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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

Arthur Laffter: “Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse”

Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

…if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work.

Incentives matter.

People can also change the timing of when [...]

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“More Cities on Brink of Bankruptcy”

Government spending is the ultimate tax on the economy

Milton Friedman
Economic Nobel Laureate

The possibility of a bankruptcy filing by the city of Harrisburg, Pa.,
 the state capital, looms large these days
and it could be the first in a series…

Kate Kelly
CNBC, Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Ponzi finance units must increase its outstanding debt
in [...]

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Brazil debt auction failure and concern in Hungary

Illusions commend themselves to us
because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead

We must therefore accept it…when they…collide with a bit of reality
against which they are dashed to pieces

Sigmund Freud

“Hungary’s forint weakened against the euro,
erasing earlier gains after Napi.hu reported deputy chairman
of the ruling Fidesz party, [...]

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Romanian Debt Sale Failure

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom
brought on by credit expansion

The question is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as a result of abandonment of credit expansion
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved

Ludwig von Mises

The state rejected all [...]

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What could Brazil’s debt sale failure mean for some US municipalities?

Brazil has canceled the sale of its longest fixed-rate local bonds three times in the past month after Europe’s debt crisis eroded demand for less-traded assets.

The government received no bids it found acceptable for the 150 million reais ($81 million) of 10 percent notes due in 2021 offered yesterday.

…While yields on the so-called NTN-Fs have [...]

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Could Los Angeles Default?

Los Angeles on the Brink of Bankruptcy

Los Angeles is facing a terminal fiscal crisis: Between now and 2014 the city will likely declare bankruptcy. Yet Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council have been either unable or unwilling to face this fact.

…The mayor can’t control the economy, but he could have chosen to control spending [...]

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What is a Kleptocracy?

…while stimulus may have helped avert crisis, the process made clear that crony capitalism is alive and well.

…more stratified, more complex societies are in essence Kleptocracies, where those in power re-distribute societal wealth to themselves. Those at the bottom of the society’s pyramid accept this unequal, non-egalitarian state of affairs because they too benefit from [...]

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Dylan Ratigan on Crony Capitalism

…As Americans, I believe we reject Communism because it historically has allowed a tiny group of people to consolidate complete control over national resources (including people), in the process stifling competition, freedom and choice.

 …a culture of exploitation and a small powerbase formed by cronyism and nepotism are the hallmarks of a communist system that steals [...]

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To not raise taxes, does Guilford County, NC intend to spend $36,695,976 more than expected revenue in FY 2010-11?

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed
whatever follies I have witnessed…
have been the consequence of action without thought

Bernard Baruch
American financier, and presidential advisor

Summary of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances
Fy 2010 – 2011 Proposed Guilford County Budget: Page 18

FY 2010-11 TOTAL Expenditures                   $586,299,343 
.

Beginning Fund Balance                                        [...]

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Is Guilford County, NC going to burn through $89,857,200 of savings in two years?

People do not like to think

If one thinks, one must reach conclusions

Conclusions are not always pleasant

Helen Keller

Summary of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances
Fy 2010 – 2011 Proposed Guilford County Budget
 
Page 18

FY 2009-10      Beginning Fund Balance                       $ 181,035,639
FY 2010-11      Ending Fund Balance*                            -$ 91,178,439

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