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Title: 3:10 To Yuma...lessons Learned
by: Clinton Douglas IV
Description: Before we begin, let's start with a quote from one of my favorite people. "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature....
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Title: Website Startup Guide - Mix And Match Your Advertising Offerings
by: Ramon Sanchez
Description: There are literally thousands of people out there right now who want to start their own online business. The problem is where to begin and how to get started. Oh sure, they know they can buy a domain and a web hosting account......
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Title: The Inferno Of The Finance Director
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Sometimes, I harbour a suspicion that Dante was a Financial Director. His famous work, "The Inferno", is such an accurate description of the job that it cannot be otherwise. He is fervently hated by the workers....
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Title: The Blessings Of The Black Economy
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Some call it the "unofficial" or "informal" economy, others call it the "grey economy" but the old name fits it best: the "black economy". In the USA "black" means "profitable, healthy" and this is what the black economy is. Macedonia should count it...
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Title: To Grow Out Of Unemployment
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: There is a connection between economic growth and unemployment. There is a connection between growth and inflation. Therefore, commonsense (and financial theory) goes, there must be a connection between inflation and unemployment....
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Title: Liquidity Or Liquidation
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Large parts of the world today suffer from a severe liquidity crisis. The famed globalization of the capital markets seems to confine itself, ever more, to the richer parts, the more liquid exchanges, the more affluent geopolitical neighbourhoods. Th...
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Title: The Value Of Stocks Of A Company
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The debate rages all over Eastern and Central Europe, in countries in transition as well as in Western Europe. It raged in Britain during the 80s: Is privatization really the robbery in disguise of state assets by a select few, cronies of the politica...
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Title: Making Your Workers Your Partners
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: There is an inherent conflict between owners and managers of companies. The former want, for instance, to minimize costs - the latter to draw huge salaries as long as they are in power (who knows what will transpire tomorrow). For companies traded in...
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Title: Workaholism, Leisure And Pleasure
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The official working week is being reduced to 35 hours a week. In most countries in the world, it is limited to 45 hours a week. The trend during the last century seems to be unequivocal: less work, more play....
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Title: Competition Laws
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) laws are to ensure that consumers pay the lowest possible price (=the most efficient price) coupled with the highest quality of the goods and services which they consume. Thi...
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Title: History Of Previous European Currency Unions
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The Euro feels like a novelty - but it is not. It was preceded by quite a few Monetary Unions in Europe and outside it. To start with, countries such as the USA and the USSR are (or were in the latter's case) monetary unions....
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Title: The Delicate Art Of Balancing The Budget
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Government budgets represent between 25% and 50% of he Gross Domestic Product (GDP), depending on the country. The members of the European Union (Germany, France) and the Scandinavian countries represent the apex of this encroachment upon the national...
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Title: Hedging Foreign Exchange Risks
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The exchange rate of the Macedonian Denar against the major hard currencies of the world has remained stable in the last few years. Because of the IMF restrictions, the local Narodna (Central) Bank does not print money and there are no physical Denars...
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Title: The Professions Of The Future
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Predicting the future is a tricky business. There have been countless ridiculous failures at identifying the trends and products which will determine the future shape of our life and our environment. Even more difficult is trying to guess which of us...
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Title: The Demise Of The Dinosaur Ptts
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Telecommunications is the most important physical infrastructure in the modern world. It is more important than roads because it can replace them. It is more important than office buildings because it allows for the formation of virtual offices....
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Title: How Do Other Countries Devalue Their Currencies?
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Countries devalue their currencies only when they have no other way to correct past economic mistakes - whether their own or mistakes committed by their predecessors. The ills of a devaluation are still at least equal to its advantages. T...
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Title: An Evaluation Of The Devaluation
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: A Minister of Finance is morally right to lie about a forthcoming devaluation and a woman has the right to lie about her age. This is the common wisdom. Rumours about a devaluation of the Macedonian Denar versus the major currencies were in the...
