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My own cultural revolutionTaipan Group's Dynamic Market AlertBy J. Christoph Amberger---------------------------- A Personal Message from J. Christoph Amberger: I’m about to ask you to do something crazy. But if you do, I guarantee it’ll be one of the most rewarding decisions you’ll ever make. In fact, what I’m about to ask of you will actually make you $14,227 richer this year alone! So if you’re willing to hear me out, listen to all the facts, and want to grow your wealth faster than you could have ever dreamed, then please read on...
-------------------------- My own cultural revolutionby J. Christoph Amberger The envelope promises to put my derriere into the “best seat in the house.” The letter itself invites me to consider the letter writer my own “personal curator of ideas and cultural experiences, searching all over the world for fascinating programs, or making our own when we don’t find what we need.” I’m supposed to want to rejoin the organization, the letter goes on, because I “want to be stimulated, to know more about the world, and to experience life a bit more deeply.” I’m intrigued. Am I being schmoozed by an exotic escort service? Not quite: This they have in store for me: “Enjoying music that’s the best our culture has to offer.” “Seeing a book turned into a great drama.” “Visiting an English manor or a Navajo reservation.” No escort service, all right, but it sure sounds good. But unfortunately, this invitation is to rejoin Maryland Public Television as a sponsor this year. And for some reason, my ideas about what constitutes culture are quite at odds with what the ladies at MPT have in mind. -- Let’s start with the music. It’s nice that someone decides to air the 97th season of Lord of the Dance, or the 29th reunion concert of Three Tenors, or even Live-in-Duluth! with Jim Taylor. Someone has to, I guess. These people, too, have to make a living, even though I imagine the Ancient Mariner was better off then them. (After all, he only had to carry a dead bird around the neck while reciting his one-hit wonder.) And maybe the only way to watch these is by digesting the 10-minute chunks offered up in fundraising events. But there are limits. Does every event have to be hosted by the local MPT queen? She must have been a knockout back in the Eisenhower administration. But now she’s cinched so tight her eyes are like Mack truck headlights... radiating the surprise and cheer spread by a five-year-old imp giving great-grandma a permanent wedgie. At MPT, weekends are filled with bearded handymen making spice racks that all require more machinery and equipment than a medium-sized woodworking factory in China. Or a guy with a Weber grill making sauces in hand-formed aluminum foil vessels. As if this isn’t bad enough, Saturday evenings are devoted to British television series and made-for-TV serial drama. The comedies are harrowing. They all feature Dame Judy Dench or another Golden Girl, or a department store staff straight from the early ‘70s starring a youngish Dame Judy Dench. A laugh track reminds us that we’re supposed to bust a gut laughing -- in vain! If you were unlucky enough to have been born prior to 1870, there’s just nothing funny. Anywhere! Then it’s off to British drama. Each one, in turn, is like watching a 5k barefoot obstacle course of the footsore: painful, overlong, limping, hobbling and screaming with pregnant pauses. And placed in scenery that is either gray and rainy or grayish green and rainy. If by the end you haven’t drilled a hole into your knee and filled it with mustard out of sheer boredom and desperation, you’re in for a special treat: An incomprehensible episode of Dr. Who. At the end of the viewing experience, you’re ever so grateful that there’s Married with Children re-runs on another channel. Faced with public television’s cultural offerings, I launched my own cultural revolution today: I threw the donation form into the recycling bin. He calls it a “fun read, a practical guide, and a thorough explanation of the Taipan Group’s Hot Trading Secrets,” registering “sweeping satisfaction of the secrets revealed,” as well as attesting to “wit and wisdom.” Can I just say: We told you so! And this is where you can get a copy at substantial discounts! http://www.dynamicmarketalert.com/hottradingsecretsdma.html
-- U.S. unit labor costs -- a far better gauge of inflationary pressures than energy prices -- rose by 4.9% in the second quarter, up from the previous estimate of a 4.2% increase. Labor costs for the first quarter were sharply revised higher by 9%, up from a previous estimate of just 2.5% rise and the fastest increase since the third quarter of 2000. Compared with 2005, labor costs are up 5%, and have risen at the fastest pace since the fourth quarter of 1990. This, of course, is a direct consequence of low unemployment, which currently is far below 5%. A tight labor market tips the scale in favor of the employed, which can command higher wages and salaries. Productivity declines and labor cost go up. Which is why Keynesians have been looking at current unemployment rates with a jaundiced eye. In this context, a decline in the housing and construction industry must appear like a godsend. In theory, as laid-off workers from the home building and real estate industry pour into the market, labor cost should cease growing -- and terminally start dropping again. It’s not a pleasant experience for those affected, but inevitable in the free market.
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Quote of the Day “ Western civilization did not exactly end last night as Katie [Couric] took to the anchor chair. But the changing of the guard did represent another kind of cultural change. As of yesterday, network TV has proven it no longer feels the need to pretend that its nightly news broadcast is sober stuff, populated by earnest men and women with serious reporting backgrounds and working blow-dryers.” - Andrea Peyser, Sep. 6, 2006 P.S. Just Released to the Public:
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