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
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
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
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2011
Under the influence of popular democracy, oil driven machinery, and the social welfare nation state, almost every developed nation has made the same choice – to go broke.
Quelle: Visions of Phony Economic Growth
Könnte er bald ausgeträumt sein, dieser Traum?
Tags: Schuldenkrise, Wirtschaftskrise
Labels: Allgemein
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