I'm Puerto Rican and me and my family moved to Las Vegas when i was 16. I'm 35 now and i am trying to start up an online game company, www.LUTOPiA.Co, and i would like to move back to the island with a secure income from my games. I haven't been able to release a game yet and i've been in development for 2 years. Do you know anyone in PR that would like to invest in online games?
The Angel/VC world in Puerto Rico for software technology is virtually non-existent (we're in the process of building it!). You are way closer to where the action is! Why not take a trip to SV once you are closer to knowing exactly what you need or reach out to the community through Angel.co or the like? Looking forward to seeing how your startup turns out - feel free to let me know if there is anyway I can help.
PayPal should at least bother to investigate thoroughly before meddling with someone's livelihood. They pass judgement based on baseless assumptions and have no empathy for the damage they are causing.
If they can't handle the load, then they should just pass up the information to law enforcement and let them do the investigating and prosecuting of crimes made using their service.
Either one has to happen, but the current way they do business is damaging alot of lives. Something's got to give.
By the way, there is a Class Action Lawsuit being mounted against them for their unethical practices, like withholding funds from users or simply making unauthorized charges to the bank accounts of users and abusing their privilege of access.
Also, i called the District Attorney's office of Santa Clara County and they said that they get alot of people filling small claims suits against PayPal.
This is what happens when a company gets too big, empathy and respect for customers gets flushed down the sink :/
He didn't promote himself. Why is he unqualified? Is it because he said things that you don't want to hear?
He is right, bankers and traders are there to make money and don't care about anything else at all. He exposed Goldman Sachs and their ilk for the vampire squid they truly are.
The big players have stacked the world in their favor and the fact that this is an unpleasant truth does not make it otherwise.
"They approached me," he told The Telegraph. "I'm an
attention seeker. That is the main reason I speak.
That is the reason I agreed to go on the BBC. Trading
is a like a hobby. It is not a business. I am a talker.
I talk a lot. I love the whole idea of public speaking."
Sounds to me like he has no real qualifications, and I should pay just as much attention to him as other self-proclaimed experts. Whether I want to believe what he says or not, there seems to be no reason to believe he knows more than anyone else.
However, you seem to want to believe him uncritically, and that's your prerogative.
No, I didn't, and don't, disbelieve him uncritically. I read the article in the telegraph, and I've come to the conclusion that he is unqualified. That doesn't mean he's wrong, but it does mean that I want more evidence, and I want to listen to others who aren't just hobby traders who want to get attention.
That, to me, seems a more balanced position, and a more credible source.
In short, I'd like to believe the things he's saying, I'm predisposed to believe the things he's saying, but I've gone out and looked for more evidence. In the end, I think his position is too extreme, and no matter how tempting, I don't believe it without further evidence.
Well, from about the 1:45 mark it sounds a lot like a sales pitch. "Everything's definitely going to go to shit, but if you get my advice you could come out of it rich". This is also the gist of his website, which encourages people to employ him as an advisor or public speaker. Judging by his website, facebook, twitter and myspace accounts, he has a strong interest in self promotion. Judging by http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8792829/BBC-fin... he's not really the elite financial insider a lot of people seem to be taking him for. He's just a dude with an internet connection, some trading software, a thirst for attention and a product to sell.
Admittedly I can't literally prove he hasn't been dreaming for this market crash for 3 yrs, but his "confession" clearly serves the purpose of letting the audience know how awesome he'd be at looking after their money in the forthcoming recession.
(1) to be a trader (be it sole trader, partnership or other) in the UK one must be authorised by the Financial Services Authority. Rastani is not registered as one, and consequently not authorised, i.e. not a trader.
(2) Rastani does not show up in either the Bloomberg or Reuters directory. ANY trader uses either a Bloomberg Terminal or 3000 Xtra. He does not use either.
The general public does not have a way of checking these. Bottom line, Rastani is a hoax.
Yes, Rastani doesn't show up on the terminal, but if you look up his 'people' page, it lists his profession as "PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER" and there the only things associated with him are 3 news stories on 9/27.
EDIT: I'm agreeing with you :) Maybe this is a sales opportunity to sell to the BBC!
I am not denying that it is easy to find out about this guy on the internet, BUT he does present himself as a "trader" on national television. Quote from Rastani on the BBC: "... see I'm a trader... if I see an opportunity to make money I go with that...". That is just wrong, misleading the public, and disrespecting professional traders.
I never understood why people think just because you are a hypocrite doesn't mean you still aren't entitled to all the rights everyone else is under the law.
It's a sad prospect to suggest that your basic property rights can be taken way for that. Doing one thing and saying another is a part of free speech, IMO.
"If you’ve played Farm Town at any point in the past few months then you won’t need any education about how to use Zynga’s version of the game as it’s almost an exact duplicate."
