Samstag, 3. September 2011
Gold is the perfect heist: anonymous, untraceable, hugely valuable. Successfully intercepting just one of the shipments would yield a haul of more than $300 million, making it one of the greatest robberies of all time. And you’d have 39 chances to repeat the feat.
Quelle: How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela | Felix Salmon
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Atkinson examined the financial crises that swept Asia in the 1990s as well as those that afflicted several Nordic countries in the same decade. In most cases, he says, the middle class suffered depressed income for a long time after the crisis, while the top 1 percent were able to protect themselves—using their cash reserves to buy up assets very cheaply once the market crashed, and emerging from crisis with a significantly higher share of assets and income than they’d had before.
Quelle: Can the Middle Class Be Saved? – Magazine – The Atlantic
Tags: Finanzkrise, Kapitalismus
Labels: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft
Samstag, 3. September 2011
If you hire someone who will be great in 18 months, but will be poor for the next 18 months, the company will reject her before she ever gets a chance to show her stuff.
Tags: BWL, Management
Labels: Allgemein
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Everything today is a copy of the iPhone, even Android devices started out as Soon’ish Blackberry knockoffs and after seeing the iPhone, Google shifted gears into iPhone dream knockoffs. We would still be using garbage four-cursor keypads to navigate our way through inane option menus
Quelle: Steve Jobs, A Revolution Every Other Year [Updated] | Analysis | The Mac Observer
Samstag, 3. September 2011
The Russian finance minister told the Russian people they should drink and smoke more to help boost tax revenues. “People should understand,” he said. “Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state.” And the Irish finance minister said his ministry is considering selling T-shirts that read, “Ireland is not Greece.” As I say, you can’t make this stuff up.
Quelle: You Can\’t Make This Stuff Up
Tags: Finanzkrise, Irland, Russland, Schuldenkrise
Labels: Wirtschaft
Samstag, 3. September 2011
No one denies that the Apple executive team is brilliant, yet it seems many are willing to believe they’re just puppets. I’d argue the two are mutually exclusive. Jobs is right, brilliant people won’t stand for the best idea consistently losing. They’ll leave. I think there’s a reason for this management team’s relative longevity. They like making consistent winners, not being shouted down by seniority or politics and producing failures.
Quelle: Ideas, Not Hierarchy: On Steve Jobs Supposedly Making All Apple Decisions – The Small Wave.
Tags: BWL, Management
Labels: Apple, Wirtschaft
Samstag, 3. September 2011
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
Samstag, 3. September 2011
The victory of fear over greed means that investors are no longer concerned with the return ON their money; they’re worried about the return OF their money.
Tags: Finanzkrise, Schuldenkrise
Labels: Wirtschaft
Mario Aeby, geboren am 25. September 1980 in Bern, Schweiz
Ein Weblog über IT (Linux, OSS, Apple), Heim-Automation; mein mittlerweile abgeschlossenes Geschichtsstudium; Erkenntnisse aus meiner aktuellen Tätigkeit in der Informationssicherheit, meine Erfahrungen als IT-Berater, IT-Auditor, Web-Developer und IT-Supporter; die Schweiz, den Kanton Bern, meine ursprüngliche und auch wieder aktuelle Wohngemeinde Neuenegg, meine vorherige Wohngemeinde Bern, über lokale, regionale und globale Politik; meine Reisetätigkeit und Erfahrungen mit anderen Kulturen; und zu Guter letzt auch das Älter werden.
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