surviving globalization 2860
On Thu, 22 Mar 2006, Kamal R. Prasad
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, alexy Read again below (both old and new material): ======================= Quote (page 261): "The Prevalence of Corporate Crime" "As we...
You need to re-think what standard of living means. There is poverty in Japan and Europe, too. In rural areas, Japanese farmers have a lower standard of living but much more government subsidy than even in the USA. Europe? If anything home ownership is more difficult in Europe and gasoline is priced higher. Germany and France and Britain are more well off than to the North as well as South (Spain and Italy).
Remember we've discussed this a lot. EVERYone wants to come to the USA, for lots of reasons. Hate our politicians if you want, but the USA is the easiest place to escape to.
France in particular, is synonymous with unemployment and
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Kamal R. Prasad You wrote farther above one simple sentence about a small insignificant sample of Brits who "fled" for a better life in the USA as if you...
Both France and Germany have high unemployment (10-12 %) but good job security. Italy and Denmark have less job security and low unemployment 6-7%.
Straydog snip depends on the country and depends on the timeframe you are talking of. 20 yrs back, there was not much employment in India -now there is. So, it made sense to take...
I have tried to explain to you many times, contrary to your ideas that shareholders are the only people with ANY power, first, that CEOs run companies not shareholders (there is no company anywhere that has a bunch of offices and buttembly rooms where shareholders come and report for duty so they can approve of what the CEOs do), and even in lots of countries other than the USA, there are large sets of rules and laws, including tax laws, labor relation laws, safety and environmental laws, not to mention regulatory and civil case law, and last but not least, tax laws, that -- taken togehter -- place lots of rules on business. Shareholders have only one power: buy a stock or sell a stock. How can you be so totally unaware of all that I wrote in this preceeding sentence?
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, rrc Rob, I'm retired. I can't be made obsolete. Are we at the end of the road? Wife and...
Where do you get the idea that shareholders run the world?
The CEO and other executives run the corporations and for the most part exploit their freedom to come up with new ideas to find loopholes in the laws, weaknesses in tax codes, and tricks to cust costs of business and regardless of who gets hurt in the process.