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Cita de: mpt en Septiembre 02, 2020, 10:52:02 amCita de: Derby en Septiembre 02, 2020, 09:17:35 am ..... el volumen de afiliados de la Seguridad Social .... total de 18.792.376. unos dos millones mas que en plena debacle del ladrillo, parece un dato estupendo; una lastima que no den el dato de cuanto suma lo que cotizan, no sea que se recaude menos que entoncesEsto es el corte de junio de 2020 (página 8 )http://www.seg-social.es/wps/wcm/connect/wss/4d8b025b-6171-4030-95f2-a95d9e9e7fce/DEFICIT+CAJA+JUNIO_2020.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=Aquí corte de junio de 2008 (página 8 ). Justo antes del pinchazo laboral que fue en otoño.http://www.seg-social.es/wps/wcm/connect/wss/542024c1-5cd6-488f-85a9-6f4e46ba0893/Junio+publ.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=Pero si quieren un resumen: 31.889 millones por cotizaciones en los seis meses de 2008 y 36.164 millones en 2020. Hay que tener en cuenta que ahí están marzo, abril, mayo y junio con lo peor de los ERTES.
Cita de: Derby en Septiembre 02, 2020, 09:17:35 am ..... el volumen de afiliados de la Seguridad Social .... total de 18.792.376. unos dos millones mas que en plena debacle del ladrillo, parece un dato estupendo; una lastima que no den el dato de cuanto suma lo que cotizan, no sea que se recaude menos que entonces
..... el volumen de afiliados de la Seguridad Social .... total de 18.792.376.
Pero si quieren un resumen: 31.889 millones por cotizaciones en los seis meses de 2008 y 36.164 millones en 2020. Hay que tener en cuenta que ahí están marzo, abril, mayo y junio con lo peor de los ERTES.
Cita de: Saturio en Septiembre 02, 2020, 13:05:41 pmPero si quieren un resumen: 31.889 millones por cotizaciones en los seis meses de 2008 y 36.164 millones en 2020. Hay que tener en cuenta que ahí están marzo, abril, mayo y junio con lo peor de los ERTES. graciasun misterio misterioso, parece coincidir aproximadamente el aumento de cotizantes con el aumento de lo cotizado, algo mas de un 13%¿no bajan los sueldos y en consecuencia lo cotizado?
Noteworthy is that since 2018 nominal interest rates in advanced economies have declined, and the Federal Reserve—the most important central bank in the world—disclosed on August 27, 2020, that it will target higher inflation (above 2%). Other central banks will likely follow this policy.Because of the massive debt overhang, it’s impossible for central banks to raise nominal interest rates. Real interest rates will thus continue to plummet, as the chart above suggests.A huge factor that drives the gold price is real interest rates. See the chart below. U.S. real rates on 10-year government bonds are shown on the left axis (inversely), and the gold price on the right axis. The lower real rates, the higher the gold price.
