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Come into my thread to hear about my great new idea for a nonprofit organization and offer advice or tell me I'm an idiot.
Now, many of you know what carbon offsets are, but for those of you who have never heard of it, it's basically a system of credits that different organizations allow you to purchase that count as "negative" greenhouse gas emissions. Individuals and organizations can purchase what are effectively shares in conservation and green energy projects, such as reforestation or wind farm construction, that can be calculated to reduce the...
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>>1084068
Cancer Offsets is a concept for a nonprofit organization that will offer credits for quantified cancer reduction. With data from the CDC and WHO about the number of people with different types of cancer and their average treatment time or mortality rate, how that number has changed over time, information about how the majority of charity money towards cancer is allocated (i.e. to research firms, hospitals, etc) and how much, I will create a "donation portfolio" representing that allocation and use statistical...
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Bump
I don't understand how the hell Economics works. I am asking for knowledge upon the subject, as to not be biased when coming in political views.
>>1084046
Read a basic macroeconomics textbook for a college level class (like Mankiw or Krugman)
Then read a little about public policy
Then pick which areas interest you and read about those
Done
>>1084051
>Then pick which areas interest you and read about those
start with micro first, is essential to understanding macro
Fucking krugman.
Now that Krugman realized how wrong he was about economics. Who is left to guide the left in America?
>>1084020
OP - "I'm a massive cocksucking faggot. Stick that BBC back in my butthole!"
Now that we realized OP is total faggot who can't cite sources. Who is left to make threads on /biz/?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-09/japan-s-10-year-yield-plunges-to-zero-a-first-for-g-7-nations
Tfw you pay money to the government to get back less than that in ten years.
>>1084019
The yield on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bonds fell to zero for the first time, an unprecedented low for a Group-of-Seven economy, as global financial turmoil and the Bank of Japan’s adoption of negative interest rates drive demand for the notes.
The 10-year yield has tumbled from 0.22 percent before the BOJ surprised markets with the decision on Jan. 29 to introduce a minus 0.1 percent rate on some of the reserves financial institutions park at the central bank. It fell four basis points to zero percent...
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>>1084019
Not even accounting for inflation, you now get back less in ten years than you initially give.
How the fuck does one agree to this? Guarantee against financial crash?
>>1084019
Bump
If companies/governments/whatev want to have quotas of female workers to have diversity, and that women complain that females earn less, why dont more guys become "transgender", apply for jobs as women, fill the quotas and raise female average earnings while still being as efficient as guys?
>>1083991
It wouldn't raise average female earnings.
Transgenders would be considered a different category soon enough, and they would reduce the overall wages of both groups.
But I like angry feminists, so why not?
They're complaining about how they could be part of the sss soon. Why not convince people to go trans to fuck them over?
>>1083991
OR if it's an issue why don't more women start companies and hire other women?
Are they incapable?
>>1083991
Don't you love it when investors wake up and realize that meme hype stocks are just that, and have fuck all for fundamentals? Tesla will NEVER establish a foothold in the mass market.
Hope Netflix, Amazon, Facebook etc. are next.
>>1083963
>this is not simply due to oil prices
>amazon not having good fundamentals
ok great thanks
>amazon
>meme hype
holy shit you are a fucking retard OP. I'll be laughing even harder when Tesla shoots right back up.
>>1083963
I haven't even heard of Tesla motors.
Regardless, aren't these stocks falling just related to oil?
Hey business & finance bros,
where can I find start ups to invest in?
A good start up investment is much better than stocks, you know im right.
Angel list? Move to silicon Valley or luxemburg?
Find where the entrepreneurs go to get their money
>>1083954
Whats an "angel list".
Im very near to luxemborg, can you tell me more?
>>1083958
Luxemborg is one of the biggest cities in Europe trying to emulate Silicon Valley. If you believe your idea is that good, go there and search
Google angel list... don't know if they have it in your country though
Hey /biz/,
I have a little over 5K saved and I'm thinking about investment opportunities. I currently work a job that pays a little 30K a year. I don't have any major expenses and I have almost no debt so it has been relatively easy to save up this money in a short period of time. I've considered just dumping the money into a Roth IRA but I've had a lot of luck reselling toys and collectibles in the past so I was thinking about maybe just buying a ton of stuff and sitting on it for a higher ROI.
