tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48517557396919252022024-02-19T16:52:40.695+00:00The Melancholic Greedabsolution for the hauntedPiotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-17555491766592022872011-12-14T10:31:00.002+00:002011-12-14T10:31:09.329+00:00Another one bites da dust<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/austrian-banks-facing-payback-as-hungary-s-debt-slaves-revolt.html">When Hungary’s former central bank governor was buying a house two months before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed and the country sought an emergency bailout, he received an offer he couldn’t refuse.<br />
Peter Akos Bod, now an economics professor at Corvinus University in Budapest, was given a choice of mortgages by his bank. The 60 year-old could select a loan in Hungary’s currency, the forint, at 13 percent interest, or one in Swiss francs at less than 6 percent. After crunching the numbers on a spreadsheet, he picked the cheaper franc loan.<br />
“It was rational,” he said of his 2008 decision in an interview in the Hungarian capital. “I put it into a model.”<br />
Three years later, Bod and about one million compatriots who took mortgages in francs are faced with a debt pile that has swelled to 4.9 trillion forint ($22 billion).</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-59696418218788102792011-12-07T08:35:00.002+00:002011-12-07T08:35:42.717+00:00we'll have another summit of non elected people to solve it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisS_6unCAMxVLD1iDsaqCLVGiRbn1Y0VT-Gp7L2b3NgmlcbPkq7B57MLBfWFDbT30HM2lfQIfxg-RBlpyb1SQueJe4gQeVR8RTMbiBl2uj-LXGE1Rteux8pGuukYh3MLsi3P3ZMWUD6s/s1600/189283_200538723307324_100000535923878_687181_8343007_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="214" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisS_6unCAMxVLD1iDsaqCLVGiRbn1Y0VT-Gp7L2b3NgmlcbPkq7B57MLBfWFDbT30HM2lfQIfxg-RBlpyb1SQueJe4gQeVR8RTMbiBl2uj-LXGE1Rteux8pGuukYh3MLsi3P3ZMWUD6s/s320/189283_200538723307324_100000535923878_687181_8343007_n.jpg" /></a></div><br />
and the sheep will comply as they always do....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-41364142597269708652011-04-11T18:16:00.002+01:002011-04-11T18:16:42.043+01:00opportunities are everywhere ...<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoQOXepaCjk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-45644872747465425852010-10-03T18:01:00.002+01:002010-10-03T18:01:18.357+01:00Adaptive mechanismsloss of job for life.... get coached into optimism....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-12385742591104530732008-12-19T22:06:00.000+00:002008-12-19T22:07:36.468+00:00no questions asked<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fa79fffe-ce02-11dd-8b30-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1">to good to be true...</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-27344752997643548002008-11-16T10:20:00.002+00:002008-11-16T10:21:10.195+00:00let's just wait<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/90aeaf10-b27e-11dd-bbc9-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=60a3db68-b177-11dd-b97a-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1">to see what happens to GM and wi'll see about free trade .....</a>.....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-16748460963609469662008-10-14T18:33:00.002+01:002008-10-14T18:36:02.653+01:00Flash Gordon?<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101300184.html?nav=rss_business"> these here three stooges.... had to follow Gordon ....</a>..... <br /><br />and Brown maybe got the tide changing for his corner...Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-28336936704016011272008-07-12T19:42:00.000+01:002008-07-12T19:43:05.557+01:00the bravery of being out of range<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DzofJeg5bPo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DzofJeg5bPo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-7190701636055651362008-06-18T16:45:00.002+01:002008-06-18T16:51:08.172+01:00This is a Lisbon Poster....