With Facebook considering the largest Internet IPO on record and regulatory filings showing that at least 14 other Web-related companies are planning sales, the industry may raise $11 billion next year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That would be the most since $18.5 billion of IPOs in 1999, just before the dot-com bubble burst.
PPP:
If the Republican candidates for Presidentwere Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, JonHuntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, BuddyRoemer, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum,who would you vote for?Michele Bachmann 11%…………………………………..Newt Gingrich 13%………………………………………….Jon Huntsman 4%………………………………………….Ron Paul 24%…………………………………………………Rick Perry 10%……………………………………………….Buddy Roemer 2%…………………………………………Mitt Romney 20%…………………………………………….Rick Santorum 10%…………………………………………Someone else/Not sure 5%…………………………….Would you say you are strongly committed tothat candidate, or might you end up supportingsomeone else?Strongly committed to that candidate 72%…………..Might end up supporting someone else 28%
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From a December 2011 newsletter by First Trust Portfolios:
Over the centuries, people have come to believe that
because Jesus was born in a stable, and not in a hotel
room, Mary and Joseph must have been mistreated by a
greedy innkeeper. This innkeeper only cared about
profits and decided the young couple was not “worth”
his best accommodations. We have heard this narrative
of the Christmas story repeated many times in plays,
skits and sermons.
This narrative persists even though the Bible
records no complaints at the time and there was
apparently no charge for the use of the stable. It may
be that the stable was the only place available.
Bethlehem, like other small towns, was overflowing
with people who were forced to return to their ancestral
homes for the census – ordered by the Romans for the
purpose of levying a tax.
If there was a problem, it was caused by the
unintended consequences of this government policy.
But this source of the problem has been ignored in
favor of a more palatable complaint, that capitalism and
capitalists are greedy, uncaring, and maybe even evil.
But a different narrative makes even more sense.
The innkeeper was generous to a fault – a hero even.
He was over-booked, but he charitably offered his
stable, a facility he built with unknowing foresight. A
facility he was able to offer, while the government
officials who ordered the census slept in their own beds
with little care for the well-being of those who had to
travel regardless of their difficult life circumstances.
HT Club for Growth.
According to the survey, commissioned by the nonprofit group Generation Opportunity and conducted by inc./Woman Trend, 66 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they’d be most likely to vote when reminded through Facebook messages. Meanwhile, 58 percent said text messages would be the best way to reach them. Only 38 percent said e-mail messages would get them to the polls, followed by 28 percent who preferred public service announcements and 13 percent who preferred phone calls.
