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Lower Your Handicap With Hypnosis [CD on Demand]
$15.95
Dr. Zubin Mistry will begin to guide your subconscious mind to improve your golf game the very first time you listen to your CD! As you apply your new skills on the golf course you will soon realize it begins to carry over into your everyday life as well.Your hypnotic CD will bring focus to your game. Your mind will learn to alleviate distractions and develop proven personal skills to create optimal performance on the golf course. By listening to your CD often, you will develop a unique, relaxed and precise approach to your game and gain an edge over your competition. You'll develop the ability to maintain your focus and play like a pro on any course and under any circumstances. You will have a better command of your swing and be the master of your golf game.SOME POTENTIAL PROBLEMS YOUR ALTERSCAPE HYPNOTIC CD MAY HELP SOLVE OR AVOID: - Loss of Concentration on the Course- Slicing and Hooking- The "Yips" While Putting- High Scores- Nervousness in Front of OthersPOTENTIAL BENEFITS OF YOUR ALTERSCAPE HYPNOTIC CD: - Improved Overall Game- Lower Scores- Greater Level of Confidence- Lower Handicap, Consistent SwingListen and begin to play like a pro today! Embrace the power of hypnosis to lower your handicap and alter your life.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

West Virginia Walk of Fame
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The Competition Solution: The Bipartisan Secret Behind American Prosperity
$25.00
Paul London provides a very interesting overview of the growth of the large industrial economy after the Depression and WWII and its death and transition into the more global and competitive economy we have today. He notes that the goal of the Depression focused the American economy on providing full employment. This led the government to support the rise of the huge steel, communications, automotive, mining, and other large corporations and those that supported them.

These corporations used their might (along with union might and supportive governmental regulation) to fight off and restrict competition. Mr. London sees this weak competitive environment as one of the causes of the inflation during the seventies. He also faults Richard Nixon for his wage and price controls and political influence on the Federal Reserve. He gives great credit to Presidents Ford and Carter for having the political courage to fight inflation and to take painful steps to right the economic cart.

He notes that it was Carter, not Reagan, who put Volcker in charge of the Federal Reserve and deserves the credit for Volcker's success. Mr. London also expresses some skepticism in the monetary and tax cut approach to encouraging growth. He goes so far as to say that Greenspan's reputation is inflated because he had little to do with the success of the economy in the eighties and especially in the nineties. For Mr. London, it was the competition with the Japanese that forced the automotive companies to increase efficiency and hold prices down. It was small steel companies such as Nucor that saved the American Steel industry. He also notes that breaking up the AT&T cartel that fought every innovation that has led to vastly increased service offerings at a much lower cost. He also tells the story of how competition has affected the airlines, our banking regime, and retailing (he notes that Wal-Mart keeping prices low has helped fight inflation).

I think he makes some very good points. However, I cannot go all the way with him. Taxation does play a huge role in our business environment and we have to be careful what distortions we build into our market system. And his dismissal of monetary policy is far to facile for me. Printing money too much money has always been a tool of governments trying to get away with something. It always brings inflation through a devalued currency (not just devalued exchange rates, which can be just fine).

Mr. London also talks about how competition can help our current problems in education and health care. His prescriptions are not very detailed, but I am encouraged in the different role he sees for government in fixing these problems. Rather than more government programs and greater government control, he encourages intelligent encouragement of private enterprise in both environments through regulatory incentives that will lower costs (for example, by mandating electronic medical records) and make a more level playing field for innovation.

This is a good book and well worth reading. And I like the breath of fresh air approach rather than a restating of the normal doctrines of our times from either the left or the right. Well worth reading and discussing.

Competition BBQ Secrets: A Barbecue Instruction Manual for Serious Competitors and Back Yard Cooks Too
$29.95
The author of this book and his BBQ team, Chatham Artillery BBQ, recently won Grand Champion at the Albany, GA Hasan Shrine Spring Festival which is a FBA event. They also won Grand Champion and 1st place in ribs at the Tryon, NC Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival which is a KCBS event.