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Cita de: Asdrúbal el Bello en Abril 01, 2023, 14:14:34 pmSon los signos de lo que viene. siglo Vhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagaudasSiglo XVhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Rebeliones_del_siglo_XV1789.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Miedo[...]En cualquier caso, no veo probable una situación de violencia social generalizada. No creo que ninguno de los ejemplos que ha citado Asdrubal el Bello estén en un horizonte previsible. Es cierto que siempre puede descontrolarse una situación de agitación social. En España somos especialmente miedosos, pero más tendentes a la parálisis que a la rebelión.
What are the financial ‘crash’ dangers?More US banking turmoil, wider economic fallout, the Federal Reserve losing its inflation focus and even a “financial crash” are among a panoply of dangers troubling economists gathering by Lake Como.“Very, very pessimist,” is how Valerio De Molli, host of the meeting in Italy on Friday, described sentiment among leading observers about prospects for the world after turbulence that tested monetary officials’ nerves from Washington to Frankfurt. Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Macro Associates, articulated the gloom.“We’re entering a recession and financial instability having to raise interest rates because the inflation is too high, so we get inconsistency and a trilemma: We cannot achieve price stability, maintain economic growth, have financial stability at the same time,” he told Bloomberg Television. “So eventually we’ll have an economic and financial crash.”That comment — from a man with a track record of predicting doom — was admittedly the most alarmist observation on threats persisting to the global economy and financial markets after rising interest rates, deposit flight and investor alarm provoked the demise of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital Corp.Arguably more dangerously, it led to the downfall of a globally systemic institution, Credit Suisse Group AG. While the European House-Ambrosetti meeting in Cernobbio is just a short walk away from Switzerland, where that drama recently unfolded, menaces further afield within the US banking system concerned participants most.“You always have to worry about what evil lurks around the corner,” said Ellen Zentner, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley. “With financial plumbing, you just don’t know.”For her, risks in the shadow banking system are one concern because it’s “very difficult to understand the size of it.” Zentner also highlighted stress around commercial real estate that might impact US regional banks already nursing large mortgage portfolios.“You might have a sort of a random report of a large office property owner just turning in the keys,” she said. “That can start to snowball with concerns about what other losing properties are out there that the banks might have to absorb onto their balance sheets.”Meanwhile lingering doubts surrounding deposits in such institutions are what trouble Gene Frieda, global strategist at Pimco. He said even an “implicit guarantee” that policymakers have effectively offered isn’t enough to stop stress.“It doesn’t seem like the US has fully gotten a handle on the uncertainty around bank deposits and bank depositors, uninsured deposits, and as a result I think everyone is on heightened alert,” he said. “We think the risks are sufficiently high that you do want to play it quite safe.”One vulnerability revealed by the UK bond market crisis of 2022 and by the SVB failure was how bonds no longer serve a traditional role as a safe asset, he said, warning that more such instances may follow.By contrast, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz and a Bloomberg Opinion contributor, offered more sanguine views on the banking episode. But he has other concerns instead.“Banking is based on trust and if trust goes out the window, bad things happen,” El-Erian said, adding that “economic contagion” is what will now follow. “I actually worry less about a banking crisis, as much as I worry about the consequences of what we’ve already seen,” he added.The problem for many participants is that turmoil presents new problems when existing ones remain unresolved, as Roubini explained. Despite the backdrop, the Fed and its global peers can’t afford to forget their inflation mandates, Pimco’s Frieda said.“I don’t envy them the task,” he told Bloomberg Television. “We’ve got a two-front war between inflation and financial instability, and the Fed needs to keep its eye on the inflation prize.”
