Usually WordPress has been so kind to offer an automated ‘year in review’ (as in 2014 and 2015). Since this is not the case this year, I have collected my numbers from this on my own! Thousands of views and visitors and over 80 publications. It’s been good!
The Android-iOS competition that surfaced with the appearance of the smartphone is a wonderful example of how free-market competition puts down emerging monopolies. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, revolutionised the mobile-industry for decades to come. In the third quarter alone, Apple, as a company that had never produced a firmware for […]
Le secteur public, à force d’augmenter sa taille et son pouvoir syndical, mènera le Luxembourg dans un piège. Le refus de toute réforme substantielle, s’associant aux demandes salariales incompréhensibles et une force électorale non négligeable, deviendront un réel souci de dépenses publiques.
A study published in The Lancet has reviewed the effectiveness of Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV, and found that all the tests had a magnificent 100 percent success rate. Indeed the trials were so successful that they were stopped early. The fact that this news has passed people unmarked, even though only two years ago Ebola was THE […]
Dësen Artikel ass eng Äntwert op den Artikel vum déi Gréng-Präsident Christian Kmiotek, deen a sengem Blogpost vum 20. Dezember, “Lëtzebuerg weider denken“, de System vum ekonomesche Wuesstem iwwerdenke wëll.
Governments worldwide crack down on the consumption of tobacco. We know that smoking is bad for one’s health, but governments manage to create a new set of health risks through their interventions. The War on Tobacco is amongst the most misguided doctrines in behavioral policy, and yet politicians continue to enforce it. The side effects on private industry […]
Den Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek Editorialist Jean-Marie Jacoby ass op Facebook iwwer mäin Artikel Angscht virun Atomenergie gëtt eis AN der Ëmwelt eng deier hirgefall. Ech ginn dobäi net nëmmen als “liebster Blogger der Bourgeoisie in Luxemburg” mä och als “der neue Goebbels” bezeechent. Bon, komm mir doen eis deen Text emol un.
Im Großherzogtum ist die Sprachendebatte ein gängiges Thema, doch seit letztem Sommer hat die Debatte um die “Nationalsprache” Aufschwung genommen. Wie handhabt das kleine Land diese großen Kommunikationsprobleme?
Zu Lëtzebuerg liewen iwwer 90 000 Portugisen, vun deenen déi grouss Majoritéit entweder méi laang a Portugal gelieft huet oder sech a reegelméissegen Intervaller laang a Portugal ophält. Eis portugisesch Matbewunner wësse wéi eng méi effektiv Drogepolitik an engem Land gefouert ka ginn.
Le Pen’s National Front is living off the same media coverage advantages that Donald Trump profited off in the Republican primaries.
Bill Wirtz 