The Bureau of Economic Analysis uses a wholly bogus imputed rent variable in its calculations about the health of the US economy and the health of the real estate industry.
BEA treats homeowners as businesses, which pay rent to themselves. Therefore, homeowners contribute to the real estate industry’s GSP even if not employed by the industry.
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What Martial Arts Can Teach Us About Improving Presentations
One of the keys to being successful in the martial arts is taking good notes, storing away information. In ninjutsu, a secondary key is taking good notes in such a way that your notes are useful only to you. If someone borrows, copies, or steals your notes, [...]

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Imagine for a moment that your industry, that your specialty, is a single post, a single beam. It represents your vertical, everything you’re good at, and also everything that’s wrong with your industry’s growth. It’s fishbowl. It’s vertical. It’s a silo, an echo chamber in which no new ideas flow in or out.
You keep struggling [...]

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The martial art that I practice places an incredible amount of emphasis on the basics of the art. Basic footwork patterns, basic abilities to hit, grapple, throw, and otherwise put the kibosh on someone trying to hurt you.
One of the things that every senior instructor at my dojo, the Boston Martial Arts Center, constantly emphasizes [...]

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From the FDIC press release:

Financial results for the second quarter are contained in the FDIC’s latest Quarterly Banking Profile, which was released today. Among the major findings:
Provisions for loan losses continue to be the main cause of falling earnings. Rising levels of troubled loans, particularly in real estate portfolios, led many institutions to increase their [...]

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The Wheel of Time Turns
Fall is coming around again, and as it does, the echoes of autumns past come with it. Nostalgia for times past are inevitable as the growing season ends and we buckle down for winter’s arrival; Halloween in older traditions is said to be the day when the veil between living and [...]

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More truth than comedy.
Hat tip to Rachel Timmerman for this one.
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Chris Brogan asks:
But now, think about podcasting. Where is THAT going? If you can guess that one correctly, get back to us all. It’s been a crazy ride so far.
Podcasting is going exactly where it should be going, which is away from “shiny object of the day, one solution will solve your problems” to useful [...]

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Media is not marketing
One of the greatest mistakes folks in media - old and new - make is to mistake media for marketing, to mistake product for promotion.
Media is not marketing.
Media is the product.
Marketing and promotion are entirely separate from media, the product.
Consider: if media were marketing, radio and television stations would never need to [...]

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I get a lot of email. When I came back from vacation this morning, I faced hundreds and hundreds of emails, from status reports to pitches and everything in between. How did I whittle this down to something manageable?
When I face a lot of email on the desktop client, there are a lot of choices [...]

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