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POPSOverloaded, Under-informed #km #intelligence There was far too much information to assimilate long before the invention of the Internet. Now the problem is just becoming too obvious to deny. Underused solutions to "information overload" existed then too. They still do.
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POPSPessimistic executives cash out of shares Here is the same story last month, except this month, the inside selling is more than last month's record! "US market’s best-informed participants do not find valuations compelling. April saw the lowest level of insider buying (by people associated with the company) ever recorded by research firm TrimTabs with insider selling 14 times as high. Likewise, companies sold 64 per cent more shares than they bought in April." http://openintelligence.amplify.com/?s=shares+selling
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POPS‘New’ US shopper to emerge from crisis What should we call this new type of buyer, who is no longer defined by his desire and ability to consume? Does everybody become a trader /dealer in their own right buying and selling goods and services on the basis of need, rather than greed? Survivors? Those who don't survive will not be there anyway. Note the sources of the 'new consumer' idea. It is very main-stream, now . We were predicting this trend in 2002 in our report entitled, Consumers: Going for Broke, which also as it happens predicted the credit crunch and the current sharp reversal in economic fortunes.
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POPSBrussels warns US on ‘buy America’ rule First shot across the bows in the new trade wars. Protectionism is irresistible in a depression, even though it makes things worse. It then leads to trade blocs which might not be such a bad thing: e.g. Europe, Asia, Americas.
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POPSFunds to invest up to $8bn in National City bank All these billions being invested in propping up unsafe banks might have been put to more constructive and less risky use. Add the cost of wars. That is the money which is being taken away from the future ... from our children and their children. Best to start setting up non-money based ways of trading and bartering now, as money becomes increasingly scarce and worthless at the same time.