers.
Good luck to both!
Survival of Fittest
Let me clear the misconcepton the US Law Firms have about Indian Law Firms,Indian Law Firms are born out of Batchmates in College leaving a Firm or by a group of youngsters part of a moteher firm starting one.,as the name Phoenix suggests they will come from dust. Unlike US ,Law Firms have no Celebrity status and Phoenix will survive despite all odds as made out in the comments .
Survival is not in question...any one with even a law degree can survive in india. The moot question is whether the trio have it in them to run a successful legal enterprise.
Great Team
It's good for them to move and start afresh. Manjula, of course, is a great leader and she is the store house of corporate knowledge. May be, the equivalent of Zia Mody in New Delhi. Saket is the nice guy with great corporate skills and Abhishek is the smart work horse. All the best for their new venture. I wish them good luck and success.
Great Team
They are a great team. Knowing them, it is a good decision. Manjula, of couse, is the leader and widely accepted to be the Zia Mody equivalent in New Delhi. There are numerouse law firms run by people whom she trained and nurtured. Saket is the knowledge house and Abhishek is the smart and dedicated work horse. I wish them good luck and success in this endeavour of theirs.

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The title of this issue is "Occasionally Monsters Accidentally Crossover." That's pretty good! They could have also called it "Sharing Hero's Audience Doubles Earnings."
Frankenstein has been summoned to Checkmate's headquarters under Mt. Rushmore. Does Checkmate stand for anything? I hope not! It's apparently funded and run by the United Nations although I thought it was its own private organization. The Blackhawks are also covert and run by the United Nations. And SHADE must also be covert and run by the United Nations because they're Checkmate's sister squad. Maybe SHADE is just run by the Americans. I don't know! It's hard enough remembering lots of words that I can make SHADE stand for!
How can he know that?! Does he understand the meaning of the word 'covert'?
Frankenstein is off to catch OMAC and bring him in. And I guess Frankenstein's bolts are supposed to be on the side of his head. I guess they're keeping his skullcap on instead of his head. Checkmate tries to send the operatives with the silly names but Frankenstein doesn't want to work with a bunch of normal humans that have code-names like Castle and The Horsey and The Piece That Can Only Go Diagonally!
I smell lawsuit! Big green guy who knows how to smash? Yeah. Somebody should sue!
Frankenstein keys into OMAC's energy signature and drops out of the sky on Kevin. Kevin notices just in the nick of time to say the thing he says to turn into OMAC which I will not repeat! Omactually, maybe I can learn to Omaccept the phrase and type it: Omactivate. Yes. OMACTIVATE! So he says that and a big fight begins where buildings and cars are thrown about.
Property values in Metropolis must be atrocious. And insurance premiums outrageous!
A gigantic fight ensues with lots and lots of property damage. During the street brawl, Brother Eye and SHADE battle each other on a nanotechnical and informational level. Brother Eye ends up getting the better of SHADE and escaping the encounter with access to their files. And the street brawl ends when Brother Eye teleports OMAC away from the fight just as Frankenstein is about to put him down.
I'm sure losing an arm is no big deal to Frankenstein.
The fight ends with no real winner. Is that why it needs to continue in Frankenstein's comic? Kevin reappears back in the bathroom at Cadmus with a giant green arm attached to his wrist. What's he going to do with that? Flush it? And the issue ends with some mysterious Grand Director of Cadmus issuing orders to the scientists in the secret lab to finish up their project to defeat everything so that they can take control of something called the Genesis technology.
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The Maunder Minimum began roughly 30 years after William Shakspeare's death. But, being climatic, its boundries had rough edges, ill defined – and probably overlapped decades before and after its claimed lifespan. If Young Billy had been a ham, not only would he have been a QRPer (his most popular character wasn't named "Hamlet" by mere coincidence), he no doubt would have faced peculiarities of propagation during this time of minimal solar activity.
Sort of like we do now.
Taunting me (unbeknownst to him) from his North Carolina locale, Ed N4EMG spoketh of his recent QSOs with Laos and Mongolia. Not a fortnight later, I noted XW1B spotted by numerous other US ops. Alas, but not even a whisper here! How is that possible? Has my antenna fallen? Hath God cursed me with yet another lightning strike? The following night, the same results – numerous NA spots for the Laotian, but my headphones respondeth not to his dots and dashes.
