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Greensboro CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 21, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

Drury Inn & Suites,

Greensboro, NC

$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 9, 2010

8:15am to 4:30pm

Days Inn, Raleigh-Airport

Research Triangle Park 1000 Airport Drive Morrisville, NC

$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen
After What May Happen Next"

September 2, 2010

8:15am to 4:30pm

Drury Inn & Suites,

415 W. T Harris Boulevard
Charlotte, NC

John Fund on Pollster Scott Rasmussen

…Whose judgment do you trust more:
that of the American people or America’s political leaders?

Has the federal government become its own special interest group?

Do government and big business often work together
in ways that hurt consumers and investors?

Those who identify with the government on two or more questions are defined as the political class…

Before the financial crisis [...]

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Exploitation by the Mainstream Media?

After receiving the same information,

what are the chances of 100 people thinking relatively the same thing

or acting in a similar way?

 

34% of Americans said the First Amendment goes [...]

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Could some who follow statistical irregularities, take advantage of relative unawareness of the many, prior to collective realization?

There’s been some suggestions that the payrolls report

had been distorted by the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics

accounts for business births and deaths

 

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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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Why would some in the federal government want GDP to look better than it is for immediate mass information consumption, only to revise the data lower later, when most won’t know?

Via http://econompicdata.blogspot.com/

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1929-30 Quotes

Many of the low prices as a result of this hysterical selling
are not likely to be reached again in many years

R. W. McNeel
Analyst
New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929

American business has been diverting a substantial part of its attention,
its energies and its resources on the speculative game.

…Now that irrelevant, alien and [...]

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History Repeats?

“We do believe the recovery is strong.”

While rising debt levels are a risk to growth, mainly in Europe,
authorities in the region “are now really committed to solve it”
and “the problem has been contained.”

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Bloomberg, June 10, 2010

Statements by high officials are practically always misleading
when they are designed to bolster a falling market

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Is China, Palestine and Israel America?: Is what you’re shown by government what is, or what some want you to believe, or something else?

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war
the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture
and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation

These contradictions are not accidental
nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy

They are deliberate exercises in doublethink

George Orwell

In Leaked Lecture, Details of China’s News [...]

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Has everything happened the way you think it did?

You are so intent that you believe
only what you believe that you believe
that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe
without believing that you believe it

Orson Scott Card

Would you rather be happy
or know?

You take the blue pill
the story ends
you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you [...]

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On Peak Oil: Could long term economic recovery be limited to available and/or affordable energy supplies?

Branson warns that oil crunch: Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunch

Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.

…Other British executives who will support the warning include Ian Marchant, chief executive of [...]

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