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WaPo: Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On By Niall Ferguson Sunday, September 21, 2008; B01

emmineb — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:28:38 GMT

Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century? Many commentators have warned that the past week's financial mayhem signaled a major political setback for the United States as well as an economic one. "Why should the rest of the world ever again take seriously the American free-market model after this debacle?" a leading British journalist asked me last Thursday. This crisis, he argued, was to economics what the Iraq war was to U.S. foreign policy: a fatal blow to the credibility of American claims to global primacy.

CNET News.com: 'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy

emmineb — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:03:25 GMT

Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. The controversy gathered steam Monday when Linden Lab, which publishes Second Life, posted a blog alerting residents of the virtual world to the existence of a program or bot called CopyBot, which allows someone to copy any object in Second Life. That includes goods such as clothing that people purchase for their in-world avatars, and even the virtual PCs that computer giant Dell announced Tuesday it is going to sell in the digital world.

CouchSurfing

emmineb — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:22:51 GMT

CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.

In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled "The Peter Principle Game."

emmineb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:17:49 GMT

Index of Economic Freedom 2007

emmineb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:47:43 GMT

The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, things like tax rates and property rights. View scores and rankings for any country, along with detailed data and background analysis. [Visit the Countries »] or [See Top 10 »] A Renewed Index The 2007 methodology has been revised to provide an even clearer picture of economic freedom by using data-driven equations rather than performance brackets which allows countries to be graded using a percent score rather than a 1–5 rating. In addition, labor freedom has been added as a variable. We continue the tradition of blending "Ten Freedoms" equally to produce a simple, unbiased overall score for each country.

iTulip.com Retrospective 2006 + ka poom theory

emmineb — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:25:40 GMT

"Here's the grade on Ka-Poom 1999 based on what happened since then with a revised Ka-Poom prediction below. On predicting the timing, length and extent of the deflationary or "Ka" part of the cycle, I'll give myself an "A." It started from the middle of 2000 and ended in the middle of 2002, as predicted. Inflation during 2001 averaged 1.6% for the year as shown in the updated 2006 graph below and it hit bottom at -3.3% in October 2001 as shown in the 1999 original above. Here's where reality and the prediction diverged."

Microsoft developer Dave Stutz parting advice to Microsoft - Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software -

emmineb — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:36:57 GMT

...Exciting new networked applications are being written. Time is not standing still. Microsoft must survive and prosper by learning from the open source software movement and by borrowing from and improving its techniques. Open source software is as large and powerful a wave as the Internet was, and is rapidly accreting into a legitimate alternative to Windows. It can and should be harnessed. To avoid dire consequences, Microsoft should favor an approach that tolerates and embraces the diversity of the open source approach, especially when network-based integration is involved. There are many clever and motivated people out there, who have many different reasons to avoid buying directly into a Microsoft proprietary stack. Microsoft must employ diplomacy to

Mischievous Ramblings » It’s Not Just Abusive. It’s Stupid

emmineb — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:03:39 GMT

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Our Epistemological Depression — The American, A Magazine of Ideas | By Jerry Z. Muller Thursday, January 29, 2009

emmineb — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:48:34 GMT

Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today. The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide incentives and an inability to coordinate information about supply and effective demand. The history of capitalism, by contrast, is the history of dialectical failure: it is a history of the creation of new institutions and practices that may be successful, even transformative for a while, but which eventually prove dysfunctional, either because their intrinsic weaknesses become more evident over time or because of a change in external circumstances.

Overheard in the Office

emmineb — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:24:20 GMT

Not All on the Same Day, As Her Suit Alleges