Understanding Monopolies Our last post on monopolies gathered good reader interest, so we thought we would delve into the topic of monopolies a bit more. The question many people ask is “Is Google A Monopoly?” For some reason, this seems of more interest to many people that asking say…if Bank of America is a monopoly. [...]
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Is Google a Monopoly?
Posted in Economic Regulation, Economics, Monopoly, tagged Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sacks, SEC on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Changing Banking by Democratizing Banking
Posted in Banking, Economic Regulation, Markets and Efficiency, Mortgages, tagged Google on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Jarvis is really on to something essentially he asks if we take this financial crisis to as a signal to change how we do things to be web focused. Simple Intermediaries For instance, banks are essentially intermediaries between people that want loans and people and have money. Actually, as we have seen the more [...]
Lessons from Privatizing Retirement Funds
Posted in 657969, Economic History, Investment Advice, Stock Market, Yield Disparity, tagged Google on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Elite corruption and lying about retirement saving methods is sure to end retirement for large numbers of the US population. However, the retirement for the wealthy will be better than ever. Retirement Privatization = Stealing Retirement The history of retirement fund privatization is clear…it is a total failure. However, failure does not stop monied interests from [...]
Real Estate Information Control and the Multiple Listing Service
Posted in Real Estate, tagged Google on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Abstract Information control is critical to make assets appear more valuable then they are. In the US in real estate this is called the Multiple Listing Service. We look into who controls the MLS in this entry. Real estate is the world’s largest asset class. According to estimates made by the economist the total value [...]
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