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Dos temas y una anécdota personal.Los temas: Ocupación ilegal de viviendas y AfganistánLa verdad es que cuesta entender por qué el Estado permite y mantiene una evidente política de terror contra la inmensa mayoría de la población . Así es por la permisividad policial y jurídica que existe con la Ocupación Ilegal de vivienda". Basta escuchar la publicidad de las compañías de Seguridad Privada que se han hipertrofiado como en ningún otro lugar de Europa a cuenta de dos aparentes y clamorosos fracasos del Estado: ETA y la Ocupación de vivienda. Como el Estado elige no cumplir su función transfiere la responsabilidad a los ciudadanos en un acto de cinismo impresentable.Desde el momento cero de los Años de Plomo, en plena Democracia, fue evidente que ETA estaba perpetrando un genocidio físico y cultural perfectamente encuadrado en las definiciones de la ONU y no fue hasta el final cuando las Víctimas lo plantearon abiertamente como un genocidio al tiempo que se buscaba la cadena perpetua. Entonces, el Estado, de manos de Zapatero, pasó a llevar a cabo su rendición ante el terrorismo instrumental del cual tantas nueces sacó Arzallus. Con la Ocupación tolerada de viviendas privadas sucede algo muy parecido.En efecto, si el Estado ha legislado un derecho universal y sin límite a la vivienda resulta claro que quien tiene la responsabilidad de proveerlo sin límite es el Estado y no las personas físicas. Por tanto, preparémonos a pagar viviendas a toda África y a todo Oriente Medio. Esto es lo que vienen haciendo los partidos que gobiernan.¿Conclusión? La que explicó Stafford Beer en 1975: Si quieres saber los Objetivos del diseñador y controlador de un Sistema mira sus resultados. Quede claro que Stafford era bastante de Izquierdas. Tuvo tiempo de trabajar con Allende.Creo que tardaremos en saber lo que en realidad ha sucedido en Afganistán. Parece como si alguien hubiera tenido prisa y tiene que ser alguien mucho más poderoso que Biden. Es decir, los Discretos Jefes de Biden y Harris que también son nuestros jefes.¿Por qué lo hacen? Tampoco lo se pero lo que es totalmente anómalo es que ese alguien haya preferido quemar electoralmente al ya quemado Biden y el prestigio de los EEUU y sus "aliados" con el resto del mundo y la propia población occidental. El golpe psicológico es, probablemente, terminal. Quizás la siguiente etapa del Nuevo Orden Mundial vaya a necesitar el apoyo de todo el mundo musulmán y una guerra en su corazón iba a ser un obstáculo indeseable. En veinte años lo han dejado peor que estaba.La anécdota personal.Hace unos días comencé a leer un libro y al poco rato dejé la lectura para no llorar.Título: "Return of the Barbarians". Editorial: Cambridge University Press. Una de las editoriales de gran prestigio académico en todo el mundo.Autor: Jakub J. Grygiel.CV del Autor. Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Análisis. Washington DCAssociate Professor, Advanced International Studies. The Johns Hopkins University también en DCPolicy Planning Staff at The US Department Of State. Washington DCEs decir todo un profesional de la Geopolítica y sin duda buen conocedor de los entresijos de las decisiones de los gobiernos de los EEUU. A caballo entre la academia y el alto funcionariado del Sistema. Alguien "de confianza".Para rematar la cuestión en los Agradecimientos de la obra aparece en primer lugar Brzezinski. Fallecido hace 3 años y la persona más longeva y muy influyente en las altas esferas de poder de los EEUU y globales.El primer párrafo de la introducción del libro nos habla de los nuevos bárbaros que están atacando con descaro al Imperio en su decadencia. Roma 2.0. Estos "barbarians" hoy día son para él los Islamistas y los diversos grupos terroristas que patrocinan con el aplauso silencioso de cientos de millones de musulmanes. Ahora están celebrando su victoria de Afganistán en Birmingham, Molenbeck, Upsala, Berlin, París, etc. En la prensa lo tenemos.El párrafo dice lo siguiente. Traduzco: "Los bárbaros han vuelto. Pequeños grupos, individuos solitarios, casi sin territorio bajo su control, con mínimos recursos y gran ambición están desgraciadamente en las portadas de la prensa por su furia destructiva. Hostigan y atacan Estados desde las calles de Londres, París y Barcelona hasta las de Oriente Medio y otros lugares distantes".¿Les llama algo la atención?Algo como por qué omite el 11 de Septiembre de 2001 en Nueva York y el 11 de Marzo del 2004 en Madrid. Oficialmente los dos principales atentados islamistas con quince veces más muertos que en las tres ciudades que cita. ¿Por qué los omite? Las posibles respuestas me hicieron dejar la lectura y, de momento, sigue sin apetecerme seguir. Se perdió la confianza. Estos son los mismos que lo de las armas de destrucción masiva. Por eso creo que tardaremos en saber quién ha dado la orden de salida apresurada de Afganistán con la principal consecuencia de una catastrófica pérdida de confianza a lo largo y a lo ancho de un mundo occidental que lleva décadas empobreciéndose, ahogado en emisión de deuda impagable, incapaz de verse en el espejo y con unas Élites parasitarias que se sostienen y medran con la generación de burbujas de activos de todo tipo mientras deliberadamente destrozan la propia cultura que tal parece ansían reemplazar por el Islam.Saludos cordiales
El resumen del polvorín afgano: tanto mujahidines (1973) como talibanes (1994) son grupos proxy creados por parte de USA, al igual que el engendro llamado "ISIS-K". Ya el sanguinario Brzezinski reconoció que crearon AQ (1988) y la sádica Hillary Clinton admitió que crearon ISIS.
