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Tame Bear on January 27th, 2017

The year 2016 was a rough one for the Traffic Exchanges, with a big slap down delivered by PayPal. When PayPal banned the TEs from using their payment processing service, everyone — owners, advertisers, publishers, and affiliate marketers — felt the impact. A whole lot of ongoing subscriptions and cashflow instantly vaporized. How to handle a downturn? When earnings drop […]

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Tame Bear on November 13th, 2016

I keep hearing the same simple narrative about why a Trump president is good for the economy. It goes like this. Trump will open up oil exploration by cutting regulations. He will let us to drill, frack, and dig where we please to get the economy going again. He will approve the Keystone pipeline, yada yada. Wrong answer. […]

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Tame Bear on October 26th, 2016

My take, more often than not, is a philosophical one that takes the long view. I’m thinking decades, maybe several generations. This year we have an unusual opportunity to vote our conscience up and down the ticket and see it make a dramatic change for the common good. FAILURE OF THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF GOVERNMENT This […]

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Tame Bear on October 8th, 2016

This is where I think U.S. Senator Tim Kaine walked away with a WIN in this week’s Vice-Presidential debate. And it took just 34 seconds. JUST 34 SECONDS How we view women in our society has become a pivotal campaign issue. An oft-chanted “RESPECT!” was heard throughout the Republican convention this past summer, and in an unbelievable […]

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Tame Bear on August 24th, 2016

If you enjoyed the book “Ready Player One“ by Ernest Cline, join our conversation — add your comments below. FB DATELINE 160820 My friend Mark Yoder put me onto this excellent novel, “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, but good luck getting it at your local library. Our library here has several copies. I was still 11th! in […]

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Tame Bear on November 28th, 2015

I’m writing to my PTC team today to let everyone know what’s working well for me, and I won’t just talk in generalities. I’m giving you the real numbers, and I will also fill you in on my 3 Top Advertising Resources. I have learned that the best way to build a business is to build a list — an […]

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Tame Bear on May 7th, 2015

Where will I be tonight? In my backyard, watching for that Russian ISS resupply cargo ship that went into an uncontrolled spin shortly after launch on April 28th. It is due to crash down somewhere on Earth tonight, and will be spiraling in like a fireball. It’s course is very erratic, but it will be […]

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Tame Bear on March 23rd, 2015

I’ve been slowly working my way through “Capital in the 21st Century“ by Thomas Piketty. It is fascinating! Some of the earliest data for his research comes from novels that described economics in the 18th and 19th centuries — like Jane Austen’s “Pride and Predjudice,” and “Sense and Sensibility.” Capital in those days was LAND. […]

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Tame Bear on March 3rd, 2015

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Tame Bear on December 31st, 2014

I wish all my dear readers all the blessings, goodness, kindness, good luck, triumph, perseverance, commitment, loyalty, and all the riches that life offers, all in a measure we are able to believe we can achieve, and imagine beholding, and prepare to receive. That sweet anticipation of a better and ever-improving future, beyond the normal turbulence we find […]

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