<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188</id><updated>2011-07-07T22:39:53.885-07:00</updated><category term='País: Rusia'/><category term='País: EE.UU./USA'/><category term='País: Italia'/><category term='_Lang: portugués'/><category term='Política'/><category term='Economía'/><category term='_Lang: español'/><category term='_Lang: italiano'/><category term='País: Japón'/><title type='text'>PCJR Economical Challenge Bureau</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Pr. Brunette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13811014528040164408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_H58tk0k0rAQ/SAS7AJba6TI/AAAAAAAAAAk/BArzCu4wcwc/S220/Brunette.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>70</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7564612942722916811</id><published>2010-05-21T03:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-21T03:58:18.110-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Exports to Asia Power Japan's Growth Spurt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;TOKYO—Japan is emerging as a surprising beneficiary of the global economic recovery, helped by its proximity to Asia's fast-growing economies and the strong presence of Japanese companies in the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While chronic ailments such as deflation and a runaway fiscal deficit continue to occupy the minds of Japanese policy makers, the country's economy has grown at an unexpectedly robust pace in recent quarters, thanks primarily to soaring exports to China, Vietnam, India and other nations.&lt;br /&gt;At an annualized pace of 4.9%, the government said Thursday, Japan's first-quarter growth exceeded that of the U.S. and the European Union, which expanded by 3.2% and 0.8%, respectively. It was the fourth quarter of expansion for Japan following sharp contractions during a recession triggered by the global crisis. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&amp;amp;symbol=7011.TO"&gt;Mitsubishi Heavy Industries&lt;/a&gt; Ltd. hopes to add to that growth. The maker of ships, power plants and heavy machinery aims to boost the share of overseas business to 63% of its total contracts by 2014 from just 36% in 2009. Once guarded about its technology, the company now seeks out local partnerships to further expand into Asian markets. The company projects orders from customers in emerging markets will rise to 1.1 trillion yen (about $12 billion) in 2014, compared with an average of 760 billion yen over the past three years.&lt;br /&gt;"To cut initial investments to enter new markets in emerging economies, we are seeking joint ventures with major local companies, and signing technology assistance deals to gather licensing fees," Chief Executive Hideaki Omiya said at a news conference in late April.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this month, Mitsubishi Heavy received an order for three sets of boiler and steam turbines for thermal power plants in India for undisclosed terms, made possible through a joint venture with India's Larsen &amp;amp; Toubro Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;Robust sales of Japanese products in emerging countries are beginning to set off a cycle of sustainable growth in Japan. As stronger exports shore up earnings, Japanese companies are boosting investments in plants and machinery.&lt;br /&gt;With fears of job loss and pay cuts receding, some consumers are starting to allow themselves modest luxuries such as desserts after meals and day trips on weekends. Household spending grew by an annualized pace of 1.3%, rising for the fourth consecutive quarter. Until now, consumption has been kept from collapsing by government stimulus measures such as a cash-for-clunkers auto-sales program and subsidies for energy-efficient appliances.&lt;br /&gt;"Conditions are falling into place for an autonomous recovery," said Keisuke Tsumura, a parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office in charge of economic policy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keeping that pace will be tough. Economists expect the pace of Japan's overall growth to slow starting from the second quarter as export growth begins to level off and the effect of domestic stimulus wanes. For all of 2010, the International Monetary Fund forecasts Japan will grow 1.9%, slower than 3.1% seen for the U.S. but above 1.0% for the euro area.&lt;br /&gt;Still, intimate ties to Asian economies will likely give Japan and other Asian exports an economic tailwind if growth holds up. That could also take pressure off Tokyo to curb deflation or reduce government debt that, as a percentage of gross domestic product, leads the industrialized world—though those problems are likely to linger past the current expansionary period.&lt;br /&gt;In the first quarter, Asia accounted for 55% of the value of Japan's overall exports, up from 50% a year ago and 47% in the 2007 period. By comparison, Asia accounted for 26% of U.S. export value, not much larger than Canada's 20% share and Europe's 23% for Europe.&lt;br /&gt;"The structure of Japan's economy has changed dramatically since the beginning of this century," said Jitsuro Terashima, chairman of Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute, a research arm of Mitsui &amp;amp; Co., a trading company. "Until recently, we could define Japan as a country that fed itself through trade with the U.S., but that's not the case anymore." Last year, China became the No. 1 destination for Japan's exports, replacing the U.S. for the first time in modern history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heavy reliance on Asia's emerging markets, particularly China, also represents a risk. China's economy could get overheated without appropriate tightening steps from the authorities. It could slow down sharply and hurt Japanese exports if such steps are implemented too rapidly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&amp;amp;symbol=5332.TO"&gt;Toto&lt;/a&gt; Ltd., a maker of toilet and bathroom fixtures, has seen sales boom in China as its customer base expands from relatively wealthy cities to the interior. While the company's overall revenue fell 9% in the fiscal year ended March, sales in China grew about 10%, accounting for 5.8% of the company's global sales. Toto expanded its flagship showroom in Shanghai last month and plans to add another one in Nanjing in October.&lt;br /&gt;"While we have been worried for quite a long time that China will slow down, we actually have seen a steady growth there," said President Kunio Harimoto during a news conference this month in Tokyo. "Given that, we can expect a nearly two-digit growth for some more time in the future."&lt;br /&gt;Companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy and Toto now have the support of the Japanese government, which has taken a laissez-faire stance toward private-sector exports in recent decades. Japan's new center-left government has identified Asia's emerging markets as a "new frontier" for Japan's growth and next month hopes to unveil cheap financing and regulatory support for infrastructure projects abroad as part of its broad economic -policy package.&lt;br /&gt;"We would like to see Japan's technology and expertise become an engine for sustainable growth in the region so Japan and Asia can grow side by side," Naoto Kan, Japanese finance minister, said at an Asian financial meetingearlier this month.&lt;br /&gt;Investors have taken a notice. A survey released by Merrill Lynch this week showed that 8% of fund managers chose Japan as the market they wanted to overweight the most, down a notch from 11% in April but a sharp improvement from a low in November when 27% said Japan was their least-favorite market. So far this year, Japan's benchmarkNikkei 225 index is down 4.9%, an underperformance compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average but better than indexes in London, Paris, Shanghai and Hong Kong.—&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Miho Inada, Tomoyuki Tachikawa and Takeshi Takeuchi contributed to this article.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;From: &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256292145790152.html?KEYWORDS=YUKA+HAYASHI"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256292145790152.html?KEYWORDS=YUKA+HAYASHI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7564612942722916811?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7564612942722916811/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7564612942722916811' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7564612942722916811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7564612942722916811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2010/05/exports-to-asia-power-japans-growth.html' title='Exports to Asia Power Japan&apos;s Growth Spurt'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2313783992529063878</id><published>2010-02-23T07:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T07:37:04.476-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><title type='text'>Tokyo is most expensive office location</title><content type='html'>By Daniel Thomas in London&lt;br /&gt;Published: February 22 2010 18:25  Last updated: February 22 2010 18:25&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tokyo has become the world’s most expensive office location even as a fall in demand for office space has caused the first global drop in rents since 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Global offices markets have all suffered an unprecedented fall in demand, according to Cushman &amp;amp; Wakefield, the real estate adviser.&lt;br /&gt;Every region recorded falling rents in 2009 for the first time. Most developers were quick to respond to the economic crisis by shelving new building work, although the supply of offices still increased as corporate occupiers sought to cut costs by vacating or sub-letting space.&lt;br /&gt;The largest rental falls came in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, where office rents fell 45 per cent, 35 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively. Ho Chi Minh City was the worst hit, with a rent decline of more than half.&lt;br /&gt;Rents globally are expected to reach their low point by the middle of the year, according to Cushman &amp;amp; Wakefield, which added that the outlook for 2010 was more positive.&lt;br /&gt;John Siu, general manager for Cushman &amp;amp; Wakefield in Hong Kong, said: “Demand for office space in Hong Kong’s key business districts started to pick up towards the end of 2009. We see 2010 as a year for tenants to take advantage of the rare vacancies and significantly discounted rents before the market rebounds.”&lt;br /&gt;It expects demand for offices will again increase to reduce the supply of space as some big economies return to growth. Rental increases are already being recorded in markets such as the&lt;a class="bodystrong" title="Land Securities prepares for London upswing" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ddf895d8-0511-11df-aa2c-00144feabdc0.html" target="_blank"&gt; City of London &lt;/a&gt;and Oslo.&lt;br /&gt;Kiev and Dublin were the hardest hit in Europe, with 50 per cent and 38 per cent wiped off the value of prime office rents by year end.&lt;br /&gt;Rents declined 7 per cent across the US but South American markets were more stable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Financial Times&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2313783992529063878?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2313783992529063878/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2313783992529063878' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2313783992529063878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2313783992529063878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2010/02/tokyo-is-most-expensive-office-location.html' title='Tokyo is most expensive office location'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-5480208309188777382</id><published>2010-02-23T02:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T02:18:05.557-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>España, ¿aliada de China en su lucha contra Estados Unidos?</title><content type='html'>J. Jacks - 23/02/2010 06:00h&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK4"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK3"&gt;Estamos en guerra. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/noticias/blanco-denuncia-ataque-contra-maniobras-turbias-20100208.html"&gt;Algún ministro español oye campanas&lt;/a&gt; cuando observa sus consecuencias pero no sabe dónde. No se trata de una guerra militar tradicional. Supone una contienda comercial entre Estados Unidos y China de la que, por el momento, no se sabe quién resultará ganador.&lt;br /&gt;Como en toda guerra, la contienda se libra en diferentes áreas, entre ellas:&lt;br /&gt;a) Inversiones exteriores: &lt;a href="http://www.odac-info.org/newsletter/2009/07/24#ar8170"&gt;desde julio del 2009&lt;/a&gt;, China admite que destina parte de sus reservas a controlar empresas energéticas extranjeras (&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&amp;amp;sid=aUcQstVre0Po&amp;amp;refer=latin_america"&gt;Petrobras&lt;/a&gt;, Addax, Blackstone, los intentos en Río Tinto con ACH), del sector de materias primas o en el de las líneas de distribución petrolíferas y del gas.&lt;br /&gt;El futuro son los metales raros y China ya ha dado &lt;a href="http://www.resourceinvestor.com/News/2009/8/Pages/China-to-prohibit-export-of-certain-heavy-rare-earth-metals.aspx"&gt;los primeros pasos&lt;/a&gt; para posicionarse: no se conforma con producir en 95% de la producción mundial sino que posee el 25% de &lt;a href="http://www.arafuraresources.com.au/history.html"&gt;Arafura&lt;/a&gt; y el 50% de &lt;a href="http://www.lynascorp.com/category.asp?category_id=2"&gt;Lynas&lt;/a&gt;. La nueva generación de productos electrónicos necesita de estos metales…incluidos los misiles para defensa aérea.&lt;br /&gt;El gigante asiático diversifica geográficamente sus inversiones. No invierte igual en Oceanía (68% en materias primas) que en Hong Kong (35% en el sector financiero).&lt;br /&gt;b) Proteccionismo y &lt;a href="http://www.wto.org/indexsp.htm"&gt;WTO&lt;/a&gt;: el Gobierno Bush impuso tarifas selectivas a productos chinos (700% al acero, 106% a productos manufacturados) y el actual presidente ha aumentado la práctica (impuesto del 210% en neumáticos). En 2009, Estados Unidos “persuadió” a la WTO para que sancionara a China por incumplir con las leyes sobre propiedad intelectual. Como respuesta, &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;amp;sid=aZn.JBcfIubI&amp;amp;pos=9"&gt;China incrementa sus aranceles.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;c) Tipo de Cambio. Existen múltiples frentes abiertos en este mercado, pero entre ellos destacan tres: China pide el fin del dólar como moneda de reserva internacional, presiona con el &lt;a href="http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg548.htm"&gt;fin de la compra de deuda EEUU&lt;/a&gt; y usa las reservas de su balanza comercial con Estados Unidos para comprar activos denominados en euros. (1) El Banco Central Chino “recicla” esos dólares a cambio de euros para sus compras en Europa. (Nota: el proceso de reconversión de dólares en yuanes por el Banco Central Chino para evitar problemas inflacionarios domésticos tendrá una explicación futura más detallada).&lt;br /&gt;d) Financiero: para algunos, China pudo tener algo que ver en la presente crisis (2) y los &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/6059626/Bank-of-China-to-cherry-pick-UK-mortgage-customers-as-lending-drought-persists.html"&gt;frutos están a la vista&lt;/a&gt;. Del mismo modo, Estados Unidos “aconseja” a sus entidades la no participación en el &lt;a href="http://www.safe.gov.cn/model_safe_en/glxx_en/glxx_detail_en.jsp?id=5&amp;amp;ID=30500000000000000,3"&gt;Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Cuatro frentes de batalla que se desarrollan en dos escenarios distintos.&lt;br /&gt;Como en toda guerra, la batalla se libra en diferentes escenarios. A los efectos que interesan a nuestro país, principalmente en dos: la Unión Europea y el &lt;a href="http://www.aseansec.org/"&gt;ASEAN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;a) Para China, el ASEAN es “su patio trasero”. Su idea es la de usarla para &lt;a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-to-use-ASEAN-meet-to-make-Yuan-an-international-currency/articleshow/5153779.cms"&gt;internacionalizar su moneda&lt;/a&gt; de modo gradual de modo que en 2015 su divisa sea convertible dentro de este área. Mientras, Estados Unidos trata de dificultar ese proceso con acuerdos bilaterales &lt;a href="http://www.cfr.org/publication/15840/"&gt;del tipo FTA&lt;/a&gt; y con la venta de armas, la ultima &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8488389.stm"&gt;$6.400 millones a Taiwán&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;b) Del mismo modo, Estados Unidos siempre ha supervisado la Unión Europea. El euro fue el resultado de un programa diseñado en varias etapas: primero, la recuperación alemana de 1945 y, posteriormente, la creación de una Uni&lt;a name="OLE_LINK10"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK9"&gt;ó&lt;/a&gt;n en torno a su economía, el Buba y la nueva moneda germana. Con un objetivo claro: hacer frente al enemigo de aquel entonces, Rusia.&lt;br /&gt;Esa recuperación alemana, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder"&gt;Wirtschaftswunder&lt;/a&gt;, se basaba en ayuda entregada por Estados Unidos, estabilidad financiera fijada por el Bundesbank y control de precios a través del Deutsche Mark (DM). Para los norteamericanos, la primera prioridad era establecer el Buba y el sistema financiero hasta el punto de que &lt;a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2667885"&gt;crearon el DM&lt;/a&gt; antes incluso que la bandera alemana.&lt;br /&gt;Alemania sustentó su desarrollo en la estabilidad del marco gracias al control interno de la inflación en vez de recurrir a ajustes del tipo de cambio. Con el tiempo, y para completar la construcción de la nueva Europa, Francia se encargaría del presupuesto (PAC). Para crecer, cada cierto tiempo &lt;a href="http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/International/?view=usa&amp;amp;ci=9780198773245"&gt;nuevos países se tenían que adherir&lt;/a&gt;. Mano de obra barata y nuevos mercados para productos del norte.&lt;br /&gt;El papel de España&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK7"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK12"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK11"&gt;¿&lt;/a&gt;Y qué tiene esto que ver con nuestra crisis? Pues mucho. China empieza a interferir en la Unión cada vez más hasta el punto que es el segundo mayor socio de la UE y &lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/bilateral-relations/countries/china/"&gt;la UE es el mayor socio comercial de China&lt;/a&gt;. Una cooperacion que no sólo opera en términos comerciales sino a través de su inversión en deuda soberana europea de &lt;a href="http://www.safe.gov.cn/model_safe/news/new_detail.jsp?ID=90000000000000000,773&amp;amp;id=2"&gt;los $2 trillones de sus reservas&lt;/a&gt; de modo selectivo. No compra cualquier deuda.&lt;br /&gt;Y es aquí donde entra España en juego. China ya es el &lt;a href="http://www.tesoro.es/doc/SP/home/estadistica/10.xls"&gt;segundo mayor comprador de deuda publica soberana española&lt;/a&gt; (3). Su presencia no deja de crecer, sobre todo desde el 2008 (Nota: interesante la evolución de Alemania y Luxemburgo deshaciendo posiciones y Francia ganándolas. ¿Se acuerdan del cambio de Primary Dealers del Tesoro?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Por qu&lt;a name="OLE_LINK5"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK2"&gt;é&lt;/a&gt; iba China a comprar deuda soberana española? ¿Cómo podría China ayudar a España a salir de sus crisis? ¿Y a cambio de qué? Porque España tiene algo valioso que ofrecer a China en esta guerra, el derecho de “veto” sobre tres materias cruciales en la Unión: política exterior, defensa y fiscalidad (sobre todo de cara a las Perspectivas Financieras 2014-2021) lo que de facto le facilitaría la capacidad de influir en decisiones claves de la política comunitaria.&lt;br /&gt;España podría “poner una vela a Dios y otra al diablo” a fin de recibir ayuda del mejor postor para salir de la crisis. Un euro con problemas afecta a las exportaciones de China y favorece al dólar. Hace parecer a la economía americana y a su deuda como “saludable” (Indonesia y su reciente decisión sobre la deuda estadounidense) en relación con el quimérico euro y la frágil Unión.&lt;br /&gt;España por si sola no tiene capacidad para salir de la crisis (aun acometiendo las reformas que pedirá la Comisi&lt;a name="OLE_LINK18"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK16"&gt;ó&lt;/a&gt;n) y necesitará ayuda exterior. Si de Alemania nada se puede esperar, solo hay dos fuentes capaces de proporcionarla, el FMI y el SAFE (el CIC).&lt;br /&gt;Por ahora, &lt;a href="http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/china-arms-embargo.2f5"&gt;no se está haciendo tan mal.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK24"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK23"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;No quedan más soluciones ni mucho más tiempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) En diciembre pasado, China vendió $34.000 millones de deuda EEUU lo que hizo que por primera vez desde el 2005 ya no sea el principal poseedor de su deuda. A titulo anecdótico, la FED contempla un caso que permite al Gobierno EEUU &lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section25c.htm"&gt;no tener que pagar las deudas con un país exterior&lt;/a&gt;…y que aún esta vigente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) China podría haber creado la crisis en EEUU a través de &lt;a href="http://www.riskmetrics.com/publications/working_papers/default_correlation.html"&gt;David Li&lt;/a&gt;. Algunos creen que es “curioso” que el m&lt;a name="OLE_LINK20"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="OLE_LINK19"&gt;á&lt;/a&gt;s brillante matemático chino saliera libremente de China para acabar en JP Morgan donde crearía el soporte que permitió la burbuja de derivados. Creen “curioso” que después de la explosión de la crisis retornara a China para trabajar para el Gobierno. Curiosidades de las finanzas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) Incluyendo las compras de terceros y privados y sobre los no residentes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-5480208309188777382?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/5480208309188777382/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=5480208309188777382' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5480208309188777382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5480208309188777382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2010/02/espana-aliada-de-china-en-su-lucha.html' title='España, ¿aliada de China en su lucha contra Estados Unidos?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-8339585132838790213</id><published>2010-02-18T10:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T10:19:21.399-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Japanese Medical Tourism</title><content type='html'>Medical Tourism a Non-starter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is very obvious that the Japanese hospital system is ina state of crisis. In the last couple of years there havebeen frequent reports of people dying in the back ofambulances because hospitals are rejecting them due toa shortage of emergency care doctors. The fact is thatthere is not only a shortage of people -- both doctors andnurses, but also a growing shortage of beds as well, dueto the poor financial condition of many hospitals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rare news report on the subject surfaced last year sayingthat of the nation's 7,785 non-psychiatric hospitals, atleast 600-700 of them were operating in the red and that ofthe 80-90 or so hospitals closing down each year (HealthMinistry statistics), about half of them were closingbecause of financial problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This deplorable situation is, in our opinion, of thegovernment's and medical profession's own making -- withplenty of help from the nation's aging society and thedomestic economic slump.&lt;br /&gt;The first reason for our placing the blame is based on thefact that it is still illegal for a company to own andoperate a hospital, and instead only qualified doctors mayhead up a facility. This rule could only have been dreamedup to protect doctors' privileged positions in society sinceexperience abroad proves that companies are indeed verycapable of operating a care facility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we realize that some companies such as home/officesecurity firm Secom have found ways around this ownershiplaw by appointing doctors to run a facility owned by them,but it's not a strong value proposition for investors whenyou could technically be in breach of the law at any time.As a result, hospitals are seldom run as sound commercialoperations -- and yet they still have to make profits inorder to pay salaries, equipment, and building costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another issue is the "addiction" of general hospitalsnationally to prescription and services reimbursements bythe government as their main source of income. This is ofcourse what happens when you have a universal butcompulsory public health system that pretty much excludesprivate health care and is set up to allow doctors toover-prescribe (up to 50% more prescriptions compared tothe U.K., for example) as a way to make extra cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Japanese public medical system currently allows forabout 5,400 procedures, each of which is strictly regulatedin terms of price and method in order to qualify forgovernment reimbursement. This system does indeed providea certain baseline of public health care, but not muchelse. You can forget about discretionary procedures as wellas new drugs and treatments from overseas that haven't yetgone through the very slow approvals process from theMinistry of Health. If you want options, you'd be best servedhopping on to a plane to Thailand or Malaysia and buyingworld-class services at highly discounted prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then of course there is the fact that the system was neverintended to deal with the current flood of old people.Despite the fact that the Japanese are the healthiestamongst citizens of advanced nations around the world, thedemand for hospital beds and lifestyle disease treatmentscontinues to escalate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result, the pressure is on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The financial crisis for many hospitals has come about asthe government continues to seek ways to cut its annualspending. Targeted are all types of medical costs, butparticularly the massive amounts of fixed feereimbursements for services and drugs. The cost cutting gota boost with the Koizumi administration in 2002, when theco-payment costs for seniors was increased and an emphasiswas placed on moving from original-maker drugs to generics.The use of generics has since increased dramatically andthe government now has a goal of making 30% of all drugsprescribed to be generics by 2012, up from 18.7% in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the scenario is ugly: an ossified system ofself-interested owners (well, the successful ones, anyway)and single-source profits that between them precludeentreprenuership and price/services differentiation. Nowthat the main source of income is getting squeezed off bythe government, what are financially struggling hospitalsto do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that one idea is to start selling services to anew category of user who is NOT bound by the rules of theJapanese health system and its pricing restrictions -- thatof the medical tourist. The Japan Tourism Agency has saidit will launch a trial program from this April to startattracting wealthy Chinese who might be interested inhaving medical procedures conducted in Tokyo. No doubt theyare trying to follow the lead of the very successfulmedical tourism sector in Thailand, where 1.36m peopletraveled for medical services that cost just 20% to 30%of similar operations/treatment in the USA and Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Agency is cooperating with about ten hospitals in Japan(mainly in Tokyo) and some university hospitals in Beijing,such as the Tsinghua University hospital. The focus will beon brain surgery, plastic surgery, and oncology. While thissounds like it could be a good idea, the JTA has admittedthat it has a number of challenges, including language,payment methods, and "other" issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We spoke with medical industry expert, John Wocher ofKameda Hospital in Chiba, about the feasibility of such aprogram. He pointed out many problems with bringing Chinesepatients into Japan, the least of which is the simplematter of getting cooperation from the immigrationauthorities. Specifically he mentioned the case of a Chinesepatient who was only provided a visa after THREE MONTHS ofsupplying detailed documentation of his medical need to theJapanese consulate in China. The patient was consistentlyrefused a visa despite Kameda's acceptance of the personfor treatment. Finally he was let in on a visa allowing himto visit a relative who coincidentally is living here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wocher then went on to say that Korea already has a medicalvisa and it is very easy to apply for. It looks like we have yetanother example of internationalization where the Koreansare leaving Japan behind in the dust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other problems with medical tourists are likely to be:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Logistics -- Specialized transportation may be neededfrom the airport (expensive)&lt;br /&gt;* Language -- Chinese-Japanese interpreter may be needed ona continuous basis (expensive and difficult)&lt;br /&gt;* Legal -- Informed consents for operations, etc., areneeded in Chinese, specific to procedure&lt;br /&gt;* Fees -- How much to charge? Chinese don't have a nationalinsurance system matched by employers&lt;br /&gt;* Payment methods -- Bank transfers, UnionPay?&lt;br /&gt;* Culture -- Wealthy patients are demanding -- are Japanesehospitals ready to treat their patients as customers andnot as children? We wonder...&lt;br /&gt;* Amenities -- Most Japanese hospitals have utilitarianrooms -- which may be quite unsuitable for wealthy patients&lt;br /&gt;* Medical Records -- Need ability to receive adequatemedical history and documentation on existing work done&lt;br /&gt;* Post-operative follow-up -- Who will do this and how willthey communicate?&lt;br /&gt;* Accompanying family -- Do they also get visas?&lt;br /&gt;* Religious Facilities -- How many Japanese hospitals haverooms marked with the direction of Mecca?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck JTA...! We think the answer to making Japanese hospitals more profitable is much simpler:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Allow people to pay extra to get services on top of government reimbursed treatments, instead of the currentall-or-nothing approach.&lt;br /&gt;* Let companies own and operate hospitals so as to providea parallel private medical care system (freedom of choice)&lt;br /&gt;* Open up the medical sector to commercial competition fromforeign companies (now that's REALLY radical!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From: &lt;a title="" href="http://www.japaninc.com/terries_take" rel="tag" jquery1266516781554="96"&gt;Terrie's Take&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href="http://www.japaninc.com/"&gt;www.japaninc.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-8339585132838790213?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/8339585132838790213/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=8339585132838790213' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8339585132838790213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8339585132838790213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2010/02/japanese-medical-tourism.html' title='Japanese Medical Tourism'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7421030182559536367</id><published>2009-06-16T01:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T01:37:18.134-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Estreno en El Prat</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Enrique Badía/ Estrella Digital&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los cálculos varían en función de quien los esgrime, pero en todo caso han pasado bastantes años desde que Barcelona comenzó a reclamar la ampliación del aeropuerto de &lt;a href="http://www.expansion.com/2009/06/16/empresas/1245103854.html"&gt;El Prat&lt;/a&gt;. Mañana entrará al fin en servicio la nueva T-1, que prácticamente permitirá duplicar su teórica capacidad. Cuestión distinta será que se materialice el resto de cosas que de siempre se han esgrimido como elemento de agravio, sobre todo desde que en Madrid-Barajas se añadió la un tanto grandilocuente T-4, con todo lo que ha dado de sí en términos de comparación.&lt;br /&gt;Como casi todas las obras públicas, esta de El Prat ha discurrido salpicada de polémicas que es poco probable desaparezcan con el acto de inauguración. Han sido de diversos tipos, con desigual grado de eco y agitación, no siempre del todo correspondiente con la trascendencia en términos de uso y funcionalidad. Habría que destacar quizás la enésima omisión del concepto intermodal que suele caracterizar la ejecutoria de las administraciones y entes públicos; en este caso concreto, AENA, titular exclusivo de la red de aeropuertos públicos españoles.&lt;br /&gt;Tampoco las estimaciones de plazos coinciden, pero la más ajustada señala que se ha tardado alrededor de nueve años en llevar a cabo las obras. Tiempo que, sin embargo, no ha sido suficiente para que el remodelado aeropuerto disponga de una red de accesos acorde con los alrededor de 60 millones de pasajeros anuales que aspira mover: una de las carreteras más congestionadas del área metropolitana de Barcelona es el único modo de llegar a la nueva terminal. Sobre el papel se ha hablado de extender hasta allí la red de metro, así como prolongar la línea de cercanías que llega hasta los alrededores del primitivo edificio terminal, pero no es creíble que nada de eso tarde menos de tres o cuatro años, si no más.&lt;br /&gt;La reivindicación de fondo de una parte relevante de la sociedad catalana, con los líderes políticos, empresariales y mediáticos al frente, es que El Prat se potencie para convertirlo en lo que se denomina hub; esto es, cabecera y enlace de vuelos intercontinentales. Con ese propósito se ha reclamado largo tiempo dotarlo de mucha mayor capacidad. Cuestión distinta es que determinadas decisiones políticas discurran en esa misma dirección.&lt;br /&gt;Una de las incógnitas a tener presente es cómo se van a compadecer las aspiraciones de propiciar una mayor potenciación de El Prat con la política aeroportuaria del Gobierno catalán. Hace pocos meses aprobó un plan de dotación aeroportuaria que pretende primar el tráfico en Girona-Costa Brava y Reus-Costa Dorada, distantes apenas 100 kilómetros del centro de Barcelona, respectivamente en direcciones norte y sur, así como añadir hasta media docena de nuevos recintos, comenzando por la restitución operativa de los de Sabadell y La Seu d'Urgell, y la puesta en servicio el próximo otoño del construido en los alrededores de Lleida.&lt;br /&gt;No hace falta ser un experto para presumir que el resto de aeropuertos de Cataluña acabará detrayendo tráfico a El Prat, por lo que potenciarlos en paralelo habrá de desembocar en la sobredimensión de alguno. Puro sentido común. De momento, la inauguración no ha tenido demasiada suerte: tras años de crecimiento apreciable del tráfico de pasajeros y mercancías, resulta que la nueva fase entra en servicio tras doce meses de caídas superiores al 10 por ciento. Y si esto es producto de la coyuntura, lo otro parece responder al hábito de considerar cada infraestructura de forma aislada, sin una visión de conjunto que haga todo más eficiente y eficaz.&lt;br /&gt;Cerrando el círculo, cabe prever que la nueva terminal será bonita, aunque no esté tan asegurado, vistos los precedentes, que usarla rebose comodidad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7421030182559536367?