tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45008113934892421042024-03-18T04:03:01.559+01:00Ernst's Economy for youErnst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.comBlogger976125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-6180896916312793322019-06-12T19:55:00.000+02:002019-06-12T19:56:33.921+02:00Help Roger Labruyère naar het EK Schaken in Bratislava
Roger Labruyère tijdens Tata Steel Chess 2018
Foto door: Alina L'Ami
Beste vrienden en relaties,
Laat ik allereerst beginnen met een verontschuldiging. Een welgemeend sorry voor wat ik ga doen met dit volgende artikel!
Roger met Lucas van Foreest tijdensTata Steel Chess 2019
Het is namelijk niet mijn gewoonte om geld te vragen voor een goed doel. Ik heb dat nog nooit in het Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-58271261254992927722018-12-16T23:03:00.000+01:002018-12-16T23:53:01.853+01:00“Dear Theresa… You are in a situation in which you can’t win. You can, however, count your blessings and go for the least bad option”. Open letter to the English Prime Minister Theresa May
Dear Theresa,
I am Ernst Labruyère from The Netherlands and I have
some well-meant advice for you.
I closely follow the political and economic situation
in your country via the newspapers and news bulletins. What I see is that you
are stuck between the proverbial rock and the hard place. You are in a
situation in which you simply can’t win. There is hardly a way out in which you keep
yourErnst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-43909933932989367792018-12-01T15:41:00.001+01:002018-12-01T15:41:43.471+01:00The Dutch housing bubble is back at pre-crisis levels and in fact worse. An implosion might be imminent.
The Dutch housing situation is akin to
a bubble again, almost purely based upon speculation and expat housing in the
big cities. It might explode sooner than
you think, as the underlying wage growth is actually negative.
Everybody
who would take a look at the Dutch housing market in 2018, would think that the
Dutch economy is growing dramatically at the moment.
Since
June, 2013Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-36768605989415837992018-11-26T20:14:00.001+01:002018-11-26T20:14:45.854+01:00Open brief aan Minister-President Mark Rutte, teneinde mijn complimenten over te brengen mbt zijn visie op het Europese Leger.
Almere, 26 november 2018
Aan: Zijne
Excellentie M. Rutte,
Minister-President van het
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
Betreft: Open brief teneinde mijn complimenten over te brengen
mbt je visie op het Europese Leger
Uwe Excellentie de Minister-President / Beste Mark,
Ik wilde je eerst een SMS sturen, omdat ik van CEO Paul
Polman van Unilever had gehoord dat je dan binnen twee Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-14893087705987053922018-11-18T13:59:00.002+01:002018-11-18T13:59:32.587+01:00How did we get here? How did the virulent and hostile nationalism get so much grip in our countries. Was it the Second Great Depression as I call it? Because that one is still far from over.
There is one thing that I want to get out of the way...
People with an economic background refer to the current enduring crisis as The Great Recession. According
to them the current situation is not a depression like the Great Depression in the Twenties and
Thirties of last century. However, I don’t understand why it is still referred
to as a recession and not a depression. I really think Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-10327364306883040932018-11-17T14:22:00.004+01:002018-11-18T09:40:39.706+01:00Schiphol, Lelystad Airport en de tactiek van het “stilletjes doorgaan en voldongen feiten creëren”
Schiphol
Amsterdam Airport… één van de grootste luchthavens van Europa en een naam waar
veel Nederlanders een warm gevoel van binnen door krijgen.
Volgens
velen is Schiphol namelijk één van de kurken waarop de Nederlandse economie
drijft, omdat het:
enorme aantallen charter- en
lijnpassagiers de wereld rondvliegt;
daarbij een spil is in het
internationale aansluitingsnetwerk tussen de Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-52787983904631127312018-11-14T23:19:00.005+01:002018-11-14T23:19:59.773+01:00My vision on the United Kingdom and the European Union in ten tweets!
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is fumbled into a lousy deal with the cunning Brittons, in which the details
are hidden in 583 pages of prolixitous crap. The fact that Michel Barnier
looked agitated and annoyed tonight, worries me. #Havewebeenhustled?
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<!--[endif]-->Ergens heb ik het griezelige gevoel dat de #EU
één of andere beroerde deal met sluwe Britten in gerommeld wordt, waarbij de
details in 583 pagina's vol wol en geblaat zijn verstopt. Het feit dat Michel
Barnier geagiteerd en geïrriteerd oogde [vanavond], baart mij zorgen.
#Nietinhetpakgenaaid?
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Living by the walls that would fascinate the world
China felt so different from the rest
Expecting fellow man was the basis of their plan
Johnny Warman – China’s
Moving (West)
It was one of my
frustrations of the last decade: the naïve stance of most European countries
and – in particular – The Netherlands towards the “stealth” expansion of the
Chinese economic and political influence on Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-84979667766732196952018-10-27T13:03:00.000+02:002018-10-27T13:36:49.124+02:00Public healtcare in hospitals isn’t an entrepreneurial thingamajig, but a necessary requirement for people in need. The simultaneous demise of two commercial hospital groups shows that to the Dutch public.
