Corporations and businesses are now using phone surveys as scams to obtain marketing material and information on consumers. Corruption is simply going too far. Businesses hire a not-for-profit firm to conduct "market research"; they use a not-for-profit because those are exempt from "Do Not Call" rules. The firm calls you and perhaps you feel that you'd like to help them out, so agree to respond.
The questions are innocent at first - perhaps they want your opinion about types of hospitals, etc., or about or health care industry. Then they want to ask personal information and "guarantee" this will be used for statistics only. They ask about income, zip code and then ask you for your street. Huh ? How could that be used for statistics. Obviously they are lying. Since you probably don't remember what their name is, you can't even complain.
Yesterday after I refused to reply the the "Street name" question, the questioner ask my street number! They simply wanted my address - probably to give to the marketing firm who hired them. I had agreed to the survey since they had called several times and thought I'd help them out on a "survey" about health care.
All this is a scam - a lie. Don't fall for it! From now on, I will stop responding to ANY poll or survey.
I'm really tired of lying and dishonesty in business; the use of euphemisms to cover up dishonest practices. Excuses.
Today's online WSJ writes about a law firm in FL that routinely lied on foreclosure papers, forging notarizations, backdating documents and even lying about serving them. This guy should disbarred and put into jail.
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Euro surging.............gold 1387 record high...........dollar tankaroo
every morning i wake up and my global purchasing power is shrinking............QE2...........great job dr bernanke
is dollar tankaroo supposed to create jobs by increasing our export economy ??
do we even export anything ??? i know we are #1 exporter in almonds.......exports..........give me a F'ng break
"my global purchasing power is shrinking"
Haven't noticed that yet.
So many countries peg to the dollar - they are the ones suffering, and who should suffer. They all should let their currencies rise a LOT to let their people have a higher standard of living, and they should buy US stuff.
Dollar vs. euro is not a record. The yen is, but that's their problem.
when I was in Europe (Amsterdam), I did not notice prices much different than NYC-Boston.
The problem is China & Asia. Those places for decades have undervalued currentices.
Bman have you read the book WHEN MONEY DIES by adam ferguson ??
if yes....your thoughts
Art Cashin....thoughts???...(ALERT I did not write this...repeat..I did not write this "partner"..lol
http://www.greenfaucet.com/send/send/19499?
re ferguson book, nope, never heard of it.
lol, spin ... btw you made me look good with the advance post :)
looool I do what I can Bunk..
"We present today's thoughts by Art Cashin on the coming hyperinflation "
uh ... I read the article - it did NOT tell about the "coming" hyperinflation, but about one that occurred in post WW I Germany in the 1920s.
I know about that one.
Gosh, the US doesn't even print $1,000 or $500 bills anymore (I wish they did).
So what is the connection?
Where is treh infaltion ... or even the hyperinflation?
All that Fed QE1 is sitting in the banks. Maybe some of QE2 money will go into the commercial system, which would be good.
The Fed can withdraw that money so far your head will spin if inflation got high.
Where are the wage increases that come - lead - inflation?
where is teh RE price increases?
Where are prices increases for anything EXCEPT government?
All these pundits whould read Emerson's famous essay, The American Scholar" where he says to get out of the ivory tower & books & theory and find some REAL FACTS.
And yes, I am now reading that essay ... odd how fitting it is, about 175 years later.
my typing really sucks when I go fast.
"so far" = "so fast"
pffttt try this
http://www.greenfaucet.com/node/19499
that's what I read, spin. llmost all it describes is the German hyperinflation.
Nothing about here and now and why such will occur here and now.
just because the sky is clear today doesn't mean a catastrophe isn't coming
pearl harbor was very beautiful on dec6, 1941
Dont read my pundit Patrick read Bunks Emerson the pundit..lol
a rather limp metaphor, Bud.
weather & Jap militarists don't connect.
There were lots of signs of a Jap attack - just not specifically at Pearl.
an alert had even been ordered.
looool I even have to give azzhead a chuckle on that one....
WE... ARE THE WORLD.....
look, guys ... IF ANYONE truly thinks a hyperinflation is coming, they should be borrowing everything they can at long term fixed rates and buying everythign in sight.
Which pundit is doing that?
All the big mouths aren't putting their money where their mouths are.
I disagree and recently bought a lot of US stocks.
Sold gold, TIPs, emnerging markets, etc.
have cash ready to buy more on a big dip.