ThemeSpain is one of the main beneficiaries of the EU’s pandemic recovery fund, aimed at making the economy more sustainable and innovative, but will it be able to take full advantage?SummarySpain’s economy, with weak fundamentals before the outbreak of COVID-19, has been hit hard by the pandemic, particularly the tourism industry, the country’s lifeblood. The €140 billion it will receive is not a panacea for the deep structural problems. Reforms are urgently needed. Such a large amount of money will sorely test the country’s administrative capacity to adequately plan and execute the funds. In the 1990s and early 2000s Spain was very successful in using EU funds for large infrastructure projects, such as the high-speed rail network (AVE), but since then it has slipped. Now is the time to invest in human capital and not physical infrastructure (much of which is already world class) and emerge with an economy that is more knowledge-based, digital, greener and inclusive. The EU has responded to the pandemic with an unprecedented fund. Spain’s leaders must rise to the historic occasion.The EU’s recovery fund may seem like manna from heaven, but it comes with strings attached and is not a panacea for Spain’s deep structural problems. Reforms are urgently needed. How the money is spent will be closely scrutinised. The leftist minority coalition government, led by the Socialists, has to send to Brussels in October its programme of reforms and how it plans to invest the money (70% of it in 2021 and 2022), and next March its definitive programme.Not only has the pace of reforms slowed down in recent years, but successive Spanish governments have been particularly prone to overturning the reforms of their predecessors, particularly in the areas of labour market, education, pensions, taxes and town planning. For example, governments in the last 40 years have passed more than 50 labour market reforms of one sort or another, apparently a world record, and yet unemployment has never been lower than 7% (considered a disastrous level in the US and UK). The dysfunctional labour market is exhausted with so many reforms. Part of the unemployment problem lies with the nature of Spain’s economic model. Tourism is a seasonal industry.The initiatives that stem from the recovery fund and require the approval of the national parliament (where 16 parties are represented) would stand a much better chance of being effectively implemented if the political class finally learned the art of compromise, which means all sides making concessions. Parliamentary debates are little more than a litany of insults by most of the parties. With a weak minority government and little prospect of one with an absolute majority, the lack of compromise among the main political parties is a major obstacle to lasting reforms.The coordination mechanisms between the central government and the 17 regional administrations are also poor.A golden opportunity to make the economy more sustainableSpain has an historic chance to make its economy more sustainable. Its shaky foundations were dramatically exposed when the massive real-estate bubble burst in 2008 (the number of housing starts in 2006 was higher than in Germany, France and Italy combined), which together with the global financial crisis triggered the Great Recession. Unemployment hit 27%. Just over a decade later, the pandemic has brought the problem home again: witness the devastating impact of the collapse of tourism and the hospitality industry in general, which have borne the brunt of the lockdown and confinement measures.Now is the time to invest in human capital and not physical infrastructure (much of it is already world class) and emerge from the pandemic with an economy that is more knowledge-based, digital, greener and inclusive. Spain needs to attract back the legions of scientists, engineers, doctors, nurses and other skilled workers who left the country during the 2008-13 slump.The Independent Authority of Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) says the government should re-think its plan to invest a further €75 billion in expanding the AVE network, as it is not profitable and other forms of transport, such as commuter train services, need to be improved. Per kilometre of track, there are less than a third as many AVE passengers as in France.How should Spain use the funds at its disposal? The European Commission’s reports on Spain published in February,1 before the pandemic, and May,2 when COVID-19 was in full swing, give an idea of the direction in which Spain should move. The reports make clear the limited progress made in the Commission’s recommendations (see Figure 3).The tax system, state pensions and labour market regulations need overhauling. These areas do not strictly lie within the scope of benefiting directly from the EU’s recovery fund, although reforms would make the country more resilient.Spain’s tax burden at 35.4% of GDP is much lower than the EU average, although marginal personal tax rates are similar to the bloc’s average (see Figure 6). The problem lies with the effective rates for individuals and companies because of tax benefits, exemptions, deductions, rebates and loopholes, as well as fraud and evasion. The Popular Party’s tax reductions approved in 2015, at a time when the structural fiscal deficit had not (and still has not) been corrected and the country was coming out of the Great Recession, were demagogic.In a recent report, the AIReF put the cost of tax benefits in housing, pensions, employment, health and education at €60 billion (5% of GDP), two-thirds of which correspond to VAT and which mostly benefit high- and not low-income households, as they consume more. One of the anomalies is the 10% VAT on alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in bars and restaurants and 21% in supermarkets.The tax benefit from annual contributions to private pension funds (up to a maximum of €8,000) has also not been effective. The incentive is attractive for low incomes, but these have little capacity to save, and not attractive for high incomes. The amount accumulated in these funds is small: close to one-third of total contributions are below €500 and less than 1% between €7,500 and €8,000. Furthermore, these funds when drawn have a maximum tax rate of 45% compared with 23% for mutual funds.Spain’s population is ageing fast and will have one of the highest old-age to working-age ratios among OECD countries, exerting strong pressure on financial sustainability (see Figure 7). The United Nations forecasts there will be 78 people over the age of 65 per 100 people in 2050 against 33 currently, and 53 and 31, respectively, in OECD nations on average.Now might not be the right time to lower public pensions, even though the situation is more critical because of rising unemployment and with it reduced funding via social security contributions for the pay-as-you-go system. The same can be said for increasing tax rates or making the system more efficient, but at some point, once GDP recovers its pre-COVID 19 level, the government is going to have to bite the bullet and find ways to raise more revenue and reduce spending.The government is, however, expected to fulfil its commitment to change the labour market laws. Elements of the last (2012) reform by the Popular Party administration, such as allowing companies to opt out of collective pay-setting agreements within industries and to make their own deals with workers and giving firms greater discretionary powers to adopt internal measures to limit job destruction, have proved to have saved if not created jobs. A wholesale scrapping of the 2012 reforms makes no sense.The labour market duality between insiders (those on permanent contracts) and outsiders (those temporarily employed) could finally be addressed through the introduction of a single open-ended contract (the so-called equal opportunities contract, or EOC) at the same time that temporary contracts were abolished –with the exception of replacement contracts for maternity or sickness/disability leave-. Another problem is long-term unemployment: more than 700,000 generally poorly qualified people over the age of 45 have been jobless for more than a year.
