Congrats, Louis. This is real awesome! Have a great Google weekend :-)
- Amadou M. Sall
I'm pretty sure you still do... I just wanted to remind you that we are the little people. DON'T FORGET US!!! Also, CONGRATULATIONS!!! :P
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
We know where to get our FriendFriend-like feature requests in then. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I want to see naked pictures of Johnny Worthington on G+.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
What happens to my website's organic search results if business is moved to a new area? | LinkedIn Answers | LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/answers...
That's probably true, however, you have more resources than just Google maps for local rankings. Once you know your address in OKC, make sure that is on your website (a contact page, maybe the footer of each page). If you have a blog, write an article about the move and include "house cleaning Oklahoma City" as part of your blog title post. Of course, create a new Google maps listing as soon as you know your new address. No matter what you do, there will probably be a drop-off for a while but being proactive about listing your new address on your site and writing blog posts with city names in the title and body content will go a long way towards getting your site ranked in your new area. A quick point of caution: Don't stuff the keywords in blog titles, use them naturally, but use them! Hope this helps.
- Mark Laymon
CW, as a percentage of GDP we will achieve Greece levels, but we have advantages that they do not have, like the ability to devalue our debt by printing money
- RAPatton
RAP, how exactly are we capable of devaluing our debt, our debt is external, printing more money reduces the value of the dollar, and in effect makes debt more costly per dollar. Overall, the debt value doesn't change. If we were borrowing from ourselves that would be great, but that's not how it works.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
So basically Britain, France and Germany have huge accounts receivable.
- Kevin Fox
well we do participate in an economic and monetary union in Europe, we are part of a common market with strong mutual ties: it makes sense that some level of internal indebtedness is part of the picture. If you think at Europe as a subject I think the perspective get a little different: problem is Europe itself has a problem at this regard, hence the hesitant mood in addressing the...
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- Aldo Oldo
"US President Barack Obama, in particular, is likely to be very tempted to fire up the money printing presses and, by devaluing the currency, to reduce the real burden of liabilities the United States has accumulated. Because foreign investors in China and Japan hold a large share of America's debts, they would be more adversely affected by depreciation than the Americans themselves." -- http://www.spiegel.de/interna...
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Not owed to China the country, but definitely owed to investors in China, which is kinda similar.
- Mr. Gunn
For perspective, US debt is $13 trillion (compared to the $3.9 trillion owed by these 5 countries).
- Mitchell Tsai
RAP, unfortunately, before we can really do that, the Yuan has to be revalued, currently it is tightly coupled to the USD and they hold the lion's share. It also doesn't help the cost of imports, if you devalue to far, you hurt the consumers and businesses.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy, it would force them to decouple if they still were, because otherwise they will take an even worse beating; I'm not saying this is ideal. Anyone who has assets inthe US will get hurt, but it is a tool the US can use more than other nation states
- RAPatton
from iPhone
That's true, but devaluation is almost like a nuclear option, at this point.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Unfortunately, it will be of an arsenal of tools used; the future obligations of the state are too large and the easiest way out for politicians will include devaluation, because not only will it reduce the debt the obligations will become instantly smaller until they raise them again
- RAPatton
from iPhone
for more perspective into Southern Europe debt burden - count it "per capita", bring in (lack of) own resources to actually pull it out of trouble, count in (traditional) tendency in south to hide profits... sounds more creepy, right?
- A. T.
US Federal Tax Revenue: $2.1 trillion, Largest budget items: $771 billion Medicare, $686 billion Social Security, $668 billion War, $194 billion Interest, $192 billion Federal Pensions - and we're already $411 billion over budget without paying for anything else! Good thing this isn't my budget... Medicare/Social Security HAVE to be tackled sometime, but no one wants to. See real-time US National Debt Clock http://usdebtclock.org
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, those are all Billions., and the Tax Revenue is $2.1 Trillion, even worse.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Thanks Jimminy. My Bad... I was in a rush to mow my parent's lawn & made a stupid mistake... Thanks for fixing it.
- Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell Tsai - The eqivalent number on that website is the ~$3.8 trillion "US debt held by foreign countries". I'd imagine that would compare quite well to whatever the whole-of-EU number is. Also, it doesn't take into account foreign debt held by the US.
- Nick Lothian
Nick - If you can find the "US debt to foreigners" - "Foreign debt to US" that would be a cool number to know. The big picture is much tougher though. How much of US companies & real estate do foreigners own? My parents were born in Taiwan, but have lived in the US since 1963 (57 years) - Do they count as foreigners?
- Mitchell Tsai
If you care about this, note that the US Treasury has a way to reduce the debt: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt... "You can make a contribution online either by credit card, checking or savings account at Pay.gov or You can write a check payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and in the memo section, notate that it's a Gift to reduce the Debt Held by the Public"
- Nick Lothian
@Mitchell - I can't find debt owed to the US anywhere. The closest I can find is "Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad", which is "value of all investments in foreign countries made directly by residents - primarily companies.. excluding shares". That value for the US is ~$3.2 trillion.
- Nick Lothian
Thanks Nick... Seems like from your searching that perhaps US debt to foreigners ($3.8 trillion) and Foreign debt to US ($3.2 trillion) might be roughly even...
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, in July of '09 US external debt, what we owe to other countries was $13.45 trillion.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Europe's Web of Debt = American dollars value is going up : )
- Locksmith Los Angeles
France seems overexposed. So, if you wanted to buy real estate in french riviera, wait couple of years?
- солнышок
Well I think it's time that Britain called in it's debts, maybe then I might get taxed a little less.
- Toby Graham
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me...
- Morton Fox
Does the NYT graphic show public-sector debt? Private sector debt? Or both? And what difference does this make?
- A Mitchell
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"Actually "egalitarian" is the wrong word, because that's the kind of stuff capitalists dismiss as being idealistic. Disruptive is a better word. When you're in the driver's seat is a very good time to disrupt your competitors. It's likely to work then as opposed to being a Hail Mary when you're far behind."
- Dave Winer
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