B92 piše u naslovima da studenti "beže" iz Srbije, da je Tadić "jači" od Beka, Blic nam "medicinski" opisuje da je privreda "organizam". I to su slučajevi samo od danas.
Znaci navoda ne samo da nisu potrebni, nego vam upropaste i metaforu.
I was amazed to learn that it takes about 150 gallons of water to produce a single Sunday newspaper!
I wonder how many Sunday newspapers have carried op-eds about the need to conserve water?
What do the government of China, the government of Germany and the Republican Party have in common? They’re all trying to bully the Federal Reserve into calling off its efforts to create jobs.
Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues seem stunned to find themselves in the cross hairs. They thought they were acting in the spirit of none other than Milton Friedman, who blamed the Fed for not acting more forcefully during the Great Depression — and who, in 1998, called on the Bank of Japan to “buy government bonds on the open market,” exactly what the Fed is now doing.
Prvo, razvijene zemlje su u osnovi eksprorirale atmosferu svetskoj zajednici. Ali, moramo jasno reći da mi u stvari vršimo redistribuciju svetskog bogatstva putem klimatske politike. Moramo se osloboditi iluzije da međunarodna klimatska politika ima ikakve veze sa envajornmetalističkom politikom. To više nema nikakve veze sa ekološkom politikom, sa stvarima poput krčenja šuma ili ozonske rupe
Opsesija austrijanaca Fedom, monetarnom politikom i zlatnim standardom dolazi, dakle, od ignorisanja sadašnjosti i svih stvari koje su se desile od vremena kad je Mises izlagao svoje teorije.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
Raspravljali smo o raspodeli dohotka i da li bi trebalo da postoji progresivni porez na dohodak. Neki ljudi su iskazivali mišljenje da postoji opravdanje za tako nešto.
Sa najdubljim gnušanjem odbacujemo optužbe protiv predsednika DSS i smatramo da je prevršena svaka mera u primitivnoj kampanji koja se neprestano vodi protiv DSS.
Samo moralno posrnulo i izopačeno biće kao što je advokat Srđa Popović, branilac ustaškog doglavnika Artukovića, može da se odvaži na tako dijaboličan i bezuman čin, da projektuje sebe i optužuje druge za dela za koja bi jedino on sam bio kadar.
Samo najgora vrsta podstrekača na ubijanje Srba kao što je advokat Popović, koji je potpisao zahtev da se bombarduju njegov rodni grad beograd i Srbija, može da pere svoju prljavu savest tako što lažno optužuje nevine ljude. DSS sa potpunim prezirom razobličava moralnu nakaznost advokata Popovića i najoštrije osuđuje raspirivača ove gnusobne histerije.
An ‘automatic’ gold currency is part and parcel of a laissez-faire and free-trade economy. It links every nation’s money rates and price levels with the money-rates and price levels of all the other nations that are ‘on gold.’ It is extremely sensitive to government expenditure and even to attitudes or policies that do not involve expenditure directly, for example, to foreign policy, to certain policies of taxation, and, in general, to precisely all those policies that violate the principles of [classical] liberalism. This is the reason why gold is so unpopular now and also why it was so popular in a bourgeois era. It imposes restrictions upon governments or bureaucracies that are much more powerful than is parliamentary criticism. It is both the badge and the guarantee of bourgeois freedom—of freedom not simply of the bourgeois interest, but of freedom in the bourgeois sense. From this standpoint a man may quite rationally fight for it, even if fully convinced of the validity of all that has ever been urged against it on economic grounds. From the standpoint of etatisme and planning, a man may not less rationally condemn it, even if fully convinced of the validity of all that has ever been urged for it on economic grounds.