JACKSON HOLE 2020: «LA ERA CERO YA ESTÁ AQUÍ» (CONT. 2).—P. S.: En los próximos meses, nos vamos a hartar de escuchar predicar en el desierto a los ganchos de timo popularcapitalista:—«¡Que horrooor! La deflación retrasa las decisiones de los compradores».Es decir, la deflación retrasa la llegada de tu dinero al bolsillo de los vendedores. Sin embargo, la verdad es que aún no ha cambiado tanto la mentalidad de los compradores. Solo estamos empezando a aprender a convivir con la deflación. Si no se vende es por la avaricia de los vendedores, que se resisten a actualizar los precios a la Era Cero, pretendiendo que tú sigas actuando como si el dinero fuera despreciable.
En la "Industria ladrillera", solo bajarán cuando no tengan mas remedio... :'(espero que pronto
Interesante artículo que viene al pelo con todo lo que estamos hablando (abstráiganse por un momento de que quien escribe el artículo quiere que se desprendan de su dinero y compren oro)Former Central Banker: "The World Is Heading Towards A New Monetary System That Incorporates Gold"https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/former-central-banker-world-heading-towards-new-monetary-system-incorporates-goldCitarNoteworthy is that since 2018 nominal interest rates in advanced economies have declined, and the Federal Reserve—the most important central bank in the world—disclosed on August 27, 2020, that it will target higher inflation (above 2%). Other central banks will likely follow this policy.Because of the massive debt overhang, it’s impossible for central banks to raise nominal interest rates. Real interest rates will thus continue to plummet, as the chart above suggests.A huge factor that drives the gold price is real interest rates. See the chart below. U.S. real rates on 10-year government bonds are shown on the left axis (inversely), and the gold price on the right axis. The lower real rates, the higher the gold price.