El acuerdo del oleoducto US-Unocal TAPI con los talibanes nunca llegó a concretarse, las negociaciones antes mencionadas llegaron a su fin en agosto de 2001. En 2018, después de años de guerra, el proyecto del oleoducto fue revivido con el apoyo del Banco Asiático de Desarrollo.El interés del Pentágono y la CIA reflejaba el de la industria petrolera, persuadida en ese momento de que los mayores intereses petroleros no probados del mundo se encontraban en Asia Central. Quizás el portavoz de este interés fue Cheney, director ejecutivo de Halliburton.Según Naik, un representante de USA, Tom Simons, hizo amenazas abiertas a los talibanes y Pakistán: “Simons dijo, 'o los talibanes se comportan como deben, o Pakistán los convence de hacerlo, o usaremos otra opción'. Las palabras que utilizó Simons fueron "una operación militar".En una reunión de julio en Berlín, las conversaciones se centraron en la creación de un gobierno de unidad en Afganistán. Dijo Naik: "Si los talibanes hubieran aceptado, habrían recibido ayuda internacional de inmediato. Y habrían llegado los oleoductos de Kazajstán y Uzbekistán"Brzezinski incluso incluyó una ilustración del gasoducto propuesto por Unocal en su manifiesto geopolítico de 1997, El gran tablero de ajedrez. ...
Acuerdo de Doha (2020)acuerdo entre Estados Unidos y los talibanes
S&P 500 Cyclically Adjusted Earnings Yield Takes Out 1929 Low, Matches Dot-Com LowAdd the following chart, from Crescat Capital’s Otavio Costa, to the pile of charts that show that we are currently witnessing the most expensive market in recorded American history.The cyclically adjusted earnings yield of the S&P 500 is the prior ten years of earnings adjusted for inflation as a percent of the S&P 500. It is now at its lowest level in well over 120 years, taking out the lows made in 1929 & 1937 and matching the low made during the Dot-Com bubble.What’s the historic range of 3-year performance of the S&P 500 from a yield at these rough levels? Somewhere between negative 84% and negative 33%.Of course, there are only a few data points near these lows, QE hadn’t been invented for the prior examples, and policy makers hadn’t fully embraced moral hazard. So, who knows how much longer this will go on for?
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El Catacrack, por poner una fecha, será el 31/12/2022, lo que no quiere decir que Bolsa e inmuebles norteamericanos no vayan a romper a caer antes, lo que es de todo punto verosímil, dado lo ridículo de sus precios actuales
A nearly 10% S&P 500 correction last September has stock-market investors dreading autumn 2021Even as stocks look set to reach new highs in September, the feeling of dread on Wall Street is palpable.Strategists (and the media) have been incessantly droning on about the seasonal trends that place September as one of the worst months of the year for equity benchmarks.(...)This time around, investors are worried because the markets are on a similar tear, with seven straight months — and counting — of gains for the broad-market benchmark, and there is a growing sense that valuations are rich and the Federal Reserve’s easy-money punchbowl will soon be yanked away.Seven months of consecutive gains is an impressive tally:Ryan Detrick, in a research note on Tuesday, intoned the usual warning for this time of the year.“Although this bull market has laughed at nearly all the worry signs in 2021, let’s not forget that September is historically the worst month of the year for stocks,” wrote the LPL Financial chief market strategist.There is little doubt about the narrative surrounding the reason for uneasiness:*The jobs report Friday*Valuations are rich for stocks, depending on your measure*The delta variant of coronavirus is spreading as schools open*Inflation worries*The Fed meeting Sept. 21-22*The debt ceiling*Quadruple witching options and stock expirations*Gravity (...)
