Re:PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Invierno 2025

[asustadísimos]

LOS NAZIS DAN ASCO.—

Se saludan a la nazi aposta:
• primero, para consumo interno («fíjate qué pedazo de facha que soy, jefe, fíate de mí, porfa, dame un cargo» (algo muy de empresa privada);
• segundo para dar por el trasero a los europeos, porque el 'wasp' ('white anglo saxon protestant') se reivindica pata negra occidental; y
• en tercer lugar, porque, aunque ganan elecciones —las elecciones se ganan con emociones—, se saben en minoría en el Poder Económico y tienen que cerrar filas para asaltarlo.

Recordemos que el Poder Económico es así de complejo (esquema derivado del análisis de Gustavo Bueno sobre el Poder en general):

https://www.transicionestructural.net/index.php?topic=2540.msg185569#msg185569

Sí, son nazis; orgullosamente nazis. La derecha canónica, la que perpetúa el sistema capitalista —liberalismo clásico, bienestarismo y tradición— es vista por ellos como 'derechita cobarde' impotente contra los 'rojos-de-mierda'; rojerío que ellos creen problemático, pero que, en sus versiones socialdemócrata y eurocomunista (pos-1956, XX Congreso del PCUS), también está ahí hacer 'pendant' en la perpetuación del sistema capitalista, ayudándolo en la administración de las crisis cíclicas.

En cambio, el puño de las izquierdas funciona como cemento unificador, no como distintivo elitista, dado que estas no son una y están en guerra entre ellas:

https://www.transicionestructural.net/index.php?topic=2608.msg231036#msg231036

Los nazis desunen (encima estos de hoy son ultraindividualistas). Los del puño son frentepopulistas, como vemos en el actual Gobierno de España; frentepopulismo que funciona para atacar el sistema, sí, pero las más de las veces para estabilizarlo.

En mi modesta opinión estos impresentables que se creen superiores y no les importa desagradar van de nazis porque, en el fondo, son socialdemócratas vergonzantes y lo viven con culpa.

¿Qué hace, si no, el tecnócrata superendeudado haciendo como que es tan amiguito del 'showman'? Es obvio que está jugándose media docena de 'contratos del siglo' con el Estado, para salvar sus empresas privadas a costa del contribuyente.

Sus estiramientos de brazo, que salen del corazón, 'a la Utoya', se rematan cerrando el puño, ja, ja, ja, y diciendo 'fight, fight, fight', cual bolcheviques con una 'budiónovka' de hermosas orejeras.

Son ellos los que tienen El Ano interiorizado, como vemos con Thiel, el gurú ilustrado oscuro, o Weidel, que me recuerda a la Mandl.

Unos dan asco. Los otros, lo contrario. Pero estos nazis de comic nos sirven divinamente para la suelta & desamparo. ¡Con qué desparpajo han ninguneado a sus camaradas Zelenski y Milei , por perdedores, en esta misma histórica semana de febrero de 2025! Qué dulce tan delicioso.

[Derby]

Dimisiones "by proxy"...

https://www.ft.com/content/7d2d47dc-e05c-4ca4-9880-c8550f95288d

‘You know what? They quit!’ Resigning by proxy and the crisis of corporate Japan

Agencies that help dissatisfied employees make a clean break are putting pressure on companies and exposing a demographic problem

(...) “It’s interesting how things have evolved over the past two years or so,” says one Tokyo-based agent. “More and more companies are less surprised when they receive a call from an agent representing one of their employees. They’ve moved from demanding to speak to the employee, which we of course decline, to asking what the grievance had been. It’s become more normal.” 

The resignation agencies have emerged to some extent as a direct answer to the intricacies of Japanese tradition and social conventions — the performative modes of address, hierarchy and other issues that younger generations increasingly find intolerable.

The pitch is broadly similar: they offer to handle communications with the employer, the blowback, the return of company property and any paperwork or financial issues outstanding. Employers may often claim they have a right to a significant notice period, says the manager of one agency: the reality is that the combination of unclaimed leave, overtime and Japanese law are strongly on the side of the employee.

