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What is the real minimum wage ?

Column: The money matrix

Posted on Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 | 5:20 | Comments: 34

Phillip Tilley: On July 24, 2009 the Federal Minimum wage is due to rise from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. That does not sound like much and in fact it is not, but what should the real minimum wage be? To find out you need to first understand that this is the minimum wage as paid in Federal Reserve Note currency. The minimum wage in 1964 was $1.25 per hour. 1964 was the last year we used silver in our coinage and since according to the Coinage Act of 1792 the only real dollar is a one ounce silver dollar, that was the last year real dollars were used. With that in mind I will use 1964 as a comparison year for many things, but today we are concerned with the minimum wage, or at least you should be. At the time of this writing a one ounce silver coin can be purchased from my local coin shop for $14 in Federal Reserve Notes. For comparison one and a quarter ounces can be purchased for $17.50 in Federal Reserve Notes. That means that to be earning the same amount as the minimum wage was in 1964, you would have to be earning $17.50 per hour, or $36,360 per year in Federal Reserve Notes. If you earn less than $17.50 you really earn less than the real minimum wage. We sometimes laugh at people in foreign countries that work for 25 cents an hour, but if you earn the current Federal Minimum wage of $6.55, in equivalent 1964 dollars, that is 46 cents per hour. You are earning 37% as much, or actually the buying power of what you can purchase with $6.55 is 37% as much as someone could purchase with $1.25 in 1964. So if you can not figure out why you are unable to make ends meet, that is why. Inflation of Federal Reserve Notes out paced the minimum wage. Sure the minimum wage was raised in the past, but truly it never kept up with inflation. The Government could have made sure that it did, but that would have kept them from achieving their goal. That goal was to separate you from the wealth you should have been earning. It is easier to control a population that is barely keeping the wolf away from the door. If a real dollar is worth fourteen Federal Reserve Notes, that means a Federal Reserve Note dollar is worth only one fourteenth of a dollar, or seven cents. So if you earn $10 Federal Reserve Notes per hour, ten times seven cents equals seventy cents per hour. Still not even the $1.25 earned as a minimum in 1964. It costs seven cents to print a Federal Reserve Note, so they are barely worth the paper they are printed on. This is the reason you and your spouse both have to work and still can not make ends meet. The illusion that you earn more than you really do is one of the sinister mechanisms of the money matrix. On July 24, 2009 the Federal Minimum wage will rise to $7.25 per hour. Do you think anyone will notice? Wake up people, the money matrix has you. Phillip Tilley is author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles. Article Copyright© Phillip Tilley - reproduced without permission but I paid him minimum wage for it.

Classification of 5-Dimensional Space-Time with Parallel 3-Branes

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http://arabica.ecs.soton.ac.uk/examples/hep-th/9912182.pdf



MADPH-99-1150
Classification of 5-Dimensional Space-Time with
Parallel 3-Branes
Tianjun Li 1

Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U. S. A.
Abstract

If the fth dimension is one-dimensional connected manifold, up to di eo-
morphic, the only possible space-time will be M4 R1, M4 R1=Z2, M4 S1
and M4 S1=Z2. And there exist two possibilities on cosmology constant: the
cosmology constant is constant along the fth dimension, and the cosmology
constant is sectional constant along the fth dimension.
 
We construct the general models with parallel 3-branes on those kinds of the space-time and with constant/sectional constant cosmology constant, and point out that for compact fth dimension, the sum of the brane tensions is zero, for non-compact fth dimension, the sum of the brane tensions is positive. We assume the observable
brane which includes our world should have positive tension, and obtain that
in those general scenarios, the 5-dimensional GUT scale on each brane can be
identified as the 5-dimensional Planck scale, but, the 4-dimensional Planck
scale is generated from the low 4-dimensional GUT scale exponentially in our
world. We also give some simple models to show explicitly how to solve the
gauge hierarchy problem.

PACS: 11.25.Mj; 04.65.+e; 11.30.Pb; 12.60. Jv
Keywords: AdS5; Compactication; Brane; Scale; Hierarchy

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Fear Man, and his convolutions, delusions, ego creations, fabrications and lies. Fear not my old friend Lucifer. He is not your "Satan" and he is surely NOT your man made devil or "Idem sonans-God".

