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De opstand van de Amerikaanse bankklant
(hattip Cor Hendriks) ( Vertaling in het Frans op een andere blog ) Amerika is in de ban van de strijd van een klant tegen haar instelling, Bank of America. Haar debetrente werd fors opgetrokken tot maar liefst 30%. Nochtans betaalde ze haar afbetalingen steeds op tijd, en had ze geen slechte schuldhistorie. De ...
Like it's 2003
(My emphasis) Fed Statement December 2003 : "In those circumstances, the Committee believed that policy accommodation could be maintained for a considerable period ." Fed Statement November 2009: "In these circumstances, the Federal Reserve will continue to employ a wide range of tools to promote economic ...
Talent gefnuikt door bureaucratie - update
Hoe ver is het gekomen ? Het is tekenend voor ons land dat een toptalent dat in de hele wereld wordt bewonderd, door een bureaucatische procedure wordt gefnuikt.
"Godsman Sachs"
When I read this Reuters' news story , I thougt it was a joke: (full interview here , thanks lvb) LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Goldman Sachs, which has attracted widespread media attention over the size of its staff bonuses, believes banks serve a social purpose and are doing "God's ...
Trends in tax
The economic crisis will have important consequences for taxation in the coming years. In an exclusive presentation for the 500 Deloitte & Laga specialists, we elaborated on the trends for the coming years.
Green Corner
We will start a seperate blog with "Green/Energy" subjects. You will find these posts on the "Green Corner". The main contributors will be Heleen Van Hoof and Geert Noels.Heleen is a Civil Engineer and is a green consultant in the Econopolis Team. You will hear more from the extension of the Econopolis-team very soon.
Willem Buiter believes gold is worth nothing (zero, nihil)
That's a statement, Willem Buiter in the Financial Times: G old is a six thousand year-old-bubble.