The rest is Silence. Hamlet, Act 5, Scene II
Only a week or two ago I was on the same page as K8GU who commented on the difficulty of polar paths. And then, two nights ago, as dusk approacheth mine QTH, the dawn departeth that other side of Our Planet creating yon greyline. Not a single signal was to be heard on the 20-meter band. Except one – JT5DX, who peggeth mine S-meter and that of others around me. One call, two calls, thrice and in my log now…
Though this be madness, there is method in it! Hamlet Act 2, Scene II
And this Monday past…the sun hath set and taken with it all QRN from the 80-meter band. A twist of the VFO dial and my headphones do awaken to a loud signal calling a repeated CQ. Probably a neighbor, methinks, over in Carolina or California, perchance. But no – I do discern a foreign prefix and am plunged into unbound joy as I decipher his callsign of ZS1JX. A few taps of my paddles sends the letters AE5X ripping across the nighttime Atlantic and into the ears of their intended receiver who respondeth politely with a 599. And that is all.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene II
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Berkeley High School Principal Pasquale Scuderi says supervising BHS students during the lunch hour and after school has become more challenging for the school with the growth of the Occupy Berkeley tent-city in Civic Center Park.
In a letter to the BHS community sent out by email Wednesday, Scuderi noted that the burgeoning camp has made it more difficult for school administrators and safety staff to keep an eye on and visually identify students among the settlers in the park, a number of whom "may not be connected to or interested in the advocacy being conducted by the actual Occupy Berkeley movement".
Scuderi, who estimates there are now around 90 tents in the park, says there have been no negative interactions with the campers. The school currently has two administrators monitoring the park during the lunch hour. … Continue reading »
Poet writes about Occupy Cal, protesters plan next steps
Robert Hass, professor of poetry and poetics at UC Berkeley, attended Occupy Cal this month and wrote about his experience in an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Sunday titled "Poet-Bashing Police".
He decided to go on campus with his wife, Brenda Hillman, after hearing about police beating protesters with truncheons in order gain access to, and dismantle, tents that had been declared unauthorized by the Cal administration.
"I wanted to see what was going to happen and how the police behaved, and how the students behaved. If there was trouble, we wanted to be there to do what we could to protect the students," he writes.
As we reported on November 14th, the former poet laureate ended up being hit by police and his wife was knocked to the ground. The experience, he writes, got him thinking that "life is full of strange contingencies." Read the full column in the New York Times. … Continue reading »
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At Occupy Cal: Let books take the place of banned tents
The police may have forcibly evicted slumberers and their tents set up Wednesday night by Occupy Cal protesters on campus, but never let it be said that Berkeley students aren't creative. Replacing the tents we have — fittingly enough for a storied institution of learning — books, or rather books made to look like tents. Symbolic perhaps, but making a point nonetheless. Thanks to Arturo Snuze for the photograph which was taken after today's pre-dawn eviction.
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Before Occupy Oakland came the protesters of Solano Ave.
For the past 10 weeks, a group of demonstrators has gathered every Monday at 4:30 pm on Solano Avenue — in front of the shuttered Oaks Theatre and outside the Chase Bank — holding aloft banners that read "Tax the Rich", "Make the Rich Pay More Taxes", and "Please Join Us".
The first group who ventured out was just 10-strong but, according to spokesperson Harry Brill, the numbers have now swollen to around 40. The protesters do not affiliate themselves formally with the Occupy movement, although they share some of the same campaign sentiments. "What we have in common is our indignation that the big corporations and super-rich individuals are not paying their fair share of taxes," says Brill. … Continue reading »
Berkeley joins 900 cities to condemn corporate greed
Update, 10.16.11: A video of the October 15th Occupy march in Berkeley has been added at the foot of this story. It was created by Digital Asphalt/East Bay Media Center/Paul Kealoha Blake.
Some 300 people marched, biked and rolled their wheelchairs through downtown Berkeley Saturday, adding their voices to the Occupy Movement calling for an end to the abuse of corporate power. There were rallies and demonstrations in more than 900 cities in the U.S. and abroad, with a turnout of some 2,000 in Oakland and 3,000 in San Francisco.
