Yesterday I received my copy of Vincent R. Locascio’s “Special Priviledge: How the Monetary Elite Benefit…At Your Expense“. It was published in 2001 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME) and I hope they don’t mind my quoting vast tracts of it here.
This book predates Locascio’s “The Monetary Elite vs. Gold’s Honest Discipline” by a few years. In May 2005, a copy of this latter book arrived out-of-the-blue to my attention at the easyDNS offices. The inside cover was signed “Mark, I look forward to your feedback” and signed by the author, and there was an additional note saying “I hope you can help spread the word to your readers”. He was under the erroneous assumption that my personal blog, (where I sometimes ranted about sound money and crony crapitalism), had readers.
I’m one of those people who underlines passages in books, highlights paragraphs and makes notes in the margins. His book was one of those books that was almost completely underlined by the time I finished it.
This morning I started reading “Special Privilege”, and it looks like the same thing will happen here.
A couple weeks ago I drove up north to a cabin in Algonquin Park with a bunch of books, a guitar and Damon Vicker’s audiobook “The Day After The Dollar Crashes” on my iphone for the drive. It was a weekend intended to be a mini-retreat where I recharge and map out the next year for my business, but I ended up thinking a lot more about business in general.
Perhaps it was a combination of listening to the Damon Vickers book, then after a long hike I ended up starting to watch Zeitgeist Addendum on the iphone. The first half of the movie does a great job explaining the insanity of the current monetary system, but the second half of the movie then steers hard-left as Jaques Fresco appears on the scene to explain how a world subject to his command would be utopia.
Tags: Amory Lovins, Damon Vickers, Jaques Fresco, Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist Movement
I have made the case on numerous occasions that the Global Financial Crisis was not a “failure of capitalism” or “free markets”. I’m reading a great little book called Shakedown Socialism by Russian emigre Oleg Atbashian which I think sums it up very nicely, I hope Mr. Atbashian does not mind that I plan to post some choice excerpts from his excellent book here. Read more…
Tags: collectivism, housing bubble, Oleg Atbashian, Shakedown Socialism
Consider this for a moment. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently received a letter from Republican Senator Pat Toomey. In the last week of January, Senator Toomey (a member of the Tea Party caucus) introduced into Congress what he called the Full Faith And Credit Act. It has since come to be known in US media circles as the Debt Doomsday Act. Here is the gist of it: Read more…
Tags: debt ceiling
It was only yesterday I wrote “The Problem with Marketing” and today a friend sent me a link for the pitch page for some guy named Trey Smith and his “Software System”. My friend asked me to watch it and tell him what I think.
I never made it through the video, because frankly, life’s too short to sit through something you already know the ending for, especially when it’s a marketing pitch for a bullshit marketing course teaching you how to make “big bucks”, in this case on my home turf…the software business.
(read the rest at AntiGuru.com »)
Tags: marketing
I randomly punched up a podcast on my iphone this morning on my way to the office and it was a short “introduction to information marketing lesson” from Joe Vitale for Nightingale-Conant. I’ve got a few Joe Vitale books and audiobooks (that marketing “works” is not being disputed here), and while I find some parts of them interesting and instructive, there’s a common theme running through them which I find indicative of online marketing gurus: marketing as an end unto itself.
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