Are Big Profits Keeping Prices High? Some Central Bankers Are Concerned.Companies’ rising profit margins could be contributing to persistent inflation, a European Central Bank policymaker says.After months of fretting about whether workers’ rising pay would keep inflation uncomfortably high, central bankers in Europe have another concern: large company profits.Companies that push up their prices above and beyond what is necessary to absorb higher costs could be fueling inflation that central bankers need to combat with higher interest rates, a policymaker at the European Central Bank warned, suggesting that governments might need to intervene in some situations.Policymakers, long preoccupied with higher pay’s tendency to prompt companies to raise their prices, generating a wage-price spiral, should also be alert to the risks of a so-called profit-price spiral, said Fabio Panetta, an executive board member at the E.C.B. At a conference in Frankfurt last week, he pointed out that in the fourth quarter of last year half of domestic price pressures in the eurozone came from profits, while the other half stemmed from wages.His concerns have been echoed in recent remarks by the E.C.B.’s president, Christine Lagarde, and the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey. Although inflation in Europe has begun to ease from last year’s double-digit peaks, the rates remain far above 2 percent, the target of most central banks.“There’s a lot of discussion on wage growth,” Mr. Panetta said in an interview this week. “But we are probably paying insufficient attention to the other component of income — that is, profits.”Profit margins at public companies in the eurozone — measured by net income as a percentage of revenue — averaged 8.5 percent in the year through March, according to Refinitiv, a step down from a recent peak of 8.7 percent in mid-February. Before the pandemic, at the end of 2019, the average margin was 7.2 percent.There has been a similar phenomenon in the United States, where companies reported wide profit margins last year despite the highest inflation in four decades.Companies could be increasing prices because of higher input costs (the expenses of producing their goods or services), or because they expect future cost increases, or because they have market power that allows them to raise prices without suffering a loss of demand, Mr. Panetta said. Some producers could be exploiting supply bottlenecks or taking advantage of this period of high inflation, which makes it more challenging for customers to be sure of the cause of price increases.“Given the situation which prevails in the economy, there could be ideal conditions for firms to increase their prices and profits,” he added.“I’m not here to pass a judgment on how fair or unfair” price-setting is, Mr. Panetta insisted, but rather to explore all of the causes of inflation. He is a member of the E.C.B.’s six-person executive board that sets policy alongside the governors of the 20 central banks in the eurozone.There are sectors where “input costs are falling while retail prices are increasing and profits are also increasing,” Mr. Panetta said. “So this is enough to be worried as a central banker that there could be an increase in inflation due to increasing profits.”The average rate of inflation for the 20 countries that use the euro has been falling for five months — to 6.9 percent over the year through March — but core inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, a measure used by policymakers to assess how deeply inflation is embedding in the economy, has continued to rise.Central bankers tend to focus on the risk that jumps in pay will lead to persistently high inflation, especially in Europe where wages tend to change more slowly than in the United States. The E.C.B. is even developing new tools to measure changes in wages more quickly.But this intense focus on wages has provoked some criticism. Mr. Bailey of the Bank of England was called out last year for suggesting workers should show restraint in asking for higher wages.As inflation persists, attention has turned to corporate profits. There is uncertainty about what will happen as prices for energy and other commodities keep falling: Will companies restrain themselves from raising prices further?Last week, Ms. Lagarde raised the issue of profits, saying there needed to be fair burden sharing between companies and workers to absorb the hit to the economy and income from higher energy prices.In Britain, Mr. Bailey told companies to bear in mind when setting prices that inflation was expected to fall. Across the Atlantic, last year Lael Brainard, who was then the vice-chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, suggested that amid high profit margins in some industries, a reduction in markups could bring down inflation.In Europe, companies were able to protect their profit margins last year from high inflation more than expected, Marcus Morris-Eyton, a European equities analyst at Allianz Global Investor, said.“Corporates had more pricing power, at an average level, than most investors expected,” he said.This year, he expects there will be more variety in profit margins. “The average European company will face far greater margin pressure this year than they did last year,” Mr. Morris-Eyton said. That’s because of higher wage costs but “partly because as input costs have fallen, there is greater pressure from your customers to lower prices.”Last year, record-breaking profits by energy producers angered consumers who faced high energy bills, while governments spent billions to protect households from some of those costs. But as energy prices have fallen, consumers are still experiencing rising food prices. In the eurozone, the annual rate of food inflation rose to 15.4 percent in March.“To a certain extent there’s been also an opportunistic move by some big manufacturers to actually increase their prices, sometimes above their own cost increases,” said Christel Delberghe, the director general of EuroCommerce, a Brussels-based organization representing wholesale and retail companies. “It’s kind of a free-riding on a high price environment.”It’s a factor squeezing retail profits, alongside the rising costs of products they buy and resell and higher cost of operations.There is a notable disparity in profit margins between food producers and retailers, a traditionally low-margin business. Unilever and Nestlé each reported profit margins in the high teens for 2022, while the French supermarket company Carrefour reported a margin of about 3 percent. Unilever raised prices for its products more than 11 percent last year and Nestlé more than 8 percent, but in both cases the companies said they had not passed on all the effects of higher costs to consumers.Ms. Delberghe said she feared the blame for higher prices was unfairly going to land on retailers. “We’re extremely worried because indeed there is this perception that prices are going up and that it’s very unfair,” she said. Retail businesses are getting a lot of pushback, including from governments trying to take action to stop price increases in stores.Mr. Panetta said governments should step in where necessary, in part because their fiscal support programs have helped keep profits high. “If there is a sector in particular where market power is abused or there is insufficient competition, then there should be competition policies that should intervene,” he said.But it was also a message to companies.“It should be clear to producers that strategies based on high prices that increase profits and inflation may turn out to be costly for them,” he said.The cost? Higher interest rates.
Home Prices Are Falling Everywhere, But Not as Fast as They RoseThe year-over-year CPI has finally peaked this cycle as have home prices. But both are falling slowly. Inflation has been sticky.
