Archive for the ‘Econ / Finance’ Category
Friday, January 16th, 2009
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day.
America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day.
America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from OPEC countries.
Every day.
America sends $150,256,400 to the Persian Gulf countries ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Is what you know true?
Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true?
Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
This is not for kids due to language, but it is a humorous and informative primer on what happened to initiate the global financial meltdown.
>> Warning: Adult language and themes << http://www.hackneys.com/docs/SubprimeForDummies.pps
(Please note: I did not create the "SubPrime Primer" presentation, but would love to congratulate whoever did.)
If you want ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The 22 highland weavers of Patacancha, Peru received payment for goods sold today. Their efforts to revitalize and maintain the skills of the ancient craft were rewarded with a small percentage of the millions of tourist dollars that annually flow through the sacred valley into Machu Picchu.
After receiving payment, ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Introduction
When you discuss the purchase of an overland expedition vehicle (OEV), typically the only costs mentioned are the purchase cost and the options cost. Very rarely, ongoing operational costs are mentioned. You will probably never hear anyone discuss the costs of selling of the OEV when they are done using ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
In the early 1900s Argentina was the second richest country in the world. In subsequent decades its middle class enjoyed a very high standard of living. The country was rich in seemingly infinite natural resources, copious crop producing areas whose soils were as rich as any on the planet short ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera, was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame today.
He invented the digital camera in 1975.
Steven didn’t work for Nikon or Canon or Matsushita or Sony.
Steven worked for Kodak.
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
My comments last month about the U.S. Housting bubble generated a lot of comments, however, it came before I started this blog, so they all came back via email. This will be your chance to share your comments with a wider audience than just me.
Since last month we've seen a further ...
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Legend has it that on a pleasant September Friday morning a rich stock broker stopped to get his shoes shined on his way to work. As he perused the morning paper he overhead his shoe shine boy trading stock tips with the boy working next to him. It slowly dawned ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Some thougths on achieving financial independence:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/financial_independence.htm
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