Action speak louder than words, when it comes to Glen Beck Advertisers on his show.

What does it tell you when an advertising companies PULL ads that are GETTING more exposure? Isn't that the idea, ? I am sure the price didn't go up substantially, and if things weren't true, don't they think public would figure that out and they could ride the extra exposure wave? No, they are trying to send a message , a powerful message, that the Companies are trying to put enough pressure, lack of funding money, to pull the show. Such a strong statment must say the most or all of what he is saying is ture.

So bottom line we should be scared, he says some radically different things on there. SO WE HAVE to pay attention, the truth must be heard. I have said it once and I will say it again, do you want to know you have cancer now or later? Later is often to late, so get your head out the sand. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Lets get with it and restore the republic, the home of the free. If we are not careful, it will be the home of the enslaved, that think they are free. I recommend going to the Lower Taxes, Less Government Freedom Works Rally in D.C. This weekend Sept 10th, 2009.

Here is the Story on Advertising being pulled on Glenn Beck show.

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Has anyone seen the Shark Tank show on ABC? Awesome show! Intriguing blend of entrepreneurs and angel investors all chomping at the bit for power. A must watch on sun night or grab it on hulu.com !

I love this show, not so much for the entertainment value, which of course is cool, but for the lessons it provides. It gives you a quick and clear understanding into the minds of the angel investor and the typical entrepreneur. Both of them are pretty much a legend inside of their own mind, and since they are often on both ends of the spectrum, they must meet somewhere in the middle to do business.

Being the entrepreneur, I always forget why the angel investors always want more then 50%. But lets face it, they know how to conduct business and know the perils of business and letting the entrepreneur make the decisions without experience often is perilous. Watching the quick negotiations go on for millions of dollars of cash, equity and intellectual property as if it were loose change in ones pocket is amazing. It gives you real insight to the way business is done in this world.

So far the entrepreneurs have been strong, and haven't taken every offer that is available on the table, knowing there is more then just money. Integrity and personal philosophies are paramount and are often lost in capitalism. I am sure in the back of their mind, just being on the show is worth millions in advertising, so its likely they will be set even without the money offers. So guess who wins in the end? Hopefully the entrepreneur.

Look for many years of episodes with this show, and hopefully it becomes a clearinghouse and breeding ground for small business and the inspiring entrepreneur, solving vital niche and every-day problems typically way before government and big business.

Chalk one up for the small guy with this platform and show! :) Inspiring to say the least, and a valuable lesson for many of us who plan on owning their own business one day.

From one inventor to many others out there.. Keep inventing, but keep it real and remember to focus, you can't do it all. Don't be afraid to ask for help, get a mentor, and leaving tons of money for marketing, that's a business in of itself. Hence is why I created an internet marketing niche product called The JumpStarter - do it yourself SEO internet marketing. Hope that helps.

Happy Inventing, keep watching that show. If you miss it, go to Hulu.

Chow

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I have posted a great video on my facebook account, if you want to tie in a face with a website, nows your chance!! Check out this great "lesson on life video". It just goes to show you how life can really come back FULL circle.

"The Good Life" takes you to a chance meeting between an MBA and a fisherman on a small island. As the MBA tries to teach the fisherman about business, the fisherman teaches him about life.

This VIdeo is the Essence of why we need to focus more on self-help and self-reliance. In today's age I think we have tipped the scales and have become to a little to dependent and too intertwined. Too Disconnected, equals an out of Balance that we can't see until its too late many times.

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Now this is a guy who has passion, has a chance at hitting the corrupt powers to be where it hurts. Lets face it, its not the gov't we have to worry about so much, its the rich elite that hide behind them.

GOldman Sachs is a 4th arm of the gov't that gets to hide. Gov't turns a blind eye to any regulation. Corruption runs deep, they walked away with 120 BILLION in the bailout, tons MORE Then AIG. WE need to stand up.

Please READ and volunteer if you can; GOldman Sachs 666. Goldman needs to pay for their mistakes. Its time. THe outright robbing of EVERY american.

God speed

Over 15 large companies just declared bankruptcy in the last few weeks and the market goes up over 400 pts in the last 2 days. Amazing. But, understanding the stock market or economy is being able to step back and see the bigger picture. After reading literally thousands of articles on the economy, trading, stock investment principles, a lot of what happens boils down to mass psychology.

