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The Role of Learning Methods in Today’s Professional Communications

June 27, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From Front and Center, by Bud Burrell –

Since I got out of the Army, I have spent a good part of my career educating non-technical professionals about complex financial products and portfolio strategies. I found many things of interest about the process of doing this effectively, and in particular, it gave me early insights into the value of what I had learned in K through 12, and what this would mean ultimately to online education via computers.

I found early on that my first task had to be to break down the ideas into words that meant something to the audience. Like many technical spaces, the industry adopted the use of professional terms that had to be described meaningfully to potential end users. Indeed, my first great breakthrough occurred when I realized that my industry had lost sight of who the real end client was. [entire post]

Tags: online education, repetitive reinforcement, rosetta stone, teaching math, us as an analogy to modern learning, yourbabycanread
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A Dangerous Week in a Pattern of Dangerous Weeks; Decisions Lie Ahead

June 25, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From Front and Center, by Bud Burrell –

This week, we saw the Federal Government jam a series of actions down the throats of the American people, the unintended consequences of which can be felt at a visceral level. This Administration seems determined to drive the American people into a series of decisions that they seem unready to make, but for which they are being forced to act whether they are ready or not.

Some of you may be familiar of the story of Reagan taking the Russian Premier to an American grocery store. Shown the immense arrays of products and foods, he left there convinced that Russia could never defeat the United States. In the nineties, the US had a significant influx of Russian and Eastern Satellite country immigrants flow into this country at an unprecedented level. [entire post]

Tags: arizona laws illegal immigration, barred shallow water drilling, blagojevich, BP failed safety procedures, broken debt and entitlement programs, broken legal system, decision paralysis, decisions, economic black hole, fisheries, grocery store stories, illegal immigration, jindal, lies, loss of personal courtesy, louisiana, no alaska, no bakken, no border enforcement, oil and gas, senator kyl, tourism, worthless cap and trade science
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Britain’s FSA (Their SEC Analog) Shuttered, Functions Moved To UK Central Bank

June 20, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From Front and Center, by Bud Burrell –

In a stunning move last week, the United Kingdom liquidated its Financial Services Authority (its analog to the US’ Securities and Exchange Commission) with little notice, and in the move, shifted all of their regulatory functions and authority to the UK Central Bank. The stated reasons for this move were several. First, the Government cited numerous regulatory oversight failures, not the least being their failure to pick up on the monstrous frauds in sub-prime mortgages and CDO’s. Other breaches of their fiduciary duties included failures to properly regulate UK hedge funds, along with the absence of proper oversight of off shore entities involved in manipulation while under Commonwealth legal authority. [entire post]

Tags: 1.5 Trillion gdp, 3rd largest employer in world, 400% debt to gdp, bank of england, different legal systems, fsa divergences with us sec, fsa shuttered, national health employs 1.4 million, sec functions to federal reserve, stutz bearcat short squeeze, uk central bank, uk unemployment 25%
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Saving our Pensions: The Battle for Individual vs. Government Control is Engaged

June 15, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From Front and Center, by Bud Burrell –

For those who have not been listening carefully, the left has taken the first steps to seize the public and private pension assets of US Citizens without their consent. Over the past several months, Nancy Pelosi and other Administration operatives have sent up several trial balloons preceding an outright attack on the control of individual retirement accounts, beginning with the proposal for a special excise tax on those who begin to draw down their IRA, 401K, ERISA, Roth and other types of retirement assets accumulated without tax consequence. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as modified, created the modern financial asset base of the US, in creating the very first Government backed systematic savings plans in our national history. [entire post]

Tags: 2600 pages unread, debt deficit $121 t, epa cap and trade rules avoid legislation, erisa, europe, failed socialism, nationalization, obama care, pension
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Cloud Computing Lands Hard On The IT Community

June 5, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell –

At the major IT industry conference held this week, the long term debate over the future of computing was nearly settled by two events. The first event was the announcement by Google that it would no longer use Windows products. The second event was the practical equivalent of a concession speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that they were in a position to be prepared for any “changing technology” paradigm. So what was the future envisioned by these two organizations?

The answer of course are the shifts of computing models to the long discussed “cloud computing”, in some ways a shift back to parallels to the original mainframe technology, updated for the many new technologies that have emerged in the last 30 years. [entire post]

Tags: changing technology, cloud computing, darts blindfolded, google drops windows systems, impact on business models, job change, job creation, living in the moment, mainframes, mini-computers, moore's law, need to recognize problems, non-linear chess, pc revolution, planet killing asteroid, shift happens
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The Intersection Of The Global And US Debt Crises, And What They Foretell

May 30, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell –

Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s commentators Clark and Dawes did a great comedic explanation of the current debt crisis in Europe, incorporating factual debt numbers for some critical nations in the European Union. Their numbers pertaining to the actual debts were rather shocking, particularly when viewed through the prism of the United States Government. [entire post]

