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Carnival of the Capitalists - July 31, 2006 Edition
July 30, 2006 | Anita Campbell
Welcome to the Carnival of the Capitalists, a weekly roundup of the best in business and economics blog posts. I am your host, and I am pleased to present this July 31, 2006 edition with over 50 entries. Many thanks to all those who participated this week.
This is now my fourth time hosting Carnival of the Capitalists on various blogs. I also have hosted other roundup events: Carnival of Entrepreneurship, the Business Blog Book Tour, and Blawg Review. But I must say that Carnival of the Capitalists is my sentimental favorite, because it tends to offer the most diverse and rich range of voices.
OK, let’s get started. Entries are presented in the order in which they were received:
Fat Pitch Financials writes Notes on Charlie Rose Show’s Warren Buffett: The Man. Read George’s notes on Charlie Rose’s great interview of Warren Buffett, one of the most influential capitalists of this era.
Five Cent Nickel discusses the Zurich Direct Life Insurance Class Action Lawsuit: Zurich Direct Life Insurance Company has recently settled a class action lawsuit. Is it the ticket to early retirement and life on easy street?
RadicalHop.com declares Avoid these companies at all costs: Peter Kua says there are five habits of highly UN-successful companies. Stay away from companies with these habits.
Frugal Wisdom offers A Flat World Math Formula: Wenchypoo notes that in today’s flat world, entrepreneurship counts, i.e., creativity and passion count for more than intelligence.
Generative Transformation brings us Namaste Economics: A new kind of economics is outlined, which the author says will lead to utopia.
Mine Your Own Business brings us Be Prepared : Is your business prepared for a disaster? Get busy and be prepared.
Blog Business World presents SEO for the MSN Search Engine: MSN has become a growing search engine power. Wayne Hurlbert explains how to take advantage of it to grow traffic to your site.
Free the Drones offers Becoming a Chicken Entrepreneur: No this is not about becoming a poultry farmer. Rather, it is about being afraid to take the full-time plunge into a new business.
The PubCrawler enters the post The Death of the Electric Car: The rumors of the electric car’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Aloys Hosman writes How to make budgeting simple and the budgets ambitious: Research confirms: we don’t like budgeting and we’re not really good at it either. What can we do to make budgets more realistic and simple, yet with better results?
Christine Kane notes 21 Ways to Be More Creative: Musical artist Christine Kane presents some great tips on how to be more creative.
J. Timothy King describes the Top Ten Reasons to Remain a Wage Slave: Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Timothy lays out the reasons not to be.
Financial Think for Entrepreneurs asks How Much Should You Pay Yourself?: The first rule of thumb is to pay yourself as much as the business can afford.
Free Money Finance wonders Should Kids Pay for Their Own College Expenses or Should Parents Pay It All?: This is a hot topic that many face.
Mine That Data writes about Business Review Dell: Dell is in a significant period of transition, as it tries to manage four different dynamics, all at the same time.
voluntaryXchange offers The Second Quarter Growth Grade: David Tufte grades the economy’s growth in the second quarter, coming out at C using his scale, and at a B using a curve typical at colleges.
Insure Blog floats Up, Up & Away!: We all know that health insurance rates keep going up. But do we really know by how much, and does it matter? Henry Stern has details, and insights.
David Maister writes How to Move a Terabyte Article on why blogging is good.
An Ordinary Guy’s Path to Success … Again declares I’m Making Lemonade: Instead of selling his advice for $97, Jon Anderson is giving it away.
Online Dating Blog asks What about making a Dating Site for synesthetics?: Julia explores the main theories about synesthetics and shows how to use this knowledge in the online dating industry.
Software Project Management advises How to Give Feedback: Pawel explores opinions and praise and their roles in giving feedback.
The Other Bloke’s Blog says Grups Are Never Broken Down By Age And Sex: Psychographic analysis categorizes consumers according to attitudes, interests and opinions. It provides a much more targeted approach to marketing to grups or to anyone else.
Searchlight Crusade opines on Loan Cosigners in Real Estate - A Lot of Risk For Not Much Gain: Dan Melson explains why you should explore other options before going the co-signing route on mortgages.
Direct Response Works notes Small Business Branding or Putting The Cart Before The Horse: If you’re broke and you’re worrying about your brand … you’re focused on the wrong thing.
Econbrowser on Reading the Yield Curve: Econbrowser discusses the implications of the current shape of the yield curve.
