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El IPC suma su quinto mes en negativo por los precios del turismoEl índice de precios de consumo (IPC) moderó su caída al 0,5% en agosto en tasa interanual debido a la subida de los precios de la electricidad. No obstante, el desplome de los precios del sector turístico por el efecto de la crisis del coronavirus sigue profundizando la caída en los precios que se registra en los últimos meses, según indican los últimos datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). En comparación con julio, el IPC modera su evolución una décima respecto al 0,6% de ese mes. Con el dato de agosto, la inflación suma ya cinco meses de tasas negativas tras registrar los descensos de abril (0,7%), mayo (0,9%) y junio (0,3%).(...)
The Decline of the American Dream in One ChartThe data behind the statistic comes from Opportunity Insights and it shows the percentage of people born in a given decade who ended up earning more than their parents did by age 30 (adjusted for inflation). It is further broken down by their parents’ income percentile.The results are pretty straightforward. Every decade, a smaller percentage of people have ended up earning more than their parents for nearly every income percentile. Whereas 93% of Americans born in 1940 ended up wealthier than their parents by 30, just 45% of people born in 1980 did so. In other words, most people born since 1980 made less than their parents by 30.Beyond the economic sclerosis that has built up in the US economy, consider that inflation adjusted average wages in the US have risen from $20.27 in 1964 to $22.65 in 2018, just 11% growth over 54 years. Meanwhile, the inflation adjustment in that calculation is almost certainly overstating the paltry wage growth for middle and lower income households during the time period.Why? As Visual Capitalist notes: “Whereas inflation since January 1998 totaled 58.8%, the costs of health and education services increased by more than 160% over the same time frame.” For middle and lower income families, the proportion of their expenditures taken up by the categories of goods and services with the highest inflation rates (like healthcare, education, and food) is higher than for the wealthy, a factor which the oversimplified official inflation numbers don’t take into account.Someone should probably explain all this to the Fed because they just raised their inflation target from 2% to ‘over’ 2% for some unknown period of time to make up for the handful of times that inflation ran low in the past.In light of that, you’d better stock up on healthcare and education while the prices are still ‘low.’
Twisted Picture of a Consumer Economy Running on Fumes of StimulusIncomes from wages, interest, and dividends sagged from pre-Pandemic era. But stuffed with stimulus, Americans broke records splurging on Goods, as spending on Services, the biggie, lagged far behind.Consumers – lacking income from wages, interest, and dividends, but stuffed with stimulus money, the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits, the amounts not-spent on mortgages in forbearance or default, the amounts not-spent on rents under eviction bans, and too the amounts from the stock-market gains – splurged on goods. They spent record amounts on durable goods, such as appliances, laptops, and bicycles. And they spent near-record amounts on nondurable goods such as cleaning products or food.And some of those goods are made in the US, but a lot of those goods are made in China, Mexico, Germany, Bangladesh, etc., and thereby much of that stimulus was a stimulus for those countries, and for the container shipping lines, and also finally in the US for trucking companies, railroads, and mostly online retailers.(...) Stimulus pumps up personal income.Personal income from all sources in July, including stimulus and the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits, but also rental income, dividend income, etc. – but not stock market gains – ticked up 0.4% from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $20.04 trillion. This was down from the spike in April caused by the stimulus checks, but was still up by 4.8% from February and by 8.2% from July last year.Personal income from wages and salaries alone, while ticking up from June to $9.2 trillion (annual rate), was still down 5.0% from pre-Pandemic February:
S&P 500 stalls at record level, set for best August in 36 years The S&P 500 hovered near record highs on Monday as bets on an economic revival due to prolonged central bank support put the index on course for its best August in decades.
Fed to resume discussion of next policy steps, Clarida saysWith a new policy framework in place, the Federal Reserve will turn to debating possible next steps in the U.S. central bank’s fight against the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida said on Monday.(...) In his prepared remarks, Clarida focused on the fact that the Fed’s new approach to monetary policy means a low unemployment rate on its own doesn’t warrant higher interest rates, a “robust” change meant to acknowledge the economy is different than that of textbook models.“A low unemployment rate by itself, in the absence of evidence that price inflation is running or is likely to run persistently above mandate-consistent levels or pressing financial stability concerns, will not, under our new framework, be a sufficient trigger for policy action,” Clarida said.“Econometric models,” particularly those including a necessary trade-off with falling unemployment leading to higher inflation, “can be and have been wrong ... A decision to tighten monetary policy based solely on a model ... is difficult to justify.”Clarida’s comments, describing the new policy as a “milestone,” said the new approach was justified because emerging research showed the economy has changed so much since 2012. Keeping the same approach as the Fed has used in the interim risked embedding inflation below its 2% target into market and household decision-making - and putting the United States on the same weak growth path as Japan, for example.“If policy seeks only to return inflation to 2% following a downturn,” Clarida said, the previous approach “will tend to generate inflation that averages less than 2%.” That, in turn, means the Fed’s policy interest rates would be lower than they would be otherwise, and downturns risked being longer with higher unemployment.