TLDR Version: How would you guys invest 5000 dollars?
>>1083888
>5k
>Has debt
>Volatile markets
>Beginner
Pay off the debts, then save up 6 months of expenses in an emergency fund, then save up 20% for a housing fund (house prices will crash like a motherfucker in 10-15 years when the target market is broke millenials), then start investing.
You're a decade away from being able to invest.
>>1083888
Lonnie deals for sure. Thats 2 to start right their
>>1083888
>Find something cheap from Alibaba
> should be something that costs you 10-15% if what you can sell it for on Amazon, ebay, etc.
> should be able to sell for $20-50/ea
> buy a few hundred or thousand
> sell, make profit
> take the profit you have after recovering initial costs, reinvest 90% and do it again
>...
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Is it me or do renewable energy companies seem to consistently be money losers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7YTba0bg4
>>1083752
Hello,
Liquidator here. Green energy companies account for 90% of my business.
They live on government subsidies. The second the subsidies stop, or slow down, the company is dead.
"green" energy is a meme
>>1083872
Yeah, it's really hard to compete on EROEI terms with fossil fuels. Everything else is really just an energy sink and a bit of Jevons paradox.
Green energy is a deceptive misnomer, synthetic energy is more apt. I would guess with all the manufacturing and processing thrown in, it could even be called black hole energy. It has very particular niche applications.
/biz/, I want a job in finance, but I don't know where the fuck I'd fit in.
My skillset is a bit weird:
>started out in sales for a tech startup because I'm good with languages
>sales wasn't for me, changed to another team that does somethign approximating Business Intelligence/Growh Hacking/ Lead gen, kind of a weird mix
>Now have decent python and SQL, but am not engineer-level
>Have also developed serious excel skills
What...
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Check out data science.
Hey /biz/,
I'm currently in a tough cookie situation as to picking the ideal candidate for my company. There are two final candidates to consider, and I need advice as to which specific candidate would be the most optimal for the growth of my company.
A little bit of context:
The company I work for is Food ABX, and what we essentially do, is sell an opulent amount of food to many of our distributors.
We've recently opened a branch of our company out east in the country, and in that particular branch, there are currently three Food ABX representatives:...
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>>1083708
The one with a penis.
>>1083712
In all honesty, does that mean that the one with the bigger network and experience is usually the right one?
>>1083708
YOUNG MAN
What is a profitable Liquidation.com niche you have used/heard of for getting off your feet?
Why or why not would you use a liquidation site to turn a profit?
bumping after 8 hours? really?
>>1083684
>>1084564
I really hate people like you. This is a site for business and investments not fucking little shits the use the grand exchange irl
>>1084571
You have to be the bravest millionaire I have ever met.
Hello Biz
I am going to have to make a choice of what to specialize in in my engineering school.
I got to choose between mechatronics, telematics and design
In design we will learn about cad and Catia
Telematics will pretty much be about microcomputers and circuts
In mechatronics we will build some automated systems and so fort.
I am leaning towards mechatronics but that means i wont learn about entreprenourship and building your own product which is mandatory in the other specilazations
Any thoughts are welcome
>>1083680
Mechatronics 2nd year here, mechatronics is a lot about putting existing technologies together to create solutions, where I study mostly in the industry field. So we focus on automation, making robots and such.
I also want to start my own business someday, and the advantage I have is that I can build my own machines.
So when I create/find a product that I want to produce and sell, I can make a factory that's fully automated.
I did electrical engineering for a year, but quit because it wasn't...
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>>1083745
project I did this year, looks pretty shit but the tech behind it is actually pretty interresting.
>>1083793
Is that thing just separating the red counters from the white ones?
should i go long OGZPY ? putins ukraine mischief in the recent history & low oil = best buying oppoturnity ever? im planning to hop in before the OPEC meeting in 6/2016
>>1083642
just use RUSL for the moscow index
>>1083651
Pretty much this.
It's official: the 2nd wave tech/cloud bubble was in fact real and is popping. How does /biz/ think this will turn out?
>companies will try everything to convince shareholders to retain their shares and will focus little on improving profits
>all tech companies with a service-based model will crash and many with recent IPOs will become delisted
>>1083624
I'm searching for ways to make money during the crash
>>1083624
How about backing that up?
>>1083912
NASDAQ getting rekt
