… the source of these demands lies in the fact that bankers got money without working for it. High unemployment and a mal-adjusted economic structure lead to everyone wanting a bailout.
Quelle: The Top 1 Per Cent
Samstag, 12. November 2011
… the source of these demands lies in the fact that bankers got money without working for it. High unemployment and a mal-adjusted economic structure lead to everyone wanting a bailout.
Quelle: The Top 1 Per Cent
Tags: Banken, Griechenland, Occupy, Weltgeschehen, Zeitgeist, Zeitgeschehen
Labels: Wirtschaft
Sonntag, 18. September 2011
Consumerized devices with over-the-air updates on a 12 month cycle are five times more agile than a traditional corporate Windows desktop. Another way to look at this is that for every change in a corporate desktop environment, the average user will change their device experience five times.
Quelle: OS turning circles: Questioning Windows’ maneuverability | asymco
Dies ist ein Problem, mit welchem Corporate-IT immer stärker zu kämpfen hat: Die Mitarbeiter benutzen zu Hause Technologie, die der Unternehmens-IT um Meilen voraus ist. Im Gegenzug werden meiner Meinung nach IT-Abteilungen von Grossunternehmen immer mehr als langsam, konservativ und produktivitätsbehindern aufgefasst.
Tags: Unternehmen
Labels: IT, 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
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
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
Samstag, 3. September 2011
Porsche ruft 900 Fahrzeuge zurück
Quelle: Porsche ruft 900 Fahrzeuge zurück (Panorama, NZZ Online)
In solchen Fällen ist von doppeltem Vorteil, nur Karrossen im Hochpreissegment herzustellen. Toyota hätte bei einem identischen Problem wohl zehntausende Fahrzeuge zurückrufen müssen.
Was aber nicht heissen soll, dass der Imageschaden nicht weniger gering ausfällt — im Gegenteil.
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
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
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