On the other hand, the US is far more ambitious militarily. For every layabout chiseler the French supports, the US supports two soldiers and one Pentagon contractor. The cost is staggering …and probably even more irreducible than Europe’s social costs…
Archiv ‘USA’
Samstag, 12. November 2011
USA: Militärisch-industrieller Komplex in seiner Reinform
Tags: Industrie, Krieg, Lobby, Militär, Waffen
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Vom Model T-Bauer zum Burgerflipper
Over five million manufacturing jobs have disappeared from America in the last 30 years. But over 30 million lower-wage service industry jobs have been handed out. GM fell. Wal-Mart rose. This fundamentally changed the character of the American economy, and probably of American society.
The spike in unemployment during the GFC is a side-effect of this structural change in the economy. A service-based economy is a consumption-based economy. A consumption-based economy is a debt-based economy. When debt loads – government, household, and business – are unbearable, consumption falls. Unemployment rises as people spend less money.
Quelle: Distortions and Imbalances
Labels: Gesellschaft, USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Die benzinsüchtigen Amis werden zur Kasse gebeten
Gasoline, for example, costs the nation about $10.9 billion more this year than it did the last. That money has to come from somewhere. And since a rich person drives about the same number of miles as a poor person, it costs the many a lot more than it does the few.
Quelle: Not Like 2008
Tags: Benzin, Erdöl, Finanzkrise, Schuldenkrise, Verkehr
Labels: USA
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Goldene Zukunft für die USA
We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future.
Quelle: Double Depression
Tags: Finanzkrise, Schuldenkrise, Zukunft
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Wie man Finnen so richtig ärgert
people started sending Linus money directly. I’m not sure they did it out of gratitude, however, since they usually sent personal checks from the US. As Linus quickly learned, Finnish banks really, really hate checks. Especially personal checks. Particularly personal checks from the US. They invent all sorts of bureaucratic pit-falls and rules and fees to make it difficult and expensive to use checks. If you want to make trouble for a Finn, send him a personal check from the US. And that’s not a joke.
Quelle: Linux Anecdotes
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Bye bye Wohlfahrtsstaat?
With a gold standard, the Warfare State and the Welfare State are not possible.
Tags: Finanzkrise, Wirtschaftskrise
Labels: USA
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Hatten die USA jemals unfähigere Präsidentschaftskandidaten?
Candidates like Perry and Bachmann make a plain vanilla narcissist like Sarah Palin look at least capable of running a student council.
Samstag, 3. September 2011
China verkauft dem Alkoholiker weiterhin Alkohol
Savings aren’t bad, but they can be invested poorly. Take China. Its government is using its citizens’ savings to lend to the largest bankrupt nation in the world. That’s not too smart.
Quelle: Savings Are Bad, Mmkay
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011
Osama 1, USA 0
Jeder Glücksspieler würde von einem solchen Gewinnverhältnis nur träumen:
Osama bin Laden and his henchmen probably spent the pittance of just $500,000 on organising the September 2001 attacks, which killed 3,000 people and directly cost the US economy an estimated $50bn to $100bn. In 2003, President George W Bush proclaimed that the Iraq war would cost $50bn to $60bn. Governments that go to war invariably underestimate the cost – but rarely on such an epic scale.
Tags: Afghanistan, Krieg, Pakistan, Terror
Labels: USA
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011
Europäer kicken die Blechdose einfach immer weiter die Strasse runter
That’s the trouble with the kick-the-can-down-the-road approach to debt. You end up down the road; and there’s the can!
Quelle: Debt Is a Bummer
Tags: EU, Griechenland, Schuldenkrise, Zitat
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
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