16 Jul, 2025
Intro LO: The biggest problem of a debt crisis is the increasing interest burden in annual government budgets. This explains why Trump wants to replace the chairman of the Federal Reserve, who resists lowering interest rates. Lower interest rates would - normally - help in containing the annual interest burden. Wikipedia: "A debt crisis is a situation in...
1 Jul, 2025
Intro LO: In my view, the US$ decline was due for decades but the new US president caused its tipping point, “a point in time when a group—or many group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.” (Wiki). Finally, we are willing to see a country busy with tax cuts for the rich while ballooning its already...
16 Jun, 2025
“Een studie van PricewaterhouseCoopers (verschenen in Fortis Business Focus nr 2- summer 2005) toont aan dat 70 % van de overnames en fusies falen door menselijke aangelegenheden.” (bron, FSV, HFD, HRP, HSR, PWC, U-GENT-2005, UVT). Waarom zou de GL-PVDA fusie dan een uitzondering zijn?? De fusie in 1980 van Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP), Christelijk-Historische...
16 May, 2025
Intro LO: Op 5 oktober 2022 schreef deze journalist een soortgelijk artikel: Kent Nederland een huizentekort of een singlesoverschot? Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige overeenkomstige blog. Medio januari 2025 verscheen een soortgelijk Trouw artikel: Woningtekort? Niet echt. Er is vooral een tekort aan kleinere woningen. Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige blog. Interessant is...
15 May, 2025
Intro LO: This rather unbiased article, in the English version of the Spanish newspaper El Pais, addresses my first curiosity topic - Why Beijing Thinks It Can Beat Trump - as noted in my recent blog. I suppose that Barry Eichengreen is rather convincing in his El Pais opinion article below. At least, I agree with his analysis. I suppose that USA will - indeed - and...
13 May, 2025
Quite possibly, the opinion in Le Monde (see below) by French economist Thomas Piketty is wishful thinking. Nevertheless, I agree with its title: Rethinking the world without the US. In my view, Thomas Piketty uses (his) facts to promote his ideology in writing. In my view, the 2025 situation in USA has accelerated a trend that was visible decades ago: America is no...
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