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7421030182559536367/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7421030182559536367' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7421030182559536367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7421030182559536367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/06/estreno-en-el-prat.html' title='Estreno en El Prat'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-5581652535670288409</id><published>2009-06-08T00:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T00:32:51.883-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Corporate governance rules divide Japan</title><content type='html'>By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo&lt;br /&gt;Published: May 28 2009 17:24 Last updated: May 28 2009 17:24&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It used to be said that Japan’s business community, bureaucracy and politicians formed an iron triangle that was a key factor in the country’s post-war industrial success.&lt;br /&gt;But a stand-off between the Keidanren, Japan’s powerful business lobby, and regulators over whether listed companies should be required to appoint outside directors has exposed cracks in the foundations of the Japanese economic edifice.&lt;br /&gt;EDITOR’S CHOICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ce7d3128-4a17-11de-8e7e-00144feabdc0.html"&gt;Tokyo plans guidelines for independent directors &lt;/a&gt;- May-26&lt;br /&gt;The Keidanren – headed by the indomitable Fujio Mitarai, chairman of &lt;a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=jp:7751" symbol="jp:7751"&gt;Canon&lt;/a&gt; – is resisting an initiative by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to require listed companies to appoint outside directors as a means to improve corporate governance.&lt;br /&gt;Japanese regulators, once criticised for their cosy relationships with companies, have joined investors in raising concerns about the impact of poor corporate governance on the future of the Japanese economy.&lt;br /&gt;The issue of outside, independent directors has been the subject of much debate in recent years, particularly after it was raised by foreign fund managers unhappy with corporate governance standards in Japan.&lt;br /&gt;Under Japanese company law, companies are free to choose between two systems of corporate governance: a system with committees, which requires the appointment of outside directors; and a statutory auditor system, which does not call for outside directors.&lt;br /&gt;In practice, although just 56 of the 2,634 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange have opted for the committee system, only 1,057 companies have outside directors. Corporate governance advocates, such as the Asian Corporate Governance Association, as well as foreign business lobby groups, including the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, believe companies should be required to have one-third of board members who are independent.&lt;br /&gt;Regulators too, including Meti, the TSE and the Financial Services Agency have been working to improve corporate governance standards. “Investors are rapidly losing confidence and interest in [the] Tokyo market . . . market players, including . . . listed companies, are facing an urgent need to restore investor confidence and interest,” the TSE noted in a recent report.&lt;br /&gt;The FSA has considered requiring mutual funds and insurance companies to disclose how they voted at shareholder meetings.&lt;br /&gt;Meti plans to compile a report next month on reforms to Japan’s system of governance, in which it would like to include some form of requirement that companies appoint independent directors, as well as a clear definition of what is meant by independence.&lt;br /&gt;But efforts by regulators to implement changes that would bring Japan’s corporate governance standards more in line with international practice have met fierce resistance from the business community. “There is no relationship between a company’s performance and whether or not they have outside directors,” says Yasuhisa Abe, director of the business infrastructure bureau of the Keidanren.&lt;br /&gt;A draft report by Meti’s Corporate Governance Study Group published on Tuesday, suggests Keidanren’s opposition is leading to a compromise solution.&lt;br /&gt;According to the draft, companies will be allowed to choose whether to appoint outside directors. But companies that do not appoint outside directors must disclose their own system of management oversight.&lt;br /&gt;The changes will make Japanese rules similar to the “comply or explain” system in the UK, whereby it is recommended companies have a majority of independent directors and if they do not, are required to explain why.&lt;br /&gt;For many investors concerned about corporate governance in Japan, the final outcome is likely to fall significantly short of what they had hoped for. As one observer notes, given the Keidanren’s power and the lack of public debate, any attempt to impose changes that the business community opposes will end up “whittled down and diluted”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-5581652535670288409?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/5581652535670288409/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=5581652535670288409' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5581652535670288409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5581652535670288409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/06/corporate-governance-rules-divide-japan.html' title='Corporate governance rules divide Japan'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-5166763381099049179</id><published>2009-04-22T01:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T01:20:38.554-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Japón registra déficit comercial por primera vez en 30 años</title><content type='html'>Publicado el 22-04-2009 , por Expansión.com&lt;br /&gt;Japón registró en el ejercicio fiscal 2008 su primer déficit comercial en 28 años, si bien en marzo el ritmo de retroceso de las exportaciones, del 45,6%, fue algo menor que el récord mínimo marcado en febrero.&lt;br /&gt;Desde abril de 2008 a marzo de 2009, el año fiscal que sirve como referencia en Japón, la balanza comercial de la segunda economía del mundo tuvo un déficit de 7.346 millones de dólares, a consecuencia de la caída récord de sus exportaciones anuales del 16,4%, informa EFE.&lt;br /&gt;Ha sido el primer descenso en siete años de las exportaciones de Japón durante un año fiscal, hasta los 720.577 millones de dólares, y también de las importaciones, del 4,1%, hasta los 727.970 millones de dólares, según el Ministerio de Finanzas.&lt;br /&gt;El déficit, que cambia la tradicional tendencia al superávit comercial de Japón, es resultado sobre todo del fuerte descenso de sus exportaciones a causa de la caída de la demanda internacional, que ha empujado a la segunda economía del mundo a su peor crisis desde el final de la II Guerra Mundial. Este es el peor resultado comercial para Japón desde 1980, después de la segunda crisis del petróleo.&lt;br /&gt;Las exportaciones de Japón a su principal mercado, Estados Unidos, bajaron el 27,2% en el ejercicio fiscal 2008, mientras las ventas a la Unión Europea (UE) retrocedieron casi un 40 por ciento en el año fiscal que concluyó el 31 de marzo. Con América Latina, sin embargo, la balanza comercial de Japón supuso apenas una caída del 2,2%, debido a que con Brasil su superávit anual creció el 75%, lo que contrarrestó los descensos del 22,7% con México y del 36,3 con Chile.&lt;br /&gt;El déficit comercial anual de Japón responde a los aumentos de precio del petróleo y otras materias primas en el primer semestre, que afectó a las importaciones, mientras en la segunda mitad del año el impacto de la crisis fue brutal sobre las exportaciones, algo especialmente evidente en Asia. Con China, su segundo socio tras Estados Unidos, Japón incrementó en un 13% su déficit comercial por primera vez en tres años, lo mismo que ocurrió con el resto de Asia, aunque ahí el retroceso fue más acusado, del 35 por ciento.&lt;br /&gt;Indicios de recuperaciónNo obstante, los analistas veían hoy indicios para el optimismo en los resultados de marzo: segundo superávit consecutivo en la balanza comercial de Japón, uno de los países más afectados por la recesión en todo el mundo según los datos macroeconómicos. El superávit fue de 111 millones de dólares, un retroceso del 99% frente al registrado en ese mes de 2008, pero las exportaciones disminuyeron el 45,6%, por debajo del 49,4% de caída en febrero, su tercer récord mínimo consecutivo. Fue especialmente significativo el dato de las ventas de bienes japoneses a China, que descendió el 31,5% en marzo, menos que el casi 40% de caída en febrero y del 45% de retroceso de enero.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-5166763381099049179?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/5166763381099049179/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=5166763381099049179' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5166763381099049179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5166763381099049179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/04/japon-registra-deficit-comercial-por.html' title='Japón registra déficit comercial por primera vez en 30 años'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2030696798839490090</id><published>2009-03-31T00:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T00:43:51.002-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El paro de Japón alcanza el 4,4%, la tasa más alta en tres años</title><content type='html'>Ref: EL CONFIDENCIAL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La tasa de desempleo en Japón subió tres décimas, en febrero, respecto al mes anterior, hasta situarse en el 4,4%, informó hoy el Gobierno. Respecto a febrero de 2008, el número de parados aumentó por cuarto mes consecutivo en 330.000 personas hasta llegar a 2,99 millones, según los datos preliminares del Ministerio del Interior y Comunicaciones, recogidos por la agencia local de noticias Kyodo.&lt;br /&gt;La tasa de desempleo de febrero sobrepasó ligeramente las previsiones de mercado que apuntaban a un aumento del paro de hasta el 4,3%, según una encuesta realizada por Kyodo. Otro informe gubernamental señaló que la cifra de ofertas de trabajo respecto a los buscadores de empleo en febrero se situó en el 0,59, por debajo del 0,63 al que apuntaban las previsiones.&lt;br /&gt;Este porcentaje indica que el pasado mes hubo 59 ofertas para cada 100 buscadores de trabajo, frente a las 67 por cada 100 disponibles en enero. Según el Ejecutivo, el número de ofertas de trabajo en febrero decreció el 6,7% con respecto al mes anterior, mientras que el número de buscadores de empleo aumentó un 4,9%. El porcentaje de ofertas nuevas de trabajo cayó el 30,1% en febrero con respecto al mismo mes del año anterior.&lt;br /&gt;Compañías como Toyota Motor o NEC están llevando a cabo fuertes despidos, aumentando las presiones sobre el Gobierno nipón para que ofrezca mayor asistencia a los desempleados, la mayoría de los cuales no reciben ningún tipo de compensación económica. Precisamente el ministro de finanzas, Kaoru Yosano, ha dicho que el Gobierno prepara un plan de estímulo a mediados de abril que incluirá, entre otras medidas, ayudas a los desempleados.&lt;br /&gt;Japón sen enfrenta a la peor recesión desde la Segunda Guerra Mundual desde que la demanda de sus vehículos y productos electrónicos se evapora. Las exportaciones cayeron casi un 50% en febrero respecto al mismo mes de 2008, un porcentaje histórico. Además, la producción industrial se contrajo un 9,4%, cuando en enero registró otra caída del 10,2%.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2030696798839490090?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2030696798839490090/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2030696798839490090' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2030696798839490090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2030696798839490090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/03/el-paro-de-japon-alcanza-el-44-la-tasa.html' title='El paro de Japón alcanza el 4,4%, la tasa más alta en tres años'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1608093508203846616</id><published>2009-02-26T08:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T08:50:51.203-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lawson to buy am/pm for JPY15 billion</title><content type='html'>Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Lawson looks to buy am/pm for ¥15 billion&lt;br /&gt;Kyodo News&lt;br /&gt;Lawson Inc., Japan's second-largest convenience store chain, said Wednesday it plans to acquire smaller rival am/pm Japan Co. for between ¥14 billion and ¥15 billion as it seeks to expand its operations in the densely populated Tokyo area.&lt;br /&gt;Lawson said it has struck a basic agreement with Rex Holdings Co., the owner of am/pm Japan, for the acquisition.&lt;br /&gt;window.google_render_ad();&lt;br /&gt;"By making am/pm (Japan), which has a concentration of store chains and customers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, one of our group firms, we will be able to attain dominance," Lawson said in a statement.&lt;br /&gt;Lawson hopes to better compete with market leader Seven-Eleven Japan Co. by taking over seventh-ranked am/pm Japan, which has over 500 convenience stores in Tokyo's 23 wards, observers said.&lt;br /&gt;The acquisition will be the first major realignment in the industry since Circle K Japan Co. and Sunkus &amp;amp; Associated Inc. integrated their operations in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;Observers said the acquisition of am/pm Japan may trigger another industrywide reshuffle as competition intensifies amid deteriorating economic conditions.&lt;br /&gt;Rex Holdings Co., which owns am/pm Japan, had been looking to sell the convenience store chain after its efforts failed to turn around the money-losing outlets.&lt;br /&gt;Lawson said it will acquire all shares of am/pm Japan for ¥1 from Rex Holdings and others in exchange for taking over am/pm Japan's interest-bearing debts of about ¥20 billion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1608093508203846616?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1608093508203846616/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1608093508203846616' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1608093508203846616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1608093508203846616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/02/lawson-to-buy-ampm-for-jpy15-billion.html' title='Lawson to buy am/pm for JPY15 billion'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3931473642904286365</id><published>2009-02-11T03:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T02:36:18.882-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Malas Noticias en cascada</title><content type='html'>The Economist, vuelve a la carga esta semana con sendas noticias (&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13059765"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13059773"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) sobre la economía japonesa, no demasiado &lt;a href="http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/TNKS/Nni20090127D27HH309.htm"&gt;optimistas&lt;/a&gt;. La verdad nada nuevo en la nevera, los cerebros integrantes de este bloggerl lo habíamos previsto un año vista, en nuestros enriquecedores debates de barra de bar.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3931473642904286365?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3931473642904286365/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3931473642904286365' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3931473642904286365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3931473642904286365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/02/malas-noticias-en-cascada.html' title='Malas Noticias en cascada'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1842121619573997790</id><published>2009-01-28T02:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T02:53:27.128-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Early in, early out" o vamos que nos vamos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SYA4fwfnU1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/zRV6St_R5nA/s1600-h/caida+jap%C3%B3n.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296295280032306002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 256px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SYA4fwfnU1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/zRV6St_R5nA/s320/caida+jap%C3%B3n.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jan 22nd 2009 TOKYO&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;From The Economist print edition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An economy not hit directly by the financial storm is shrinking much faster than any other developed one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;NO EVENT is seared upon Japan’s recent memory like the bursting of the country’s credit-inflated bubble in land and share prices after 1990. Yet, since the autumn, the speed with which Japan’s industrial output and exports have fallen almost certainly signals a slump of unprecedented severity, making Japan’s several post-bubble recessions look mild. In 1998, the worst year, the economy shrank by 2%. Most economists think it contracted by more than that in the last three months of 2008 alone. Goldman Sachs expects GDP to fall by 3.8% this year.&lt;br /&gt;After six years of growth, the longest uninterrupted post-war run, Japan entered a new recession as early as the second quarter of 2008. But in the final couple of months of the year, what at first was a fairly gentle decline morphed into something far worse than that experienced even by countries at the centre of the credit storm (see chart).&lt;br /&gt;In November the value of exports fell by 27% year on year. The picture only worsened in December with a year-on-year fall of 35%. Recession in the United States was the main cause, with exports there down by 36.9% from a year earlier. In turn, the global slump has also knocked supply chains in Asia, sending Japan’s exports to China down by 35.5% in December, with exports to Asia’s “tigers” (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) falling by even more than those to America.&lt;br /&gt;Exports account for almost half of Japan’s manufacturing output, which as a consequence is seeing its biggest falls since records began: November’s output was down by 13% on a year earlier. Orders for machine tools in December, an early indicator of things to come, were 72% lower than a year before. Hiroshi Shiraishi of BNP Paribas reckons that by December industrial output had already fallen back to its post-bubble low in 2001, wiping out the gains from six years of what had been thought to be a solid recovery. Before the slump is over, Mr Shiraishi expects production to slide back to levels last seen in 1987.&lt;br /&gt;document.write('');&lt;br /&gt;function ebStdBanner0_DoFSCommand(command,args){try{command = command.replace(/FSCommand:/ig,"");if((command.toLowerCase()=="ebinteraction") (command.toLowerCase()=="ebclickthrough"))gEbStdBanners[0].handleInteraction();}catch(e){}}&lt;br /&gt;try{ebStdBanner0_DoFSCommand(command,args);}catch(e){}&lt;br /&gt;It has not helped that the export demand that drove Japan’s economic recovery after 2002 was narrowly based on cars and consumer technology, industries that have fallen more than most. Carmakers, for instance, are roughly halving production, with consequences for makers of steel, chips and chemicals.&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the most unexpected element of the slump is the knock that domestic sentiment is taking. After all, Japan had none of the credit excesses of America and much of Europe: rather than borrow in recent years, Japan’s companies have paid off debts, while households sit on a pile of savings. The financial system is largely untainted by toxic securities and bad debts, and though the regional banks look set to start asking for public funds, the big city banks are some way from needing to do that. Still, consumer demand, never strong during the six-year recovery, has weakened fast. Year-on-year car sales are down by more than a fifth; department-store sales have fallen by nearly a tenth. On January 20th the Cabinet Office released its consumer-confidence survey for December, which marked its third consecutive all-time low. The survey points to how badly the slump has spread to services.&lt;br /&gt;ReutersThe inducements aren’t working&lt;br /&gt;To cap it all, Japan now faces the return of a ghost it thought it had banished: deflation. By the summer, prices will be falling again. To the extent that this marks a decline in energy prices since last year, it is helpful. But another persistent fall in prices would be a sign of policy failure. In December the Bank of Japan was forced to cut interest rates almost to zero, ie, back to where they last were in 2006. On January 22nd it announced expanded plans to buy commercial paper and even corporate bonds. Takatoshi Ito of Tokyo University, until recently a government adviser, thinks the bank should be doing much more, including making a clear commitment to targeting a positive rate of inflation.&lt;br /&gt;There is cause to temper the pessimism. Households still have their savings. And bank lending to companies is on the rise, though a good chunk of this is taking over from credit once supplied by capital markets, which have dried up.&lt;br /&gt;Crucially, adjustments are happening swiftly in areas that beleaguered companies tackled only slowly during the last slump, such as bloated workforces and excessive capacity. Bankruptcies of “zombie” companies long kept alive on cheap credit and an undervalued currency have soared now that credit is harder to get and the yen has risen to a fairer valuation on a trade-weighted basis. And at the end of a decade in which much more use was made of contract and temporary workers, companies are now laying these off fast. In order to reduce inventories, production is also being slashed. This marks a new flexibility in Japan’s economy.&lt;br /&gt;Unemployment, now 3.9%, may head back towards the post-bubble high of 5.5%. At the same time, the structure of the labour force may lessen the pain. As the economy recovered, many companies asked workers from Japan’s huge generation of baby-boomers to stay on past retirement age. Plenty of these will now simply retire with their pensions. Swift adjustments to workforces and inventories mean that Japan may recover sooner than other rich economies.&lt;br /&gt;But when, and how robust, that recovery will be is another matter. However fast companies are cutting capacity that once served Americans’ debt-fuelled consumption, Japan’s whole economic structure is geared towards meeting external demand. That post-war model in Japan is now bust. So too is the political system that built and guided it: after half a century of almost unbroken power, the Liberal Democratic Party, having lost its purpose, is threatened with annihilation at the polls in the next few months.&lt;a name="ageing_population,_decrepit_politics"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ageing population, decrepit politics&lt;br /&gt;Political dysfunction has now become perhaps the biggest issue for the economy. Policymakers should be debating how to foster domestic demand in an ageing and shrinking society—for instance, by dismantling regulations in health care and services for the old that benefit producers over users. Instead, the government is locked in a sterile fight, within its own ranks as well as with the opposition, over a relatively small stimulus worth ¥2 trillion ($22 billion), much of which will be pocketed by consumers, not spent. Masaaki Kanno of JPMorgan Securities thinks that a stimulus four times bigger, designed to raise productivity, is needed to counter the slump in demand.&lt;br /&gt;The government’s timidity is encouraged in part by a national debt that soared during the post-bubble years: the ratio of net debt to GDP stands at over 90%. Yet interest rates and so the cost of servicing the debt remain very low; and almost all the debt-holders are Japanese, not flighty foreigners. The risks lie in favour of more vigorous action.&lt;br /&gt;The same applies to the central bank, whose natural caution is reinforced by the absence of political direction or debate. For instance, a case might be made for the Bank of Japan, as well as clearly targeting inflation, to buy equities, so boosting commercial banks’ capital, a big part of which is made up of shareholdings whose value continued to lurch down this week. So here is the irony: whereas the rest of the rich world, starting with America, desperately seeks to avoid Japan’s experience in the post-bubble years, Japan today is condemned by its own dismal politics to drag along behind everyone else. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1842121619573997790?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1842121619573997790/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1842121619573997790' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1842121619573997790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1842121619573997790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/01/early-in-early-out-o-vamos-que-nos.html' title='&quot;Early in, early out&quot; o vamos que nos vamos'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SYA4fwfnU1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/zRV6St_R5nA/s72-c/caida+jap%C3%B3n.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-331220142676437651</id><published>2009-01-26T04:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T04:09:35.968-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FELIZ AÑO NUEVO</title><content type='html'>Nos congratulamos de nuevo con nosotros mismos por este nuevo año que nos has sido concedido para reparar todo lo deleznable del anterior. MAHOC, MAHOC!! &lt;a href="http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2009/01/07/The-Making-of-Money-Never-Sleeps"&gt;THE END IS CLOSE!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-331220142676437651?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/331220142676437651/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=331220142676437651' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/331220142676437651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/331220142676437651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2009/01/feliz-ao-nuevo.html' title='FELIZ AÑO NUEVO'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4908272620989407669</id><published>2008-12-21T04:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T04:22:55.164-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yokoso Japón</title><content type='html'>Jaime Martín* - 21/12/2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nada más desembarcar en el aeropuerto de Tokio lo primero que atrajo mi atención fueron los enormes letreros de la campaña de imagen Yokoso Japan, Bienvenido a Japón...  ¿Bienvenido a Japón? Era el lema más ingenuo que podía imaginar, ¡podría funcionar en cualquier rincón del planeta! Me pregunté si escondía algo que a mí, occidental mesetario que por vez primera pisaba suelo japonés, me estaba vedado comprender. Finalmente olvidé el tema y me dispuse a disfrutar del viaje, prometiendo que mi visión de branding del mundo no se interpondría entre mí y el país nipón. Vaya, yo sí que era ingenuo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japón es un país fascinante, y la cultura y tendencias que de allí emanan ejercen desde hace algún tiempo influencia creciente. La cocina nipona es hoy omnipresente en nuestras ciudades, los jóvenes occidentales leen manga y juegan a la play, Issey Miyake es un referente en el mundo de la moda, Murakami ha vendido más de ocho millones de libros, Toyota hace del Prius el coche más ‘verde’ del planeta y  directores extranjeros como Iñárritu (Babel) o Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) ruedan allí, no sólo porque Japón es la meta-modernidad, sino porque además vende un montón. No es la primera vez que esto ocurre. En el siglo XIX, Europa vivió una fiebre japonesa tras la apertura del país a punta de cañón por el comodoro Perry. En esos tiempos, el arte y la cultura japonesa viajaron hasta las capitales de medio mundo, conquistando el gusto de la multitud. Van Gogh o Gauguin se enamoraron de los grabados Ukiyo-e, en los cuales artistas como Hiroshige plasmaban la realidad con una sencillez nunca vista, presagiando el impresionismo e incluso el comic manga. Sigan conmigo, esto no va de pintura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tokio es el epicentro de las tendencias en Japón. Los japoneses adoran todo lo novedoso, y si se trata de artículos de lujo, mejor. En los últimos años ha surgido el fenómeno social de los solteros parásitos, jóvenes empleados que viven con sus papás y gastan todo su dinero en Vuitton o Chanel (vaya, como en España, solo que aquí no tienen un duro). En Tokio tuve la oportunidad de ver una enorme fila de chicas muy jóvenes que serpenteaba varias manzanas hasta desembocar en la recién inaugurada tienda H&amp;amp;M, la primera del país. Todos los turistas estábamos boquiabiertos ante aquel desenfreno por ser las primeras en ir a la última. Sin embargo, no es en la Chuo-Dori, la milla de oro, donde se ve lo último en tribus y moda urbana. Para eso hay que darse una vuelta por Shibuya y ver desfilar un sin fin de adolescentes emulando bebés, con pololos incluidos y pecas pintadas, chicas vestidas de criadas, chicos con chihuahuas del brazo, personajes salidos de comics manga, en fin, una carnaval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un lugar realmente fuera de lo común en Tokio es el mercado de pescado de Tsukiji. En la lonja se despachan a diario cientos de atunes. Al amanecer, los trabajadores alinean los pescados de hasta 300 kg en una nave, marcan los lotes con pintura roja, les dan un tajo en la cola, y luego los compradores toman muestras para comprobar su calidad. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos empieza la frenética puja, y poco después de allí parten los bichos para saciar el estómago de los amantes del sushi y el sashimi. Como reclamo turístico, este lugar tan poco convencional funciona y está lleno de turistas, añadiendo una capa más de atractivo a la ciudad. Curiosamente, Isabel Coixet toma la lonja como escenario en su próxima película.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otra vez mi deformación profesional se interpone entre la realidad y mi yo viajero. El turismo actual busca experiencias más allá de la fórmula de palacios, museos y jardines. Esta demanda se puede canalizar haciendo branding de lugares insospechados. París lo hace con sus cementerios y sistemas de cloacas, Tokio con su lonja y sus tribus urbanas, Los Ángeles con sus pozos de petróleo y su mercado mejicano. En segundo lugar, al igual que hay product placement en las películas y en los libros, los city placement sirven para construir imagen. La ciudad condal, con Vicky Cristina Barcelona o La sombra del viento, supera a Madrid, ciudad a la que no le vendría mal que un gran director internacional se fijase en ella para rodar su próxima película.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otra lección de branding desde Japón, especialmente ahora que tanto se habla y divaga sobre la ‘marca España’, es la amabilidad exquisita de los japoneses. El japonés hace todo lo posible para que el viajero se sienta a gusto. No gritan, sonríen, ponen suma atención en el detalle. En verano, cuando se llega a un hotel, lo primero que ofrecen es una toallita húmeda para aliviar el calor y en algunos lugares un te o un zumo. Son detalles pequeños, pero de gran importancia. Lógicamente forma parte de su cultura y de cómo son educados desde niños. En un país como España, donde tanta gente vive del turismo, y teniendo en cuenta que el modelo de sol y playa se agota, cabe pensar si el trato al turista podría mejorarse. Me contaba un amigo que en Barcelona vio como unos ingleses, tras pedir pantumaca, se comían a mordisco el tomate y el ajo, ante la indiferencia del camarero. Mi amigo por supuesto, se acercó y explicó como funcionaba aquello. Esto tal vez no sea la norma, pero para hacer de nuestro país un lugar cada vez más sugerente, la capacidad de servicio y la atención creo que deben mejorar. Detalles como ofrecer un zumo o una toallita no serían triviales, serían todo un símbolo de esa hospitalidad de la que tanto hacemos gala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al final de mi viaje, Yokoso Japan cobraba todo su sentido.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4908272620989407669?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4908272620989407669/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4908272620989407669' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4908272620989407669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4908272620989407669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/12/yokoso-japn.html' title='Yokoso Japón'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-8112752210496940484</id><published>2008-12-02T03:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T03:42:10.372-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Germany Aims to Guide the West’s Ties to Russia</title><content type='html'>MOSCOW — In the heat of the Georgia crisis in August, Chancellor &lt;a title="More articles about Angela Merkel." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/angela_merkel/index.html?inline=nyt-per"&gt;Angela Merkel&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a title="More news and information about Germany." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/germany/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"&gt;Germany&lt;/a&gt; flew to Russia to warn about the consequences of renewed militarism. Two days later she was in Georgia, voicing support for the country’s eventual entry into &lt;a title="More articles about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/north_atlantic_treaty_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;NATO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="jumpLink" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/world/europe/02germany.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp#secondParagraph"&gt;Skip to next paragraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Misha Japaridze/Associated Press&lt;br /&gt;Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany with President Dimitri A. Medvedev of Russia. &lt;a name="secondParagraph"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autumn crept in and passions cooled. The beginning of October found Mrs. Merkel back in Russia, looking on as the German utility E.ON and the Russian state energy giant &lt;a title="More articles about Gazprom." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/gazprom/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Gazprom&lt;/a&gt; signed a significant deal in St. Petersburg, giving the German firm a stake in the enormous Yuzhno-Russkoye natural gas field in Siberia.&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Merkel’s shifting focus served as a reminder of the pivotal role played by Germany in shaping the West’s relationship with Russia. It is Russia’s largest trading partner, Europe’s single biggest economy and one of America’s closest allies. Moscow’s aggressive posture has not only thrust Russia, a nuclear-armed energy power, back to the geopolitical spotlight. It has also dragged Germany there with it.&lt;br /&gt;Just as the United States is struggling to redefine its relationship with a resurgent and at times antagonistic government in Moscow, Germany is scrambling to protect the close commercial, cultural and diplomatic ties with Russia it has forged since the end of the cold war — and, in some areas, long before.&lt;br /&gt;How broad that divide has grown will become clearer this week, when NATO foreign ministers gather in Brussels. Berlin and Washington are at odds over how to deal with NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine — a tussle that at its heart is about how to deal with Russia.&lt;br /&gt;As the United States aims mainly to counter Russia’s newfound military assertiveness, Germany favors steps to develop Russia economically and ensure its political stability. Germany sees its responsibility to guide Russia, not contain it.