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El Tesoro de EE UU advierte que en octubre se quedará sin efectivoLa Casa Blanca insiste que no quiere negociar más sobre la cuestión y pide a los legisladores en el Congreso de EE UU que actúenLas memorias de hace dos veranos vuelven a Wall Street, después de que el Departamento del Tesoro anticipara unas semanas la fecha en la que se rebasará el techo de endeudamiento federal, ahora previsto para mediados de octubre. La Casa Blanca insiste que no quiere negociar más sobre la cuestión y pide a los legisladores en el Congreso de EE UU que actúen ya.Las seis semanas de margen tras el receso veraniego se esperan de intensa negociación en Washington. La proyección hasta ahora era que ese nivel máximo que el Gobierno tiene para pedir prestado se superaría más bien a comienzos de noviembre, por lo que el tiempo apremia. “Lo que más necesita ahora nuestra economía es certidumbre”, insiste Jack Lew, secretario del Tesoro.“No necesitamos otra crisis”, remacha Lew. Los republicanos dicen que tampoco quieren llegar a ese extremo, pero presionan para conseguir un recorte del lado del gasto público para poder aceptar un pacto. Ese mismo choque político fue el que provocó en agosto de 2011 que la agencia de calificación Standard & Poors retirara a la deuda estadounidense la nota de máxima solvencia.La incertidumbre sobre el debate fiscal se suma, además, a la tensión geopolítica en Siria, el cambio de mando en la Reserva Federal y la pronta rebaja en EE UU de la intensidad de los estímulos monetarios. Si se llega a ese límite sin acuerdo, la Administración de Barack Obama no tendrá dinero para pagar las actividades de funcionamiento normal del Gobierno.Ese techo está fijado en los 16,7 billones de dólares. Técnicamente ya se tocó en mayo, pero en ese momento entraron en vigor una serie de medidas excepcionales para poder pagar las facturas a tiempo. El Tesoro alza ahora la voz de alarma diciendo que para mediados de octubre el balance en caja será solo de 50.000 millones, cantidad insuficiente para responder a sus obligaciones.El próximo 1 de octubre entra además en vigor en EE UU el nuevo ejercicio fiscal, sin que tampoco se haya logrado un acuerdo sobre el presupuesto para 2014. Para ese caso, se necesitará también una decisión a tiempo del Congreso a lo largo del mes de septiembre que autorice el gasto público, aunque sea por cortos periodos de varios meses renovables.Por si no fuera suficiente, en marzo entró un vigor una serie de recortes automáticos en el presupuesto cuyos efectos se están haciendo notar ahora en la economía. Lew, principal negociador de Obama en la batalla fiscal, quiere que se cambie por una política de reducción del déficit más equilibrada. Es algo que también recomienda el Fondo Monetario Internacional.La estrategia de los conservadores es utilizar el debate general del presupuesto para retrasar la entrada en vigor por falta de fondos del Obamacare, como se conoce el paquete de reformas de la salud. Pero este enfrentamiento también puede afectar a la estrategia de la Fed. Ben Bernanke, su presidente, urge también a los legisladores que hagan de su parte para ayudar a la economía.Tanto el Tesoro, como la Fed y el FMI consideran que sin el lastre fiscal, la economía de EE UU podría crecer por encima del 2% a final de año y reducir el paro de una forma más sostenida. En el segundo trimestre la expansión fue del 1,7%, de acuerdo con el nuevo modelo de cálculo del PIB. Eso significa que está a medio camino del crecimiento medio.http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2013/08/27/actualidad/1377616910_059434.html
Una guerra levantaría el límite de déficit sin que Obama tuviera que negociar nada. Al fin y al cabo, ¿quién le iba a negar el dinero necesario a nuestras tropas? Si mueren por falta de dinero ¿a quién le echarían la culpa?Lo siento por los sirios.
This was the old state of affairs in the USA: <blockquote>“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently – and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.-Gore Vidal, Matters of Fact and of Fiction. </blockquote> This is the current sad but true state of affairs: <blockquote>“In the past, the United States has sometimes, kind of sardonically, been described as a one-party state: the business party with two factions called Democrats and Republicans. That’s no longer true. It’s still a one-party state, the business party. But it only has one faction. The faction is moderate Republicans, who are now called Democrats. There are virtually no moderate Republicans in what’s called the Republican Party and virtually no liberal Democrats in what’s called the Democratic [sic] Party. It’s basically a party of what would be moderate Republicans and similarly, Richard Nixon would be way at the left of the political spectrum today. Eisenhower would be in outer space.”-Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and professor (emeritus) of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in his keynote address at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany, 17 June 2013.
