We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future.
Quelle: Double Depression
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
Goldene Zukunft für die USA
Tags: Finanzkrise, Schuldenkrise, Zukunft
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
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
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
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 …
Tags: Schuldenkrise, Zitat
Labels: USA
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
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
Tags: Finanzkrise
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
