PPCC-Pisitófilos Creditófagos-Verano 2022

[wanderer]

Por curiosidad abro Instagram y trato de buscar historias al respecto pero todo lo que veo es en la línea de mujer emponderada y feminismo irracional y obsceno. Cientos de mensajes de mujeres que parecen no representar para nada a la mujer que me rodea a mí (que son de todas las edades, razas y tendencias). ¿De dónde salen todas estas de Instagram?

No cometas el error de pensar que hay una coherencia. En las redes se hace postureo. Luego hablas con esas mismas personas y no tienen nada que ver, entre otras cosas porque cuando das la cara no puedes decir o hacer según qué burradas sin que te manden a la mierda, te miren como a una loca o te denuncien.

Las bobadas que dice esta gente son una fantasía masturbatoria de resentidas (y resentidos) que está totalmente fuera de la realidad. Y como se creen que consiguen algo (muchos creen que están cambiando la sociedad  ) siguen con su campaña. Es otro aspecto más de la infantilización de Occidente y que estamos pagando muy caro en forma de idiocracia.

El segundo error que cometemos es creer que una minoría con un gran altavoz (redes sociales, internet, etc.) represente a la mayoría. Hay una cantidad nada desdeñable de mujeres que están tan hartas como nosotros (no tienen traumitas ni intereses) y ya lo dicen en voz alta.

Eso está íntimamente relacionado con lo que Manu Oquendo ha señalado arriba (sin desarrollarlo), sobre la Ventana de Overton, y de cómo un pequeño grupo puede arrogarse (o más bien, pretenderlo), la legitimidad y los medios de moverla hacia consideren conveniente, con fin de hacer primero concebibles, luego admisibles y más tarde obligatorias según qué ideas (muy seguidores todos ellos de Gramsci y aquello "la batalla fundamental es del relato"). Pues al final la inercia de la naturaleza humana, que es inmensa, tanto requiere una gran energía para ser movilizada, como una vez que ha sido puesta en movimiento, evitar hacia adónde se dirija, y cuando toque un movimiento de retorno, de evitar el inmenso hostión que producirá y se llevará por delante a muchos, pero para empezar, a los mueve-ventanas parlanchines.

[saturno]

[Lo siento iba para el hilo de Ucrania y no me di cuenta. Para debates mejor en aquel hilo

https://youtu.be/xedMf06kWdU

Entrevista a Katia Kopylova en Crimea.



Reporteros de Livre Noir. EN V/FR con subtitulos (creo).

Es jurista de formaciön, trabajó en la embajada en Francia y en el TPi de la Haya. Probablemente sea ahora formadora en la Administracion de Crimea, lo delata su manera de contestar a las preguntas estructurando conceptos. Pero habla título privado; y por sus respuestas se ve que es seguidora de los reportajes de LivreNoir en Youtube en el Donbass aparte de seguir escuchando la tele y la prensa occidental y gala,

Atiendan al principio (2a o 3a pregunta) acerca de la incomprensIön occidental de la invasion,
Explica en dos frases la clave de la incomprensión entre Occidente y Rusia: el concepto (ontológico) y la relación al Estado no es la misma.

Todas las respuestas que siguen ilustran ese concepto multiplicando ejemplos (intenta hacer pedagogia, admitiendo sin problema que sea también una forma de propaganda )

La entrevista concluye con el periodista ironizando que no ha contestado a ninguna de sus preguntas; y sorprendida; ella se exclama que creia haber respondido a todas.

Es de las mejores entrevistas que exponen el punto de vista ruso por una persona de excelente nivel,

[sudden and sharp]

[...] Atiendan al principio (2a o 3a pregunta) acerca de la incomprensIön occidental de la invasion,
Explica en dos frases la clave de la incomprensión entre Occidente y Rusia: el concepto (ontológico) y la relación al Estado no es la misma.

No necesito "pinchar" en ningún enlace... Si NO es bueno para los hijos de todos NO es buen en ABSOLUTO.



Occidente quiere un futuro "razonable" para sus hijos  --reales o hipotéticos--; y ella, léase Putín y su ahijados --los hijos de Putin--,  quieren un futuro cojonudo para sus hijosdeputin al precio de esclavizar a los hijos de los demás.

No way.