In The Netherlands two commercially run hospital groups – with
in total five branches – filed for bankruptcy last Thursday. This happened
after large commercial health insurance companies threw
the towel and refused to further finance the mounting debt and unsolvable issues of these
hospitals, that already had a reputation for enduring problems and alleged
mismanagement. Het FD wrote the Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-89208553892484408102018-10-21T13:46:00.003+02:002018-10-21T15:29:28.258+02:00Now it is official: The Netherlands IS the mailman of China! And Prime Minister Mark Rutte is the head of the mail department! But we should ask ourselves if that is what we really want!
Prime Minister Rutte is old-fashionedly begging
Jack Ma of Ali Baba to build his behemoth distribution centre close to
Maastricht Aachen Airport in The Netherlands. And guess what?! It won’t yield a
lot of jobs and it won’t bring much innovation to The Netherlands.
Probably the only thing it does is making the
Dutch landscape uglier, while flooding The Netherlands and other European
Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-73174893714778816362018-10-15T19:25:00.001+02:002018-10-15T19:25:55.889+02:00Nederland heeft een betere premier nodig. Eén die we kunnen vertrouwen en die ons niet in de luren legt met taalkundige spitsvondigheden, die uitsluitend dienen om zijn nietszeggendheid, zijn politieke leegte en zijn tomeloze cliëntelisme te maskeren!
De volgende woorden zijn letterlijk uitgesproken door premier
Mark Rutte, in zijn praatje tegen de pers waarmee hij het intrekken van zijn voorstel tot
afschaffing van de dividendbelasting (fragment afkomstig van BNR) aankondigt:
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“Jaah, we zijn
eruit. We hebben besloten om niet door
te aan met de afschaffing vd dividendbelasting.
Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-38855140199490081312018-10-13T15:48:00.003+02:002018-10-17T21:51:19.489+02:00The case Jamal Khashoggi is unprecedented and a benchmark for the brutality of undemocratic regimes against “rogue” citizens.
Well, he'll offer you a cigarette
He'll offer you a light
Oh but he hasn't finished with you yet
On another long knife night
Nik Kershaw – Human Racing
If anything, 2018 has perhaps been the year of the ruler:
the democratically chosen or unelected leader of a country, who leaves little
doubt that he is the man in charge.
Everybody can name a few rulers that left a lasting
impressionErnst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-22635278754036445262018-10-06T16:02:00.002+02:002018-10-06T16:02:53.814+02:00“Dear Mr. Bolton. What are you so afraid of and what triggers your war against the ICC?? Open letter to US National Security Advisor John Bolton…
Dear
Mr. Bolton,
There
is little doubt that the United States is still the most powerful country in
the World...
It
is arguably still the largest economy in the World and its military force is
second to none, with vast amounts well-equipped soldiers and with the help of
the best and most sophisticated arms arsenal ever to win every battle in every
situation and on every terrain. On top of Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-51515856248242217272018-04-01T12:51:00.000+02:002018-04-01T12:55:58.147+02:00Open response to scientist Chris Verhoeven of the Delft Institute of Technology: a robot is not a pet animal. In spite of its million lines of code, it still lacks the natural ability to give affection and to love and be loved. And it doesn’t fear death or pain, as it is not aware of being alive.
big brown beastie,
big brown face,
I'd rather be with you,
than flying through space...
Mike Oldfield – On horseback
In 2001 – the last year as a single as I did not come to know my
wife yet – I went on a group holiday to Costa Rica. It was a very special holiday
that I will remember for the rest of my life. One of the dearest memories to me
was riding on a horse during this holiday.
Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-15270240209483372282018-03-31T16:05:00.001+02:002018-03-31T16:05:40.296+02:00When your business case is under fire and your stakeholders don’t listen to you the way they used to do, you can always turn to some old-fashioned fearmongering… thinks the Dutch aviation industry
It has been the talk of the town during the last year.
Lelystad Airport, the new to develop airport in the
polder of the “self-built” Dutch province Flevoland was designed to function as
an overflow valve for Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, in
order to relieve this mainport from its “dreaded”, low-budget charter
passengers that bring in too little money and sales.
Due to government Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-28137686651625808782018-03-30T22:14:00.000+02:002018-03-30T22:14:52.143+02:00Will Cambridge Analytica-gate eventually force Facebook to traverse The Road to Golgotha, in order to be sacrificed for its criminally negligent and brutal behaviour?! I won’t shed a tear about it!
The
success of social media platform Facebook is bedazzling. Over two billion users,
of which at least one billion users logs in on a nearly daily basis. And in
2017 alone the company presented sales figures to the tune of €40 billion.
