Getting back on track (picking up the tacks on the speedway)

1.The best way to create jobs and reduce the nation’s unemployment rate.

Eliminate the minimum wage (or make it a state issue)

Uncomplicate business procedures

Create enterprise zones

Rescind Dodd Frank

Educate those who can be taught to do new work and  assist in finding employment with a public private initiative

Reduce the unemployment benefit (consider a payback  when there is enough income to do it)

Provide transportation and cost-of-living allowances or loans to job seekers

Reduce or eliminate capital gains tax for venture capital providers

Zero-base budget all bureaus and eliminate through merger  bureaus  that are performing redundant functions 

2.The Obama care health care law should be either eliminated or radically changed.

Ben Carson and others have worked up plans that could assure more effective and efficient healthcare

3.A balanced budget amendment with zero based budgeting for all gov. agencies:

Reduce capital gains taxes to maximum of 5% or eliminate it

Reduce size of government- (simplify the dismissal procedure)

Reduce the corporate tax on overseas profits so that they can have an incentive to repatriate their gains.

4. Control the borders, fight radical Islam, strengthen alliances (back up our word),

         Put accountable smart  people i  leadership positions,

         Work out more business friendlyimmigration policies 

 Give an incentive for foreign students to stay in this country and fill good jobs that require their expertise.

Open Letter to Mr. Trump

An open letter to Mr. Trump

Dear Mr. Trump:

You probably will never see this letter, but I have chosen to write it just to set the record straight, and hope your advisors will somehow get its message to you.

I’’m a free market capitalist and believe our country has disincentivised investing, by double taxation of dividends, taxing capital gains (a cynical way of turning off the venture capital spigot) and over burdening business with punishing regulations (2,300 pages of Dodd Frank and 26,000 pages to enforce it). However, there is a ray of hope -YOU.

But,  I wish you would please stop your knee-jerk tendency to lash out with uncontrolled venom (not always the most effective  use of your vocabulary) at those who slight you. There must be a more winning way of belittling them or changing the subject. I was wisely  advised  by my father to, “Never roll with a pig in the mud. You’ll get dirty and the pig will like it”

Please take the spotlight off yourself and put it on un-vetted emigrants (Trojan Horsemen), multiple illegal voter registration (you only live once), free speech repression (keep tabs on conservatives), negative growth economics (throwing tacks on the speedway), cronyism (the best qualified instead of the highest bidder), financial dealing with states using sharia law to subjugate women (you are known by the company you keep), extorting huge sums for little speeches (foreign countries, Wall Street firms etc.), getting the foundation to pay personal bills, trail of disastrous foreign policies (the middle east in flames etc.), sky rocketing cost of medical care (huge bills), inept conduct of the war on terror (costing hundreds of thousands lives), the nation’s suffering middle class (left behind and struggling), the overreach of the EPA (keeping thousands out of work), and the liberal activist Supreme Court. There are more open sores than a J&J Band Aid box can hold, and more scabs than can be picked in a year. Why not make these your center of focus.

Also, Please be extra careful with your negotiation of new foreign trade deals so that they won’t result in WW III. There is ample evidence (witness the Smoot Hawley Tarif Act in the thirties) that trade wars offer a one way ticket to disaster.  We can’t afford another.
And please do me a favor. Tell me why Goldman Sacks and so many  billionaires are lining up for Hillary? Is it possible they know she can be bought? I can think of no other explanation for trading capitalism for socialism (which has been proven to never work). They got theirs (wealth) and now we’ll get ours (serfdom). Perhaps you can offer some other reasonable explanation.

I advised my wife to ignore our  gush of  direct mail appeals. The volume  of such appeals has become insufferable, and our pocket isn’t deep enough to  give the support we’d like to offer. However, she wants you to be our next president so badly she couldn’t resist sending you something. As you can see, I have crossed out her initial offering of $25 which was in response to my suggestion of nothing, and replaced it with $200 because I see you as the last hope for our wonderful country- You get things done and you seem to understand what has made this the country we love.

I’m going to post this letter on my Rhein Watch Trend Tracker Blog, 

I'm looking for stories about persons who have overcome great hardships and made successes of their lives. If you can give me some leads or submissions it would be greatly appreciated. I'm either editing them or publishing them as submitted for posting on our Website: StMarysCarlePlace. Hope you can help. Any questions or material would be welcome in an  eMail to john.rhein3@Gmail.com

There are many unsung heros whose life stories could be an inspirational resource for others. Modern Horatio Algers are making America a better place to live, and I would like to give them some exposure on my Blog, "Rhein Watch Trend Tracker" and on WWW.StMarysCarlePlace.org. Could these "real life experience" ripples become a wave? I'll bet they can.

This idea was triggered by a question  posed to me many years ago by a dear friend the late Charles Holman, who asked me what I was doing to improve the human condition. At the time I was publisher of EQUITIES magazine and I responded with a description of what my partner, Bob Flaherty (both of us FORBES magazine veterans) and I  were trying to accomplish. Our "halcyon years" were being spent bringing promising public companies to the attention of potential investors. The net result of our effort could make a huge contribution to the prosperity of our country. Small publicly held companies that had merit would be able to attract the necessary capital to expand, This expansion would provide jobs for thousands of persons and serve the public with needed products and services that would better their lives. 

