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¿Un período sostenido de alta inflación se ha vuelto mucho más factible? Hasta hace poco, habría dicho que las probabilidades estaban claramente en contra. Hoy, no estoy tan seguro, especialmente si miramos unos años hacia adelante.
La derrota humillante de Estados Unidos en Afganistán es un gran salto para recrear la tormenta perfecta que condujo al crecimiento lento y a la altísima inflación de los años 1970. Hace unas semanas, un poco de inflación parecía un problema manejable. Hoy, los riesgos y los desafíos son más altos.
The US, Canada, and New Zealand all have wildly different plans for tackling the housing crisisThe three countries' plans for normalizing the market vary in size and scope. Where the US is mostly focused on shoring up supply, Canada is interested in fighting investor speculation. New Zealand is forging its own path and letting its central bank take unprecedented action to cool mortgage lending.
Sweat equityByteDance, owner of the popular TikTok short-form video app, in August ended a near decade-long tradition of requiring that employees work an extra weekend day every other week. Some cheered, others mourned; one employee complained to Breakingviews her first pay slip following the change was smaller by one fifth without the overtime pay. “Everyone is moaning,” she said. “My colleagues are updating their résumé.”In addition to employees worried about their pay cheques, some investors and executives believe long working weeks, however brutal, have enabled break-neck growth in the technology sector, helping less sophisticated Chinese firms compete with Silicon Valley by throwing programmers at problems like cannon fodder. “To be able to work 996 is a huge bliss,” said Jack Ma in 2019, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, referring to the practice of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week.That attitude is now out of official favour, as is Ma himself. The central government has grown concerned that the social and economic costs of the Chinese daily grind outweigh the business benefits. Gruelling hours leave employees little time for shopping and dating, thereby hobbling consumption and holding down the birth rate – and worse. In December a 23-year-old employee at e-commerce giant Pinduoduo collapsed and died after working past midnight. Chinese office culture has begun to mimic Japan, to the extent that both languages have coined phrases for death by overwork. In August China’s supreme court followed up, saying that excessive overtime violates Chinese labour law.There has been a psychological cost to China’s youth, as evidenced by the wildly popular “lying-flat” meme that sprang up this year, which refers to adopting a passive attitude and opting out of cut-throat competition and endless work. Officials hate that too.Technology giants, already embroiled in antitrust and data probes, have little choice but to comply with President Xi Jinping’s edicts, and his push to deliver “common prosperity” entails more than reducing overtime. Food delivery giant Meituan, for example, has vowed to improve benefits for its large fleet of contractors. JD.com, whose boss Richard Liu had endorsed 996, recently hiked salaries for all staff despite the industry’s slowing growth. In the short term, ending 996 could mean higher costs and lower output. In the long run, there could be a silver productivity lining.Most of today’s players emerged from university campuses or cramped home offices. Given distrust of IP courts, plus a surplus of venture capital sloshing around, many entrepreneurs relied on scale alone to compete. That caused them to go on massive hiring sprees, constantly expand into new lines of business, and start vicious price wars. As rivals tried to outwork each other, 996 became a perverse point of pride at some firms.Yet today those Chinese companies have matured, and overall revenue growth is moderating. ByteDance’s sales growth, for example, has halved from about 212% in 2018 to 111% last year. In this context overwork is gradually starting to look more like a knee-jerk managerial reflex that could prove counterproductive. For example, some managers give employees fixed weekly targets to come up with new features – an expensive recipe for overloading products with widgets nobody uses, while swamping programmers and quality control teams. Over-staffed business units often end up duplicating efforts or competing pointlessly with each other.There is no precise way to measure the influence of work schedules on the bottom line. But the Japanese economy suggests overwork has no direct relationship with competitiveness. A Breakingviews comparison, using Refinitiv data, of 20 major internet giants in the United States and China found top Chinese brands did well in terms of revenue per employee; at $1.6 million per employee, Xiaomi ranked second last year to Netflix, and Pinduoduo was fifth. They did slightly less well on profitability: Of the top ten firms with the highest net income per worker, three are Chinese.There’s a Chinese saying: “Don’t use industriousness to compensate for strategic laziness.” That rings especially true for a sector seen as better at generating perspiration than inspiration. Bidding farewell to 996 should improve real competitiveness
China to Launch Beijing Stock Exchange to Steer Investment Into InnovationXi Jinping announces new trading venue as U.S. listing opportunities dwindleChinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday announced the formation of a Beijing Stock Exchange in a bid to channel investment into promising young technology companies as avenues to raise money in the U.S. disappear.The trading venue will augment an existing equity market in Beijing and specifically host innovative smaller companies, according to Mr. Xi and a statement from the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Fed likely to announce taper in November, former Fed official saysThe U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to announce the tapering of its asset purchases in November and begin the process a month later, former Federal Reserve official Dennis Lockhart said on Thursday.
