And here is the 5000 word piece discussing this überimportant topic.
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Invest in your country
You’d think they’d take just a minute or two to proof read this before blasting it out to gazillions of unsuspecting internet people.
E71
It’s becoming a reality…! I always knew that the successor of the E61i would be a bomb but this phone can’t be beaten!
The Boy Genius got their hands on a prototype and here’s what he had to say:
“This thing, in our opinion, is the best phone Nokia has made to date. That’s a very bold statement, we know.”
“From the design, to the specs, to the size, the feel — it has the entire package.”
Uhm, the question now which one will replace my E61i later this year: SE Xperia X1 or Nokia E71?
Northwest + Delta
Breaking: Northwest merges with Delta.
The world according to Americans
CIA World Factbook - Current Account Balance
Can you find the US? No..scroll down a little more!
$ -747,100,000,000 that’s the US current account balance.
“The unfunded liabilities of the US government amount to $500,000 per American household. As no more than one or two percent of American households can come up with this kind of cash, the US government is essentially bankrupt. The bankruptcy will worsen as offshoring moves more US GDP abroad while simultaneously raising the trade deficit and indebtedness of the country.”
- Paul Craig Roberts, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal.
You won’t lose this business card…
… but you won’t be able to read it either!
How Denis Kucinich can still become the next US president
The fun starts at 1:24.
Tesla Roadster
This car is H.O.T.
Not only does it look pretty good (Lotus Elise says ‘hi’), it’s also extremely efficient and only consumes the equivalent of 1.74 L/100 km (!). It’s sold out for all of 2008 and the base price is $98,000.
You’ll also be able to buy solar panels that you can then install on the roof of your house. Those panels then feed power to the Tesla Roadster. 100% gasoline- and guilt-free driving.
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Warren Buffett on the US trade deficit
Buffett explains what a trade deficit is in layman’s terms…
“In effect, our country has been behaving like an extraordinarily rich family that possesses an immense farm. In order to consume 4 percent more than we produce — that’s the trade deficit — we have, day by day, been both selling pieces of the farm and increasing the mortgage on what we still own.”
He goes on to explain why the US can spend like crazy…
“…we can behave today as we wish because our past financial behavior was so exemplary…”
…and warns that it will be over - sometimes.
“…our national credit card allows us to charge truly breathtaking amounts. But that card’s credit line is not limitless.”
AND he actually proposes a solution!
“We would achieve this balance by issuing what I will call Import Certificates (ICs) to all U.S. exporters in an amount equal to the dollar value of their exports. Each exporter would, in turn, sell the ICs to parties — either exporters abroad or importers here — wanting to get goods into the U.S. To import $1 million of goods, for example, an importer would need ICs that were the byproduct of $1 million of exports. The inevitable result: trade balance. ”
Buffe, we love ya! Now, let’s hope there will soon be a US president that has the balls to actually do something!
