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December 02 2011

c3o
13:45
In today’s world of maximizing shareholder value, CEOs and their top managers have massive incentives to focus most of their attentions on the expectations market, rather than the real job of running the company producing real products and services. ... Expectations are where the money is, and improving real-market performance is the hardest and slowest way to increase expectations.

In the period of shareholder capitalism, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
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March 14 2010

c3o
13:02
The control room of Cybersyn, a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973, when it was destroyed after a military coup. (via Hacker News)
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October 18 2009

c3o
13:34
Schulden können zwar den einzelnen Schuldner ins Elend treiben, aber auf einer allgemeineren, systemischen Ebene machen Schulden nicht arm, sondern reich. Schon für den „ehrbaren Kaufmann", erst recht für den Industriellen, und ganz gewiss für ganze Gesellschaften gilt: Man kann sich nicht reich sparen, man kann sich nur reich investieren. ... Hätten die Menschen nicht begonnen über ihre Verhältnisse zu leben, würden wir immer noch in weit ärmeren Verhältnissen leben.
Erlöse uns von unseren Schulden! - Robert Misik

June 14 2009

c3o
13:15
What we are experiencing is not a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of finance [over-leverage], of democracy [unwillingness to enact short-term pain for long-term gain], of globalization [national politics vs. global economy] and ultimately of ethics.
Zakaria: A Capitalist Manifesto | Newsweek.com
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April 02 2009

c3o
20:59
As long as managers are paid a percentage for managing other people's money, they will compete with each other based on the returns they appear to generate. The pressure to create out-sized returns will eventually force them to invent the latest complex scheme which will have the same effect: eventually the investors lose it all.
Semyon: The real cause of the financial crisis
Insightful.

March 30 2009

c3o
01:42
The technology stock bubble inflated in the late 1990s and collapsed in the early 2000s without devastating the economy. Why was that? Mainly because there wasn't much debt involved. Very few people had borrowed money with Pets.com shares as a collateral.
The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

January 28 2009

c3o
02:07

Capital flows and the financial crisis – The Economist

"The deep causes of the financial crisis lie in global imbalances—mainly, America’s huge current-account deficit and China’s huge surplus."
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