Cuando antes los rusos le metan una pica por el culo a Putin y sus secuaces --literal*, ojo--; antes tendrán lo suyo, lo justo, la indiferencia.

Rusia será Europa, de la UE, del CE..., de Schengen... Es su derecho, su herencia. Los rusos "de a pie" NO NOS HAN ECHO NADA. Y lo tendrán todo.

Todos juntos, no hay otra.



















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*) Venga... ya me entendéis... Una Clínica soleada... y eso.

















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[ Enjoy. ]

[Benzino Napaloni]

Los soldados rusos han visto que en Ucrania se vive mejor

Por supuesto, es un artículo de opinión y que hay que cogerlo con pinzas. Pero no es nuevo encontrarse con casos en los que Rusia ha ido muy por detrás de otros países de su antigua esfera. Los bálticos sin ir más lejos han progresado una barbaridad desde 1991 y no quieren ver a los rusos ni en pintura.

Pienso como Wanderer. EEUU y Occidente no serán perfectos, pero si la alternativa es la hipercorrupta Rusia, apaga y vámonos. Muchos soldados rusos no sé si habrán pensado que los ucranianos viven mejor de ellos, pero sí que han ido a la guerra con raciones de comida caducada hace diez años.


La segunda guerra mundial y la era del bloque soviético han tapado un hecho: Rusia tiene mucho de cagarruta. En 1905 Japón les bailó. En la primera guerra mundial Alemania les bailó. En la segunda Finlandia les plantó cara con mucha menos población. Y el del bigote y el peinado con raya al lado no llegó a Moscú por muy poco, por haberse entretenido un mes en los Balcanes. A partir de ahí los suministros americanos le salvaron en buena parte el culo a los rusos.

Y de ahí en adelante, a vivir de la inercia que también sacaron de los científicos alemanes que secuestraron. Hasta que colapsó la URSS por su propio peso. Gorbachov, que en paz descanse, no quería acabar con la URSS pero probablemente hizo lo único que se podía hacer para reducir daños.


Quede como quede la guerra con Ucrania, Rusia se va a pegar tal bofetada de realidad que va a dejar nuestro 1898 a la altura de una fiesta infantil.

[Derby]

Exageraos... que no... Que ya prendieron y no va a repeteir los mismos errores:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/business/zero-down-payment-mortgages.html

Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages in Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods

The pilot program aims to help first-time buyers in several neighborhoods obtain affordable loans.

Bank of America is offering mortgages for first-time homeowners that do not require down payments, minimum credit scores or closing costs in a program that aims to boost homeownership rates among first-time Black and Latino buyers.

Under the trial program, which was announced on Tuesday, Bank of America will offer loans to people in certain predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Detroit; Los Angeles and Miami. Eligibility for the program, which is called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, is based on income and location, and requires no mortgage insurance.

“Homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said in a statement introducing the program. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.”

Black and Hispanic homeowners face a number of additional obstacles when buying homes compared with white homeowners. The national Black homeownership rate stayed near 42 percent from 2016 to 2019, the lowest since 1970, while the rate of white homeownership reached 73 percent, a record high, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a fair-lending advocacy group. In 2019, 58 percent of Asians and 47.5 percent of Latinos were homeowners.

The pandemic only exacerbated the gap, with rising housing prices and low supply affecting Black households more than any other racial group, according to the National Association of Realtors, a trade association for real estate professionals. In a report published in January, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that the private mortgage market was providing loans in only 13.7 percent of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, even though they represented 30 percent of neighborhoods.

[wanderer]

Los soldados rusos han visto que en Ucrania se vive mejor

Por supuesto, es un artículo de opinión y que hay que cogerlo con pinzas. Pero no es nuevo encontrarse con casos en los que Rusia ha ido muy por detrás de otros países de su antigua esfera. Los bálticos sin ir más lejos han progresado una barbaridad desde 1991 y no quieren ver a los rusos ni en pintura.

Pienso como Wanderer. EEUU y Occidente no serán perfectos, pero si la alternativa es la hipercorrupta Rusia, apaga y vámonos. Muchos soldados rusos no sé si habrán pensado que los ucranianos viven mejor de ellos, pero sí que han ido a la guerra con raciones de comida caducada hace diez años.


