Money Is Now FREE!!!
The good, bad and ugly of our new era of magic money & how we should use this magic power. Steve Faktor explains
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Prediction: Paper Money is the Walking Dead
Status: Occurring Prediction: Paper Money is the Walking Dead “In a time of exploding deficits, tax hikes will be unavoidable. Closing the cash loophole is one of the most effective ways to do it. So it’s with a twinge of sadness and nostalgia that I declare this decade to be the end of paper money.
Prediction: Bitcoin Will Fail As A Currency
Status: Occurring Prediction: Bitcoin is a zombie as a currency “In case you haven’t heard, Bitcoin is the sexiest thing on the world currency scene. If The Da Vinci Code knocked up World of Warcraft, Bitcoin would be their baby – and Alex Jones its nanny. Supermodels will literally eat out of your hand once
Distorted.
An unholy, elitist, unintentional alliance between the rich and the noisy is distorting politics & reality
The Prosperity Paradox
(This post originally appeared on LinkedIn) Something stubborn and senseless stands between us and a golden ‘Age of Abundance’. Surprisingly, it’s not gun lovers, Koch brothers, or Honey Boo Boo’s mother. While working on my next book, I stumbled across some powerful ways to solve America’s Prosperity Paradox, which keeps every citizen from basking in Botoxed bliss, like a Bravo housewife.
Fire. Them. All.
Has any organization ever failed so miserably that every employee should be fired? One finally has. And we are its executives. It’s called Congress. It has a 13% approval rating but a 90% re-election rate. Just like The Bachelor, you almost start to admire how something so bad can keep going. Exactly like that show,
Bitcoin is the MySpace of Money and What Might Save It
This is a re-post of Steve Faktor’s original article on Forbes I was just on a panel on the future of payments. One of the other speakers was a Bitcoin disciple. It’s like inviting a PETA protester to judge a hot dog eating contest – expect a jihad that consumes the room. What is it
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How Killing the Angry Bird Will Save American Entrepreneurship
Hyper-connected tech blogger Robert Scoble, recently wrote about treating startups more critically. Robert found himself meeting with lots of crappy, over-funded, digital startups that desperately need more time in the oven, an intervention by Dr. Drew, or more likely, Dr. Kevorkian. (My words, not Robert’s.) Not only am I seeing the same things, but I’d take it a step further. I
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