14 Feb, 2025
Intro LO: Eigenlijk is het een vreemd FD artikel hieronder want niets over: (1) structurele demografische ontwikkelingen, en (2) arbeidsmigranten. Veel Nederlanders zien (3) ambtenaren trouwens als niet-essentieel. Ook daarover niets. Ook (4) winstdoelstellingen in het bedrijfsleven beperken het aantal “onzinbanen”. De Overheid kent slechts begrotingen en budgetten....
20 Jan, 2025
Intro LO: The Axios Macro article below on demographics is a must-read. Actually, China is already facing this “youth scarcity” crisis and millions of young Chinese already refuse to contribute to the pensions for the elderly (eg, Bloomberg, 10 January 2025). The main solution appears simple but is actually complex: import of foreign labour to fill vacant domestic...
15 Jan, 2025
“The notion that genius is only thinly separated from insanity goes back at least to ancient Greece. Aristotle linked the two when he said, “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” Source: PsychologyToday (2020). A recent comment by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, on an alleged genius and tech billionaire, calls him a “truly evil person” (eg,...
8 Jan, 2025
Introduction LO: This Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article (see below) was written before the recent decision of the liberal-left Canadian Prime Minister to resign. His resignation is further evidence of the validity of this WSJ article. In my view, the pendulum in Politics used to be between conservatives (“Right”) and Labour (“Left”) until about 1980. Growing wealth...
12 Nov, 2024
An American expert at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies claims that voting by "anti-democratic young generations" is a reason for Trump's 2024 victory. See his recent comment on Dutch BNR Newsradio. In my view, "anti-democratic young voters" is a rather silly and even a contradicting concept. As a child (1960), my parents once explained that it was common that...
5 Nov, 2024
Today, the 2024 US presidential election will be held. My blog is not about its outcome, nor about my (current) prediction. My blog is about a topic I've used before: A Nation gets the Leader it deserves (eg, LinkedIn). Alternatively: “Every country has the government it deserves.” A phrase by the French philosopher Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) Why do both phrases...
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