Posted on December 14, 2008 by cultblender
The situation is something like this: Not even that many months ago, the Belgian financial multinational Fortis had some megalomaniac desire to buy the – far too large- Dutch financial multinational ABN AMRO. The Belgians made a deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the
Spanish Banco Santander, who both bought different parts of the [...]
Filed under: Erwin Fisser, business, capitalism, corporate, free markets, free trade, government | Tagged: abn amro, belgium, benelux, credit crunch, crisis, fortis, government, luxembourg, merger, netherlands, rbs, santander, shareholder, taeover | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 16, 2008 by cultblender
Populist politicians and dumb authors generally oversimplify matters. Like: we should cut taxes to stimulate entrepreneurship and reduce the governmental burden on businesses. Taxes are there to keep those nasty left-wing treehuggers happy. As the more intelligent reader will recognize: the truth is actually quite different.
First of all, it is important to realize (as populists [...]
Filed under: business, capitalism, consumerism, corporate, free markets, freedom, government, society | Tagged: business, consumers, entrepeneur, financial, government, money, politics, tax, taxes | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 28, 2008 by cultblender
All over the ‘free world’ there are plans to monitor and store all your web-surfing habits, your (mobile) telephone conversations and your whereabouts in the ‘public domain’ through various CCTV cameras. The idea behind this is that it will provide us with more security in our ‘War Against Terror’. As politicians put it: we have [...]
Filed under: freedom, government, privacy, society, terrorism | Tagged: big brother, cameras, cctv, freedom, government, intel, privacy, safety, security, terrorism, war on terrorism | Leave a Comment »