La segunda guerra mundial y la era del bloque soviético han tapado un hecho: Rusia tiene mucho de cagarruta. En 1905 Japón les bailó. En la primera guerra mundial Alemania les bailó. En la segunda Finlandia les plantó cara con mucha menos población. Y el del bigote y el peinado con raya al lado no llegó a Moscú por muy poco, por haberse entretenido un mes en los Balcanes. A partir de ahí los suministros americanos le salvaron en buena parte el culo a los rusos.

Y de ahí en adelante, a vivir de la inercia que también sacaron de los científicos alemanes que secuestraron. Hasta que colapsó la URSS por su propio peso. Gorbachov, que en paz descanse, no quería acabar con la URSS pero probablemente hizo lo único que se podía hacer para reducir daños.


Quede como quede la guerra con Ucrania, Rusia se va a pegar tal bofetada de realidad que va a dejar nuestro 1898 a la altura de una fiesta infantil.

Lo mismo les pasó cuando avanzada la 2GM e iban conquistando primero Europa del Este y luego la Alemania oriental, constataron que los muy cabrones de los germanos vivían muchísimo mejor que ellos (aún con todos los bombardeos que habían sufrido, resultaba patente que muchos disfrutaban de chalets con sus pequeñas parcelas, por ejemplo).

Y claro, además mandan como reclutas a los más miserables, porque a buen seguro, los jóvenes moscovitas o de San Petersburgo no quieren ni oír hablar de ir al frente por esa guerra (antes se las piran a Estambul, por ejemplo).

El caso es que Putin cree que va ganando, y la guerra va para largo. No podemos permitirnos que la gane, y hemos de quebrarle la cerviz.

Sin componendas y sin perdón. Si a alguien le molesta esto que digo, ¡que le ondulen!

[el malo]

wanderer no estoy en desacuerdo contigo pero me parece una versión muy maniquea de esta guerra.

No hay "buenos" y "malos". Hay un bloque occidental (al que seamos sinceros, Ucrania le imporataba un carajo) presionando a Rusia y una Rusia muy poco dada a soluciones diplomáticas/políticas haciendo lo único que sabe hacer.

Qué casualidad que todo esto pase justo cuando el NordStream2 está listo, después de que USA haya dado muchos avisos por activa y por pasiva de que no iba a permitirlo. Y que justo la consecuencia de la obstinación Europea por querer gas barato sea precisamente quedarse sin gas.

Si hay que escoger algún bando, pues obviamente escojo a los nuestros. Y sí, no se puede permitir que se vayan invadiendo países porque sus intereses chocan con los de otra potencia más grande. Y eso debería ser cierto para Ucrania, Iraq, sudamérica, etc.

[wanderer]

Por supuesto, reconozco que lo que digo no es muy sutil, y nada equidistante. No pretendo ninguna justificación de tipo moral sino de defensa de nuestra civilización... ¡Uy lo que acabo de decir!

Una anécdota: ya les he comentado que soy muy aficionado al anime. Se dice que cuando La princesa Mononoke del célebre animador y pacifista confeso Hayao Miyazaki iba a ser estrenada en EEUU, querían meterle unos buenos cortes a la peli (133 minutos, no está mal; la peli, maravillosa).

Pues con todo lo pacifista que pudiera ser el bueno de Miyazaki, les mandó de respuesta un paquete postal con un sable samurai y la escueta nota "no cuts".

Al parecer, pillaron la indirecta. Pues con esto, lo mismo.

Yo soy pacífico, que no pacifista, aclaro.

[Cadavre Exquis]

US Life Expectancy Falls Again In 'Historic' Setback
Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:30PM from the sharpest-decline-in-nearly-100-years dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times:

The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years and a stark reminder of the toll exacted on the nation by the continuing coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76, federal health researchers reported on Wednesday. The figure represents a loss of almost three years since 2019, when Americans could expect to live, on average, nearly 79 years. The reduction has been particularly steep among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, the National Center for Health Statistics reported. Average life expectancy in those groups was shortened by four years in 2020 alone. The cumulative decline since the pandemic started, more than six and a half years on average, has brought life expectancy to 65 among Native Americans and Alaska Natives -- on par with the figure for all Americans in 1944. In 2021, the shortening of life span was more pronounced among white Americans than among Black Americans, who saw greater reductions in the first year of the pandemic.