Yo creo que ya hemos pasado el punto de ruptura, no se puede más o igual...https://www.breakingviews.com/features/chinas-tech-sector-gets-dragged-off-hamster-wheel/CitarSweat equity
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Hacia una política monetaria menos expansivaLos analistas ven una reducción mensual de entre 10.000 y 15.000 millones, lo que supondría llevar las compras a cero en la última parte de 2022https://www.vozpopuli.com/opinion/politica-monetaria.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/economy-usa-taper-gmf/fed-likely-to-announce-taper-in-november-former-fed-official-says-idUSL4N2Q5180CitarFed likely to announce taper in November, former Fed official saysThe U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to announce the tapering of its asset purchases in November and begin the process a month later, former Federal Reserve official Dennis Lockhart said on Thursday.
¿Fin de las políticas monetarias ultraexpansiva?CitarHacia una política monetaria menos expansivaLos analistas ven una reducción mensual de entre 10.000 y 15.000 millones, lo que supondría llevar las compras a cero en la última parte de 2022https://www.vozpopuli.com/opinion/politica-monetaria.html
Evergrande Property Sales Drop 26% as China’s Home Market Cools(Bloomberg) -- China Evergrande Group’s property sales fell in August as the real estate market slowed, dealing a fresh blow to the cash-strapped developer. Contracted sales dropped 26% from a year earlier to 38.08 billion yuan ($5.9 billion), a filing showed late Friday. A year earlier, the firm had sales of about 51.48 billion yuan.The world’s most indebted developer has become one of the biggest financial worries in China, given its teetering pile of $305 billion in liabilities to banks, shadow lenders, companies, investors, vendors and home buyers. Evergrande’s shares and bonds have plummeted to levels that suggest investors are bracing for a potential default. Regulators in Beijing last month urged the company to resolve its debt woes in a rare public rebuke. Evergrande this week warned that it risks defaulting on borrowings if its efforts to raise cash fall short. Despite selling stakes in some of its prized assets and offering steep discounts to offload apartments, the developer reported a 29% slide in profit for the first half with its mainland Hengda Real Estate and electric vehicle unit printing losses. Regulatory tightening and the latest Covid-19 outbreak are clouding the sales outlook for Chinese residential property developers, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts wrote last month. Home prices grew at the slowest pace in six months in July. Added to that, Evergrande’s vendors have suspended work on some projects due to unpaid bills, the company said in its earnings report. “The group will do its utmost to continue its operations and endeavor to deliver properties to customers as scheduled,” it said. In an effort to soothe home buyers, Evergrande on Wednesday pledged to deliver on its housing projects, with billionaire Hui Ka Yan describing the directive as a “military order.”
Japan drops to 10th for scientific papers; China dethrones U.S.China has overtaken the United States for the first time in the number of noteworthy scientific papers it produced, while Japan has dropped to 10th place after India.
The kids are not alrightPresident Xi Jinping wants to reshape Chinese family time at the private sector’s expense. New rules restrict kids to three hours of video games a week to combat smartphone addiction. The financial hit looks manageable for gaming giants like Tencent. But the president wants to drag children away from screens into healthier activities, which will require harsher measures.The latest curbs are strict. Minors under 18 years old are only allowed one hour of game time on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as on public holidays. The previous rule allowed them to play an hour and a half on any day, and three hours on holidays. Investors in Hong Kong promptly knocked off some $20 billion from Tencent’s market value, roughly 4%, on the news. The sell-off extended to rivals NetEase and Bilibili.Tencent’s smash hit “Honour of Kings” is so popular that it has been singled out by state media in a recent column lambasting video-games as “spiritual opium”. Still, the $575 billion company insists that its systems for verifying identity and limiting game time are adequate. The latest curbs shouldn’t hit the bottom line too hard. In the three months to June, those under 16 accounted for just 2.6% of its domestic gaming revenue.Official distaste for video-games is aggravated by worries about the country’s myopia epidemic, a combined side-effect of constant cramming plus screen glare. An estimated 81% of high school students are short-sighted, according to government figures cited by state media in June; Xi is officially concerned, as is the military. The government has already banned for-profit tutoring and is pushing to reduce homework loads. To prevent children from simply shifting to other forms of on-screen entertainment, more online restrictions are likely. Officials are also preparing to reverse decades of systemic under-investment in physical fitness infrastructure like public sports facilities and parks.Parents will feel the change. Workaholics will find it harder to foist off children on tutors or use addictive games and apps as de-facto babysitters, but then the government is trying to reduce overtime too. Over the longer term, this could be healthy for Chinese families, but not so much for businesses.
Díganme clásico, pero modestamente sostengo que lo realmente útil en sociedad es la bondad. No la productividad, término que en economía puede estar muy bien pero que aplicado a la esencia del alma humana deviene en monstruoso. Esa productividad de la que hablo debe contemplarse bajo el prisma de la ética, de la moral, de lo que algún cursi denominaría como comportamiento solidario. En fin, ustedes ya me entienden. Pero los valores que se han apoderado de esta Europa cobarde, anémica, dispuesta a pagar lo que sea con tal de mantenerse en su falsa opulencia, apoyan y benefician que se descarten personas u opiniones simplemente porque a la cábala de turno le parecen irritantes. Es el signo de la decadencia moral e intelectual del viejo continente