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Causes of the global crisis:
Coincidence of many global factors synchronisation of business cycles worldwide
Economic Financial Political Institutional
Czech Specifics:
- Balanced financial system financed by deposits rather than by foreign funds
- Sound non-financial sector and households (in total, financial assets and liabilities, indebtedness, etc.)
- External balance (trade surplus, modest current account deficit)
- Negligible share of toxic assets in domestic financial system (less than 1% of total assets)
- High ability for rapid supervisory action (tested in practice and by Société Générale hiccup)
The macroeconomic situations in Hungary, Iceland, or Belgium have shown that countries and their financial markets have been suffering from crisis no matter whether they are a member of the Euro zone or not
National currency obviously no guarantee against the crisis.
The point is to have reasonable and stable economic policy and prudential approach of domestic regulation.
Without it you cannot have stable economic environment disregarding whether the country is inside or outside the Euro zone.
President-elect Barack Obama will name former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers the director of his National Economic Council, placing the Harvard University economist he passed over for Treasury secretary inside the White House as his closest economic adviser, Democratic officials said Saturday night.
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Obama with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in July.
The move came as the president-elect prepares Monday to introduce his new Treasury secretary nominee, Timothy Geithner, and the rest of his economic team at an event in Chicago Monday.
Among those on stage will be Mr. Summers, who was central to his campaign's economic team and is now leading efforts to draft a massive economic stimulus plan the president-elect hopes to sign into law as one of his first acts as the nation's leader.
Mr. Obama has instructed his economic advisers to draft a stimulus that could dwarf the $175 billion version he campaigned on, stretching it over two years and pushing to create 2.5 million new jobs with it.
Lawrence Summers
The plan, with its extended time horizon, could also push back planned tax increases on families earning over $250,000 from a planned 2010 start date to 2011, when they are set to expire in current law, economists familiar with the effort say.
"I have already directed my economic team to come up with an Economic Recovery Plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011 -- a plan big enough to meet the challenges we face that I intend to sign soon after taking office," Mr. Obama said in his Saturday radio address.
The plan he campaigned on was supposed to be large enough to create one million new jobs, though aides cautioned a final price tag could not be determined simply by more than doubling the initial $175 billion figure. Experts have called for economic infusions anywhere from $300 billion to $500 billion, a range that Obama aides are working within.
V jedne z poslednich, nazvane Havlův růst růstu, polemizuje s kritikou ekonomickeho rustu:
Bývalý prezident Václav Havel se rád zlobí na hospodářský růst, resp. růst jako takový. Naposledy tak učinil při besedě v Brně, kterou otiskly Lidové noviny. Havel zde mluvil o „růstu růstu“ a ptal se proč musíme stále růst, když je nás pořád stejně. Taky si myslí, že se fenomén růstu bojí kdokoli kritizovat, už to prý nečiní ani strana zelených.
Růst si ale lze představit i nefinančně, filozofičtěji. Je totiž inherentně zakotven v lidské povaze i společnosti. Srovnejme si to s dialogem. Normální lidé (nikoli někteří čeští politici a novináři) vstupují do diskuse nikoli proto, aby se vzájemně zničili, nýbrž proto, aby debata vedla k vzájemnému obohacení.
Podobně je to v obchodě. Lidé nevstupují do obchodních transakcí proto, aby jeden druhého okradl. Na konci úspěšné obchodní transakce jsou obohaceni oba (nebo více aktérů). Růst si můžeme „nefinančně“ představit tak, že když hospodářství roste, proběhne v ekonomice více transakcí, které vedou k obohacení aktérů. Když hospodářství klesá, přibývá transakcí, které jsou pro jednu nebo obě strany nakonec nevýhodné (a frustrující).
Měl-li ale Havel na mysli především nekontrolovatelný růst měst, skladišť, překladišť a aglomerací laciných šmoulodomů, lze mu dát jen za pravdu. A bývalý prezident je koneckonců „povoláním“ absurdní dramatik, nikoli tvůrce bezchybných logických systémů a nenapadnutelných tvrzení. Může se mýlit, ale stačí když zůstává inspirativní.


and another one:INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything
from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn
produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints
of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake... INTJs are known as
the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the
unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an
INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an
INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play...
Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles
heel... This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social
rituals... Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really
want people to make sense.
INTJs are strong individualists who seek new angles or novel ways of looking at things. They enjoy coming to new understandings. They tend to be insightful and mentally quick; however, this mental quickness may not always be outwardly apparent to others since they keep a great deal to themselves. They are very determined people who trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of what others think. They may even be considered the most independent of all of the sixteen personality types. INTJs are at their best in quietly and firmly developing their ideas, theories, and principles.
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Inflation rates are expected to continue to decline in the coming months, reaching a level in line with price stability during the course of 2009. The intensification and broadening of the financial market turmoil is likely to dampen global and euro area demand for a rather protracted period of time.
Ex post evidentně šlo o mnohem sofistikovanější
formu hry „letadlo“
V podnikové sféře budou silné tlaky na zeštíhlování a fúze
Česká ekonomika výrazně zpomalí a její růst
bude několik let nízký; inflace klesne během tří
měsíců na nízké hodnoty a setrvá na nich


Joe, as an academic, you are a towering genius. Like your fellow Nobel Prize winner, John Nash, you have a "beautiful mind." As a policymaker, however, you were just a bit less impressive
