www.transicionestructural.NET es un nuevo foro, que a partir del 25/06/2012 se ha separado de su homónimo .COM. No se compartirán nuevos mensajes o usuarios a partir de dicho día.
0 Usuarios y 2 Visitantes están viendo este tema.
Emails reveal Sam Bankman-Fried’s courtship of federal regulators(...) As chief executive of FTX, a crypto exchange, Bankman-Fried hired multiple former federal regulators who helped connect him with top officials at the CFTC, the agency that he hoped would be charged with regulating his industry, emails show.Many of Bankman-Fried’s top deputies were former regulators. Ryne Miller, FTX’s general counsel, previously served as legal counsel to Gary Gensler, the then-CFTC chairman who is now the chairman of the SEC.Mark Wetjen, FTX’s former head of policy and regulatory strategy and current director at LedgerX, an FTX affiliate, formerly served as the acting chairman and a commissioner at the CFTC after being nominated to the position by President Obama.Jill Sommers, another former CFTC commissioner, also served on the FTX U.S. Derivatives Board of Directors.Miller helped arrange for Bankman-Fried to meet and dine with former CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz, the current general counsel for the SEC, emails The Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show.Miller set up the October 2021 dinner for Berkovitz and Bankman-Fried at Rasika West End, an upscale Indian restaurant in Washington, D.C. Zach Dexter, CEO of LedgerX, Wetjen, and Michelle Bond, the CEO of the Assn. for Digital Asset Markets, were also invited to the dinner, but the records don’t make clear whether they attended.“I think the last time I went there with you was at your CFTC going away dinner with Gary, in 2013,” Miller wrote to Berkovitz. Emails show Berkovitz paid Miller back for his $50 share of the dinner.Miller also invited CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump to dinner with Bankman-Fried or to visit the FTX offices in Chicago on Nov. 3, 2021. It is uncertain whether Stump accepted the invitation; she could not be reached for comment. Stump left her position with the CFTC in April to work for Solidus Labs, a cryptocurrency company.“I won’t comment. I understand the questions, but not commenting on inquiries right now,” Miller told The Times when asked about the emails.The SEC declined to comment on Berkovitz’s role in the current case against Bankman-Fried and other FTX and FTX-affiliated employees. Berkovitz announced his resignation from the SEC on Dec. 22, effective Jan. 31, 2023. Berkovitz’s resignation was unrelated to “any specific work he was doing or meetings he had taken,” an SEC spokesperson said.Months before the dinner with Berkovitz, Wetjen requested an urgent meeting with current CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam and David Gillers, Behnam’s chief of staff, to discuss LedgerX.“Reaching out to seek some time to discuss with you a LedgerX matter of considerable urgency,” Wetjen wrote to Behnam on Aug. 26, 2021. “Can you please accommodate a request to have a brief discussion on this? Many thanks for considering.”Wetjen, LedgerX CEO Dexter and others were able to secure a meeting with Behnam just hours later.Wetjen could not be reached for comment.“These few emails show that the CFTC had an open-door policy to meet basically whenever FTX wanted to meet, including [with] the then-acting chair,” Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit that advocates for financial regulation, told The Times. “FTX hired former CFTC officials for the purpose, obviously, to access and influence the CFTC, where FTX had a pending radical proposal to dramatically change the structure and operations of clearinghouses.”On Dec. 1, Behnam told the Senate Agriculture Committee that he met with Bankman-Fried numerous times to discuss the CFTC’s consideration of FTX’s clearinghouse application. Bankman-Fried took a “dogged approach,” Behnam said.“Over the past 14 months, we met 10 times in the CFTC office at their request all in relation to ... this clearinghouse application,” Behnam added. “There were very, very strong feelings about this application. And I felt I needed to be engaged as the chairman of the agency that met directly with FTX and Mr. Bankman-Fried.”The clearinghouse application was never approved, said Steven Adamske, a spokesperson for Behnam.Bankman-Fried was slated to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Dec. 13, but was arrested in the Bahamas the night before. In his prepared written testimony, Bankman-Fried planned to say that he was pressured into signing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy documents that released his control of the now-bankrupt company.