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Alright Well as I, Brian Krassenstein take another step away from Talkgold I end my blogging with links to some of my upcoming websites as well as some recent articles about myself and my business. Talkgold will still be managed primarily by Geoff, Ed, Akmed and partially by myself Brian, however Akmed will be doing any further blog posts here. Over the last 12 months I have become a full time domainer. I have bought and sold nearly 4500 domain names in the last year, and continue to be involved in domain flipping.

For all of you who have helped me over the last 4 years, thanks. Talkgold was a heap of fun to run but I have to admit there were a lot of seemingly bi-polar people involved. One minuet they were your best friend the next they are making up stories posting them all over the place. Anyway, Krassenstein TDM Domains is finally incorporated in the state of Florida and we will be hiring a few people to manage some domain parking portfolios shortly. You can contact either myself, Brian, or my brother Edward and get the latest on the positions available. We have had several large venture capitalists contact us about investments, however we are not looking for cash injections at this time.

Here are the links I promised:
Brian Krassenstein’s name slandering
Me, Brian Krassenstein, latest project
About Me
Another Krassenstein Project
MoneyMonitor Interview

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Well, Today was the official beta launch of TeamEarners.com. The much anticipated membership for those looking to learn from the guru’s, how to legitimately make a living online through various means, is finally here.  Included are amazing exclusive guides about:

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Most people in the developed countries of the world fear aids deeply, however their fear should be nothing compared to the Aid/HIV rates of those in developing countries, especially in the southern part of the African Continent. It’s crazy to think that almost 4 in every 10 adults in the Country of Swaziland, located in Southern Africa have Aids or HIV.

Various stats about Africa:
- Sub-Saharan Africa has 10 percent of the world’s population but is home to more than 60 percent of all people living with HIV and AIDs
- In 2005, 3.2 million people in the region became newly infected, while 2.4 million adults and children died of AIDs
- This means that more people are being infected each years then are dying, at a 4:3 ratio

Likelihood of contacting the HIV virus per 10,000 exposures:

Blood Transfusion 9,000 - 90% chance
Childbirth 2,500 - 25% Chance
Needle-sharing injection drug use 67 - 0.67% Chance
Percutaneous needle stick 30 - 0.3% Chance
Receptive anal intercourse 50 - 0.5% Chance
Insertive anal intercourse 6.5 - 0.065% Chance
Receptive penile-vaginal intercourse 10 - 0.1% Chance
Insertive penile-vaginal intercourse 5 - 0.5% Chance
Receptive oral intercourse 1 - 0.01% Chance
Insertive oral intercourse 0.5 - 0.005% Chance

Despite these rather unrisky numbers, it is amazing that so many countries have over 15% of their adult population carrying the virus. Here are the stats of the top 8 countries listed by % of adults with the virus, and then the United States. Note that these are all countries in poor economic standing among the world:

Swaziland
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 220,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 38.8%

Botswana
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 350,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 37.3%

Aids in terms of a Percentage of population:

Lesotho
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 320,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 28.9%

Zimbabwe
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 1,800,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 24.6%

South Africa
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 5,300,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 21.5%

Namibia
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 210,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 21.3%

Zambia
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 920,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 16.5%

Malawi
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 900,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 14.2%

United States
People Living with Hiv/Aids: 984,000
Percent of Countries Population with Hiv/Aids: 0.6%

So you may ask why are we, a Money related blog discussing this? It’s simple, the world is ignoring the problem and not sending over enough money.

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Today some people question recent internet acquisitions such as Google paying 1.65 billion for Youtube, and Microsoft valuing Facebook at $15 billion. What they don’t realize is that companies of far less reach, making little to no profit, and having very vague business plans were bought out during the 1999-2000 Internet bubble for much larger prices. Here are the 6 worst internet acquisitions of all time:

1. Yahoo Buys Broadcast.com
In 1999 at the time of the internet boom, Yahoo! paid $5.65 billion for Broadcast.com, acquiring the company and renaming it Yahoo! Broadcast Solutions. Over the next couple years Yahoo split the services previously offered by Broadcast.com into separate services, Yahoo Launchcast for music and Yahoo Platinum for video entertainment. Platinum has been discontinued, its functionality being offered as part of two pay services, AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and Yahoo! Plus, both of which turn little to no profit for Yahoo. The price tag on Broadcast.com ended up being $710 per user for Yahoo. That shows just how large the Internet bubble really was. What if Yahoo had invested that 5.65 billion into its search technology or even better yet bought out Google in 1999?

2. TimeWarner Merges with America Online
What was Ted Turner and company thinking? In the midst of dial-up becoming a thing of the past, they merge with the leading dial-up company in AOL. Although, almost 8 years after the merger Timewarner has made strides with AOL, Google now Owns 5% of AOL, and they are considering merging yet again with Yahoo who happens to have made the #1 biggest acquisition blunder. (as seen above)

3. AOL Buys Netscape
In 1998 when the Internet was just starting to creep into people’s minds, America online dished out $4.6 billion for Netscape, the leader in web browsing technology. The problem here was that Microsoft had just begun rolling out its Internet explorer web browser. Netscape now is used by under 2% of web surfers, and even Internet Explorer is second rate to Firefox, a totally free web browser. Netscape.com is now a news portal with relatively low popularity, losing money.