&lt;br /&gt;The incoming Obama administration, which has vowed to pursue a new path to curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions as well as achieving other foreign policy goals that involve Russia, may find that one road to Moscow runs through Berlin. At a minimum, it seems likely to have to address Germany’s deeper interests in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;“There are serious disagreements between Washington and Berlin from which Moscow can only benefit if there is not better coordination,” said Angela Stent, who served as the top Russia officer at the United States government’s National Intelligence Council from 2004 to 2006 and now directs Russian studies at &lt;a title="More articles about Georgetown University" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/g/georgetown_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Georgetown University&lt;/a&gt;. “The Obama administration should work with the Germans as it reassesses U.S. policy toward Russia.”&lt;br /&gt;Weary of American lectures about the fact that 36 percent of the natural gas that heats German homes comes from Russia, some German politicians wonder how Americans can worry more about this energy dependence than they themselves do.&lt;br /&gt;“Many Germans believe Bush only invaded Iraq for oil, and many Americans believe Germany’s Russia policy is determined by gas,” said Karsten D. Voigt, who coordinates German-American relations in the German Foreign Ministry and who for years ran the German-Russian parliamentary group in the German Parliament. “Every German government since at least the 1970s has tried to bind Russia, and before that the Soviet Union, more closely with Europe.”&lt;br /&gt;Sergei Kupriyanov, a representative of Gazprom, said, “Our cooperation began during the cold war,” referring to deals — opposed by the United States — that laid gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in the 1970s. “The Berlin Wall still existed,” he said. “Compared to what we had then, Georgia is just peanuts.”&lt;br /&gt;Germans see not dependence on Russia, but interdependence. The &lt;a title="More articles about the European Union." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/european_union/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;European Union&lt;/a&gt;’s 27 nations account for 80 percent of the cumulative foreign investment in Russia, a fact starkly exposed — if the Kremlin ever forgot — by the flight of capital after the Georgia crisis.&lt;br /&gt;The Europeans, after Georgia, angrily froze negotiations with Russia over a new partnership agreement. Barely 10 weeks later, they decided to resume the talks. “We cannot build a European architecture against Russia or without Russia, only with Russia,” said Alexander Rahr, director of the Russian/Eurasian program at the German &lt;a title="More articles about Council on Foreign Relations" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/council_on_foreign_relations/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Council on Foreign Relations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While Germany needs Russia’s raw materials and covets the significant market there for its precision machine tools, Russia is equally dependent on European investment to diversify its economy, a fact driven home all too clearly for Russians now that the financial crisis has sent energy prices plunging.&lt;br /&gt;In the city of Yaroslavl, an automotive company, the GAZ Group, still makes diesel truck engines in a factory first built in the waning days of czarist rule in 1916. The production model evokes Soviet times, starting with iron in the foundry on the site, with workers building almost the entire engine from scratch.&lt;br /&gt;A short drive away, past clusters of birch trees, is a field of concrete, metal trusses and corrugated iron roofing. It is the beginning of a state-of-the-art production plant for the company’s new engine model, a project valued at $442 million.&lt;br /&gt;The plant sits a few hours north of Moscow by car, but the names of the suppliers sound like a roll call of German industry, with most of the new machinery and production lines supplied by German companies like Grob-Werke and ThyssenKrupp Krause.&lt;br /&gt;“Germany is, in terms of technology, expertise and know how in the automotive industry, I think the best in the world,” said Ruslan Grekov, the project director for the new engine in Yaroslavl. “Of course, Germany is different from Russia. The difference is good.”&lt;br /&gt;Such sentiments might seem surprising, even jarring, in a country where, in Soviet times, Nazis were vilified in a daily diet of war movies.&lt;br /&gt;But the bonds between Europe’s two largest countries were forged over centuries, as German nobles like Catherine the Great became Russian royalty and German generals led the czar’s armies. German craftsmen worked in Moscow while German farmers settled near the Volga River.&lt;br /&gt;The relationship has been tempered on the German side with guilt over World War II and gratitude over German reunification.&lt;br /&gt;But always the anchor has been business, with Germany’s technical skill complementing Russia’s vast resources. The German conglomerate Siemens laid the Russian state telegraph network in the 1850s. Stalin built Soviet industrial might in his first Five-Year Plan in large part with German machines.&lt;br /&gt;The current global slowdown has sent ripples of fear across Russia about a possible repeat of the 1998 collapse of the ruble. The &lt;a title="More articles about World Bank" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_bank/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;World Bank&lt;/a&gt; halved its expectation for Russian growth next year, but it was still 3 percent, whereas the German economy, already in recession, is expected to contract, making Russia all the more important as layoffs in Germany mount.&lt;br /&gt;Trade between Russia and Germany grew 25 percent to $49.3 billion in the first half of the year. Russia is one of Germany’s fastest-growing markets. Last year, German exports to Russia totaled $36 billion, more than five times the $6.7 billion exported from the United States to Russia.&lt;br /&gt;German businessmen not only work out of sales offices in Moscow or invest in the country’s rich oil and gas fields. They are all over — from Siberia to Yekaterinburg to St. Petersburg, with some 4,600 companies in all investing $13.2 billion, building factories and delivering machinery to Russians who aspire to be more than the raw-goods store for European neighbors.&lt;br /&gt;Today, Siemens is supplying Russia with its first high-speed trains, known as the Velaro RUS. The contract is worth $758 million for Siemens, half for the trains and half for servicing.&lt;br /&gt;The oligarch Roman Abramovich’s construction firm Infrastruktura announced this year that it had ordered the world’s largest drill from the German company Herrenknecht to bore tunnels in Moscow and near Sochi in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics.&lt;br /&gt;Igor Yurgens, executive board chairman at the Institute of Contemporary Development in Moscow, of which President Dimitri A. Medvedev is board chairman, said Germany was a strategic partner and the most patient investor in Russia’s future.&lt;br /&gt;“We do not have laws in this country, but we have a lot of friendships, and friendship is more important than laws,” Mr. Yurgens said, in an interview in his Moscow office just off the city’s Garden Ring Road, where sputtering old Ladas inch through jams alongside late-model Mercedes sedans. “That’s historically so. And with Germans, this is the case.”&lt;br /&gt;“On the background of this economic very strong cooperation and involvement, their criticism is taken a bit more lightly than the criticism of some others who do nothing at all, but just keep criticizing,” Mr. Yurgens added.&lt;br /&gt;When Mr. Medvedev threatened after the American election to place new missiles in Kaliningrad, the location was a symbol of the painful, complex relationship between Russia and Germany. That island of Russian territory — awkwardly perched between the NATO members Poland and Lithuania — was the German city of Königsberg before it fell to the Soviets in the wake of World War II.&lt;br /&gt;Yet in a sign of the opportunities presented by the Russian-German-American triangle, it was Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from the usually Russia-friendly Social Democrats, who issued perhaps the sternest rebuff to Mr. Medvedev. It was “the wrong signal at the wrong time,” Mr. Steinmeier said the next day.&lt;br /&gt;The incoming Obama administration, German officials say quietly, should take note. As indicated by Mr. Medvedev’s backpedaling since, the Russians apparently did.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-8112752210496940484?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/8112752210496940484/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=8112752210496940484' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8112752210496940484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8112752210496940484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/12/germany-aims-to-guide-wests-ties-to.html' title='Germany Aims to Guide the West’s Ties to Russia'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4151904208180361000</id><published>2008-11-19T03:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T04:02:51.910-08:00</updated><title type='text'>¿Deuda de EEUU denominada en yenes? El 'bono Obama' podría suceder al 'bono Carter'</title><content type='html'>elEconomista.es  11Los economistas japoneses, cada vez más preocupados por la posibilidad de que Estados Unidos pague su enorme y creciente deuda en dólares, podrían pedir que los bonos del Tesoro se emitan en yenes, según recoge el &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JK19Dh01.html"&gt;Asia Times Online&lt;/a&gt;. Y es que aunque ahora parece poco probable que EEUU suspenda pagos, un dólar débil podría ser una ayuda para aliviar el peso de la deuda del país. &lt;a href="http://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/871529/11/08/China-ya-es-el-mayor-tenedor-de-bonos-del-Tesoro-de-EEUU-por-delante-de-Japon.html"&gt;China ha superado a Japón como mayor tenedor de bonos del Tesoro de EEUU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"No hay ninguna duda de que el dólar se debilitará", dijo al periódico asiático Eisuke Sakakibara, profesor de la Waseda University. "El dólar está fuerte ahora por razones técnicas. El dinero que las firmas estadounidenses invirtieron por el mundo está siendo repatriado, provocando una compra de dólares. Pero una vez que esto termine, la moneda volverá a bajar", añadió Sakakibara.&lt;br /&gt;De hecho, los economistas japoneses ya estarían pidiendo a Obama que emita deuda en yenes y otras monedas, según el Asia Times, lo que permitiría reducir el riesgo percibido de ser tenedor de bonos estadounidenses.&lt;br /&gt;Ya lo hizo Carter&lt;br /&gt;Esta idea, de todas formas, no es nueva porque el presidente Jimmy Carter ya lo hizo en la década de los 70 a consecuencia de las crisis del petróleo con los denominados Bonos Carter. Además, en 1978 emitió deuda denominada en marcos alemanes y francos suizos para atraer a más inversores.&lt;br /&gt;"Estados Unidos se va a ver forzado a emitir bonos denominados en monedas extranjeras", explicó Kazuo Mizuno, de Mitsubishi UFJ Securities. "Estados Unidos no puede financiarse por sí mismo. El sistema financiero estadounidense no puede sobrevivir sin inversores extranjeros. Veremos Bonos Obama en el futuro", añadió.&lt;br /&gt;El yen ha sido hasta ahora una de las monedas que más se han apreciado con la crisis financiera internacional, aupado por los inversores que deshacían sus posiciones de carry trade (pedir prestado en yenes por su bajo coste y cambiarlo por otras monedas para invertir en productos que rendían más que el tipo de interés pagado en Japón).&lt;br /&gt;Así, la divisa nipona ha avanzado un 15% frente al dólar, un 33% frente al euro y un 53% frente a la libra. Así, según se revaloriza el yen disminuye el valor real de los activos de deuda denominada en dólares que compraron los inversores asiáticos, algo que no ocurriría con bonos denominados en yenes.:18 - 19/11/2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4151904208180361000?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4151904208180361000/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4151904208180361000' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4151904208180361000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4151904208180361000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/11/deuda-de-eeuu-denominada-en-yenes-el.html' title='¿Deuda de EEUU denominada en yenes? El &apos;bono Obama&apos; podría suceder al &apos;bono Carter&apos;'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2244587255896016837</id><published>2008-11-07T04:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T04:29:16.436-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><title type='text'>Los consejos de Panasonic y Sanyo aprueban una alianza de negocio y capital</title><content type='html'>Panasonic y Sanyo acordaron hoy en sendas reuniones de sus respectivos consejos de administración comenzar el proceso para una alianza de capital y de negocio entre las dos compañías.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanyo se convertirá en una subsidiaria de Panasonic, compañía conocida hasta el pasado octubre como Matsushita, y la firma resultante de la suma de ambas será la mayor del sector de la electrónica japonesa.&lt;br /&gt;Panasonic concretará una oferta en enero para adquirir la mayoría de las acciones de Sanyo, después de negociar con los principales accionistas, los bancos japoneses Sumitomo Mitsui y Daiwa Securities SMBC, y el estadounidense Goldman Sachs Group. En 2006 Sanyo emitió 300.000 millones de yenes (3.039 millones de dólares) en acciones preferentes que compraron los tres bancos. Si esas acciones se convirtieran en acciones comunes, la participación supondría el 70% de los derechos de voto de la compañía.&lt;br /&gt;Sumitomo Mitsui y Daiwa Securities están básicamente a favor de la intención de compra de Panasonic, según las fuentes de Kyodo, pero Goldman Sachs no ha mostrado una intención clara.&lt;br /&gt;Si la operación se lleva a cabo con éxito Panasonic y Sanyo deberán solucionar la duplicación de operaciones como la producción de semiconductores y electrodomésticos, pero probablemente se mantendrán tanto los sistemas de operaciones, como la fuerza laboral y la marca de Sanyo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2244587255896016837?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2244587255896016837/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2244587255896016837' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2244587255896016837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2244587255896016837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/11/los-consejos-de-panasonic-y-sanyo.html' title='Los consejos de Panasonic y Sanyo aprueban una alianza de negocio y capital'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4837666566295209628</id><published>2008-11-03T09:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T09:44:44.886-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Algunas lecciones de la crisis japonesa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SQ84PCVvXeI/AAAAAAAAADc/ocicWbp8fRA/s1600-h/1225710686_extras_ladillos_1_g_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264488320396647906" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 141px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SQ84PCVvXeI/AAAAAAAAADc/ocicWbp8fRA/s200/1225710686_extras_ladillos_1_g_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Publicado el 03-11-2008 , por José Carlos Díez. Economista jefe de InterMoney &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En 1991, la bolsa japonesa y los precios inmobiliarios se desplomaron y provocaron la peor crisis de un país desarrollado desde la Gran Depresión. El sistema bancario había financiado toda aquella locura y el desplome del valor de los colaterales provocó una quiebra sistémica, cuyo saneamiento ha costado el 15% del PIB japonés.&lt;br /&gt;La principal característica de la crisis fue la inacción, tanto de los responsables de la política económica como de las empresas y de los bancos.&lt;br /&gt;Cuando comenzaron a tomar medidas, el sistema financiero estaba quebrado, la economía entró en una trampa de la liquidez keynesiana, la política monetaria perdió efectividad y el policy mix de política económica fue desastroso, especialmente la política cambiaria y fiscal que acabaron neutralizando sus efectos restando efectividad a las medidas. A continuación, se va analizar las consecuencias de la crisis, que más de tres lustros después mantienen a la economía nipona al borde de la deflación.&lt;br /&gt;La deflación malignaLa deflación es una patología atípica y es lógico que los economistas nos preocupemos más de proteger a las economías de la inflación que es más habitual. Pero, Japón es un ejemplo de la deflación y sus efectos deben hacer que cualquier sociedad tome las medidas que sean necesarias para protegerse de ella.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En el gráfico 1 se puede observar la debilidad del crecimiento de del PIB que ha registrado un crecimiento promedio anual de 1,3% desde 2001 hasta 2007. Destaca la debilidad del consumo privado y la inversión y la fortaleza de las exportaciones.&lt;br /&gt;Cuando las familias tienen expectativas deflacionistas retrasan sus decisiones de consumo, especialmente de bienes duraderos, ya que esperan que al año siguiente podrán comprar los bienes más baratos.&lt;br /&gt;La debilidad de consumo estanca las ventas de las empresas y la deflación de precios, junto a salarios nominales rígidos a la baja, hunde los márgenes empresariales, lo cual elimina cualquier incentivo a invertir en nuevos proyectos empresariales e incluso en proteger a la capacidad instalada de su depreciación.&lt;br /&gt;Esto explica que la tesis de Keynes en la teoría General fuera que ante la contracción de la demanda efectiva, tenía que ser el gasto público el que compensase los efectos de deflación para evitar en una caída en picado de la acumulación de capital que hundiese el crecimiento potencial.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por fortuna para Japón, la burbuja se concentró en el precio de los activos inmobiliarios y de las acciones pero no se contagió al resto del mundo, por lo que gracias a su elevada capacidad tecnológica la economía puede mantener el crecimiento y la acumulación de capital vía exportaciones. Eso libró a Japón de la pobreza extrema que si se produjo en la Gran Depresión.&lt;br /&gt;En el gráfico 2 se puede observar cómo el sector público tardó varios años en implementar políticas fiscales expansivas y cuando lo hizo fue ineficaz, al no priorizar el gasto en infraestructuras y acompañarlo de medidas de liberalización de sus economías para aumentar el crecimiento potencial. &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SQ84bW-NrtI/AAAAAAAAADk/Pgm8cIQAFQQ/s1600-h/1225710686_extras_ladillos_2_g_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264488532093546194" style="WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 147px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SQ84bW-NrtI/AAAAAAAAADk/Pgm8cIQAFQQ/s200/1225710686_extras_ladillos_2_g_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ConclusionesAunque en la actual crisis también hay deflación de activos, por fortuna hay muchas diferencias que alejan el caso japonés del escenario central, aunque el riesgo sigue existiendo. La principal es que al ser una crisis de activos, el desplome de los mercados, especialmente de las bolsas, ha hecho que la sociedad sea consciente de la gravedad de la crisis y ha favorecida la acción de los Gobiernos.&lt;br /&gt;Las primeras medidas han sido apuntalar el sistema financiero y recapitalizar a los bancos más afectados, pero ahora ha llegado la hora de la política fiscal. En las últimas décadas el paradigma liberal del minimalismo público «menos estado es más» ha primado la rebaja de impuestos. A partir de ahora, la incertidumbre es máxima y la bajada de impuestos puede ser destinada por las familias al ahorro, por lo que replicaríamos la trampa de la liquidez keynesiana que ha asolado Japón.&lt;br /&gt;El gasto público tiene un efecto multiplicador y acaba arras-trando al sector privado al reactivar el empleo y las rentas salariales. Lo relevante es tener presente que el Estado no puede suplantar al sector privado permanentemente y que debe priorizar el gasto en infraestructuras. El anuncio de fuertes emisiones de deuda pública mundial ha provocado un aumento de las pendientes de las curvas de tipos, lo cual nos aleja del caso japonés. Sin duda, una gran noticia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4837666566295209628?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4837666566295209628/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4837666566295209628' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4837666566295209628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4837666566295209628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/11/algunas-lecciones-de-la-crisis-japonesa.html' title='Algunas lecciones de la crisis japonesa'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SQ84PCVvXeI/AAAAAAAAADc/ocicWbp8fRA/s72-c/1225710686_extras_ladillos_1_g_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4563241201338338634</id><published>2008-10-22T09:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T02:15:09.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Santander writes a new chapter as it emerges as banking predator</title><content type='html'>By Victor Mallet&lt;br /&gt;Published: October 21 2008 03:00 Last updated: October 21 2008 03:00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emilio Botín, chairman of Santander and the third person of that name to head the Spanish bank since it was founded in 1857, makes the art of banking sound deceptively simple even in the midst of a global financial crisis.&lt;br /&gt;The world's banks, Mr Botín said last week, needed to focus on customers, make the most of recurrent business, manage risks prudently and reinforce corporate governance.&lt;br /&gt;Under Mr Botín, now 74, Santander has expanded rapidly in Europe and the Americas over the past two decades. Yet envious executives at rival banks are asking whether Mr Botín, for all his sermons, has overreached himself with his latest round of acquisitions.&lt;br /&gt;Merrill Lynch yesterday listed Santander as one of the big European banks that might need to raise more capital.&lt;br /&gt;Shares in Santander, the biggest bank in the eurozone by market capitalisation, have been pummelled along with those of other banks during the crisis.&lt;br /&gt;Santander, however, has emerged not only as a survivor but as a predator exploiting the credit crunch to purchase weaker banks.&lt;br /&gt;José Antonio Alvarez, chief financial officer, said recently that Santander could benefit from a "winner takes all" market in the crisis "by rescuing falling banks at attractive prices".&lt;br /&gt;Five days later, Santander announced a $1.9bn deal to buy Sovereign Bancorp of the US.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, Mr Botín had boasted to shareholders: "We are really in a magnificent position compared with our competitors."&lt;br /&gt;Having bought Abbey National, Alliance &amp;amp; Leicester and the deposits and branches of the nationalised Bradford &amp;amp; Bingley, Santander is now a force in British retail banking as well as in Spain and Latin America.&lt;br /&gt;Santiago López Díaz, an analyst for Credit Suisse, says the crisis has given Santander the chance to make acquisitions far more cheaply than in its dozens of previous deals.&lt;br /&gt;"Right now Santander, in relative terms, is in a much better position than most of the European banks," he says.&lt;br /&gt;Santander has succeeded with the help of a lot of skill and a little luck.&lt;br /&gt;As Mr Botín likes to remind his listeners, risk control requires hard work, not fancy innovations.&lt;br /&gt;Five directors on Santander's risk management committee meet twice a week for at least four hours. The bank's good fortune in this crisis is in its focus on retail rather than investment banking, and in the Bank of Spain's determined opposition as national regulator to the off-balance-sheet assets that turned toxic and sank banks elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;That still leaves Santander, which aims to increase net profit this year by 10 per cent to €10bn ($13.3bn), exposed to any weakness in key markets such as the UK, Spain and Latin America, and to the wholesale financing drought that is affecting the entire international banking system.&lt;br /&gt;Even in these areas, however, analysts believe the risks are limited.&lt;br /&gt;In Spain, for example, property developers, the borrowers most exposed to the country's residential property crash, account for only 6.8 per cent of Santander's portfolio of well provisioned Spanish assets.&lt;br /&gt;Santander is a heavy user of wholesale finance - it needs more than a quarter of the €80bn that matures and needs refinancing for Spanish banks next year, according to one market analyst - but it has industrial assets to sell if needed.&lt;br /&gt;Its senior executives, furthermore, helped persuade José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, to promise up to €150bn in asset purchases and state guarantees to keep the country's banks liquid up to the end of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;"We feel comfortable with their [Santander's] liquidity position," says Maria Cabanyes of Moody's, the credit rating agency.&lt;br /&gt;One concern is that Santander might have extended too much capital on acquisitions, leaving it vulnerable in a world populated by rival banks that have received emergency capital injections from their respective governments.&lt;br /&gt;The latest deals, however, have only a small impact on Santander's core capital ratio - a reduction of 20 basis points in the case of the Sovereign deal - and senior executives say they will be devoting their time to consolidating what they have bought and rebuilding core capital from just under 6 per cent now to over 7 per cent at the end of next year.&lt;br /&gt;Thereafter, the chances are that Santander, once an obscure provincial bank, will set out again on the global acquisition trail under Mr Botín or his successors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/copyright"&gt;Copyright&lt;/a&gt; The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4563241201338338634?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4563241201338338634/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4563241201338338634' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4563241201338338634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4563241201338338634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/santander-writes-new-chapter-as-it.html' title='Santander writes a new chapter as it emerges as banking predator'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-5694226998991845596</id><published>2008-10-21T04:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T04:43:02.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are we in danger of turning Japanese?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SP3AHVnByzI/AAAAAAAAADU/wpzVb5tcKqc/s1600-h/PF-Japan_1012382c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259571172131064626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SP3AHVnByzI/AAAAAAAAADU/wpzVb5tcKqc/s200/PF-Japan_1012382c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Japan's stock market lost more than three quarters of its capital over two decades - it might be enough to bring tears to the eyes of even the most inscrutable investor. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Pushing on a string'' might sound like a daft if harmless activity but I fear it will be seriously bad news for all of us if the phrase ever enters mainstream usage.&lt;br /&gt;Devotees of the dismal science of economics use it to describe the point at which interest rate cuts and other attempts to boost activity - such as pumping billions into bust banks - fail to restore confidence.&lt;br /&gt;For a Chancellor or Prime Minister to discover he is pushing on a string is akin to a sailor being blown onto a leeward shore and, seeing he is running out of sea room, discovering that the auxiliary engine will not start.&lt;br /&gt;I first heard the phrase nearly 20 years ago when the Japanese stock market began its long decline from a peak of 38,000 in the Nikkei index, despite a series of increasingly desperate rate cuts. It came to mind again this week when the Tokyo market fell by another 11pc overnight to stand below 8,500 on Thursday. Losing more than three quarters of your capital over two decades might be enough to bring tears to the eyes of even the most inscrutable investor.&lt;br /&gt;While we should always take a long-term view of equity-based investment, there is a limit to what human flesh can bear - or, as the economist John Maynard Keynes put it: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.''&lt;br /&gt;Here and now, the Japanese experience is a terrifying reminder that some stock market sagas do not have a happy ending - as I pointed out in this newspaper in August, 2007, when the credit crunch began to bite.&lt;br /&gt;Again, in an article headed "Western banks sink in the shadow of the rising sun'' in March this year, I wrote: "First there was Northern Rock in Newcastle; now there is Bear Stearns in New York. With banks being bailed out by taxpayers on both sides of the Atlantic, no wonder investors have that sinking feeling.&lt;br /&gt;"While government intervention has prevented either bank going bust, it might be dangerously complacent to underestimate the seriousness of the global credit crisis. At worst, we could be looking at a repeat of what happened in Japan 19 years ago. Then, as now, banks got into trouble with rash lending against what proved to be grossly inflated property values.&lt;br /&gt;"Before the bubble burst, the ground occupied by the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was valued at rather more than all the real estate in California and the shares on the Nikkei index were briefly priced at more than all those in America.&lt;br /&gt;"Bearish analysts say the main reason that the market has failed to recover is that Japanese banks were propped up by government intervention, which allowed huge losses on bad debts to remain unrealised. International institutions were not fooled and the guilty banks have been unable to borrow - or lend - on normal terms since then.&lt;br /&gt;"Once confidence has been destroyed it is very difficult to restore. Without confidence, there can be no credit - at any price.&lt;br /&gt;"Nobody knows what share prices will do next week or next year. That does not matter for most pension savers who do not plan to retire next week or next year. History strongly suggests the best returns will be received by those who wait for the odds to work in their favour. Selling now will certainly turn paper losses into real ones.''&lt;br /&gt;That is as true now as it was then. Unfortunately, it is also a fact that shares in London have lost about a third of their value since then.&lt;br /&gt;No wonder more people are beginning to worry about parallels with the Land of the Rising Sun - and whether its past may foreshadow our future. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-5694226998991845596?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/5694226998991845596/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=5694226998991845596' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5694226998991845596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5694226998991845596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-we-in-danger-of-turning-japanese.html' title='Are we in danger of turning Japanese?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SP3AHVnByzI/AAAAAAAAADU/wpzVb5tcKqc/s72-c/PF-Japan_1012382c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2446978690083726985</id><published>2008-10-21T01:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T01:25:08.089-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><title type='text'>Financial crisis is shifting power to Asia, says HSBC boss Stephen Green</title><content type='html'>THE crisis consuming global markets is part of a fundamental shift of power from the US to emerging economies in China and the Middle East, according to Stephen Green, chairman of HSBC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Katherine Griffiths, Financial Services Editor Last Updated: 7:30AM BST 21 Oct 2008&lt;br /&gt;Speaking at a financial conference in Dubai, the banker also condemned the financial model that has led to the crisis as "bankrupt".&lt;br /&gt;The crisis, probably the worst since the 1929 Wall Street crash, will offer several lessons, Mr Green said, but added that the underlying trend of movement from West to East would "not be derailed".&lt;br /&gt;"The rebalancing of the global economy towards Asia, home to over half the world's population, and its implications for the Middle East, is the shift that will affect financial markets most profoundly," he said.&lt;br /&gt;He pointed to the implosion in sub-prime mortgage lending in the US as the flashpoint but added it was "far from the only villain in town".&lt;br /&gt;"The complexity and opacity of certain financial instruments reached a point where even senior and experienced banks had trouble understanding them, let alone investors," he said.&lt;br /&gt;Sub-prime lending exploded because bankers found ways to package up the debts and sell them on. Driving the process was Western consumption, fuelled by cash pumped into the US and elsewhere from developing countries, where savings surpluses have built up, Mr Green said.&lt;br /&gt;The HSBC chairman also criticised the bonus culture at banks, "which has so often encouraged too much opacity and excessive risk-taking".&lt;br /&gt;He added that the "high-leverage model of finance is bankrupt" and said securitisation of loans would survive. "You cannot bring the whole of the world's capital markets back on to banks' balance sheets."&lt;br /&gt;HSBC, one of the world's best capitalised major banks, has refocused on Asia and developing markets after a disastrous foray into US sub-prime lending. However, problems at its US sub-prime division, Household International, emerged much earlier than at other lenders and the bank is seen as having weathered the storm well.&lt;br /&gt;HSBC yesterday struck a £351m deal to buy almost 90pc of an Indonesian lender, Bank Ekonomi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2446978690083726985?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2446978690083726985/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2446978690083726985' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2446978690083726985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2446978690083726985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/financial-crisis-is-shifting-power-to.html' title='Financial crisis is shifting power to Asia, says HSBC boss Stephen Green'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1287146856323433526</id><published>2008-10-10T01:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T01:42:15.458-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nepotism?</title><content type='html'>Diet 'juniors' and Japan's politics of descent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=PHILIP"&gt;PHILIP BRASOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the busiest people on TV right now is Daigo Naito, a 30-year-old who dresses and gesticulates like a rock star while speaking in the tones of a narcotized 16-year-old. Daigo isn't a comedian, though his droning delivery elicits laughs, and he's not really a rock star, though he did start his show biz career with the intention of becoming one. His ubiquity is based on one thing: pedigree.&lt;br /&gt;Daigo is the grandson of late Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, and his career as a TV star took off when Takeshita's widow gave him permission to use grandpa's name when selling himself as . . . whatever. For a decade before that, Daigo struggled to make it in the world of visual-kei, a rock subgenre whose musicians dress like manga characters and play sweetened heavy metal. He fronted a group called Jzeil (pronounced "jail") and recorded an album written and produced by superstar Kyosuke Himuro, but nothing came of it. As soon as he revealed that he was the grandson of one of the most notorious "dons" of the Liberal Democratic Party, however, offers for television work poured in.