"Richard Nixon would be way at the left of the political spectrum today. Eisenhower would be in outer space.”
Citar"Richard Nixon would be way at the left of the political spectrum today. Eisenhower would be in outer space.” Eso casi iría para Analectas...
Parliamentary porn consumption laid bare in official figures More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past year, official records suggest. It is unclear whether MPs, peers or other staff are responsible, House of Commons officials said. The figures were not all "purposeful requests" and may have been exaggerated by third-party software and websites that reload themselves, they added. About 5,000 people work on the parliamentary estate. The data was released following a Freedom of Information request by Huffington Post UK, which published the story with the headline Oh Yes, Minister! However, the figures vary wildly: in November, there were 114,844 attempts to access websites classed as pornographic, but just 15 in February. 'Ridiculous' A Commons spokeswoman said: "We do not consider the data to provide an accurate representation of the number of purposeful requests made by network users."This was because there was a "variety of ways in which websites can be designed to act, react and interact and due to the potential operation of third party software," she said. Some of the hits may have been registered by websites that generate a number of views during a single visit, or those that automatically link to other sites via pop-ups, she explained. Prime Minister David Cameron announced in July that most households in the UK would have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they chose to receive it. Online pornography was "corroding childhood" and "distorting" children's understanding of sex and relationships, he argued. The UK's biggest internet service providers have agreed to the filters scheme meaning it should cover 95% of homes.But one of Mr Cameron's advisers, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, said the plans were "absolutely ridiculous".
Por KELLY NOLANLos precios de la deuda de Puerto Rico se desplomaron de nuevo, y los rendimientos en algunos bonos de vencimiento más largos alcanzaron 10%, un nivel inusualmente alto para deuda con grado de inversión. La caída en los precios también es una señal de la aversión al riesgo por parte de los inversionistas después de la declaración de bancarrota de Detroit en julio.Un bloque de bonos a 27 años para cubrir mejoras públicas se cotizaron el lunes a 67 centavos de dólar, con un rendimiento de 10,082%. El 6 de agosto, un bloque de la misma deuda se negoció a unos 96 centavos de dólar, con un rendimiento de 7,022%, según la agencia que regula el mercado de valores municipales en Estados Unidos.El viernes, un bloque grande de deuda de tabaco del estado de Ohio se transó a unos 73 centavos de dólar con un rendimiento de 9,02%, según la agencia.Participantes del mercado indicaron que era difícil recordar la última vez que bonos de la isla con plazos más largos se negociaron con rendimientos tan altos."Se está volviendo preocupante", señaló Dan Toboja, vicepresidente sénior de negociaciones de renta fija en el banco de inversión Ziegler. Los rendimientos de Puerto Rico "nunca llegaron a 10% incluso en la crisis", apuntó Toboja.Otros bonos de Puerto Rico también se negociaron el lunes a menores precios. En total, se vendieron aproximadamente US$40 millones en deuda puertorriqueña la mañana del lunes, afirmó Alex Grant, gestor de portafolio en RS Investments. "Esto está completamente fuera de control", agregó. El gestor dijo que la deuda de Puerto Rico se cotizaba a un menor precio que la deuda de Detroit.Los precios de los bonos de Puerto Rico han caído a medida que crece la preocupación de los inversionistas sobre la economía de la isla. Puerto Rico enfrenta una tasa de desempleo de más de 10%, y los datos recientes muestran que los indicadores económicos se debilitaron.La venta generalizada de bonos puertorriqueños se produce conforme los fondos que invierten en bonos municipales, muchos de los cuales poseen deuda de la isla, enfrentan la retirada de dinero por parte de los inversionistas. Durante las últimas 15 semanas, unos US$24.500 millones han salido de fondos que invierten en bonos municipales y fondos que cotizan en bolsa que hacen reportes semanales, según Lipper FMI....En lo que va del año, hasta el pasado viernes, el índice de bonos municipales de Puerto Rico de S&P ha descendido 17%, mientras que el mercado general ha perdido 5,9%.Debido al alza de sus costos de endeudamiento, es incierto si Puerto Rico podrá tomar préstamos de manera exitosa, apuntó Dan Solender, director de gestión de bonos municipales en Lord Abbett. "El costo podría ser alto mientras la aversión al riesgo es fuerte y las salidas (de capital) continúan", anotó.