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Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist

By Mark Strauss, 12:17 PM on Tue May 5 2009, 94,108 

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Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).

If you've ever read Salem's Lot (or seen the lame Starsky and Hutch-era miniseries adaptation starring David Soul), then you know that after a vampire decides to settle in your town, the undead begin to multiply at an alarming rate (he bites two friends, who bite two friends, and so on, and so on…).

Putting aside for a moment the issue of how that would impact neighborhood property values, this phenomenon raises an even more pressing question: If vampires are indeed living (unliving?) among us, then shouldn't we have seen an undead population explosion by now?

Fortunately, our best minds are on the case. Physicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi's paper "Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality" offers a full explanation.

Efthimiou and Gandhi conduct a thought experiment: Assume that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600. At that time, according to data available at the U.S. Census website, the global population was 536,870,911. Efthimiou and Gandhi calculate that, once the Nosferatu feeding frenzy began, the entire human race would have been wiped out by June 1602 (thus forever changing the course of history by preventing the invention of the slide rule eighteen years later).

The physicists note:

Another philosophical principal related to our argument is the truism given the elaborate title, the anthropic principle. This states that if something is necessary for human existence, then it must be true since we do exist. In the present case, the nonexistence of vampires is necessary for human existence. Apparently, whomever devised the vampire legend had failed his college algebra and philosophy courses.

Oooh, snap! But, this gauntlet had been barely thrown down before it invited a rebuttal from mathematician Dino Sejdinovic. In his article, "Mathematics of the Human Vampire Conflict" (Math Horizons, November 2008) Sejdinovic faults Efthimiou and Gandhi's logic, since they have not "accounted for the birth-rate of non-vampires and death-rate of vampires (actually the death-death-rate since they are already dead, but when they die again they should stay dead but stop being living) due to close encounters with stakes, garlic and holy water." Moreover, "vampires are presented exclusively as greedy consumers: a rational strategy of managing their human resources is not considered."

Here, Sejdinovic cites the pioneering research conducted by Austrian mathematicians Richard Hartl and Alexander Mehlmann, who published the landmark 1982 paper, "The Transylvanian Problem of Renewable Resources," later followed up by "Cycles of Fear: Periodic Bloodsucking Rates for Vampires" (Journal of Optimization Theory and Application, December 1992). Hartl and Mehlmann argue that vampires would never be stupid enough to deplete their entire food supply, and by applying the Hopf-Bifurcation Theorem (don't ask), they demonstrate how vampires can adopt an optimal "cyclical bloodsucking strategy."

However, there is a serious flaw in the Hartl and Mehlmann model: The assumption that human beings would be docile prey. Their research provoked an outraged response from economist Dennis Snower, who in his article "Macroeconomic Policy and the Optimal Destruction of Vampires" (The Journal of Political Economy, June 1982), declared:

One wonders what conceivable interest the authors could have had in helping vampires solve their intertemporal consumption problem. The implicit assumption of the Invisible Hand (or Fang)-whereby vampires, in pursuing their own interests, pursue those of human beings as well-is of questionable validity. The study by Hartl and Mehlmann is not concerned with the macroeconomic implications of blood-sucking behavior modes. Nor does it consider the policy instruments whereby human beings can protect themselves from vampires. Instead, humans are modeled as passive receptacles of blood whose cultivation and harvest are left to vampire discretion.

Hooyah! Snower argues that the mortal world can manage its resources in a manner that keeps the undead population in check, while simultaneously promoting long-term economic growth:

A transfer of labor services from the widget sector to the stake sector reduces human welfare at present but may raise welfare in the future (since an increase in stake production reduces the vampire population and thereby increases the future labor force whereby future widgets may be produced).

Still, I'm not entirely confident in Snower's conclusions-not least because his complex mathematical proof indicates that the complete destruction of vampires would not be "socially optimal." (And you wonder why economics is known as the dismal science?)

In fact, all of these models rest upon the assumption that vampires are at the top of the undead food chain. Who says that the blood-sucking population is not kept in check by something that preys on vampires? Time to consult the zoology journals.

Mark Strauss is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine.

What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?