&lt;br /&gt;window.google_render_ad();&lt;br /&gt;Progeny of famous people are as common in show business as divorce lawyers, but most "juniors" put in the appearance of having some sort of skill, be it acting, singing or weather reporting. Daigo has only the Takeshita name, which isn't his since his mother, Noboru's daughter, gave it up when she married. His blase-rocker act is meant to be an ironic comment on his respectable lineage, but there's no disrespect involved. Daigo owes his dead grandfather his livelihood.&lt;br /&gt;Daigo could have become a politician, and he may run for office someday after his entertainment career dries up. As with show biz, the sons and daughters of politicians don't need talent or experience to join the "family business," and it's pretty easy. According to a recent editorial in the Asahi Shimbun, "the starting line for seshu (descendant) candidates is much closer to the finish line than it is for other candidates."&lt;br /&gt;Since seshu candidates have ready-made local support and an existing political machine, their opponents have their work cut out for them. Over decades, the number of seshu politicians has snowballed, which means the government has turned into a club whose members possess the same narrow interests and values, which aren't necessarily shared by average voters. The Asahi says that the Lower House of the Diet is now about 30 percent seshu, while the Sankei Shimbun reports that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is almost 50 percent seshu. Eighty percent of Lower House candidates in 2005 who happened to be the children or grandchildren of national politicians were victorious.&lt;br /&gt;The media has never ignored this tendency, but since the process that makes it possible is democratic in principle, criticism is muted. Besides, seshu politicians are by definition celebrities, which makes it more fun to cover them. The new Aso Cabinet, however, has provoked more than the usual concern since 11 of the 18 ministers, including Aso himself, are seshu politicians. Not only that, the last four prime ministers have been seshu politicians, with the most recent three either sons or grandsons of past prime ministers.&lt;br /&gt;None of Junichiro Koizumi's forebears made it to the top, but he may be the consummate seshu politician. He is the third generation of his family to represent his district in Kanagawa Prefecture, and now his second son, Shinjiro, is being groomed for his seat, since his oldest boy has already gone the Daigo route and become an actor. Koizumi Sr.'s arrogant sense of entitlement even shocks some members of the LDP. Former Nagano governor and professional gadfly Yasuo Tanaka has announced he will run against Shinjiro, since the only person who can beat a junior is a celebrity.&lt;br /&gt;In an interview in the Sankei, political analyst Taichi Sakaiya explained that the LDP's preference for less risky candidates favors seshu politicians, who attain Cabinet posts sooner than nonseshu politicians — and not because they start their careers earlier. The LDP contains competing factions, and it's difficult to satisfy all of them through strategic ministry appointments. No one in the LDP, however, objects when seshu colleagues are appointed before nonseshu colleagues who have been in the Diet longer. There is no "jealousy," says Sakaiya, who believes that Aso appointed so many seshu ministers in order to avoid intraparty strife prior to the next general election.&lt;br /&gt;Juniors are also said to be insulated from everyday reality, which is why that reporter last month asked former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda if he had ever looked at himself objectively. Fukuda, the son of former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, had no idea what the reporter was getting at and uncharacteristically lost his composure. This goes along with Sakaiya's comment that seshu politicians tend to be incautious with comments because they are always surrounded by like-minded people, but the practice of shooting from the hip seems general in the LDP regardless of whether or not dad was a politician.&lt;br /&gt;Nariaki Nakayama, who quit his transport ministry post after only five days due to outrageous remarks he made about Japan's largest teachers union and other things, is not a seshu politician, but his ascendancy in the LDP had much to do with his older wife, Kyoko, an Upper House member who achieved political stardom when she became the government's expert on the North Korean abduction issue. Supposedly, Nakayama believed his wife's favorable reputation gave him license to rail against things he felt strongly about.&lt;br /&gt;Last week the pundits on TBS's "wide show" "Ping Pong" speculated that Kyoko was busy making the rounds of people her husband had offended and apologizing for his remarks, like a mother visiting the neighbors after her little boy misbehaves in public. You don't have to be a junior to be a spoiled brat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1287146856323433526?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1287146856323433526/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1287146856323433526' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1287146856323433526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1287146856323433526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/nepotism.html' title='Nepotism?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-618106617724184753</id><published>2008-10-10T01:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T01:27:12.559-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another one bites the dust! Vol.2</title><content type='html'>La aseguradora Yamato, primera financiera japonesa en quiebra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Efe - Yokio - 10/10/2008&lt;br /&gt;Según la agencia local Kyodo, la compañía presentó hoy su solicitud de bancarrota a las autoridades niponas después de que la Bolsa de Tokio cayera en picado durante toda esta semana hasta acumular pérdidas de más del 40% desde el inicio del 2008.&lt;br /&gt;La compañía japonesa, cuyas deudas ascienden a 269.500 millones de yenes (2.719 millones de dólares), pidió amparo a la Corte judicial de Tokio bajo la ley promulgada en el año 2000 para la protección de instituciones financieras con problemas. Esa ley permite que ese tribunal dé la orden de que se mantengan los activos de la aseguradora.&lt;br /&gt;Tras el anuncio de hoy, Yamato se ha convertido en la octava compañía de seguros japonesa que quiebra desde el final de la II Guerra Mundial y en la primera compañía financiera que anuncia su bancarrota desde que la aseguradora Tokyo Life Insurance cayera en el 2001.&lt;br /&gt;Yamato Life disponía de valores por un total de 283.100 millones de yenes (2.857,6 millones de dólares) y de pólizas de seguro valoradas en 1,07 billones de yenes (10.856 millones de dólares) a finales del año fiscal 2007, que finalizó en marzo del 2008, según el diario "Nikkei".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-618106617724184753?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/618106617724184753/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=618106617724184753' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/618106617724184753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/618106617724184753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-one-bites-dust-vol2.html' title='Another one bites the dust! Vol.2'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-9009805489492973159</id><published>2008-10-07T09:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T09:05:20.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japan Version Of Subprime Crisis May Be Emerging</title><content type='html'>TOKYO (Nikkei)--Re-plus Inc., a rent guarantor, has gone bust amid successive real estate-related business failures, prompting worried industry officials to see the bankruptcy as heralding the possible onset of a Japanese version of the U.S. subprime loan crisis.&lt;br /&gt;While the crisis has forced a large number of Americans to lose their homes, the officials warn that a similar consequence may be awaiting Japan.&lt;br /&gt;Re-plus went down with liabilities totaling 32.5 billion yen. Although the sum is considerably smaller than the 255.8 billion yen left behind by Urban Corp. -- the biggest bankruptcy in Japan so far this year -- the rental home market is gravely concerned about the impact of Re-plus' failure due to its business model.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The presence of Re-plus has become noticeable recently in the market for property funds as the manager of Re-plus Residential Investment Inc., a real estate investment trust, or REIT.&lt;br /&gt;Re-plus is thought to have the biggest market share in its core business of guaranteeing rents for homes. According to data released by the company, it had 600,000 guarantee contracts as of the end of June.&lt;br /&gt;A rent guarantor pays rents for clients when they are unable to pay them. Demand for the service has grown sharply among people unable to find co-signers.&lt;br /&gt;Re-plus receives warranty fees equivalent to half of monthly rents from clients in the first year and 10,000 yen a year in the following years.&lt;br /&gt;As long as the payment ability of applicants for the service is accurately examined, the business goes smoothly. However, the screening of applications is "lax" at many guarantors, said an executive at a real estate agent.&lt;br /&gt;Re-plus started running into financial difficulty around June, often failing to make payments to landlords on time. Although the company in August attributed the delay in payments to a computer system glitch, it failed to meet obligations at the end of the month.&lt;br /&gt;On Sept. 24, Re-plus went under as a sharp increase in clients late on rents made it impossible for the firm to make payments to landlords.&lt;br /&gt;A key question is why the delinquency of rents has increased so rapidly.&lt;br /&gt;A large number of condominiums have been put on the market for rental homes because they had been on construction binges until last summer. A glut in the market for rental condos has allowed a large number of people to move in only with rent guarantee contracts requiring no security deposits, according to the president of a real estate fund.&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of Re-plus shows that the market for real estate investment has grown sharply due in part to rent guarantors' lax screening of applications.&lt;br /&gt;Another key question is what will happen to Re-plus' 600,000 clients. While they are unlikely to be forced out of their homes anytime soon due to legal protection, they will need to conclude new contracts with other rent guarantors or find co-signers.&lt;br /&gt;As landlords have become reluctant to accept guarantees from guarantor service companies, they may well increasingly reject new lease contracts.&lt;br /&gt;Because rent guarantee services are often used by people with low creditworthiness, Japan may witness its own version of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.&lt;br /&gt;The failure of Re-plus casts a shadow over the future of Japan's residential market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Translated from an article written by Nikkei staff writer Kazuhiro Kida&lt;br /&gt;(The Nikkei Veritas September 28 edition)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-9009805489492973159?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/9009805489492973159/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=9009805489492973159' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/9009805489492973159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/9009805489492973159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/japan-version-of-subprime-crisis-may-be.html' title='Japan Version Of Subprime Crisis May Be Emerging'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3167793075491260918</id><published>2008-10-03T14:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T14:15:46.606-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Algunos indicadores de "deceleración" económica</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="ampliar información" href="http://www.cincodias.com/articulo/empresas/Unilever-cierra-fabrica-Frigo-Barcelona-despide-268-personas/20081003cdscdsemp_20/cdsemp/"&gt;Unilever cierra la fábrica de Frigo en Barcelona y despide a 268 personas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="ampliar información" href="http://www.cincodias.com/articulo/empresas/caida-ventas-envia-casa-4700-trabajadores-Seat/20081003cdscdsemp_8/cdsemp/"&gt;La caída de las ventas envía a casa a 4.700 trabajadores de Seat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_portada_otrosBreves1_lnktitularNoticia3" href="http://www.hispanidad.com/noticia.aspx?ID=53109"&gt;Continúan los despidos en el sector automoción&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ERE en Bridgstone sobre el 64% de la plantilla&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_portada_otrosBreves1_lnktitularNoticia4" href="http://www.hispanidad.com/noticia.aspx?ID=53134"&gt;Las suspensiones de pagos se triplican en el tercer trimestre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un estudio pronostica que las dificultades para las empresas en suspensión seguirán hasta 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expansion.com/edicion/exp/empresas/es/desarrollo/1171634.html"&gt;UBS recorta 2.000 empleos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vamos que nos vamos amigos...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3167793075491260918?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3167793075491260918/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3167793075491260918' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3167793075491260918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3167793075491260918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/10/algunos-indicadores-de-deceleracin.html' title='Algunos indicadores de &quot;deceleración&quot; económica'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-86864455744774475</id><published>2008-09-30T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T08:10:13.881-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><title type='text'>Una de cal y otra de arena...</title><content type='html'>Time for central bankers to take Spanish lessons&lt;br /&gt;By Gillian Tett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not many banks have emerged from recent events with their reputations intact. &lt;a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=es:SAN" symbol="es:SAN"&gt;Santander&lt;/a&gt; might be the exception that proves the rule.&lt;br /&gt;A decade ago the bank was barely known outside Spain’s business community or Latin America. Now it is emerging as one of the more savvy survivors of Europe’s banking storm.&lt;br /&gt;Not only is Santander snapping up cut-price assets (such as the juiciest parts of &lt;a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=uk:BB" symbol="uk:BB"&gt;Bradford &amp;amp; Bingley&lt;/a&gt;) but it has also avoided the credit horrors that have triggered the humiliation of so many other mighty European names.&lt;br /&gt;And while that sunny vista might yet change – after all, not even bankers seem truly to know what their banks hold these days – Santander’s run looks doubly remarkable given that Spain is in the aftermath of a property boom.&lt;br /&gt;So what lies behind Santander’s seeming escape? In part, the persona of Emilio Botin, its chief executive, who has a reputation for being extraordinarily shrewd. However, another more interesting issue revolves around the way that Madrid runs its banks.&lt;br /&gt;One key factor protecting Santander from some of the global woes is the tough approach that the Spanish central bank has taken towards regulating its banks in recent years.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this decade the central bank in essence decided it disliked the idea of banks keeping vast quantities of credit assets off their balance sheets. It also quietly demanded that banks hold higher levels of reserves than international accounting laws required.&lt;br /&gt;Consequently, it furtively “gold plated” – or rewrote – European Union rules to discourage Spanish banks from creating entities such as structured investment vehicles (SIVs). And when banks such as Santander embarked on an acquisition spree in Mexico, the central bank reined them back.&lt;br /&gt;When the central bank initially took this stance, it looked pretty odd. After all, in the early years of this decade institutions such as the Federal Reserve were convinced that banks could hold less capital than before because innovation had made them less exposed to credit risk.&lt;br /&gt;However, Spain had experienced a searing domestic banking crisis two decades earlier and its central bank was consequently risk averse. It was also more willing to be maverick than, say, the Germans.&lt;br /&gt;None of this guarantees that Spain will escape the credit crisis unscathed. A domestic property bust is always painful.&lt;br /&gt;However, Madrid’s conservative stance has helped to cushion the blow of the storm. And that highlights some interesting lessons. First, it shows some of the wisest financiers are those who have experienced shocks.&lt;br /&gt;Second, Spain’s story shows it pays for small countries to challenge the dominant global consensus from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;But third, the Spanish tale shows the benefit of having central banks involved in regulation. In recent years other European banks have also become uneasy about trends in the global banking world; look at statements made by Jean Claude Trichet, ECB president, last year. Yet Mr Trichet could never turn this vague alarm into tangible controls since the ECB did not oversee the banks.&lt;br /&gt;However, as the storm grows worse in Europe’s banking world it is becoming clearer that this state of affairs will need to be reviewed. And one place to start any debate might be with an examination of why some banks are going bust – but some, such as Santander, notably are not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-86864455744774475?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/86864455744774475/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=86864455744774475' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/86864455744774475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/86864455744774475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/una-de-cal-y-otra-de-arena.html' title='Una de cal y otra de arena...'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6794989454936606296</id><published>2008-09-26T09:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T09:35:10.024-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><title type='text'>Japan finds its model back in fashion</title><content type='html'>By David Pilling, Asia Editor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When foreigners visit Japan, one of their most common gripes is the difficulty of obtaining cash from bank machines or paying for purchases with credit cards. Such basic obstacles to their red-blooded desire to spend freely and to spend often have been seen as emblematic of an anachronistic financial system that has simply failed to keep pace with modern times.&lt;br /&gt;Now laggard Japan does not look quite so stupid. Whether by luck or design, its financial institutions have been relatively unscathed by the financial crisis that has felled some of the biggest names on Wall Street. While its adventurous foreign brethren were off on a lucrative, but ultimately disastrous, spending spree, most Japanese banks continued to make the bulk of their money from old-fashioned lending.&lt;br /&gt;Now the tables have turned. This week, Nomura has picked up Lehman assets at seemingly bargain-basement prices. Mitsubishi UFJ will pay some $8bn (€5.5bn, £4.3bn) for a sizeable chunk of Morgan Stanley, one of the few US investment banks left standing.&lt;br /&gt;Yet the quick reversal of fortunes has led to remarkably little carping. “They’ve been admirably restrained considering they spent 10 years with the Americans telling them how to run things,” says Richard Jerram, economist at Macquarie Securities. “There must be a deep temptation to say: ‘You really mustn’t manipulate the market by banning short selling. You really must let this problem work out rather than having a low-transparency rescue plan,” he says, referring to continued prodding of Japan to adopt a more robust form of free-market capitalism.&lt;br /&gt;Part of the restraint is due to the fact that, in attempting to resolve the crisis, the US is practising more or less what it preached to Japan in the 1990s. Then, US officials told Tokyo, often in no uncertain terms, that Japanese banks must recognise bad debts more quickly and that the government should replenish missing capital with public funds.&lt;br /&gt;“The serious complaint about Japan was how long it took them,” says Mr Jerram. “The good thing you can say about America is that they are barely a year into this and they are throwing absolutely everything at it.”&lt;br /&gt;Teizo Taya, a board member of the Bank of Japan when that institution was being criticised for its supposedly unimaginative policy in tackling deflation, is not carping either. “They won’t listen anyway,” he says.&lt;br /&gt;But he does argue that, by aggressively lowering interest rates after the collapse of the tech bubble and after the emergence of the subprime crisis, the US response may have been just as flawed as Japan’s more conservative tack.&lt;br /&gt;Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, once famously urged the Bank of Japan to buy ketchup – in other words, any asset going – to stop deflation. But many Japanese officials privately argue that pushing interest rates too low was the cause of the bubble that has now exploded so spectacularly. They also point to the BoJ’s once unfashionable assertion – now being reassessed worldwide – that central banks should not limit themselves to targeting consumer inflation but should work out how to prick asset bubbles as well.&lt;br /&gt;One senior BoJ official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday: “I’m not saying it’s possible to detect a bubble and to stop it from bursting. But there are some things you can do.” More, for example, could have been done to take the heat out of the housing market, he said.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Taya says of US monetary policy: “The lesson they thought they had learnt may not be correct. In one sense, their policy was quite successful. They avoided an economic downturn from 2001. But they forgot about the side-effects of easy policy.”&lt;br /&gt;Japan, says Mr Taya, has benefited from the natural caution of its institutions. “Japanese are different from US investment banks. US banks just bought assets with money that they had borrowed. That business model has now collapsed.”&lt;br /&gt;But neither does he attribute the relatively healthy position of Japanese banks to wisdom. “Japanese institutions were lagging behind. I don’t think there is any positive aspect to this. Until 2005 they were busy writing down bad debt. Then there was a pause period. There was simply no time for Japanese institutions to follow suit.”&lt;br /&gt;A senior Japanese finance official puts it more succinctly. “I think this was more luck than prudence.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/copyright"&gt;Copyright&lt;/a&gt; The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6794989454936606296?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6794989454936606296/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6794989454936606296' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6794989454936606296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6794989454936606296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/japan-finds-its-model-back-in-fashion.html' title='Japan finds its model back in fashion'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6446797713635728810</id><published>2008-09-26T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T01:59:54.146-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Dos dólares por toda la división europea de Lehman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNykWKeO3dI/AAAAAAAAADM/3orCsxqIvMo/s1600-h/marcas_sobreviviran_naufragio_Wall_Street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250251966282390994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="220" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNykWKeO3dI/AAAAAAAAADM/3orCsxqIvMo/s200/marcas_sobreviviran_naufragio_Wall_Street.jpg" width="221" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;El banco japonés Nomura compró la división europea y de Oriente Medio de Lehman Brothers por sólo dos dólares con el compromiso de mantener el empleos y hacerse cargo de los gastos de personal, según informa hoy el diario económico Nikkei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Efe - Tokio - 26/09/2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La entidad japonesa se gastará decenas de miles de millones de yenes en costes de personal para mantener los empleos de las divisiones de Asia, Europa y Oriente Medio de Lehman, de las que han pasado a hacerse cargo esta semana, después de que el 15 de septiembre el banco de inversión presentara una declaración de quiebra.&lt;br /&gt;El acuerdo por el que Nomura se comprometía a conservar "una porción significativa" de los empleos de los trabajadores de Lehamn fue clave para que la casa de valores japonesa se impusiera al banco británico Barclays en la adquisición de la división europea y de Oriente Medio del banco estadounidense, según la agencia Kyodo.&lt;br /&gt;Sólo en el caso de la compra de la división asiática de Lehman, incluyendo los costes por el banco y sus empleados, los japoneses tuvieron que pagar 24.000 millones de yenes (226 millones de dólares), de acuerdo con el Nikkei.&lt;br /&gt;La compra de las tres divisiones le hubiera supuesto un desembolso de 700.000 millones de yenes (6.610 millones de yenes) en cualquier otro momento de bonanza de Lehman, según ese periódico.&lt;br /&gt;La casa de valores nipona ya ha dicho que planea mantener los puestos de trabajo de cerca de 5.500 trabajadores de Lehman Brothers, 3.000 de la división asiática y 2.500 de la parte europea y de Oriente Medio.&lt;br /&gt;Los gastos de personal le supondrán a Nomura un coste adicional al total de la operación de varias docenas de miles de yenes, según el rotativo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6446797713635728810?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6446797713635728810/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6446797713635728810' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6446797713635728810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6446797713635728810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/dos-dlares-por-toda-la-divisin-europea.html' title='Dos dólares por toda la división europea de Lehman'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNykWKeO3dI/AAAAAAAAADM/3orCsxqIvMo/s72-c/marcas_sobreviviran_naufragio_Wall_Street.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6893807071695883765</id><published>2008-09-24T07:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T07:13:58.286-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>El (des)gobierno de los bancos</title><content type='html'>Ignacio de la Torre. - 24/09/2008&lt;br /&gt;El Confidencial&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decía Keynes que es mucho más fácil para el ser humano equivocarse junto a los demás que enfrentarse a la multitud y decir la verdad. Realicemos pues hoy un keynesiano ejercicio de dificultad. Les invito a que me acompañen.&lt;br /&gt;¿Les sorprendería saber que, entre los consejeros independientes de Lehman Brothers, figuraba la anterior responsable de la Cruz Roja americana y de las Girl Scouts de ese país? ¿Conocían que otro de los consejeros independientes del quebrado banco llevaba 23 años dedicado a la producción de obras de teatro en Broadway?* La mitad de los consejeros de Merrill Lynch no tenía experiencia en banca. Como nos recordó Peter Hahn en el WSJ**, el antiguo presidente del denostado Northern Rock era un periodista científico. Los consejeros “independientes” de ABN en el penoso tiempo que llevó a su adquisición, disfrutaban de una media de ocho consejos, manipulando su independencia con el resultante escaso tiempo y abundante retribución.&lt;br /&gt;Además, en el consejo de &lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/ficha_valor/indice.asp?meva=LDRBOS&amp;amp;carpeta=footsie" target=""&gt;Royal Bank of Scotland&lt;/a&gt;, que compró ABN con una prima de un 70% en una de las adquisiciones más disparatadas de la historia, figuraban cinco consejeros a las órdenes del presidente. Luego hacía falta que nueve de los once independientes se alinearan contra el presidente para frenar tal alocada operación. No ocurrió, y como consecuencia de la misma el RBS tuvo que realizar la mayor ampliación de capital de la historia de Europa, con fortísimas diluciones para sus accionistas. Respecto a &lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/ficha_valor/indice.asp?meva=VXUBSN&amp;amp;carpeta=smi" target=""&gt;UBS&lt;/a&gt;, sólo tres de sus doce consejeros tenían conocimientos de banca. De ellos, dos en banca privada. Tan sólo uno, el antiguo presidente Marcel Ospel, conocía la banca de inversión, aunque su experiencia no se centraba en los derivados hipotecarios que provocaron las pérdidas del coloso suizo.&lt;br /&gt;¿Creen que esta mezcolanza de autores teatrales o girl scouts conocía lo que era un CDO? ¿Un CDO al cuadrado? ¿Un CDS? ¿Un CLO? ¿Un SIV? ¿Un conduit? ¿Un préstamo puente? ¿Un monoline? Yo no tengo tampoco claro que los consejeros con supuesta experiencia financiera supieran un ápice sobre estos temas. Y, paradójicamente, estas instituciones han perdido 600.000 millones de dólares en estos instrumentos que poco o ningún miembro del Consejo de Administración entendía. Soy consciente de que esta ineptitud e ignorancia no es el único responsable de todo este desastre. Los esquemas retributivos asimétricos, una mala supervisión bancaria, el modelo de originar y distribuir, y sobre todo la suicida política que llevó la FED durante 2003-2005 al mantener tipos a niveles muy inferiores a los que habría debido, entre otros, tienen su parte de culpa. Sin embargo, apenas se ha escrito sobre los muy diversos consejos de los bancos. De ahí el presente artículo. ¿Se merecían las primas que cobraban?&lt;br /&gt;Hace tiempo leí una columna del Financial Times firmada por un corresponsal que había visitado una escuela de negocios norteamericana. En el jardín del campus se había topado con un instructor y un grupo de alumnos MBA que tenían que imitar consecutivamente diferentes sonidos de animales. Uno era el perro, otro el ganso, otro el pájaro… Preguntó por el objetivo de tamaño ejercicio. El instructor comentó que era muy útil para permitir que el alumno se pusiera en la piel de un “ente” distinto de sí y de esta forma poder “entrenar” la diversidad.&lt;br /&gt;En este mundo de corrección política, y de imbecilidad generalizada, la diversidad mal entendida campa a sus anchas. Y aunque esa imbecilidad pueda provocar la quiebra de una empresa alimenticia, la bancarrota de un banco es harina de otro costal, por las implicaciones que una crisis bancaria genera en el conjunto del sistema financiero, y por extensión, en la economía. La mejor responsabilidad social corporativa de un banco es sobrevivir y seguir prestando dinero. Sobreviviendo, el banco realizará una gran labor a la sociedad, y para sobrevivir se requiere un consejo capaz. Diverso si se quiere, pero antes que diverso, capaz.&lt;br /&gt;Y acabo este artículo con una reflexión. Leíamos la semana pasada que una caja española había despedido a unos directivos por conceder hipotecas que estaban resultando fallidas, ya que entre los objetivos de estos directivos figuraba aumentar la concesión de hipotecas, con independencia de si resultaban fallidas.  Está bien que se despida a estos directivos, pero ¿no debería despedirse antes a los miembros de la comisión de retribución responsable de tan aberrantes objetivos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Board comes under fire, FT, 17 de Septiembre de 2008.&lt;br /&gt;**Blame the Bank Boards WSJ, 28 de Noviembre de 2007.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6893807071695883765?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6893807071695883765/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6893807071695883765' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6893807071695883765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6893807071695883765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/el-desgobierno-de-los-bancos.html' title='El (des)gobierno de los bancos'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3057607860441791061</id><published>2008-09-23T00:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T00:23:39.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nomura ultima su reentrada en España con la compra de las actividades de Lehman en Europa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNiZdAL3rjI/AAAAAAAAADE/Jj3WBvPYhco/s1600-h/2008092231japon2209.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249114089245355570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNiZdAL3rjI/AAAAAAAAADE/Jj3WBvPYhco/s200/2008092231japon2209.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Los bancos japoneses salen de su escondite. Después de años de reestructuraciones -tras la crisis y ola de fusiones y adquisiciones de finales de los 90 y principios de esta década- están aprovechando la coyuntura actual crisis para ganar poder en el nuevo mapa bancario. Lo acaba de hacer el gigante Mitshubishi UFJ, el mayor banco del país, con la toma de un paquete de entre el 10% y 20% en Morgan Stanley. Pero otros también están interesados en crecer. Nomura Holdings, el mayor bróker japonés, se quedará finalmente con los activos de Lehman Brothers en Asia, tal y como confirmó la entidad en un &lt;a href="http://www.nomuraholdings.com/news/nr/holdings/20080922/20080922.html" target=""&gt;comunicado&lt;/a&gt;.Pero el bróker presidido por Kenichi Watanabe también está negociando la compra de Lehman International Europe, la filial europea del caído banco de inversión, que se encuentra bajo la administración concursal de PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) desde Londres, lo que incluye las actividades en España y del equipo gestor que dirigen Luis de Guindos y Juan Gich. Con oficinas en Castellana 41 en Madrid, Nomura dará un salto cualitativo en nuestro país, especialmente, en el área de banca privada y en la de fusiones y adquisiciones que dirige a nivel global Hiromi Yamaji.Fuentes del banco en Madrid declinaron realizar comentarios y se remitieron a la nota oficial del grupo sobre la adquisición en Asia de Lehman. Antes de verano, Nomura presentó en Madrid un fondo de capital riesgo de 200 millones de euros bajo el nombre de &lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/19/77_thesan_capital_lanza_primer_fondo_invierte.html" target=""&gt;Thesan Capital&lt;/a&gt;, que está dirigido por Santiago Corral, el hombre fuerte en España del banco japonés y que cuenta con la participación de José Luis Macho, ex ejecutivo del grupo de alimentación Campofrío. "Han ofrecido el mantenimiento de los puestos de trabajo con las mismas condiciones de los dos años anteriores", dijo una fuente conocedora de los contactos entre Lehman y Nomura, aunque no obstante, no llegará a ser tan generosa como la retribución variable que percibían los empleados antes de la quiebra, &lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/09/19/noticias_88_bonus_millonario_lehman.html" target=""&gt;como informó este diario&lt;/a&gt; la semana pasada.Nomura compite con Barclays en hacerse con los activos europeos. La entidad británica ha tomado ya el controla la filial de Lehman en EEUU y creará así un gigante con 26.000 empleados y más de un billón de libras en activos bajo gestión bajo la enseña Barclays Capital, según &lt;a href="http://www.lehman.com/press/pdf_2008/0922_lb_open_under_barclays_ownership.pdf" target=""&gt;informó&lt;/a&gt; la entidad desde Londres. Bob Diamond, director general del grupo británico, &lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/09/16/noticias_44_barclays_compra_unidades_bolsa_fusiones.html" target=""&gt;dirigirá así un nuevo grupo capaz de rivalizar&lt;/a&gt; con las grandes firmas históricas de Wall Street como Goldman, Morgan, Citigroup o JPMorgan.Y Morgan Stanley también tiene dueños japonesesParalelamente al troceo de Lehman Brothers en el que participa Nomura, otro gran banco de inversión pasará a estar controlado en gran parte, hasta un 20% del capital, por otro grupo japonés. Se trata de Morgan Stanley, que durante la última semana ya tiene nuevos accionistas. El banco de inversión ha alcanzado &lt;a href="http://cotizalia.com/cache/2008/09/22/noticias_9_morgan_stanley_recibira_inyeccion_capital.html" target=""&gt;un principio de acuerdo con Mitsubishi UFJ&lt;/a&gt;, el mayor banco de Japón, para que tome una participación que podría oscilar entre el 10 y el 20 por ciento del capital del grupo dirigido por John Mack. La entidad japonesa no tiene presencia en España, cuya filial ha sido presidida durante los últimos años por Luis Isasi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fuente: El Confidencial&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3057607860441791061?