It's 12:01am, do you know where your government is?*WHITE HOUSE BUDGET OFFICE DIRECTS AGENCIES TO BEGIN SHUTDOWN*U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN FOR FIRST TIME IN 17 YEARSS&P Futures are 1677, 10Y yield 2.65%, WTI $101.96, Gold $1329.00 - let's see where we open tomorrow... Full Statement from The White House:MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Sylvia M. Burwell, Director SUBJECT: Update on Status of Operations This memorandum follows the September 17,2013, Memorandum M-13-22, and provides an update on the potential lapse of appropriations. Appropriations provided under the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-6) expire at 11:59 pm tonight. Unfortunately, we do not have a clear indication that Congress will act in time for the President to sign a Continuing Resolution before the end of the day tomorrow, October 1, 2013. Therefore, agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations. We urge Congress to act quickly to pass a Continuing Resolution to provide a short-term bridge that ensures sufficient time to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations. Agencies should continue to closely monitor developments, and OMB will provide further guidance as appropriate. We greatly appreciate your cooperation and the work you and your agencies do on behalf of the American people. Now it's getting serious... Via Russia Today,Here is a handy list from Russia Today of the possible effects American citizens and the rest of the world could face now that the US Government has shutdown. The last government shutdown lasted 21 days, from December 1996 to January 1997, and cost the administration of US President Bill Clinton cost an estimated $2 billion, according to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. 1 Countdown to US default looms A halt of US government operations would drag the world’s biggest economy closer to bankruptcy, something unprecedented in US history. If no budget deal is done, the US would bump up against their “debt ceiling” and run out of money by October 17. By then, the US government would have less than $30 billion cash on hand, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has calculated.2 Hundreds of thousands of federal employees on furlough A one-time layoff of 800,000 people working for the US government would erode the earlier projected economic growth of 2.5 percent for the fourth quarter of 2013 by about 0.32 percentage points, according to a forecast by Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody's Analytics. That projection assumes a two-week shutdown. If it drags into a whole month, the loss of GDP would rise to 1.4 percentage points.3 Troops’ paychecks stopped About 1.4 million military active-duty personnel would keep on working, but with their paychecks delayed. Approval for troops’ paychecks is dependent on Obama’s proposed 2014 federal budget being passed by Congress.4 Women and children’s nutrition program threatened Pregnant women and new moms who are poor and facing “nutrition risk” won’t be able to buy healthy food, as a looming shutdown would put bracers on the $6 billion Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC).5 $85 billion in cuts to federal programsWhen a shutdown was last threatened in March 2013, it would have resulted in $85 billion in automatic cuts in spending on federal programs – many aimed at alleviating social hardship. The cuts, known as sequestration, would affect grants to local organizations and funds that keep those programs running.6 Housing loans haltedUS federal programs that provide for about 30 percent of all new loans in the housing market – a backbone of the country’s economy – will be shut down. Government funding of new businesses will also be halted, as well as workplace health and safety inspections.7 Trade talks scuppered?US plans to have a Pacific trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership, signed with the US’s Asian partners could stall, as Obama may decide not to travel to this weekend’s Bali, Indonesia meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation nations. While he could still go if no deal is done by then, it could be a gift for his Republican opponents if Obama was seen to be jetting off to a tropical paradise at a time when federal employees were sent home without pay. 8 Visa delays likelyThousands of Americans may not be able to get passports for foreign travel, and tourists travelling to the US will likely face delays in visa processing. During the last government shutdown in 1996-97, some 20,000-30,000 applications remained unprocessed daily.9 Space program on hold Space agency NASA will be hit the most, as the agency will need to furlough about 97 percent of its employees, though it will continue to keep workers at Mission Control in Houston and elsewhere to support the International Space Station, where the two NASA astronauts currently on board, Michael Hopkins and Karen Nyberg, may not know whether they have jobs to come back to.10 National parks, museums and zoos would close to the publicState-funded museums, art galleries and zoos across the country would keep their doors closed Tuesday, leaving thousands of employees furloughed and visitors unable to see attractions. US national parks, from Yosemite to the Shenandoahs, as well as Washington’s National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and Constitution Gardens, would also be closed.