tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699625927833654072024-03-05T14:27:08.018+07:00Economy PassionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569962592783365407.post-73114736199807852172009-07-30T19:29:00.000+07:002009-07-30T19:31:08.454+07:00USA economy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNEhZU0DmwPzKFsIhMCvrGGCeUyJHjtHqG7acghlbygFlvqaT-poJ4ZbspnESbqN4sw0Y0aKRQhC-pjI8sJ0fM5LhmJM49D8S3XkNMM37v8Nen33C5gRugJdHbgp4TN1aQH_tSJetGGI/s1600-h/USA+z.about.com"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNNEhZU0DmwPzKFsIhMCvrGGCeUyJHjtHqG7acghlbygFlvqaT-poJ4ZbspnESbqN4sw0Y0aKRQhC-pjI8sJ0fM5LhmJM49D8S3XkNMM37v8Nen33C5gRugJdHbgp4TN1aQH_tSJetGGI/s400/USA+z.about.com" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364229571670193458" /></a> z.about.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569962592783365407.post-73611963759868850722009-05-18T05:43:00.002+07:002009-05-18T05:46:03.724+07:00Berlusconi sulla crisi finanziaria internazionale: “Sono sereno come, immagino, la gran parte degli italiani”<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0NZlzgAW4ch3tE7ftIVEYA9U6nQRrVoHgix5q2tWSBsCeVI6_B0WDP-I34FgTLaAplv3NPe9b0xfjgYmSRF8TYtncljqV4ER1qWBH__rl37oYXk-j8DLBBgqcvF2UyUuJsmxlgw2GAFw/s1600-h/Berlusconi+Piano+salvataggio+current.com"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0NZlzgAW4ch3tE7ftIVEYA9U6nQRrVoHgix5q2tWSBsCeVI6_B0WDP-I34FgTLaAplv3NPe9b0xfjgYmSRF8TYtncljqV4ER1qWBH__rl37oYXk-j8DLBBgqcvF2UyUuJsmxlgw2GAFw/s400/Berlusconi+Piano+salvataggio+current.com" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336927799745040994" /></a> current.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569962592783365407.post-49018051432423492022009-03-29T11:06:00.004+07:002009-03-29T11:11:29.481+07:00George Soros: Britain may have to seek IMF rescue<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9V_6evqoGWZ15SC5yJQIREPUd_eWcbgzj-OVTxGCkvre6pQfUoCHMSx_bZMzQ3-wXYCd8sZ45rDDatGiqhD-ykuDtlqh3oKMnt_0p_4oCfVPV-X2mKUZIYCig5lBMvUajjjleliH3qr4/s1600-h/london+www.abc.net.a.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9V_6evqoGWZ15SC5yJQIREPUd_eWcbgzj-OVTxGCkvre6pQfUoCHMSx_bZMzQ3-wXYCd8sZ45rDDatGiqhD-ykuDtlqh3oKMnt_0p_4oCfVPV-X2mKUZIYCig5lBMvUajjjleliH3qr4/s400/london+www.abc.net.a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318456794332465938" /></a><br />Britain may have to go to the IMF for a huge financial bailout, the influential investor George Soros warns today. <br />The man who made $1 billion on Black Wednesday in 1992 told The Times that Britain was particularly vulnerable to the economic crisis. <br />Mr Soros – speaking days after an auction of government bonds failed for the first time in 14 years, ringing alarm bells about Britain’s ability to fund its growing debts – said that Gordon Brown might have to go begging for billions of pounds in international aid. He also warned that next week’s G20 summit in London was the last chance to avert a full-scale depression that could prove worse than that in the 1930s. <br />“You have a problem that the banking system is bigger than the economy . . . so for Britain to absorb it alone would really pile up the debt,” he said. Asked about the chances of Britain having to seek help from the International Monetary Fund, he said that if the banking system continued to collapse, it was “a possibility”. At this stage, he added, it was “not a likelihood”. <br />He was not optimistic about the G20 meeting, saying the odds were that it would fail because there were so many differences of opinion. The price could be years of economic devastation worse than the Great Depression. “It is really a make-or-break occasion.” <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTcXwaBIecHtlHr2yMH9ptb-9tniikkkcmPGvuEQKGDBjMGohWK4mdlVLCoYyjBnPGtYz0nwVLrAtfJQDEi8VfVI90gmtVpik9V-Qqkn01ixjc5lqe2HknYYyyrYb6XLYsYicdIoLFH4/s1600-h/Soros+media.washingtontimes.com"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTcXwaBIecHtlHr2yMH9ptb-9tniikkkcmPGvuEQKGDBjMGohWK4mdlVLCoYyjBnPGtYz0nwVLrAtfJQDEi8VfVI90gmtVpik9V-Qqkn01ixjc5lqe2HknYYyyrYb6XLYsYicdIoLFH4/s320/Soros+media.washingtontimes.com" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318456950220404338" /></a><br />It would be a disaster if the meeting were allowed to turn into a talking shop, he said. “It’s not enough to state general principles. You’ve