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Title: Going Bankrupt In The World
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: It all starts by defaulting on an obligation: Money owed to creditors or to suppliers is not paid on time, interest payments due on bank loans or on corporate bonds issued to the public are withheld. It may be a temporary problem - or a permanent one....
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Title: What Could Macedonia Learn From A Tiger? The Asian Tigers And The Phenomenon Of Uninterrupted Economic Growth
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The first reaction of economies in transition is a sharp decline in their production, mainly in industrial production. In the countries which attained independence with the demise of the British Empire (where the sun never set) - industrial production...
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Title: Public Procurement And Very Private Benefits
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: In every national budget, there is a part called "Public Procurement". This is the portion of the budget allocated to purchasing services and goods for the various ministries, authorities and other arms of the executive branch. It was the famous mana...
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Title: The Ifs And Vats Of Taxation In Macedonia - Should Vat Be Applied In Macedonia?
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: To be justified, taxes should satisfy a few conditions: Above all, they should encourage economic activity by providing incentives to save and to invest. Savings - transformed into investments- enhance productivity and growth of the economy as a...
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Title: Battling Society's Cancer: Unemployment
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The official figures are staggering: 35% of the workforce - about 280,000 people - are unemployed and looking for a job. Each 1. 43 employee support 1 unemployed person....
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Title: Should The Government Compensate The Clients Of Tat?
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: This, of course, is a political decision. There is no "right" thing to do. Even the IMF imperatives are not sacred....
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Title: "bankers' Banks"- The Role Of Central Banks In Banking Crises
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Central banks are relatively new inventions. An American President (Andrew Jackson) even cancelled its country's central bank in the nineteenth century because he did not think that it was very important. But things have changed since....
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Title: The Typology Of Financial Scandals
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Tulipmania - this is the name coined for the first pyramid investment scheme in history. In 1634, tulip bulbs were traded in a special exchange in Amsterdam. People used these bulbs as means of exchange and value store....
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Title: The Greatest Stedilnica Crisis In History
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: A crisis the size of the TAT crisis, is, inevitably, political. It involves thousands of citizens, many decision makers from every walk of life and the very economic and financial fabric of the country. But, the TAT crisis pales in comparison wi...
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Title: To Tax Or Not To Tax - This Is The Question
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: To tax or not to tax - this question could have never been asked twenty years ago. Historically, income tax is a novel invention. Still, it became so widespread and so socially accepted that no one dared challenge it seriously....
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Title: The Sickly State Of Public Hospitals
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: There are many types of hospitals but the most well known are the Public Hospitals. What sets them apart is that they provide services to the indigent (people without means) and to minorities. Historically, public hospitals started as correction...
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Title: Infrastructure And Prosperity
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: In the past, if you mentioned the word "infrastructure", the verbal reflex would be: "physical". Infrastructure was roads, telephone lines, ports, airports and other very tangible country spanning things. Many things were added to this category as ti...
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Title: God's Diplomacy - International Trade And The Macedonian Economy
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: A British politician, Richard Cobden once (1857) wrote: "Free Trade is God's diplomacy and there is no other certain way of uniting people in the bonds of peace" International, free trade is particularly important to developing, poor, count...
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Title: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Employee And Management Owned Firms
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Margaret Thatcher started a world trend during her tenure as Prime Minister is Downing Street. It is called: Privatization. It consisted of the transfer of control of a state-owned enterprise to the Private Sector....
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Title: Why Is The Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the success of a stock exchange have lately improved in the MSE. For instance, the monthly money volume has increased together wit...
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Title: Small Businesses - Big Obstacles
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: Everyone is talking about small businesses. In 1993, when it was allowed, more than 90,000 new firms were registered by individuals. Now, less than three years later, official figures show that only 40,000 of them still pay their dues and present ann...
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Title: The Dismal Mind - Economics As A Pretension To Science
by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Description: It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises I. INTRODUCTION Storytelling has been with us since...