"There ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people don't stop," Berkeley marchers chanted, waving homemade signs such as "No Taxes for Star Wars," "This is Not a Recession; This is a Robbery," and "Free Market Makes People Unfree." Marchers walked on the sidewalk, accompanied by a couple of police officers on bicycles.
Before the march, a few people spoke briefly in the manner that has become familiar to the Occupy Movement, with the crowd repeating the speakers' words so that they are heard by all. Elizabeth Kessell listed a dozen corporate misdeeds – bank foreclosures, workplace discrimination, misuse of animals, abrogation of worker rights, media control and more. She went on to call for solutions: "Exercise your rights to peaceable assembly," she said. "Occupy public spaces [and] create a process to address the problems we face."


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Date January 14, 2008 at 11:00 PM
When Sage Bakehouse co-owners Andree Falls and Amy Cox met in Dallas, Andree was running her own restaurant and Amy was completing a Master's in neurobiology. Both had been coming to Santa Fe to hike for years before they chose it as an ideal place to live. When they decided to open a bakery, the fact that they had no idea how to do it didn't deter them in the least. They approached Michael London, a well-known baking connoisseur in upstate New York. After settling on a mutually agreeable financial arrangement, London, a former English professor who believes that the most romantic thing one can do is bake good bread, proceeded to teach Falls and Cox everything about the baking business - from ingredients to equipment. "He's still a resource for us," Andree says. "Michael is very well-trained and well-traveled. It's tapping into a world class source of information."
One of the first colossal tasks that Andree and Amy faced was assembling the oven. Fresh from France, the steam-injected contraption arrived in Santa Fe in 3,000 parts, and took six men, three storage sites, and one week to put together.
Assimilation into the community, including finding the perfect staff, also took time. "We had to build trust from scratch," confides Andree.
Sage Bakehouse opened in June of 1996, and served 300 people on its fifth day in business. By the end of August, the company had grown ten times over. Originally baking 200 loaves per day, the bakery now produces 3,500 to 4,000 daily. "We're very lucky to be well-received," Andree asserts gratefully.
The success of Sage Bakehouse owes much to the complimentary working styles of its two owners. While Amy is naturally gregarious and deals directly with the public, she also has a natural ability to fix things, which comes in very handy when dealing with the bakery's large machinery. Andree is the organizer, and she plots everything from the number of loaves that will fit into the oven at one time, to the complex baking schedule. "Once you mix the dough, it's like a plane up in the air." Andree reveals. "There are also so many variations - the amount of water depends on the temperature and the flour harvest, and this influences how long the dough ferments."
With 150-250 pounds of dough per mixing bowl, it takes 12-16 hours just to blend with special mixers. Other secrets to the famous Sage Bakehouse flavor include the fact that the dough is scaled by hand, which doesn't compress the bread and release gases. "We need that gas for fermentation, which creates flavor," Andree states. The bakery also doesn't use yeast in its naturally leavened breads.
The Sage Bakehouse menu now features their renowned Farm Bread, Pane Paisano, Sourdough, Whole Wheat Farm, Kalamata Olive, Pecan-Raisin, Rye, and Chipotle-Caciotta. These offerings have been supplemented with sandwiches (chicken, black forest ham and gruyere, tuna, and roasted bell pepper), quiches (Lorraine, Provencal, and spinach), pastries, including croissants and pain au chocolat, tarts (apple and pear almond), muffins, scones, and cookies.
Today, the majority of the bakery's employees have now been with the bakery for five to six years. "In six years, we have never had a day that we did not bake or deliver bread. We have a staff on-site 24 hours a day. We deliver to Santa Fe 365 days per year, to Albuquerque every day except Christmas and New Year, to Taos every day except Sundays, and to Los Alamos, Las Vegas, and Abiquiu several times per week."
In the future, Andree will be content if things stay exactly as they are. "After years of growth, our products have reached saturation point," she says. "We now have reached an equilibrium."
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Well, I got the 3 little Christmas ornament pack. At the 40% off, awesome. I can use the little balls to put things in next winter. :) The tea however, I will say isn't happening for me. It smells great, but its got that Rooibos fuzziness afterwards I just don't like. Steep this one lightly, and enjoy it for what its worth, but I'm likely not going to buy more. I'm recommending it because if you are alright with the rooibos then live it up!