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3057607860441791061/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3057607860441791061' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3057607860441791061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3057607860441791061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/nomura-ultima-su-reentrada-en-espaa-con.html' title='Nomura ultima su reentrada en España con la compra de las actividades de Lehman en Europa'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SNiZdAL3rjI/AAAAAAAAADE/Jj3WBvPYhco/s72-c/2008092231japon2209.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2781585350873308200</id><published>2008-09-21T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T08:45:49.596-07:00</updated><title type='text'>¡Vuelve Gekko!</title><content type='html'>Uno de los líderes espirituales de este blog, el despiadado "broker" Gordon Gekko, volverá a las pantallas si el proyecto de la Fox sale adelante:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/movies/05movi.html?ex=1336017600&amp;amp;en=64f8ac17912072b8&amp;amp;ei=5090&amp;amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;amp;emc=rss"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/movies/05movi.html?ex=1336017600&amp;amp;en=64f8ac17912072b8&amp;amp;ei=5090&amp;amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;amp;emc=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2781585350873308200?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2781585350873308200/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2781585350873308200' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2781585350873308200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2781585350873308200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/vuelve-gekko.html' title='¡Vuelve Gekko!'/><author><name>Pr. Brunette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13811014528040164408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_H58tk0k0rAQ/SAS7AJba6TI/AAAAAAAAAAk/BArzCu4wcwc/S220/Brunette.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7732925889262672976</id><published>2008-09-19T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T00:28:11.247-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sub-prime, sub-prime...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g"&gt;I can see it in your eyes...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7732925889262672976?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7732925889262672976/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7732925889262672976' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7732925889262672976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7732925889262672976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/sub-prime-sub-prime.html' title='Sub-prime, sub-prime...'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2190136182415183357</id><published>2008-09-15T05:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T05:23:04.308-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: EE.UU./USA'/><title type='text'>The Japan Lesson: U.S. Must Own Up To Its Bank Crisis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM5ToFiBeyI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hBUeyuRVjWw/s1600-h/NA-AS485_OUTLOO_NS_20080914192422.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246222564077959970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM5ToFiBeyI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hBUeyuRVjWw/s200/NA-AS485_OUTLOO_NS_20080914192422.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;br /&gt;By JUSTIN LAHARTSeptember 15, 2008;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Japan was mired in economic crisis, the U.S. urged it to take decisive action to deal with its ailing banks. Japan didn't follow the advice and the crisis dragged on for years. Now, it is the U.S. that is mired in crisis and facing the prospect of swallowing the bitter medicine it once proffered.&lt;br /&gt;Japan's stock-market bubble began rapidly deflating in 1990 and its property bubble followed suit shortly afterward. Many borrowers were unable to make payments on their debt and bad loans piled up on bank balance sheets. A long period of lackluster economic growth made a tough situation worse. With the financial system saddled with bad debts, Japan desperately needed its banks to acknowledge the severity of their problems and for some banks to shut their doors. But the banks, unwilling to take steps that might render them insolvent, refused to acknowledge their problems, extending the crisis.&lt;br /&gt;"One of the lessons we took from Japan was the hesitation and refusal to own up to the problem was a disaster," says University of Chicago Graduate School of Business economist Anil Kashyap.&lt;br /&gt;U.S. financial firms, too, have struggled with owning up to the extent of their credit losses, partly because those losses are a moving target. A year ago, Bear Stearns Cos. was reluctant to sell mortgage-related credit at a loss. That decision came back to haunt the firm as declining home prices continued to pummel mortgages, and Bear ended up in a government-backed fire sale to &lt;a class="times rolloverQuote" onmouseover="window.status=('   Quotes &amp;amp; Research for JPM');return true" onmouseout="window.status=('');return true" href="http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&amp;amp;symbol=JPM"&gt;J.P. Morgan Chase&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; Co. Meanwhile, &lt;a class="times rolloverQuote" onmouseover="window.status=('   Quotes &amp;amp; Research for MER');return true" onmouseout="window.status=('');return true" href="http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&amp;amp;symbol=mer"&gt;Merrill Lynch&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; Co. Chief Executive John Thain said in a January interview that the firm's troubles were "for the most part behind us" -- but in July the firm agreed to sell more than $30 billion in mortgage-related assets at a large loss.&lt;br /&gt;Still, U.S. financial firms have been much quicker to acknowledge losses than their Japanese counterparts were. While the slicing and dicing of mortgages into tradable securities played a part in the mortgage mess, accounting rules make it difficult for firms to ignore losses on those securities, says Princeton University economist Hyun Song Shin. In contrast, by continuing to extend credit to bad borrowers, Japanese banks were able to put off recognizing the extent of their debt problems.&lt;br /&gt;"The denial strategy is harder to pull off -- it will catch up to you in the accounting," says Mr. Shin. "That's one of the more encouraging and hopeful signs in the U.S."&lt;br /&gt;Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two giant mortgage companies that the U.S. government seized a week ago, operated under rules that made the extent of their woes much more difficult to assess. But Treasury officials took a tougher line getting Fannie and Freddie to own up to their problems than Japan's Ministry of Finance did with ailing Japanese banks. Just as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been intent on not repeating the Fed's Depression-era mistakes, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is intent on not repeating Japan's mistakes in the 1990s, says Brad DeLong, an economic historian at the University of California at Berkeley.&lt;br /&gt;One last problem the current U.S. situation shares with Japan in the 1990s may be a financial sector that is far larger than it should be. "If you have an unsustainable lending boom, then by definition the lending has to shrink," says Adam Posen, a deputy director at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;In Japan, that didn't happen. Rather than failing, troubled banks merged with healthier ones. But even though the combined bank would often end up with branches that were within steps of one another, few bank workers lost their jobs. Mr. Posen worries that concerns about the systemic risk to the financial system will prevent the U.S. from allowing enough firms to shut their doors to make the necessary capacity cuts.&lt;br /&gt;In that regard, the tougher line with Wall Street that U.S. officials took over the weekend is encouraging. Refusing to financially backstop a takeover of &lt;a class="times rolloverQuote" onmouseover="window.status=('   Quotes &amp;amp; Research for LEH');return true" onmouseout="window.status=('');return true" href="http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&amp;amp;symbol=leh"&gt;Lehman Brothers Holdings&lt;/a&gt; Inc. with government money, as they did for J.P. Morgan's hasty acquisition of Bear Stearns, they showed they were far more willing to let a troubled firm fail than their Japanese counterparts were. Also, many financial firms have already begun cutting operations in a way Japanese banks balked at.&lt;br /&gt;But while the U.S. has been decisive where Japan was not, it is worth remembering there was a reason Japan was hesitant to deal with its problems. Recognizing the financial sector's problems quickly increases the possibility of a run for the exits that could seize up the credit markets, putting the overall economy at greater risk. Quickly shrinking the financial sector could have a social cost, as well, putting tens of thousands of people out of work. Where will they go?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2190136182415183357?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2190136182415183357/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2190136182415183357' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2190136182415183357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2190136182415183357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/japan-lesson-us-must-own-up-to-its-bank.html' title='The Japan Lesson: U.S. Must Own Up To Its Bank Crisis'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM5ToFiBeyI/AAAAAAAAAC8/hBUeyuRVjWw/s72-c/NA-AS485_OUTLOO_NS_20080914192422.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-273395442014046555</id><published>2008-09-15T01:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T01:43:20.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spanish Conquest Squeezes Italian Olive Oil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM4gHntOqeI/AAAAAAAAAC0/kTqExdrTx98/s1600-h/MK-AR786_OLIVEO_NS_20080914222017.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246165931223067106" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM4gHntOqeI/AAAAAAAAAC0/kTqExdrTx98/s200/MK-AR786_OLIVEO_NS_20080914222017.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Family-Owned Labels Are Struggling to Compete With SOS Cuétara&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;br /&gt;By DAVIDE BERRETTASeptember 15, 2008; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past five years, Italy's biggest olive-oil brands have fallen steadily into Spanish hands. SOS Cuétara SA's July purchase of Bertolli, one of the world's best-known olive-oil labels, gave the Spanish food company control of half the Italian market and made it the world's undisputed leader in olive-oil sales.&lt;br /&gt;The Spanish conquest has left small olive-oil companies up and down Italy in a fix. Once synonymous with the olive-oil business around the world, family-owned Italian labels like Monini, Farchioni, Filippo Berio and Pietro Coricelli are now struggling to compete against the pricing power, marketing heft and distribution breadth of SOS. "It's not an easy path," says Roberto D'Auria, an analyst at agrarian research institute Ismea, who predicts that some of the brands may end up closing down or being put up for sale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Massimo Gargano, chairman of the Italian olive grower association Unaprol, says Italy's small players face a "long entrepreneurial agony" amid competition from SOS.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maria Flora Monini, co-owner of Olio Monini SpA, one of the largest Italian-owned labels, says she has received offers to buy the company, which sells 30 million bottles a year. For now, though, she says the family plans to hold on, sticking to its strategy of marketing Monini as a trendy "lifestyle" brand.&lt;br /&gt;Most of Monini's nine varieties of olive oil are sold in supermarkets at moderate prices ranging from €4.50 to €7 ($6.40 to $9.95) a bottle, but the company is nonetheless working hard to enhance its brand. It sponsors some of Italy's largest music festivals, photo exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and a magazine that is distributed to 100,000 subscribers three times a year. In 2003, it opened an olive-pressing factory, or frantoio, near the town of Spoleto, in Italy's central Umbria region, where it produces small quantities of olive oil and organizes olive tastings and cooking courses.&lt;br /&gt;Pompeo Farchioni, chief executive of the 250-year-old Farchioni olive-oil brand from Umbria, says he has dabbled in the higher end of the market. He sells six "protected origin," or DOP, olive-oil varieties whose production is traced and certified. But those high-end bottles account for only 2% of Farchioni's overall yearly sales of €100 million. Most of the 20 million bottles Mr. Farchioni sells each year are priced between €4 and €6.&lt;br /&gt;For the bulk of his business, Mr. Farchioni says, he is trying to get more space from retailers. But if that doesn't work and Farchioni starts losing money, "we might end up having to sell too," he says.&lt;br /&gt;The olive-oil business conjures up romantic images of pungent green olives being squeezed through presses, and many olive-oil companies harvest some of their own olives. But the industry is mainly involved in bottling and marketing, and most bottles available in supermarkets are blends of Italian olive oil and oil made from Spanish, Greek or North African olives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Still, olive-oil names from Italy generally hold more cachet than those from other countries. That's why SOS -- a food conglomerate that also sells crackers, coffee and rice -- began its major foray into the Italian market by buying Olio Sasso in 2004. SOS then took over Carapelli, a renowned olive-oil brand from Florence with strong sales in the U.S. And it bought Bertolli, which, according to data research firm Euromonitor, is the leading olive-oil brand in the world with 6% to 7% of global olive-oil sales. (When it bought Bertolli, it also acquired the Dante brand.)&lt;br /&gt;It's a good time to be the market leader. Demand for olive oil has been growing nearly 10% each year over the past five years, in step with the increased focus on healthy eating, says Euromonitor. SOS is also moving into the actual production of olives and oil. It owns Todolivo, a company that specializes in intensive olive growing, along with more than 400 hectares of land in Portugal. The goal, SOS says, is to exert even more control over the entire chain of production and distribution.&lt;br /&gt;To finance its growing olive-oil empire, SOS plans to spin off its four Italian olive-oil brands into a new company that will then be listed on the Milan stock market, says SOS Chief Executive Jesús Salazar. If the IPO, which is planned for sometime in the 2009 first half, is a success, SOS could be on the prowl for more Italian olive-oil brands, Mr. Salazar adds.&lt;br /&gt;Pietro Coricelli SpA, a smaller Umbrian bottler, exports 65% of its olive oil to the U.S. and Northern Europe. CEO Lorenzo Coricelli says he doesn't plan to sell his company any time soon. He notes that revenue have nearly doubled over the past two years, helped by new business from selling olive oil to catering companies, which makes up about a quarter of his company's revenue.&lt;br /&gt;But he is convinced change is afoot. In today's Italian olive oil market, he says, "there are about 30 companies. We should have seven or eight."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-273395442014046555?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/273395442014046555/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=273395442014046555' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/273395442014046555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/273395442014046555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/spanish-conquest-squeezes-italian-olive.html' title='Spanish Conquest Squeezes Italian Olive Oil'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SM4gHntOqeI/AAAAAAAAAC0/kTqExdrTx98/s72-c/MK-AR786_OLIVEO_NS_20080914222017.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3568802829127548657</id><published>2008-09-10T07:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T07:26:58.919-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>La proyección exterior de España</title><content type='html'>Primo González&lt;br /&gt;Estrella Digital 10/09/08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El presidente Rodríguez Zapatero se ha reunido con los embajadores españoles en el exterior para, entre otras cosas, pedirles que prediquen en el exterior la buena nueva de la economía española. Una tarea en la que el sector empresarial ha predicado abundantemente con el ejemplo en los últimos años, de modo que el máximo representante del Ejecutivo casi debería haberse reunido con los empresarios multinacionales españoles para expresarles una petición de este tipo, porque si algo se conoce bien en el exterior de las capacidades de los españoles son las habilidades de empresas y bancos, que han escalado en los últimos años a posiciones de relieve en la clasificación mundial de los negocios.&lt;br /&gt;Es mucho sin duda lo que pueden hacer los embajadores desde sus sedes diplomáticas predicando las bondades del Gobierno de Zapatero en la cosa económica, pero mejor haría el presidente del Gobierno en aleccionar a los representantes diplomáticos españoles en el exterior para que presten un apoyo mucho más decidido a la actividad de las empresas nacionales, que rara vez acuden a las sedes diplomáticas españolas en el exterior para recabar una colaboración que saben de antemano que no se encuentra entre las prioridades que emanan del Palacio de Santa Cruz hacia la tupida red exterior española.&lt;br /&gt;Más que convertirles en apóstoles y propagandistas de una verdad que ahora mismo cuesta trabajo hacer entender a los extranjeros, sobre todo porque hay que competir con rivales de la potencia del Financial Times, que se empeñan casi a diario en mostrar nuestras debilidades económicas (algunas con razón, aunque en su país de origen las padezcan en grado bastante superior), el jefe del Gobierno español debería haberles instruido con un manual práctico de apoyo a las iniciativas empresariales, ya que de ellas se derivarían importantes avances para una aún mayor internacionalización de las empresas españolas y, a la postre, para reducir el alarmante déficit comercial y de pagos con el exterior. Otros países nos podrían servir de ejemplo en esta tarea de activismo diplomático, empezando por Francia y siguiendo por algunos otros países desarrollados, auténticos maestros en el arte de abrir caminos a sus empresas nacionales. Las empresas españolas han logrado, sin embargo, importantes éxitos en el exterior sin que los apoyos diplomáticos hayan servido para desatascar ni allanar dificultad alguna. A pesar de ello, a pesar de la pusilánime acción exterior del Gobierno, las empresas españolas ocupan hoy posiciones muy destacadas en el exterior.&lt;br /&gt;Nombres hay más de medio centenar capaces de encontrar un puesto de honor entre las empresas mundialmente más reconocidas. Hace poco, un estudio realizado sobre las empresas del Ibex 35, es decir, entre las principales empresas españoles con proyección pública importante, ponía de relieve que alrededor de la mitad de la facturación de las principales empresas del país se genera ya en los mercados internacionales. Hay algunas empresas que incluso rozan el 90% de sus ingresos procedentes del exterior y no se trata de empresas pequeñas, sino de compañías mundialmente reconocidas, como la siderúrgica Acerinox, una de las primeras del mundo en el segmento del acero inoxidable.&lt;br /&gt;No sólo la procedencia de sus ingresos mayoritariamente procedentes del exterior denota la importante participación española en la globalización de la economía. También es preciso recordar las importantes compras que algunas empresas españolas de primera fila han realizado y siguen realizando en el exterior, incluso en países de primera fila como Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña o Alemania, además lógicamente de Latinoamérica, que fue por donde comenzó la extensión exterior de las empresas españolas a finales de los años 80.&lt;br /&gt;La proyección empresarial española en el exterior está muy por encima de la de algunos países que superan ampliamente el PIB español y todo ello a pesar de la escasa relevancia que tiene la diplomacia española más allá de nuestras fronteras. Hay una más que evidente desproporción entre la presencia empresarial española en el exterior y nuestra presencia diplomática, una desproporción que con el Gobierno Zapatero se ha agudizado de forma alarmante. La arenga que Zapatero acaba de realizar a los diplomáticos españoles, no para que rectifiquen su pasividad en su actitud de apoyo a las empresas nacionales sino para que ensalcen la labor económica del Gobierno, coincide además con un cerrojazo a los presupuestos públicos que durante los últimos años han empezado a prodigarse en apoyo de la inversión española en el exterior y de la imagen económica de España. Mientras Zapatero predicaba estos días hermosas palabras para adornar los oídos de sus embajadores, con la otra mano les dejaba prácticamente sin un euro para desarrollar su trabajo. Ironías de la vida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3568802829127548657?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3568802829127548657/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3568802829127548657' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3568802829127548657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3568802829127548657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-proyeccin-exterior-de-espaa.html' title='La proyección exterior de España'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7502467175106386505</id><published>2008-09-05T00:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T00:48:41.729-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Candidates Emerge to Replace Japan's Premier</title><content type='html'>ASSOCIATED PRESSSeptember 5, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOKYO -- Two new candidates indicated Thursday they would join the race to replace Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda after his resignation this week, but a poll suggests voters want their say in national elections.&lt;br /&gt;The Asahi, a major newspaper, said 56% of Japanese are in favor of dissolving parliament and holding general elections "as soon as possible," according to a telephone poll of 1,069 people conducted Tuesday and Wednesday. It didn't give a margin of error.&lt;br /&gt;Speculation over which party members would enter the race began immediately after Mr. Fukuda made his surprise announcement, and Thursday several put their names forward.&lt;br /&gt;Taro Aso, an outspoken and popular former foreign minister, has indicated a strong desire to run and is considered to be the favorite. Nobuteru Ishihara, the son of Tokyo's governor, said Thursday he would run against Mr. Aso if no other candidates emerged as challengers.&lt;br /&gt;"I'm on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Secretary General Aso," Mr. Ishihara said. "So I have to create opportunities to speak from that stance."&lt;br /&gt;Yuriko Koike, a former defense minister and TV anchorwoman, was widely reported to be considering entering her name, and said Thursday she was consulting with political allies. Economic Minister Kaoru Yosano also said Thursday he will seek the position.&lt;br /&gt;The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been reluctant to call new elections, effectively picks the prime minister from within its ranks because it holds a majority in the powerful lower house of parliament.&lt;br /&gt;The party has announced that it will choose a new leader on Sept. 22, and parliament was expected to install its choice as prime minister after it reconvenes on Sept. 24.&lt;br /&gt;None of the ruling party's candidates were expected to stray much from the economic and diplomatic policies that Mr. Fukuda pursued, although Mr. Aso's nationalist stance could affect international relations.&lt;br /&gt;Copyright © 2008 Associated Press&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7502467175106386505?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7502467175106386505/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7502467175106386505' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7502467175106386505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7502467175106386505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-candidates-emerge-to-replace-japans.html' title='New Candidates Emerge to Replace Japan&apos;s Premier'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7053770126056374165</id><published>2008-09-01T09:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T09:36:22.624-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FUKUDA RESIGNS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Prime Minister Fukuda abruptly announces resignation &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kyodo News&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister &lt;a class=" lingo_link" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search." style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 16px; CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="nofollow"&gt;Yasuo Fukuda&lt;/a&gt; announced Monday that he will step down from the post due to difficulties in implementing key policies such as one to address the nation's slowing economy, a step that will put an end to his government launched only in September last year.&lt;br /&gt;"It is necessary to try to implement measures under a new framework...I thought now is the best time (to resign) to avoid a political vacuum," Fukuda, 72, told a hastily convened news conference.&lt;br /&gt;Fukuda, who doubles as president of the &lt;a class=" lingo_link" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search." style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 16px; CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" href="http://get.lingospot.com/link/?@li2=4094&amp;amp;key=JHFUBHXB&amp;amp;ps_id=w4yyXvjKVj&amp;amp;q=QQ:lqOTqjptCQAS{DG7[S@ORJJODAOPPDVKVV&amp;amp;site_id=japantimes.co.jp&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.japantimes.co.jp%2Fmember%2Fmember.html%3Fmode%3Dgetarticle%26file%3Dnn20010330d1.html&amp;amp;url_key=_TaCUO0C[PDPZ[_7K&amp;amp;v=1&amp;amp;~boot=1220286945243" rel="nofollow" _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.japantimes.co.jp%2Fmember%2Fmember.html%3Fmode%3Dgetarticle%26file%3Dnn20010330d1.html"&gt;ruling Liberal Democratic Party,&lt;/a&gt; also said he instructed &lt;a class=" lingo_link" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search." style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 16px; CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" href="javascript:void(0)" rel="nofollow"&gt;LDP&lt;/a&gt; Secretary General Taro Aso to prepare to hold a party presidential election to pick his successor, who will thus become prime minister.&lt;br /&gt;Fukuda denied he has any health problems as he announced his resignation.&lt;br /&gt;Fukuda, who took over the government from ailing &lt;a class=" lingo_link" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search." style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 16px; CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #0000ff; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070709a6.html%20" rel="nofollow" _old_href="http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.japantimes.co.jp%2Fcgi-bin%2Fnn20070709a6.html%2520"&gt;Shinzo Abe,&lt;/a&gt; has been struggling with dismal support rates, despite a major Cabinet reshuffle he implemented in August.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Fuente: Japan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7053770126056374165?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7053770126056374165/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7053770126056374165' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7053770126056374165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7053770126056374165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/09/fukuda-se-rinde.html' title='FUKUDA RESIGNS'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-5826037957538796164</id><published>2008-08-13T03:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T03:20:00.671-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japón, al borde de la recesión</title><content type='html'>Publicado el 13/08/2008, por Expansión.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las cifras del PIB de Japón correspondiente al último trimestre dejan a la segunda mayor economía mundial al borde de la recesión. La contracción fue del 0,6% respecto al trimestre anterior, y nada menos que del 2,4% en tasa interanual. La economía nipona, que tiene aún reciente su salida de la etapa de deflación, vivió su última recesión hace seis años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De la deflación a la recesión con apenas unos meses de tregua. Ese podría ser el camino al que parece abocado Japón. Para evitarlo, mucho tendría que reaccionar la segunda economía mundial durante el trimestre en curso.En el trimestre anterior, las cifras invita al pesimismo. La contracción fue del 0,6% intertrimestral, un porcentaje que se eleva hasta el 2,4% en tasa interanual. Estos números no tienen nada que ver con el crecimiento positivo del 3,2% contabilizado en el primer trimestre del año. Uno de los principales motoresde la economía nipona, las exportaciones, experimentaron su peor comportamiento desde el año 2001, con un descenso del 2,3%, debido a la desaceleración económica mundial y a las presiones derivadas de la revalorización del yen frente al dólar. El consumo interno tampoco pudo serir de apoyo a la segunda mayro economía mundial, con un descenso del 0,5%. El Banco de Japón ya se había encargado en las últimas semanas de anticipar parte de este pesimismo. Pero aún así estas cifras resultaron demasiado inquietantes como para que la Bolsa de Tokio las pasara por alto. Al cierre de la sesión, el índice Nikkei bajó un 2,11%, de forma quese sitúa muy cerca de perder la barrera de los 13.000 puntos, con sólo 23,05 puntos de margen.La peor parte en el Nikkei se la llevaron empresas financieras e inmobiliarias. Entre las primeras, los recortes rozaron el 6% en Sumitomo Trust, superaron el 5% en Resona Holdings, y el 4% en el gigante Mitsubishi UFJ. Entre las inmobiliarias, Tokyu Land se dejó un 5,6%, Heiwa Real State y Sumitmo Realty un 5%.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-5826037957538796164?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/5826037957538796164/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=5826037957538796164' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5826037957538796164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/5826037957538796164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/08/japn-al-borde-de-la-recesin.html' title='Japón, al borde de la recesión'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1215575018169818483</id><published>2008-08-12T01:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T03:25:14.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Bofetadas en el Caucaso</title><content type='html'>Mi pregunta es: ¿ Cómo coño se le ocurre a un ejercito de indigentes con chancletas como el georgiano atacar a un ejercito de borrachos pendencieros como el ruso? ¿ No sabían que sus palos con clavo no son nada frente al poderío de las botellas de vodka rotas que empuñan los rusos? ¿ Pensaban quizás que los rusos se quedarían durmiendo la mona mientras les robaban las vacas a sus primos de Osetia del Surl? Estos y otros interrogantes, como la verdadera sexualidad de Lina Morgan, acuden a mi mente en estos días de furía bélica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dado que este bloggerl es presuntamente colaborativo, presuntamente lo pergeñamos entre tres, y presuntamente esos dos saben leer, no voy a dar mi opinión sobre lo que sucede basándome en mis profundos conocimientos de las tensiones bélicas existentes en el Caucaso desde la expansión rusa de finales del XVIII, si considerais que teneis algo que añadir os lo guardais en ese pequeño espacio que queda entre el dolor de las novias que os han dejado y las variopintas frustaciones sociales que habeis venido acumulando losers. El debate está abierto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1215575018169818483?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1215575018169818483/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1215575018169818483' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1215575018169818483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1215575018169818483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/08/bofetadas-en-el-caucaso.html' title='A Bofetadas en el Caucaso'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4294592704220868112</id><published>2008-07-21T06:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T01:23:53.761-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The global economy is at the point of maximum danger</title><content type='html'>Un mes celebrando la victoria del combinado español, el golazo de Torres, la inutil salida del cancerbero teutón, y ha tenido que venir el Señorito Ambrose Evans-Pritchard a mandarnos de vuelta al mundo real: hemos superado la crisis y nos dirigimos de cabeza, sin casco y con la gorda de tu prima de Las pedroñeras al volante del 127, hasta las cejas de cazalla, hacia terrenos desconocidos.... suenan campanas de recesión dudes. Hoy el análisis optimista de Ambrose en el &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/21/ccview121.xml"&gt;Telegraph&lt;/a&gt;, mañana o pasado hablaremos del gobierno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PSD: Agradecer a los otros dos presuntos pergeñadores de este bloggerl su inestimable aportación de documentos, sois escoria tios!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4294592704220868112?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4294592704220868112/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4294592704220868112' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4294592704220868112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4294592704220868112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/07/global-economy-is-at-point-of-maximum.html' title='The global economy is at the point of maximum danger'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3485175558841793809</id><published>2008-07-02T00:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T00:24:00.046-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>European champions (of nearly everything)</title><content type='html'>Hay que ver lo bien que nos deja &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-reign-of-spain-european-champions-of-nearly-everything-857602.html"&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt; en un completo artículo a todo color cuatricomía papel maché apaisado, ya solo falta que nos devuelvan Gibraltar y tan amigos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218313846165531090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SGssy5cy6dI/AAAAAAAAACM/a22foSSPuiU/s200/football_35741a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3485175558841793809?