Archive for October, 2008

Maxed Out Movie Explains How Credit Card Companies Operate

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Money, Movies, Videos | Oct 11, 2008 | Tags: 60 minutes, bailout, credit, credit card meltdown, credit cards, credit meltdown, current events, dave ramsey, debt, debt management, debt recovery, economic crisis, economy, film, finance, financial crisis, financial peace, movie, payday loans, predatory lending, total money makeover | No Comments

It’s already being prophesized that the next financial meltdown wave will be focused on credit card debt. The abuse of credit cards by both lenders and borrowers has been well documented for awhile. Since most of the population blindly racks up credit card debt with little awareness around the pitfalls of being on the giving ...Read more.

The Secret of How to Get Rich Quick! …Really

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Books, Consumerism, Marketing, Money, Psychology, Videos | Oct 10, 2008 | Tags: byron katie, cons, gabe and max's internet thing, get rich quick, infomercial, internet marketing, Money, personal development, scams, scheme, self help, shelf help, the secret, tony robbins | No Comments

The secret to getting rich quick is to not spend your hard earned money and valuable time on schemes that experts are selling you to teach you how to get rich quick. The truth is that if they were rich from their actions they wouldn’t be wasting their time on stages and teleseminars pitching you ...Read more.

The Story of Stuff Video

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Videos | Oct 9, 2008 | Tags: annie leonard, current events, story of stuff | No Comments

The Story of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff. The movie is just the beginning of the story. Watch the beginning of the movie in the video below, then ...Read more.

Our “Unpredictable” Economic Crisis Was Predicted 12 Years Ago

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Books, Money, Politics, Spin, Videos | Oct 8, 2008 | Tags: bailout, bank crisis, banking, current events, economic crisis, financial crisis, fooled by randomness, greed, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, news, the black swan, wall street | 1 Comment

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the #1 NYT Best Selling author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, predicted the current banking crisis 12 years ago. As a trader for 18 years, and an intelligent critical thinker his entire ...Read more.

A Good Night for a Presidential Debate is a Good Day to Launch a Blog on Marketing Spin

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Marketing, Media, Politics, Psychology, Spin, The Brain | Oct 7, 2008 | Tags: Advertising, america, barck obama, campaigns, democrat lies, Influence, Marketing, mccain lies, Media, neurolinguistic programming, nlp, obama lies, persuasion, political lies, Politics, president, presidential debate, presidential election, republican lies, Spin, The Brain, wall street, wall street lies | No Comments

Tonight is the night of the second presidential debate. This seems like as good a day as any to launch a blog on how you are marketed to by advertisers, politicians, experts, media, and sometimes even your friends. If you think you might hear at least one lie, fabrication or stretching of the truth by ...Read more.