Economic Crisis in Greece: Some Numbers

The following numbers have been published in the “Ta Nea” newspaper and are based in two separate researches of the:

“National confederation of Hellenic Commerce”
and the “Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry” 

70% of entrepreneurs state that they don’t have profitability anymore
40% of them cannot respond to their financial obligations
30% are thinking of downsizing
22,5%  may change the country . . . → Read More: Economic Crisis in Greece: Some Numbers

Scientific Analyses

I’ve been talking to various people lately about the present condition of the Greek economy trying to explain how things are. Educated people from various backgrounds, either psychology, sociology, people “in the market”, etc. I’ve been using only hard facts, to present them the current state of our economy: economics! Hard sciences cannot go wrong, economics . . . → Read More: Scientific Analyses

Would you kill the big guy?

This is the title of a new radio broadcast by the BBC. Its trailer was catchy and I was eager to listen to this broadcast which I downloaded today as a podcast. This is about hard dilemmas that philosophers and psychologists have tried to confront. Those dilemmas are rather unusual in real life but resolving such . . . → Read More: Would you kill the big guy?

Spending Patterns change due to the recession

Yesterday I was thinking in front of a luxury watch shop display how our spending habits have changed over the last few months. By saying “our” spending habits, I refer to the majority of medium class employees. You see, a few months ago, before the recession became so obvious and apparent here in Greece, and before . . . → Read More: Spending Patterns change due to the recession

New stiff measures for Greece

New austerity measures have been imposed today in an effort to rejuvenate and cleanse the Greek economy. Luckily most measures affect the public sector. More specifically, 13th and 14th salary was cut  in the public sector but not in the private one. Vat tax and other taxes have been considerably increased.

If 13th and 14th salary have . . . → Read More: New stiff measures for Greece

In search of Career

I predict that an enormous number of Greek students and young professionals will immigrate to other European countries in order to avoid the tough economic measures and problems that the Greek economy faces. It’s not only because of better options in terms of career, money and quality of life; it is also due to the fact . . . → Read More: In search of Career

Business Crises

I decided to post about business crises after the post of Trevor Gay: “Managing in a crisis” on simplicity blog. Crisis in business is a very important field that needs a lot of study although it has gain a lot of attention because of the recent trend of corporate social responsibility.

I generally agree with Trevor’s views . . . → Read More: Business Crises

Enough with making money on the internet!

8 out of 10 blogs out there are about making money by blogging or on the internet generally!

Well, if most of the blogs teach people how to make money, where are the rest of the blogs that make the money??? Are there any? It seems that the whole blogging market is concentrated on”teaching others the secrets . . . → Read More: Enough with making money on the internet!

FreeRice

FreeRice is a great project that can help you improve your english and at the same time help in the fight against poverty and hunger. For each word you get right, the FreeRice donate 10 grains of rice through United Nations. The revenue, that enables donations, comes from small advertising banners on the bottom of the . . . → Read More: FreeRice

The Timebanking Concept

I’ve just discovered TimeBanks.org. It’s a very interesting concept. You contribute time in helping someone and you get a visual currency: time dollar. Then you can get help by exchanging the time dollars you have in your timebank account. There are many kinds of help you can get and give, it can range from babysitting to . . . → Read More: The Timebanking Concept