But it is here that the proxy agencies themselves are vulnerable to the suggestion that they are operating in a grey area. Behind the flashiness and the offer of a quick fix is a murky industry that some suspect is ripe for a crackdown.

The sector has fierce critics, including lawyers who accuse some agencies of exploiting customers and exceeding their authority. One employment lawyer described the activities of the dozens of agencies currently operating in Japan as the “predictable rule-breaking” of an industry in its infancy. 

Online chatter suggests that, rather than the effortless break they have paid for, some customers have ended up with greater headaches by engaging a proxy. And as the agencies’ numbers have swollen, so have the concerns that, in their offer to handle everything, the proxies are taking on more responsibility than they are legally entitled to.

A former public prosecutor told me that he believes at least 18 resignation agencies around Japan have acted outside their proper legal authority. The issue is also on the radar of the powerful Tokyo Bar Association. 

A crackdown on the proxies may indeed be imminent and could threaten plenty with extinction, say people close to the Ministry of Justice, who add that they are waiting to see if a critical mass of dissatisfied customers has yet emerged.

For all the potential legal challenges, both the existence of resignation agencies and the demand that keeps them in business is fascinating. Because there is more to these services than just convenience and expediency. Behind the slogans, a new normal of worker power has been developing, undermining decades of convention and forcing companies into a rethink of how to attract and retain staff in a tight labour market. 

The fundamental drivers extend far beyond Japan. Many countries are experiencing a generational shift in attitudes towards work, the desirability of face-to-face communication and the calculus of what the workplace and worker owe each other. The same generations also live in permanent, pushy proximity to the question of how much life can and should be led online. 



Even so, younger Japanese have a distinctive wall of cultural rigidities to push against. Japanese companies, say sociologists, have for many years exploited their ability to make employees feel guilty about letting the company or colleagues down. That has contributed, they add, to a range of workplace issues, including notoriously long hours and instances of karoshi, death by overwork. It is the fear of being made to feel guilty, says the founder of an agency based in western Japan, that causes so many people initially to put off resigning, and then to turn to the resignation agencies as a way through that. 

They could in theory just resign for themselves, but the forces of social awkwardness are formidable. They might be confronted by bosses begging them to stay “just until this project is done”, or by snarls that they are putting the company and colleagues in a difficult situation. Many say they simply cannot be bothered to go through the process of answering the question “why are you leaving?”, often because the truthful answer would involve a catalogue of ways in which the company was a bad employer.

Many customers — about half are in their twenties and thirties, according to the employment-focused research group Mynavi — describe an intense relief from handing over to a proxy. Maho, a proxy user now working as an estate agent in Yokohama, says: “The whole reason I wanted to leave was because my boss was constantly yelling at every small mistake. And that was when I was trying to do everything right. The idea of saying I wanted to resign was too scary. I wanted to quit within a month of joining the company but I made it to nearly nine months before using a proxy. The service cost the same as two tickets to Tokyo Disney, but it made me feel so good.” 



Several of the proxy agencies describe themselves as a new, vital piece of social and economic infrastructure. Others privately suspect that, even without a crackdown by the authorities, they are a temporary phenomenon, and that once Japan is over its resignation angst and the labour market becomes more liquid, demand will evaporate.

In October, Mynavi published the results of a survey of 1,600 HR personnel at Japanese companies, as well as 800 male and female employees aged in their twenties to fifties, which found that, in 2023, almost 17 per cent of people who changed jobs used a proxy agent to resign. 

Just over 23 per cent of companies surveyed said they had experienced staff resigning via an agency. About 40 per cent of employees said that their main reason for using a proxy service was either because they had been barred from leaving or because they feared that happening.

And in the almost three years since Japan emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic to find attitudes towards work had shifted, the proxy agencies have tried hard to present themselves as mainstream. More and more of them highlight their affiliation with unions, and many are attached to lawyers or small law firms.

