Brian Gongol
Welcome to the November 21, 2005 edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. Please note the following:
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| Site | Post | Category | Summary | Editor's Choice |
| 2¢ Worth | The Economics of Being Poor |  | The scale of poverty is relative -- and the wealthy of the world need to get working on ending poverty | |
| Abnormal Returns | Death of Seasonality? |  | A new set of stock indices and related instruments seeks to take advantage of seasonal market-timing | |
| Big Picture, Small Office | Knock, Knock, Who's There? |  | A personal vignette about saying "Yes" to an opportunity before all of the facts are in | |
| Blog Business World | Auction Sales: Business Equipment at Low Cost |  | Advice on how to use auction sales wisely in order to get bargains on business equipment | |
| Blueprint for Financial Prosperity | Local Max Complacency | | A personal example of moving beyond being good at what you do and finding what you're actually good at | |
| Boston Gal's Open Wallet | How to Save When Doing Your Holiday Shopping Online | | Links to two sites offering coupons and discount deals to encourage online shopping | |
| Business and Technology Reinvention | Microsoft Innovation |  | Why Microsoft isn't a "me-too" organization | |
| BusinessPundit | Miracles and Shoddy Thinking in Business | | Avoiding the "then a miracle occurs" fallacy | |
| Catallarchy | Greedy on the Way Up, Greedy on the Way Down | | Gas prices are falling in part because the oil companies are greedy | |
| Christian Sarkar | Peter Drucker Waits in Line |  | Does St. Peter read "Managing for Results", or does he just pay Drucker lip service? | |
| Econbrowser | Oil Grilling | | A four-part take-home exam question about the economics of oil prices under the Bush Administration | |
| Ego | Online Advertising | | The time is right for online advertising (NOTE: Some advertising on Ego may be Not Safe For Work) | |
| Et Tu Bloge | Government Could Make A Whorehouse Boring |  | Canada's government-run casinos aren't even fun to visit, and a lack of profit motive is to blame | |
| Financial Options | What to Watch for Thanksgiving Week 2005 | | A preview of the week's financial news, including the release of leading economic indicators | |
| Gautam Ghosh on Management | The Passing of an Era | | Summarizes another writer's ode to Drucker | |
| Gill Blog | Academia Provides Template for Telework and BCP | | Conventional office work is too much like study hall. Apply the lessons of homework to working from home. |  |
| Goobage | OPM Capitalism |  | How Tennessee's Medicaid program became the state's biggest source of black-market prescription drugs | |
| HanWorks Research | VS Express Editions 2005 | | How Microsoft builds incentives into its software-registration process | |
| Harshly Mellow | Naming Pitfalls | | Names matter, and the Internet enforces the need for originality | |
| InsureBlog | Transparency Revealed | | An interview with an Aetna executive about their new policy of pricing transparency for medical care | |
| Interested-Participant | McDonald's in Russia | | 15 years after McDonald's invaded Moscow, the Golden Arches still rule fast food in Russia | |
| Jack Yoest | The First Lesson in How to Look Like a Leader | | Projecting an image of leadership requires moving as little as possible | |
| Jack Yoest | Why Did Peter Drucker Teach Management? | | Drucker drew spiritual fulfillment from the teaching of management | |
| JSLogan | Testimonials - A Marketing And Sales Tool Available To Every Business | | Testimonials are outstanding tools that are too often overlooked | |
| Kicking Over My Traces | MD5 Collision Source Code Released | | A widely-used encryption method is now obsolete, putting some online business at risk | |
| Lip-Sticking | Jane Gets Educated | | How to get on board the word-of-mouth trend and employ women to lead the way | |
| Mover Mike | What is Zero Point Energy? | | A company claims it can extract cheap, zero-pollution fuel from superconducting polymers | |
| Multiple Mentality | TV a la Carte | | What would happen in a world where viewers could pick their cable TV channels | |
| Never Work Alone | Brainstorming 101 | | An exhaustive list of suggestions on how to conduct brainstorming sessions | |
| Pacesetter Mortgage Blog | The Truth about Online Mortgage Rates | | Most mortgages come from the same pot of funds; the difference in rates is due to the customer | |
| Photon Courier | Hunting the Five-Pound Butterfly | | How the Internet and litigation have made the hiring process too checklist-centric | |
| Political Calculations | Jobs for the Undegreed | | A dynamic table illustrating the best prospects for workers who don't have college degrees | |
| Professor Bainbridge | Pajamas Media: The Law and Economics Quiz | | What's the best way to manage weblog advertising? | |
| ProHipHop | Elliott Wilson on Bloggers, XXL Raps, Elliott Wilson and XXL | | An interview with the editor of XXL Magazine | |
| Random Thoughts from a CTO | Delivering on Your Promises | | A strategy for avoiding the perils of over-promising and under-delivering | |
| Riding Sun | Japan Gets Pwn3d! | | Japan, Inc.? Not anymore. More than 100 firms on the Tokyo Stock Exchange are at least 30% foreign-owned | |
| Roth and Company Tax Updates | Feds Sue "Down Payment Assistance" Outfit | | Don't let the IRS catch you taking deductions on "down-payment charities" when selling a home | |
| Searchlight Crusade | Why You Should Ignore APR | | Why the APR quoted on most mortgage loans misleads the borrower | |
| Slow Leadership | Are You A Workaholic? | | Twelve signs of workaholism | |
| Small Business Information | Business Visionary Peter Drucker Dies at 95 | | Three favorite Drucker quotes on entrepreneurship | |
| Soccer Dad | Like the First Robin of Spring | | Gas prices back to $2.00 a gallon? Surely Congress does not approve. | |
| Terry | The Kyoto Protocol FAQ (Poole Remix) | | A comprehensive overview of the economic and political challenges of the Kyoto Protocol | |
| The Big Picture | Impossible Returns? Hardly. | | How a hedge fund is wagering billions that the random-walk theory is dead wrong | |
| The Business of America Is Business | BlogAds Analysis - Executive Summary | | 80% of weblog ad revenue is determined by three factors: page views, the number of ads, and political orientation | |
| The Common Room | An Impromptu Essay | | Four reasons free markets trump government intervention | |
| The Coyote Within | The Natural Currents of Information | | How information flows upwards, downwards, and sideways in an organization | |
| The Entrepreneurial Mind | Here Comes the Entrepreneurial Generation! | | Americans born in the last quarter-century will save the economy through entrepreneurialism | |
| The Internet Stock Blog | Audible's AudibleWordcast: An Advance for Monetized Podcasts? | | Did podcasting take the poison pill when it started in a non-auditable format? | |
| The Japan Stock Blog | Advantage Apple: iPod Now Controls 60% of Market in Japan | | How Apple is driving well ahead of Sony in Japan's portable-music market | |
| The Other Bloke's Blog | Go On. Be A Tiger...Or Should You Just Stop Being Sick? | | Accenture's "Be a Tiger" marketing campaign may miss the point when so many firms are fundamentally flawed | |
| The Prudent Investor | M3 - Deafening Silence in the MSM and the Federal Reserve | | Is the Fed's plan to discontinue publication of the M3 money supply a conspiracy? | |
| Triple Pundit | Could U2 Leader Bono Brand the USA? | | How U2's lead singer is a master of social marketing | |
| View From a Height | 1925 This Ain't | | A detailed response to concerns about the Fed and the M3 money supply | |
| Wordlab | Open Sores | | A company calls itself "Open Source Media" but has no intention of being open-source | |
| Worker Bees Blog | News from My Old Life: Cisco Buys SA | | Cisco's buyout of a competitor leaves just two full-portfolio vendors of cable-data products in the market |
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