THE GREAT DEFLATION OF 2022It is not very surprising to me that nearly every talking head on Wall Street is convinced inflation has now become entrenched as a permanent feature in the U.S. economy. This is because most mainstream economists have no clue what is the progenitor of inflation. They have been inculcated to believe inflation is the result of a wage-price spiral caused by a low rate of unemployment.In truth, inflation is all about the destruction of confidence in a fiat currency’s purchasing power. And there is no better way to do that than for the government to massively increase the supply of money and place it directly into the hands of its citizenry. That is exactly what occurred in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. government handed out the equivalent of $50,000 to every American family in various forms of loans, grants, stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment, tax rebates, and debt forbearance measures. In other words, helicopter money and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) were deployed—and in a big way. The result was the largest increase of inflation in 40 years.We’ve had some of the highest GDP growth rates in U.S. history over the past few months and the greatest increase in monetary largess since the creation of the Fed. But this is mostly all in the rearview mirror now. Consumer Price Inflation is all about the handing of money directly to consumers that has been monetized by the Fed. It is not so much about low-interest rates and Quantitative Easings—that is more of an inflation phenomenon for Wall Street and the very wealthy.The idea that Consumer Price Inflation is now a permanent issue is not grounded in science. As already mentioned, inflation comes from a rapid and sustained increase in the broad money supply, which causes falling confidence in the purchasing power of a currency. At least for now, that function is attenuating.After all, what exactly is there about a global pandemic that would cause inflation to become a more permanent issue in the U.S. economy? In the 11 years leading up to the pandemic, inflation was not a daunting issue—it was contained within the canyons of Wall Street. In fact, the Fed was extremely concerned the rate of Consumer Price Inflation was too low. And, that the economy was in peril of falling into some kind of deflationary death spiral. This is despite ultra-low borrowing costs and money printing from the Fed.The proof is in the data. The Effective Fed Funds Rate was below one percent from October of 2008 thru June of 2017. The Fed was also engaged in QE’s 1,2, & 3 from December 2008 thru October 2014. And yet, here are the average 12-month changes in CPI for each of the given years:Citar2009 = -0.3%2010 = 1.6%2011 = 3.2%2012 = 2.1%2013 = 1.5%2014 = 1.6%2015 = 0.1%2016 = 1.3%2017 = 2.1%2018 = 2.4%2019 = 1.8%This means, in the 11 years following the start of the Great Recession, all the way through the start of the Global Pandemic, consumer price inflation was quiescent despite the prevailing conditions of zero interest rates and quantitative easings. However, consumer price inflation began to skyrocket by the second quarter of 2021. In fact, it has averaged nearly 5% over the past four months. What caused the trenchant change? It was The 6 trillion dollars’ worth of helicopter money that was dumped on top of consumers’ heads. Regular QE just creates asset price inflation for the primary benefit of big banks and Wall Street.But, the helicopters have now been grounded for consumers and soon will be hitting the tarmac for Wall Street once the Fed’s tapering commences this winter. Hence, CPI is about to come crashing down, just as is the growth in the money supply. M2 money supply surged by 27% in February 2021 from the year-ago period. But, in June of this year, that growth was just 0.8% month over month, or down to just 12% year-on-year.The Government Lifeline is Being CutThe highly-followed and well-regarded University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index tumbled to 70.2 in its preliminary August reading. That is down more than 13% from July’s number of 81.2. And below the April 2020 mark of 71.8, which was the lowest data point in the pandemic era. According to Richard Curtin, Chief economist for the University of Michigan’s survey, “Over the past half-century, the Sentiment Index has only recorded larger losses in six other surveys, all connected to sudden negative changes in the economy.”Of course, a part of this miserable reading on consumer confidence has to do with falling real wages. But I believe the lion’s share of their dour view is based on the elimination of government forbearance measures on mortgages, along with the termination of helicopter money drops from the government. All told, this amounted to $6 trillion worth of bread and circuses handed out to consumers over the past 18 months. This massive government lifeline (equal to 25% of GDP) will be pared down to just 2% of GDP in ’22.Indeed, this function is already showing up in consumer spending. Retail sales for the month of July fell 1.1%, worse than the Dow Jones estimate of a 0.3% decline. The reduced consumption was a direct result of a lack of new stimulus checks handed out from D.C. Keep in mind that retail sales are reported as s a nominal figure; they are not adjusted for inflation. Hence, since nominal retail sales are falling sharply—at least for the month-over-month period–the economy must now be faltering because we know prices have yet to recede, and yet nominal sales are still declining. This notion is being backed up by applications to purchase a new home, which are down nearly 20% from last year. That doesn’t fit Wall Street’s narrative of a reopening economy that is experiencing strong economic growth and much higher rates of inflation.On top of all this you can add the following to the deflation and slow-growth condition: Federal pandemic-related stimulus caused a huge spike in the number of Americans that owed no federal income