Entries categorized as finanzkrise

Finanzkrise: Filmdokumentation

28.02.2009 / 6 Kommentare

englischsprachig, ca. 1 Std:
Many Americans still don’t understand what has happened to the economy,” FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk says. “How did it all go so bad so quickly? Who is responsible? How effective has the response from Washington and Wall Street been? Those are the questions at the heart of Inside the Meltdown
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Finanzkrise visualisiert

27.02.2009 / 5 Kommentare

ein Student namens Jonathan Jarvis vom Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California hat sich die Mühe gemacht:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo

via Gründerszene

IMF: Zinsanreize reichen bald nicht mehr aus

10.02.2009 / 9 Kommentare

Aussage von Dominique Strauss-Kahn, der in leitender Position beim Internationalen Währungsfond arbeitet (zur Person):

Ten days ago, the IMF cut its world-growth estimate for this year to 0.5 percent, the weakest pace since World War II. Stimulus packages alone won’t succeed in dragging the global economy out of recession unless confidence is restored in the banking system, Strauss-Kahn said today. …

We’re probably not very far from the point where the question of interest rates is not the most important question,” Strauss-Kahn said. “Providing direct liquidity to the market, restructuring the banking sector, may have more influence on demand than interest rates.”

Es wird eine noch “witzigere” Achterbahnfahrt als bisher? Es hört sich ganz danach so an.

Detailiertere Einlassungen zu Strauss-Kahns Vorschlägen findet Ihr auf der IMF-Seite.