got to come up with practical measures that are going to provide protection to the developing world, periphery countries, against a storm that originated from the centre, against a calamity that is not of their own making.” <br />He spoke amid more gloom over the British economy after official figures showed that output shrank by a worse-than-expected 1.6 per cent in the final three months of 2008. It was the biggest fall since April-June 1980. <br />Mr Soros refused to blame Mr Brown for failing to prevent the crisis. “He underestimated the severity of the problem but so did most people. Part of the perceived role of a leader is to cheerlead so you can’t really blame him for that.” <br />Britain has not sought IMF help since 1976 when, with inflation approaching 27 per cent, Denis Healey, then the Chancellor, applied for a loan, shredding confidence in the Labour Government. <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">(March 28, 2009 -Alice Thomson, Rachel Sylvester and Philip Webster - http://business.timesonline.co.uk)</span><br />(picture: www.abc.net - media.washingtontimes.com)<span style="font-style:italic;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569962592783365407.post-91821277364020416922009-03-23T18:01:00.004+07:002009-03-30T07:29:28.673+07:00the Islamic World meet in Jakarta for the 5th World Islamic Economic Forum<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mZPcI7L5B3w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mZPcI7L5B3w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569962592783365407.post-12508191684818760252009-03-23T17:39:00.002+07:002009-03-30T07:27:45.764+07:00Capitalism Etymologi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4vh0qqPOQnK7VPcUZBwifIbR5kcvFL8axIfu0CN1BYRg19CkixPAzuWuTuv4A-0tT5bYP9buXPAHxY4eTVviZAHLUhVXg3IAmi0Il-ifihCHXt8wDkOft6li8dL3jo_1svtnzgE9rj8/s1600-h/capitalism7kp+img328.imageshack.us.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4vh0qqPOQnK7VPcUZBwifIbR5kcvFL8axIfu0CN1BYRg19CkixPAzuWuTuv4A-0tT5bYP9buXPAHxY4eTVviZAHLUhVXg3IAmi0Il-ifihCHXt8wDkOft6li8dL3jo_1svtnzgE9rj8/s200/capitalism7kp+img328.imageshack.us.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316343379674383602" /></a><br />The etymology of the word capital has roots in the trade and ownership of animals. The Latin root of the capital is capitalis, from the proto-Indo-European kaput, which means "head", this being how wealth was measured. The terms chattel and cattle itself also derive from this same origin.<br />According to the Oxford English Dictionary, capitalism was first used by novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1854, by which he meant by having ownership of capital. Arthur Young first used the term capitalist of his economic surveys in his work Travels in France (1792). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, used capitalist in his work Table Talk (1823), and Benjamin Disraeli used capitalist in the 1845 work Sybil.<br />Pierre-Joseph Proudhon used capitalist is his first work What is Property? (1840) to refer to the owners of capital. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels also used capitalist (Kapitalist) as a private owner of capital in The Communist Manifesto (1848), and referred the capitalistic system (kapitalistischen System) to the capitalist mode of production (kapitalistische Produktionsform) in Das Kapital (1867). Marx's notion of the capitalist mode of production is characterised as a system of primarily private ownership of the means of production in a mainly market economy, with a legal framework on commerce and a physical infrastructure provided by the state.<br />According to the OED, Carl Adolph Douai, a German-American socialist and abolitionist, used private capitalism in 1863. A work entitled Better Times (1877) and an unknown author in 1884 of the Pall Mall Gazette also used capitalism.<br />However, the first use of capitalism to describe the production system was the German economist Werner Sombart, in his 1902 book The Jews and Modern Capitalism (Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben). Sombart's close friend and colleague, Max Weber, also used capitalism in his 1904 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus).<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">(wikipedia)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0