Penzijski sistem u Srbiji treba da ostane obavezan i organizovan/ administriran od strane države u cilju ostvarenja oba cilja – obezbeđenje i apsolutnog i relativnog životnog standarda. Ovo pre svega važi za prosečnog radnika i one koji zarađuju oko proseka. Za deo prihoda koji je značajno iznad proseka, održanje prhoda u starosti treba da se više osloni na dobrovoljno osiguranje i štednju, a za one koji su ispod proseka potrebno je još dodatno, van penzijskog osiguranja, ali naravno u okviru državnog sektora, obezbediti ostvarenje apsolutnog životnog standarda
Osnovni problem finansiranja penzija je prihodna strana – visoka nezaposlenost i neuplaćivanje doprinosa na punu zaradu. Potrebno je poboljšati naplatu doprinosa i prijavljivanje pune osnovnice.
There is an "otherness" about Mr. Obama, the sense that he is somehow not truly American. "Birthers" doubt that he was born on American soil. Others believe that he is secretly a Muslim, or in quiet simpatico with his old friends, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, now icons of American radicalism.
But Barack Obama is not an "other" so much as he is a child of the 1960s. His coming of age paralleled exactly the unfolding of a new "counterculture" American identity. And this new American identity—and the post-1960s liberalism it spawned—is grounded in a remarkable irony: bad faith in America as virtue itself, bad faith in the classic American identity of constitutional freedom and capitalism as the way to a better America. So Mr. Obama is very definitely an American, and he has a broad American constituency. He is simply the first president we have seen grounded in this counterculture American identity. When he bows to foreign leaders, he is not displaying "otherness" but the counterculture Americanism of honorable self-effacement in which America acknowledges its own capacity for evil as prelude to engagement.
Petorica policajaca brutalno su pretukla Nikolu Šešelja (26), sina lidera radikala Vojislava Šešelja, jer je ilegalno igrao poker!
"Zašto se MMF toliko bavi budžetom, meni nikada nije bilo jasno. Posebno je nejasna opsednutost fiskalnim deficitom..."
Though the state no longer enforces laws that restrict the sale of imitation butter, the penalties could still make those who sell illegal dairy products spend up to a month in jail and pay a $100 fine for first-time offenders, and the punishment for repeat offenders is six months in jail and a $500 fine, according to a 2008 Associated Press report.
The law was likely put into practice to protect Missouri’s dairy industry from imitation butter in the early 20th century, according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture.
George thinks he has been offered a job, but the man offering it to him got interrupted in the middle of the offer, and will be on vacation for the next week. George, unsure whether an offer has actually been extended, decides that his best strategy is to show up. If the job was indeed his, this is the right move. But even if the job is not, he believes that the benefits outweigh the costs.
Jerry's car is stolen, so he rents a car. The rental company doesn't give him the car he reserved; he gets a small economy car. They ask if he wants insurance, and he replies, “Yes, because I'm going to beat the hell out of this car.”
Slavisa Tasic, of the University of Kiev, wrote a paper recently for the Istituto Bruno Leoni in Italy about this omission. He argues that market participants are not the only ones who make mistakes, yet he notes drily that "in the mainstream economic literature there is a near complete absence of concern that regulatory design might suffer from lack of competence." Public servants are human, too.
Mr. Tasic identifies five mistakes that government regulators often make: action bias, motivated reasoning, the focusing illusion, the affect heuristic and illusions of competence. ...
When the recession came, Sweden was badly hurt, as one would expect from an export-orientated economy trading with a stricken continent. But the damage was limited because Sweden had properly regulated financial institutions (having been stung by a serious financial crisis in the 1990s. Banks which had embarked on misadventures in the Baltic cleaned up their own mess. The government entered the recession with a surplus. A Gordon Brown figure would have been impossible in Sweden because its laws prohibit politicians running up the national debt in boom years.