Defaults on Commercial Real Estate Loans Surge to 14-Year HighJump in distressed debt could prove ominous for landlords and banks that loaned to them.Distressed U.S. commercial real estate debt rose to a 14-year high of 5.2% in February, dogged by rising interest rates and persistent shift to working from home, a potentially ominous sign for landlords and the banks that loaned to them.“We anticipate a lot of loans to reach their maturity date and be unable to fully pay off or refinance," Trepp's Riley Cox said in an e-mail. "In order for special servicing rates to go down, lending conditions would have to soften a lot, and interest rates will have to go down for this to be possible.”As commercial real estate struggles to recover from the pandemic, rising defaults threaten to ripple through the broader economy, as the banking industry confronts loans they made to landlords that are now worth far less than at the time of the transaction. That could force lenders to sell properties at fire-sale prices, even as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates, raising the cost of refinancing for real estate borrowers.Office properties accounted for about 44% of all defaulted commercial mortgage-backed security debt transferred in February to special servicers to work out payments, according to CMBS data firm Trepp. Debt backed by retail properties comprised 32%, and multifamily 19%.Total distressed CMBS debt jumped to $1.84 billion from January’s $686 million. By the end of February, corporate defaults were at their highest since 2009, and seven of 23 defaults were retailers,hurt by the growing number of people who prefer to work and shop from home instead of hoofing it through central business districts.(...)
Cronología de Kobeissi:Eventos que desafían al dólar estadounidense este mes:1. Arabia Saudita y China construirán una refinería por 83.700 millones de yuanes chinos ($12.200 millones)2. China y Francia completan el primer comercio de GNL utilizando el yuan chino3. Rusia considera usar el yuan chino como moneda de reserva4. China y Brasil acuerdan utilizar el yuan chino para liquidar el comercio en lugar de dólares estadounidenses5. Arabia Saudita considera aceptar yuanes chinos para la venta de petróleo6. Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica (BRICS) anunciaron el desarrollo de una nueva moneda7. El presidente de Kenia les dice a los ciudadanos que se deshagan de los dólares estadounidenses.8. India dice que negociará en rupias indias con ciertos países en lugar de dólares estadounidenses9. El yuan chino supera al euro y se convierte en la segunda divisa más importante de Brasil en reservas de divisas10. Los datos del FMI muestran que Rusia ahora tiene ~33% de todos los reversos en yuanes chinos11. China y Rusia acordaron utilizar el yuan chino como moneda de liquidación12. Los datos muestran que las empresas rusas emitieron bonos en yuanes por un valor equivalente a más de $7 mil millones el año pasadoMientras tanto, la crisis bancaria regional ha enviado miles de millones de dólares estadounidenses a criptomonedas y oro.Desde el 10 de marzo, Bitcoin ha subido un 45% y el oro está listo para romper los $2000/oz.Se han retirado más de $ 225 mil millones de los bancos estadounidenses en solo 2 semanas.¿Es este un ataque coordinado contra el dólar estadounidense?La inflación y la inestabilidad sistémica hacen que la gente busque alternativas.Todavía estamos lidiando con los efectos de las tasas del 0% y más de $ 4 billones en estímulo.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/home-prices-are-falling-everywhere-but-not-as-fast-as-they-roseCitarHome Prices Are Falling Everywhere, But Not as Fast as They RoseThe year-over-year CPI has finally peaked this cycle as have home prices. But both are falling slowly. Inflation has been sticky.
Cita de: Asdrúbal el Bello en Abril 01, 2023, 14:14:34 pmSon los signos de lo que viene. siglo Vhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagaudasSiglo XVhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Rebeliones_del_siglo_XV1789.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_MiedoLo que hay ahora es una violencia de baja intensidad, permite aliviar el malestar interno e incluso proporcionar cierto bienestar o incluso satisfacción. Esto último depende de la capacidad de bloquear la empatía de cada cual y el correspondiente nivel de psicopatía del sujeto. El modelo socioeconómico actual es claramente autodestructivo para las personas. La baja natalidad, las relaciones personales "fluidas", la cosificación de los trabajadores, etc, son consecuencia y ejemplos clarísimos de esa autodestrucción. Somos seres sociales: nuestra seguridad se encuentra en los vínculos con los demás. Asustadísimos suele decir que lo mejor de esta vida es gratis. Sí, pero requiere esfuerzo. Y cuando la persona se siente en una situación de "sálvese quien pueda" (emocional, física, mental, económica etc, o una combinación de las anteriores) concentra sus esfuerzos su supervivencia y deja de lado el resto. En cualquier caso, no veo probable una situación de violencia social generalizada. No creo que ninguno de los ejemplos que ha citado Asdrubal el Bello estén en un horizonte previsible. Es cierto que siempre puede descontrolarse una situación de agitación social. En España somos especialmente miedosos, pero más tendentes a la parálisis que a la rebelión.
