Germany Special: Divorce, Remarry, Get Fired
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The right of German religious organizations to terminate an employee for violating their moral codex, even in deeply private situations, has been affirmed by the Federal Labor Court. And they’re among the top employers in Germany! If you’re a divorcee and work for a Catholic hospital, you may get fired if you remarry. Heck, you may get fired for getting divorced.
Let’s Just Raid Social Security
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Bailout Rebellion In Germany
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Tokyo Tidbit: Yakuza Undergarments
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In the Bowels the Jobs Report: 15.4 Million Missing Jobs
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Yakuza: ‘We Have To Evolve Our Business Model’
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Tokyo Tidbit: Disaster Specials
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The inexplicable American Consumer
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Dear Ben, Please Print us More Money
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Dear Ben, Please Print us More Money
We want you to prop up the stock market. Everybody knows it’s a Ponzi scheme that will collapse without your support. You don’t want us to end up like Bernie Madoff’s clients. No, Ben, we love Ponzi schemes. We get in early and get out before they collapse. That’s why we’re rich. The bad thing is that they sometimes collapse before we can get out. But you’ve bailed us out twice in the last couple of years….