Re: Tema: PPCC - Pisitófilos Creditófagos - Primavera 2023

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https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-05-01/los-sindicatos-franceses-convierten-el-1-de-mayo-en-otra-historica-protesta-contra-macron.html

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https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-05-01/meloni-desafia-a-los-sindicatos-en-pleno-dia-del-trabajador.html

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2023-05-02/el-euro-y-el-riesgo-de-volver-a-una-ficcion-con-19-velocidades.html

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2023-05-02/la-ampliacion-del-techo-de-deuda-en-eeuu-un-nuevo-cisne-negro.html

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2023-05-02/un-homenaje-al-inventor-de-la-tasa-anual-equivalente-tae.html

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/companias/2023-05-02/apple-abre-el-camino-a-las-tecnologicas-para-ofrecer-productos-bancarios.html

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https://www.pressreader.com/spain/el-economista/20230503/page/3/textview

Lógico ajuste de la banca en hipotecas

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https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12254335/05/23/espana-tiene-casi-50000-empresas-zombis-la-mitad-en-la-construccion.html

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https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/11658116/03/22/Espana-grava-las-ganancias-de-capital-6-puntos-por-encima-de-la-media-de-la-OCDE.html

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https://www.eleconomista.es/mercados-cotizaciones/noticias/12254935/05/23/los-fondos-de-renta-fija-rozan-ya-los-100000-millones-de-euros-bajo-gestion.html

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https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12253933/05/23/la-actividad-manufacturera-de-la-eurozona-cae-a-minimos-de-los-ultimos-tres-anos-.html

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https://www.pressreader.com/spain/el-economista/20230503/page/29/textview

Los nuevos planes de pensiones de China recaudaron 2.600 millones

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https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12253470/05/23/cataluna-multiplica-por-seis-los-contratos-a-dedo-desde-el-ano-2015.html

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[Derby]

No vendrán a salvarnos los extraterrestres, no  El cambio conceptual ya está en marcha. En España el nivel de contradicción interno es enorme, y con lo que en general gusta el drama...a ver cómo se va conciliando.

En cuanto a la Golden Visa, no es tan fácil de obtener (136 en España en 2022) y está el problema de traer los fondos a España... si vienen de Rusia es vía Turquía habitualmente, sí. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/rising-europe-home-prices-put-golden-visa-programs-at-risk

Europe’s ‘Golden Visa’ Programs Are Dying Out as Housing Costs Rise

Investment-for-residency plans face increased scrutiny, so buyers are rushing to get in while they can.

(...)In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Portugal and at least 10 other European countries sought to plug budget deficits with passport-for-sale programs. With no European Union-wide rules, eligibility requirements varied dramatically: The minimum investment starts at €50,000 in Latvia; in the Netherlands, it’s €1.2 million. In exchange, investors typically get to live and work in the country for three to five years and are then allowed to apply for citizenship.

The EU has long pressured governments to terminate golden visa schemes on the grounds that they’re anti-democratic and can serve as a means for dirty money to enter the region. “European values are not for sale,” Didier Reynders, the EU commissioner for justice and consumers, said last year. Now, with most European countries back on stable financial footing and facing increased domestic opposition to the idea, some popular places for applicants are becoming less welcoming. Ireland shut down its scheme on Feb. 15. And Greece says it will double its investment threshold to €500,000 in several key locations including Athens. As the Portuguese and Irish programs wind down, visa consultants say there’s been a surge of interest in Greece and Spain.

Europe-wide statistics are hard to come by, but evidence suggests a substantial majority of people taking advantage of the programs are from China. In Ireland, which granted residency in exchange for a €500,000 investment to buyers with personal wealth of at least €2 million, Chinese nationals account for more than 90% of the 1,727 applications approved in total through the end of 2022. In Portugal, they represent almost half of the 11,758 golden visas granted since 2012. In Greece, the figure is almost 60% of 12,818 visas since 2013. Before their country’s invasion of Ukraine last year, many Russians applied, and the number of Americans seeking the visas has surged in recent years.

The programs did bring money into European property markets—about €3.5 billion a year from 2016 to 2019, according to the European Parliament. And in Portugal, a 2015 revision of the law was designed to spur improvements to the housing stock by reducing the investment threshold by a third for applicants purchasing a home in need of renovation. That was a big reason why, of the five viewings that Chen scheduled in Portugal, four of the properties were more than 30 years old.

In Lisbon, these policies, combined with the lifting of rent controls and a robust campaign to draw tourists, have been transformational. Cais do Sodré, once a gritty waterfront district of narrow streets lined with brothels, now overflows with tony hotels, short-term rentals, gourmet restaurants and luxury boutiques. Along the main artery, a 133-year-old fish and farmers market has been converted into a food hall that attracts an estimated 4 million visitors a year.

But one person’s rejuvenation is another’s gentrification, and climbing home prices have fueled perceptions that wealthy golden visa holders have priced out residents. In Lisbon, the average cost of residential property has tripled since 2015, according to real estate website Idealista. In Athens, average home prices have jumped 48% in the past five years, government data show. In Dublin, they’re up 130% since 2012, the government says.

