Regulations and entrepreneurship

Regulations and entrepreneurship

A strong state  is going to enforce regulations and entrepreneurship will be squelched by these regulations.

Regulated companies become cartels or regulated monopolies that engage in financial transactions with unregulated companies which in turn also become regulated.

Governments create laws knowing  that the winner is also the monopoly and governments like to pick up the winner.

What is the best weapon in modern times?

What is the best weapon in modern times?

Marketing

Marketing that doesn't repeat the same message .
Marketing that designs each video and each message to correlate exactly to the target audience.
Marketing that is an intellectual desert.

Why you don't do what everybody is telling to do?

Why you don't do what everybody is telling to do?

Because the side effects of what  everybody is telling to do have collateral damage in your brain.

Why unemployment appears on the rise across the South

Why unemployment appears on the rise across the South while  other data—unemployment filings, home purchases, corporate hiring—suggest a sudden souring of the region’s economy?


Because the United States Department of Labor manipulates numbers before the elections.

What is the average hourly earning for an American?

What is the average hourly earning for an American?

$24.53.

Average earnings have risen  2% in the last 12 months.

How to reduce civilian casualties when U.S. forces are attacking enemy targets?

How  to reduce civilian casualties when U.S. forces are attacking enemy targets?

Avoiding wars of choice as much as possible.

Who is running the show in America?

Who is running the show in America?

Government officials; they are  too huge, too present and all-encompassing.

What is an intelligence failure?

What is an intelligence failure?

Someone telling you more than what you want to hear?

Who runs America?

Who runs America?

Unelected technocrats.

What is real power?

What is real power?

Real power is to waste $79 billion in a stealth F-22 fighter program and use it against an adversary with no air defense systems.

How many casualties in Syria strikes?

How many casualties in Syria strikes?

Nobody Says

What does it mean being a free person?

What does it mean being a free person?

Being a free person means choosing how to spend your life.

How big money is managed.

How big money is managed.

Cultivating personal relationships with an intensity that can feel tiring.

Cultivating personal relationships without Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media.

Cultivating personal relationships without sending emails to outsiders who aren't business partners.

How to win emotional referendums.

How to win emotional referendums.

Bringing down the voting age.

Participation in the labor force for workers ages 25 to 54.

Participation in the labor force for workers ages 25 to 54.

 81.1% according  the Bureau of Labor Statistics

What is a unique characteristic of the U.S. Government?

What is a unique characteristic of the U.S. Government?

 It is constantly creating monopolies.

What is the difference between America and Africa.

What is the difference between America and Africa.

America’s profusion of natural wealth served  to enrich its peoples and Africa’s profusion of natural wealth served  to impoverish and enslave  its peoples.

How to be always prepared.

How to be always prepared.

Raising expectations for the unthinkable.

The Average American's Budget Monthly In 2013

The Average American's Budget Monthly In 2013

$4,125.00 according the Bureau of Labor Statistics

How to be lucky with money.

How to be lucky with money.

Being focused on finding unique ideas.

Adapting your strategy to your growth.

Thinking always that it is easier to manage something small than something large.

Being in the right place at the best time.

What is a permanent feature of humankind?

What is a permanent feature of humankind?

Horrible and effective wars

Why intelligence is inborn and not achievable?

Why intelligence is inborn and not achievable?

Because  intelligence is not data-driven and doesn't  ask great questions.

When you can be often wrong but never in doubt?

When you can be often wrong but never in doubt?

When you have huge cash and huge independence.

Why any public-work project will be always an embarrassment of delays and costs?

Why any public-work project will be always an embarrassment of delays and costs?

Because city, state and federal agencies, as  well as developers will join in public and private clashes.

Standard characteristics of evil organizations

Standard characteristics of evil organizations:

Their leaders have known each other for years, with anyone of  dubious loyalty long since eliminated.

Their leadership is infused with a real sense  of paranoia and a focus on outright loyalty.

They have an effective recruitment strategy—join us or die.

How to "diminish" an issue to a manageable problem.