I could maybe write a Ebook on this one day, but here is the bottom line:
Bull markets launch on Pessimism
They Rise on Skepticism
They mature on Optimism
And peak on Euphoria

Sounds easy enough right, but try jumping out of a moving vehicle at 60mph. Worse yet, you don't even know your going for a ride, thats the real PROBLEM. Watching your friends, drive to Disney Land, are you going to sit on the sideline, sucking your thumb? All awhile they chuckle at you and throw dollars out the window to you? I doubt it. I have faced it many times myself, but in the opposite direction, becoming too overly bearish.

Where do you think we are at right now? What seems the most irrational or euphoric at this point? Yep you guessed it. Here is one of the greatest calls of all time... The DOW will peak for over THE NEXT 12 to 15 years in the next six weeks, or by Aug 31st. After this next peak, its bye bye baby all the way probably to 2,500. Yes, you can call me crazy. But you can also send my your savings if I save you thousands of dollars. ;0

While were on the topic of contracting businesses, to help save those failing businesses who spend to much on SEO experts and internet marketing services, I have launched a new Do It Yourself SEM site, please see The JumpStarter have a gander and tell me what you think.

Good luck. Happy Investing.

Its no secret, banks are failing left and right. Here's the Government list published by the FDIC The way the government and media is downplaying it is that they are saying the government is creating a stewardship, yeah right, how nice and parental I feel safer already.

Secondly, banks have tons of branches, unlike 30 years ago, so a bank is really a ton of branches failing usually. Make no mistake about it, if you count all the branches failing, we are actually worse then the same Period Pre-Depression levels. Pretty scary to say the least. But necessary to start back from the fundamentals.

No magic formula. Dollar in = dollar out, there ain't no other way around it. But as inflation kicks in its really 1 dollar in .50 cents out! Purchasing power being eroded, the great American theft that no one really feels or sees. Its such a bad game, and the American public is the one who loses.

Anyway, if you want to be proactive and find the best banks to put your money, or better yet, find the ones that are likely to fail before they do, then check out this website. ITs Banktracker from investigative reporting workshop.

The key is to first look up your bank and see if their balance sheet is way overleveraged, which of course most of them are. Thats how banks work. Its when the economy contracts substantially is when they get into trouble. They can't rob Peter to Pay paul anymore, cause peter wants his money back. Don't let all the hype and too big to fail prevent you from understanding the fundamentals, bad debt needs to be cleared one day, there is no way around it.

It just amazes me to watch the government REWARD bad behavior. Time and time again, they say that we are headed for doom, if we don't fix this economic crisis. Well, all you got to ask first, is how did we get here? The sun, the moon, the tide, no, POOR decisions and incompetent behavior. Yeah, one or two may be bad luck, but since when do reward bad behavior with more of the same?

I couldn't have said it better myself.. Its giving to the incompetent from the competent. Here is a great quote from Jim Rogers, one of the world's most prominent international investors:

"Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt," said Rogers, who is now a private investor.

"What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go and take over the assets from the incompetent," he said. "What's happening this time is that the government is taking the assets from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying, now you can compete with the competent people. It is horrible economics."

Our mother wouldn't be proud. But I guess thats what you get when the country is really run by the rich, the string holders of the politician puppets.

Bottom line -- Politics is making your motives LOOK like everyone else's desires.

Wow, all those people that had millions in mutual funds this year, ALL, I repeat all but ONE lost money with negative returns. See the article. That's right, out of 11,585, only 1 made a positive return! While I know its been a bad year, there had to be more than 1 person who saw this coming! Ouch, talk about a lack of foresight. Actually, they comment about my leader board positive returns in this article which is nice.

When you strip it all down, this is a classic case of resting on your laurels and becoming complacent. Forgetting to study history, and just using what happened the last few months as the precedence. All those fancy lunches, slick brochures, decadent offices, and hot secretaries didn't make a bit of difference when picking your fund manager. See, nothing is too big to fail. And this is a classic example of how following the "herd" can be detrimental to your health. It goes to show you that you can lose 10 years of gains, in just one year. Don't think of it as a problem in just in financial markets, but such a devastation can happen to your health, your house, or more abstractly, your mental state. Things compound, and reach a tipping point, often a cliff, so the way down is often a free-fall. Please watch for the warning signs, signs that I will try to give you on my blog.

Believe it or not, they make mention of me in this article, and my stock returns are very positive in this bear market. I happen to be shortseller. One of the reasons I bring this up is to show you that I put my money where my mouth is. I am just not some bear who talks about doom and gloom, just for fun and profit. Not because I am negative or cynical, but because I am a realist. A "watch out for what the herd's doing" prudent individual. So, just to develop some credibility, I am posting my gains on my blog.

