Books to read while on the window ledge

[sarah_9]

Hello,

Books did not provide you ultimate solution, but it can help you in developing a better insight for the particular problem leading towards the solution recently i finished Jim Clemmer`s Table on The Moose, though it did not solve my problems, but it helps in better visualization of a situation.


Regards,
sarah_9


Leadership Development Training

 

[SFG75]

Hello,

Books did not provide you ultimate solution, but it can help you in developing a better insight for the particular problem leading towards the solution recently i finished Jim Clemmer`s Table on The Moose, though it did not solve my problems, but it helps in better visualization of a situation.


Regards,
sarah_9


Leadership Development Training

WHAT!!????:blink::blink:

 

[sarah_9]

Hello,

Hey friend why are so confused, all i want to say that books are not the ultimate solution provider of any problem, but reading helps in developing positive attitude, it give you an insight to think in different way, i was phasing some professional crisis, and was quite stuck in it, because i was thinking in my usual way, not trying to think differently or with different attitude but reading help you to concentrate more and think more and this helps you is developing a new insight, helping you in sorting out your problem be it a professional problem or personal.




Regards,
sarah_9

 

[beer good]

i was phasing some professional crisis

Did you set it to "stun" or "vaporize"?

 

[SFG75]

Did you set it to "stun" or "vaporize"?

You can only stun or vaporize something by using a photon torpedoe

More specifically,.........

Photon torpedoes are a standard ship-based weapon armed with an antimatter warhead. They are present in every version of the Star Trek series and are a standard weapon on almost every Federation ship, though in Star Trek: Enterprise the titular ship uses less powerful spatial torpedoes until receiving the more powerful "photonic" (as the characters describe them) variant. Photon torpedoes first appear on a Starfleet ship in the original series' episode "Arena" as part of the USS Enterprise's armament — in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Expanse", the NX-01 Enterprise first receives photon torpedoes. Smaller Starfleet craft such as shuttlecraft and Runabouts can be armed with "micro-torpedoes", a scaled-down version of photon torpedoes designed for use on craft too small to accommodate the full-sized weapon.

When fired, photon torpedoes usually appear as a spiky ball of energy of varying colors, such as red,[19] orange,[20] yellow, blue, or green.[21] The energy output of a photon torpedo, according to the Technical Manuals is a maximum theoretical yield of 25 Isotons and a maximum rated yield of 18.5 Isotons. According to the TNG Technical Manual, photon torpedoes use 1.5 kg of matter and 1.5 kg of antimatter. The resulting energy output from the interaction would be 2.70x1017Joules of energy (by E=mc2). This amount of energy released would be equivalent to 64.5315 Megatons of TNT.

:devil:

 

[SFG75]

Wow, I go to goodwill and what do I find? A copy of one of the books that I hyperlinked to in the first post in this thread. Sweet! I will start The Coming Economic Collapse tonight, I need something to scarethe daylights out of me. After Y2K and the last year of the Bush presidency, things have resumed a bit of normalcy.

 

[Libra]

Wow, I go to goodwill and what do I find? A copy of one of the books that I hyperlinked to in the first post in this thread. Sweet! I will start The Coming Economic Collapse tonight, I need something to scarethe daylights out of me. After Y2K and the last year of the Bush presidency, things have resumed a bit of normalcy.

:lol:

 

[SFG75]

Just finished The Coming Economic Collapse. The book was written in 2006 and the author has made some dead on predictions. He predicted that if the housing market slumped(and it did) that massive government spendig would be required to shore up the economy. Not only has this occured, but oil prices have even fallen. At this time, I was paying rapt attention waiting for hte next prediction. The author maintains that while oil prics are low now, they will explode and that we will eventually see $200.00 a barrel prices. The author says that this will be a permanent feature of American life and that if we are to survive it-individuals can do a number of things. First and foremost, invest in gold, oil, and prominent Chinese and Indian companies. He believes you will cause a great amount of trouble for yourself if you invest in bonds, long term mutual funds, as well as creating a diversified stock portfolio.

The author maintains that an inevitable depression is only being delayed by the government planting the seeds of hyperinflation through massive government spending. He states that they are calculating that they can stave of a depression and instead, have us go through inflation.

One of the more interesting dire predictions is that America will "down shift" and that we will have to go back to 19th century agrarian lifestyle. In otherwords, major cities and suburbs will have to be abandoned and that goods and services will come from small communities and local businesses. State governments will work at skeleton capacity and local government will become the most important entity.

