Archive for the economy Category

FolderLister for Mac OS X

Posted on February 10, 2009 by admin

If you need sometimes to send someone listing of the contents of a folder (directory) on the hard disk of your Mac, certainly, for that purpose you can use the terminal or a free program written by P-Edge Media named FolderLister. Just run the application and drag the selected folder on its icon in [...]

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Will Poland go broke?

Posted on February 5, 2009 by admin

According to the website of the leading Polish TV news channel TVN24 and German newspaper Die Welt, Central European countries and new members of EU are threaten by the possible economical crush. Die Welt points out the dangers of the strategy of the Polish government to relief the effects of the economical crisis. In fact, [...]

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We want Euro, well, half of us at least

Posted on January 27, 2009 by admin

According to website of TVN24 news channel – tvn24.pl – 48 percent of Polish citizens want to pay in Euro. Most of them expects Euro to be introduced in the next 3 – 4 years. Over half of half of the entire population (52 percent) is of the opinion that introduction of Euro will be [...]

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MacBooks are cheaper in Poland due to the weak Polish Zloty

Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin

Usually Apple products are realtively more expensive in Poland. Last may 2008, on my Polish blog I compared the prices of MacBooks here in Poland and in Ireland. The difirences in prices were clearly visible at that time. At present, due to the waekness of Polish Zloty (PLN) the prices of new unibody MacBooks are [...]

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Ryanair cuts more connections from Poland

Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin

Ryanair is going to cut more connections from Poland. According to TVN24.pl 12 connections from 6 Polish cities are to be closed. Ryanair cuts the connections from Gdansk to Bristol and Liverpool, from Szczecin to Bristol, Birmingham, Luton and Liverpool, from Lodz to Liverpool, East Midlands and Shannon, from Poznan to East Midlands, from Wroclaw [...]

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British Barclays is worth less than Polish PKO BP!

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

The markets are still on crisis, every rumor can destroy the worth of each company, especially bank. That has happened to Barclays. The rumor that the British bank will need another injection of pubilc money effected the fall of the value of the symbol of British banking. The share of Barclays is now worth of [...]

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Production in Poland decreased by more than 4 pc in December 2008

Posted on January 20, 2009 by admin

According to TVN24.pl Business section, production in Poland  decreased by over 4 percent in December 2008. As I mentioned before, the crisis affects mostly automotive, metal and chemical industries. The growing worse production is due to the decreasing demand in the Western Europe especially Germany. Even the faint Polish Zloty is not a solution and [...]

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Will Ryanair leave Lodz?

Posted on January 20, 2009 by admin

Today, Gazeta.pl – online service of the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza – mentioned that Ryanair provide tickets for the flights from Lodz to Shannon and Nottingham only for the period till the end of the March 2009. According to Gazeta.pl the connections to LIverpool and Stockholm are in danger as well. At the same [...]

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Thousands of jobs to be cut in Poland

Posted on January 20, 2009 by admin

According to the TVn24.pl (website of Polish news and business channels) thsouands of jobs to be cut in Poland in the fothcoming months. The massive job losses are predicted in industries such as electonics, wood production, cars, metalurgy and banking. The one of the Polish banks – PKO BP is going to cut 1,7 thousands [...]

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Will Poland be a nail in the coffin of Irish economy?

Posted on January 19, 2009 by admin

The decision of Dell to close down the plant in Limerick and move the almost entire production and assembly lines to factory in Lodz (in Poland) that was built just 2 years ago, was widely discussed in Ireland. This is the real disaster to the city of Limerick. I guess that about 4 thousands of [...]

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