Posts tagged with:crisis

It doesn’t. It’s just put back into its place. Bogdan Naumovici, famous advertising man, explained the reason the print and TV dies in one question: why pay 7 Euros for something that it’s not worth that much? Recent years has shown us the results can be the same with 10% of the money invested. So […]

This is basically what is going on in Romania right now. Nobody knows what to do, so they raised the VAT with 5% (now it’s 24), because this measure will, of course, bring more money to the state budget. But it won’t. What will do is make us poorer. I am still amazed that nobody […]

Romania is in the middle of a political and economic crisis. We will get over it, one way or the other, in the next few years. The problem is: will we learn anything from it? My guess is not. So capitalism fails again.

Husband of a distant cousin just bought a 20.000€ Hummer H2. He lives in England and works for a telecom company. And because he can’t get a loan to buy a house, with the economic crisis going strong, he bought a Hummer. That’s courage! I am still in doubt about buying a car. I got […]

It’s nice that i still get job offers from Romanian media companies. It’s nice to know that i have not been forgotten.

That people still live in a walled garden. That they are not informed. That they jump head-first in areas they do not know anything about. For example, everybody knows we are facing a crisis, right? Almost! Because if you ask Romanians on the street, chances are that half of them do not know about a […]