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"Preko firme koja se bavi uzgojem i preradom voća i povrća - FH Srebrena malina - uvezeno je i uvest će se ukupno 100 respiratora iz Kine za 10,5 miliona KM. Ako je vjerovati šifri koja se nalazi na kutijama koje su stigle iz Kine, radi se o ovim respiratorima.
Jedan respirator na internet stranici košta 3000 dolara sa porezom što znači da je cijena za 100 komada 300.000 dolara, odnosno ukupno 540.000 KM bez prevoza i carine.
Ministrica finansija u tehničkom mandatu i komandantica Federalnog štaba Civilne zaštite, Jelka Miličević, naravno ne zna tko je odobrio ovu nabavku. Premijer FBiH u tehničkom mandatu, Fadil Novalić, neće da nam pojasni kako je malinarska firma najbolja za nabavku sofisticiranih medicinskih uređaja

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The U.S. economy in the first quarter shrank at its fastest pace since the last recession as the coronavirus pandemic shut down large parts of the country, signaling the end of the longest economic expansion on record.
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Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, contracted at a seasonally and inflation adjusted annual rate of 4.8% in the first three months, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The decline marks the beginning of a near-certain recession, economists say, and is the biggest drop in quarterly economic output since the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Forecasters expect a much larger contraction in the second quarter, producing the two consecutive quarters of decline that commonly define a recession. Most economists expect a rebound in the second half of the year.

“The weakness was only in the last three weeks of March so there’s a lot more to come,” said James Sweeney, chief economist at Credit Suisse, adding that “we are headed for the largest contraction in GDP since the Great Depression.”

Data company IHS Markit expects GDP to decline at a 37% annual rate from April to June, which would represent the biggest drop since quarterly records began in 1947.
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Personal consumption, the economy’s bulwark, fell at a 7.6% rate, the steepest drop since the second quarter of 1980. Spending on services—from haircuts to legal advice—accounts for nearly half of total GDP. It fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 10.2%, the largest decline since the agency began compiling quarterly statistics in 1947, led by a decrease in health care services.

Goods spending fell by 1.3%, as lower spending on new cars was offset by stockpiling on items such as food and household essentials as people stocked up for the pandemic.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-quarter-gdp-us-growth-coronavirus-11588123665?mod=hp_lead_pos1

Germany faces huge economic slump due to coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic will hit Germany's economy harder than any other calamity in decades, according to Economy Minister Peter Altmaier. An expert told DW that projections of recovery in 2021 were "wishful thinking."

With the coronavirus pandemic unleashing a wave of job losses, bankruptcies and factory closures across the world, Germany's GDP is due to shrink 6.3% in 2020, the government announced on Wednesday.

"We will experience the worst recession in the history of the Federal Republic" which was founded in 1949, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said.

The economic blow would surpass the one left by the global crisis of 2009, which saw Germany's economy shrink by over 5%.

Short-hours scheme for German workers

Altmaier said the nation's economy is set to hit its lowest point before the end of June and then start growing again with 5.2% growth projected in 2021. He also warned that the government cannot restart the economy with a single stroke and risk the success achieved in combating the pandemic.

"Only if we lift economic and social restrictions step-by-step, and with a sense of proportion, can we start with the slow recovery in the second half of the year," Altmaier said.

Germany's export-oriented economy is also set to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs before the end of the year, putting the jobless rate at about 5.8% or around 2.62 million compared to its previous average of 2.27 million. Berlin has pushed multiple measures to mitigate the fallout.

According to Altmaier, around 3 million workers have already been placed on a short-time work scheme that sees employees reduced hours to avoid layoffs and the government boosting the workers' salaries.

'Those are not really forecasts'

Commenting on Altmaier's statement on Wednesday, however, the head of the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) dismissed them as "wishful thinking."

"Those are not really forecasts, those are scenarios... scenarios assuming that there is no second wave of infections, assuming that there is no new lockdown in the future," Marcel Fratzscher told DW. "That's wishful thinking — that the economy will recover next year. Clearly the answer to how will the economy get out of recession depends very much on the pandemic itself."

At the same time, Fratzscher praised the government's approach to helping mitigate the impact, saying that the Cabinet "has already done a lot in this first stage of this lockdown."

"Hardly any government in the world has spent more money on stabilizing the economy, providing support to companies, direct financial transfers, huge guarantees for bank loans, particularly to small-to-medium-sized enterprises."

Several large companies, including Adidas, Condor airline, and TUI travel company have already taken out massive government-backed loans. The country's flagship carrier Lufthansa is still negotiation its bailout.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-faces-huge-economic-slump-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic/a-53286176