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just wanted to share with you guys photos of my favorite lady sif cosplay!! the cosplay is by Spiffzaya who unfortunately doesn't have a tumblr, but you can support her on her facebook page here ◡‿◡✿
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I didn't want to post this because people I know are on my tumblr and I don't want her to find out I'm expressing this over tumblr but… ah.
Honestly, that comment kind of upset me, I'm going to be paying for the foal so it is mine. We sold my horse for the same price we paid for Lacey, so she didn't even have to cash out anything for her… She doesn't own Lacey why would she own the foal? .-. If she lets me I'm going to train the foal myself because I would like to prove her wrong but it's doubtful honestly. She wonders why I have a bad attitude around her…
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Capitalism is still dominant. Isn't it time we changed to a more enlightened, less greedy system?
The world is ruled by capitalism. Every country is, in one way or the other, a part of the capitalist machine. Debt or credit is the problematic system of Earth today and, if you look into it, you will usually find that most of today's major problems are due to the way we have developed into a capitalist world. Communism as seen today is not what was ever meant by Marx or Engels. A more fair/ equal society (socialistic) was meant for an advanced capitalist society such as the UK. Yet whenever I start asking why we don't consider changing to a more equal society people start throwing around "totalitarianism-tenancies" and "didn't work for Stalin".
I read into it and it's pretty obvious to me why they all failed. But more importantly I realise (as I'm sure many others do) why if worked out democratically and in stages, would not be susceptible to the historical problems of other attempts. We learn from history. Only by educating more of the promises of a new system could we plan to stop hunger and poverty in the world. Too many people have given up on changing capitalism, despite the inherent flaws in the system (boom-bust cycles) which just leads to more poverty, debt and war and the top 1-5% of the rich becoming richer.
Please tell me there are others in the TED community that have similar thoughts. And what could we do to work on a system that could be proposed in the future. Perhaps there's a think tank working on it now?
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Aug 8 2011: first thing to note: socialism never ever was chosen by people. in the post soviet bloc, state socialisms were forced on the people by the most horrible dictatorships. in the west, the current movement is toward more socialistic states, but the people are reluctant to give up liberties. state socialism tries to sneak in, but the opposition is significant. and will become even more significant, as the state intervention starts to reach the most valued personal areas.
second thing to note: socialism did not only fail because it was wrongly implemented. one thing they tried very hard is to grow in power, in economy, so they can beat the west. however they have failed in every aspect, even in military power. how could that be? the reason for that is central planning, and nothing else. without the correcting forces of the free market (trial and error), economy can not grow and develop. it was nicely demonstrated by ludwig von mises in 1920, and later by hayek, who got the nobel price for that.
third thing to note is that free market economists long since identified the cause of the boom-bust cycle, and it is not the market, but the credit expansion. created by incorrectly regulated banks and especially the central bank.
fourth thing is: despite all the state interventions, and the harm they've done, the poor still getting better and better, and life conditions improve in capitalism. the "poor getting poorer" argument is not factually correct. average, median and even the bottom 10% is richer and richer in the western capitalist economies.
fifth and final argument: marxian theories are logically fallacious, not to mention factually wrong. i would not recommend to give too much credit to him.
Aug 11 2011: not exactly. the central banks don't really control anything except bank credit expansion. the planning board is the government and its so called welfare programs.
alternative: surely there is. the alternative to central bank is no central bank. what would prevent us from doing that? we decide how we organize our lives.
Aug 11 2011: Well, I didn't mean planed economy to any very high degree, but elements of it. It was the credit expansion I thought of. Having a single entity adjusting the money suply to have the market react to it. But I can't see a better solution, because if every bank was allowed to expand credits at their own will we would sure run into hyperinflation.
Aug 14 2011: @ Krisztián....... There is a logical oversight in your exposition I believe (so I am not saying "you are wrong").
Central banks control government, but do it indirectly. The members of the boards of directors are themselves among the richest capitalists and bankers in the world. They control what the Central Banks do, but they also [perhaps separately] also control who gets elected, who votes which way, and what regulations get enforced. These "powers" are not overtly nor legally given to the Central Banksters, but they are co-opted by the banksters in any case.