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3485175558841793809/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3485175558841793809' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3485175558841793809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3485175558841793809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/07/european-champions-of-nearly-everything.html' title='European champions (of nearly everything)'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SGssy5cy6dI/AAAAAAAAACM/a22foSSPuiU/s72-c/football_35741a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7388466361159648417</id><published>2008-07-01T00:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T01:10:35.371-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: italiano'/><title type='text'>Il sorpasso 2.0</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;La profezia di Zapatero&lt;br /&gt;Italia superata anche nel calcio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E così ci hanno superati pure nel calcio. Sul campo gli italiani battevano gli spagnoli per diritto divino dai tempi di Zamora e Alfonso XIII. Nel frattempo loro ci hanno sopravanzati in quasi tutto il resto. A Vienna, per dire, l'Italia schierava ‘Gnazio La Russa, la Spagna re Juan Carlos (per quanto oggettivamente ridimensionato dall'intervista in italo-spagnolo concessa ad Amedeo Goria). Unica consolazione: Zapatero sarà pure un leader giovane e dinamico, ma di calcio sa poco. Non soltanto — a differenza di Berlusconi, e analogamente a politici minori tipo Churchill e de Gaulle — non ha vinto cinque Coppe dei Campioni; ha pure pronosticato una partita scoppiettante («Vinciamo noi 3-2!»). A Zapatero queste cose piacciono: prima delle elezioni del marzo scorso, aveva affidato al direttore del Mundo un foglietto con il numero — 172 — dei seggi che il suo Partito socialista avrebbe conquistato. Furono solo 3 di meno: comunque, vittoria. Anche stavolta ha vinto lui. Ma al termine di un match senza reti. Ha fatto miglior figura il nostro premier, per una volta prudente e silenzioso. Per giunta siamo — o crediamo di essere — molto amici, quasi parenti. Zapatero e Berlusconi appartengono a due generazioni e due famiglie politiche lontane, ma il rapporto personale è ottimo. Si stanno simpatici.&lt;br /&gt;Alla vigilia del 13 aprile, il premier spagnolo mandò un video augurale a Walter Veltroni (Zapatero dice Ualter); ma il giorno dopo fu il primo tra gli stranieri a congratularsi con Berlusconi. I due simpatizzarono fin da quando, nel maggio 2004, il Cavaliere volle abbracciare l'ospite non solo metaforicamente, smarcandosi da Fini che ne aveva criticato il programma laicista: «Tra me e José Luis le posizioni sono identiche». Non era proprio così, ma sei mesi dopo lo riabbracciò in pubblico, stavolta a Cuenca: «Io e José Luis siamo due guapos », fu la risposta agli applausi della folla. Qualche recente dissapore, italiani e spagnoli l'hanno avuto anche fuori dal calcio. C'era ancora Prodi quando Zapatero annunciò il sorpasso di Madrid nel pil pro capite, e il Professore contestò: «Non è vero, in media restano più ricchi gli italiani ». La ministra Bibiana «Bibi» Aido, appoggiata dalla vicepremier Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, parlò di razzismo italiano dopo i roghi nei campi rom e la stretta sulla sicurezza del nuovo governo. Schermaglie. Per il resto, italiani e spagnoli si sono inventati una fratellanza che nella storia non è mai esistita. Anzi, i due popoli si sono detestati e combattuti per secoli, e persino quando si allearono come a Lepanto gli screzi furono tali che il patto venne subito infranto (scrive Arrigo Petacco nel minuzioso libro dedicato alla battaglia che fino all'assedio di Famagosta e già qualche mese dopo la Serenissima si trovava meglio con i turchi di Selim II, la cui favorita e madre dell'erede al trono era per altro veneziana).&lt;br /&gt;L'equivoco nasce forse dalla percezione distorta che l'Italia ha della Spagna, e viceversa. Se gli spagnoli, e non solo, pensano l'Italia come un'immensa Napoli, con il sole la pizza il mandolino gli spaghetti e tutto, noi pensiamo la Spagna come una grande Andalusia. La Spagna verde, atlantica, zitta, diffidente, ci è estranea; sono posti dove non si va in vacanza e che non si vedono in tv. In realtà, spagnoli e italiani sono molto diversi. Ad esempio un'antica diceria popolare iberica, radicata nei secoli del declino e delle guerre civili, racconta che la Spagna sia nata sotto una cattiva stella. In Italia avevamo inventato invece la leggenda dello stellone (ridimensionata pure quella dai rigori di ieri). Per il resto, le parti si sono invertite. Come informano le statistiche, gli spagnoli sono il popolo più ottimista d'Europa, e noi il più pessimista. Gli spagnoli ci sono diventati simpatici qualche decennio fa, quando abbiamo scoperto che erano più poveri e più disorganizzati. Nel frattempo il sistema di Madrid, uscito da una dittatura autarchica, si è rivelato capace di batterci. In due generazioni, gli spagnoli hanno creato imprese in grado di comprare o contendere quote delle società italiane che gestiscono i telefoni e le autostrade, nel Paese con la massima concentrazione di telefonini e di auto al mondo. Così Telefonica è entrata in Telecom, e Abertis è stata fermata dalla politica sulla soglia della fusione con Autostrade. La Spagna è di gran moda, considerata un punto di riferimento per la gioia di vivere, la concordia tra le parti sociali, la flessibilità del lavoro, il progresso dei diritti civili. La società spagnola pare un modello di dinamismo sia ai progressisti («Viva Zapatero! ») sia ai restauratori, ai sostenitori del matrimonio omosessuale come ai difensori della famiglia tradizionale, agli amanti della movida e dei film di Almodovar come ai neocatecumenali seguaci del santo chitarrista Kiko Arguello e ai ciellini che dopo la morte di Giussani si sono affidati allo spagnolo Carron. E' la derrota di cui parla Panucci, che a Madrid ha trovato casa e moglie (già lasciata però). Eppure da qualche mese la crisi finanziaria e immobiliare morde i primati della Spagna. La partita, quella vera, non è certo finita stasera; forse è appena cominciata.&lt;br /&gt;Aldo Cazzullo 23 giugno 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuente: Corriere della Sera&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7388466361159648417?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7388466361159648417/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7388466361159648417' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7388466361159648417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7388466361159648417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/07/il-sorpasso-20.html' title='Il sorpasso 2.0'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3458144611978297350</id><published>2008-07-01T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T01:10:57.218-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>La Evolución de la Energía Eólica</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;La nueva generación de la energía eólica: una central con cometas que iguala la potencia de una planta nuclear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La respuesta a las crecientes necesidades energéticas del mundo podría estar en el viento. Esta renovable se puede aprovechar de una manera más efectiva de cómo ahora hacen los molinos aerogeneradores, que sólo utilizan las corrientes de aire más cercanas a la tierra ya que suelen tener una altura media de unos 80 metros y raramente alcanzan los 150. Excepto en los lugares muy ventosos, por lo general, la velocidad del viento a 80 metros del suelo es de 4,6 metros al segundo. A 800, sin embargo, el aire circula mucho más rápido, alcanzando los 7,2 metros al segundo de media, una cifra que ofrece unas posibilidades excepcionales para la producción de energía eléctrica.&lt;br /&gt;El reto surge al intentar alcanzar esa altura con un artefacto que sobreviva a las embestidas del viento y las sepa aprovechar. La solución podría estar en las manos de los niños: las cometas. Una evolución de este juguete, la vela que los amantes del “Sky Surf” utilizan para volar por encima de las olas, es la clave de un revolucionario sistema que un grupo de investigadores italianos está desarrollando con el que, según dicen, pueden producir gracias al viento tanta energía como una central atómica. La idea surgió gracias al encuentro entre un amante del “Sky Surf” y dueño de una empresa de sistemas automatizados, Massimo Ippolito, y un profesor de controles automáticos de la Universidad Politécnica de Turín, Mario Milanese. Ippolito, Milanese y un tercer socio han constituido Kite Gen, cuyo objetivo es “ofrecer soluciones eficientes a la escasez de energía planetaria” por medio de renovables “baratas, abundantes y no contaminantes”.&lt;br /&gt;Para que las cometas de Kite Gen aprovechen la energía del viento, los investigadores han planeado un sistema que han bautizado “el yoyó”. Consiste en sujetar por con dos cables de 800 metros al artefacto volador de manera que, conforme asciende, hace girar dos cilindros que, a modo de dinamo, producen energía. Cuando la cometa ha alcanzado su máxima altura, un motor recoge los cables y el vuelo vuelve a comenzar. Para ello, sólo gasta el 15% de la electricidad producida antes. Los impulsores de Kite Gen han diseñado además un sistema de navegación que, por medio de sensores adheridos a la cometa, da información a los cilindros de la base para que cacen o amollen los cabos de manera que el vuelo del artefacto sea siempre en forma de ocho. Así, el aprovechamiento del viento y la producción energética se maximizan.&lt;br /&gt;Al provocar este movimiento, Kite Gen hace que las cometas se comporten como si fueran la parte exterior de la hélice de una turbina, aunque colocada en el lugar donde el viento es más fuerte, según explicó Milanese al diario italiano La Repubblica. Las plantas de producción eléctrica planeadas por Kite Gen estarían formadas por varias de estas cometas con sus respectivas bases y un centro de control desde el que se pilota el vuelo de los artefactos según los datos que ofrecen los sensores. De acuerdo a sus proyecciones, las cometas podrían llegar a producir hasta 1.000 megavatios de energía si 200 de ellas se conectaran a un anillo que, a modo de tiovivo, hicieran girar. Este tipo de central, que generaría la misma energía que una planta nuclear mediana, costaría entre 500 y 600 millones de euros, una sexta parte del precio de la atómica. La electricidad producida sería también muy barata, ya que, según los cálculos de Kite Gen, sólo supondría un tercio de lo que hoy cuesta la energía más económica, el carbón.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuente: El Confidencial&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3458144611978297350?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3458144611978297350/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3458144611978297350' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3458144611978297350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3458144611978297350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-evolucin-de-la-energa-elica.html' title='La Evolución de la Energía Eólica'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-9164300934355646106</id><published>2008-06-18T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T02:15:44.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'>下水清掃業者の森氏 ¿La globalización que viene siendo para Catay?</title><content type='html'>Magnifica la entrevista que nos ofrece el FT con Mori "El Pocero" de Roppongi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/8a38c684-2a26-11dc-9208-000b5df10621.html?_i_referralObject=760898169&amp;amp;fromSearch=n"&gt;http://www.ft.com/cms/8a38c684-2a26-11dc-9208-000b5df10621.html?_i_referralObject=760898169&amp;amp;fromSearch=n&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213271346172498706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFlCqxJVkxI/AAAAAAAAACE/_08UbEh8XWc/s200/mori.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-9164300934355646106?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/9164300934355646106/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=9164300934355646106' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/9164300934355646106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/9164300934355646106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/mori-el-pocero-la-globalizacin-que.html' title='下水清掃業者の森氏 ¿La globalización que viene siendo para Catay?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFlCqxJVkxI/AAAAAAAAACE/_08UbEh8XWc/s72-c/mori.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3176902930762345352</id><published>2008-06-17T00:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-17T09:45:51.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>¿Podrá soportar China el ritmo actual de crecimientorl?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFfhmGxS89I/AAAAAAAAAB8/hwcwqRDl5Kc/s1600-h/800px-Flag_of_the_People%2527s_Republic_of_China_svg.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212883138473292754" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 190px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 122px" height="148" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFfhmGxS89I/AAAAAAAAAB8/hwcwqRDl5Kc/s320/800px-Flag_of_the_People%2527s_Republic_of_China_svg.png" width="228" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me explico, en estos momentos China es fundamental y básicamente una economía exportadora, y aunque progresivamente diversifica su economía, su crecimiento sigue descansando en el crecimiento de los demás, algo que ha quedado bastante patente con el enfriamiento-casi-al-borde-de-la-recesión de EEUU y el efecto contagio que esta ha tenido sobre Japón y, en menor medida, la Unión Europea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China necesita cimientos sólidos, no puede ser la maquila del mundo eternamente; necesita aumentar su productividad (actualmente esta representa menos del 15% de la norteamericana), mejorar la eficiencia de un sistema bancario antediluviano y sobre todo crear una amplia clase media capaz de asumir sino el crecimiento, por lo menos sostener la economía en tiempos de vacas flacas. Este es el verdadero desafío al que se enfrentará China en los próximos años ¿Podrá la naciente clase media acompañar el desbocado crecimiento económico? ¿Podrá el Gobierno de Pekín llevar las "caravanas del progreso"hacia el interior?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi opinión Ron Barceló mediante, mientras tanto KRUGMAN!!&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;KRUGMAN!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;KRUGMAN!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19941101faessay5151/paul-krugman/the-myth-of-asia-s-miracle.html"&gt;http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19941101faessay5151/paul-krugman/the-myth-of-asia-s-miracle.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sobre las caravanas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0920/negocios/m0161536.html"&gt;http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0920/negocios/m0161536.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El especial de la revista EXAME:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/s/sumario0920.html"&gt;http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/s/sumario0920.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3176902930762345352?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3176902930762345352/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3176902930762345352' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3176902930762345352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3176902930762345352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/podr-soportar-china-el-ritmo-actual-de.html' title='¿Podrá soportar China el ritmo actual de crecimientorl?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFfhmGxS89I/AAAAAAAAAB8/hwcwqRDl5Kc/s72-c/800px-Flag_of_the_People%2527s_Republic_of_China_svg.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2275963519181490765</id><published>2008-06-12T01:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T04:37:41.426-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Las 15 lecciones de un gurú bursátil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFEKNZW-DyI/AAAAAAAAAB0/6qNDrveA8to/s1600-h/sprint_final_Bolsa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210957469106179874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="315" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFEKNZW-DyI/AAAAAAAAAB0/6qNDrveA8to/s320/sprint_final_Bolsa.jpg" width="222" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;El Sr. Mcoy pesca en internet cosas interesantes y nosotros semianalfabetos funcionales nos limitamos a copiar, sin comentar, opinar o añadir comentarios o anécdotas jocosas; todo llegará...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15 lecciones para invertir en Bolsa por Bernach Baruch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. No hay que tener miedo a las pérdidas. Permiten adquirir conocimiento, experiencia y disciplina.&lt;br /&gt;2. El éxito nunca viene de la noche a la mañana. Para alcanzarlo hay que invertir tiempo y dinero.&lt;br /&gt;3. El éxito se deriva de observar el futuro y ser capaz de anticiparse a él (asignación estratégica de activos). El pensamiento humano es más poderoso que cualquier tecnología. Tómate tiempo para pensar antes de actuar.&lt;br /&gt;4. El éxito nace del análisis objetivo, frío y distante de los hechos y de la capacidad de separarlos del sentimiento del mercado (asignación táctica de activos). Conócete a ti mismo y controla tus emociones. Saber tus prejuicios, debilidades y pasiones te ayudará a evitar errores.&lt;br /&gt;5. Fíjate en lo que realmente hace el mercado, no en lo que tú crees que debe hacer. Las opiniones conducen a errores. Los hechos no.&lt;br /&gt;6. Mejor concentrarse en unas cuantas acciones sobre las que se ha profundizado y seguirlas de cerca que diversificar sin ton ni son. Enfoca tu talento.&lt;br /&gt;7. Desconfía de las recomendaciones de otros y básate en tu propio juicio. Eres el único responsable de tus errores y fallos.&lt;br /&gt;8. Busca compañías con buenos activos reales (liquidez y propiedades), que produzca bienes demandados y valorados y que tenga un buen equipo gestor (y se entiende que a buen precio). Esto suena a Buffett, la verdad.&lt;br /&gt;9. No obstante, el mercado siempre ofrece oportunidades. Monitoriza de cerca las nuevas industrias o los cambios que pueden relanzar una industria existente. Saber anticipar su éxito o fracaso es fuente segura de éxito. Esto, por el contrario, le aleja de Buffett.&lt;br /&gt;10. Si una acción no te deja dormir, algo falla. Véndela.&lt;br /&gt;11. La flexibilidad es clave. No hay que temer estar corto o vendido de una acción pero siempre sobre unos baremos ciertos de riesgo asumible.&lt;br /&gt;12. Acertar es complicado pero las consecuencias de los errores se minimizan si uno es disciplinado con los stop-losses. Ésa es la primera norma que uno se tiene que autoimponer.&lt;br /&gt;13. Es más importante saber vender que saber comprar. Implica disciplina tanto para no buscar ganancias más allá de lo que indica el sentido común (avaricia) como para vender con pérdidas (fin de la esperanza). A la hora de ganar, es mejor vender pronto que tarde.&lt;br /&gt;14. Mantén permanentemente una parte relevante de tu cartera en liquidez para poderte aprovechar de los crashes.&lt;br /&gt;15. Nunca trates de operar más allá de tus disponibilidades financieras reales (no esperadas).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2275963519181490765?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2275963519181490765/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2275963519181490765' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2275963519181490765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2275963519181490765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/las-15-lecciones-de-un-gur-burstil.html' title='Las 15 lecciones de un gurú bursátil'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SFEKNZW-DyI/AAAAAAAAAB0/6qNDrveA8to/s72-c/sprint_final_Bolsa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7342168333927643134</id><published>2008-06-12T01:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T04:38:11.657-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><title type='text'>No Banking Crisis in Spain</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;End of housing bubble brings retrenchment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;One of the striking things about the past year is that there has been no banking crisis in Spain.&lt;br /&gt;The Bank of Spain, which supervises the financial system, took a dim view of the high-yield, high-risk instruments that have wreaked so much havoc in the US and Europe. So it banned offbalance sheet special purpose vehicles (SPVS).&lt;br /&gt;Banks were free to set up SPVs, so long as capital was properly allocated and the risk remained within the bank. This considerably reduced the appeal of these exotic instruments.&lt;br /&gt;But regulatory prudence does not mean the financial system is off the hook. If capital markets remain closed for much longer, the crisis will strike not on the asset side of the balance sheet - where bad loans currently represent only 1 per cent of the total portfolio - but on the liabilities side.&lt;br /&gt;The capital drought is affecting Spain in two ways. It has hugely curtailed the ability of financial groups to continue lending at the rates of 20-30 per cent a year seen during the boom years. And it is affecting banks' ability to repay, or refinance, residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).&lt;br /&gt;During the 10-year property boom, banks relied heavily on international capital markets to fund lending at home. Last year, Spanish banks were the second-largest issuers of RMBS after UK banks.&lt;br /&gt;At the height of the boom, estimates Analistas Financieros Internacionales, a Madrid-based economic consultancy, Spanish banks were raising as much as 40 per cent of funding requirements abroad, compared with 15 per cent in 2000-01.&lt;br /&gt;If capital markets remain closed to mortgage-backed paper, banks will face difficulties in refinancing or repaying their liabilities as they mature, beginning with some €40bn in the second half of this year.&lt;br /&gt;The figure doubles to €80bn in 2009 and stays high in the following two years, according to AFI.&lt;br /&gt;Banks and savings institutions continued to issue RMBS and covered bonds totalling almost €50bn after the credit crunch set in.&lt;br /&gt;But these securities were not placed with investors because there were no takers.&lt;br /&gt;Rather, they stayed on the banks' books for use in repo facilities with the European Central Bank.&lt;br /&gt;Spanish bankers admitted they were accumulating a "war chest" of assets that could be used as collateral to access ECB funds in case the wholesale money markets remained closed.&lt;br /&gt;According to data from the Bank of Spain, Spanish banks have doubled their share of the ECB's funding auctions since last summer, from 5 to 10 per cent. On average, banks are drawing about €40bn-€45bn a month in ECB funds.&lt;br /&gt;The 10 per cent figure is proportional to the weight of Spain in the eurozone economy, but there is a snag: ECB funds are available for very short terms, typically a week to a month, and access to the money is not guaranteed, as European banks must compete for limited funds at weekly auctions.&lt;br /&gt;Such short-term funding is no substitute for RMBS with much longer maturities. And ECB money is certainly of no use to fund long-term credit operations such as mortgages.&lt;br /&gt;Almost all the sources of new funding available to Spanish banks are more expensive and on shorter terms than a year ago, which is creating a mismatch in maturities between assets and liabilities.&lt;br /&gt;There is a fierce competition for deposits, with banks and savings banks raising rates offered to depositors.&lt;br /&gt;Banks have been managing liquidity mainly through the issue of short-term commercial paper, with a typical maturity of three months, €90bn of which was outstanding at the end of March, according to AFI.&lt;br /&gt;With these resources - very few of which are available for periods longer than 18 months - AFI estimates bank lending might grow by 5 to 6 per cent this year.&lt;br /&gt;According to AFI, almost €40bn of securitisations, covered bonds and other bank debt fall due in the second half of this year. In 2009, the volume will jump to €80bn, and will remain high during 2010 and 2011.&lt;br /&gt;At some point, the "war chest" of securitisations issued by Spanish banks but remaining on their books will have to come to market.&lt;br /&gt;Analysts worry that if this is done in an uncoordinated way, the flood of paper will swamp the markets once they reopen, like a dam bursting its banks.&lt;br /&gt;This in turn could trigger a collapse in the value of Spanish bank securities.&lt;br /&gt;Emilio Ontiveros, an economics professor and director of AFI, says banks have three lines of defence against a big rise in bad debts: "They are well capitalised, they have excess provisions against non-performing loans, and they are among the most efficient in Europe," he says.&lt;br /&gt;Bad loans in the system would have to treble before banks had to make more provisions. Core capital is strong, and there are no strange products lurking inside the balance sheets.&lt;br /&gt;During the lending boom, the Bank of Spain obliged banks to make "counter-cyclical" provisions: a portion of profits in boom years had to be set aside to cover the expected rise in loan defaults in an economic downturn.&lt;br /&gt;Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós, director of Freemarket International Consulting in Madrid, believes the risk of default, particularly among property developers, could trigger a bankingconstruction crisis similar in magnitude to the bankingindustrial crisis of the early 1980s.&lt;br /&gt;Some savings banks, he notes, are shareholders in construction and real estate groups, in addition to being creditors, and this could magnify the problem.&lt;br /&gt;Some smaller savings banks with proportionally bigger exposure to the building industry may be forced to merge, analysts say.&lt;br /&gt;Still, the Bank of Spain insists that no bank will fail during the present downturn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Source: The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7342168333927643134?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7342168333927643134/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7342168333927643134' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7342168333927643134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7342168333927643134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/no-banking-crisis-in-spain.html' title='No Banking Crisis in Spain'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-8921615650888576649</id><published>2008-06-09T01:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T01:41:18.757-07:00</updated><title type='text'>¿ España líder mundial en renovables?</title><content type='html'>Uno no sabe bien si es ciencia ficción o nigromancia de andar por casa, pero un tal Daniel Esty de Wichita dice que así será, ¿ Quién soy yo para llevarle la contraria a alguien de Wichita?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expansion.com/edicion/exp/economia_y_politica/entorno/es/desarrollo/1132887.html"&gt;http://www.expansion.com/edicion/exp/economia_y_politica/entorno/es/desarrollo/1132887.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-8921615650888576649?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/8921615650888576649/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=8921615650888576649' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8921615650888576649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8921615650888576649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/espaa-lder-mundial-en-renovables.html' title='¿ España líder mundial en renovables?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-809627155518088433</id><published>2008-06-08T05:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T06:32:34.470-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Matanza indiscriminada en Akihabara, ciudad de la electrónica de Tokio</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Buenas noches a todos desde Tokio/Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En primer lugar, me presento a los lectores del blog que no me conocen.&lt;br /&gt;Perdón, quiero decir: me presento a los lectores del blog, que no me conocen. (Me faltaba la coma.)&lt;br /&gt;Mi nombre es Brunette, y aunque parezca mentira ya que éste es mi primer artículo, soy el tercer colaborador de este blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin más dilación, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aquí va mi primera contribución, sobre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;un suceso dantesco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy domingo 8 de junio 2008,  un "toorima" (通り魔, asesino callejero indiscriminado) embistió con su coche contra el paseo peatonal de la calle Chuo en Akihabara y apuñaló a 17 personas, 7 de las cuales murieron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eran las 12h35, y la calle Chuo, que como todos los domingos era peatonal por unas horas, estaba muy animada. Los compradores y curiosos paseaban por el barrio de Akihabara, la meca de la electrónica, el manga, anime y los videojuegos en Tokio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De repente, una furgoneta se saltó un semáforo rojo y entró en el espacio peatonal, atropellando a tres personas. El conductor, Tomohiro Katoh, un hombre de 25 años, salió del vehículo "gritando extrañamente" (según testimonios)  y empezó a apuñalar con un machete a todo aquel desdichado que pudo cruzarse. Empezó acuchillando a las víctimas de su atropello, y acto seguido "corrió los 100 metros lisos" y apuñaló a todos aquellos con los que se cruzó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casi 10 horas después, el trágico balance son 7 muertos y 10 heridos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me siento tentado de acabar aquí el artículo, pero citaré algunos datos más, dan que pensar.&lt;br /&gt;Para empezar, Katoh es residente de la provincia de Shizuoka, en una ciudad a (muy) aproximadamente 100km. de Tokio. Vino a Tokio con la furgoneta alquilada que usó para cometer el crimen, y en el interrogatorio policial ha declarado: "Vine a Akihabara a matar gente. Me daba igual quién". 「人を殺すために秋葉原に来た。誰でもよかった」&lt;br /&gt;No estaba bajo la influencia de drogas.&lt;br /&gt;¿El motivo de su matanza? "Lo he hecho porque estaba cansado de mi vida diaria. Me harté del mundo." 「生活に疲れてやった。世の中が嫌になった」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Éste no es el primer crimen de este tipo en Japón. La propia existencia de la palabra "toorima", que he traducido como "asesino callejero indiscriminado", y que significa literalmente "demonio callejero" ya nos pone sobre alerta.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-809627155518088433?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/809627155518088433/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=809627155518088433' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/809627155518088433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/809627155518088433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/06/asesinato-indiscriminado-en-akihabara.html' title='Matanza indiscriminada en Akihabara, ciudad de la electrónica de Tokio'/><author><name>Pr. Brunette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13811014528040164408</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_H58tk0k0rAQ/SAS7AJba6TI/AAAAAAAAAAk/BArzCu4wcwc/S220/Brunette.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-147973147607748989</id><published>2008-05-30T04:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T05:03:22.982-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: portugués'/><title type='text'>Doutor Coffe  ドトールコーヒー</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD_n8mAueYI/AAAAAAAAABU/AGdy8tzmw9Q/s1600-h/800px-Doutor_Myeongdong.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206134722445343106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD_n8mAueYI/AAAAAAAAABU/AGdy8tzmw9Q/s320/800px-Doutor_Myeongdong.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Curiosamente, la mayor cadena de cafeterías de Japón, por delante Starbucks o Trully´s, fue fundada por Hiromichi Toriba tras pasar dos años de prácticas en Brasil:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0919/mundo/m0160390.html"&gt;http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0919/mundo/m0160390.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doutor.co.jp/en_index.html"&gt;http://www.doutor.co.jp/en_index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Si es que la inspiración puede aparecer en cualquier parte, pero seguramente Copacabana aumenta las opciones...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A modo de curiosidad:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206139820571523474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD_slWAueZI/AAAAAAAAABc/Mc1LN1UEdPA/s320/excelsior_logo.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206140026729953698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD_sxWAueaI/AAAAAAAAABk/0Lgq9xJIjsA/s320/p_logo.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-147973147607748989?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/147973147607748989/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=147973147607748989' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/147973147607748989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/147973147607748989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/doutor-coffe.html' title='Doutor Coffe  ドトールコーヒー'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD_n8mAueYI/AAAAAAAAABU/AGdy8tzmw9Q/s72-c/800px-Doutor_Myeongdong.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-138302282194017270</id><published>2008-05-29T12:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T00:35:17.131-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Reformas, reformas!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-pT2AueVI/AAAAAAAAAA8/C31e21i393M/s1600-h/robert_l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206065852644751698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-pT2AueVI/AAAAAAAAAA8/C31e21i393M/s320/robert_l.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Reproducimos íntegro, dado su interés, el artículo del Dr. Tamames sobre las reformas economicas que España necesita ante la actual crisis y en la búsqueda de un nuevo modelo de crecimiento (hay que ver como evoluciona el PC...). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Incluimos una foto de Robert Mitchum dado lo feuco (con todo nuestro respeto y cariño) que es el Dr. Tamames.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Crisis económica 2007/2009 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;IV. Reformas necesarias para un nuevo modelo económico &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ramón Tamames&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;El pasado jueves 22 veíamos en esta columna de ESTRELLA DIGITAL la tercera entrega de nuestra miniserie sobre la crisis económica que estamos atravesando. Y hoy ofrecemos el último capítulo que como fue anunciado, se refiere a las reformas pendientes en la economía española, a efectos de ir cambiando el modelo de "ladrillo/consumo/turismo" por otro más consistente a largo plazo, basado en una mayor eficiencia en todos los órdenes. Progresivamente iremos viendo lo esencial de cuáles pueden ser esas reformas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unidad de mercado.&lt;/strong&gt; Para empezar, resulta absolutamente necesario asegurar que el mercado español funcione como una unidad en toda su extensión. Garantizándola frente a los desarrollos legislativos de las CCAA, que tienden a crear compartimentaciones indeseables; en actitud contraria a los principios constitucionales (arts. 38 y 51.3), así como en relación con el mercado interior único europeo establecido en 1993.