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An incremental approach to investing

January 16, 2014 ZeroPointPortalAdmin286

Typically, potential investors receive an ‘elevator pitch’ which can lead to a presentation, and finally some offering memorandum such as a private placement memorandum. This has been industry standard for a long time, and certainly since the concept of Venture Capital became popular. But it leaves investors with very shallow on the surface information. Of […]

The Sheer Idiocy Of The Markets In One Chart

January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 GIHAdmin177

As if many of us needed any proof, the below report shows the low level of intelligence used by investors, purchasing a company that ‘sounds like’ a Google takeover target, but is actually not related at all. When Google bought Nest (for its smart, intrusive thermostat technology that gives the NSA a front-row seat into […]

Fed’s Fisher Says “Investors Have Beer Goggles From Liquidity”

January 14, 2014 GIHAdmin151

The Fed’s Fisher provides an intimate insight into the thinking of a Fed President. In well crafted Fed speak, he warns of a potential market decline because it will be impossible for the Fed to continue with the QE indefinitely. But there are larger economic impacts much more significant than the stock market, such as […]

America’s Dwindling Economic Freedom

January 14, 2014 GIHAdmin199

A combination of factors in the US are putting the American economy at a huge disadvantage. The following report looks at how freedom affects the economy. As the US is becoming a police state, with highly regulated financial markets, it can only create additional costs and discourage new investment. With the possibility of the internet, […]

Bill Yields Turn Negative On Safe-Haven Un-Rotation

January 13, 2014 GIHAdmin278

While many watch the stock market, we should take note of the bond markets, specifically the US Treasury market, as a means of more ‘real money’ sentiment. From Zero Hedge: As stocks have vacillated in a worryingly not-straight-up manner for the last few days with today’s weakness taking the Dow and S&P 500 pre-holiday lows […]

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

January 13, 2014January 13, 2014 GIHAdmin249

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization started by Julian Assange, and people involved in the collection and distribution of secret information and media by whistleblowers. It covers a period of several decades, and includes considerable background material. Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Steal_Secrets:_The_Story_of_WikiLeaks

ALERT: Point of Sale RAM scraper malware

January 12, 2014 GIHAdmin252

Advances in technology have led to more sophisticated crimes by exploiting security vulnerabilities of new technologies. This is exacerbated by the fact that understanding of these technologies and their use is only by a few, while the majority of end-users are unaware. Generally speaking, following standard security practices will thwart 95% of electronic crimes such […]

The George Carlin Sanity Test

January 12, 2014 ZeroPointPortalAdmin264

You could say I grew up watching George Carlin. He was always my favorite rhetoric-ist. The most logical. The most reasonable. He was in effect my only access to what I now know as the Trivium. In my first 25 years of life, George Carlin’s material truly made me laugh at what could only be […]

Google’s robots and creeping militarization

January 12, 2014 GIHAdmin295

Google’s connection to the US Military and specifically, the intelligence community, should be alarming both for political and technical reasons. We can assume that Google has been compromised and any data exchange over Google networks including search, apps, web services such as Gmail, Google+, and others, are being recorded and analyzed. Also disturbingly, Google is […]

Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For

January 11, 2014 GIHAdmin206

The new generation is being hit hardest by the crisis. Many of them took student loans only to find no jobs. Due to the economic boom, and proliferation of online schools like Phoenix, college attendance is at an all time high. But much of this is financed by banks. Millennnials are coming into a different […]