Bad times have in store great things

We live in magic times.
Who could have believed we would come to the point where money´s value can be everything and can be nothing?
It is almost like on eBay.
I bought a wood massive bedroom for 100 euros and the lamps for the night tables for 499 EACH.
I added a designer bedcover for 999 euros and two nice pillows for 250 each.
But then, the oriental hand made carpet came for 67 euros including shipment.
And since I still had place in the room I also bought one two sitzer leather couch with armchair for 1 euro.
Well, the main precious things came for nothing, while the accessories are very expensive.
The same happens to currencies and bonds.
When currencies are worth nothing or almost and the forecast is they will be worth even less, it can look a good bargain to buy Greece bonds at 13% interest.
Of course you cross your fingers that the situation will improve.
If it does, you made a good bargain, if it doesn´t you just risked money that will be worth nothing.
Well, you could buy gold, but my concern is: when gold will be worth 2000 dollars a ounce and nobody will have the 2000 to buy it, what will you do with your gold?
At least, with my new/old bedroom I can sleep well and even have a leather couch, I cannot use gold for nothing.
They say bad times can have in store great things, let´s hope.

The more you steal, the less you pay.

They say small IS beautiful, I say it is beautifully a scapegoat.
If you feel like polluting DO NOT pollute in a small scale: if you throw a piece of paper out of your car´s window is 100 Dollars, if you pollute the Gulf of Mexico you have very good chances to be unpunished.
If you borrow money from a bank, do not stop at 100.000 dollars, think big, something like 10 millions or more.
In the first case you will be obliged to give ALL back with high interests, in the second you can spare a few millions in bribery and go away with the rest...
If you feel like stealing, do not think small, think big.
The more you steal, the less you pay.
Isn´t that how it works?
Take three pay two, or take 1 million and pay nothing.

What is behind wind turbines and electric cars

China will be important not only for cheap merchandize production, but also for raw materials, for example today’s electric cars and wind turbines rely on a few elements that are mined almost entirely in China.
Demand for these materials may soon exceed supply.
Will this be China’s next great economic advantage?
China, currently produces 95 percent of the world’s supply, but even without Chinese restrictions and with the revival of the California mines, worldwide supplies of some rare earths could soon fall short of demand.
Of particular concern are neodymium and dysprosium, which are used to make magnets that help generate torque in the motors of electric and hybrid cars and convert torque into electricity in large wind turbines.
There are no practical alternatives to these metals in many critical applications requiring strong permanent magnets—materials that retain a magnetic field without the need for a power source to induce magnetism by passing an electric current through them.
Most everyday magnets,including those that hold notes on the fridge, are permanent magnets.
But they aren’t very strong, while those made from rare earths are tremendously so.
Rare-earth magnets are found in nearly every hybrid and electric car on the road.
The motor of Toyota’s Prius, for example, uses about a kilogram of rare earths. Offshore wind turbines can require hundreds of kilograms each.
New mining activity, not only at Mountain Pass but also in Australia and elsewhere, will increase supplies—but not enough to meet demand for certain critical metals, particularly dysprosium, in the next few years.

Your company has no qualities that Studio Center cannot reveal

Studio Center, a video production company, was founded in 1966 and since then it has grown to produce more than 14,000 projects for its clients every year (many of them award-winning), and has clients in all 50 states and 23 countries around the world.
They have 700 talented employees focused on delivering the PERFECT Product. Their goal is nothing less than excellence.
They can give a voice to your business, a short movie to explain your product, the right jingle to be remembered.
They have more than 1000 uniquely talented voice over actors, but they also have the greatest, most expressive faces, the best media production the best jingles writers, the best On Hold Message.
Well you think, name it and they have it.
And if they do not have it?
Simple, they can make it, the right one, just for YOU.

Baby boomers

I am a boomer, a post war child, like many here.
We were deprived for long of a REAL social life, the feeling of belonging to a family.
We were the victims of the exasperated individualism following the exasperated nationalism.
Hitler, Mussolini made people proud of belonging, first to their family, (and the bigger the better) second to the bigger family that was the Nation.
You were born, lived and died for and in the family.
You worked for the family, you fought for the family.
The capitalistic ideology considers men as individuals and produces progress thanks to competition.
There is no space for family and no space for close friends and lately not even space for your country.
You belong to the world, you have to compete with million other men, you have to be better or die.
You are alone, incapable to build a long lasting relationship.
Women in the 60s 70s were "liberated", they didn’t even wear a bra any more.
Divorce, abortion were our conquest.
Free love, casual relationships.
Now, as a result we have people who do not know where to go.
What they thought was right is not anymore.
What was seen as freedom and happiness brought loneliness and an emptiness many are trying to fill in the wrong way: exasperating the goals they were looking for when young.
They have models to follow, heroes to inspire, always better, always more difficult to copy and reach.
It is forbidden to look old, to play old, to show you as an old person.
You CAN be old, because that is something you cannot change, but you HAVE TO LOOK young.
Plastic surgery, gym, "healthy lifestyle", sex, sex, sex.
The older you are the younger your partner should be.
Because thanks to Viagra, thanks to surgery, you do not look old anymore.
But you are and even more so because you deny it.
Our generation was the stolen generation.
We miss love, affection, reachable goals.
We need real friends, not Facebook or social media.
We exchanged laughing for a good bank account and now that our bank account is no good anymore we have nothing.
Not even a shoulder to cry on.