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> Économiste hollandais envoyé par l'ONU pour industrialiser Singapour
> Recommande d'enfermer les communistes et de ne pas déboulonner les monuments coloniaux
> Industrialisation par les exportations et les capitaux étrangers
> Devient le pays le plus développé d'Asie
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Les journalistes ont-ils l'intention de s'interroger sur cet immense échec de leur profession ?
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El economista Wilhelm Röpke sobre en qué consistió el llamado “milagro alemán” de 1948. Básicamente consistió en:
Libertad en el sector de bienes y servicios y disciplina en el sector dinero. Es decir, fin de la inflación y supresión del aparato coactivo económico.
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Really interesting (and worrying) polling on French pensions
The electorate estimates that for every pensioner we have 6 workers.
In reality it's 1.8/1... Even in 1960s we weren't close to 6/1.
Melenchon's supporters think its 13/1.
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Qui se souvient quand Pierre-Yves Rougeyron se trouvait dans la seconde tour le 11 septembre 2001 et qu'il a quand même continué sa conférence sur l'Allemagne malgré le choc du premier avion ?
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C’est faux. Le président ukrainien parlait alors d’un référendum dans l’ensemble de l’Ukraine et non pas seulement dans les territoires occupés, comme vous le suggérez.
Alors ? Le Monde, Libération, Barrot et compagnie ? Plus ukrainien que Zelensky ? Travaillez un peu sérieusement même si pour me nuire vous êtes capables de suicider votre réputation. Elle est belle l'officialité médiatique ! Les Guignols de l'info, les vrais.
👉️️ rtl.fr/actu/international/gu…
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Reading a chapter on the Spanish economic crisis of the 70s-80s and there's a bit where Felipe González is super excited to enact traditional left economic policy responses to inflation, etc., and then he sees Mitterrand's attempts imploding, so he decides 'nevermind'
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Il ne debunke rien. Sur la question ukrainienne il y a un problème dans le programme qu’il ne veut pas reconnaître et son tweet le confirme.
Zelensky envisageait un scrutin NATIONAL sur le sujet. JLM, lui, une consultation régionale, dans un territoire occupé, vidé de réfugiés…
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1. France’s public debt is now 119% of its GDP and interest is heading towards ~€120 billion a year. To lower the age for receiving pensions would necessitate more borrowing to pay off more bondholders, leaving less money to spend on hospitals or schools
2. The idea that military spending crowds out social spending in France is ridiculous: 14% of France’s GDP is spent on pensions, about 1% is spent on military spending
3. Pensioners in France already make more than young workers in France on average, before you institute a lowered pension age. Increasing the amount of pensioners forces money by people under 30 to be redistributed to people who already have a higher standard of living than them
4. Creditors have already downgraded France’s debt due to its current pension age. Lowering it even further would risk either severe austerity cuts or total economic collapse as all international creditors and bondholders give up on France
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Both the Soviet leap of the 1930s and the later growth of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong were primarily explained not by some special miracle of the system or unique efficiency, but by a rather banal mobilization of resources, combined with a very high rate of capital
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Btw, if anyone is interested, there is an article written by nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called «The myth of Asia's miracle», In it, he examined the phenomenal growth of the asian tigers and drew a direct parallel with Stalin's USSR. His main conclusion was that
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Path of catch-up development that many countries followed in the 20th century. The only difference is that the tigers did it noticeably more efficiently, at a much lower human cost, and with better long-term results in terms of productivity
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Accumulation, reinforced by a massive transfer of labor from the countryside to industry, as well as growth in employment and education. Iow, the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s is not proof of the superiority of socialism, but a fairly typical, and rather harsh
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The extremely high economic growth of the USSR during the periods of forced industrialization, was not something unique. It was a typical consequence of resource mobilization, the transfer of labor from the countryside to the cities, and a high rate of capital accumulation
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Both the left-wing government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain and the far-right government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary introduced price controls on energy and other essentials (food in Hungary, rents in Spain) during the inflation surge that followed the pandemic.
The efficacy of those measures aside, it’s a good reminder that the relationship between economic policy and political orientation can be complicated.
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being disgusted by Islamic fundamentalism is Islamophobia now, incredible lol
