Archiv ‘USA’

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

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Labels: Funny, Linux, USA

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Samstag, 3. September 2011

Bye bye Wohlfahrtsstaat?

With a gold standard, the Warfare State and the Welfare State are not possible.

Quelle: You Can\’t Eat Asset Allocation Either

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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.

Quelle: History is Not Your Therapist – Clusterfuck Nation

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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

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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.

Quelle: The IMF: Leading the Way to Financial Ruin

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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

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Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011

Politiker sollten für Defizite haften …

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Quelle: Quote: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. Y… – (37signals)

Von all den komischen Ideen, die derzeit herumgeistern, um die Schuldenkrisen landauf, landab zu bändigen, ist dies noch eine der besten …

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Montag, 20. Juni 2011

Obamas Geburtsort

Der Präsident sei auf Hawaii geboren worden, sagte Brown, „oder, wie die Tea-Party-Anhänger es nennen, Kenia“.

Quelle: Unliebsame Witze: Republikaner drehen Komiker das Mikro ab – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Politik

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Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011

American Nightmare

As we alluded to above, politicians and civil servants love to get in on the action too. In the US, this took the form of making the ‘American Dream’ an American reality. What they got was a nightmare. Massive mortgage companies were set up and backed by the government to create artificial demand for mortgages. Banks were required to lend to sub-prime borrowers by legislation. Central banks kept interest rates low. And homebuilders had a field day.

Quelle: The Baby Boom Bust Cycle

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Freitag, 17. Juni 2011

Der grosse Bruder der Griechen

[Greece:] Unemployment is around 20%. People dodge taxes. Government workers don’t show up for work. Households spend too much. And the government is going into debt so deeply and so rapidly it can’t possibly get out.

Hey… It’s just like the US!

Quelle: The Likelihood of a US Default

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