Tags: borrowers, cut usg spending 50%, debts, etc, fed res monetize debt, fiat currency, france, germany, great britain, greece, ireland, lenders, medicaid, medicare, portugal, spain, ss trust fund, total debt 121 trillion, unfunded liabilities, us $14 trillion gdp, vs italy
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Back On Station After An Absence, Some First Ruminations On Our Times

May 23, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell –

I had to take a break involving several pressing matters involving long term professional investments I have made of my time in some spaces ranging from 15 to 18 years, all of which have seem to have hit critical mass at the same time. I had guests come to my city at the same time on several matters, while I explored getting involved in a potential black swan in an unexpected space with people I like personally. At the same time, I began to support a reunion of some military friends from many years ago in a first ever association convention in my City of this group. [entire post]

Tags: 450000 illegals, 90000 crimes in az, ag holder, anti-capitalism, anti-republican democracy, az law, black swan, border patrol, ca cutoff boycott and backlash, eu bailout $1 trillion eud, goldman 385 count indictment nss, greek debt, krenker murder, missing indictments, naked short selling, ship out, sovereign debt
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The Sound of Thunder: SEC Goldman Indictment Rips U.S. Economic Core

April 19, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell –

On Friday, April 16, the SEC announced the civil indictment of Goldman Sachs for securities fraud in the structuring and sale of collateralized debt obligations in connection with a $1 Billion offering of securities it sold in cooperation with the hedge fund Paulson and Company. The charges, which are alleged at this point, appear to be the product of a disgruntled Paulson employee becoming a whistleblower to the SEC, rolling on a mid-level trader at Goldman alleged to have been also involved in the fraud.

The allegations, which may change with the passage of time, are that Goldman executives worked with Paulson persons to construct a portfolio of debt obligations totaling $1 Billion, which was intended to fail from before its sale, and which was purportedly shorted while being structured and sold to buyers. This comes on the heels of industry rumors of similar behavior by Goldman in its sale of Greek Sovereign Debt, also while they hedged with short transactions including the purchase of Credit Default Swaps on Greek credit. [entire post]

Tags: bear, dollar declines, erisa, glass steagal, goldman, lehman, loss of diversity, morals, opt in, regulatory misconduct, rips us core, sec, ship out, six banks, six brokers, values
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The War On Truth As Reflected In History

April 16, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell –

“What utter madness to believe that one can prevent the truth of history from eventually being written.” — Emile Zola.

Numerous attempts have been made by supporters of financial market manipulations and financial profiteering to suppress anyone who opposed them. Slanders and libels have come from every quarter, launched by parties attempting to cut-off the threats of the communications with the public from parties who have seen through the ploys used by these nefarious villains. Indeed, one victim has built a pocket industry in outing the use of “Sock Puppets” by tainted journalists, offshore scammers, and worse.

I have seen the conflicts of interest displayed by these parties, who are so cowardly, they hide behind screen names, while they attack the enemies of their enemies, irrespective of guilt or innocence of said targets. I have personally outed many of these individuals, who were paid well in their positions as trained attack dogs for sleazy, mob connected criminal operators, to ruthless hedge fund short sellers who made fortunes off attacking every component of American society. They have used short selling techniques to bet legally and illegally against the United States in a difficult time, and our regulators have done nothing but protect them. [entire post]

Tags: bernard baruch, confidential informants, cooperating witnesses, emile zola, gary weiss hide-out, global banking control of economy, joe kennedy fired as ambassador to uk, joe kennedy sr, libels, nazi sympathies, pecora hearings, regulatory RICO actiivies, ryals, schneider, slanders, sock puppets, truth
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Pro Naked Short Selling Journalists Begin To Jump Ship!

March 14, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by C. Austin Burrell –

With the release of the CNBC CYA piece Friday on Anthony Elgindy, the convicted felon, the exodus of his journalist supporters and apologists stage left has not only continued, but expanded. For over 10 years, this coterie of killer clowns has relentlessly attacked victims of illegal short selling manipulation with every slander imaginable. Then, in a single one hour piece, their world came crashing down, along with their co-conspirators at the regulatory agencies who made hay by attacking criminals and the defenseless in the name of hanging the easiest low hanging scalps from their belt.

The CNBC segment of the “American Greed” series, titled “Mad Max on Wall Street” was laughable in its defense of many of Elgindy’s supporters. While it attacked Elgindy personally, it left out little bites like his prior conviction for felony insurance fraud in Dallas before he appeared in San Diego.

Elgindy was a former pump and dump broker for the notorious Blinder, Robinson (known in the trade by the not so affectionate name “Blind ‘em and Rob ‘em”) in Denver, before he moved on to another bucket shop where the commissions were greater in Dallas. When he saw both these firms go under to regulatory and criminal findings, he astutely morphed himself into a short seller, one who postured himself as being only concerned with outing criminal pump and dump stocks like he had previously lived off of. [entire post]

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