In a macro sence our energies were focused upon making better tomorrows today. Bob and I no longer have a business relationship, but he remains a treasured friend. He is still doing the same thing, only now he has caught the digital wave that we predicted  in the the 80s  would reshape the entire business and financial landscapes as well as our whole global culture. You can "beam him up" on on the Web at Flaherty Financial News. Its nice to know there is a place people can still go to get the insights of this great human being who has a track record to by any analyst of corporate performance.

Toxic Slick- Don't Swallow

Caution

Toxic Slick on the Internet Ripples

E-mails fraudulently claiming to be from the FDIC are attempting to get recipients to click on a link, which may ask them to provide sensitive personal information. These e-mails falsely indicate that FDIC deposit insurance is suspended until the requested customer information is provided.

The FDIC is attempting to identify the source of the e-mails and disrupt the transmission. Until this is achieved, consumers are asked to report any similar attempts to obtain this information to the FDIC by sending information to alert@fdic.gov.
FDIC Special Alerts may be accessed from the FDIC's Web site at www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2011/index.html. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Special Alerts through e-mail, please visit www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.

Join The Chorus (Motors that is)

Major Fuel Savings From Wheel Tug Could be a "Must Have" for Air Frame Manufacturers

Viewing the success of the grueling tests being performed on the WheelTug (a Chorus Motors electric motor that internalizes the ground propulsion of large aircraft) on YouTube, makes this trend tracker anxiously look forward to a brighter tomorrow for thousands of "Greenies" (energy conservationists and bottom line currency cultists). The Cox team (Rodney and Isaiah) have pretty much pulled a rabbit out of the hat. You might want to look into it to see if you think it will jump. Tell them Rhein Watch, Trend Tracker sent you.borealis.com/investor/execs.shtml

iMedium Wave Building Fast

Eighty Percent is a Meaningful Number

With every win must be is a loss- Who loses in the new media context?

"Jeff Hackett, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix says, “Each year we see more Americans using the Internet as a tool during the holidays, with more than 85 percent of Americans online visiting a retail site in December, up from 80 percent last year.”

Malicious activity on the Web can't be stopped but it can be thwarted by an observant public.
This just in: beware FDIC eMail.

The Trend Tracker says " Watch that ripple"

SA-10-2011
January 12, 2011


TO: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (also of interest to Security Officer)
SUBJECT: Consumer Alert
Summary: E-mails fraudulently claiming to be from the FDIC are attempting to get recipients to click on a link, which may ask them to provide sensitive personal information. These e-mails falsely indicate that FDIC deposit insurance is suspended until the requested customer information is provided.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports from consumers who received an e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The e-mail informs the recipient that "in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, federal, state and local governments…" the FDIC has withdrawn deposit insurance from the recipient's account "due to account activity that violates the Patriot Act." It further states deposit insurance will remain suspended until identity and account information can be verified using a system called "IDVerify." If consumers go to the link provided in the e-mail, it is suspected they will be asked for personal or confidential information, or malicious software may be loaded onto the recipient's computer.

This e-mail is fraudulent. It was not sent by the FDIC. It is an attempt to obtain personal information from consumers. Financial institutions and consumers should NOT access the link provided within the body of the e-mail and should NOT under any circumstances provide any personal information through this media.

The FDIC is attempting to identify the source of the e-mails and disrupt the transmission. Until this is achieved, consumers are asked to report any similar attempts to obtain this information to the FDIC by sending information to alert@fdic.gov.

For your reference, FDIC Special Alerts may be accessed from the FDIC's Web site at www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2011/index.html. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Special Alerts through e-mail, please visit www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.

Sandra L. Thompson
Director
Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection
Distribution: FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and Savings)

Note: Paper copies of FDIC Special Alerts may be obtained through the FDIC's Public Information Center, 877-275-3342 or 703-562-220

Watch out PC

Could tablet ripples dwarf the PC wave?

Will the margins be significant enough in the tablet "red ocean" to sustain a meaningful impact on the bottom line? (probably) Its a huge market out there and its not satisfied yet.

Here are the hots and nots for 2010:

1. Smart phones and tablets assaulted the entrenched PC position.
2. Apple launched its juggernaut, iPad, leaving in its vapor trail a host of copy cats: Samsung , Hewlett-Packard and Dell. (look for more red ocean in 2011)
3. Gartner Inc. predicts "media tablets are expected to displace around 10% of PC units by 2014."
4. Demand for lower tech e-readers had a waxing and warnings experience (that's OK in "rippleze"): King Kong Kindle took the crown while rivals Barnes & Noble and Sony launched new stuff to bedazzle the confused consumer. Seeing too much blood in the surf others have swum for the shore, maybe to rethink the whole deal.
5.Smart phones saw a sea saw situation while Apple once again stunned the competition: Microsoft and Palm, who were first in the "Blue Ocean"

Marketers take note and investors "keep watching the waves on the TrendTracker."

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