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Komentarji uporabnikov (vseh: 12; zadnji: 04.03.09 16:24) ·
Kot neprijavljen uporabnik - gost - ne morete vpisovati komentarjev.
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--iz članka evro dolar
"All the prudence at the ECB hasn’t stopped European financial institutions from leveraging up their balance sheets with toxic assets. The motto in Europe has been to copy any idea Goldman Sachs has, but being late to the party, they engaged in greater leverage when pursuing them. A lack of understanding of the instruments purchased was, and in some cases still is, prevailing at many institutions" |
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--in še
"In our view, European governments will ultimately provide support to their financial institutions exposed to Eastern Europe. Moreover, after the typical grudging discussions taking place in Europe, support may likely also be provided to Eastern Europe itself. Much of the industry in the European Union has focused on building the infrastructure in Eastern Europe. It may be cheaper for the European Union to subsidize its customer, Eastern Europe, than to allow market forces to cause massive failures. " |
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ni ravno sveza tema, ni pa za spregledat...
Just after October 6, 2008, when Iceland effectively went bust, I spoke to a man at the International Monetary Fund who had been flown in to Reykjavík to determine if money might responsibly be lent to such a spectacularly bankrupt nation.
He’d never been to Iceland, knew nothing about the place, and said he needed a map to find it. He has spent his life dealing with famously distressed countries, usually in Africa, perpetually in one kind of financial trouble or another.
Iceland was entirely new to his experience: a nation of extremely well-to-do (No. 1 in the United Nations’ 2008 Human Development Index), well-educated, historically rational human beings who had organized themselves to commit one of the single greatest acts of madness in financial history.
“You have to understand,” he told me, “Iceland is no longer a country. It is a hedge fund.”
In 2003, Iceland’s three biggest banks had assets of only a few billion dollars, about 100 percent of its gross domestic product.
Over the next three and a half years they grew to over $140 billion and were so much greater than Iceland’s G.D.P. that it made no sense to calculate the percentage of it they accounted for. It was, as one economist put it to me, “the most rapid expansion of a banking system in the history of mankind.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...
* zadnji popravek: 04.03.09 10:27 |
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niall ferguson, the great repression
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sto... Odličen članek. Misliš, da kdo iz USA administracije bere takšne nasvete, oziroma, če drugače vprašam - ali neumnosti, ki jih izvajajo, počnejo nalašč ali zato, ker so zabiti? |
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--prva misel bi bila zanalasc :)
potem se spomnim, da je govora o politikih in je odgovor jasen |
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fibo, eliot, trendne linije...tega je tolko da ni vrag da se zadeve ne ujemajo z nečim :) |
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ali neumnosti, ki jih izvajajo, počnejo nalašč ali zato, ker so zabiti?
obicajno recem, da kar lahko razlozis z neumnostjo, tega ni treba z zaroto.
v primeru parlamentarne demokracije pa je treba vseeno misliti tudi na to, da je horizont dogajanja politikov taksen, da se prilagaja maksimalnemu dosegu povprecnega volilca (podobno kot recimo pri financnih produktih ;). vlecejo se torej taksne poteze, ki naj kao kratkorocno nekaj pogasijo. to, koliko novih pizdarij s tem nastane, je vprasanje za tiste, ki vidijo in zelijo videti vec kot prst pred nosom, kar pa je v % delezu lahko ze zanemarljiva kategorija. |
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu... -- :)))
"the Reykjavík phone book lists everyone by his first name, as there are only about nine surnames in Iceland, and they are derived by prefixing the father’s name to “son” or “dottir.” It’s hard to see how this clarifies matters, as there seem to be only about nine first names in Iceland, too." |
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sele na koncu sem opazil, da je avtor michael lewis. |
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> Jutranji pregled - svet, 4.3.09
