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What History Tells Us About the Market - WSJ.com
Graham summarized it this way: "...stocks always sell at unduly low prices after a boom collapses. As the president of the New York Stock Exchange testified, 'in times like these frightened people give the United States of ours away.' Or stated differently, it happens because those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap."
Openmoney
"The purpose of the open money project is to bring together and organize the people and resources necessary for the development and propagation of open money everywhere."
Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
CNNMoney.com Market Report - Jun. 30, 2008
Dow and S&P 500 see the biggest losses for the month since the Great Depression despite edging higher Monday.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0503g.asp
he trail. He listed a bunch of books that he read, so I went and checked them all out. Some I liked, some I didn't, but each one led me to other books, some I liked, some I didn't, etc, etc, on and on, until the nest thing I knew I was immersed in learning and knowledge. If you let yourself, once you start down that path, you can keep going forever. Almost all knowledge is intertwined if you follow the links.
How Strategic Imagination Happens - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque
"What do these examples have in common? They're examples of strategic imagination that required firms to be naïve: to start from scratch, to see, in Technicolor, a better world not constrained by today's stifling and suffocating status quo."
Kevin Kelly: The Reality of Depending on True Fans
Robert Rich: "In reality the life of a "microcelebrity" resembles more the fate of Sisyphus, whose boulder rolls back down the mountain every time he reaches the summit."
Divide and rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
n politics and sociology, divide and rule (derived from Latin divide et impera) (also known as divide and conquer) is a combination of political, military and economic strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
whenever he would try to do anything that was meant to have an effect, the group would somehow quash it
The Wealth of Networks: download PDFs of the book
"You can download the whole book in one PDF: download whole book (3.6 MB) Or you can download each chapter individually"
social capital: civic community and education
"Social capital researchers, and Robert Putnam in particular, have done us a great service. ... his central message is surely true. Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric."
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