De 16.000 a 8.000: la venta de casas a extranjeros se hunde entre abril y junioLa venta de casas a extranjeros se hundió en España en pleno estado de alarma, según datos recogidos en la Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria del segundo trimestreLa venta de casas a extranjeros se hundió en España en pleno estado de alarma. Según datos recogidos en la Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria del segundo trimestre elaborada por el Colegio de Registradores, entre abril y junio de este año se inscribieron en el registro de la propiedad 8.000 compraventas por parte de extranjeros, una cifra que supone un desplome del 40% respecto a las 15.000 transacciones del primer trimestre, y del 50% respecto a las 16.000 unidades del segundo trimestre de 2019."Las restricciones de movilidad entre países durante buena parte del segundo trimestre se han dejado notar en la compra de vivienda por extranjeros, que se ha situado en el 10,7% sobre el total del trimestre, descendiendo con respecto al 12% del trimestre anterior", recoge el informe, que destaca cómo los británicos han seguido encabezando el ranking de nacionalidades con el 12,3% de las compras totales de extranjeros, seguidos de alemanes (7,2%), rumanos (6,9%), franceses (6,7%), marroquíes (6,4%) y belgas (5,8%).
Hacia una caída del 15% del PIB y un 23% de paro: todos pendientes de los fondos europeosCon la temporada turística perdida, el paro se disparará mientras que un 'brexit' duro amenaza los 'brotes verdes' de la industria y la alimentación.
Ya vendrán los aliens...https://www.elconfidencial.com/vivienda/2020-08-31/compraventa-extranjeros-viviendas_2730435/CitarDe 16.000 a 8.000: la venta de casas a extranjeros se hunde entre abril y junioLa venta de casas a extranjeros se hundió en España en pleno estado de alarma, según datos recogidos en la Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria del segundo trimestreLa venta de casas a extranjeros se hundió en España en pleno estado de alarma. Según datos recogidos en la Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria del segundo trimestre elaborada por el Colegio de Registradores, entre abril y junio de este año se inscribieron en el registro de la propiedad 8.000 compraventas por parte de extranjeros, una cifra que supone un desplome del 40% respecto a las 15.000 transacciones del primer trimestre, y del 50% respecto a las 16.000 unidades del segundo trimestre de 2019."Las restricciones de movilidad entre países durante buena parte del segundo trimestre se han dejado notar en la compra de vivienda por extranjeros, que se ha situado en el 10,7% sobre el total del trimestre, descendiendo con respecto al 12% del trimestre anterior", recoge el informe, que destaca cómo los británicos han seguido encabezando el ranking de nacionalidades con el 12,3% de las compras totales de extranjeros, seguidos de alemanes (7,2%), rumanos (6,9%), franceses (6,7%), marroquíes (6,4%) y belgas (5,8%).
Calviño prevé que el PIB crezca un 10% en el tercer trimestreLa vicepresidenta tercera y ministra de Economía, Nadia Calviño, ha asegurado que la recuperación de la economía “ya está en marcha”, pero de forma desigual en cuanto a sectores empresariales. La recuperación arrancó cuando acabo el periodo de hibernación, pero a su juicio, la recuperación será en “V asimétrica” en función de cómo evolucione la pandemia y los rebrotes. Algunos sectores, como el turístico, están siendo muy afectados por la caída de la demanda mundial. La previsión del Gobierno es que el crecimiento de la economía española en el tercer trimestre, “sea superior al 10%”. Y ha apuntado que en esas previsiones, ya se tuvieron en cuanto los actuales rebrotes que se están produciendo.Un dato que ha puesto sobre la mesa es que “en la actual crisis se han destruido menos empleos, pese a que el PIB ha caído mucho más que en anteriores crisis”. Ello se ha producido debido a las medidas del Gobierno activó, pero ahora toca abordar la segunda fase: “la de la recuperación”. De ahí que hay que poner énfasis en la etapa de “relanzamiento”, así como en el lanzamiento de un programa de resiliencia, que el mismo presidente del Gobierno anunciará en breve. Si no se hubieran activado las medidas, Calviño ha asegurado que el PIB podía haber caído hasta un 25%.(...)
German government expects economy to rebound less strongly next year: sourcesThe German government expects the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic this year to be slightly less severe than originally feared, but it will revise down its growth forecast for next year, two sources told Reuters on Monday.Economy Minister Peter Altmaier will present the updated outlook for Europe’s largest economy on Tuesday.