tax. According to the Tax Policy Center, 107 million households owed no income taxes in 2020, up from 76 million in 2019. So, multiple millions more Americans should now have to resume paying Federal income taxes this year because last year’s tax holiday has now expired.Oh, and by the way, the erstwhile engine of global economic growth (China) is now blown. China’s huge stimulus package in the wake of the Great Recession helped pull the global economy out of its malaise. This debt-disabled nation is now unable to repeat that same trick again.Back to the U.S., the Fed facilitated Washington’s unprecedented largess by printing over $4.1 trillion since the outbreak of COVID-19—doubling the size of its balance sheet in 18 months, from what took 107 years to first accumulate.But all that is ending now. Next year has the potential to be known as the Great Deflation of 2022. This will be engendered by the epiphany that COVID-19 and its mutations have not been vanquished as falsely advertised, the massive $6 trillion fiscal cliff will be in freefall, and the Fed’s tapering of $1.44 trillion per annum of QE down to $0, will be in process.Then, the economy will be left with a large number of permanently unemployed people and businesses that have permanently closed their doors. And, the $7.7 trillion worth of unproductive debt incurred during the five quarters from the start of 2020, until Q1 of this year, which the economy must now lug around.All this should lead to a stock market that plunges from unprecedentedly high valuations starting next year. And, in the end, that is anything but inflationary. Indeed, what it should lead to is more like a deflationary depression. But the story doesn’t end there. Unfortunately, that will cause government to change Modern Monetary Theory from just a theory to a new mandate for the central bank. And hence, the inflation-deflation, boom-bust cycle will continue…but with greater intensity. The challenge for investors is to be on the correct side of that trade.
2009 = -0.3%2010 = 1.6%2011 = 3.2%2012 = 2.1%2013 = 1.5%2014 = 1.6%2015 = 0.1%2016 = 1.3%2017 = 2.1%2018 = 2.4%2019 = 1.8%
Multiplying Crackdowns Haven’t Stopped Cash Pouring Into China?Bloomberg) -- Canceled share sales. Ruined business models. Tech moguls brought to heel. Barely a day goes by without more news on the widening scope of Beijing’s crackdown on private enterprise.Yet money from around the world continues to flow into mainland China-- testament to its gravitational pull on global investors and long-term confidence in its economy. Amidst the turmoil in markets, foreign investors have added to their holdings of stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen every month since November via trading links, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data from Hong Kong’s stock exchange.That’s when they might have been expected to start retreating, as authorities blocked the initial public offering of Ant Group Co., marking the beginning of the regulatory onslaught. Purchases more than doubled last month versus July, and it’s a similar picture in China’s bond market. Far from shying away, international investors seeking additional yield have increased their portfolios of yuan-denominated government debt to record, according to data from the central bank though July.
El cambio climático y las élites suicidashttps://ctxt.es/es/20210901/Firmas/37097/
Cita de: senslev en Septiembre 04, 2021, 20:22:51 pmEl cambio climático y las élites suicidashttps://ctxt.es/es/20210901/Firmas/37097/El tal Manuel Casal es un mixtificador profesional. Y ya cuando habla de eco-socialismo....ascuasardinista a más no poder.[...]
Chinese Finance Regulators Vow Tighter Supervision, New Rules(Bloomberg) -- Chinese officials pledged to tighten supervision in the financial services industry, suggesting a recent regulatory onslaught on the private sector that sent shockwaves globally is not over yet.The central bank will close loopholes in its financial technology regulation, and include all types of financial institutions, services and products into its prudential supervision framework, Chen Yulu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said at the China International Finance Annual Forum in Beijing Saturday. Authorities will also boost foreign exchange market supervision at macro and micro levels, he said without elaborating.“We will enhance the effectiveness and professionalism of financial regulation, build all kinds of firewalls to resolutely prevent systemic risks,” Chen said.The China Securities Regulatory Commission will improve its regulations for companies seeking overseas listings, and enhance channels for foreign investors to participate in China’s onshore securities futures market, Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai said at the same forum.Investors have endured significant losses this year with the nation’s benchmark CSI 300 Index down about 16% from its February high, making it among the worst-performing major gauges in Asia this year. China is moving to plug a gap that’s for decades allowed technology giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to sidestep restrictions on foreign investment. In July, regulators proposed rules that would require nearly all companies seeking to list in foreign countries to undergo a cybersecurity review. The securities regulator has communicated with foreign investors on the recent plunge in overseas-listed Chinese stocks, triggered by a spate of surprise crackdowns on industries from private tutoring to Internet platforms, Fang said. The investors believed they have under-allocated Chinese assets, he said.Extreme easing policies by central banks in major developed economies over the pandemic have led to increasing financial fragility globally, said Zhou Liang, vice-chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, who was speaking on the same panel. The banking regulator will focus on preventing risks from foreign institutions’ “malicious” cross-border capital movement, he said.