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Title: Why Am I Afraid To Sell?
by: Elena Fawkner
Description: Relationship marketing. It's the backbone of a successful online business. Fail to forge online relationships and your business will suffer....
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Title: 10 Scorching Ways To Heat Up Your Sales
by: Larry Dotson
Description: 1. Email each visitor a satisfaction questionnaire after they purchase. This will allow you to improve your order system, customer service, site, etc....
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Title: Why Your Mutual Fund Doesn't Return As Much As You Think
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - As tax time nears, many mutual fund investors are starting to wince. While most mutual funds' returns were down last year, their tax bill remains high. After years under-performing the S&P 500, the average US stock mutual fund finally bea...
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Title: Successful Dot-com Offers Strategies For Success
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - Lost amidst billions of dollars in squandered venture capital funding and endless reports from network anchors about the macabre state of e-commerce lies a seemingly overlooked fact: Not all of today's dot-coms use red ink in the accounting led...
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Title: 10 Amplifying Ways To Turn Up Your Sales Volume
by: Larry Dotson
Description: 1. Make your potential customers forget about the competition. Just tell them to forget with a factual and believable reason why they should....
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Title: 10 Ways To Gain An Avalanche Of Sales
by: Larry Dotson
Description: 1. Utilize holidays to increase your visitors or sales. You could give away free electronic greeting cards, hold discounts, send customers holiday cards, etc....
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Title: Branding Your Business
by: Elena Fawkner
Description: If you think only big corporate names need to think about things like brand names, think again. Your brand says a lot about you and your business, and that's as true for a one person home-based operation as it is for a multinational conglomerate. In...
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Title: Slam The Door On Debt
by: ARA Content
Description: IHateFinancialPlanning. com offers ten tips to help you get out and stay out (ARA) - According to American Consumer Credit Counseling, Inc....
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Title: Direct Deposit Brings Reliability, Safety And Convenience To Banking
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - Have you ever rushed to the bank to deposit your paycheck before the cutoff time. Have you ever played "beat the bank" -- writing checks before making a deposit. Have you ever made a trip to the bank just to deposit your paycheck....
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Title: 10 Mind Blowing Ways To Increase Your Sales
by: Larry Dotson
Description: 1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm you have for your product and business. If you're convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too....
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Title: Financial Planning For The Mtv Generation
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - So, you were born between 1965 and 1978. Are you tired of the Generation X label and being portrayed by the media as a cynical, Xtreme sports-loving, body-piercing slacker. If you're one of the 76 million Americans that are considered to be "...
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Title: Retirement: Why Quit For Good, When You Can Quit For The Better?
by: ARA Content
Description: Talking About Money With Jim Larranaga (ARA) - Only one quarter of Americans age 35 and older have amassed $100,000 or more for retirement, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 2000 Retirement Confidence Survey. What's more,...
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Title: Glide Into Tax Season With Solid Financial Planning
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - With good planning, you can start the year off right by making sure you and your family are financially fit and ready for the new year, and possibly reduce your tax bill. Here is a financial checklist to consider: Tap into the Power of Ta...
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Title: Controlling Costs Key To Running A Business
by: ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - With more and more small businesses and dot. coms going bankrupt these days, businesses are developing new strategies to stay in the game and obtain a profit at the same time. More than ever, not enough emphasis is being placed on controlling...
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Title: Financial Tips For Trying Times
by: ARA Content
Description: IHateFinancialPlanning. com offers advice on managing your money (ARA) - When life gets unpredictable, there's one thing Americans always want to hang onto: their money. During times of national uncertainty, it's only natural to want to hunk...
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Title: Recession-proofing Employee Motivation
by: Dr. Douglas Waldo c/o ARA Content
Description: (ARA) - As we hear more predictions of an economy showing signs of weakening, managers around the country are asking a couple of key questions: Are we prepared for a recession reminiscent of the early 1990s. Did we learn enough from experiences nearly...
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