Ladrillo, turismo y placas solares. Esta es la economía patria.Las inversiones inmobiliarias de Gámez y su marido: pisos en zonas de lujo en Málaga y Madrid por 2,3 milloneshttps://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2023/04/01/6427fbd2fc6c830e0d8b45af.html
California’s housing bubble pops as Fed shuts the pumpMedian price of single-family home in California is 18% off May 2022's highCalifornia’s latest homebuying debacle is a pumped-up storyline we’ve seen before – even if each housing bubble has its own shape and size.California housing has never been cheap and buyers must heavily rely on generous financing. And if the market looked bubbly – when values exceed economic logic – there’s usually an aggressive monetary benefactor helping to overinflate it.This tenuous relationship with mortgage money also creates volatility. When that monetary pump disappears, bubbles burst and the market takes an ugly reset.The latest example comes courtesy of the Federal Reserve, which morphed from benefactor (the creator of historically cheap mortgages) to the villain (an economy-icing hiker of interest rates) in just two years.The loss of that Fed pump chilled the pandemic era’s California homebuying binge. By November 2022, statewide home sales fell to their third-lowest level in Realtor data dating to 1990.The median price of an existing, single-family home in California in February 2023 was $735,000, 18% off May 2022’s $900,000 high. That’s the third-biggest drop on record over these 10 months.This scenario is nothing new. Go back to the early 1990s, when the demise of mortgage-making savings and loans led to a slowly bursting California housing bubble. And who can forget the mid-2000s when the implosion of high-risk subprime lenders led to a rapid and sharp housing market crash?1990s: A wonderful life?This bubble’s pop seemingly happened in slow motion. The statewide median price eventually fell 20% from its May 1991 peak.This era’s price pump was the savings and loan industry, a modern spin on the quaint financial institution that had a starring role in the holiday movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”.These mortgage specialists had essentially been bankrupted in the early by soaring interest rates of the early 1980s. S&L income from the old fixed-rate home loans they owned couldn’t cover the rapidly growing sums owed to depositors.So the government’s kick-the-can-down-the-road solution was to let S&Ls try to recoup their losses by making more bets. Many of those gambles were tied to real estate and helped fuel a 1980s housing boom in California.The S&L experiment flopped by 1989, eventually costing U.S. taxpayers more than $130 billion to insure the industry’s deposits. And California lost its housing pump.At the same time, the end of the Cold War meant the federal defense budget could be drastically cut. California’s large aerospace industry suffered as a result.That loss of middle-income generating jobs was another huge blow to the statewide economy and homebuying as well.It took almost eight years for the statewide median home price to reach a new high.2000s: Too easy to getSomebody had to be the new king of home financing.This bubble’s pump was the subprime lender, who made getting a mortgages far too easy. many of these firms were heavily financed by Wall Street brokerages that wanted to package mortgages and sell them as investments around the globe.These unorthodox loans – plus a resurgent California economy – combined for a feeding frenzy for housing. Prices surged 132% in six years. When too many of subprime borrowers failed to make house payments, however, their lenders failed, too.Foreclosures soared. Housing prices tanked. Mortgage bonds cratered. Unemployment skyrocketed. Banks teetered. A Wall Street giant, Lehman Bros., collapsed. And the Great Recession ensued.California home prices would plummet 59% from their May 2007 top. It took 11 years to recoup the losses.2022: Too much good stuffOddly, the nation’s central bank that’s also a bank regulator was the pump for this bubble.As the pandemic throttled the nation’s economy in early 2020, the Fed did what it often does in dicey times: helped to prop up the business climate with lowered interest rates.However, the Fed gave housing an additional nudge by doubling its ownership of mortgage bonds to $2.8 trillion – as it clearly feared another housing crash.These actions pushed mortgage rates to a historic low of 2.6% by early 2021 – and the Fed kept rates below 3% for roughly a year. That stimulus, plus federal aid for the broad economy, was too much good stuff. Home prices, for example, jumped 53% in two years.Meanwhile, all this stimulus ballooned to inflation rates to highs not seen in four decades. You know, back in the early 1980s when the S&Ls sunk.This bubble’s pop came in early 2022 when the Fed’s pump ended. The central bank sharply reversed its interest rate policies hoping to chill an overheated economy. Mortgage rates swiftly doubled, icing homebuying.Oh, and a collection of banks collapsed – notably California’s Silicon Valley Bank – as their wrong-way bets on interest rates blew up.Bottom lineBubbles are partly human nature, partly economic cycle.California’s housing market is prone to bubble conditions because of its dependence on bountiful financing required to keep its high-priced housing market in high gear.When lenders are generous or mortgage rates low, the housing market often thrives – and occasionally it gets too giddy.And when those pumps are turned off, prices dip and house hunting slows – and often swiftly. You know, the bubble pops.