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Sin negar la mayor (y a ver si nos meten en cintura ya, aunque sea desde fuera), hay información en esta pieza que es manifiestamente errónea, por ser suave. No se puede atribuir a la apertura de los colegios ningún repunte significativo, se hicieron 95.000 (hasta donde apuntaron las noticias) pruebas a docentes, de las que salieron 18 infecciones probadas y han cerrado un número ínfimo de aulas que no llegan ni al 1% del total.
Cita de: Lurker en Octubre 05, 2020, 10:47:54 amSin negar la mayor (y a ver si nos meten en cintura ya, aunque sea desde fuera), hay información en esta pieza que es manifiestamente errónea, por ser suave. No se puede atribuir a la apertura de los colegios ningún repunte significativo, se hicieron 95.000 (hasta donde apuntaron las noticias) pruebas a docentes, de las que salieron 18 infecciones probadas y han cerrado un número ínfimo de aulas que no llegan ni al 1% del total. No se está produciendo contagio en las aulas.Las PCR a los alumnos encapsulados preventivamente lo confirman.Igual que tampoco se producen contagios en los centros de trabajo a poco que se tomen algunas medidas básicas. Y esto se sabe.La inmensa mayoría de los contagios se producen en "situaciones similares a la comida del domingo en casa de los suegros", lo que también se sabe.Es posible que el transporte colectivo sea también fuente de contagio pero esto es difícil de probar.Posiblemente los peores datos de Madrid estén relacionados con el transporte colectivo, pero insisto, de esto no hay pruebas.Hoy, a muy primera hora El País ha sacado una noticia sobre una asociación de padres de alumnos de Madrid que decía que la situación en los centros educativos estaba descontrolada. Eso era el titular. El cuerpo de la noticia no aportaba ningún dato que lo corroborase. A la vez salía la noticia de cierres de colegios en Nueva York.Luego han reculado y la noticia ha desaparecido.
The end of the dollar’s exorbitant privilege, STEPHEN ROACHA crash is likely given the collapse in US domestic saving and a gaping current account deficitThe riddle once posed in the 1960s by former French finance minister (eventually president) Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is about to be solved. Giscard bemoaned a US that took advantage of its privileged position as the world’s dominant reserve currency and drew freely on the rest of the world to support its over-extended standard of living. That privilege is about to be withdrawn. A crash in the dollar is likely and it could fall by as much as 35 per cent by the end of 2021.The reason: a lethal interplay between a collapse in domestic saving and a gaping current account deficit. In the second quarter of 2020, net domestic saving — depreciation-adjusted saving of households, businesses and the government sector — plunged back into negative territory for the first time since the global financial crisis. At -1.2 per cent in the second quarter, net domestic saving as a share of national income was fully 4.1 percentage points below the first quarter, the steepest quarterly plunge in records that go back to 1947. Unsurprisingly, the current account deficit followed suit. Lacking in saving and wanting to grow, the US levered its exorbitant privilege to borrow surplus saving from abroad. That pushed the current account deficit to -3.5 per cent of gross domestic product in the second quarter — 1.4 percentage points below that in the first period and also the sharpest quarterly erosion on record.While a Covid-related explosion in the federal government deficit is the immediate source of the problem, this was an accident waiting to happen. Going into the pandemic, the net domestic saving rate averaged just 2.9 per cent of gross national income from 2011 to 2019, less than half the 7 per cent average from 1960 to 2005. This thin cushion left the US vulnerable to any shock, let alone Covid.As budget deficits pile up in the years ahead, further downward pressure on domestic saving and the current account will intensify. The latest estimates of the Congressional Budget Office put the federal deficit at 16 per cent of gross domestic product in 2020 before receding to “just” 8.6 per cent in 2021. Assuming the US Congress eventually agrees to another round of fiscal relief, a much larger deficit for 2021 is likely.This will take the US net saving rate far deeper into negative territory than during the global crisis That has ominous implications for America’s future. After setting aside depreciation required of an ageing capital stock of buildings and infrastructure, the US is, in effect, liquidating the net saving required for the expansion of productive capacity. Without borrowing surplus saving from abroad, growth becomes impossible. The current account deficit will only deepen as a result.That’s when the dollar loses its special privilege. With America’s position as the world’s dominant reserve currency slowly eroding since 2000, foreign lenders are likely to demand concessions on the terms for such massive external financing. This normally takes two forms — an interest rate and/or a currency adjustment. The Federal Reserve has recently shifted to a strategy that takes into account an average of inflation rather than a specific target, and promised to keep policy rates near zero for several more years. That means the interest rate channel has effectively been closed. As a result, more of the current account adjustment will now be forced through a weaker dollar.The US dollar’s lofty value makes it especially vulnerable. Despite recent falls, a broad index of the dollar’s real effective exchange rate remains some 27 per cent above its July 2011 low. That leaves the greenback as the world’s most overvalued major currency, just as the US gets sucked into an unprecedented savings-current account vortex.Currencies are relative prices. The dollar has always benefited from the seductive charm of TINA — that there is no alternative. Think again. The July 21 agreement on a Next Generation EU Fund of €750bn ($858bn) finally establishes a pan-European fiscal policy. That should boost the undervalued euro. The renminbi, gold and cryptocurrencies are also alternatives to the once invincible dollar.The dollar index fell 33 per cent in real terms both in the 1970s and the mid-1980s, and another 28 per cent from 2002 to 2011. During those three periods, the net domestic saving rate averaged 4.9 per cent (versus -1.2 per cent today) and the current account deficit was -2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (versus -3.5 per cent today). With the US having squandered its exorbitant privilege, the dollar is now far more vulnerable to a sharp correction. A crash is looming.
