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Un estudio elaborado por la Asociación de Jefes de Policía de Estados Unidos (Nacop) ha sorprendido a muchos ciudadanos porque asegura que políticos y asesinos en serie se parecen y comparten numerosos rasgos psicológicos y de personalidad.Según esa tesis, que pretende tener bases científicas, gente como Bush, Clinton, Obama, Sarkozy, Hugo Chávez y Zapatero serían bastante parecidos a asesinos en serie como James Mason, el carnicero de Rostov y el estrangulador de Boston. Unos y otros son vanidosos, superficiales, mienten, no tienen remordimientos y no dudan en manipular sin miramientos a quienes les rodean para conseguir sus objetivos, “irónicamente, los mismos comportamientos que vemos cada día en los hombres y mujeres que ocupan los principales puestos de responsabilidad del país”, asegura Jim Kouri, vicepresidente de la Nacop y autor del informe.La teoría de Kouri conecta y concuerda con otra tesis históricamente comprobada, la que demuestra que los mayores asesinos de la historia fueron servidores del Estado.Esa tesis permite afirmar que "Los campeones universales del crimen, los comunistas Mao Zedong y José Stalin, los emperadores romanos Nerón y Calígula; Adolfo Hitler, Pol Pot, el príncipe Vlad Tepes Drácula de Valaquia, conocido como el empalador, que llegó a torturar hasta la muerte a más de 100.000 personas; la condesa Elizabeth de Bathery, que desangró a casi un millar de niñas para bañarse en su sangre, creyendo que así obtendría dosis de juventud, Ivan el Terrible, Robespierre, Idi Amín Dadá, el doctor Mengele y otros muchos seres de crueldad desproporcionada tienen como denominador común su condición de estadistas o de servidores del Estado. Comparados con estos criminales "estatales", cualquier otro famoso asesino civil de la historia, como Jack el Destripador o el Carnicero de Rostow, ofrecen balances de víctimas tan reducidos que parecen aficionados de tercera categoría."Para llegar a esta conclusión, que muchos ya sospechaban, el investigador Kouri buceó durante años en los archivos de análisis del comportamiento de la Oficina Federal de Investigación (FBI), buscando los denominadores comunes que definían la personalidad de los asesinos múltiples y comparándola con la forma de actuar de los políticos.Kouri afirma haber comprobado estadísticamente que los representantes públicos, al igual que los peores criminales, diseñan y ejecutan cualquier estrategia que les lleve a conseguir sus objetivos y satisfacer sus enfermizas e irrefrenables ansias de poder, sin tener en cuenta las consecuencias sociales, morales o legales.La tesis de Kouri confirma que la mayoría de los políticos comparten con los asesinos el nefasto principio de "El fin justifica los medios", lo que equivale a utilizar cualquier medio para alcanzar el fin deseado.Entre los comportamientos habituales que Kouri ha podido observar entre la clase política destacan la impulsividad, la irresponsabilidad, un comportamiento parasitario y una carencia absoluta de objetivos vitales realistas. “Este comportamiento les permite hacer lo que desean y cuando desean”, asegura Kouri en su informe.Las reacciones al informe han inundado los foros de Internet en Estados Unidos y otros países, donde aparecen miles de ciudadanos que se declaran afectados y vejados por la clase política, a algunos de cuyos miembros acusan de protagonizar escándalos de todo tipo, desde estafas a injusticias, sin olvidar persecuciones, violencia y agresiones sexuales, muchas de las cuales llegan a la prensa a través de denuncias a periodistas, colaboracionesw y cartas al director.En mi libro Democracia Secuestrada (Almuzara 2005) hay un par de párrafos que parecen anticipar la tesis de Kouri y que conviene reproducir:"¿Podemos imaginarnos trabajando en una institución o empresa como la siguiente?Tiene poco más de 500 empleados, de los que 29 han sido acusados de maltratos a sus esposas, 7 han sido arrestados por fraude, 19 han sido acusados de firmar cheques sin fondos, 119 han arruinado al menos dos negocios o empresas, 3 han sido arrestados por utilizar la violencia, 71 no pueden disponer de tarjetas de crédito porque en el pasado hicieron mal uso de ellas, 14 han sido arrestados por asuntos relacionados con drogas, 8 han sido arrestados por rateros, 84 fueron detenidos por conducir ebrios y 21 están actualmente acusados en diferentes procesos.¿Sabe de qué organización se trata? Aunque parezca increíble es una descripción publicada en la década de los 90 del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, uno de los clubes políticos más poderosos del mundo".Si esas son las estadísticas del Parlamento considerado más libre y demócrata del mundo, imaginemos cuales serían las de otros parlamentos afectados por graves carencias democráticas, como las Cortes españolas, por ejemplo".
