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How To Use Facebook Marketing To Destroy Your Credibility
All day long I’ve been getting invites via Facebook from some technology firm I’ve never heard of, inviting me to join facebook so that I can connect with them. Everybody gets these types of lame attempts at “social media marketing” from desperate clueless companies (not to mention that half the time these solicitations are just spoofs, infected with something or attempts to phish your login details). In this case, the invite really was sent via Facebook’s invitation engine, and all day long they kept coming….
Investing Local: The Game-Changer for a Dismal Economy
A little less than a year ago while I was driving up north for my annual dose of solitude in a cabin outside of Algonquin Park, I had somewhat of an epiphany. It came after the realization that the miserable urban sprawl that was decimating ever more land around Toronto for sterile subdivisions of cubical houses and big box stores was reaching ever outward from the GTA (green belt, hah!). I was listening to Damon Vickers “The Day After the Dollar Crashes”, which was less about what happens after the dollar finally crashes, and more of a call-to-arms… Read the rest
You Can’t Kill Capitalism…It’s Already Dead
When I was a child, I was proud of my heritage and the fact that I counted among my distant relations none other than Otto Von Bismarck, the inventor of the modern welfare state as we know it today. As I matured and learned more about things like economics, math and the works of Charles Ponzi, I began to downplay my roots to Herr Bismarck.
Like a politician who’s largest campaign contributor was just pulled over by police, drunk and with the body of a teenage hooker in the trunk, it occurred to me that this connection… Read the rest
When the World goes to Hell, I go to Panama
Today was the 6th worst stock market crash in history. It reminded me of the last time I was in Panama during what turned out to be the nadir of the Global Financial Crisis. My long time mentor and friend Sieg Pedde, a lifelong real estate investor who taught me a lot about investing in general had been working on a property development in Panama and I had decided to become a partner in it.
At the time the entire world was going berserk: stock markets had been tanking for a year, the global economy was threatening to… Read the rest
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