Spanish services woe threatens eurozone economic recoveryBusiness sentiment deteriorates as fresh Covid restrictions hold back prospectsThe economic impact of the coronavirus resurgence in parts of Europe was laid bare on Monday by data which showed that fresh restrictions to control the spread of the virus had begun to choke off the recovery in the hardest hit country, Spain.The decline in Spanish business sentiment data increases the chances that the eurozone economy will suffer a fresh downturn in the final months of this year, after rebounding from a historic recession caused by the onset of the pandemic in the first half of 2020, economists warned.Spain’s IHS Markit purchasing managers’ index for the services sector — a widely watched measure of business sentiment — fell to a four-month low of 42.4 in September, down from 47.7 in the previous month. A reading below 50 indicates a majority of businesses reported deteriorating conditions compared with the previous month.Spain’s performance dragged down the overall outlook across the single currency bloc: the final September reading for eurozone composite PMI — an average of services and manufacturing — slipped to a three-month low of 50.4. This was marginally up from the initial September estimate of 50.1 but down from August’s reading of 51.9.“With the eurozone economy having almost stalled in September, the chances of a renewed downturn in the fourth quarter have clearly risen,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit.By contrast Italy — which was the worst hit part of the eurozone in the early months of the pandemic — performed better than expected. Its services PMI increased to 48.8 in September, up from 47.1 in the previous month and better than the 46.6 forecast by economists polled by Reuters.Data published last week for Italy’s manufacturing PMI suggested strong growth in the export-led sector.Across the eurozone, economic activity was strongest in Germany which reported a final composite index of 54.7, better than initial estimates of 53.7, driven mainly by its behemoth manufacturing sector. PMI figures published last week for Spain’s manufacturing sector showed it had also improved slightly to 50.8, up from August’s 49.9.In France, which has experienced the second-largest resurgence in infections after Spain, the final composite PMI was confirmed as 48.5, a contraction driven by deteriorating conditions in its services sector.The PMIs indices “point to a two-speed-economy in which the upturn in manufacturing is gathering strength, mainly due to solid data in Germany, while services activity is now reeling”, said Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.The weakening in sentiment indicators suggested that “the idea of a sustained strong post-virus recovery at the end of the year is now seriously challenged”, he added. Flash PMI estimates are released a week before the final estimates and generally include about 85 per cent of total survey responses.The survey results came as official statistics showed a strong eurozone consumer recovery in August when restrictions were loosened, while household incomes were still supported by extensive national furlough schemes.The volume of retail sales in the eurozone rose by 4.4 per cent in August compared with the previous month, according to Eurostat.The reading was better than the 2.4 per cent expected by economists polled by Reuters, and up from a month-on-month contraction of 1.8 per cent in July.Sales were boosted as customers switched from services such as gym membership to buying goods such as fitness tools. There was also a rebound in fashion spending, which had been hard hit in previous months, and strong internet purchases. August’s online sales volume was about 24 per cent above that of the same month last year.All leading economies reported sales above last year’s level except in Spain where volumes were still 2.9 per cent down.The retail sales figures “are almost too good to be true”, said Bert Colijn, senior economist at ING.“With worries about unemployment rising and consumer confidence at historically low levels, current levels of spending cannot be maintained for more than a few months at best, and are likely to be reversed sooner,” he said.
EU budget rules to remain suspended in 2021: CommissionEuropean Union rules that set limits on government borrowing will remain suspended in 2021 as the 27-nation bloc strives to support a recovery from the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said.The European Commission, which is in charge of enforcing the fiscal rules, earlier this year suspended EU requirements to keep government deficits below 3% of GDP and to reduce public debt every year as the EU economy entered a record recession.“In terms of fiscal policy, we sent a letter last week to EU finance ministers to provide guidance as they are preparing their national budgets for 2021,” Gentiloni told a news conference after a meeting of euro zone finance ministers.“The General Escape Clause will remain active in the year 2021 and fiscal policies should continue to support the recovery next year, both at the level of the euro area and in individual member states,” he said.Euro zone countries must send their draft budget assumptions for 2021 to the European Commission by Oct. 15 for checks to ensure they are in line with EU rules.Gentiloni said that governments should carefully choose the fiscal measures they want to use to sustain the recovery because they would have to be well-targeted and temporary.“There is, of course, a difference between a fiscal policy aimed at tackling the emergency and one that is focusing on achieving a durable recovery,” he said.“Agility and flexibility will be key in designing and implementing fiscal policies for and during 2021.”
