Because a system where Big Business and Big Government make a Big Mess is not capitalism. It’s something else entirely.
Quelle: The New Big Bang
Samstag, 12. November 2011
Because a system where Big Business and Big Government make a Big Mess is not capitalism. It’s something else entirely.
Quelle: The New Big Bang
Tags: Bürokratie, Finanzkrise, Griechenland, Schuldenkrise, Weltwirtschaft, Zitat
Labels: Wirtschaft
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, 24. Juli 2011
When the farmers protest it is not just because they want more money, it is because they are convinced (sometimes even rightly so) that the reason why they are being denied handouts is that they have been given to someone else instead. It is the combination, therefore, of endless government pandering and patronages that has led to the population’s irresponsible attitude towards money and public finance.
Quelle: The Game of Perpetual Debt
Tags: Demokratie, Griechenland, Schuldenkrise, Wohlfahrtsstaat
Labels: Politik, Schweiz
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011
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
Holy cow! What kind of advice is this? Just tell the big banks that they won’t be allowed to fail. And don’t forget to tell Greece too. … You might just as well give the key to your liquor cabinet to your alcoholic brother-in-law and introduce your daughter to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Quelle: Visions of Phony Economic Growth
Tags: Griechenland, Schuldenkrise, Wirtschaftskrise
Labels: Funny
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Greece, a small country with a small GDP and no oil…whose strategic export is olives…and whose last real military victory was the Battle of Jhelum in 326 BC, in which Alexander the Great defeated an Indian Rajah named Porus. […] If they’d let Greece go broke 3 years ago, the problem would be behind us instead of in front of us.
Quelle: Embracing Catastrophe: Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Markets’ Next “Lehman Moment”
Anmerkung am Rande: Alexander der Grosse war Mazedonier.
Tags: EU, Euro, Finanzkrise, Griechenland, PIGS, PIIGS, Schuldenkrise
Labels: Wirtschaft
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
the State, as a borrower, has a nearly inexhaustible form of collateral: the taxpayer. It’s the taxpayer that guarantees interest payments on government debt will always be met, and principal always repaid.
Quelle: The Big Fall Harder
Tags: EU, Euro, Finanzkrise, Griechenland, Irland, PIGS, PIIGS, Portugal, Schuldenkrise, Spanien
Labels: Wirtschaft
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
The ECB continues to run around giving new meaning to the phrase „rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic“.
Quelle: Shells and Contagions
Tags: EU, Euro, Europa, Griechenland, PIGS, PIIGS, Schuldenkrise
Labels: Allgemein
Freitag, 17. Juni 2011
[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
Tags: Griechenland
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Montag, 7. Juni 2010
The government will sell 49 percent of the state railroad, list ports and airports on the stock market, and privatize the country’s casinos, the Finance Ministry said after a cabinet meeting in Athens. The government will also sell minority stakes in water utilities serving Athens and Thessaloniki, sell 39 percent of the post office,
Quelle: Greece to Sell Assets to Help Pay Down Deficit – NYTimes.com
Die Frage, die sich bei solch irren Aktionen äusserst rasch stellt: Für was ist der Staat dann noch da? Und für was zahlen wir ihm Steuern, wenn die Privaten angeblich alles besser machen?
Ich bin der vollen Überzeugung, dass nationale, kantonale und kommunale Infrastrukturbauten auf Biegen und Brechen im Besitz des Volkes bleiben müssen und nicht privatisiert werden dürfen.
Tags: Griechenland, Steuern, Wirtschaftskrise
Labels: Politik