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Internet communication has evolved drastically, yet email still remains the foundation of communication for business and personal use. Based on the fact that it survived being overtaken by a number of other means, it looks like email will be the primary use for communications for the foreseeable future. Recent revelations about the NSA Prism program […]
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What is Tor? The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are […]
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Is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) dead? SEO developed into a quasi-industry because of a few factors during the post .com boom, mostly supported by the domination of Google and the lack of technology understanding from users and businesses. Businesses knew they needed to get ‘on the internets’ but few new what this meant. So they […]
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The internet promised to change the world, change business, how we live, how society functions. Used for a long time for military, academic, scientific, and specific corporate use, consumer use of the WWW exploded in the mid to late 90’s being further fueled by the .com boom. While B2B and enterprise applications were being developed […]
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An underlying meme proliferated throughout the American economic system is ownership. The so called “American Dream” is to own; own a home, own a car, own as much as you can; and keep it all in your name. Many American teenagers and 20 somethings of many social classes experience a brief period of freedom in […]
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A custodian maintains custody of your funds. When you open an account at a bank, brokerage house, or hedge fund, at some point you transfer assets to the institution who holds them for you in your name (Your account name). If funds are not on your person in cash or on your property, they are […]
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A series of data which normally would be considered anomalous is growing at such an accelerated rate, it’s no longer ‘black swan’ data; now the flock seems to be all black and it’s flying north for the winter. Take a look at the following chart showing Consolidated Foreign Transactions in Long Term US Assets: (click […]
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During the beginning years of the Forex market, trends developed that lasted months and years. Even recently, trends have developed even though they may have reversed. But when the Forex markets are subject to one speech by Ben Bernanke, or another Fed chairman, how is a trader to know when that will happen and how […]
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Before we begin we need to clear a few biases. People confuse culture, politics, and economy. For example, there is confusion about the differences between socialism and communism; many people think they are the same. Also people equate communism with USSR style communism, which was less communist than your local community. The most communist organization […]
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