I am not looking for praise or status, this is to let you know I am more then just an alternative health "granola" as some they call us. :) I'll let the returns speak for themselves, and they are realized, I sold everything on Nov. 20th. It took probably 1000's hours of studying and research, but I have done it. :)

So, if you want to stay abreast of my musings, enter your email address in the box to the right. ;0 Good luck in this volatile market. Not trying to scare you, but I hope you are ready for the Great Depression II. Try not to get too down, this is a time for renewal and to get back to the fundamentals of what life is all about. Now that you look back, didn't things quite a bit excessive? And we all know what happens when you get to much fat! All kinds of diseases bubble up!! No pun intended. ;) Little Recession humor anyone?

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Every few years a Noble Cause or some sort of Bandwagon appears that seems as though it has real traction to make a change for the better.

One of those "Bandwagons" is the Environmental or Green Movement. Now don't get me wrong, I am all for Saving the environment. Yes we all need to conserve, recycle and not be so wasteful. But what happens, when someone uses that platform for their own selfish needs? Does it happen?? WE would be naive to think otherwise.

If I were to tell you that all PLANETS in the solar system have been slowly heating up in the past several years, would that change your outlook on Earth? IT SHOULD! If there are not humans on other planets, then how else can you explain it?? Solar system changes, primarily sun and its relationship to the earth.

So with that said, maybe there is a guy like Al Gore who lost barely in a previous election, would want to make a major comeback somehow?

The fact of the mater is that as temperature goes up, C02 levels rise. Not the other way around. C02 is create in mass amounts from sea organisms, I mean massive amounts. Just go to Youtube and search for "Global Warming Hoax", its all over the news. Al Gore dares to use a green moral platform in a unethical way. If you knew how many research jobs this movement created to line pockets and support this Hoax. Yes of course some are needed, but the lie created jobs that are wasteful.. It makes me sick. Of course we need to reduce C02, but twisted lies and scare tactics are not the way to do it.

Check out the Pen and Teller Video below, its a perfect example of why you need to question different proposals or platforms based on a herd type movement. This is a great example where all people need to do is hear a buzzword, and they are on board. No questions asked. This is why herding mentality can hurt us all. This is why you must have free thought and honestly examine things where it always seems like the "CROWD is on Board". Its why financial and stock bubbles get created. SO much to be said, but lets save it for another blog entry! :)

How funny ehg?? I love it. Ban water, yeah lets do it! So how many other "H20's" are out there that shouldn't be banned!?? Or for that matter how many ideas or substances shouldn't even be in the environmental movement. Food for thought. Then again, the food may be laced with pesticide, so watch out!

Always question the Herd.

Adios, Sean

Capitalism is an amazing thing. How many times have we said to ourselves, "If I only had a ten thousand dollars, things would be much better. Well, in the past 20 years while the market has trended up tremendously, many of us have reached that goal. Of course initially its a goal, but in time unfortunately it becomes a milestone.

Think about it, when we reach that mark, we say to ourselves, "Wow, if this is what $10K feels like, imagine what $20K will fill like!! Bam!" Unconsciously we think that our life happiness might double, so we go for it. And in time, we get to the same milestone, and ad infinitum. A viscous cycle that seems great, but more often than not it just leads to more hollowness. Don't get me wrong, some people learn that enough is enough, and live a happy life with a more modest desire for business successes. Its hard, I struggle with it, we all do. Everyone wants to retire in 1 year or less.

I think Charles Payne said it best from Minyanville,

Don't get me wrong: Capitalism is in the DNA of human beings. We love to compete. We love to help each other and if we�can make a buck in the process all the better. We love to build, starting from those sand castles at the beach when we are only toddlers to families, businesses and skyscrapers. The thing that happens is, we become victims of our own success. Even when people are doing great financially and are making more money than they have in the past, they tend to feel bad about themselves if someone else is doing much better. That's envy at work. I hope it doesn't rip apart the fabric of our country, because there are a lot of folks hoping that happens.

Capitalism is a double edge sword, unfortunately we don't realize it until we lose what we so dearly worked for. A classic example of how history repeats itself, and the previous generation is gone or to senile to remember or remind us of such important lessons. :0

Until then, try to stay in balance with all your desires, albeit financial or any other, its the key to good health and longevity.