FICHA || EL PODER ECONÓMICO Y EL ORTOGRAMA.—Los 'cuarteles generales del sistema capitalista' es el poder económico actuando sobre la capa conjuntiva del cuerpo económico (cfr. 'Modelo canónico genérico de sociedad política', Gustavo Bueno)La Historia tiene leyes objetivas. No se escribe por un puñado de personas dotadas de voluntad de mando y poder de ambición.La Historia tiene ortogramas, planes implícitos. Esto no quiere decir que no se pueda acceder al Poder Económico estando desafinado con la Historia. Es más, en las últimas fases de los procesos históricos siempre se agudizan estas contradicciones. Pero ello no solo no retrasa los procesos, sino que los acelera.
Goldman ya espera otros 400.000 millones de euros de estímulos del BCE en diciembreSe suma al consenso de mercado, que prevé más estímulos a partir de diciembre(...)Hasta ahora el BCE ha anunciado un paquete de hasta 1,3 billones de euros en compras de deuda de la zona euro, una cifra que ya parece que va a tener que ampliar. Con la inflación en niveles históricamente bajos, en el 0,2% durante el mes de septiembre en el indicador que excluye la gasolina y los bienes más volátiles, el BCE parece obligado a actuar.Goldman también coincide ahora con el consenso de mercado en que Lagarde también alargará el PEPP en tiempo. El BCE apunta a que las compras se perpetuarán hasta el año que viene, pero siempre ha dejado la puerta abierta a que se alarguen en el tiempo, si la situación económica derivada de la pandemia de coronavirus así lo requiere.Según Goldman, en la reunión de diciembre el organismo alargará otros seis meses más la duración del PEPP, que se mantendría hasta finales de 2021, y también avisan de que las reinversiones de los bonos que vayan venciendo y se hayan comprado con el PEPP continuarán al menos hasta el año 2023.
El presidente de la Asamblea de Madrid intenta encerrar en el Pleno a la oposición para que la falta de quórum no frustrase la ley del Suelo de PP y CiudadanosJuan Trinidad ha tratado de repetir la votación aprovechando el cierre de las puertas para conseguir que los 70 diputados que había en la Cámara votasen. Finalmente no lo ha conseguido pero ha dado por válida la medida reconociendo que no hay quórum
Public Investment For The Recovery – IMF Blog(...) public investment is a powerful element of the stimulus packages to limit the economic fallout from the pandemic. Even as countries continue to save lives and livelihoods, they can lay the foundation for a more resilient economy by investing in job-rich, highly productive, and greener activities.
Now is the time for big infrastructure projects, says the IMFHigher public spending urged as way of boosting employment and GDP at relatively low cost
UK must be hard-headed in relationship with China - SunakBritain must take a hard-headed, transactional approach to its relationship with China, British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday.“I think with China we also need to be realistic and hard-headed and I’d say probably transactional in our approach to that relationship, rather than being starry-eyed about it,” Sunak told the Conservative Party’s annual conference.“China is going to be a significant feature of the global economy, and only increasing in significance, so it would be wrong to ignore that.”
"Yikes!" UK's debt mountain leaves us vulnerable, Sunak saysBritish finance minister Rishi Sunak warned of the damage higher interest rates could do to the country’s debt mountain as he promised on Monday to “balance the books” following his surge in emergency spending to counter the coronavirus crisis.(...)Britain is on course for its biggest budget deficit since World War Two, hit by around 200 billion pounds ($259 billion) of emergency spending and an expected slump in tax revenues after the economy shrank by 20% in the second quarter.Public debt has topped 2 trillion pounds ($2.6 trillion) and Sunak said the government could not count on its borrowing costs in financial markets staying close to their recent record lows.“Now that we have so much debt, it doesn’t take a lot for suddenly ‘Yikes’ - we have to come up with X billion pounds a year to pay for higher interest,” Sunak said told the conference, which is taking place online.Sunak said he had “a sacred responsibility to future generations” to fix the public finances in the medium term and he warned of hard choices, hinting at possible future tax increases.
#MacroView: CBO – The “One-Way Trip” Of American DebtThe chart below shows the deficit, 10-year average GDP growth, and the annual change in Federal Debt. The problem should be obvious. Since the Federal government began ramping up debt, and running deficits, growth continues to deteriorate. Such is not a coincidence.
What crisis? - house prices are up and US household leverage remains "healthy"The US consumer was well prepared going into the corona crisis, but do note that the median consumer leverage is much worse than the weighted one, according to JOM.