Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
Ein Kollege von mir, welcher seit über einem Jahr in Yale studiert, über den alltäglichen Überlebenskampf in den USA:
In den USA scheinen Dienstleistungen bei abnehmender Qualität immer teurer zu werden.
Tags: Kritik
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
Peinlich, wenn man einen Billionen-Krieg führt und die Steuerzahler nicht mal unterscheiden können, in welche Weltregion ihre staatlichen Zwangsabgaben hinfliessen? Aber das amerikanische Bildungssystem hatte schon immer Probleme, im Fach Geographie Profis heranzubilden …
But the news arrived anyway. Lyndsee Mabe, another of Hickman’s close friends, was at the house and mentioned that a Marine from the nearby town of Ramseur had been killed in Afghanistan.
“Is that where David was?” Veronica asked.
“No,” Mabe said. “Iraq.”
“Oh,” Veronica said, stroking her son’s military ID tags. “I thought that was in Afghanistan.”
After nearly a decade of fighting two wars that sometimes appear indistinct to an increasingly disconnected American public, even those most deeply and directly affected by them can be confused by the far-off battles. But the grief always finds its way home.
Tags: Afghanistan, Armee, Geographie, Irak, Krieg
Labels: USA
Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
That is, all the feds’ horses and all the feds’ men are supposed to make sure that 1) stock holders don’t lose money…2) bankers don’t go broke…3) speculators don’t get wiped out…4) Top CEOs don’t lose their jobs…
Tags: Finanzkrise, Schuldenkrise, Wirtschaftskrise
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 13. November 2011
The US market, driven by short-term trading, has long since given up worrying about a sustainable recovery. It just wants some more short-term play money.
Quelle: The Dark Side of the Boom
Tags: Casino, Finanzkrise
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 13. November 2011
Starting in the late 1970s, the middle class began to weaken… The middle class nonetheless continued to spend, at first enabled by the flow of women into the work force. (In the 1960s only 12 percent of married women with young children were working for pay; by the late 1990s, 55 percent were.) When that way of life stopped generating enough income, Americans went deeper into debt. From the late 1990s to 2007, the typical household debt grew by a third. As long as housing values continued to rise it seemed a painless way to get additional money.
Tags: Geschichte, Konsumgesellschaft
Labels: Gesellschaft, USA
Samstag, 12. November 2011
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…
Tags: Industrie, Krieg, Lobby, Militär, Waffen
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 4. September 2011
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
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
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
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
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.
Alle in diesem Blog gemachten Aussagen und Meinungen sind persönlich und nicht als Ansichten meines aktuellen und/oder meiner bisherigen Arbeitgeber zu verstehen.
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