Chorrada de caso. Para cuando pase todo eso la empresa ya se ha desmantelado y no hay a quien reclamar ni un céntimo. Persona jurídica que lo llaman ¿no?. Parece mentira que parezca que saben tanto de empresaurios en esa página cuando en esta cuestión ignoran el modus operandi más elemental del empresaurio hispanistaní.(Disclaimer antes de que alguien me corra a collejas: no todos los empresarios son empresaurios)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/business/investors-are-looking-to-buy-homes-by-the-thousands.htmlInvestors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the ThousandsBy MOTOKO RICHRIVERSIDE, Calif. — At least 20 times a day, Alan Hladik walks into a fixer-upper and tries to figure out if it is worth buying.As an inspector for the Waypoint Real Estate Group, Mr. Hladik takes about 20 minutes to walk through each home, noting worn kitchen cabinets or missing roof tiles. The blistering pace is necessary to keep up with Waypoint’s appetite: the company, which has bought about 1,200 homes since 2008 — and is now buying five to seven a day — is an early entrant in a business that some deep-pocketed investors are betting is poised to explode.With home prices down more than a third from their peak and the market swamped with foreclosures, large investors are salivating at the opportunity to buy perhaps thousands of homes at deep discounts and fill them with tenants. Nobody has ever tried this on such a large scale, and critics worry these new investors could face big challenges managing large portfolios of dispersed rental houses. Typically, landlords tend to be individuals or small firms that own just a handful of homes.But the new investors believe the rental income can deliver returns well above those offered by Treasury securities or stock dividends. At the same time, economists say, they could help areas hardest hit by the housing crash reach a bottom of the market.This year, Waypoint signed a $400 million deal with GI Partners, a private equity firm in Silicon Valley. Gary Beasley, Waypoint’s managing director, says the company plans to buy 10,000 to 15,000 more homes by the end of next year. Other large private equity investors — including Colony Capital, GTIS Partners and Oaktree Capital Management, in partnership with the Carrington Holding Company — have committed millions to this new market, and Lewis Ranieri, often called the inventor of the mortgage bond, is considering it, too.In February, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the government-backed mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced that it would sell about 2,500 homes in a pilot program in eight metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.And Bank of America said in late March that it would begin testing a plan to allow homeowners facing foreclosure the chance to rent back their homes and wipe out their mortgage debt. Eventually, the bank said, it could sell the houses to investors.Waypoint executives say they can handle large volumes because they have developed computer systems that help them make quick buying decisions and manage renovations and rentals.“We realized that there is a tremendous amount of brain damage around acquiring single-family homes, renovating them and renting them out,” said Colin Wiel, a Waypoint co-founder. “We think this is a huge opportunity and we are going to treat it like a factory and create a production line to do this.”Mr. Hladik, who is one of seven inspectors working full time for Waypoint’s Southern California office, is one cog in that production line.On a recent morning, he walked through a vacant three-bedroom home with a red tiled roof here about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, one of the areas flooded with foreclosures after the housing market bust. Scribbling on a clipboard, he noted the dated bathroom vanities, the tatty family room carpet and a hole in a bedroom wall. Twenty minutes later, he plugged these details into a program on his iPad, choosing from drop-down menus to indicate the house had dual pane windows and that the kitchen appliances needed replacing.The software calculated that it would take $25,413.53 to get the home in rental shape. Mr. Hladik adjusted that estimate down to $18,400 because he deemed the landscaping in good shape. He uploaded his report to Waypoint’s database, where appraisers and executives would use the calculations to determine whether and how much to bid for the house.With just three years of experience, Waypoint is one of the industry’s grizzled veterans. But critics say newcomers could stumble. “It’s a very inefficient way to run a rental business,” said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities USA. “You could wind up with an inexperienced group owning properties that just deteriorate.”The big investors are wooed by what they see as a vast opportunity. There are close to 650,000 foreclosed properties sitting on the books of lenders, according to RealtyTrac, a data provider. An additional 710,000 are in the foreclosure process, and according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, about 3.25 million borrowers are delinquent on their loans and in danger of losing their homes.With so many families displaced from their homes by foreclosure, rental demand is