O.K., well now on to another apocalyptic book.

 

[SFG75]

I have to admit, I was beginning to wonder whether or not I could find another "end of the world" book, but alas, I was successful! I went to goodwill and found Larry Burkett's The Coming Economic Earthquake.

So far, I think I know the recipe to writing books like this.

1.)Point out repeatedly the amount of money that government spends. After all, people are too stupid to figure out that the country is big and that in flush times, we will pay things off in the bilions and trillions, not based on the average debt per child or in the millions.

2.)Make it sound so that the government is out to own everything

3.)Completely ignore the role that incompetent private companies were so messed up, that they would screw up a two car funeral.

4.)See #2.

Hope to start it soon, will post later.

 

[SFG75]

The years(unlike this thread) have changed, but the problem is still the same. Add another two to the list:

Meltdown: A free-market look at why the stock market collapsed, the economy tanked, and how government bail outs will make things worse.; Thomas E. Woods

Will America grow up before it grows old?; Peter G. Peterson

The Peterson book is a slog to get through, they don't call economics the dismal science for nothing. Peter Peterson's life story is fascinating, I try to read anything that he has written, or has been written about him.

 

[SFG75]

Just finished:

Currency wars: The making of the next financial crisis by James Rickards.

Some books come at you with a clear set agenda. The Fed is run by the Bildergers, the Illuminati, or the midnight shift at a Kenosha Burger King. This guy equally skewers Keynesian economists and laissez-faire oriented economists. According to Rickards, the world has seen two currently wars and we are presently on course to have a third one. An apt comparison according to the author, is world war two and its various theaters of conflict. Rickards predicts that the Euro and the dollar will skirmish in Europe, the dollar and the Chinese Yuan will have it out in the Pacific rim and the Euro and Yuan will vie for supremacy in Eurasia. The war has started through Chinese efforts to devalue the Yuan and by U.S. efforts to use quantitative easing to combat this devaluation. This is one complex book with twists and turns, many of which are perhaps presented to confuse or muddle the reader. Unless you have an M.A. in economics, you will surely be lost in some of the predicted maladies that are set to befall us.

 

[Meadow337]

Will America grow up before it grows old?

Excellent question.

 

[SFG75]

Excellent question.

LOL-Perhaps a clarification is due. Peterson is one who could be characterized as a "deficit hawk" and he's been on that branch for a LONG time. To him, "growing up" would mean not printing money left and right to pay for social services and obligations owed to people through social security and other benefits at a pace that seems, eternal. I'm not sure if you have a similar problem in your neck of the woods, but it's a conversation stateside that is being asked more frequently.

 

[Meadow337]

Well LOL perhaps I need to clarify my perspective. In many instances in its dealings with the world America behaves much like a spoiled teenager (in my eyes). Sometimes even younger. Take for example America's attitude to signing the Kyoto Accord - their attitude is 'I won't do it unless so-and-so does it first'. I mean REALLY? How about such mature notions as leading by example?

Actually I find America's attitude to agreeing to limit greenhouse gases completely reprehensible. They outsource the worst polluting industries such as aluminium smelting to developing countries and then turn around and point a finger at those nations for pollution and tell them they must clean up their act, when almost the entire reason they have massively polluting industries is because America didn't want those industries in their own backyard and to add insult to injury is taking advantage of cheap labour and production costs to keep the cost of the goods down whilst managing to avoid taking responsibility for any pollution that is still ongoing in the US because 'they must go first'.

And there is an ongoing tit-for-tat retaliation between China and America (in which NEITHER country shows much maturity quite honestly) in trade. The one dumps a product, the other imposes sanctions then the other imposes other sanctions or dumps some product in retaliation. Then every one moans that the other is being unfair. My attitude - GROW UP!

The world is a small place these days and getting smaller by the second. We all need to work together to sort the problems out and to trade with each other. Perhaps I'm too idealistic or simplistic but I kind of equate countries to villages of yesteryear. In order to survive economically a village had to have its own sound internal economic structure whilst providing some kind of essential and/or specialised service to outsiders in trade. Nations are no different. They have to have a sound internal economic infrastructure of goods and services whilst ensuring they have something to trade with on the international scene either in terms of essential products such as raw materials or specialised products. Nations need to develop their own unique 'signature' products as well.

And running around spitting insults at each other whilst playing stupid tit-for-tat games gets every one nowhere fast. (And spying on each other just add another level of stupidity to the whole thing).