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marco laboral.&lt;/strong&gt; Las cuestiones laborales tienen importancia considerable para mejorar el modelo. Sobre todo en lo que concierne a una mayor integración de los trabajadores en el sistema productivo. Lo cual exige ajustes en el actual ordenamiento, comenzando por los convenios colectivos, que resultan muy poco favorables a mayores rendimientos. Otra cuestión en esta área es el ajuste de las empresas a los cambios en tecnología y coyuntura; algo que muchas veces obliga a ir a expedientes de regulación de empleo (EREs), que con frecuencia resultan técnicamente imposibles, porque la nómina ha envejecido mucho y requiere de un fuerte volumen de indemnizaciones. Un tercer tema de la economía del trabajo: el absentismo, que alcanza niveles preocupantes, de casi el 10 por ciento a escala nacional, y que en algunos sectores o regiones se eleva de manera inquietante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organización de empresas.&lt;/strong&gt; Si bien se ha avanzado mucho en la organización de las empresas, todavía son muy numerosas las que no han dado el paso adelante en técnicas de empowerment, ofreciendo a sus trabajadores tareas de cada vez mayor responsabilidad. Incluyéndoles también en los círculos de calidad, para llegar al defecto cero. Como igualmente debe asegurarse el just in time, merced a la logística más adecuada. Por último, es preciso una acción mucho más permanente y consistente en el tema de las marcas, en el que somos muy deficitarios, pues son muy pocas las de nuestro país internacionalmente conocidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fiscalidad.&lt;/strong&gt; En este ámbito, ante todo, parece preciso equiparar el tipo marginal máximo del IRPF con el tipo único de Sociedades, en torno a 25/30 por ciento. En segundo lugar, habría de cancelarse definitivamente el Impuesto sobre el Patrimonio, que ha quedado obsoleto. Y por otra parte, será conveniente redondear a escala nacional la supresión, como ya lo han hecho varias CCAA, de los impuestos de sucesiones y donaciones. Un último asunto fiscal: aunque el impuesto sobre operaciones de capital se redujo hace años al 18 por ciento, todavía estamos en una situación de inferioridad frente a países de la Unión como son Holanda, Luxemburgo, Irlanda, etc.; a fin de atraer capitales foráneos, y frenar la salida de los nuestros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plataforma financiera y multinacionales.&lt;/strong&gt; Es una cuestión a la que vengo refiriéndome desde hace tiempo, en la idea de que la banca española, incluida la mayoría de las cajas de ahorro, está en condiciones de constituir, junto con el Mercado Bursátil Español (el MBE, ya es el séptimo del mundo), una plataforma financiera de gran alcance, que se complementaría con las numerosas multinacionales españolas ya existentes en sectores como energía, telecos, seguros, etc. De ese modo, ciudades como Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia y Bilbao pasarían a ser focos de impulsión de grandes proyectos internacionales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infraestructuras.&lt;/strong&gt; Para intensificar la inversión -y ante la prevista disminución en la afluencia de fondos estructurales, en la lógica tendencia a convertirnos, en el 2013, en contribuyentes netos dentro de la UE-, deben completarse los sistemas de condicionalidad, para no cargar todo el coste de las infraestructuras en un sector público que ya no puede dar abasto; por las necesidades crecientes de transporte, telecos, educación, sanidad, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sector agrario.&lt;/strong&gt; Es necesaria una mayor tecnificación del mismo, para poner a punto el potencial agrícola, ganadero y forestal de España, que se sitúa hoy muy por debajo de sus posibilidades. Algo que resulta particularmente grave, en un momento en que con la nueva política agrícola común (PAC) de la UE, se tiende a dejar todo a los albures del mercado. Precisamente, cuando más falta hace por la situación de precios elevados y escaseces de alimentos y materias primas de origen agrario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Energía y medio ambiente.&lt;/strong&gt; Igualmente, debe reconocerse, de una vez, sin tantas dudas farisaicas, la necesidad perentoria de ir a la construcción de nuevas centrales nucleares de quinta generación, con los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados. No pudiendo olvidarse, ya en la faceta estricta del medio ambiente, y pensando en Kioto-2. Además, debe buscarse una mayor eficiencia energética en todos los desarrollos urbanos y fabriles, así como una preocupación creciente por las industrias de recuperación, que van a ser las mayores fuentes de energía y materias primas de cara al futuro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disponibilidades de suelo.&lt;/strong&gt; Se habla continuamente de cambiar el sistema de promoción de suelo, para evitar que los ayuntamientos lo consideren un instrumento de autofinanciación, con las más graves consecuencias inflacionistas (contribuyendo a la estanflación que ya se percibe en el horizonte), y también en muchos aspectos de un urbanismo más acorde con el medio ambiente. En esa dirección, sería preciso un debate muy amplio, para encontrar una fórmula que combine el mejor funcionamiento de un mercado libre con un contorno de desarrollo urbanístico adecuado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Administraciones públicas.&lt;/strong&gt; España no se merece las administraciones que rigen todos sus aspectos económicos y sociales, con un intervencionismo a veces feroz, y una falta de eficiencia en muchas ocasiones pavorosa. Lo cual se debe a que ningún partido político se ha tomado en serio ir transformando lo que es una vieja maquinaria, enormemente ineficiente -y lo vemos en la justicia, la sanidad, la educación, además de los numerosos solapamientos entre la Administración General del Estado, las autonomías y los entes locales-, todo lo cual retarda los procesos de producción y de cambio. En definitiva, para cambiar ese estado de cosas, sería preciso establecer una comisión de estudios ad hoc, compuesta por empresarios, sindicalistas y consumidores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colofón.&lt;/strong&gt; A lo largo de este trabajo hemos ido viendo la génesis y la evolución de la crisis económica actual, desde su foco originario en EEUU, para entrar después en el desarrollo de la misma dentro de España en el marco de la UE. Y subsiguientemente, hemos insistido en que cualesquiera que sean las medidas que en España se adopten en los próximos tiempos, lo más decisivo será ir perfeccionando el modelo económico. En la dirección de las reformas que hemos planteado como última parte de nuestro estudio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recomendación final.&lt;/strong&gt; Como última reflexión, estimo que sería del máximo interés que el gobierno convocara un encuentro con el conjunto del arco parlamentario, a fin de considerar la posibilidad de una serie de acuerdos destinados a frenar los aspectos más deteriorantes de la crisis. No se trata de hacer unos nuevos Pactos de la Moncloa -aquél fue un tiempo muy distinto, y las necesidades también son ahora diferentes-, pero una convocatoria ampliamente mayoritaria en esa dirección, constituiría una buena oportunidad para que el nuevo modelo de desarrollo económico de España se asumiera como una propuesta común a todas las fuerzas económicas, sociales y políticas. Para, en definitiva, constituir un elenco de compromisos objetivos, ecuánimes y solidarios. &lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-sFmAueWI/AAAAAAAAABE/ieRB8sER20M/s1600-h/ramon-tamames.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206068906366499170" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-sFmAueWI/AAAAAAAAABE/ieRB8sER20M/s200/ramon-tamames.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-sFmAueWI/AAAAAAAAABE/ieRB8sER20M/s1600-h/ramon-tamames.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-sFmAueWI/AAAAAAAAABE/ieRB8sER20M/s1600-h/ramon-tamames.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Al final nos hemos visto en la obligación moral ... que fuste, que mirada, una mirada del pueblo, una mirada cercana, una mirada que trasmite pensamientos profundísimos, horizontes lejanos de mundos por descubrir, ecuaciones matemáticas de dos incógnitas, y sabiduría, sabiduría en cantidades industriales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-138302282194017270?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/138302282194017270/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=138302282194017270' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/138302282194017270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/138302282194017270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/reformas-reformas.html' title='Reformas, reformas!!'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SD-pT2AueVI/AAAAAAAAAA8/C31e21i393M/s72-c/robert_l.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6093344027854387911</id><published>2008-05-28T00:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T01:16:27.922-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: italiano'/><title type='text'>L'HOLDING 'NDRANGHETA FATTURA 44 MILIARDI</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Source: Il Sole 24 Ore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Roberto Galullo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Il prodotto interno lordo di Estonia e Slovenia è inferiore al fatturato annuo della ‘ndrangheta. Due nazioni che stanno faticosamente lavorando per entrare nel salotto dell’economia europea sommano 43,6 miliardi. Il giro d’affari delle cosche è invece di 44 miliardi, pari al 2,9% del Pil italiano.&lt;br /&gt;Il nuovo Rapporto dell’Eurispes, di cui si parlerà con molti ospiti domani, sabato, nella trasmissione "Guardie o ladri" in onda su Radio 24 alle 19.30, non lascia dubbi: la ‘ndrangheta rafforza il suo ruolo di holding del crimine. Ma non mancano le sorprese in questo studio che giunge a quattro anni di distanza dal precedente e che rappresenta un punto fisso per studiosi ed esperti.&lt;br /&gt;La più preoccupante è la continua e pervasiva presenza delle cosche nel mondo degli appalti. “Non solo non diminuisce – dichiara Enzo Macrì, sostituto procuratore nazionale antimafia – ma aumenta la rete degli interessi nella ricca torta dei lavori pubblici”. Sul fronte dell’impresa il fatturato dei gruppi criminali calabresi e di 5,7 miliardi. “In particolare – dichiara Raffaele Rio, presidente di Eurispes Calabria – le imprese mafiose dispongono di ingenti risorse finanziarie provenienti da attività illecite che consentono meccanismi cospicui di autofinanziamento, penetrano i mercati di riferimento senza alcun principio di concorrenza ma, al contrario, utilizzando strumenti e azioni di costante intimidazione e, infine, mettono in campo misure per corrompere amministratori pubblici e funzionari per condizionare le procedure di gara”.&lt;br /&gt;Quest’ultima riflessione viene a proposito nel momento in cui la Calabria è interessata da una nuova inchiesta giudiziaria della Procura di Catanzaro sugli appalti della Sorical, l’azienda mista pubblico-privata che gestisce il sistema idrico regionale. Attualmente sono indagate 11 persone. Non è certo l’unica e non è certo l’ultima. Mai come in questo momento sotto la lente di investigatori e magistratura ci sono i lotti dell’autostrada Salerno-Reggio Calabria e delle statali che distribuiranno appalti miliardari e che fanno gola alle cosche che si dividono ogni metro di asfalto. Molti – come del resto nel passato – i cantieri già chiusi per infiltrazioni mafiose già accertate.&lt;br /&gt;La fetta più ricca dell’economia criminale calabrese viene comunque dal traffico di droga, che assicura almeno 27,2 miliardi all’anno (il 62% del totale dei profitti illeciti). Anzi, negli ultimi anni – scrivono i ricercatori dell’Eurispes – si è assistito a un vero e proprio salto di qualità. Le ‘ndrine puntano a ottimizzare sforzi e rischi abbattendo i costi degli approvvigionamenti della droga - in particolare della cocaina dal Sud America - con l’eliminazione degli intermediari e cercando il contatto diretto con i cartelli, soprattutto colombiani.&lt;br /&gt;Ancora redditizi i mercati della prostituzione, il traffico delle armi ma, soprattutto, estorsione e usura.&lt;br /&gt;‘Ndrangheta non è solo economia criminale. Fa ancora rima con controllo ferreo del territorio che passa attraverso regole spietate: chi sbaglia paga con la vita. Il recente omicidio dell’imprenditore di Rizziconi che aveva interessi nel commercio e della grande distribuzione è l’ultimo anello di una catena di omicidi che – tra il 1999 e i primi mesi dell’anno – sono stati 202, di cui 73 a Reggio e provincia.&lt;br /&gt;Il periscopio dell’Eurispes ha voluto analizzare anche gli orientamenti e gli atteggiamenti dei calabresi nei confronti della ‘ndrangheta attraverso due indicatori: la diffusione del potere delle ‘ndrine e gli strumenti di contrasto.&lt;br /&gt;Sulle principali cause della ragnatela criminale i calabresi hanno le idee chiare: per il 40,4% dei calabresi è colpa delle pene poco severe e delle scarcerazioni facili. Più o meno sulle stesse percentuali – tra il 28% e il 22% - l’insufficiente presenza dello Stato, la difficile situazione economica e infine le scarse risorse a disposizione delle Forze dell’Ordine e della magistratura.&lt;br /&gt;Quello che lascia perplessi è quel 9% di calabresi che punta invece sulla mancanza di una cultura della legalità. Su questo fronte – come ricordava l’ex superprefetto di Reggio Luigi De Sena – la regione deve investire moltissimo. Il neo senatore De Sena ha dichiarato in una relazione presentata oltre un anno fa al Vicinale che dovranno passare almeno due generazioni prima di un salto di qualità nella sensibilizzazione dei calabresi nei confronti della ‘ndrangheta. Forse per questo sono molte le amministrazioni che cercano di accelerare su questo fronte. Come a esempio Reggio. “Sulla cultura e sulla sensibilizzazione alla lotta alla criminalità – dichiara il sindaco Giuseppe Scopelliti – stiamo puntando molte carte senza dimenticare, ovviamente, che contrasto alla ‘ndrangheta vuol dire anche e soprattutto un’amministrazione trasparente. Per questo motivo abbiamo affidato a criteri nuovi l’assunzione di alcuni vigili urbani, coinvolgendo nelle commissioni d’esame personalità di sicuro rigore e ancora, stiamo molto attenti all’espletamento di ogni gara d’appalto”.&lt;br /&gt;Se tutto questo servirà ad alzare un muro vero lo dirà il tempo. Certo è che i cittadini calabresi credono che il contrasto alle cosche non si fa con l’Esercito: lo invoca solo il 6,7% del campione Eurispes. Il 29% preferisce l’inasprimento delle pene, il 23% l’educazione delle categorie a rischio e il 16% il rafforzamento del dispiegamento delle Forze dell’Ordine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6093344027854387911?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6093344027854387911/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6093344027854387911' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6093344027854387911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6093344027854387911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/lholding-ndrangheta-fattura-44-miliardi.html' title='L&apos;HOLDING &apos;NDRANGHETA FATTURA 44 MILIARDI'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7524508891310990604</id><published>2008-05-27T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-27T14:40:59.438-07:00</updated><title type='text'>WORLD BANKS RANK (China not included)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDx_EGAueUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/tsIgSDEwGyk/s1600-h/banche-mondo-324x230.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205174977643313474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 175px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 97px" height="160" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDx_EGAueUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/tsIgSDEwGyk/s320/banche-mondo-324x230.jpg" width="269" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;BANK RANK BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION (EUR)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1 HSBC 126.378&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2 Bank of America 96.600&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3 JPMorgan 92.600&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;4 Santander 83.370&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;5 Citigroup 73.800&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;6 Mitsubishi UFJ 67.470&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 BNP Paribas 61.560&lt;br /&gt;8 Wells Fargo 58.250&lt;br /&gt;9 Unicredito 58.130&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;10 BBVA 54.270&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Source: El Confidencial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;www.cotizalia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7524508891310990604?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7524508891310990604/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7524508891310990604' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7524508891310990604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7524508891310990604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/world-banks-rank-china-not-included.html' title='WORLD BANKS RANK (China not included)'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDx_EGAueUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/tsIgSDEwGyk/s72-c/banche-mondo-324x230.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6718795035577845136</id><published>2008-05-27T03:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T01:08:27.404-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>EUROPE´S TOP 50 2008</title><content type='html'>La edición europea de Business Week 50 elabora un ranking de las que considera las mejores compañías de entre las 350 empresas del índice bursátil Standard &amp;amp; Poor’s 350 Europe, que representan practicamente el 70% del valor de todos los títulos europeos (eso es más que el PIB de Lugo y Ceuta juntos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El semanario económico norteamericano incluye a &lt;a href="http://app2.expansion.com/bolsa/cotizaciones/Ficha?cod=M.ITX"&gt;Inditex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://app2.expansion.com/bolsa/cotizaciones/Ficha?cod=M.BBVA"&gt;BBVA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://app2.expansion.com/bolsa/cotizaciones/Ficha?cod=M.GAS"&gt;Gas Natural&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://app2.expansion.com/bolsa/cotizaciones/Ficha?cod=M.POP"&gt;Banco Popular&lt;/a&gt; entre las cincuenta compañías más eficientes de Europa desde el punto de vista financiero. La Bolsa de Alemania lidera la tabla, por delante de Nobel Biocare y &lt;a href="http://app2.expansion.com/bolsa/cotizaciones/Ficha?cod=HSNOK1V"&gt;Nokia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/europe/special_reports/20080508bw50europe.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/europe/special_reports/20080508bw50europe.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: Businessweek&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6718795035577845136?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6718795035577845136/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6718795035577845136' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6718795035577845136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6718795035577845136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/europes-top-50-2008.html' title='EUROPE´S TOP 50 2008'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2416675672738200372</id><published>2008-05-26T12:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T01:09:05.661-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><title type='text'>出る杭は打たれる。</title><content type='html'>Unsung hero&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Fulford,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forbes 06.24.02&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fujio Masuoka says that Toshiba tried to demote him after he invented a $76 billion product. The loss was America's gain. Will Japan make the same mistake with the next innovation?Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory, a technology used in semiconductors with sales of $76 billion in 2001. These chips went into products worth more than $3 trillion, including automobiles, computers and mobile phones. Flash memory was the most important semiconductor innovation of the 1990s, and it should have made Masuoka very rich. But the 59-year-old inventor lives in Japan. His employer, Toshiba, recognized his efforts by awarding him a bonus worth a "few hundred dollars"--and promptly let its archrival Intel take control of the market for his invention. Subsequently, Masuoka says, Toshiba tried repeatedly to move him from his senior post to a position where he could do no further research. Toshiba is embarrassed by all this. Its public relations department repeatedly told FORBES GLOBAL that Intel invented flash memory. But Intel says that it was Toshiba, and in 1997 the Institute of Electrical &amp;amp; Electronics Engineers in New York gave Masuoka its Morris N. Liebman Memorial Award in recognition of his invention of flash memory while he worked at Toshiba. When reminded of this, Toshiba admits that it did, in fact, invent flash memory but failed to capitalize on its initial lead. Masuoka, now a professor at Tohoku University at Sendai in northern Japan, expects to have the last laugh. Since quitting Toshiba in 1994, he has been working on what he expects will be an even more important invention: a "three-dimensional silicon-based semiconductor," he says, which will increase the capacity of semiconductors by a factor of ten. If his invention works as he says it will, Intel could make a 20-gigahertz Pentium chip with the equipment it now uses to make a 2-gigahertz chip. The same would go for other semiconductors, such as DRAMs. It would also delay by 30 years, until 2040, the date when silicon semiconductors reach their theoretical limit. The cost per bit would be a tenth of current costs, he says. This time Masuoka is applying in the U.S. for patents in his own name. He is seeking venture-capital funding so that he can reap the rewards of his creativity in a manner more in tune with Silicon Valley than Japan. Masuoka's tale illustrates how Japan lost the semiconductor race with the U.S. in part by neglecting basic research in favor of applied work on established products. He is not the only talented Japanese to become frustrated by the lack of recognition. Shuji Nakamura invented a semiconductor-powered light bulb; in 2001 he sued his employer, Nichia, over ownership of the patents. He now works in the U.S. Masuoka, a shy but confident-looking man, seemed destined for great things. Four months after he joined Toshiba in 1971, Masuoka, who had just received a doctorate from Tohoku University, invented a type of memory known as SAMOS. After five years at Toshiba, he invented another type and was moved to the semiconductor production division, where he developed a 1-megabit DRAM. What fired him up, though, was an idea that came to him--yes--in a flash. One of the biggest challenges facing the semiconductor industry in the 1970s was to find a way to retain memory so that it did not vanish every time the power was turned off. Engineers found it too cumbersome to build a nonvolatile memory for each bit of information. Masuoka's insight was that information needed to be stored in big batches rather than in single bits. It was easier to engineer the retention of big batches because this could be done with simpler, more compact circuit designs. Without permission from Toshiba, Masuoka began spending his nights and weekends working on this idea. By 1980 he had applied for the basic patents on a type of flash memory now known as NOR-type (not/or) flash memory. It was not until four years later, after a promotion, that he was able to produce the first flash memory. "I was now senior enough that I could go to the factory without permission and order them to make me one," he said. (His promotion resulted from innovations he made in working on incremental improvements in DRAM technology.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can continue reading the article here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0624/030.html"&gt;http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0624/030.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Enrique G. Paredes for his nonprofit contribution to this post on Japan´s R&amp;amp;D!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2416675672738200372?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2416675672738200372/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2416675672738200372' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2416675672738200372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2416675672738200372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/japan-r.html' title='出る杭は打たれる。'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4421749267083799775</id><published>2008-05-26T03:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T03:18:58.421-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><title type='text'>"Suicide in Japan" Death be not proud</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDqOh2AueTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J-vU4R6_VkE/s1600-h/CAS251.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204629031465417010" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDqOh2AueTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J-vU4R6_VkE/s320/CAS251.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;May 1st 2008 The Economist print edition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rash of suicides horrifies Japan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“DO NOT open! Gas being created!” Written in red felt-tip pen and affixed to a door, they are among the last words of a 14-year-old Japanese schoolgirl, who took her life on April 23rd. The warning followed the advice of a website that also provided instructions for creating hydrogen-sulphide gas by mixing toilet-bowl cleaner with bath salts.&lt;br /&gt;This simple method of suicide claimed some 60 lives in April—mainly of people in their teens or 20s—and around another 20 earlier this year. The colourless, pungent gas does not dissipate easily. So bystanders and would-be rescuers are put at risk. The girl's mother was hospitalised and around 100 neighbours had to evacuate their homes.&lt;br /&gt;Yet this is only the latest, macabre, technique in a country that suffers an epidemic of suicides. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates among rich countries. Cultural factors are partly at play. Japanese society rarely lets people bounce back from the perceived shame of failure or bankruptcy. Suicide is sometimes even met with approval—as facing one's fate, not shirking it. The samurai tradition views suicide as noble (though perhaps out of self-interest, since captured warriors were treated gruesomely). Japan's main religions, Buddhism and Shintoism, are neutral on suicide, unlike Abrahamic faiths that explicitly prohibit it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet economic woes play an even bigger role. Suicide rates increased sharply in the mid-1990s as the economy soured, and have remained high since (even as the economy has improved slightly). Financial concerns are cited in one-fifth of suicide notes; almost half of all suicides are unemployed. Some take their lives so that surviving family members can collect insurance, which has led insurance firms to defer payments for two or three years as a deterrent. For the same reason, Japan Railway charges suicide victims' families for the cost of the inconvenience and clean-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year the government instituted measures such as a counselling service and hotlines, with the aim of cutting the suicide rate by 20% in nine years. But these are palliatives. More important would be a change in social attitudes. Suicide might be less common if, rather than force people to endure lifelong shame, Japanese society began to allow its people second chances.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4421749267083799775?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4421749267083799775/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4421749267083799775' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4421749267083799775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4421749267083799775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/suicide-in-japan-death-be-not-proud.html' title='&quot;Suicide in Japan&quot; Death be not proud'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SDqOh2AueTI/AAAAAAAAAAs/J-vU4R6_VkE/s72-c/CAS251.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-6137624762224288760</id><published>2008-05-20T03:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-20T07:01:58.348-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>"La stagnante economia italiana" Capítulo.1º</title><content type='html'>Los italianos han vuelto ha depositar su confianza en Silvio Berlusconi. Dejando a un lado el pitorreo y jocosidad que este acontecimiento merece, “Il Cavalieri” tiene por delante el reto mayúsculo de sacar a Italia de la mayor crisis económica vivida desde la instauración de la II República.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tras la segunda Guerra Mundial y desde mediados de los años 50 hasta los primeros 80, el PIB Italiano creció a tasas medias anuales superiores al 7% protagonizando un “milagro económico” quizás solo comparable al que, de forma paralela, estaba teniendo lugar en Japón. El país de Marco y Amelio, eminentemente agrícola y emigrante, se trasformaba, bajo la batuta del poderoso IRI, en una potencia industrial y del diseño, donde la clase media demandaba incesantemente coches de cuatro ruedas y más y mejores tipos de pasta. En 1987 las autoridades italianas anunciaban a bombo y platillo que el PIB italiano había superado el Británico, sin embargo este anuncio triunfal marcaba el fin de lo que se denominó “miracolo economico”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La expansión de los años 50 y 60 se debió en buena medida a las pequeñas y medianas empresas manufactureras, la mayoría instaladas en el norte, especializadas en el textil, alimentación, mueble máquina herramienta y línea blanca, así como a las acertadas políticas industriales del IRI orientadas a la creación de una potente industria pesada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin embargo la crisis del petróleo de los 70 prácticamente borró del mapa la industria pesada italiana, el IRI se transformó en una UCI de empresas y conglomerados industriales en quiebra. Por otro lado, el modelo competitivo de las PYMES (éstas constituyen la mayoría del tejido empresarial y su peso sobre el PIB es bastante superior al de otras economías europeas ) basado en bajos costes laborales (gracias, en parte, a la migración sur-norte) y en periódicas devaluaciones de la Lira con el fin de contrarrestar los efectos de la inflación, se encuentra en KO técnico: tras la adopción del EURO no es posible acudir a la devaluación y las empresas italianas pierden cuota de mercado ante la competencia de economías emergentes con menores costes laborales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el próximo capítulo: reformas, proteccionismo y algunas cosillas que a España le convendría anotar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273"&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-6137624762224288760?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/6137624762224288760/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=6137624762224288760' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6137624762224288760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/6137624762224288760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/la-stagnante-economia-italiana-captulo1.html' title='&quot;La stagnante economia italiana&quot; Capítulo.1º'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1946719380478324317</id><published>2008-05-19T02:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T02:46:39.864-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japan growth at slowest in three years</title><content type='html'>The Financial Times&lt;br /&gt;May 16 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se frenan las exportaciones japonesas ante la desaceleración de la economía americana y la debilidad del dolar. El consumo interno dificilmente podrá tomar la alternativa ante los precios crecientes de las materias primas, la energía, la inflación y las políticas restrictivas del crédito al consumo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe141cfa-2301-11dd-93a9-000077b07658.html"&gt;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe141cfa-2301-11dd-93a9-000077b07658.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1946719380478324317?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1946719380478324317/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1946719380478324317' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1946719380478324317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1946719380478324317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/japan-growth-at-slowest-in-three-years.html' title='Japan growth at slowest in three years'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-8474744550518933815</id><published>2008-05-13T03:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-13T03:50:41.429-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Parallels between America´s and Japan´s Crisis</title><content type='html'>Professor Takatoshi Ito on the Financial Times:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b9eb85e2-2020-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html"&gt;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b9eb85e2-2020-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-8474744550518933815?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/8474744550518933815/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=8474744550518933815' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8474744550518933815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/8474744550518933815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/parallels-between-americas-and-japans.html' title='Parallels between America´s and Japan´s Crisis'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1263409276180818199</id><published>2008-05-07T00:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-08T01:29:25.325-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>UBS: "Más madera! Necesitamos más madera!!"</title><content type='html'>Adjuntamos el link de sendos artículos del ensayista S.McCoy analizando la bofetada que se ha pegado UBS, y como esta ejemplifica la merienda de "morenos" organizada con gran creatividad por la banca de inversión durante estos años de vinate y rosas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/06/99_documento_imprescindible_banca_muestra_verguenzas_subprime.html"&gt;http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/06/99_documento_imprescindible_banca_muestra_verguenzas_subprime.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/07/96_estallo_bomba_financiera_cuando_busqueda_rentabilidad_ignora_riesgo.html"&gt;http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/07/96_estallo_bomba_financiera_cuando_busqueda_rentabilidad_ignora_riesgo.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/08/33_pasta_corre_cuento_terror_banco_premio_individuo_frente.html"&gt;http://www.cotizalia.com/cache/2008/05/08/33_pasta_corre_cuento_terror_banco_premio_individuo_frente.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si es que cuando tu mayor aportación al progreso humano han sido los relojes de cuco y el secreto bancario...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1263409276180818199?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1263409276180818199/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1263409276180818199' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1263409276180818199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1263409276180818199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/ubs-con-faldas-y-lo-loco.html' title='UBS: &quot;Más madera! Necesitamos más madera!!