Thomas Hannich for The New York Times

A 2002 study of how customers of Canadian Tire were using the company's credit cards found that 2,220 of 100,000 cardholders who used their credit cards in drinking places missed four payments within the next 12 months. By contrast, only 530 of the cardholders who used their credit cards at the dentist missed four payments within the next 12 months.

By CHARLES DUHIGG

Published: May 12, 2009

Rudy Santana's day began recently, as almost all his working days begin, with a name on a screen. The name that April morning belonged to a Massachusetts man in his mid-30s. He owed money on a credit card and a second mortgage, the screen told Santana, and was separated from his wife. He was behind in paying back $28,900.97 in debt. Which was why he was on Santana's screen.

When Santana reached him by phone, the man quickly began talking about his ex-wife. "Listen," the man said. "I called her about this debt, and a guy picked up — a guy I've never heard before — and when I asked for her, he hung up on me. Can you believe that? We used that money to renovate the kitchen! And now she won't even talk to me! Who the hell was that guy who answered the phone?"

"So you've spoken to your wife?" Santana asked, his voice soft and gentle. "Were you able to have a good talk with her? Even when you're angry, it's important to talk. Did you talk about the debt?"

"Yeah, we talked about it," the man replied. He paused and released a small sob. "You know, she told me we would be together until we died. I know I have to pay this. But I'm not going to pay her half. I won't damn pay it."

"I know," Santana said. "This is difficult, and I'll be honest — I think you're doing a great job. You're really strong. But the thing is, to the bank, they don't make a distinction between you and your wife. To them, it's just debt. They just want to get paid.

"I think I can do something for you, though," Santana continued, glancing at his screen. It was filled with information about the man, including the fact that he had recently sold his home at a loss. Some of this information had been sent by the man's bank to Santana's employer, Sunrise Credit Services, which collects delinquent debts for companies like Citigroup, Bank of America and HSBC. Santana's company had added notes, too, including helpful tips — he is easier to reach in the mornings, for example — and new ways to contact him.

"Look," Santana said. "I know you're angry at your wife. One step to ending that anger is putting this debt behind you. It will really help you find peace. You owe about $29,000. How much do you think you can pay?"

"Well, how much are you gonna help me?" the man shot back. "These banks got all this taxpayer money from the government, and they're the ones who ruined the market for my house! I helped bail them out. I think the banks should be paying me, instead of trying to suck all the life out of us they can!"

It was the first of numerous blowups that Santana would confront that day. Bill collectors don't tend to encounter many pleasantries, even in the best of times. And these are nowhere near the best of times, for borrowers or for the banking and credit-card industries that lend to them. After two decades of almost constant expansion and profitability, card companies today are in deep trouble. Monstrous losses — estimated to top $395 billion over the next five years — are growing as cardholders, brought low by the recession, walk away from their debts. And Congress and President Obama are pushing for legislation that would make it much harder for companies to hike up interest rates and charge many of the sneaky fees that have been an easy source of revenue for years.

So credit-card firms are changing their business plans. Gone are the days of handing out cards willy-nilly and hoping that the cardholders who dutifully pay up will offset the losses from those who default. Today companies are focusing on those customers most likely to honor their debts. And they are looking for ways to convince existing cardholders that if they only have enough money to pay one bill, it's wiser to pay off their credit card than, say, the phone.

Put another way, credit-card companies are becoming much more interested in understanding their customers' lives and psyches, because, the theory goes, knowing what makes cardholders tick will help firms determine who is a good bet and who should be shown the door as quickly as possible.

Luckily for the industry, small groups of executives at most of the large firms have spent the last decade studying cardholders from almost every angle, and collection agencies have developed more sophisticated dunning techniques. They have sought to draw psychological and behavioral lessons from the enormous amounts of data the credit-card companies collect every day. They've run thousands of tests and crunched the numbers on millions of accounts. One result of all that labor is the conversation between Santana — a former bouncer whose higher education consists solely of corporate-sponsored classes like "the Psychology of Collections" — and the man from Massachusetts. When Santana contacted the man last month, he was armed with detailed information about his life and trained in which psychological approaches were most likely to succeed.

Eventually, the man from Massachusetts called Santana back with a proposal. He had spoken to his ex-wife, he said. They wanted to wipe out their debt by paying just $10,000 — only 35 percent of what they owed.

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