Banking & Business

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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Created on Monday, 10 September 2012 19:37

In this presentation based on his book by the same title, Dan Pink explains that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world, is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges.

 

The European Debt Crisis Explained

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Created on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:10

The sovereign debt levels around the globe are unprecedented for countries in peacetime. The odds of more restructurings (like the recent one in Greece) and/or defaults are higher than most believe. So the 64 trillion dollar question is ‘when does debt become unsustainable’? This video explains how and why the debt levels of numerous countries have reached disastrous levels. Since the bill coming due in the form of maturing bonds is so large, policymakers in Europe have no easy way out. "Solutions" may include printing money to create inflation or debt restructurings/defaults or a combination of the two.

 

In this presentation (dated 18 December 2011) Chris Ciovacco of Ciovacco Capital Management compares healthy markets to the current state of affairs. Which investments tend to perform well during deflation/defaults/restructurings? Which investments tend to perform well during periods of inflation/money printing by central banks? And also, what is a ‘back-door bazooka’?

 

 

An Inconvenient Death

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Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 18:54

‘An Inconvenient Death’ is a non-partisan, non-political film that investigates the complexities of the deteriorating American economy and presents the historical, governmental and political reasons for why the American middle class is slowly fading.

Theft By Deception – Deciphering The Federal Income Tax Of The US

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Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:49

The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.

A handful of government lawyers fabricated an intricate maze of ‘legalese’ which created a perfectly Constitutional tax (a tax on income derived from certain types of international and foreign commerce), but which at the same time could easily be misread to give the impression that the income of all Americans is subject to the tax.

For decades, the American people have been conditioned to believe that the income tax applies to all income and trained to pay "their" taxes. All the while however, hidden in a previously nearly universally misunderstood (therefore misapplied) section of the law known as Subchapter N, Section 861 was the truth that the income tax is NOT a direct tax on incomes, but is an indirect tax imposed only on those individuals engaged in certain types of international commerce.

Most Americans are engaged in purely domestic commerce (commerce that occurs entirely within and between the 50 states). Subchapter N proves that domestic income received by residents of the United States (most incomes) is not taxed, due to Constitutional restrictions on Congress' power to tax.

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