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May 25, 2009: Debt is not a good product
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| Douglas Rushkoff | Debt is not a good product |
| Douglas Rushkoff | NYTimes magazine - as if to convince to get back into the swing of all this |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Dr. John - Deal (by the Grateful Dead) |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Zhenya Fomin started Green Homeworks, a sustainable contracting business, as a side project in hopes of making a small difference in his community and world. Over time it has turned into a flourishin |
| Douglas Rushkoff | design and planning. Zhenya is currently attending PA University to complete his masters in sustainable design. |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Porno for Pyros - Thick of it All |
| Douglas Rushkoff & Miquela Craytor | conversation with Kevin Hughes, bond trader, Smith Barney What the hell is a bond? |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Ramones and out |
Mon. 5/25/09 7:12pm
From:
Charles-A Rovira
Is anyone there?
Mon. 5/25/09 7:13pm
From:
Brian Oregon
The video is really good Jeanene!
Mon. 5/25/09 7:14pm
From:
Charles-A Rovira
Hi Brian
Mon. 5/25/09 7:15pm
From:
Brian Oregon
Hello Charles.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:15pm
From:
Brian Oregon
The level of "the market" is an indicator of the power of the plutocracy over the rest of society.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:16pm
From:
Charles-A
Keep listening because he's got a good guest coming.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:16pm
From:
Brian Oregon
The stats show that something like 85% of stocks are owned by 10% of the population, even considering mutual funds, etc.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:18pm
From:
charles-A
Its less that that. Controlling interest is much more controlled
Mon. 5/25/09 7:19pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
Your my hero
Mon. 5/25/09 7:20pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
Your my hero
Mon. 5/25/09 7:21pm
From:
Charles-A.
I'll take that as a good thing. :-)
Mon. 5/25/09 7:22pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
Green is good but do you make money?
Mon. 5/25/09 7:22pm
From:
Charles-A
You make money, but you start small and THEN grow.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:24pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
Are you union? Unions dont like you,
Mon. 5/25/09 7:25pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
Unions are afraid of you
Mon. 5/25/09 7:25pm
From:
Charles-A.
I'm pro-union, but I'm currently unemployed
Mon. 5/25/09 7:28pm
From:
Charles-A.
I don't think fear is the right way to motivate people to give their best
Mon. 5/25/09 7:28pm
From:
Brian Oregon
Oregon Institute of Technology has a BS program in renewable energy engineering.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:31pm
From:
Brian Oregon
and at OIT they are building a geothermal power plant for the campus -- not ground source heat pump, but actually using 200 degree water from a well that will produce steam to drive turbiens to make the electricity to run teh campus.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:32pm
From:
Charles-A
That would be good to take.
I love the idea of running on geo-thermal
Mon. 5/25/09 7:34pm
From:
Charles-A.
Now Douglas is talking bonds...
Mon. 5/25/09 7:35pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
I have been very lucky, I have been UNemplyed 4 weeks since 1976, I have always had a job.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:35pm
From:
Brian Oregon
(My house here in Klamath Falls Oregon has its own geothermal well that heats our tap water (no water heater!) and runs through a radiator to heat our house in the winter. This is one of the few neighborhoods in the US where (some) people have domestic geothermal wells.)
Mon. 5/25/09 7:36pm
From:
Charles-A.
I've got a spotty job history. I make good money, when I make it, but its spotty.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:37pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
I'm a floor cleaning specialist. However in this economy floors take a back burner. To the Bottom line in the shopping malls
Mon. 5/25/09 7:38pm
From:
Charles-A.
My heavens, I had a friend who used to live in Port Angeles.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:39pm
From:
Sr.hairy Hymen
this is a cools show
Mon. 5/25/09 7:39pm
From:
Charles-A.
As the shopping malls get stressed, the dirt on the floor is not their top priority
Mon. 5/25/09 7:42pm
From:
Charles-A.
Douglas and his guest are talking about bonds (not James Bond, :-) and I like the guest. Kevin Hughes is a bond trader who makes sense.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:45pm
From:
Charles-A.
I used to program bond calculations to 11 digits on either side of the decimal point.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:48pm
From:
Charles-A.
You still there Sr.hairy Hymen ?
Mon. 5/25/09 7:50pm
From:
Charles-A.
How about you, Brian Oregon?
Mon. 5/25/09 7:53pm
From:
Charles-A.
<sigh>
Mon. 5/25/09 7:53pm
From:
Brian Oregon
Still here...
Mon. 5/25/09 7:55pm
From:
Charles-A.
Thanks. :-)
Mon. 5/25/09 7:57pm
From:
Charles-A.
The problem partially started when the bond rating firms took junk and re-classified it as AAA.
Mon. 5/25/09 7:59pm
From:
Charles-A.
Lets hope we're still alive when the system recouver
Mon. 5/25/09 8:01pm
From:
Brian Oregon
Or hope for some post-plutocratic system of getting resources to the people who need them (where profit is not the primary goal).
Mon. 5/25/09 8:02pm
From:
Brian Oregon
They changed the Mt Hoe call letters -- it IS wMFU now.
Mon. 5/25/09 8:08pm
From:
Brian Oregon
um, Mt. Hope...
Tue. 5/26/09 9:29am
From:
noah
suze orman. pronounced like. suzy.
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