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Month: October, 2008

Sit down: F

30 October, 2008 (16:06) | elections, federal states, political trade | By: Aerar

The FAZ has reported (german), that the delegates of the CDU might remain seated instead of giving their vote in the planned election of Andrea Ypsilanti to prime minister of Hessen on coming Tuesday. This is in acount of preventing them from giving their vote for the wrong party by mistake.
“The 42 delegates of the [...]

More like Peer

28 October, 2008 (16:07) | finance, media, particulars, political trade | By: Aerar

Yesterday night the German minister of finance Peer Steinbrück was a guest in the TV talk “Beckmann”. The cool strategian was quite convincing in the talk lasting about an hour. With his quiet and inarrogant behaviour he talked about the status of the ongoing crisis at the financial markets without unnecessaryly blaming others. Thereby he [...]

Fair but hard

26 October, 2008 (14:46) | finance | By: Aerar

In Germany the State and the public utilities related to it are in charge of providing infrastructure and services. This is funded mainly by the money derived from taxes. Even though there might be different opinions ofthe usefulness of one or the other service it is agreed that in general they are useful for the [...]

Wash me but don’t make me wet

13 October, 2008 (17:13) | finance | By: Aerar

Today morning  in the “Morgenmagazin” of the ARD I saw an interview with Manfred Weber, chairman of the board of the german association of banks  (”Bundesverband deutscher Banken”). Of course the subject was the financial crisis in general and the 400 billion support package (in meantime seemingly  470 billions - it seems as if the [...]

Crisis? What Crisis?

11 October, 2008 (17:16) | economy, finance | By: Aerar

I held of commenting the so called financial crisis so far. There were multiple reasons for. First I was occupied earning money to counter any possible crisis with all might right in it’s beginning. Secondly the news and blogs have written detailed information and interpretations so there was no need for me to do so. [...]