Category Archives: economics

The facts about bottled water

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: August 6, 2010
Currently living in what I’m guessing is the most bottlewaterfriendly country (DE)  in the world that has probably as good or better tap water than what is in the bottles I just have to post this visual that I stumbled upon: Presented by Online Education
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Fortfarande grym …

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: June 22, 2010
Jag har alltid tyckt Göran Persson varit en av de duktigaste debattörer vi haft, här den senaste jag sett när han i första minuten får det till att krisen i Europe beror på för låga skatter och att anledningen till att EU länderna “nästan” (hehe, högre skulle jag säga i DE undantaget skolan ) nått [...]
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Visionslöst Sverige i valet 2010

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: April 28, 2010
Valet 2010 har jag försökt följa så gott jag kan via webben och SVTplay, min bild hittils är ungefär: Aldrig har partierna exklusive VP tyckt så lika angående fördelningspolitiken undantaget kanske förmögenhetsskatt. Aldrig har debatten fokuserat så mycket på just fördelningspolitik Jobb jobb jobb, vi måste få flera jobb Jag kanske har en felaktig bild [...]
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Spiegel Cover Nr. 33 – Netz

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: August 13, 2009
After a certain trial the debate regarding a free vs controlled net has pretty much exploded here in Germany. Here the front cover from Der Spiegel nr 33.
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The Pirate Bay Verdict

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: April 18, 2009
The Pirate Bay Verdict has fallen and its clear that the judges was influenced by the government and they in turn by the old world copyright lobbyists. The debate regarding copyright is not an easy one. If it was possible for eg an artist to say; “I don’t want my music shared on the internet” [...]
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link: Is There Such A Thing As A Blue Chip Stock Anymore?

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: March 3, 2009
Is There Such A Thing As A Blue Chip Stock Anymore? via avc Title speaks for itself, interesting read.
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Free Money

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: February 28, 2009
Following my somewhat chaotic and unclear posts about rents etc, at lundxy I found Jonathan Jarvis cute illustration of the credit crisis. *Funny how the “non reponsible family” is illustrated haha* Pretty much every Swedish person I speak to still think you are strange if you don’t default on the fact that buying a house [...]
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Da Swedish currency is the shit

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: February 26, 2009
The Swedish currency exchange rate hits new bottom records towards the euro, yesterday 1 euro would get you SEK11,40 (normal rate the last 3 years has been around 9,20-9,60). The most aknowledged explanation for the fall is that “oh we so poor swedish ppl with our tiny money supply are sure to take a hit [...]
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