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Does a PMR increase productivity?

Give them autonomy, connection and confidence and they will build. Put a hammer in their hand and demand they hit the head, a bent nail will bite the wood. Final result based business organisation is a far more productive method of money making than narrow quantitative production control. (two ways of saying the same thing) [...]

On Betfair, the ASX, derivatives and all sports we love to gamble. We have become a gambling world. The only way to make money today is from gambling or from charging fees to gamble with others money. This should be a thesis on the damages and harm of such base drives as the will to [...]

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Like most of the 1%, Steve Jobs killed, or at the very least let people kill themselves to create his wealth. Steve Jobs was a normal guy just like us (but better) or so we thought,  he wore jeans and spoke in our language avoiding corporate jargon. Apple makes cool products that seem to look [...]

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Many people who advocate equality, democracy and a fair ethically sustainable future believe money is the enemy, they see those in power love money and control vast sums therefore money itself is evil. They think if we abandon markets, trade and money moving to a more collective bartering system the world will be a better [...]

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Update 7th October 2011: Today the Bank of England announced another round of quantitative easing (QE) making this QE2, 85 billion pounds created from thin air to buy “assets” (bonds, securities etc) in the hope some more fuel will spark the economic fires. They are not to worried by the 5 % inflation as they [...]

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Global investors are acting like a frightened baby monkey and the US treasury is their abusive parent. Yesterday global investors ran to the perceived safety of US treasuries (again) as more fears over European debt surfaced and overall fear of a global recession looked likely. Italy’s credit rating was down graded to A from A+, [...]

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“the discommodities of usury (lending money at interest) are, First, that it makes fewer merchants. For were it not for this lazy trade of usury, money would not lie still, but would in great part be employed upon merchandizing… the second, that it makes poor merchants. For, as a farmer cannot husband his ground so [...]

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The Power and Freedom of money

The life, power and freedom you have is given to you by other people, and theirs is given by you. The way we give and receive power, freedom and the basics we need to sur-vive is with money, and those systems created to exchange it: markets and the economy. So those things we value are [...]

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There is an economic fault line running throughout the world which today’s economic gurus seem unable to explain or remedy: the widening wealth and income gap between a tiny rich elite and multitudes of poor in every country between and within developed and developing nations. With global communications, the global economy, and our global environment, [...]

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