How to "diminish" an issue to a manageable problem.

Doing the opposite of what you say.

Using a lot of words.

Talking  much with adjectives.

Pursuing a more "systematic" approach.

How to use your influence and capabilities to solve a situation.

How to use your influence and capabilities to solve a situation.

Moderating one party.

Stepping up demands to that party to negotiate.

Putting pressure on the weak-looking party.

Denying accusations of interference.

Spreading sophisticated threats and then say they were taken out of context. 

Showing the situation is fully controlled.

Supporting the practical implementation of any  agreement.

When is difficult to get an answer

When is difficult to get an answer

When  who should respond doesn't ever expect to hear from you.

How many Americans live abroad?

How many Americans live abroad?

The State Department estimates that 7.6 million Americans live abroad.

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

What happens when the system has winners and losers?

The system cannot consider people inherently reasonable and inclined toward peaceful compromise and common sense.

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Why is not good to have large sums of money in a business?

Because more money can mean you do too much and you don't have any focus.

Part of the success with a business is you have no money but you go out and raise it when you need it.

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Because we do not know each other.

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

Cashing out his investment by executing tax-free swap of assets.

Exchange defers or eliminates tax.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

The poor has less opportunities and less skills to implement the same impulses the rich has.

Who are the America's enemies?

Who are the America's enemies?

People desperate to belong to something.

Something like, al Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS.

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

Machine learning
Belief propagation
Markov chain approximation method (MCAM)
MATLAB
Natural language processing (NLP)
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR)
Default logic
Machine perception

Another issue of national security

Another issue of national security:

Close to half of black men drop out of high school. High unemployment and high rates of out-of-wedlock birth leave too many of them without guidance.

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics put the number of full-time equivalent sworn state and local police officers at 646,213 in 2011—up from 531,706 in 1991.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012: 22.0%   

How regulations are designed?

How regulations are designed?

They are designed to be  complex  and to create compliance advocates.

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Because you have a weapon to fight a risky dollar currency fluctuation.

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Because according to the IRS 2009 Data Book, IRS workforce counts up 93,337 employees , 91,082 of which being full-time permanent.

Because according to the IRS :

IRS FY 2014 Shutdown Contingency Plan (Non-Filing Season)


Total number of employees expected to be employed prior to implementation of the shutdown plan (direct and reimbursable)
    94,516
(as of 09/07/2013)    

Why nobody blames himself?

Why nobody blames himself?

Because Washington exists

A new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 71 percent of adults believe the United States is on the wrong track, and 60 percent think we’re in a state of decline.

Roughly 70 percent pointed the finger of blame at political gridlock for the current state of the economy.

79 percent are just fed up with the political system in general.

Finding something new to justify an existence

Finding something new to justify an existence

Any government, any political institution, any bureaucracy will always find something new to justify its existence, whether or not it's needed.

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Political patrons

What is productivity in Congress?

What is productivity in Congress?

H.R. 803 – Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Sponsor: Rep Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5)

2/25/2013    Introduced in House


3/12/2013    House Education and Workforce Committee amends and passes it. 


3/15/2013    Three days later, it’s passed in the full House by a vote of 215 - 202

[15 months passes with no action in the Senate.]


6/25/2014    Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.


6/25/2014    Passed in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by a vote of 95 - 3.


7/9/2014      Resolving differences -- House passes the Senate-amended version by a vote of 415 – 6.


7/15/2014    Presented to President.


7/22/2014     Signed into law.

How America works.

How America works.

Borrowing revenue from the future to pay for our spending today.

Playing the accounting game in Washington.

Kicking any can down the road.

Allowing  technically to game the system.

What will ignite the next economic crash?

What will ignite the next economic crash?

Cov-lite lending

The new gold standard of employment metrics.

The new gold standard of employment metrics.

Payroll to Population,  the number of adults in the total population who work for an employer at least 30 hours per week.

U.S. Payroll to Population Rate is 47%.

What is the difference between an opinion and a fact?

What is the difference between an opinion and a fact?

Sooner of later a fact happens