Professor Bainbridge authors the Duties of Directors of an Insolvent Corporation: The good Professor explores the duties of the Board of Directors of an insolvent subsidiary.
Case Notes from the Artsy Asylum points out Lucky 13 Tips on Getting Noticed: Great tips on marketing yourself and your business online.
Ripples: post-corporate adventures suggests you realize that You are not a commodity: The self-employed businessperson or artist must stand out from the crowd, or risk being considered a commodity.
Trader’s Narrative discusses Deceptive Relative Strength in Utilities: Is the market signalling it is time to sell utilities stocks?
Overseas Property Blog advises that Furniture packages in Spain should not be an Afterthought: Furnishing a property overseas, in a place like Spain, can be pricier than expected.
Retail Store Blog speaks about Formalized Services in Retail Stores: Medical clinics are popping up in retail stores; offering quick fixed-price treatment for minor illnesses. Are similar services coming to other retailers?
The Big Picture outlines The Wall Street Core-inflation Index: Barry Ritholz explores the impact that our personal situations have on our beliefs.
The Coyote Within muses It is Worth Being an Adult: Might it not be better to bring back some childlike fun to the world of work?
Slow Leadership talks about Why Respect is Vital for Leaders: Carmen Coyote explains why it is vital is that leaders must show unfailing respect for all those they deal with.
Daily Dose of Optimism points out that Jim Rogers Moving to China: Fund manager Jim Rogers is moving to Asia — a good data point for everyone who watches what famous people do (rather than say).
Investor Geeks offers up Heat Wave Investing: Consider Fedders (FJC): A look at the value of investing in Air Conditioning company, Fedders, after a freakishly warm summer.
Execupundit speaks on Passivity in the Workplace: Execupundit finds too much passivity in the workplace and argues for claiming the territory between being a rogue and being a wimp.
Tams Palm Blog expounds On Classic Design: Tam Hanna suggests there are benefits to having product designers reuse classic designs multiple times.
Jack Yoest asks Marketing: Web or Newspapers?: We all want the prospect to call or click. To come to us. Which is the best medium to use?
BusinessPundit wins the spelling bee with Stratanalyphobia: A post about the fear of analyzing your strategy, because that would require work.
Sox First writes that Bosses Baffled by Accounting Standards: More than a year after International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) were imposed, chief executives and company directors in Britain are struggling to understand the new accounting rules.
Roth & Company Tax Update spreads the word in Rock in Exemption: This post has some thoughts on keeping charitable organizations out of tax trouble.
Financial Options alerts us to The Week Ahead: A rundown of the economic indicators, Treasury auctions and select earnings reports for the coming week. Check back as its updated with results throughout the week.
Trizoko Biz Journal explains Why a Billion Dollars Won’t Excite You: It’s not about the destination, it’s all about the thrill of the chase.
Financial Methods says Go To Work With A Smile: A new study shows that employees who come to work with a good attitude enhance overall office productivity.
Career Intensity Blog writes about Small Business Success - Business Intelligence and Creativity: Do you have street smarts and common sense? This is actually a tricky question, and David Lorenzo explains why.
The Boring Made Dull writes OH Supremes Put the Wood to Norwood: The Ohio courts have taken property rights seriously, in a decision that limits the ability of cities and developers to take property by eminent domain.
Big Picture, Small Office offers A Voken of our Appreciation: Big Picture Guy is about to launch a new online ad campaign, featuring vokens and java script rollover banners, threatening to invade private air space in the same way the spam we love to hate is currently invading our own Outlook files.
Ask Uncle Bill calls on the carpet The One Armed Economist: I have to agree with Uncle Bill: General advice is generally useless.
Queercents offers up CNN: Nina Smith gives the low down on the importance of keeping emergency documents.
Scatterbox by Steven Silvers says Trial lawyers group assumes secret superhero identity : Changing your organization’s name doesn’t make its PR problems go away — and often creates a whole bunch of new ones.
Small Business Trends (that’s me) writes about the Growing Interest in Virgin Islands Economic Development Companies: The U.S. Virgin Islands have been called an investor’s dream. With an effective tax rate of around 3%, it is not hard to see why.
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Well, that concludes this week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists. Please check the Carnival of the Capitalists home page for upcoming host locations and for additional information. If you would like to submit an entry in future Carnivals, please visit Blog Carnival.
