How Wall Street is Scamming America
Posted: October 20, 2011 Filed under: Occupy Wall Street | Tags: 99%, currencies, economics, federal reserve, journalism, occupation. politics, occupy wall street, taxes, wall street Leave a commentVideo Version:
For a quick background on myself, I am a former currencies trader, and nearly everything that follows are things that I learned from others in the industry, most of them who made far more money than I ever did. You will probably never be taught this in economics class
Let’s start with the base unit of money, the dollar. In the past a currency used to be a tangible thing—a gold coin, a goat, etc, and many people today blame the shift away from the gold standard as the fundamental change in the nature of the monetary system, but they are wrong. The fundamental change is not that it’s not backed by a hard-asset (this credit system of money has been around for thousands of years), but that it has entirely been removed from the physical world and exists in the unconstrained digital world. Today, money is nothing more than a computer input on a complicated excel spreadsheet.
5 Ways the 1% Will Try to Infiltrate and Destroy the 99% Movement
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Understanding Occupy Wall Street’s Organization and Advice for Success
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Occupy Wall Street – The Next Stage – Do not Become a Political Party!
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The Alchemist Analysis – Religion, Romanticism, Entitlement (Why I Hate Paulo Coelho)
Posted: October 3, 2011 Filed under: Popular Culture | Tags: alchemist, books, coelho, entitlement, fiction, life, literature, media, paulo, paulo coelho, philosophy, religion, review, romanticism 5 CommentsVideo Version:
Overview – To briefly summarize, the lessons in the novel are:
1) This book is wise, and if you can’t see that you’re a stupid barbarian
2) Nature gives you legitimate and accurate signals based on your personal affairs
3) The universe will conspire to give you what you want
4) You should act on your dreams (literally)
5) You become a part of the Soul of the Universe (?) by chasing these dreams
Hopefully this list alone has illustrated while I believe the novel to be a pile of sanctimonious crap. I want to clarify that I am not against people working toward achieving their goals; I myself have a passion and dreams I’d like to accomplish. However, that is not what I believe the book actually promotes.
The Human Fiction 