C. LewisAug 13 2011: "marxian theories are logically fallacious, not to mention factually wrong."
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C. LewisAug 14 2011: Problem is not just the recession. It is the system itself. No matter how good it gets, capitalism is doomed to fail because it feeds on exploitation and consumption. What will happen when there is nothing left to consume or no one left to exploit? One doesn't have to be an economist to realize that the system is self destructive...
On that video, Roubini says that capitalism is killing itself. He is absolutely right...
* In order to reduce the costs, more and more workers are getting fired by companies,
* An army of unemployed people are not consuming because they don't have income,
* Economy gets worse and since people are not consuming, there is not enough demand.
* Not enough demand leads to reduction in sales so companies fire more people... Awesome isn't it...
Oh! and companies are not just this thoughtless and selfish during the recession. They would want to fire everyone if computers or machines can do the work we do. They wouldn't even think that we are actually a customer too.
Roubini also talks about the inequality of the distribution of wealth. I did some research and saw this report of a Swiss Financial Group.
According to Credit Suisse's "2010 Global Wealth Report"; the global total wealth estimate is $195 trillion. It also states that 2.4 million people, in the world, are millionaires. ( $1 million and over) Although these people are "0.5%" of the world population, they control $69.2 trillion in assets, which is the "35.6%" of the global wealth.
The same reports says that 3.03 "billion" people owns only the "4.3%" of the global wealth...
and some people still thinks capitalism is good...
Jim Moonan 50+Aug 14 2011: I think Roubini's assessment of the economic situation and about the fate of capitalism is short-sited and unimaginative.
In the early 1900's here in America, as capitalism was gaining momentum, the dark side of capitalism was revealed: atrocious working conditions and wages, inhumane and unsanitary slaughter houses, etc. etc. etc. "Buyer Beware" summed up how much capitalism had taken hold of American society. Democracy is the weapon we used to "tame" the dark side of capitalism and put in place the necessary regulations.... And that is what, to a large degree, is happening now (or at least Obama is trying to make it happen). The entrepreneurial spirit will prevail.
Without regulations capitalism can be a monster. I liken it to steroid use. The American economy was an "economy on steroids" during the Bush years. We are now "off the juice" and slowly regaining strength. But it will be a long time before our economic engine ever revs up to what it was when it was on steroids. That is unless we get with the program and enter into the new age of economics that have to do with green, alternative fuels, global markets, etc.
...But I beg to differ with your assessment that capitalism is self-destructive. It's actually self-correcting (as Birdia pointed out).
Debra Smith 200+Aug 27 2011: This is a fruitful discussion. I think capitalism has the potential to be better but only when people demand that it is better and have the power to do so. I am convinced we are teetering on the brink of it tipping over so that it has no corrective force. Michael Porter, the Harvard prof is leading the way and Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are trying to implement his tactics but they are not taking too much ground as of yet. Too much power has been transferred to corporations which are not designed to do anything but take profit and power into themselves. There is no human conscience operating within these machines which looks out for the common good. How do we take this power back when the whole of that social group has been born and bred to preserve its own position and wealth? What will the mechanism of a better society be? The brutal kings of old thought they ruled by 'divine right' too.
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C. LewisAug 14 2011: "An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."
As long as the the building blocks of the system are "private owners" who cares about their own "profit" only, the system will always be prone to exploiting people. In order to survive, It has to be a lot more "social"...
Renzo BruniAug 14 2011: @ Birdia...... of all the things you wrote, many of which I find objectionable, the most irritating statement was: "The guys who wrecked the system are the guys most qualified to fix it."
In other words, and I am not hyperbolizing here (am I?), the best people to "fix" the mortgage crisis in the US would be the Hedge Fund Managers who invented the criminal scheme in the first place? Or wait, maybe the best ones to solve the mortgage crisis are the Congresspersons who supported (tacitly or actively) the deregulation of investment banking.
When the original destructive behavior amounts to criminality, letting the criminals control the court system is not a solution. It is ridiculously naive. It is self destructive. It is seppuku .
Renzo BruniAug 14 2011: @ Birdia ..... "An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."
