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How To Create A Passive Income : "Gone are the days of thirty year careers and an anti-climatic send-off with a gold watch.  Increased labor competition, an economy shifting away from manufacturing and towards service, and a basic impatience from Generations X and Y have just about done away with the idea of retiring on a pension from a working lifetime with one employer.  Add the Enron fiasco to the mix and most people have given up on the idea of “job security.”  With all the uncertainty, creating multiple streams of passive income is a great way to hedge against the risk of unemployment." Norton's comment: I have been researching during the past 2 years of severe underemployment how to create a passive / residual income in the face of economic collapse and cultural unraveling in the USA. Here are some results for those who want extra income and a path to retirement on the 3 to five year plan instead of the corporate 45 year plan that makes your boss rich but not you....

"The People Vs. Goldman Sachs" - Taibbi's Magnum Opus | zero hedge : "They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it." NOrton's comment: This makes me sick. The worst devious human behavior on steroids! And after the 1960s effort for peace. Many of these crooks are from the 1960s and more crooked than I can imagine...all with the face of peace and free market lingo. Puck! Listen to this video: http://youtu.be/jt9j3_tLXaI

A new economic model | the new economics foundation : "'Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist' - Kenneth Boulding There is nothing ‘natural’ about our current economic arrangements. They have been consciously designed to achieve a simple objective: growth. But growth is not making us happier, it is creating dysfunctional and unequal societies, and if it continues will make large parts of the planet unfit for human habitation.   We need to do things differently, and soon..." Norton's Comment: This is the MOST EXCITING discovery! I heard the Speaking in Maine program sponsored by the Hour Exchange Program for Portland, Maine June 03, 2011. Speaker was Stewart Wallace, "recovering economist" and a founder of the New Economics Foundation (UK). This is its 20th year in existence. Some of the New Terminology: Collaboration Power enabled by the people New Economic Metrics beyond the GDP: ...

USDA: Goodbye Food Pyramid, Hello MyPlate | : "Today, First Lady Michelle Obama and officials from the USDA unveiled what they hope to be their newest weapon in the battle against childhood obesity: a plate of food. The USDA launched MyPlate on Thursday, replacing the two decade old Food Pyramid The USDA’s Food Pyramid, which was established in 1992 to get Americans to better focus on the “right” types of foods they should be eating, has been replaced with MyPlate, “a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times,” USDA officials said in a press release. The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein and dairy food groups."

Homework by Allen Ginsberg | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor : "Homework by Allen Ginsberg Homage to Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap,          scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in          the jungle, I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of Mexico, Rub that smog off the North Pole, wipe up all the pipelines in Alaska, Rub a dub dub for Rocky Flats and Los Alamos, Flush that sparkly Cesium out of Love Canal Rinse down the Acid Rain over the Parthenon & Sphinx, Drain the Sludge out of the Mediterranean basin & make it azure again, Put some blueing back into the sky over the Rhine, bleach the little Clouds so snow return white as snow, Cleanse the Hudson Thames & Neckar, Drain the Suds out of Lake Erie Then I'd throw big Asia in one giant Load & wash out the blood & ...

VOIP Telephony Trends Skype Acquired by Microsoft: 3 Fears & 3 Hopes : "Hopes I probably have bigger, more active hopes for this acquisition than I do fears. With 660 million+ registered users and more than 100 million average monthly users, Skype is bigger than Twitter.Disruption of the telephony landscape is something people have been waiting for years to see from consumer VOIP services, especially Skype. The service has no doubt upturned the international fixed line economy, but how about shaking things up with mobile carriers? It would be great to see Microsoft, Google and Facebook all make strong mobile VOIP plays and take some power away from the big carriers of the world. Heck, more competition could even make the carriers change their ways and earn some love from their customers, instead of simply holding us all hostage. Who couldn't use more love?"

Consumer Reports Partners with BillShrink to Help Consumers Find the Best Deals On Wireless Plans, Credit Cards and TV and Cable Packages    BillShrink : "Consumer Reports Partners with BillShrink to Help Consumers Find the Best Deals On Wireless Plans, Credit Cards and TV and Cable Packages   Yonkers, NY and Redwood City, CA – April 26, 2011 – Consumer Reports (www.ConsumerReports.org), the independent, nonprofit testing organization, and BillShrink (www.billshrink.org), the popular money-saving search engine and provider of in-statement rewards, today announced a partnership to help consumers find the best deals on wireless plans, credit cards and TV and cable packages...." NOrton's Comment: Also see my website for a basket of financial tools, money management methods, ways to save, invest, payoff debt, build for retirement, creating a financial makeover where YOU are IN CHARGE. http://Lifeinbalance-consulting.com