“Most of that pressure came from Ryne Miller,” Bankman-Fried wrote in the prepared testimony, adding that attorneys with Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings, also pressured him. “They also called many of my friends, coworkers and family members … some of whom were emotionally damaged by the pressure. Some of them came to me, crying.”Bankman-Fried was extradited back to the U.S. to face trial in the Southern District of New York. On Thursday, he was released into his parents’ custody on a $250-million bond.“We believe that this is the largest ever pretrial bond,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Nicolas Roos said. Bankman-Fried will have travel permission from his parents’ home in Palo Alto to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Pues no se que opinar, sinceramente. Por donde yo vivo (zona metropolitana de barcelona) como coches eléctricos veo Teslas (El model 3 sobretodo). Del resto de fabricantes, algún Volskawagen ID3, algún Nissan Leaf...Y si vamos a mirar el precio, dentro de que todos los eléctricos son carísimos, los Teslas (a mmi parecer) son los que tienen mejor relación calidad-precio (autonomía y red de cargadores).Ojo, no estoy salvando a Elonsito de la quema, pero veo a Tesla muy bien posicionada en el nicho de os coches eléctricos (y que en 10 años, este nicho será mayoritario)
La verdad es que todas las economías del mundo convergen al sistema de planificación central para sobrevivir. Por ejemplo, EEUU ha probado ser una economía de planificación central extrema, al menos en cuatro materias: militar, asuntos exteriores, energética y monetaria. Ahora hay que sumar una quinta: internet.
Qué curioso que se hable mal de las BCDC (monedas digitales de los bancos centrales) justo cuando toca hablar mal de FTX (plataforma de intercambio de criptomonedas).
El clima: lo dice Europa[...]Emmanuel Macron, no sabemos si disfrazado de Zelensky en el lujo del Elíseo, ha prohibido los vuelos comerciales de pasajeros en aquellas rutas donde exista alternativa en tren para luchar contra el cambio climático. La Unión Europea ha dado el visto bueno, una farsa más, para analizar los resultados de esta medida tras los tres años (prorrogables) durante los que estará en vigor. La prohibición sólo afecta a tres rutas y es imposible medir el inexistente efecto en el clima. Pero la Unión Europea y Macron, líder de la Agenda 2030, no están interesados en testar el impacto climático de la prohibición, sino en medir la sumisión de los ciudadanos. Antes de la llegada del Euro Digital hay que ir probando cómo no reacciona la población, esa chusma que usa el coche para ir a trabajar, aspira a viajar y ha de recibir estas medidas entre aplausos.El Ayuntamiento de Madrid celebra no ser sancionado por Europa por bajar las emisiones. Se prohíbe la circulación de coches de distintivo A no empadronados en Madrid, que consumen menos combustible que otros nuevos de gran cilindrada. Porque todos sabemos que la lucha contra el cambio climático la harán unos más que otros. El clima, Europa, no es la causa, sino el medio. Una élite obsesionada por implantar un nuevo sistema de control global, desesperada por librarse de una población que aspira a una vida con algunas de sus comodidades.[...]Con la Vicepresidenta del Parlamento Europeo en prisión por corrupción lo dice Europa debería ser una llamada a la rebelión, al cuestionamiento y un puntero de deshonra.[...]Lo dice Europa es prueba de falta de nuestra soberanía. Las decisiones que nos afectan se alejan de nuestro poder de decisión sin control. Sólo es aceptable la sumisión. No sé si es una democracia liberal aquella en la que se acaba la libertad en nombre del clima, pero desde luego no es una democracia representativa. Es un sistema irrespirable.https://www.vozpopuli.com/opinion/clima-dice-europa.html
El último post de asustadísmios es muy político. No me suelen gustar los encajes/ajustes a posteriori porque es evidente que todo lo anterior ha moldeado lo presente, pero en este caso es muy acertado, puesto que viene diciendo lo mismo desde hace muchísimo tiempo.No obstante yo venía a preguntar si el neocapitalismo planificado que se pronostica será una vuelta a las CAJITAS DE AHORRITOS. Es que claro, si expertos públicos inviolables empantanados en ladrillo hasta los 65 años son los que van a PLANIFICAR E INTERVENIR LA ECONOMÍA del país, se comprende que los que estamos en edad de pagar la fiesta nos echemos a temblar, igual que temblamos cuando el gobierno se saltaba la constitución porque un virus mágico mataba niños... pero de repente ya no