Your definition might be from a respected dictionary, but it is naive, simplistic and not related to what we are discussing. The globalized, monopolized, profit obsessed, impersonal, robotically insensate decisions made by corporations nowdays are unsustainable.
You confuse (naively) or conflate (deliberately) small businesses, which hire, sell, and produce locally, WITH megalithic, monopolistic, global, super-corporations which have no limits on their impulse to profit. Local business owners live locally, hire locally, produce locally, rent locally, sell locally and are thus a part of the community and subject to its pressures.
Exxon doesn't care. Not at all. Big Big Difference.
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Aug 14 2011: You speak as a person of a wealthy and privileged childhood might speak, but I do not accuse you of elitism or insensitivity or simplicity. Exploitation, especially economic (as if there were any other kind that mattered), can look like slavery in the US, casteism in India, apartheid in South Africa, can't it? In those cases, refusing to be exploited by others would get you killed, beaten, crippled, jailed, tortured or separated from your family. But at least you wouldn't have been exploited.
Doesn't make sense. Not at all. Regardless of the system.
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Aug 29 2011: Sure Birdia, some links. Unfortunately I'm unable to link to Nassim Taleb's TED talk "What will tomorrow bring?", because it was never published by TED. He preaches humility at the wheel of this economic beast. Kind of an antidote to the Enron-type recklessness shown by the FED and the banksters. Unfortunately my broadband is down to dial-up so I can't pick through for a good youtube clip, sorry about that. This maybe?
Harry Makopolos needs to be listened to. I hear the movie is a dog "Chasing Madoff" but the man can see clearly and he is as straight as a die.
For a big picture presentation on money and debt, Mike Maloney is looking at fundamentals (and is something I think everybody should see).
For daily economic and political commentary I like Chris Greene, his youtube channel Greenewave. Very insightful. He talks a lot about banks, bailouts, Buffet, Bernanke. He makes some huge calls which I think he gets a kick out of. He's been ahead of the curve, so that's what he does. Keeps me sharp. A platform for going forward here:
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Finally, the Austrian economists. Most of the economic mistakes (as apposed to political malfesance) that are being made can be explained by the difference between Austrian and Keynesian schools of economic thought. Austrian is common sense- you need to save to invest. Keynesian is short-sighted- you can just create credit instead! We are currently witnessing the limits of Keynesian economics.
Sorry, I don't expect you to watch half of them but you can if you want to know where I am coming from. I apologize for being blunt earlier, your logic is sound regards Jamie Oliver, but please don't trust the banks.
Aug 27 2011: Hi Birdia, I have to agree with Renzo and object to your statement "The guys who wrecked the system are the guys most qualified to fix it." These people that you would leave in power (Goldman Sachs et al), either were ignorant enough to not see what was coming or were morally repugnant so as to drive the economy there anyway. From my research the latter seems far more likely. The Fed and the big banks are rotten to the core along with the politicians in their pockets.
Far better would be to call on the people that predicted where we were headed and were ignored. The whistleblowers, the trends forecasters, the Austrian economists.
Aug 28 2011: I had a look at that Goldman Sachs document.
When reading documents like this I go in thinking what does it hide? This document is not the product of one man, this is the product of a culture- the culture that has got into the political system and everywhere else power is - Goldman Sachs, Merril Lynch, BOA, News Corporation, The Fed, the IMF etc. We see the culture in their actions but not their words. The proponents know which part of it other cultures don't like (and by other cultures I mean yours), and so they will try to gloss over them.
It is presented as follows:
"At its core, contingent capital is a security that recapitalizes a troubled financial firm without recourse to taxpayer funds. In doing so, it can contain the fallout from a single bank failure and potentially the follow-on failures that can spiral into a systemic crisis. While the underlying recapitalization function of contingent capital is relatively straightforward, "why,""when" and "how" it operates can vary substantially."
They are promising they can create a security (remember the morgage-backed ones?) that won't cost Americans a thing. Unfortunately they can't pay these "IOU"s and it will be taxpayers footing the bill. Apparently bailouts don't cost Americans. Of course, this works much like a bailout by expanding credit (printing money).
"At its core, contingent capital is simply a security that recapitalizes a troubled financial firm."