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ83ZkfiejWArpkP4eon1irW4PXBS3hwNAjAvJzWqZLsY6sDHioF-x4L6U4dR7nHufJuKVsG3fQM3bVVVvkMvrlo5mm8nITG72nIAouFh-n6SYKvenpLH_JEng13ES5BVuwSU1cU-sOJk/s1600-h/2582434604_0a86f45f8f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ83ZkfiejWArpkP4eon1irW4PXBS3hwNAjAvJzWqZLsY6sDHioF-x4L6U4dR7nHufJuKVsG3fQM3bVVVvkMvrlo5mm8nITG72nIAouFh-n6SYKvenpLH_JEng13ES5BVuwSU1cU-sOJk/s320/2582434604_0a86f45f8f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213248461988408450" /></a><br />I suppose there are others in other countries wit a similar slightly xenophobic message.... <br /><br />It is a view of the world sponsored by a large corporation that raise serious ethical problems.....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-24194535266862535842008-04-30T13:39:00.001+01:002008-04-30T13:39:41.220+01:00no shit?<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b67ed5be-16a0-11dd-bbfc-0000779fd2ac.html">rapidly?</a>.... what confidence?Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-64075711921503772302008-03-23T21:35:00.004+00:002008-03-23T21:37:25.512+00:00Free Tibet<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsInxSy-5EIXQOxV1ixSA4OkIifp6UgaB73hGI2xUFU44DOvoCesFnnX1x00KTQzx_ZkqV-ekT-fvgBcppGR3vxYFa8JCSESw8p_UbXo_M0V3rI17nISEdgQoXE4P1RhHQdxxnoHWGgKM/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsInxSy-5EIXQOxV1ixSA4OkIifp6UgaB73hGI2xUFU44DOvoCesFnnX1x00KTQzx_ZkqV-ekT-fvgBcppGR3vxYFa8JCSESw8p_UbXo_M0V3rI17nISEdgQoXE4P1RhHQdxxnoHWGgKM/s320/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181054131704283506" /></a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-7479199314922156962008-03-11T15:41:00.003+00:002008-03-11T15:45:56.010+00:00Arti & Mestieri<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDzW_dZx5FXOygSYynpqvr-B3XzXU2_0H656PZ-XvlCu1FWG8wqXzg8BI62GE5AwPCk3-m-ZmaOVkkKFg1Flj17mjF44mcsKftwr19Hw8OWMuypO97elWBfD_AYl61bCjD9AP6WNJ0N8/s1600-h/a9d9ad6967234fa8bb3a82d307bebcf7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuDzW_dZx5FXOygSYynpqvr-B3XzXU2_0H656PZ-XvlCu1FWG8wqXzg8BI62GE5AwPCk3-m-ZmaOVkkKFg1Flj17mjF44mcsKftwr19Hw8OWMuypO97elWBfD_AYl61bCjD9AP6WNJ0N8/s320/a9d9ad6967234fa8bb3a82d307bebcf7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176510848750667026" /></a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-31090339901594412132008-03-06T21:56:00.001+00:002008-03-06T22:10:52.900+00:00we're not barbarians...<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,539919,00.html">we simply went too far?</a>....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-86452728500447793222008-02-27T12:30:00.001+00:002008-02-27T12:33:51.014+00:00Tangerine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-IlPlF48s8uU-o0-Y7YSOxjqZhL2C63sI5VDwZKdWEundi6xhvrnp6UktQcCu-1K7fvjt2vqh3fQoYQUIR1u0ZC4Wjooek9_ySkkUoNOZuEYjYTrICQvbBa73Ftunc580MMPKcTbn8A/s1600-h/lp_rubycon_lg.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-IlPlF48s8uU-o0-Y7YSOxjqZhL2C63sI5VDwZKdWEundi6xhvrnp6UktQcCu-1K7fvjt2vqh3fQoYQUIR1u0ZC4Wjooek9_ySkkUoNOZuEYjYTrICQvbBa73Ftunc580MMPKcTbn8A/s320/lp_rubycon_lg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171637225036531298" /></a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-37452404730530478912008-02-24T09:27:00.002+00:002008-02-24T09:33:25.748+00:00We have to learn with and from our betters<a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/DVD/acorralo/mil/millonarios/elpepueco/20080224elpepieco_1/Tes"> Hobbes revisited </a>....<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,537139,00.html"> <em>"amateur psychoanalysis..."</em></a>....<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,537137,00.html"> more moral beacons ...</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-66784294275624939132008-02-19T22:10:00.000+00:002008-02-19T22:11:16.326+00:00a breach<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c8b1462e-df1c-11dc-91d4-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">in the European construction...