Category Archives: Social

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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Marx Prophecy

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: February 24, 2009
Karl Marx is showing up around the net with this quote from Das Kapital: “Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of [...]
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Dubai

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: November 26, 2008
Also check out Dubai.TV and their easy to browse cut of the program
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Total tax revenue as percentage of GDP

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: October 15, 2008
OECD Total tax revenue as percentage of GDP Oh no Denmark won over Sweden also this time :/. I think its quite interesting that Germany is at such a low rate … but then again the German schools looks more like grey containers than schools.
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Göran, former Swedish primeminister, meets Boris Jeltsin

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: September 4, 2008
  Former Swedish prime minister Göran Persson wrote a book (or his memoirs I guess you can say) called “Min väg, mina val” (my road, my choices). The book was realesed some time after the right won the last election and he resigned as leader for the Swedish socialist partie. The book contains a funny [...]
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Haustierstall streik

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: August 26, 2008
After living in Germany back and forth for about three years I have long ago realized that the Germans like on thing very very much, striking! Now the time has apparently come to one of PeoplePaths sites Haustierstall (german):     Long story short some members are protesting against the “establishment” on Hausteristall, that is [...]
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