White Americans saw the second-largest decline in average life expectancy in 2021, a drop of one year, to 76.4 in 2021 from 77.4 in 2020. The decline was steeper than that among Black Americans, at seven-tenths of a year. That was followed by Hispanic Americans, whose life expectancy dropped only two-tenths of a year in 2021. But both Black and Hispanic Americans were hit hard in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Average life expectancy for Hispanic Americans fell by four years, to 77.9 from 81.9 in 2019. The figure for Black Americans declined almost as much, by more than three years to 71.5 years in 2020. White Americans experienced the smallest decline during the first year of the pandemic, a drop of 1.4 years to 77.4 from 78.8. For white and Black Americans, life expectancy is now the lowest it has been since 1995, federal researchers said. Asian Americans held the highest life expectancy among racial and ethnic groups included in the new analysis: 83.5 years, on average. The figure fell only slightly last year, from 83.6 in 2020.

Americans suffer from what experts have called "the U.S. health disadvantage," an amalgam of influences that erode well-being, Dr. Woolf said. "These include a fragmented, profit-driven health care system; poor diet and a lack of physical activity; and pervasive risk factors such as smoking, widespread access to guns, poverty and pollution," says the report.

"The result is a high disease burden among Americans, and shorter life expectancy compared with that in comparable high-income nations over the last two decades."

Saludos.

[Derby]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/evergrande-unit-hengda-unable-publish-financial-results-aug-31-2913091

Evergrande unit Hengda unable to publish financial results by Aug 31

HONG KONG: Property developer China Evergrande Group's main unit said on Wednesday that it was unable to disclose its six-month financial report by Aug 31 because significant changes in its operation had added extra auditing work.(...)

[Derby]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/women-not-having-kids-get-richer-than-men

Women Who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer

Forgoing marriage and parenthood has a bigger payoff for American women than men, according to new research.

Ashley Marrero isn’t married and doesn’t have kids. And she has a message for women just like her: You can still have it all.

The 43-year-old feels a deep sense of satisfaction from her job as a sales representative for a maker of medical devices, which brings her into contact with patients. And she relishes all of the lifestyle and financial freedoms that come with being a single, child-free woman in a well-paying job. That includes an apartment in New York City, a new beach house on the Jersey Shore, and frequent travel for pleasure as well as work.

“I love my life and feel very fulfilled,” says Marrero, who froze her eggs in 2018 to keep her options open. “I love children, and I love all my friends’ children. But I don’t know if I would love my life with children.”

Marrero belongs to a growing cohort of women who are putting off motherhood or forgoing it entirely. As a result, many are advancing further in their careers than prior generations and entering a new frontier of wealth. Single women without kids had an average of $65,000 in wealth in 2019, compared with $57,000 for single, child-free men, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. For single mothers, the figure was only $7,000.

Parenthood was losing its appeal even before Covid-19, and the hardship brought on by the pandemic appears to have accelerated the trend. A Pew Research Center study last year found that 44% of Americans age 18-49 who don’t have kids say it’s not too likely or not at all likely they will procreate someday—an increase of 7 percentage points from 2018.

US birthrates have been falling for the past 30 years as people get married later in life and put off having children. In 1990 there were about 71 births per year for every 1,000 women age 15 to 44. By 2019 that had dropped closer to 58 births, according to a Census Bureau analysis. At the same time, the share of women age 25 to 34 who don’t have kids reached a record in 2018, the most recent available in data going back to 1976.

Many experts point to the rising cost of raising a family as an important factor in Americans’ decisions to have fewer or no offspring. The expenses in bringing up a child born in 2015 through age 17 will run an estimated $310,605, according to the Brookings Institution, which adapted a government calculation to adjust for inflation trends, adding about $26,000. The projection doesn’t include the cost of a college education.

There are other costs to consider. Several studies have demonstrated that working women are subject to a “motherhood penalty” either during pregnancy or after they give birth. In research prior to the pandemic, Julie Kashen, director for women’s economic justice at the Century Foundation, a think tank, pegged the size of the penalty at 15% of annual income for each child under the age of 5, with Black and Latina mothers shouldering a higher burden than their White peers. “There’s the consequence for your earnings of having kids,” says Kashen. “The whole purpose of the women’s movement is to maximize choices for women so that every choice is a viable one. Income should not be a thing that dictates that, which it totally is right now.”

