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The wrong system?

Something is wrong at our company. Very, very wrong. I think the whole system needs changing, but nobody else seems bothered about it. So, last week, I tried to introduce a new system.

sich daran zu stören schönen

Is it just my imagination, or is the world very confusing at the moment? Some German politicians wrongly think that Canada has intelligence tests for immigrants, while my taxi driver gives me a receipt for a night club. What's going on?

Bilde ich mir das nur ein

Quittung

Getting the bird

Sometimes, you read a news story that is just too good to be true. Not because the news is positive or the story has a happy ending, but because it is so unbelievable that nobody would dare to make it up.

es wagen

ihn/sie/es sich auszudenken

Parrot fashion

Maynard, my pet parrot, has been behaving very strangely this past week. If I didn't know him better, I would say he is in love. But there is more to it than that: he believes he has discovered that parrots are better investors than humans.

Hauspapagei (pet = Haustier)

Taxi, taxi

According to my parrot Maynard, most economics questions can be answered with the three words "supply and demand". In Düsseldorf this week, I found yet another example where this was true — the market for taxis.

Papagei

Fragen der Volkswirtschaft

The thinking, non-dancing parrot

My pet parrot and expert economist, Maynard, is very, very angry. The reason, I am sure, is another parrot by the name of Snowball. Unlike Maynard, Snowball dances. Maynard prefers to think — for example about solutions to the recession.

Haus-, Lieblingspapagei (pet = Haustier)

Ökonom(in)

Do something!

Nearly everyone agrees that there is a serous demand problem in many of the world's economies. If that is the case, you don't need to be a brain surgeon to work out what the answer is: increase demand. Even my parrot Maynard knows that.

Hirnchirurg(in)

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