Blackstone’s Hefty Concession Is a Warning to InvestorsThe terms Blackstone offered the University of California in its BREIT fund are comparable with what Warren Buffett secured when he put $5 billion into Goldman Sachs in the 2008 financial crisisIf you are trying to get your money out of Blackstone’s giant private property fund, the new year brought some bad news, and some potentially very good news.The bad news was that no, you can’t have all your money back right now. So many other people tried to withdraw in December that the 5% quarterly cap will limit the amount that comes out until March, assuming everyone renews their withdrawal requests.The good news is that the University of California’s endowment, known as UC Investments, decided to put $4 billion into the fund, known as BREIT, locked up for five years with a two-year limited withdrawal period afterward, for an average of six years. That is a huge investment, especially into a fund with fees—1.25% a year and 12.5% of profits—set for small private investors, not major institutions.But it isn’t a pure vote of confidence: Blackstone will use up to $1 billion to pay UC Investments if it fails to earn 11.25% a year after fees. That is a fabulous return, comparable with the 10% annual dividend and option to buy discounted shares secured by Warren Buffett when he put $5 billion into Goldman Sachs at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. BREIT has in fact returned more than that since launching in 2017, as it chose to focus on Sunbelt housing, warehouses and data centers, which have been in strong demand. But the fund lost value in November, and a recession would surely hit rents.Still, the investment shows the university has faith in BREIT. The $1 billion of possible support, held in BREIT shares by Blackstone already, provides some protection if the fund underperforms, but is far too little to guarantee the 11.25% return if Sunbelt rental apartments, warehouses and data centers fall out of favor. Blackstone also gets a higher fee if BREIT beats the 11.25%.The university’s investment should provide some reassurance against two of the recent worries about BREIT: that it is choosing to value its properties at more than they are really worth, or that it might be subject to the equivalent of a run on the bank.Blackstone said that the university team did due diligence on the portfolio, including meeting the heads of each BREIT unit. That doesn’t guarantee that values aren’t marked up too high, or that rents and housing will withstand the recession widely expected later this year. But it is an additional check by smart people who put serious money on the line. A spokesperson for the university declined to comment.The extra $4 billion means BREIT is even further away from running out of cash to finance withdrawals. A run on the bank was already far off—thanks to monthly and quarterly limits on overall withdrawals and more than $20 billion of cash, easy-to-sell investments and loan facilities—and is now even more unlikely.The trouble for BREIT’s other investors is that none of this solves the original problem of too many people wanting their money back. In December, investors asked for 5.44% of the fund back, but only 0.23% was available because of withdrawals in the two prior months. The money from UC Investments won’t be used to lift the cap on withdrawals, so the cap will almost certainly limit withdrawals again this quarter. If the outlook for BREIT’s returns worsens, more will want to get out, so the danger is that withdrawal limits stay in place for many months.Investors happy to keep their money in BREIT for years alongside the university won’t worry about the withdrawal limits, although they won’t get the university’s privilege of Blackstone part-underwriting an 11.25% return. But anyone who thinks they might want their money this year—or just wants to have it available in case the looming recession hits their income—would be right to worry that they may well not be able to get it back quickly.At a time of rising interest rates, liquidity is at a premium. The University of California just put a price on that premium: $1 billion to underwrite 11.25% was their demand in return for a six-year lockup. That is expensive. It suggests that private funds without the record of BREIT, or the financial resources of Blackstone, are going to find it hard to keep attracting the money that flowed in so easily during their decadelong boom.Bear that in mind when you consider investments where it is hard to get your money back.
¿El catacrack en los mercados era para arriba o para abajo?Feliz Año
Cita de: pianista en Enero 04, 2023, 17:04:03 pm¿El catacrack en los mercados era para arriba o para abajo?Feliz AñoNi p'arriba ni p'abajo; de lado (o mejor aún, con el culo contra el viento...)Feliz Año