Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2009
Recently German media often discusses about the pension system. People from different parties debated heavily. Many people want so-called retirement-pension-guarantee. In my opinion, the retirement pension system in Germany, which was designed in 1950’s, is totally out of the reality of the current highly dynamic, highly competitive, and globalized economic. In Germany, young people pay [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
Actually I wanted to write this entry a while ago, because of my laziness and online-shopping impulses it’s postponed till now.
June 15th to June 19th was German students’ “protest week” this year. Many students from all over the Germany, from primary pupils to university students, went to streets and protested against bad hardware conditions [...]
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Posted in China on Jul 27th, 2008
I heard that Shanghai is going to build yet another Disneyland which would cost around 4 billion euros. And, an artificial lake which costs 50 million euros is already being built in Shanghai, seems the main purpose is to boost the price of real estates around the lake.
I don’t feel happy to hear these [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2008
Source: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,554273,00.html
English Translation Bot: Google Translate
Translation Correction and Editing: Ellen N. Zhao
Original German text in black and English translation in blue.
Politikprofessor Kishore Mahbubani, 59, über die Zukunft der Demokratie in Asien, das überhebliche Auftreten des Westens und die verheerenden Auswirkungen von Guantanamo auf die Menschenrechtsdiskussion.
Politics Professor Kishore Mahbubani, 59, on the future of democracy in [...]
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The Wise: Helmut Schmidt, ex. Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. The talk below was on 2008.05.20. When I get time I’ll try to translate it into English.
The complete interview can be found here.
If only Angela Merkel were as half as wise as Helmut Schmidt is, Germany would have much less problems now. [...]
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Posted in China, economics, investment, politics on May 14th, 2008
Sniff:
Jim Rogers: China’s Economic Advance is All But Unstoppable Recently I was reading a 20-year-old book “Market Widzards: Interviews with Top Traders” and was deeply impressed by Jim Roger’s accurate prediction for the world economics in late 1980s. More impressive was his way of viewing the world economics. Now let’s see what he said about [...]
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