Melissa Kearney, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, contends that cultural changes are also causing women to delay or skip motherhood. Americans who were young adults in the 1990s and early 2000s grew up with a different set of norms around parenting and women having careers. “It seems like people’s priorities have shifted,” says Kearney, who’s also the director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and a mother of three. “It’s not necessarily that people have less of a preference for kids, or that it’s that much more expensive or time-consuming to have kids. It’s the way those two things are interacting for this generation vs. prior ones.”

Marrero, who was married for four years before getting divorced in 2008, enjoys an enviable degree of financial independence. The West Village resident owns her own apartment, which she bought in 2019 for about $900,000 and then renovated. And in June she closed on a summer home on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island with her sister, Kristyna, who’s a few years older and also single with no kids. Ashley figures she’s taken 10 trips in the last 12 months, often with friends from a group of about 25 people who are largely unmarried and don’t have children.

“I found this group so interesting and compelling and fascinating,” says Anna Dickson, 41, who recently traveled to Napa Valley with Marrero and some of their friends. “All these people are so smart, talented, put together, and they don’t have kids—they’re very independent,” says Dickson, a product manager at Google who is divorced and now lives with her boyfriend of five years in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. “And I was like, ‘I want that, I want to do all of that.’”

“People feel less of an obligation to the family they were born into in all sorts of ways, and to embrace this notion of chosen family,” says Nicole Sussner Rodgers, founder and executive director of Family Story, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to raising awareness about alternatives to traditional family structures.

The life Marrero and Dickson have chosen does have its drawbacks. People who are single and child-free pay more in taxes. And housing is a lot harder to afford on one income than two, especially with home prices and rents at record highs and mortgage rates on the rise. Another worry for those without children is who will care for them in their old age.

For Dickson, the pluses of parenthood don’t outweigh the minuses. “I like to travel, pick up and go whenever I want to,” says Dickson, whose jaunts with her extended family of friends in the past year have included Alaska and Anguilla. “I’d rather regret not having kids than regret having them.”

As for Marrero, she’s still paying to store her eggs in case she changes her mind. But she’s certain that even if she doesn’t, she won’t feel like she’s missed out. “If you don’t have children, it may or may not be a choice,” she says. “But that should have nothing to do with your happiness. You can be so happy going this route, too.”

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/e3a43a7d-5034-465d-8509-53237a862c9b

UK house prices rise at annual rate of 10% despite steeper mortgage costs

Double-digit growth for 10th successive month surpasses economists’ expectations of slowdown

UK house prices rose at a double-digit rate for the 10th consecutive month in August, as a lack of supply supported valuations despite mortgage rates increasing and an intensifying cost of living crisis.

House prices rose at an annual rate of 10 per cent last month, down from 11 per cent in the previous month but marking an uninterrupted double-digit expansion since October, according to the mortgage provider Nationwide.

The annual growth rate was much faster than the 8.9 per cent forecast by economists polled by Reuters.

Nationwide’s chief economist Robert Gardner said the slowdown had to date been “modest” and, combined with a shortage of stock on the market, meant that price growth had “remained firm”.

Prices were up 0.8 per cent between July and August, defying expectations that they would come close to stagnating as a result of soaring inflation, which is hitting households’ finances and consumer confidence.



Instead, the latest rise took the average house price to a new high of £273,751, £50,000 more than two years ago.

Andrew Wishart, property economist at the consultancy Capital Economics, said the figures suggested that house prices “managed to retain some positive momentum despite growing pressure on households’ finances”.[/i][/color]

Tomer Aboody, director of property lender MT Finance, said that “with less stock on the market . . . buyers have little choice and are therefore outbidding to secure a home”.

This is supported by separate data from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, which showed the average stock of properties per estate agent branch was down to 35 in July, the lowest level since records began in 1978.

But with mortgage rates rising rapidly and the cost of living crisis deepening, many expect the housing market to cool in the coming months.

Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at property agent Knight Frank, said the housing market was “playing a slow game of catch-up with the economy”, adding: “As supply continues to build this autumn and mortgage rates rise, demand will soften and annual price growth will fall.”