</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-4972726587440084972008-02-14T18:56:00.001+00:002008-02-14T18:57:34.260+00:00We could start<a href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10689567">by having a reasonable and sound business model that does not start by delusional assumptions...</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-50131291879169867362008-02-08T18:29:00.000+00:002008-02-08T18:30:51.443+00:00a geography<a href="http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10650727">for a recession... </a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-75197949513212943902008-02-03T21:25:00.001+00:002008-02-28T19:36:04.119+00:00Wisdom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eLbgH13Ofb91hLpwEozbyt-560bSRrL3hpPtHwD_PQ5FG3uYmq9LBj5U0x2Ygun2DTxC4sCANAOuyKthBd_16_w1uM_Th18zQAEoHxcm5AGHJdBvjRM8pNwSw7lLusgP3kKCx4PrNCk/s1600-h/wisdom-of-crowds2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eLbgH13Ofb91hLpwEozbyt-560bSRrL3hpPtHwD_PQ5FG3uYmq9LBj5U0x2Ygun2DTxC4sCANAOuyKthBd_16_w1uM_Th18zQAEoHxcm5AGHJdBvjRM8pNwSw7lLusgP3kKCx4PrNCk/s320/wisdom-of-crowds2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162868466425263026" /></a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-49336902046749343642008-01-28T21:46:00.000+00:002008-01-28T21:51:06.951+00:00I am telling my kids to study mathsapparently there could be a correlation between having good grades at math and being able to make an honorable and decent living ..... but again ....<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510834&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490">maybe I am fooling my kids ....they do not need to study math after all....</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-14557680954733266882008-01-27T19:06:00.000+00:002008-01-27T19:12:22.980+00:00transformer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Pamjs7Gc7zFTM2sCKgfJb30kcTcOs48XXRIgrmRDgoj18IKvh0GwoRx_PojwWpc3Lr_tvrWFxog2cdBER_YLPv81T0KSFi6_3ktiwsVh6HHHNtkKARaj6D8idpcJILs3CXwNmYRJmmM/s1600-h/1434144-1983919863.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Pamjs7Gc7zFTM2sCKgfJb30kcTcOs48XXRIgrmRDgoj18IKvh0GwoRx_PojwWpc3Lr_tvrWFxog2cdBER_YLPv81T0KSFi6_3ktiwsVh6HHHNtkKARaj6D8idpcJILs3CXwNmYRJmmM/s320/1434144-1983919863.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160236300012876434" /></a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-71592475086365255092008-01-24T16:05:00.000+00:002008-01-24T16:06:48.683+00:00now that's what one can call<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html">clarity....</a>....Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-4986418292855502502008-01-23T11:25:00.000+00:002008-01-23T11:27:59.584+00:00the giant clitoris<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/ehrenreich">Desperately Seeking Stimulus</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-5963977795676771692008-01-17T09:57:00.000+00:002008-01-17T10:02:47.089+00:00every year's ritual<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVn9D385qGP5JKFnFqZ0DrrV3iEIBTJoqyqrtot6CrsC1OxT0eQ0_b-6j58Sl9WtJ0bwfa5fL20-FF_2p8cU7x9drGivK3AUhdF43y1rOYbisQWUtfAr-xhuYT6fXeyf2WuG-4WigxsxY/s1600-h/1200515499365jobsdn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVn9D385qGP5JKFnFqZ0DrrV3iEIBTJoqyqrtot6CrsC1OxT0eQ0_b-6j58Sl9WtJ0bwfa5fL20-FF_2p8cU7x9drGivK3AUhdF43y1rOYbisQWUtfAr-xhuYT6fXeyf2WuG-4WigxsxY/s200/1200515499365jobsdn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156383792684853602" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.publico.es/ciencias/tecnologia/037886/apple/lado/oscuro/triunfador">gone to the dogs this time.... </a>... bitter disappointment or unrealistic times? why would these people feed the expectation of having something to stagger and stun every year? this competition mode is paranoiac......Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851755739691925202.post-79925279162992246912008-01-10T15:42:00.000+00:002008-01-10T15:47:33.212+00:00better be prepared....<a href="http://www.publico.es/035579/solbes/vacasflacas"> "vacas flacas" are coming....</a>Piotr Kropotkinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763813010734207348noreply@blogger.com0