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Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Von Kreativität und Kunst
Tags: Zitat
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Archiv 4. September 2011
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Unnütze Präventionskampagnen
Handlungsbedarf besteht gemäss den Studienergebnissen bei den Präventionskampagnen. So gab nur gerade die Hälfte der Befragten an, eine solche Kampagne zu kennen. Und obwohl die Kampagnen zwar innerhalb der jeweiligen Zielgruppe wahrgenommen wurden, hat lediglich rund die Hälfte ihr Verhalten geändert. Die Erkenntnisse der Studie sollen nun helfen, die Kampagnen noch stärker auf die Zielgruppen auszurichten, um eine nachhaltige Verhaltensänderung zu erzielen.
Quelle: Aktuell (Medien) Kantonspolizei Bern – Kanton Bern
Vielleicht sollte man lieber mal einen Schritt zurückmachen und sich überlegen, ob es solche Kampagnen wirklich braucht …
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
Mehr Geld, mehr Volatilität
The more money there is in the financial system, the greater the volatility. Credit destabilises a system, even as it expands.
Quelle: A „Scarily Accurate“ Prediction
Das erklärt dann auch gleich folgende Feststellung eines ZKB-Bankers:
Andreas Küffer, Währungsspezialist bei der Zürcher Kantonalbank. Er spricht von historisch einmaligen Kursausschlägen: «So heftige Bewegungen innerhalb so kurzer Zeit gab es noch nie.»
Tags: Aktien, Aktienmarkt, Börse
Labels: Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Apple pinkelt RIM ins Gärtchen
Apple’s 20th retail store in Canada, the new location is also notable for its placement in the hometown of smartphone competitor Research in Motion.
Quelle: Apple Set to Open Five New Retail Stores on Saturday – Mac Rumors
Tags: Blackberry, iPhone, RIM
Labels: Apple
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
Liebe Investmentbanker, wie wäre es mal mit der Produktion von echtem Mehrwert?
We’d contend that the vast majority of small businesses and enterprises make their profits the old-fashioned way: they earn them! They don’t lie, cheat, steal, or deceive.
Quelle: Aaah, the French
The solution, of course, is not to borrow more money and give it to people to spend. That is not real wealth creation. It is just money shuffling. The solution is creating wealth by producing things of value that people want to buy. This does not include CDOs, RMBS, and synthetic ETFs.
Quelle: Distortions and Imbalances
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
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Züchtet China die richtigen Akademiker heran?
„The gaokao rewards a special type of student: very strong memory; very strong logical and analytical ability; little imagination; little desire to question authority,“ says Jiang Xueqin, a Yale-educated school administrator in Beijing. „That person does well on the gaokao–as well as on the SAT, by the way.“
Quelle: Cramming For College At Beijing’s Second High | Fast Company
Tags: Ausbildung, China, Hochschule, Kinder, Schule, Universität
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