It sounds like a little tool that makes debts vanish, or as they like to say; "absorb losses". "A new entity" gets to choose who gets to make their debts to vanish, while other banks get to trade in their debts for these ones. Its like another barrier for anybody but their mates to get bailouts. They were given billions of dollars of taxpayer money and now they're asking for more.
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Aug 29 2011: But Jim, TARP is just a small part of the cash out-flow. In the first (partial) audit of the Fed a couple of months ago there was $16 trillion in secret Fed loans made to banks all over the world at zero% interest between December 2007 and June 2011. Goldman Sachs received 814 billion dollars while Federal Reserve also donated $2.5 trillion to Citigroup, and $2.04 trillion to Morgan Stanley.
You can also read about it on Sen. Bernie Sanders' website or the GAO audit itself. If Ron Paul and Alan Grayson hadn't added an amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill last year we wouldn't have found out. As it is, we get incomplete information two years late.
"This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."
Paul LloydAug 13 2011: Krisztian- Maybe in Hungary the poor are getting richer, but in the major western countries, the poor are getting poorer and the majority of wealth is getting concentrated with a very small percentage of the population. The biggest problem with economical statistics is that they use consumer indexes, wages and property data to base their positions. This doen't take into account the large number of disadvantaged and disillusioned persons who have gone off grid. The American and Canadian governments have been bragging about their unemployment rates, but these numbers are completely bogus, because they only count jobs that file taxes. High paying jobs have been out-sourced to third world countries; decent paying, secure public service jobs have been contracted out to fly by night, minimum wage contractors; middle class debt load is the highest it has ever been. If things are better over here I haven't seen any sign of it.
Aug 14 2011: show me any statistics proving that point. i'm not aware that the life standards in the US were falling in any social group. (except of course those who lost their jobs, but that's not our current topic.) i challenge you to compare your life to that of ten years ago, in terms of stuff, not dollars. i doubt you are in worse shape today.
i would also call your attention to the fact that the current halt in economic development is a temporary thing, and will be solved either this or that way. the US will return to the path or progress again.
Renzo BruniAug 16 2011: I do not think it is valid to say that "socialism never ever was chosen by people". Primitive people (hunter gatherers) lived communally, sharing food, child care, resource access, defense, hunting etc. And some more modern groups such as the Amish, Shakers, hippies, 'intentional communities' etc have chosen freely to encapsulate themselves in sequestered communities where resource sharing was the rule.
Even the idea that one strong man does not exert a "right" when he beats a weaker man and steals his goods for no reason but greed, is ancient and entrenched in the earliest codes of law. That is how judicial systems came into being. So we recognize at a fundamental level that strength does not confer privilege, per se, for any purpose that strength choses to pursue. Monopolistic capitalism is not the same entity as entrepreneurism. Insufficiently regulated capitalism is a Godzilla monster jumping up and down in a little plastic Tokyo movie set, eating skyscrapers and kicking over apartment buildings. Over and over again, discussants in this topic make the same mistake by confusing the two. It is not just here that there is confusion. The US Supreme Court last year declared that "money = (free)speech" and any corporation can legally contribute any amount of free speech (= money) to ANY political campaign. So now the Godzilla monster is jumping up and down inside the control booth of the American political system. Whatever democracy there was here, is now shrinking rapidly. An so it always seems with unregulated 'capitalism'.
Aug 16 2011: the idea of primitive communities is actually a marxian mistake. historians do not agree with that. we don't really know how cavemen lived, but there are indications that they had a very clear idea about private property.
from here, i can't follow you. "monopolistic capitalism" is an oxymoron, free capitalism is not monopolistic. entrepreneurism is a non-word. regulation does not seem to do us any good, and i claim that the dire problems in capitalism are consequences of state interventions. money = free speech is a notion that does not make any goddamn sense. if the supreme court decided that way, it is yet another sign that we don't need the supreme court, nor any other state provided brainless political organization, disconnected from reality. especially in the era of the internet. in the US, democracy is rather high level, and people are lamenting about it because other people vote "incorrectly". sorry, in a democracy, people might vote not to your taste. deal with it.
