A great tool. See where your tax dollars go. It is about time we see some transparency from our government. This is a great tool. Come on in and play around with it. It’s quite smart and well done.
Category Archives: The Economy
DC Buys a Lot of Stuff
And that is good; for merchants and for people. Click here to see what I mean.
This new category of e-commerce is exploding; it is now everywhere; it is creating a new kind of virtual currency.
Groupon; a company with a double bottom line business model; doing well by doing good. Amazing metrics.
Happy Independence Day America!
Living in our nation’s capital, I am constantly reminded and humbled by how lucky I am to live in the United States. With at least one monument in view nearly everywhere you are in DC, history is a living presence, and national pride is a consistently re-awakened emotion. But anywhere in America can summon up our patriotism and respect – and remind us that we are constantly challenged to live up to the founders’ broad vision for our nation. Check out these three very unique documentaries over the holiday weekend and journey to all corners of our amazing country…via paragliding or on a two lane road. Enjoy. Celebrate. Happy Independence Day America!
Living the High Life
On Groupon. This is a wonderful and funny piece. I am so proud of this company and these kinds of human vignettes.
Sign up today–go to Groupon.com. Opt in. Enjoy.
Consumer Confidence Down Sharply in February
Check out this press release from The Conference Board. Consumer confidence rocketed downward in February.
It seems that the simple answer continues to be lack of creation of employment opportunities. If America isn’t working it can’t be happy. If America isn’t working it doesn’t trust our political system. It can’t pay back its credit card debt, it can’t buy cars, and it can’t buy new homes.
All of the focus of our government right now should be on putting America back to work.
Nothing will raise our Happiness indexes more. It seems obvious to me.
Homeless Karaoke
Sing my bothers — sing it loud.
A beautiful film — humanizing us all. Give us 8 minutes of your time — we will take you far away — you will experience a different and new world, end homelessness — feed the poor. In our own hometown.
Watch this beautiful short film; it will brighten your day — and humanize our brothers and sisters a bit less fortunate than ourselves at this particular time.
Happy Now?
I believe in the law of unintended consequences.
When the government went on its jihad against corporate travel and perk excess — it would create lots of bad ripples in the travel — tourist based economies. It would hurt tax payers — not help taxpayers. It would hurt hotels; airlines — theme parks — casinos — dining establishments — credit and charge card companies. Who would it help? Politicians that get air time for saying optically correct things; without understanding the unintended consequences of their media stances.
So — here you go — check out this terrific work and the top 20 unemployed communities in America.
I was shocked to see that more than a dozen cities were in just California and Florida; with Las Vegas too — that made for the bulk of the cities. Sad to say — Detroit is number 1 — in unemployment.
But Miami? Tampa? San Francisco? San Diego? Orlando? Las Vegas?
Happy now?
Get out there and travel this holiday season — have some family fun — stimulate the economy. The world is still on sale.
Debit Instead of Credit Cards
Here is a terrific article about a new trend in consumer spending habits. It focuses on the convenience of use of debit cards vs. high interest credit cards.
This augers well for us at Revolution Money. We have built a next generation payments platform and one that combines online and offline. You can connect your checking account to the piece of plastic.
The card - Revolution Card - is a credit card. It is also a debit card. And it is an ATM card. And it can connect to your online PayPal-like account from us. All in one.
It works like a debit card in that it is PIN based. Because it is PIN based, it is safe and secure. It doesn’t have an account number on it. It doesn’t have your name on it. It doesn’t have your signature on it.
Debit is a big part of the payments future. Being able to load your dollars from your online account into your personal account and pay for products and services from your prepaid or debit account is going to be massively important to consumers.
More Signs
Is there a sustained recovery afoot?
Twitter is valued quite highly.
Google stock is about to hit $500 again.
The Today Show this morning had a real estate segment talking about nice homes for sale in the million dollar range.
Several of my companies are in some strategic discussions with big strategic partners.
As the song says, “Something is happening here, but we don’t know what it is. Do you Mr. Jones?”
A Trillion Dollars Here – A Trillion Dollars There
Pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Just shoot me now please. Watch this video. Three minutes and you will leave with your head hurting!
Does this make you feel comfortable that we know where the money is going?