&quot;'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-2115427912245870735</id><published>2008-05-06T01:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T01:56:50.128-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brazil, Russia and China: The Iron Ore Fever</title><content type='html'>Our beloved-snob Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the Daily Telegraph:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&amp;amp;grid=A1YourView&amp;amp;xml=/money/2008/04/28/ccview128.xml"&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&amp;amp;grid=A1YourView&amp;amp;xml=/money/2008/04/28/ccview128.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-2115427912245870735?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/2115427912245870735/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=2115427912245870735' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2115427912245870735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/2115427912245870735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/05/brazil-russia-china-and-iron-ore-fever.html' title='Brazil, Russia and China: The Iron Ore Fever'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-7653755231669712328</id><published>2008-04-25T04:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T03:29:14.045-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>IRONIAS 2.0</title><content type='html'>Atención a la siguiente noticia recogida en el diario 5 Días:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cincodias.com/articulo/economia/Japon/pide/OMC/prohiba/restringir/exportacion/arroz/cdscdi/20080425cdscdieco_2/Tes/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.cincodias.com/articulo/economia/Japon/pide/OMC/prohiba/restringir/exportacion/arroz/cdscdi/20080425cdscdieco_2/Tes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El gobierno japonés manifiesta que tienen cubierto el consumo con su producción interna (arroz subvencionado y absurdamente caro) y que detendrán las compras hasta que no bajen los precios. Mi pregunta es: ¿ Conoce el Gobierno Japonés cuando bajarán los precios? ¿ Que pasará si el alza se mantiene y la de este año es una mala cosecha?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironías del destino: el mismo país que se pasa por el forro de los IBIDEM el 99% de los dictámenes de la OMC, se opone ahora a que los países productores establezcan aranceles o impuestos a la exportación, no vaya a resultar que los cupos anuales permitidos se encarezcan y la inflacion nipona se dispare (entendiendo esto de dispararse a efectos nipones como sobrepasar el 1% ). Amigos mios, para protegerse de la escalada de precios nada tan sencillo como levantar sus aranceles a la importación y acabar con el sistema de cupos.... pero claro por ahí va a ser que no.... En este sentido:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expansion.com/edicion/exp/opinion/es/desarrollo/1116346.html"&gt;http://www.expansion.com/edicion/exp/opinion/es/desarrollo/1116346.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estén atentos porque el sistema económico-cangrejo-ermitaño japonés, tan solo ha comenzado a dar las primeras señales de aviso...y lo que te rondaré brunette...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr, Stagflation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;En el futuro más y mejor información sobre el proceloso mundo de los cereales en Japón: una desgarradora historia de filipinos, malévolos monopolios, voto clientelar, cuotas de importación y cervezas de mala calidad.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-7653755231669712328?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/7653755231669712328/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=7653755231669712328' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7653755231669712328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/7653755231669712328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/ironias-20.html' title='IRONIAS 2.0'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1078556804720742097</id><published>2008-04-23T00:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T00:56:23.084-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: EE.UU./USA'/><title type='text'>LA CRISIS SE CEBA CON LA CLASE MEDIA AMERICANA</title><content type='html'>WSJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/info-flash08.html?project=COMPARE0804"&gt;http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/info-flash08.html?project=COMPARE0804&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si al final tendremos que alimentarnos a base de perritos calientes, pretzels y carne de Falete...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1078556804720742097?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1078556804720742097/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1078556804720742097' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1078556804720742097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1078556804720742097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/la-crisis-se-ceba-con-la-clase-media.html' title='LA CRISIS SE CEBA CON LA CLASE MEDIA AMERICANA'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-4711229592531973072</id><published>2008-04-21T02:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T03:11:14.580-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: EE.UU./USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Ojo por ojo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Frase de Kunio Hatoyama, el actual Ministro de Justicia Japonés defendiendo la pena de muerte en una entrevista en el periódico Weekly Asahi en Octubre:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;"As the Japanese place so much importance on the value of life, it is thought that one should pay with one’s own life for taking the life of another. You see, the Western nations are civilizations based on power and war. So, conversely, things are moving against the death penalty. This is an important point to understand. The so-called civilizations of power and war are the opposite of us. From incipient stages, their conception of the value of life is weaker than the Japanese. Therefore, they are moving toward abolition of the death penalty".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Si alguien le encuentra sentido, que haga el favor de ponernos un tele-fax al respecto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-4711229592531973072?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/4711229592531973072/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=4711229592531973072' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4711229592531973072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/4711229592531973072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/ojo-por-ojo-frase-de-kunio-hatoyama-el.html' title='Ojo por ojo'/><author><name>Mr. Découplage</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1391592037866261514</id><published>2008-04-16T14:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-16T14:53:56.764-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Perspectivas para una Crisis</title><content type='html'>El Insituto Juan de Mariana augura malos tiempos para la lírica en su último informe tri-mes-tral: contracción del crédito, envilecimiento (como me gusta esta palabra) del dolar y estagflación... agarrense que vienen curvas....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.juandemariana.org/nota/2000/bancos/centrales/desestabilizan/economia/internacional/"&gt;http://www.juandemariana.org/nota/2000/bancos/centrales/desestabilizan/economia/internacional/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1391592037866261514?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1391592037866261514/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1391592037866261514' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1391592037866261514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1391592037866261514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/perspectivas-de-la-crisis-de-solvencia.html' title='Perspectivas para una Crisis'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3637204604293068348</id><published>2008-04-15T13:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T13:57:43.902-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"The Rise of the Mega-Region"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120796112300309601.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, no os confundais amigos, no estamos ante el  último artículo del bachiller Montilla, ni la definitiva resurreción de Gamera de una falla oceánica, las mega-regiones son el último grito en teorías de geografía económica. Lo cierto es que la tesis no es nueva, pero si el que escribe es un tipo de Toronto, que no de Wichita, habrá que darle un voto de confianza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120796112300309601.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120796112300309601.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3637204604293068348?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3637204604293068348/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3637204604293068348' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3637204604293068348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3637204604293068348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/rise-of-mega-region.html' title='&quot;The Rise of the Mega-Region&quot;'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1171386455085143882</id><published>2008-04-15T01:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T08:29:33.956-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Italia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: italiano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>"Il Cavalieri" Strikes Back!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SARjRTsLOEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Pzt6xZyUgcc/s1600-h/berlusconi-silvio-ansa--324x230.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189381819632138306" height="262" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SARjRTsLOEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Pzt6xZyUgcc/s320/berlusconi-silvio-ansa--324x230.jpg" width="335" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "Combattenti di terra, di mare e dell'aria! Camicie nere della rivoluzione e delle legioni! Uomini e donne d'Italia, dell'Impero e del regno d'Albania, amici tutti! Ascoltate! Scendiamo in campo contro le democrazie plutocratiche e reazionarie dell'Occidente, che, in ogni tempo, hanno ostacolato la marcia, e spesso insidiato l'esistenza medesima del popolo italiano .Alcuni lustri della storia più recente si possono riassumere in queste frasi: promesse, minacce, ricatti e, alla fine, quale coronamento dell'edificio, l'ignobile assedio societario di cinquantadue stati."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Discorso del giovane Benito Berlusconi ieri sera dal balcone di palazzo Venezia &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Foto: Il Sole 24 Ore &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;El pueblo italiano, demostrando una vez más como se puede hacer de lo hortera "marca país", ha elegido por mayoría arsoluta al ínclito e inigualable Berlusconi, él será el líder supremo llamado a sacar al país transalpino del marasmo económico-político en que se encuentra. Como españoles no podemos sino alegrarnos de esta feliz circunstancia, il "sorpasso" della Spagna sull'Italia sarà presto realtà!!...Povera patria &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUS65a1c6Y"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUS65a1c6Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Próximamente en sus manos un completo artículo sobre:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"La stagnante economia italiana"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No se lo pierdan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUS65a1c6Y"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1171386455085143882?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1171386455085143882/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1171386455085143882' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1171386455085143882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1171386455085143882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/il-cavalieri-strikes-back.html' title='&quot;Il Cavalieri&quot; Strikes Back!!'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/SARjRTsLOEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Pzt6xZyUgcc/s72-c/berlusconi-silvio-ansa--324x230.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1882618547479435549</id><published>2008-04-09T04:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T07:47:09.803-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: portugués'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Rusia'/><title type='text'>LOS BILLONARIOS QUE VINIERON DEL FRÍO</title><content type='html'>&lt;span&gt;Un interesante artículo de la revista EXAME, que echa por tierra alguno de los tópicos habituales sobre el origen de las fortunas en Rusia. Los tópicos sobre los niveles de vicisitud y horterismo de los millonarios rusos siguen, thanks to the Lord, intactos:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0915/mundo/m0155884.html"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://portalexame.abril.com.br/revista/exame/edicoes/0915/mundo&lt;/span&gt;/m0155884.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1882618547479435549?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1882618547479435549/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1882618547479435549' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1882618547479435549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1882618547479435549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/los-billonarios-que-vinieron-del-frio.html' title='LOS BILLONARIOS QUE VINIERON DEL FRÍO'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-303825764768609756</id><published>2008-04-07T06:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T07:46:31.358-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: EE.UU./USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>"JP Morgan, Bearn Stearns y la FR, pon a la zorra a cuidar los huevos..."</title><content type='html'>Cuando la FR acudió, JP Morgan mediante, al socorro de Bearn Stearns, la gente all around the world contuvo el aliento. Sólo unas semanas después de la nacionalización del Northern Rock, y consiguiente pitorreo, en la patría del libre mercado 2.0 se intervenía de forma solapada un banco para evitar su quiebra, con la diferencia de que éste no era un banco comercial, sino un "banco de bancos" entidad sobre la cual la FR no tenía competencias, de ahí la utilización de JP Morgan como brazo ejecutor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No vamos a entrar a comentar si es oportuno o no salvar de la quema con dinero público una entidad privada, lo que los anglosajones (siempre tan finos) denominan "moral hazard", lo que es cierto es que tanto en el caso del Northern Rock como en el del Bearn Stearn, cuando las cosas van bien los beneficios son privados y cuando van mal las pérdidas son a costa del erario público.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo cierto es que la FR sabía que el Bearn Stearns había perdido un pastiche con las dichosas hipotecas "subprimes" y temía que su quiebra pudiese provocar el pánico del mercado. Algunos economistas y financieros, entre ellos el reconocido filántropo Mr. Soros, apuntaban a que quizás tenía más que ver con su condición de garante de coberturas de futuros de otras entidades finacieras esencialmente a través de CDS. ¿ Lo cualo? Esa es la pregunta que Jack Bauer y yo nos hicimos hace 24 horas y que, tras torturar a dos terroristas islámicos con una sesión de cine de tarde de Marisol, Ana Belén y una faraónica actuación en directo de Falete comiéndose un potro vivo "all included", pudimos al fin aclararnos. Los CDS son simple y llanamente una suerte de seguros sobre futuros:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"El comprador de un CDS acuerda pagar cierta cantidad de efectivo (con cierta periodicidad) al vendedor a cambio de tener una protección contra el impago (default) de un bono o préstamo de una empresa o país. Si la empresa o país de referencia en el contrato entra en default (se produce un evento crediticio), el vendedor del CDS paga al comprador del mismo el monto total de la pérdida en el préstamo o bono. Esta liquidación puede ser en efectivo o en entrega física. Un evento crediticio o default, puede involucrar una bancarrota, insolvencia, reducción en la calificación de crédito, o incumplimiento de pagos en el activo de la referencia." &lt;a href="http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/3118"&gt;http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/3118&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El problema se da cuando las cantidades aseguradas son astronómicas (billones de dólares, que es una cifra tan alta que hay que decirla con el meñique en la comisura de los labios y voz de Dr. Maligno) pudiendo la simple quiebra de una sola compañía de la entidad de Bearn Stearns, arrastrar a las otras en una "chain reaction" de quiebras (oh my God it´s a fucking shit!). Aquí podeis ver como estaba configurada la cartera de CDS de Bearn Stearns en 2007, segunda fotito desde arriba: &lt;a href="http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2008/03/bear-stearns-smoking-guns.html"&gt;http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2008/03/bear-stearns-smoking-guns.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y ahora pregunta Trivial: ¿ Quién estaba más expuesto en caso de que Bearn Stearns quebrase, iniciando con ello una una merienda de negros?...... Efectivamente, JP Morgan curiosamente su salvador-comprador con la bendición de la Holly FR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si me permiten la licencia, querría decir que puede que el problema de estas herramientas finacieras es que generan una apariencia de seguridad del sistema diluyendo y repartiendo los riesgos, seguridad que al final resulta falsa: Todos cubren los riesgos de todos con lo que, en realidad, nadie cubre los de nadie… ¿ Quizás he simplificado mucho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Más información sobre el maravilloso mundo de los derivados: &lt;a href="http://www.uclm.es/AB/fcee/D_trabajos/0-2002-1.pdf"&gt;www.uclm.es/AB/fcee/D_trabajos/0-2002-1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buen arranque de semana a todos (bueno a nosotros tres)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Stagflation&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-303825764768609756?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/303825764768609756/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=303825764768609756' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/303825764768609756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/303825764768609756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/jp-morgan-bearn-stearns-o-lo-que-pasa.html' title='&quot;JP Morgan, Bearn Stearns y la FR, pon a la zorra a cuidar los huevos...&quot;'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-3891631323910208851</id><published>2008-04-04T01:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T07:45:41.429-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>Professional Liability in Japan: Just bow! bow! bow!</title><content type='html'>"The Japan Times"&lt;br /&gt;Monday, March 31, 2008&lt;br /&gt;SAFETY REPORTEDLY NOT COMPROMISED&lt;br /&gt;Company falsified data on bridge component&lt;br /&gt;OSAKA (Kyodo) An Osaka-based construction material firm admitted Sunday to falsifying data on a product used in highway bridges and skipping required specification tests before it was used in several locations nationwide.&lt;br /&gt;ST Engineering Corp. President Shingo Taniyama bows in apology at a news conference Sunday in Yao, Osaka Prefecture. KYODO PHOTO&lt;br /&gt;The component, a polyethylene sheath, covers steel reinforcement rods inside concrete columns and protects them from corrosion (ahí no es nada...).&lt;br /&gt;ST Engineering Corp., based in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, fabricated ( lo que en román paladino en algunos países incivilizados vienen denominado falsedad documental &lt;a href="http://cita.es/falsedad/documental/"&gt;http://cita.es/falsedad/documental/&lt;/a&gt;) documents to show that the product had passed required examinations of its specifications, even though such tests were never conducted. The company submitted bogus test results to the firms that run highways.&lt;br /&gt;ST Engineering President Shingo Taniyama offered an apology at a hastily arranged news conference in Yao.&lt;br /&gt;"We were desperate to increase sales," ( claro que si amigos eso os exime de toda culpa, pobechillos, os imagino corriendo por los pasillos de la empresa corriendo como hamsters ciegos en celo, gritando incoherencias) Taniyama said. "We were confident of its safety" because the company had sold similar products overseas.(Traducción: Le hemos vendido la mierda componente este sin garantías técnicas a paletos occidentales y chinos y hasta el día de hoy no se han quejado de nada).&lt;br /&gt;In 2004, the now-defunct Japan Highway Public Corp. introduced new specification requirements for the polyethylene sheath, and its makers were obliged to conduct and pass 10 tests before JH would grant approval for its use.&lt;br /&gt;Three highway companies spun off from JH's privatization in 2005 adopted the same requirements. But the requirements did not oblige makers to submit proof that the tests were conducted properly, according to sources (¿ Requisitos técnicos cuyo cumplimiento no debe ser probado? Esto es seriedad, si señor).&lt;br /&gt;"The financial burden of conducting such tests was too heavy for us," (hombre para ustedes, para su competencia dentro de Japón y no digamos para las compañías extranjeras que quisiesen participar en las adjudicaciones con sus productos, a las que tengo para mi que seguramente estos requisitos técnicos si resultarían de prueba obligatoria... ) an ST Engineering official was quoted as saying. "The quality of the product has not changed since the system was introduced, and there are no safety worries."("In God we trust").&lt;br /&gt;The tests reportedly cost several million yen. ST Engineering falsified reports at least twice, in April and May 2005, and submitted them to JH. After the product's approval, the polyethylene sheath was delivered between August 2005 and March this year to 22 bridge construction sites on several expressways, including the Higashi Kyushu Expressway in Oita Prefecture and No. 2 Tomei Highway now being built to connect Tokyo and Nagoya.&lt;br /&gt;After the falsification was discovered and became known to other parties, ST Engineering conducted the tests in March, the sources said.&lt;br /&gt;"The sheath itself is not a structural part of a bridge (Que maravilla de manipulación del lenguaje,claro que el cobertor plástico no es estructural caballero, pero el cableado de acero que protege de la corrosión si lo es). It was reported to us that the product was properly used at the bridge construction sites," a spokesman for West Nippon Expressway Co. said. "We therefore don't see any &lt;a rel="nofollow"&gt;safety problems&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;The transgression, however, brings into question the effectiveness of highway companies' specification requirements, industry sources said (Hombre eso como poco, pero.. ¿ Que hay de las consecuencias legales? ¿ Algúna sanción administrativa aunque sea chiquitita? Parece que no, todos sabemos que, en Japón, la genuflexión de grado 45 es suficiente castigo ).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-3891631323910208851?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/3891631323910208851/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=3891631323910208851' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3891631323910208851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/3891631323910208851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/bow-bow-bow.html' title='Professional Liability in Japan: Just bow! bow! bow!'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3504050442956606188.post-1553091892504938905</id><published>2008-04-03T10:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T07:45:09.203-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economía'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='País: Japón'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='_Lang: español'/><title type='text'>¿ Qué ha cambiado?</title><content type='html'>EL PAIS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La larga crisis de la banca japonesa&lt;br /&gt;ANTONIO CARRASCOSA 03/02/2002&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/empresas/JAPON/larga/crisis/banca/japonesa/elpepueconeg/20020203elpnegemp_12/Tes?print=1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="popup_299x644" title="Enviar" href="http://www.elpais.com/envios/enviar_noticia/index.html?xref=20020203elpnegemp_12.Tes&amp;type=&amp;anchor=elpepueconeg&amp;d_date=&amp;aP=modulo%3DEnviar%26params%3Dxref%253D20020203elpnegemp_12.Tes%2526type%253D%2526d_date%253D%2526anchor%253D"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La banca japonesa, como reflejo de la larga crisis que vive Japón, es constante noticia en la prensa económica mundial. Para algunos (los estructuralistas), la crisis bancaria es una de las causas principales de los males de la economía japonesa al no estar cumpliendo los bancos con su función típica de intermediación financiera. Resolvamos, pues, los problemas de la banca y Japón habrá dado un gran paso adelante para salir de su depresión crónica. Para otros (los keynesianos), 'carece de fundamento pensar que los problemas bancarios causaron el desastre japonés o que su resolución restaurará la prosperidad' (Tobin).&lt;br /&gt;La banca japonesa padece un muy grave problema de morosidad, que está desembocando en una crisis de solvencia&lt;br /&gt;La gestión bancaria ha sido conservadora y su preferencia por los bonos públicos se ha reforzado por la escasa demanda de crédito&lt;br /&gt;En lo que todo el mundo coincide es en que la banca japonesa padece un muy grave problema de morosidad, lo que está desembocando en una crisis de solvencia de dichas entidades. El origen histórico de esta explosión de morosidad está en el estallido de la burbuja especulativa de los años ochenta, pero para explicar el nivel de morosidad alcanzado hoy en día, si cabe, son más relevantes tanto la larga recesión económica que vive el país (especialmente desde 1998) como la deflación que sacude a la economía japonesa.&lt;br /&gt;Aunque a veces se publican datos muy diferentes, si seguimos a la Agencia de Servicios Financieros, el dato de préstamos de dudoso cobro alcanza los 65,771 billones de yenes (final de marzo de 2001). Dado que los importes del PIB japonés y de los créditos totales de la banca son muy parecidos, la proporción entre, por un lado, los préstamos morosos y, por otro lado, el PIB y los créditos bancarios totales alcanza un 12,2%.&lt;br /&gt;Un nivel tan alto de morosidad acaba minando la solvencia de las entidades bancarias. El propio gobernador del Banco de Japón ha señalado que al final del año fiscal 2000 el coeficiente de solvencia (tier 1) de los bancos japoneses que operan internacionalmente era del 6,6%. Como es sabido, el concepto de capital que utilizan los bancos japoneses es bastante laxo, ya que incluye los fondos reembolsables que el Estado ha venido inyectando en los mismos, impuestos diferidos, revalorizaciones contables de sus tenencias de inmuebles, etcétera. Utilizando el criterio contable norteamericano, el gobernador Hayami rebajaba el coeficiente citado al 4%, muy por debajo del estándar acordado por el Banco de Pagos Internacionales (BIS).&lt;br /&gt;¿Podemos inferir de todo lo anterior que en Japón estamos ante un credit crunch (crisis de liquidez) como el registrado en 1997-1998? El argumento más claro contra esa idea se deriva de la clara mejoría de la actitud prestamista de las instituciones financieras, que ha pasado de negativa en 1997-1998 a acomodaticia o positiva en la actualidad (el índice de difusión recogido en el informe Tankan ha mejorado más 40 puntos desde 1998). Simplemente, la banca ha sido conservadora en su gestión de activos en estos tres últimos años (lógico en un proceso de saneamiento de las entidades) y su preferencia por los bonos públicos se ha visto reforzada por la escasa demanda de crédito de las empresas (que también están inmersas en un proceso de saneamiento financiero y reestructuración productiva).&lt;br /&gt;Por otra parte, y para complicar más la situación, creemos que la banca japonesa tiene además un problema de gestión estratégica. Éste se plasma, por un lado, en la dificultad para generar un mayor volumen de beneficios (que aumenten los recursos propios de las entidades) y, por otro lado, en su contrastada deficiente evaluación de riesgos (lo que agrava el ya citado problema de morosidad).&lt;br /&gt;Durante muchos años (que algunos autores han descrito como de 'socialismo financiero'), los tipos de interés no han funcionado en Japón como indicadores de escasez; la evaluación de riesgos ha sido nula por los estrechos vínculos existentes entre las empresas dentro de grandes conglomerados (siempre con un gran banco como elemento de referencia de los mismos), y una cuestión importante: un fuerte crecimiento económico durante 40 años. Poco a poco, ese escenario económico se está transformando: la financiación de proyectos, más que de empresas, es cada vez más necesaria, especialmente de pequeñas empresas y en el sector servicios; las alternativas a la típica financiación bancaria para las empresas, especialmente las grandes, son cada vez mayores; la escasez de ahorro predominante en la economía japonesa en sus primeros años de crecimiento se ha transformado en un significativo exceso de ahorro; los grandes conglomerados (keiretsu) se están rompiendo, quebrando incluso empresas relevantes de los mismos. En este nuevo escenario, la tradicional banca japonesa se está desenvolviendo mal. Aunque en los últimos años los bancos japoneses han cambiado actitudes, procedimientos, métodos de gestión etcétera, esos cambios son todavía insuficientes.&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué pueden hacer las autoridades japonesas para solucionar los graves problemas que sufren las entidades bancarias? Veamos qué han hecho hasta el momento las autoridades y por qué no han sido suficientes estas medidas.&lt;br /&gt;En 1998, el Gobierno aprobó un ambicioso paquete de salvamento de las entidades bancarias. Por un lado, inyectó capital en los bancos (hasta marzo de 2001 esa operación ascendió a 9,3 billones de yenes). Por otro lado, fortaleció la Corporación de Garantía de Depósitos (la dotación autorizada a la Corporación ascendió a 18 billones de yenes). Por último, aprobó una serie de medidas para fortalecer la supervisión bancaria y para facilitar el reflotamiento de entidades en crisis (creación de una agencia de supervisión independiente del Ministerio de Finanzas, establecimiento de normas prudenciales más rigurosas sobre gestión y calificación de riesgos, creación de una serie de instituciones para favorecer la liquidación de fallidos y el saneamiento de entidades, etcétera).&lt;br /&gt;La prueba más evidente de la insuficiencia de las medidas adoptadas la tenemos en los datos aportados al comienzo de este artículo. En concreto, cabe mencionar varias enseñanzas de las medidas de 1998: en primer lugar, el saneamiento de entidades con un grave problema de morosidad es muy complicado en un escenario macroeconómico depresivo. En ese contexto, se comprueba que la morosidad es un fenómeno dinámico y que se multiplica según crecen las suspensiones de pagos y las quiebras. En segundo lugar, el reforzamiento de las medidas prudenciales y supervisores empeora a corto plazo las estadísticas de morosidad, ya que tiende a hacerse más estricta la clasificación de activos de riesgo. Un ejemplo de efecto perverso de una medida prudencial positiva lo tenemos con la aplicación desde septiembre de 2001 de la contabilización según el precio de mercado de las acciones de las que son titulares los bancos (justo en un periodo de desplomamiento del Nikkei). En tercer lugar, cambiar actitudes es más complicado que cambiar normas. Con motivo de las suspensiones de pagos de Sogo y Mycal (sólo esta última cadena de distribución tenía un pasivo de 1,7 billones de yenes) se ha apreciado la escasa prudencia valorativa de las entidades. Mycal debería haber estado registrado como 'deudor en peligro de quiebra' (lo que obliga a provisionar como mínimo el 70% de esa deuda), pero no ha sido así. De hecho, las provisiones totales no han superado el 15% de la deuda con los bancos. Incluso un gran banco japonés incrementó, en el primer semestre de 2001, los préstamos a Mycal en un 60%. En cuarto lugar, la participación del Gobierno en el saneamiento de las pérdidas bancarias, cuando éstas comprometen la viabilidad del sistema financiero, parece incuestionable. Se puede discutir cómo intervenir, pero no la propia intervención. Esto último ha sido muy frecuente en Japón desde el comienzo de la crisis. En quinto lugar, la estrategia mantenida por las autoridades japonesas durante años (esperar a que los problemas se acabaran resolviendo solos) se ha demostrado errónea. La experiencia nórdica en la década de los años noventa es la contraria: acciones inmediatas para atacar los problemas de solvencia de la banca. Buena parte de la escasa presión sentida por el Gobierno japonés para solucionar rápidamente este problema se debe a que Japón es un gran acreedor exterior neto.&lt;br /&gt;El Gobierno de Koizumi debería aprobar un plan concreto de saneamiento bancario (alguna medida concreta ya ha sido presentada al Parlamento). Por las declaraciones públicas del Gabinete, algunas líneas generales del mismo podrán ser las siguientes:&lt;br /&gt;- Reforzamiento de las inspecciones ordinarias de los bancos y realización de inspecciones especiales para comprobar la calificación de riesgos y la dotación de provisiones desarrollada por las entidades sobre ciertos deudores.&lt;br /&gt;- Sistematización de las situaciones de riesgo de los deudores y de las actuaciones a desarrollar en cada caso: elaboración de planes de reestructuración de deudas, actuación contra los deudores según las leyes civiles, venta de deudas a la Resolution and Collection Corporation, inyección de dinero público, etcétera.&lt;br /&gt;- Medidas para facilitar la compra y posterior gestión de préstamos de dudoso cobro por la Resolution and Collection Corporation, que podría llegar incluso al saneamiento y revitalización de empresas deudoras con problemas. Hasta el momento, la RCC ha comprado préstamos morosos de la banca por un importe muy reducido: unos 40.000 millones de yenes, obteniendo un descuento del 96% del valor facial de los mismos. En este terreno, la RCC compite con bancos privados de inversiones, como Goldman Sachs y Morgan Stanley, que ya están realizando operaciones de titulización de deudas.&lt;br /&gt;- Creación de un fondo público que adquiera ordenadamente las participaciones cruzadas y, en general, de las inversiones en acciones de la banca.&lt;br /&gt;Con medidas de este tipo se acelerará el proceso de saneamiento bancario, pero serán insuficientes si la recuperación económica no llega. Estamos seguros de que una vez que comience la recuperación, se estimulará la demanda de crédito y así se restablecerá plenamente la función de intermediación financiera de la banca.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3504050442956606188-1553091892504938905?l=macroyculos.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/feeds/1553091892504938905/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3504050442956606188&amp;postID=1553091892504938905' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1553091892504938905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3504050442956606188/posts/default/1553091892504938905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macroyculos.blogspot.com/2008/04/ha-cambiado-algo-en-estos-6-aos.html' title='¿ Qué ha cambiado?'/><author><name>Dr. Stagflation</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15470788918549830273</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_1EeKfDoBGuk/R_qfIfNRcUI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/fmIPxr0-g64/S220/383111244_261f7282cb_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