Facebook
is the glue that binds numerous families and friend networks together and on
top of it, it is the main (if not only) supplier of internet at remote Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-85212264259220354802018-03-11T23:46:00.001+01:002018-03-14T13:45:11.031+01:00Pamflet: Waarom ik hoop dat u niet op de VVD gaat stemmen bij de Gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 2018!
Binnenkort
zijn er gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in Nederland.
Wat
deze verkiezingen in mijn ogen extra bijzonder maakt, is de sterk gepolariseerde
situatie waarin Nederland zich nu bevindt. Hoewel de Nederlandse samenleving op
straat over het algemeen nog een heel vriendelijke indruk maakt, is het debat – vooral op
de sociale media en zelfs in de dagbladen – erg verhard, waarbij wederzijds Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-30052559070107722722018-03-05T19:22:00.000+01:002018-03-05T19:24:04.343+01:00Amsterdam taxi drivers are planning an attack on Uber’s headoffice in The Netherlands. Are these taxi drivers the “Dutch Sons of Anarchy”? Or is this in fact a shocking testimony for the moral bankruptcy of a company like Uber?!
It was perhaps quite shocking, but in fact not really
surprising news from the Amsterdam area this morning.
According to Dutch newspaper AD,
the Amsterdam taxi-drivers are allegedly planning an attack upon the head
office of Uber in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The AD discovered a private newsgroup on Telegram with
300 anonymous members, in which the plan was plotted to execute a Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-38914481552208190012018-03-03T17:08:00.001+01:002018-03-03T17:08:59.124+01:00What the world needs now… is not a trade war!
It was something that seemed inevitable from the
beginning of the Donald Trump presidency in the United States: a trade war
between the United States and the rest of the world.
Even though this trade war has not yet started
fortunately, the odds for it to happen are quite high. This is because of the respectively
10% and 25% penalty tariff on the imports of foreign aluminium and steel, Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-52986405349557575562018-02-27T00:12:00.000+01:002018-02-27T00:12:00.756+01:00The disappearance of the big conglomerates and their large research laboratories marks the current Age of Pennywise, Poundfoolish…
In the age of shareholder value and pennywise,
poundfoolish corporate behaviour…, the disappearance of
the so-called ACME companies and their large laboratories for fundamental and
targeted research will have a negative influence on human development. Many of
their inventions in the fifties and sixties of last century colour our daily
lives in the 21st Century. Now that those laboratories have Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-12821273201594094302018-02-11T14:30:00.000+01:002018-02-11T14:30:45.879+01:00Two researchers state: “Flex contracts are hampering consumption in The Netherlands”. Subdued development of collective wages might cause the lackluster domestic consumption
It
is one of the recurring themes of this blog: the subdued wage development in
The Netherlands and the effects that it has on domestic consumption.
It
is no secret that the lower and middle classes hardly had any wage
increases during the last ten year. It is also no secret that many of the store chains aimed at the middle classes in The Netherlands are going through a hard timeErnst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-72197361146724148892018-02-10T15:23:00.002+01:002018-02-10T15:32:54.267+01:00Rabobank now understands once more that “playing international bank successfully” is not without risks. Pt II, the judge strikes back!
Almost one year ago, I wrote an article upon Rabobank
RNA, the Californian branche of the Dutch cooperative bank Rabobank and the fact that it had been involved in a criminal investigation for acts perpetrated via its branches in Calexico and Tecate.
Rabobank, a globally operating bank, is the second biggest bank in The
Netherlands based upon the size of its balance sheet.
Rabobank RNA was Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-30780848401820075132018-02-04T16:59:00.001+01:002018-02-04T17:01:15.152+01:00We must make an end to the pharmaceutical cash cows! When the prices of lifesaving drugs smell like extortion, the government and national health insurance system must say ‘No’ to compensation
It is perhaps the curse of the 21st Century: as a
consequence of deeper insight in the human body, better therapeutical
techniques and more advanced medicine, it is now possible to cure or slow down
diseases that had been a death sentence for their victims until the recent past.
Many formerly deadly forms of cancer, auto-immune diseases
(“aids”) or muscle degradation diseases can be cured orErnst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500811393489242104.post-35835870231624151012018-01-20T23:30:00.000+01:002018-01-20T23:44:23.609+01:00“Shitholegate” as the inharmonious epitomy of awkward and unpleasant world politics: Trump barks, but the caravan should move on!
The air attack warning sounds like…
This is the sound.
When you hear the air attack warning,
you and your family must take cover
Frankie goes to Hollywood
– Two Tribes
Was
the writing on the wall last week, when the Hawaiian islands were in shock at
the moment that an erroneous warning for an incoming
ballistic missile took
the islands by surprise?!
Especially
in the 30 minutes between Ernst's Economy for youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03541922287114104936noreply@blogger.com1