Aug 16 2011: @ Krisztián - regarding
1) "money = free speech is a notion that does not make any goddamn sense"
2) "in the US, democracy is rather high level, and people are lamenting about it because other people vote 'incorrectly'"
1) Excuse me for abbreviating. In January 2010 the US Supreme Court ruled in "Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission" that limitation of political contributions is tantamount to limitation of free speech. Free speech is guaranteed in the (US) Constitution. Therefore from that point on, no limitations on the amount, source or recipient of political contributions will be allowed. (money = speech). This effectively allows, for example, the People's Republic of China, to set up and fund a political action committee in the US and contribute unlimited funds to the election of a favored candidate. "Goddamn sense" in this instance is what the US Supreme Court says it is, since they assumed the right hundreds of years ago to rule on the legality of anything - anything.
2) Democracy in the US is overrated, misunderstood and as abused as a red headed step child. I apparently mistakenly thought you at least had experience living here. I lament the demise of democracy because corporate interests have suborned the 'vote' by bribery, legal actions, misinformation and bad information, not because informed competent voters disagree with me. Multiple instances of fraudulent vote counting are documented (which actually secured the election of THE candidate), and the US Supreme Court appointed George Bush president (which is not anywhere listed in the powers assigned to the Court, nor is there any precedent in law). These are not consistent with anyone's definition of democracy, not even yours I suspect.
Aug 16 2011: @ Krisztián
I don't want to debate historic communities. At all.
You wrote: "i can't follow you. "monopolistic capitalism" is an oxymoron"
And likewise I do not understand what you mean here by oxymoron. For me, all capitalism is by its nature, monopolistic (motivated solely by profit), since it does not ever seek to allow competition and will always attempt to eradicate it (to make more and more profit). You, on the other hand, magically believe that there will ALWAYS BE competition... History has multiple examples of monopolies being broken up (to restore competition) by reasonable and democratic governments.
However, "free"capitalism has NOT to my best information EVER existed anywhere on planet Earth. So this is becoming theoretical, like the first topic (historical communities).
Entrepreneurism (entrepreneur, enterpriser) is small scale capitalism: local and integrated into the community, 'mom and pop' operations, small business. Crédit Suisse, Exxon, GE, and the like are not entrepreneurial and their assets are so spread out as to prevent any chance of complete collapse, which is always a threat to small businesses. It may be a neologism, but it is comprehensible (outside of your framework perhaps but still comprehensible).
Aug 16 2011: oh boy. this conversation is turning into a direction i don't like. "equals to" relation is very different than "part of". and "money" is very different than "contribution". the cited court decision is that contribution is a *form* of free speech. you interpret it as money equals free speech. you need to be much much more thorough and careful when formulating and interpreting arguments.
i'm fed up with that argument that democracy is not in effect because ... and here comes some elusive, symbolic talk. i hear that here too, always from people who happen to disagree with the current establishment, and tries to cover up their own failure to understand why things went wrong. in the era of the internet, it is simply a serious case of bs to say that money controls information. the fact is, stupidity controls information. fox news might be shameful, but also the people who watch it.
Aug 27 2011: You can quibble over money vs contribution but its just rhetoric. The concept in question is whether bribery is a justified means of influence.
"it is simply a serious case of bs to say that money controls information". Are you kidding me? Do we live on the same planet? Are you blind to the fact that Americans are being lied to relentlessly by mainstream media? Do you really think Fox is alone? They all toe the party line.
Aug 16 2011: and yet again, you mix words in the worst possible way. "one track minded" does not equal "monopolistic". the word monopoly has a well defined meaning. either learn it, or stop using it. state is a monopoly. free market capitalism makes it very hard for monopolies to form. in fact, the very few near-monopolies produced by the market do not show any signs of being a monopoly. however, state created monopolies are indeed that bad. profit motive is very very different. profit motive means we want to employ resources in an effective manner, that is, produce more from less. i can't see the problem with that mindset.
the fact that you can't comprehend large scale enterprises does not stop them being enterprises. many times we saw large corporations fail, and small ones take over. it happens all the time. size does not protect you in any way from failure.
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Oh the rest of the article? Talks of advertising cuts by auto manufacturers and financial services seem almost silly since we hadn't even inaugurated the new President when this occurred. What seems more important now is how are they using my money tax dollars to move the needle forward now and what the environment for marketing and advertising is today.
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