Archive for September, 2011


Guest Post:
Germany benefited most from the €?

Written by admin
September 11th, 2011

Against the background of the debt crises of some EMU member countries to the meeting of the EMU Government on 11 March and the end of March EU summit intended to adopt new institutional pillars for stabilization of the euro and the European Monetary Union. But what kind of decisions be? Fear is that there is ultimately only an increase in the so-called “euro rescue package” entails that it is not possible to adopt a strategy incentive compatible excessive debt crises and that the transition to a transfer union is more likely. Readmore…


“When everyone is responsible for everything, nobody responsible for anything.”The current calm is deceptive . It's the calm before the storm. The problems of the euro are not resolved. It threatens monetary policy further heavy seas. A few hasty corrections Brussels deep in the night will not help. Readmore…

Since not only the financial and economic crisis the country is very busy, but weak. While governments are often faced with a dilemma: on your behalf, one to make to the general public interest-oriented policy that precludes the incentive to increase their electoral chances by introducing subsidies and transfers to well-organized groups and to the detriment of the public. Readmore…

Cut flowers and shares

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September 7th, 2011

Radio journalist Dr. Michael Brown pointed out to me with a request to comment on the facts that the German people a year to spend more money on cut flowers than for German stocks. This leads to some interesting follow-up questions. Among other things, consider whether it would be better because if German listed companies have more German shareholders. Readmore…

A rate for all – the ECB has enough instruments?

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September 4th, 2011

Against the logic of balancing identities not can do much: over-indebtedness situation is entered, it can be either the debtors to help avoid a bankruptcy, or take a debtor bankrupt in purchasing and helping creditors to avoid bankruptcy, or you take the risk of bankruptcy of debtors and creditors in purchasing and the cost of the resulting collateral damage. Readmore…

“Among the four major business models that exist in the EU, only the Nordic and the Anglo-Saxon model efficiently, but only the former may connect with equal efficiency.”The economic mainstream was the global financial crisis is a typical Keynesian accident. Financial institutions had gambled in the financial bubble burst, panic spread, all fled in liquidity. Readmore…

Double-edged internet freedom

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September 1st, 2011

Wikileaks is not a vulnerability of the Internet, but of politics. Until now, the democratic citizen assumes that only dictatorships have to explain their actions with false justifications; far from it. The events of recent weeks reveal relentlessly that politicians also have a significant deficit in relation to the assessment of the enforcement power of media – especially the electronic kind That can bear bitter fruit. Readmore…