Only A Shift In Labour’s Bargaining Power Can Light Up US InflationWith his speech last week to the virtual Jackson Hole conference, Jay Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, might have raised the curtain on the final act for the US dollar as the global reserve currency. It may not be the end, but it is the beginning of the end.Mr Powell’s address largely conformed to news reports in the days running up to it. He said that the Open Market Committee would target average inflation — in a shift to Flexible Average Inflation Targeting, or FAIT, from Flexible Inflation Targeting — and that monetary policy decisions would be informed by the assessment of the shortfall from the undefined maximum employment level.The wide latitude that the central bank has assumed to keep interest rates lower for longer does not bode well for the US dollar. If the Fed were to be seen as tolerant of high inflation to make up for low inflation in the past, faith in the dollar as a store of value will be eroded. For a global reserve currency, that would be strategically costly.Inflation has remained dormant for so long not because central banks were successful in taming it. Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker brought down price rises in the 1980s, but at the cost of two recessions. Afterwards, expanding global trade, the decline in the crude oil price and the advent of ecommerce pitched in.Above all, the balance between capital and labour shifted in favour of capital. Globalisation — the outsourcing of jobs and offshoring of manufacturing — weakened workers’ bargaining power, compressing wages and, thus, operating costs for companies. Profit margins could expand without end-user prices having to rise too much.Thus, independent central banks targeting inflation did not tame inflation, but the erosion of labour power and the consequent moderation in wages did. Central bankers had nothing to do with it. If they really were responsible for lowering the inflation rate, they should have been able to push it higher. Since the turn of the millennium, first Japan and then others have tried valiantly to generate inflation but in vain.If a medicine did not work, a good doctor should ask herself whether the medicine was the wrong one, rather than keep increasing the dosage. If not, the medicine loses whatever potency it has and creates substantial side effects. That is precisely what has happened with ultra-loose monetary policy since 2008.Yet Mr Powell is going all-in on failed policies. He has admitted that inflation has never returned to 2 per cent on a sustained basis and productivity is on the decline. These outcomes are not in spite of Fed policy but because of it.Zombie companies — those that do not earn enough to cover their interest payments — are nearly one-fifth of all listed businesses in America, according to Deutsche Bank, from virtually zero at the turn of the millennium. Meanwhile, the top 10 per cent of the population owns 87 per cent of the stocks, so the rising market perpetuates inequality, leaving the other 90 per cent with bank accounts that earn nothing.Rather than trying to take credit for a “Great Moderation,” the Fed should be recognised for achieving a great polarisation — social and economic, and consequently, political.Together with its support of the fiscal deficit through the continued purchase of Treasury securities, and with the purchase of risky instruments across the spectrum, the Fed is fostering bubbles in financial assets. Inflation will remain tame, despite the acronym changing from FIT to FAIT, as long as the balance of power is tilted against labour.For inflation to raise its head, labour needs to acquire pricing power. Until then, money creation will simply juice assets and make them a bigger source of instability. We shall see if a new administration tilts the balance. If it does, then along with fiat money debasement, the inflation fire will be lit. That could be the last straw for the US dollar.The return of inflation will also end asset price inflation. Investors should be prepared for the return of the 1970s; perhaps worse, with social turmoil accompanying stagnant growth and high inflation.Emerging markets will have a new problem this decade — that of managing the appreciation of their currencies. They can and should pay down their debts and focus on supporting consumption through domestic production, as currency strength would be a drag on exports. Those that execute that strategy well will find favour with investors.The good news for America is that no other currency is a better store of value than the dollar because the race to debase currencies is global. But that is bad news for investors. The only anti-dollar in the world is gold.
Uno de los analistas del Real Instituto Elcano ha publicado un artículo analizando las posibilidades de los fondos de la UE para España. Expresa bastantes dudas sobre la situación actual y la capacidad de acuerdo y vista a largo plazo necesarias por parte de nuestros políticos para llevar a cabo reformas estructurales. Resume bastante bien los problemas sistémicos que sufrimos y da algunas ideas de qué podría intentarse para avanzar hacia una transformación real del país, no hacia una repetición de los mismos errores.Personalmente soy muy pesimista dado el nivel demostrado por los actuales políticos en el gobierno. Al final necesitarán un empujoncito de los hombres de negro para avanzar en la buena dirección.http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_en/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_in/zonas_in/ari101-2020-chislett-challenge-for-spain-to-use-theeus-pandemic-recovery-fundwiselyhttp://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/wcm/connect/89d46890-4303-4591-b9d3-4800aa65e0ca/ARI101-2020-Chislett-Challenge-for-Spain-to-use-theEUs-pandemic-recovery-fundwisely.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=89d46890-4303-4591-b9d3-4800aa65e0caLes adjunto unos fragmentos aunque recomiendo que lo lean íntegramente.
US seeks formal alliance similar to Nato with India, Japan and Australia, State Department official saysWashington’s goal is to get countries in the Indo-Pacific region to work together as a bulwark against ‘a potential challenge from China’, says the US official- He says the four nations are expected to meet in Delhi sometime this autumn