Welcome to my web log. I work for personal liberty, a free economy and society, open borders and limited government. Here you will find information, analysis and comments about national and international economic and political issues.
johnny@munkhammar.org
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2008-11-21. TV4. Nyhetspanelen.
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2008-11-18 21:26:09
Företagsdagis? Billy McCormac på Timbro förordar i en artikel på Newsmill att företag ska starta dagis för sina anställdas barn. Särskilt understryker han att det är en förlust för arbetsgivare då alla föräldrar ska hämta och lämna på dagis. Det sistnämnda är jag en av många som kan intyga.
Men förslaget till lösning är gammalt och lite fantasilöst. Invändningen att rörligheten på arbetsmarknaden då minskar är korrekt. I länder där medborgarnas sjukvård, pensioner eller dagis är kopplade till arbetsplatsen är det svårare att byta jobb hur som helst.
Men tänk om föräldrarna själva fick disponera de resurser som går till dagis, barnbidrag och föräldrapenning? Tänk om man fick hela denna summa - i form av pengsystem eller sänkt skatt - att betsämma över? Då skulle varje förälder bli kung.
Rader av nya innovativa lösningar inom barnomsorg skulle startas. Pedagogiska konsulter, deltidslösningar, hemdagis, arvodering av mormor, olika inriktningar - blandat med mer traditionella dagis för de som så önskar. Entreprenörer skulle överträffa varandra i innovationer för att nå barnfamiljerna.
Självklart skulle någon entreprenör då också lösa hämtningsproblemet. Man skulle ha en liten dagisbuss som hämtar och lämnar barnen hemma. Så fungerar marknaden och så fungerar specialisering.
2008-11-17 12:11:04
Re-Start Indeed. I just came back from Tallinn after speaking this Saturday at a major economic conference called Re-Start. It was a very professional event, with some 400 businessmen and politicians as guests. I was the first speaker, followed by Siim Kallas, vice President of the European Commission, and Bo Lundgren, Director General at the Swedish National Debt Office. Then we had a panel discussion. I also talked to Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, who ended the conference.
Estonia is in recession, and there is fear of what will happen. But of course the economy will come back - most people at the conference thought within one year. Governments now have to avoid calls to bail out every single industry. That would be expensive for tax-payers, but it would also slow down progress. Governments also have to do two things at the same time: Crisis-management and long-term, structural, free-market reform. That is the only way to ensure that the re-start will be strong.
2008-11-17 12:00:22
European Attention. The publication about the financial crisis that we presented at the European Enterprise Institute last week has led to some comments. Here, here and here are some European blogs that have commented. This German online magazine will publish the entire last chapter in German.
2008-11-17 11:24:50
Frihet genom förändring - inte förvaltande! Som ny medlem blev jag inbjuden att skriva i min moderata hemförenings medlemstidning Österåkersmoderaten - vilket jag gärna gjorde. Publiceras i senaste numret på sidan tre, kan läsas här (pdf).
2008-11-17 11:15:09
Klarspråk? För en svensk besökare i Tallinn i dessa finanskrisens dagar är det lite komiskt att "bank" på estniska faktiskt heter "pank".
2008-11-17 11:11:27
Comment: The World Needs Free Financial Markets. Today, EU Observer - the main agency on European news in Brussels - publishes a comment by me relating to the G20 summit and the financial crisis. Read it here.
2008-11-13 08:52:19
Re-Start! On Saturday, I will be a keynote speaker at a major conference in Tallinn, Estonia, arranged by the Reform Party. The second speaker, after me, is Siim Kallas, former Prime Minister and today vice Chairman of the European Commission. Will be very interesting. The conference starts at 11.00 and will be live broadcast on the web. Read more here.
2008-11-12 09:41:52
The Road to Prosperity. Economic crises can be tough for many people. But still, in the longer perspective, the crises are just small bumps on the road to further prosperity. Below is the GDP per capita in the US 1850-2007. A remarkable development; it has increased from below $ 2000 per person and year to $ 38 000. This goes to show what a prosperity machine the free economy is - and that this change demands for the old to continuously go away and leave space for the new.
2008-11-12 09:31:17
After Bailout: Pull Out! Yesterday, I presented the English version of the publication on the financial crisis by me and Nima Sanandaji, published by the European Enterprise Institute. Now there are discussions about continued bail-outs of various other industries - such as the car industry. It is the wrong way to go; the financial system needed government efforts, but governments should be dedicated to pulling out again. And governments cannot save all their old companies and jobs. It would prevent the new, hinder trade and cost tax-payers huge amounts. Here is the EEI publication (pdf).
2008-11-11 22:05:09
Openness and Free Economy Bring More Stability. Today, here in Belgium, most everything is closed. Today, 90 years ago, World War I ended - at 11 o′clock on the 11th of the 11th month 1918. But the European Parliament is up and running, as well as various seminars - not least on financial markets.
I read in the leatest edition of the great Swedish magazine Neo some facts that should make today?s protectionists think again. First, one study that shows that a country that increases trade as a share of GDP by 10 per cent decreases the risk of lower growth or crises by a third. Second, another study shows that 26 out of 40 countries that opened up their economies in the 1990s had lower variations in their growth rates.
Counter-intuitive, perhaps, but even more important facts because of it.
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