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Currency Supply Chain Optimization and Yield Management

01.26.2010
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To tie the concepts of optimization and yield together as it refers to currency we need to understand the need for money. Without some form of money we would have no way to trade. Without trade we would have no commerce and without commerce we would have no way to better our station in life. Betterment of our situation is as fundamental to the human condition as breathing – we all want to succeed and make a better life for our communities (communities of family, friends, neighbours, countrymen, etc.). Therefore the faster we can make money move the more opportunity we have to profit from that movement.

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new currency – fresh from the press!

10.05.2009
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Hello faithful reader! For those of you who have been reading this blog since I made my first post almost two years ago you will have noticed many changes. It started off as some things do – simply as an experiment in new media directed at the men and women who slave tirelessly at the business of making sure we all have enough cash in-hand to buy the things we want and need each day.

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to tweet or not to tweet?

06.04.2009

I am at the point of screaming UNCLE! I can not believe the number of friends and associates who, once they discover I have a blog, want to know if I use Twitter. Many of them can’t even begin to describe what Twitter is, beyond something their children use. Equally I can not ignore the overwhelming advice I receive in blog related “help” publications to integrate with Twitter.

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when is a note or a coin like a seat on a commercial aircraft?

05.21.2009

I could think of a few cute answers to that question, which surely would not suit this occasion. The relevant answer is that both the seat on the plane and the note/coin, cost someone more than their intrinsic value* to provide for your convenience right when you need it. In other words it is a thing of relatively high value, which we need on demand.

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a song for our times…

05.17.2009

Sometimes you stumble across something so touching or moving or inspirational that you have to pass it along to your neighbor… in this case it came to me from my neighbor… in this case, it is all three – touching, moving and inspirational

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world currency – how about linden dollars?

04.22.2009

North America has seen its fair share of debate and argument over the years on the subject of a harmonized currency. I have yet to find anyone other than an economist that is for that idea. So much of a nations identity is defined in the color, size and design of their currency that I can’t imagine any country voluntarily disposing of their notes and coins. Until the Euro came along. Next to the US, I expected Europeans love affairs with their scrip to be so zealous that they would never consider a change – but switch they did, with only the mildest public objections.

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regulation and policy – having the desired effect?

04.17.2009

This is hot off the press from my friends at Bob’s Guide (a great daily newsletter). It would appear that some US institutions are willing to do almost anything to get the government out of their board rooms – well, it was only a matter of time – particularly after the government created legislation to limit remuneration in that same board room…
Press Release
Banks ‘rush to repay Tarp funds’ as rates investigation looms

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how nationalized should US banking be?

04.12.2009

For years I have been the brunt of many a joke while in the company of US bankers and others in the industry. You see as rumor would have it Canada only has a handful of financial institutions as proportionately compared with it’s neighbor, because the Canadian government controls all Canadian banks!

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Hello currency world!

04.09.2009

Hello Faithful Readers. If you found this site, then you have been curious about my next move after almost a year of silence. Figuratively speaking I have been with monks in Cupertino studying the sacred blogging arts, under a vow of silence and non-publishing. Contrary to common myth I do not receive any remuneration in [...]

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