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"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 21, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

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$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 9, 2010

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Was it justifiable for the baby boom and their elders, to promise themselves tens of trillions of unfunded benefits, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for future generations to pay for?

Why would some of one generation

want to covertly confiscate another’s wealth?

 

It is grossly irresponsible for the baby boom generation

 to expect [...]

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Why isn't the the government testing for Mercury etc..., from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?

FDA Not Testing Gulf Seafood for Mercury, Arsenic or Other Heavy Metals Because “We Do Not Expect to See an Increase Based on this Spill”

Congressman Markey’s subcomittee…got the Food and Drug Administration to admit that fish are not being tested from oiled areas…

The FDA also admitted that it is not testing for mercury, arsenic or [...]

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Do erased mistakes replicate faster?

If…the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus
and in reality the result was grossly less,
Winston’s job was to change previous versions,
so the old version would agree with the new one.

George Orwell

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Can some come to irrational conclusions to justify erroneous assumptions?

The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold.

…We trace the deeper roots of this failure to the profession’s insistence on constructing models, that…disregard the key elements driving outcomes in real-world markets.

The economics profession [...]

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Geo-Politics and business is Zugzwang

Zugzwang…describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move – the player would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it [...]

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If borrowing to pay for tax cutshelps an economy in the short rundo unpaid for tax cutsretard growth in the long run?

The Laffer Curve, anyone know what this says?

 

It says that at this point on the revenue curve

you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at [...]

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Israel, America, Saudi Arabia and Iran: Why do survivors survive?

Are there times when compromise isn’t appropriate?

US battleships cross Suez Canal

According to Al-Quds al-Arabi report, 11 American warships, one Israeli vessel, crossed Suez Canal into Red Sea

Eleven American battleships and an Israeli one crossed the Suez Canal Friday en route to the Red Sea, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported.

According to the report, [...]

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Oil Spill Questions of Risk and Return

In many cases what looks like risk-taking is not courage at all
it’s just unrealistic optimism

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds

Unrealistic optimism means you are taking the risk
because you don’t know the odds

Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Laureate, Economics

Could the difference between something that “may” [...]

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“What would happen if a tropical storm hit the oil floating in the Gulf?”

Hurricane vs. Oil Slick

…the annual hurricane season begins on June 1, and some scientists are predicting an above-average year with 15 named storms and eight hurricanes. It sounds like a deadly combination—but what would actually happen if a storm like Katrina tracked across the spill in the Gulf?

It could make things even worse. At least [...]

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What does spending more than you make look like?

 Chart Via Business Insider

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