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Inflation running at the fastest pace in 17 years

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research on August 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Consumer prices shot up in July at twice the expected rate, pushed higher by surging energy and food costs. The latest surge left inflation running at the fastest pace in 17 years.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that consumer prices rose by 0.8 percent last month, twice the 0.4 percent gain that economists had been expecting.

It marked the third straight month of oversized inflation increases following jumps of 0.6 percent in May and 1.1 percent in June. And it leaves inflation rising by 5.6 percent over the past year, the biggest 12-month gain since January 1991.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26195964

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Inflation Is a Clear and Present Danger

Posted in Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The most painful and frustrating economic policy blunder of the past 50 years was the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Painful, because it was the catalyst for three damaging recessions (1973-75, 1980, 1981-82), all the while eroding living standards and seriously undermining confidence in America.

It was also deeply frustrating. Despite the teaching of Milton Friedman — which clearly explained that inflation was caused by too much money chasing too few goods — a combination of bad economic models, denial and political expediency allowed it to happen.

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Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into ’09

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »

As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market on Tuesday, reinforcing the gloom spreading across the economy, the troubles confronting American workers seemed to intensify.

Plummeting home prices have in recent months eliminated jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, from bankers and real estate agents to construction workers and furniture manufacturers. Tighter lending standards imposed by banks in the wake of huge mortgage losses have made it hard for many Americans to secure credit — the lifeblood of expansion in recent years — crimping the appetite of consumers, whose spending amounts to 70 percent of the economy.

Read the complete article at NY Times here

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The “Crisis” In Venture Capital

Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch recently posted a good article on the state of venture financing.

There were no venture-backed IPOs in the second quarter, and M&A deals are down. The last time there were no VC-backed IPOs in a quarter was in 1978. The liquidity drought for venture-backed startups is so bleak that the National Venture Capital Association is calling it a “crisis.” Last quarter there were only 5 IPOs that brought in a piddling $283 million. That compares to 43 IPOs during the first half of 2007 that brought in $6.3 billion.

Click here to read the full article on Techcrunch.

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100 Million avatars!

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Community, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Market research, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Online communities have for quite some time been on everyone´s lips. Second Life and it´s creator Linden Labs have shown that a virtual economy can generate cash. Another one that recently reached a major milestone is Habbo Hotel. as they moved beyond 100 million avatars created, it does represent a solid business case.

Stardoll, Age of conan, WoW and other MMORPG communities keep pushing their products out and generate tons of cash. My wonder is if the online devices like iPhone will start make the heavy graphics environment look good enough on the device. As the networks keep expanding its capacities, and devices gets richer – it is only a matter of time before someone makes it happens.

Read more at Mashable here

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