The holiday season is ramping up. And so are burglars. Even if you don’t get very festive, burglars may still target your home. Your dark, unlit home among all the dazzling festive homes will stick out like a sore thumb. Whether you have 10,000 decorative lights on or none, here’s what to do:

• Keep all possible entrances (even the second-story window next to the big tree branches) locked at all times with high quality locks in excellent working condition.
• Put reinforcements on your doors so that th

Banking in Theory and Practice

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Mejstřík Michal - Pečená Magda - Teplý Petr

Karolinum 2015

Published: March 2015

This new bilingual banking textbook awarded by Charles University as a best textbook within socio-economic field and humanities.

You can read the entire article in the following link:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/banking-theory-practice-michal-mejstrik?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador

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Ellen Brown

EllenBrown.com 11 December 2015

Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news items:

◾In Russia, vulnerability to Western sanctions has led to proposals for a banking system that is not only independent of the West but is based on different design principles.
◾In Iceland, the booms and busts culminating in th

The solution for working with our tendency for impulsiveness can be found in Daniel Kahnemann’s book Thinking Fast and Slow. He gives more than forty heuristics, where we take mental shortcuts to make a quicker decision. (Erik Johnson has a nice summary of each of them here). Kahnemann explains how each of these are by no means foolproof and suggests that we need to identify the times when we should slow down our thinking to check if the heuristic in play is valid in each case.

I take Kahnemann’s

So what will you be doing this holiday season to avoid getting scammed? The scammers really come out of the woodwork during the holidays, waiting to snatch their victims. It’s easier than you think to avoid getting ripped off or getting your entire bank account sucked dry. Here’s how to avoid getting tangled in a scammer’s net:

• Always inspect every purchase on your credit card statements to make sure you recognize them.
• If you must go with a lesser-known seller (because the product is very unique)

Here at LogicManager, we’ve spent a lot of time considering issues related to cybersecurity. To find a new way in which a cybercriminal has exploited electronic vulnerabilities, all you need to do is skim today’s newspaper, which will almost inevitably report a data breach or fraud-related scandal. An evolving set of threats means incident likelihood is increasing, and generally, cybersecurity risks have serious impacts – meaning such risks have very high inherent indices, or combinations of imp

Virtual Currencies: The Elusive Creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto

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Binoy Kampmark

Global Research, December 09, 2015

“The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized… We try until it works.” - Craig S. Wright, Jan 10, 2009

One of the co-creators of Bitcoin, the supposedly named and frustratingly elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, has become the subject of police attention in Australia. The person in question was identified in two investigations by ‘Wired and Gizmodo’ as Craig Wright. (Bot

As the holiday season creeps upon us, research shows that an astonishing 24% people who are buying online have been duped by scammers. Whether you are buying shoes, electronics or the latest fashions and accessories, research companies are showing that you are at risk of being duped.

When you look at the overall shopping behavior of consumers, we see that about 34% do all of their shopping online, and during the holiday season, this number rises to 39% of all consumers. That is a lot of people fo

Enrique Suarez Presenting:

Alternative Investments 2020

The Future of Alternative Investments

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World Economic Forum

Executive Summary

This report examines the forces driving today’s alternative investment industry and considers where these may take the industry in the coming years, focusing on the core asset classes of private equity buyouts, hedge funds and venture capital. Alternative investment has matured over the last 30 years and is gradually becoming  part of the mainstream financial ind

Video: Noam Chomsky on Corporations

"An Unexamined Life is not Worth Living"

Socrates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYxGkFxb7f4

If someone is “borrowing” your Wi-Fi service, there’s more to this than just the nerve of someone secretly mooching off of you.

Their use of your service could interfere with bandwidth and mess up your connection. If they’re a bad guy hacker or even a skeevy child porn peddling pedophile and get caught, it can be traced to your connection—and you will have a lot of explaining to do to the authorities when they bang on your door at 4am with a battering ram.

How can you tell if someone’s riding on y

“Angst” Against Encryption: National Security and the Surveillance State. The Global Crackdown

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Enrique Suarez Presenting:

Does God Understand how to Breakeven?

Breakeven analysis is used to determine when your business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit. It is important to identify your startup costs, which will help you determine your sales revenue needed to pay ongoing business expenses.

1. In which ways do you think God's creation  will be able to cover all of its "efforts" at establishing minimum acceptable human behavior in this planet and in which ways wo

Curating and Creating Community

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Veronika SUMOVA

EC- EU Digital

24 June 2015

With more than 290 million (and counting) active social media users in Europe, online engagement continues to grow. Seeing that the community on our social media platforms can get very active, at the beginning of 2014 we (the social media team) started thinking how we can take this interaction a step further. Rather than creating something for our community, how can we create something with our community?

‘United in D

If you are like most people, there are several devices in your home that fight for WiFi connections at any given time. This slows your network, and gives you a shoddy experience. Instead, look into upgrading your system immediately and save some cash too.

The Nighthawk is a 2-in-1 cable modem-router that not only saves power, it also saves space. This modem-router features a WiFi router with a DOCSIS® 3.0 cable modem, which supports most data plans from major U.S. Internet providers.

This is a mod

The concept of cyberattacks, while still disturbing, is no longer as new and unfamiliar as it was five years ago. However, we are still seeing money invested in inefficient and ineffective risk mitigation responses. All the major corporations that have suffered breaches had sophisticated control solutions in place. Even so, their risk exposure was significant in known but uncovered areas, all thanks to poor risk management.

Companies are buying and implementing point solutions despite not underst

24 Concepts Every Young Person Should Know About Business

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Steve Mariotti

Founder of Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Author of An Entrepreneur's Manifesto

The Babson College definition of entrepreneurship is: "A way of thinking and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach, and leadership balanced."

In honor of the Urban Entrepreneurship Summit being held at Rutgers Business School in Newark today, I wanted to present my thoughts on what the younger generation nee

Design Principles: Building for Multiple Languages

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Francesca JENNER

European Commission

One of the guiding principles behind our approach in creating a new website for people across Europe is clear: to make it as easy as possible for users to find the information they want.

And when it comes to language, that's not just about sticking to the web writing guidelines – our task is to construct a site that is adaptable to multiple languages.

Check the evidence

We've been carrying out detailed resea

So, who’s on your holiday gift list this year? That list is a lot longer than you think; consider all the names of hackers that have not yet appeared on it. Scammers will do whatever it takes to get on your holiday gift list! Here’s how to keep these cyber thieves out of your pocket:

• Before purchasing from a small online merchant, see what the Better Business Bureau says and also search Google for reviews.
• If you see an unexpected e-mail allegedly from a retailer you shop at, don’t open it. Scamme