-- Bloggers note: Reader's Peter Schiff is one of the few economists who REALLY saw this downturn coming before it happened. Many jumped on the bandwagon after the fact, but not Mr. Schiff. He is a great forecaster, and extremely succinct writer, I recommend following him. --

This is a partial reprint of Peter Schiff's Article on Financial Sense Website
Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital | October 27, 2008

Insanity is often defined as repeating the same action while expecting a different result. Recent Congressional activity to push through this year's second economic "stimulus" package certainly indicates that many of our political leaders may have special needs.

Responding to the $150 billion stimulus that was passed at the beginning of the year, I made the following observation in my February 15th commentary Upping the Inflation Dosage : "The failure of the stimulus plan to cure the economy will cause the Government, and the Wall Street brain trust, to conclude that it was simply too small. Their next solution will be to administer an even stronger dose."

It's interesting to recall that at the time, just 9 months ago, the $150 billion package caused much hand wringing, especially from Republicans still clinging to notions of Federal restraint. This was before an avalanche of more than $2 trillion in new spending initiatives -- before Bear Stearns, wide open discount windows, AIG, Fannie/Freddie, Federal Mortgage Auctions, Detroit loan guarantees, and preferred shares in the banks. In retrospect, the $150 billion stimulus seems quaint. It is not surprising that the latest package is expected to be twice as large. When this one fizzles, look for "Stimulus III" to be even larger.

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It amazes me how I can read so many articles time and time again, or watching the pundits on CNBC fleece the public into thinking the bottom is either here or very near. Do people suffer from short term memory problems? Or are people wising up to the fact that these "experts" are really no experts.

Month after month, over 80% of the experts and money managers say we are almost out of the woods. They say things like, "Its a buyers market", "Invest for the long term". The narrow sightedness of these people is appalling. Half of them should be shot for swindling people into investing recklessly on the way up, and now its holding on the way down. Why do people continue to listen to these people who got them into this mess? Instanity.

Very few of these experts, study economic history, except the 1 to 40 years of experience in their own lives. Since when is 40 years a snapshot of everything that society has lived through? This is precisely why history repeats itself.

They don't do any long term projections. They don't pull up charts showing how this macroeconomic formula shows that this imbalance has now been corrected. Of course not!! They are fat cats just spewing hopes and some minuscule sliver of micro economics about X data figure looks good so thats the sign we need.

You could take any month in the past year and hear them say, its about over or it will be next quarter. Of course people believe them because that's what they want to hear as they have thousands being drained from their 401'Ks and Retirement plans. I feel so bad for people after the market is down nearly 50%!

So when is it going to be over? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. If you study the many theories on social mood, that I have mentioned before, it all makes sense, usually after you have lived through it. SO try to live through it by studying history, i.e. the great depression or other times in World history like the Japan's 90's economic deflation crisis or the economic disaster of the Revolutionary War.

The big picture says this, "when people are afraid, I mean really afraid like sworn off the stock market afraid". When most of your friends say, "Stay out" or have dire stories of how they lost almost all of their life savings. That is the time to buy, that is when the bottom is in. This is no minor correction. Right now they are still exuberant to get in, afraid to miss the capital gains, as shown by the many volatile swings upward. Social mood comes in waves, so don't expect it to bottom all in a straight line now.

Not to toot my own horn, but thankfully, there are people who can make money on the way down, puts and shorts like myself have a field day. Many say its not right to make it on the way down, but honestly we should have never gotten that high in the first place. Besides, people lose on the way up if they don't sell, in fact, you could have been the one who sold the stock to them.

Look at the market going down near 7400, then up for a few weeks and then down again some more. Its real easy to say and swallow when you haven't been sold a bill of goods for the past 10 years. I am sorry for anyone who has been sold this bill. Next time, run from market hysteria.

Best of luck, happy investing.

With an overwhelming action by the guys at blogactionday.org, bloggers all around the world have decided to write on how to end poverty. In my opinion it has to come from two directions. From the top down and from the bottom up.

First everyone is partly responsible for this mess. It mainly stems from the lack of motivation, greed, and unfortunate circumstances. The greedy take from the many, the poor lack the motivation many times to make their situation better. While there are many poor who desperately are trying to make their situation better, their circumstances gives them no breaks. This is where we need to focus.

While in the first 2 areas its all about morality, I can't change that without many days of nurturing and lessons, which is phase II. Phase I is helping with immediate needs at places like Atlanta's Union Mission and giving to "legitimate" charities that don't pay their principles millions like the United Way. Give to the Salvation Army and find the smaller outfits and we all can make a difference, piece by piece. As a whole we can end poverty.