The rising prices have triggered protests where marchers air grievances about golden visa programs alongside their opposition to gentrification, Airbnb-type rentals and the lack of affordable housing. In Lisbon, hundreds took to the streets on April 1, throwing stones and bottles at police. In Athens, protests against gentrification and real estate speculation have been a fixture of the urban landscape since 2019, when a government seen as favorable to foreign investors took office.

There’s been a backlash even in countries that grant relatively few such visas. Spain, where citizenship can be acquired for €500,000 and 10 years of residency, issued only 136 golden visas in 2022. Yet it’s not unusual to hear grumbling about their effect on the housing market. “It’s easy for some gentlemen to come and request a residence permit and buy a house with a half-million euros,” Íñigo Errejón, leader of Spanish political party Más País, told news outlet Cadena SER in February. “It looks almost colonial.”

Yet market data suggest golden visas have scant influence on property values. In Ireland, just a few hundred visas are issued every year, in a market that saw 60,000 residential transactions in 2022. “The scheme had very little impact,” says Ronan Lyons, an economics professor at Trinity College Dublin. Properties bought via Portugal’s program represent roughly 0.3% of the country’s 300,000 annual real estate transactions, according to the Agency, a real estate brokerage. “That’s not enough to affect anything,” says Ayres Neto, managing partner of the company’s Portugal office.

People who work with the programs say any backlash will be temporary. Countries around the world have long seen the benefit of attracting skilled, wealthy immigrants willing to fund new businesses, says Nuri Katz, founder of citizenship-by-investment-services firm Apex Capital Partners. “This is unlikely to change,” he says. “While they may be reformed, they will not be terminated.”

By the end of her day in Grândola, Chen had narrowed the choice to two places. One was a single-story green and white house on a property dotted with orange trees; the other was an abandoned four-bedroom home with a two-acre garden that had been empty for at least a half-century. If Portugal extends a grace period to the final round of golden visa investors, she’ll likely close on one of the two. And if she misses that window, she’s optimistic about eventually getting a visa somewhere. “When the next financial crisis comes and they mess with the public finances again,” she says, “they’ll reopen the golden visa schemes and let us invest.”

[Centinela]

  No digo que me parezca bien, sólo digo que pónganse en los zapatos de Putin, miren el desarrollo de los acontecimientos de los últimos 10 años y díganme que hubieran hecho ustedes.

No los últimos 10, los últimos 20. Putin lleva en el poder desde 2000. Rusia y China son los rivales naturales de EEUU. Miren cómo ha actuado cada uno.

Cuando el rival es un "bully", será todo lo injusto que se quiera. Las únicas salidas son rendirse, dejar que te toree, o adaptarse. Japón lo hizo en la Revolución Meiji, era eso o seguir siendo un país feudal en pleno siglo XIX y arriesgarse a que Occidente les pasase por encima.

A China le pasaron los occidentales por encima en ese mismo siglo, los franceses llegaron a usar como almacén el palacio de la Ciudad Prohibida. Y luego los japoneses en el siglo XX. No la arrasaron del todo por lo grande que es, pero le hicieron un buen roto.

Con retraso, y con mucho esfuerzo, pero China tuvo claro que tenía que seguir el camino de la Revolución Meiji. Y vaya si lo han conseguido.

Putin tuvo no una década, sino dos, para hacer muchísimo más de lo que ha hecho. Empezando por atajar la corrupción galopante que tiene. Cualquier día los mercenarios Wagner le van a dejar tirado porque siguen sin darles la munición y el material necesario.

Rusia no ha gestionado las cosas bien desde Breznev. Vivió de espaldas a la realidad, y cuando se quiso dar cuenta ya era tarde. Gorbachov sólo pudo reducir daños.

Y si tan mala es la anglosfera, pues hay que trabajarse la manera de ser un contrapoder. En ese sentido la UE tiene muchísimo trabajo por delante, si es que quiere hacer algo al respecto.

China ha sido más lista, de acuerdo. Pero en parte porque EEUU le ha dejado ser más lista. Los EEUU se han tirado las dos últimas décadas en su guerra contra el terrorismo, ahí han ido principalmente sus esfuerzos y recursos en cuanto a geopolítica se refiere. En mi opinión, si esa guerra contra el terrorismo no se hubiera producido (Irak, Afganistan, Libia, Siria, ...), hace ya tiempo que hubieran puesto más atención en China, para evitar que ésta les sobrepase, como al final todo parece que acabará ocurriendo, tanto económica como militarmente.

En mi opinión, Rusia, desde la caída de la URSS, bastante bien lo ha hecho, a nivel geopolítico. Asimismo, pienso que se ha sentido obligada a entrar en Crimea, visto como actúan Londres y Moscú. Además, en Rusia no se ve lo que el gobierno ucraniano lleva haciendo desde 2014 en el Donbass como aquí en "occidente". Como decís, allí se consideran prácticamente hermanos, y sus muertes duelen.