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April 2009 Archives
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Why Bankruptcy?

April 6, 2009

David Wessel explains in the Wall Street Journal of the rational behind bacnkruptcy. In Bankruptcy Is Vital to Capitalism he writes:
America is relearning an old lesson: Failure and bankruptcy are essential to capitalism.

Bankruptcy is an orderly way to give an overburdened debtor a fresh start and to decide which creditors get paid back and which don't. As Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz teaches: Bankruptcy is a way to cope with those times when markets fail to allocate capital wisely and monitor its use.

In good times, bankruptcy is a way to encourage risk-taking. After all, an economy in which everyone fears trying something that might fail is a stagnant one. But the roots of modern American business bankruptcy date to bad times like today.

Bankruptcy is not a death sentence. It's more like an organ transplant. It can save a company's life, but sometimes the patient dies. Bankruptcy is unpleasant and should never be so easy that it encourages foolishness. Headline-making bankruptcies of several brand-name companies at a moment of severe economic crisis can so undermine confidence in the economy that avoiding them makes sense.

But bankruptcy, or some other orderly process to share the pain, is the only way to prevent mistakes and debts of the past from hobbling an economy's future.

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Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak!

April 25, 2009

Antwerp Central Station goes through the roof! This is great. You are guaranteed to enjoy it. See also the making of this video on YouTube


 


More than 200 dancers were performing their version of "Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. With just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started om March 23, 2009 at 08:00 AM. It is a promotional stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role in "The Sound of Music".

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