4. Yahoo Buys Geocities
In 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, Yahoo made another amazing acquisition, they thought.  They dished out a mere $3.5 billion for Geocities. For those of you just starting out website creation back in 1999, Geocities was a free web host. At the time it was barely turning a profit, yet, we all had our heads in the clouds. Yahoo bought them the same year that they paid $5.6 billion for Broadcast.com. Today Geocities is barely alive, and far from turning a profit. They could have easily turned Geocities into a sort of social networking site like facebook or myspace, but you know how those Yahoo people operate.

5. @Home Purchases Excite.com
Also in the midst of the internet boom, @Home paid a staggering $6.7 billion for Excite.com. At the time it may have seemed like a good deal, considering Excite was #2 to Yahoo in internet portal traffic. I recall using excite as one of my main search engines back in the day. What happened since? Well it is quite amazing that they actually have users still. Now they are not even a search engine, they just use Yahoo, Google, and Ask.com’s data. They have a main portal page that resembles a 1999 version of Google Home, and continue to just barely survive with the help of Google advertising.

6. Terra Buys Lycos.com
In the midst of the Internet bubble collapse, this deal still managed to occur. Initially Terra, a relatively unknown company today, had agreed to buy Lycos for $12.5 billion. 6 months later when the final deal was struck, the sale price had fallen 60% to only $4.7 billion. Why? Because both company’s stock prices were crumbling before their eyes, as the internet bubble began to pop.. Today Lycos is nothing more then a second rate search engine that fills it’s results with ads.

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Ever shop online and when you goto checkout you notice an option to input a coupon code? Most likely you never really understood what that field was for. It’s to save money! Have you ever gone shopping at the mall and wondered if you could maybe find the same product you are about to purchase, somewhere else for much cheaper? Well guess what? The internet is a wonderful tool. By being able to quickly comparison shop, find special online sales, and dig up coupon codes to save often more than 20% off your online orders, the internet can be a big time and money saver. I have put together a list of 17 of the best websites to search for, and find deals, coupons codes and printable coupons. You can literally save thousands of dollars per year by utilizing these sites correctly.

1. Woot - A New Deal every day (limited quantity)
2. BradsDeals - Handpicked Savings at BradsDeals
3. CurrentCodes - Hundreds of Online store discounts + Coupons
4. RetailMeNot - Free for all coupon code posting
5. CouponChief - Free Coupons, Online Coupons and Coupon Codes
6. FatWallet - Forum Based Coupon Code site
7. SlickDeals - Forum based deal posting
8. DealCatcher - Another great forum for finding and posting deals
9. RedHotDeals - Forum dedicated to finding and discussing the best deals online and off.
10. Deal DataBase - Less popular but more community driven Deal Forum
11. NaughtyCodes - Find coupons by company or zip code
12. CouponCode - The Name Says it all
13. CouponCabin - Another Great Deal Finding site with a forum
14. UltimateCoupons - All the Major brands and Companies
15. KeyCode - Deals Discounts, Coupons, and More
16. DealofDay - Every day the top deal, plus hundreds of others
17. DealLocker - Online and Offline Coupons for the Biggest companies

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I’ve been sorting through story after story on digg, and other media sites about the state of the US economy and how doomed we all are. One of the top doom and gloom stories I have been reading is that we are headed for another Great Depression. Most of these authors use this statement to scare people into jumping out of the stock market and into secure investment vehicles like gold, oil, foreign currency, etc. In my opinion, the stock market has already seen significant declines in the last 6-8 months and the best time to invest is when everyone else is fearful.

Be Fearful when the herd is excited, and excited when the herd is fearful.

Here are 3 reasons why we are not headed for anything close to a Great depression:

1. The federal reserve Bank is more powerful now, it had a very limited hand in the 1920’s. The Fed has so many options at hand to balance the system, and even though it takes a lot of heat, the measures they can put into place would, without much doubt, be enough to keep the economic system in America, at least afloat.
2. The Global Economy is much larger. China, India, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Dubai…. These are all areas of the world which are much more developed economic wise then they were just 20 years ago, much less the 1920’s during the Great Depression. The world economy can hold up the US economy when we are in trouble. Why? We are the Global economy’s largest customers and we also are one of the global economy’s largest providers. Unless the entire worlds economy hits Great Depression style chaos, our economy will stay afloat.
3. Technology. America continues to be the leader in technological advancements. Just look at how much more efficient the World and America are because of one company…. Google. Then throw in Apple’s contributions as well as all other other great American companies which are developing breakthrough technology, seemingly every day. These technologies improve the lives of almost every American greatly. Just think about how fast you can find almost any answer to any question compared to just 15 years ago. Time = Money

Now I’m not saying we are all going to be wealthy and live happy lives without any economic troubles, however I am saying that we are absolutely NOT headed for another Great Depression. The people who are saying this are doing it for one reason only…. An audience.

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