Like most of Europe, Sweden launched a stimulus, but Reinfeldt set aside two thirds of his for a tax cut. Corporation tax fell from 28 per cent to 26.3 per cent, taxes on jobs were cut further still while income tax thresholds were raised. Determined not to let a crisis go to waste, he declared the tax cuts permanent. So while Brown was planning to increase National Insurance, the Swedes were doing the reverse and explaining why. 'If you tax work higher, you will get fewer people in work,' said the education minister, Jan Björklund. 'But if you tax work less you will get more in work.' This was a battle of ideas, and it was a battle that Reinfeldt and his coalition allies were winning.
In fact, the only real economic policy today that has any chance of working in the United States today is to promote the emergence of small business. Many of those businesses will fail; some will become thriving though never large enterprises; a few will become world-changing giants like Microsoft and Google.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the policies needed to support the emergence of an entrepreneurial, small-business-fueled society are almost the opposite of the classical policies that 20th-century Democratic ideology supports. Large business usually welcomes government intervention in the economy — if only because large businesses have the power to influence the government policies that affect them most directly. Regulations that raise the cost of entry into the market (everything from minimum wage laws, extensive paperwork requirements, taxes, environmental regulations, health care and other social mandates) benefit well-capitalized, large firms who thrive on economies of scale by making it hard for feisty newcomers to emerge and challenge existing product lines and business models.
The grand strategy of Democratic policy in the 20th century was to use the confluence of interests between big established business and organized labor to set up a nationally regulated marketplace that served major interests of both groups. That strategy for all its shortcomings arguably once served the national interest better than any conceivable alternative. Now, it’s a recipe for economic disaster in the long run, and for electoral failure next month.
EU “progress” on greenhouse gasses in the last twenty years was a mirage. And the only reason that the EU can pretend to look green is that it was outsourcing economic growth to countries like China. Those 95 US senators were totally right; twenty years of the Kyoto Protocol have brought the world twenty years of rising greenhouse gas emissions and twenty years of job migration to low wage, low regulation havens in the Third World.
It is extremely rare for 95 US senators to be right about anything; it is not, unfortunately, rare for environmentalists to come up with grotesquely bad policy ideas.
As a radical teenager growing up in the midst of the anti-Vietnam War movement I had always figured that since the government was lying to us about so much in Indochina, maybe they were lying about communism as well. The Pol Pot genocide? That, the radical leaders of the young boomer generation told us, was a natural and regrettable consequence of America’s interference in Cambodia. We had destabilized Cambodia; naturally, there was a genocide now — and it was really our fault, much more than the communists’. And it was probably overreported anyway, and at least some of the people killed had probably done some bad things. And episodes like that could simply not be compared to the moral horror that was Nazism. I had my doubts, but they said it with great conviction. And Richard Nixon really was a bad guy. Why shouldn’t the genocide also be his fault? As a kid, I really, really wanted the world to make sense.
By the time I reached the Soviet border, a lot of that early left-wing soft sympathy for communism had fallen away. Driving through the wasted urban landscapes of central and eastern Europe, it was hard to avoid noticing that the evil capitalist pigs were actually much nicer to the environment than the enlightened and idealistic socialist workers had managed to be. The filth of late-communist Poland was hard to take; I stood outside Krakow one day in a beautiful field by the side of the road, with a fresh breeze blowing through the grass. I took a deep breath and nearly choked; it was like standing directly behind the exhaust pipe of a big, dirty bus. The air in that part of Poland was so polluted that kids used to have to go down to the salt mines, hundreds of feet below the earth’s surface, to get something approaching fresh air....
As in Yugoslavia, I got to know people who were nerving themselves up to massacre their neighbors and drive innocent people out of their homes. I saw how the worst nationalistic paranoias and chauvinisms raged unchecked under Soviet rule — while in the capitalist west most Europeans had left that murderous claptrap behind long ago. Communism, it seemed to me then and still seems to me now, is not the opposite of fascism: it is fascism’s blood-brother, its complementary twin. The two live together in a vicious symbiotic relationship; scratch a Red and you’ll find a Brown. Better yet, scratch either one deeply enough and you will find a Black: someone so caught up in the will to power that crimes and atrocities don’t even count anymore.