From 26 June to 17 July 2011 will be held in Germany, the FIFA Women's World Cup. It is transmitted in 200 countries, where they will be in Germany on ARD, ZDF and sport to see in €. Overall, the women's football in Germany to become more attractive, which increased media interest in this now very high and the membership of women in the DFB is clear. Readmore…
After over 30 years of membership I joined a few years ago from the SPD. Joined I was originally, because the former CDU sought to reinterpret a mere change of government as a kind of coup. I felt as a sign that the Christian Democrats still do not play by the rules of law had sufficiently internalized. Readmore…
John Taylor has recently published on his blog following graph the relationship between unemployment rate and investment rate in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010:Source: John TaylorHe compares this graph with the corresponding relationship between unemployment and government consumption ratioSource: John TaylorAnd comes to conclusion that the “most effective” way to reduce unemployment, increase the investment rate and government consumption ratio is not. Readmore…
After Apply since the beginning of new rules for the financing of statutory health insurance, now urges the reform of the financing of social insurance. Again, there is more to pension plans that provide the latest health policy laws work was at best rudimentary.The number of people needing care is likely to double by 2050 to almost 4 ½ million, almost. Readmore…
If you, dear blog readers, in 2011, their 47th Birthday party, then one can only congratulate you: From now on, it goes uphill. You just have the most rotten, joyless years of your life behind. Now it can only get better. As you have not even noticed. Then take a look at once to this curve, the British “Economist” has just been printed in its year-end issue. Readmore…
Are on time before the start of the fall semester each year, thousands of freshmen and study space changers looking for an apartment or a room. By implementing the Bologna reforms, the situation has worsened since a change to the summer semester, for example, after completing a three-semester undergraduate studies, has become less likely. Readmore…
Whether the financial market crisis is over, can not be determined with certainty, or at least severe aftershocks to stop when the debt crisis of European and other countries is taken into account. Nor can already today a robust inventory of asset losses and the overall economic effects be attributable to the financial market crisis. Readmore…
Has recently proposed to the Federal Treasury to widen the fiscal autonomy of municipalities is a local income tax surcharge. The municipalities currently receive 15 percent of the proceeds of income tax, but without being able to take even an influence on the tax burden. The Schäuble proposal now provides for lowering the rate of income tax collected nationally uniform to the extent that the lost tax revenue as accurately as possible to the communities previously accrued revenue from income tax equivalent. Readmore…
For each train driver who frequently travels via Stuttgart in the south, the matter is clear: The head station must go. The agonizingly long driveways into and exits from the station are as much a nuisance as the long stay of the trains have to change their direction. And let's face it, listed or not, this stony desert of an old building is no ornament to the city. Readmore…
What's going on?If you stand in the crowded waiting area of a citizens' offices, you will feel as a troublemaker who wants to be an obvious appearance totally overburdened administration to issue a document required. Actually, you would be willing to waive the extort the service, if other administrative areas would not just give one of the written, stamped and signed this results set forth herein sovereign claim only official action. Readmore…