Bunkerman if "jim" says inflation is coming, then its coming.....I heard he bought 435 more tv's for his house...
"Jim" - whoever that is - knows almost nothing outside of his "trade"
uh.....we wouldnt even know each other without "jim"...this blog wouldnt exist without "jim"...What Emerson say about that???lol
hmmm ... the first part is true, but the second, nope.
I'd probably have started it anyway.
re "hyperinflation" let me know when the government starts TRULY printing money to pay its bills in CASH.
That is a precondition to hyperinflation.
All this metaphorical "printing money" is going into the banking system as reserves which can be withdrawn in a split second by the Fed.
Cash cannot be withdrawn quickly.
"probably"..pffttt...sorry Bunk that's theory..I deal in REAL FACTS..
Bunkerman do you really believe it is all that simple? "Oh, they can just withdraw the $ when the see inflation"
Come on sir...QE isnt creating jobs sir...its not allowing people to refinance...its simply buying time....buying time for a recovery that the Fed thinks is coming...
Dont you know that NYC will look like Detroit within 3 years?
Mikey if ur out there...sorry about ur Texans..lol
When will the people rise up like Hawkeye Pierce after eating a river of liver and an ocean of fish???...WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!!....WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!!!
If they can create the bank reserves in a few months, they can withdraw them in a few months.
countries griping about strong currency should just use the $ to buy US stuff.
Otherwise, tough $%^#.
They should encourage their people to buy US stuff - like Americans buy foreign stuff when our currency is strong & we are prosperous.
Visit America!!!
Yes, I know how to take the side of Americans.
Bunkerman, Friend of the Common Man
What advice would you give to the common man right now Bunkerman, re education, jobs, investing....?
investing: follow Krypto.
education: get an engineering-hard science degree; or a business+law combo; learn a couple foreign languages.
jobs: too broad a question - specifics, please?
The Federal Reserve is about to try to pump up stock and bond markets, depress the value of the U.S. dollar and generate a whiff of inflation.
That's not how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will describe it Friday when he elaborates on his latest plan for resuscitating the U.S. economy. But that's what happens when the Fed turns up its electronic printing presses, creates money and buys hundreds of billions in U.S. Treasury debt, as it is poised to do. That's how "quantitative easing," or QE, works.
david wessel today in wsj
great plan Ben...........F'ng disgusting
For the man who cannot attend college, or is at a community college...Or cannot learn engineering or law...
Bunk, if I have time will chime in...give u a lil basic macroecon education...nonono run and hiding in the barn sir...more on that later.
learn a trade like welding, plumbing, electrician, etc. - those can't be replaced by people in China.
join the Navy & learn machine shop skills
learn a foreign language
learn accounting.
back after lunch - must help Mrs. B take dogs for photos for the Christmas calendar.
that seems like an activity of the common man....
The government only signs the back of checks they dont sign the front*
*Rick Santelli
hey Spin......i'm here.
Eli and the G men kicked the snot out of the Texans.....Houston lost only 2 games in their last 9 and "Bush 41" was at both...Cowboys in Dallas and the Giants here.
per signing checks, I think the cash money we have has a government signature on the front. It's like a check on the Federal Reserve bank payable to teh bearer.
more education-jobs:
become an RN and specialize in nursing homes, geriatrcs. Can get a partial degree on that at a community college.
go pre-med, join Navy, get them to pay for your Med school
Join air force & learn aircraft mechanics.
lol mfl .. I'm hiring a local person and paying good money for a photo skill.
Bman ... supporting AMerica and AMericans.
maybe my acronym could be BAM
:)
I hear merny making a fine living as a crack whore.
lool poor MF W..Mission Accomplished lool.....good to see ya padnah
JOIN THE Naaaaaavy....and see the world...
Army Navy AirForce Marines...whata great place...a great place...TO START!!
thanks right Joe...you make it outta here alive..you can be a plumber
"Bush 43" should be at some of the Rangers - Yankees games hangin out with Noland Ryan
my bro goin to Gmen @ Dallas next week without his trusted Spinny sidearm....MF!!!...lool
Spin....tell brother you'll watch the cash register for him while he's away....lol
sheesh, the guy who taught me how to use a mill & lathe at night school was an ex-Navy guy; he made a good living at a machine shop - learned it in the Navy.
No college needed.
mfl asked me for no college ideas.
and I get accused of being elitist ...
;)
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