rising. Others who might previously have bought are now unable to qualify for loans. The homeownership rate has dropped from a peak of 69.2 percent in 2004 to 66 percent at the end of 2011, according to census data.Economists say that these investors could help stabilize home prices. “If you have a lot of foreclosures in one community you will improve everybody’s home values if you take them off the market,” said Diane Swonk, the chief economist at Mesirow Financial. “If those homes are renovated and even rented, it is a lot better than having them stand empty.”Until now, Waypoint, which focuses on the Bay Area and Southern California, has been buying foreclosed properties one by one in courthouse auctions or through traditional real estate agents.The company, founded by Mr. Wiel, a former Boeing engineer and software entrepreneur, and Doug Brien, a one-time N.F.L. place-kicker who had invested in apartment buildings, evaluates each purchase using data from multiple listing services, Google maps and reports from its own inspectors and appraisers.An algorithm calculates a maximum bid for each home, taking into account the cost of renovations, the potential rent and target investment returns — right now the company averages about 8 percent per property on rental income alone. By 5:30 on a recent morning, Joe Maehler, a regional director in Waypoint’s Southern California office, had logged onto his computer and pulled up a list of about 70 foreclosed properties that were being auctioned later that day in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.Looking at a three-bedroom bungalow in San Bernardino, he saw that Waypoint’s system had calculated a bid of $103,000. Mr. Maehler, who previously advised investors on commercial mortgage-backed securities deals, clicked on a map and saw that rents on comparable homes the company already owned could justify a higher offer. The house also had a pool, which warranted another price bump.By the time the auctioneer opened the bidding on the lawn in front of the San Bernardino County Courthouse at $114,750, Mr. Maehler had authorized a maximum bid of just over $130,000.As the auction proceeded, Waypoint’s bidder at the courthouse remained on the phone with Mr. Maehler in the company’s Irvine office about 50 miles away.“Stay on it,” Mr. Maehler urged as the bidding went up in $100 increments. The bidder clinched it for $129,400.The sting of the housing collapse, driven in part by investors who bought large bundles of securities backed by bad mortgages, makes some critics wary of the emerging market.“I don’t have a lot of confidence that private market actors who now see another use for these houses as rentals, as opposed to owner-occupied, are necessarily going to be any more responsible financially or responsive to community needs,” said Michael Johnson, professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Waypoint executives say they plan to be long-term landlords, and usually sign two-year leases. Once the company buys a property, it typically paints the house and installs new carpets, kitchen appliances and bathroom fixtures, spending an average of $20,000 to $25,000. It tries to keep existing occupants in the house — although only 10 percent have stayed so far — and offer tenants the chance to build toward a future down payment.Waypoint’s inspectors are evaluating hundreds of properties that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are offering for sale. Because the inspectors are not allowed inside these homes, they are driving by 40 of them a day, estimating renovation costs by looking at eaves, windows and the conditions of lawns.Rick Magnuson, executive managing director of GI Partners, Waypoint’s largest investment partner, said “the jury is still out” on whether Waypoint — or any other investor — can manage such a large portfolio. But, he said, “with the technology at Waypoint, we think they can get there.”
ESPERAN UNA ESPECIE DE RESCATE DEL FONDO MONETARIO INTERNACIONAL Y EL FONDO EUROPEO DE ESTABILIDAD FINANCIERACiti y Merrill reciben los Presupuestos con otro varapalo y hablan de "intervención"
Merrill Lynch espera que la vivienda caída hasta un 50% -frente al 20% actual-.
Cita de: pringaete en Abril 03, 2012, 16:46:49 pmChorrada de caso. Para cuando pase todo eso la empresa ya se ha desmantelado y no hay a quien reclamar ni un céntimo. Persona jurídica que lo llaman ¿no?. Parece mentira que parezca que saben tanto de empresaurios en esa página cuando en esta cuestión ignoran el modus operandi más elemental del empresaurio hispanistaní.(Disclaimer antes de que alguien me corra a collejas: no todos los empresarios son empresaurios)Pringaete, yo creo que deberías leerte los artículos más destacados de esa página para conocer lo que opinan sobre los empresaurios y los trucos que suelen utilizar para mangonear, especialmente al trabajador. Los conocen realmente bien y son realmente buenos, o al menos así me lo parece a mí.Saludos.
La verdad, es un poco insultante que planteen una amnistía fiscal para una panda de hijosdeputa que estan forrados hasta las trancas, y acto seguido, quieran tener mano dura con los que intentan alargar el subsidio para poder comer.Creo que ya estan perdiendo un pcoo el norte (Efecto María Antonieta), y al final, si se puede acabar liando.