I finally made it back to good ol' Georgia, from a great month in the Outer banks, kitesurfing and working on an alternative energy project! It went well, and all is well. I hope all is well with all of you in these crazy times!!!

On more important matters, as I called the financial meltdown. Here is what I think is next on tap..

Slowly we are sliding into a loss of liberties, and this videos sheds a great new light on it. Here is the history lesson from Keith Olbermann, so you don't think this has never happened. When you watch it, keep in mind, at an approval rating of 20% and his way out of office, do you think Mr. Bush really cares? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxmPjB0WSs&feature=related

Flash forward to the most current events, and in the next video Naomi Wolf does a great job without spewing venom, conspiracies, or unsubstantial evidence all while laying out a plan on how to fix it.

Naomi Wolf's Take back the Republic Video, will FLY and go Viral.. wow 150K viewws in 3 days!! Here is an interesting video .. This girl is cute too! I think its time to stop bickering over Dems vs Repub, and as they say find a "Bi-partisian" solution.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI

Since times are looking like the are going to be tough, I started a blog, please read it and post comments. If things get worse its time to try and become more independent.

My prediction is we really will have to rise up and fight together. But unfortunately, we will have to lose many liberties, BMW's, boats and summer homes before we make a move. Slowly this is happening, the slow erosion is why you don't notice it much. Most people don't take action until a loved one is affected. We can see it happening, don't wait until you have no resources to get the things you need to survive.

I welcome a brave new world.

Sean

What a wild roller coaster it has been in the financial markets!!!. I think everyone and their brother just got a HUGE head fake on this Likely Bank Bailout plan passing. I am shocked, but also relieved in some way, despite the fact I lost a few G's in the market, hope for America exists as shown by the slight majority of level headed Congressman in the House. They know mainstreet gains little and wallstreet gains everything on this plan.

So, do you think I could go to my bank without charts, business plans, graphs and my first born, in my efforts to get a business loan? I think not! Then where is all the justification, the recourse, the impact studies on this proposed bailout? Maybe I wasn't watching the right channel, or that's just classified, but good Lord, obviously Paulson and Bernake and buddy Committees don't do their homework. Maybe India doesn't write term papers anymore, I don't know. All they know is their banking buddy executives are in trouble.

Based on all the rhetoric and media coverage, the minority whips, speakers, president, FED, etc.., all said "progress" was being made. Doesn't it seem odd to you that 90% of the interviews were all slanted on the opinion of passing? Yet 55% were Against the Bill? HMMM... sounds like the media is more of a controlling puppet, not an unbiased independent news source. But who is controlling the puppet on decisions on how to report the news and who to interview? HMMMM... Food for thought. My guess is the corporate elite who run this country, who unequivocally got us into this mess WITHOUT oversight and Transparency. T & O, whats that? I think if I hear these words, along with the notorious "Bi-partisan agreement" , I think I am going to Puke! Wait, if I call it "Rescue Upchuck" I am sure it will taste much better! LOL! Anyway, The mere fact that they try to change the name is just a sign of the leaders agenda.

These words are like some kind of new, ground breaking moral code that will change everything. So, its not something their Mothers taught Them? I guess not. ETHICS and COOPERATION, thats all it is, like they should get a gold star or an automatic free pass for doing such things? Come on we weren't born yesterday. Hmm. can you Legislate those values. I think not. Hence another likely breakdown is sure to follow. You can't trickle down funds and expect it to work. It never trickles down enough.

Nevertheless, I am certainly not in favor of the Big Financial Bank Bailout, and if anything is going to work it has to go to mainstreet first. No other way. The other way is giving more crack to the crack head. Its rewarding malinvestment and greed. When is America going to learn that recessions or depressions are a cleansing cycle? Its like taking the car keys away from disobeying children. Or its like the pain of 10 cuts vs. 100. 10 Now or 100 Later. You choose. It hurts, but its a necessary evil in any cycle, economic or otherwise. Once this is understood, "Shiva" would be proud.

Congratulations my friends you have a front row seats to the onset of the greatest depression since I don't know when. I may be wrong, but forget about 1930's, were on a track to something worse than that. But it won't feel like that because its 1000 cuts not 100, thanks to the good ol' Treasury printing press. Devalued dollars. Currency Debasement. Robbing you slowly. As an example, 630 Billion was injected into the fiscal system on this new "Black Monday" by the Federal Reserve!!. Who needs Congress to Inject 700 Billion into the Financial System when you got the FED? Fascism could be right around the corner.

Good night and good luck.