Data published by the Bank of England this week showed that the interest on newly drawn mortgages increased by 18 basis points 2.33 per cent from June to July, the highest level in six years.

It also revealed that mortgage approvals fell to below pre-pandemic levels and well below the peak during the pandemic-induced boom, when record-low interest rates and stronger demand boosted transactions and prices.

“We expect the market to slow further as pressure on household budgets intensifies in the coming quarters,” said Nationwide’s Gardner.



The consultancy Oxford Economics expects UK house prices to start contracting from the middle of 2023 after a sharp slowdown this year.

Gabriella Dickens, at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the rise in mortgage rates had been “too severe at a time when real incomes are falling”, adding: “We struggle to see a scenario in which house prices do not fall outright in the second half of the year.”

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/4f6196d1-5dac-498f-b18b-840c2258da18

Australia raises permanent migration cap to address brutal labour shortage

Labor government unveils immigration, visa and training measures to fill vacancies across the economy

Australia has raised its permanent immigration intake by more than a fifth to almost 200,000 this year in an effort to address a crippling labour shortage and ease the country’s dependence on lower-paid temporary workers.

The country’s unemployment rate hit a near-50-year low of 3.4 per cent in July as the economy has flourished following the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The economy is expected to expand 3.25 per cent this year, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia, before the growth rate slows in 2023.

But acute labour shortages — the second-worst after Canada in the OECD group of advanced economies — have left many businesses unable to find staff, with as many job vacancies as unemployed people and wage growth at its highest level in almost a decade.

Clare O’Neil, Australia’s home affairs minister, said the country was in a “global war for talent” at a jobs summit where the new measures were announced. Other initiatives included a A$36mn (US$24mn) push to speed-up visa processing and a A$1.1bn investment in vocational training.

The new migration places will be focused on nursing, engineering and technology roles as well as boosting the rural workforce.(...)

[Derby]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/britains-banks-told-to-tackle-wealth-inequality-despite-one-off-payments.html

Britain’s banks are giving staff one-off crisis payments. But they’re being urged to do much more

LONDON — Britain’s financial sector is being urged to do more to help workers struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, despite a slew of top banking names providing one-off payments to low earners.

Nationwide announced on Aug. 15 a payment to more than 11,000 employees to help with the increasing cost of living. The payment is aimed at those earning £35,000 ($42,300) or less a year, which is 61% of the workforce.

“The months ahead will be worrying for many people and we’re always considering new ways to help our members. But rising prices affect our colleagues too and that’s why we’re providing this additional support,” Debbie Crosbie, CEO at Nationwide Building Society, said in a press release.

The world’s largest building society — an organization which lends capital for the building of property — is the latest in a string of U.K.-based financial institutions offering aid to employees.

The move is a logical one, as the banking industry is reaping the rewards of the higher inflation rate that is strangling so many others.

As inflation — the rate at which prices increase over time — increases, so do interest rates, bringing in more income for banks. The Bank of England launched its biggest interest rate hike in 27 years on Aug. 4, the sixth rate hike since Dec. 16, 2021.

The U.K.’s biggest banks have made billions of pounds as a result of the Bank of England’s latest rate rise, with Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Lloyds and Santander holding as much as £673.5 billion at central banks by the end of June, according to analysis by British newspaper The Times.

Workers’ rights group Unite the Union has been lobbying for organizations, including banks, to offer financial support to employees.

“We wanted to re-open the pay negotiations that had been closed,” Unite National Officer Dominic Hook told CNBC.

“Typically what happens is the pay year starts in March or April so we’ll have pay negotiations often towards the end of the previous year … So what we were saying is, we agreed it back last year but we’ve now got a cost-of-living crisis so we want to re-open negotiations,” he said.

Some banks agreed to negotiate salaries, while others opted for one-off payments.(...)

[sudden and sharp]

La libra vuelve a ser de 'chocolate': el verano del descontento la 'derrite' en su peor mes desde 2016
https://www.eleconomista.es/mercados-cotizaciones/noticias/11927017/09/22/La-libra-vuelve-a-ser-de-chocolate-el-verano-del-descontento-la-derrite-en-su-peor-mes-desde-2016.html


La divisa se deja un 4,5% con el dólar y un 3% con el euro en agosto.