By last November, Albatross was forced to admit that the proxy game had reached an unexpected zenith. Some months earlier, the company had been hired to resign on behalf of a woman who later went to work for Albatross as a resignation agent. Albatross was then contacted by another proxy service informing it that she was now quitting Albatross.



Put it all together — the reasons people quit and the reactions — and the resignation agencies are positioned in the middle of a very big process of change for Japan itself, says one proxy agent.  

“We get so many requests from people who have wrestled with resigning but cannot resolve it on their own,” says Megumi Nishiyama, who works at an Osaka-based agency and has carried out about 500 resignations in the past year. “You are supposed to be able to resign when you want, but the reality is harassment, difficulty speaking up and pressure to treat the bosses’ word as absolute. As Japanese, there is stress associated with resignation. We smooth that out, by acting as an intermediary.”

Daisuke Kanama, an economist at Kanazawa University who last year published The Quietly Quitting Youth, devotes a chapter to the phenomenon of proxy resignation services and the effect it is having on companies as they begin to sweat: their entire employee retention strategies have been based on the misapprehension that they had the formula about right because people were staying. 

The proxy resignation agents are rapidly demonstrating not only that the companies do not have the formula right, but that many are quite vulnerable to a sudden exodus of labour when a cheap, frictionless exit is on offer.

“It’s difficult, even in academic conferences, to explain the Japanese temperament to people overseas,” says Kanama. “It’s hard to generalise, but if you go back to the root of it all, what Japanese people feel is a burdensome cost of communication. The cost of simply saying you want to quit is high . . . I think Japanese people are inherently bad at communication. And if the social costs of communication are heavy, you can see that ¥20,000 or ¥30,000 as an alternative is really, really cheap. It’s good value.” 


© Cat O’Neil

The concept of hiring proxies to smooth over any number of awkward, embarrassing or burdensome social situations has been floating around Japan for some time. A few entrepreneurs have claimed to run extensive proxy services providing stand-in family members — fake husbands to appear alongside single mothers at school events, or fake parents who can impress the parents of a future spouse on a first meeting — but evidence for their actual use is slim. 

The founder of one resignation agency says that he has looked into the possibility of launching a proxy service to handle relationship break-ups: the initial call or text to say it is over, the collection of possessions from the other person’s flat and the warning against further attempts at contact. “It’s a work in progress. It’s not clear it would work,” he says.

Proxy grave visits are real and, in one case, are offered by a listed company which recognises that people attach importance to — and will pay ¥20,000 for — the idea that a living being has visited (and scrubbed and weeded) a grave, even if the surviving relatives are unable to make the journey themselves.

But in terms of their power to disrupt, the resignation services appear to be making the most difference to traditional patterns. At one level, the resignation proxies make their fortunes meeting a practical need at a perfectly pitched price: cheap enough, because of the competition between rival agencies, for almost anyone to consider it worth the money for the avoidance of an awkward conversation. Efforts by employers to dissuade would-be quitters are intensified when, in a labour market now feeling the strain of real shortages, a single resignation can hit a small or even medium-sized business hard.

Japan’s population is declining fast. In the 12 months to October 1 2023, the number of Japanese nationals fell by 837,000 — the biggest number since comparable records began in 1950. It is also ageing fast: the Baby Boomers are retiring and, from this year, almost 30 per cent of the population will be over 65. Women and older people have joined the workforce in larger numbers in recent years, but it is proving tough to offset the decline in labour-intensive industries such as hospitality, construction and transportation. 



At another level, the proxies owe their existence to something more subtle. Japan’s notoriously illiquid job market, where historically many people have expected to work for a single company for much of their lives, is starting to free up in unexpected ways as younger generations eschew the “endure everything” ethos that underpinned their parents’ employee-employer relationships, or decide that the company they chose is not offering the opportunities for growth or responsibility it originally claimed. 

The varieties of exploitation, overwork, sexual harassment and bullying that pervade many Japanese companies are less likely to be concealed in the social media age. At the same time, the generation that now feels it cannot put up with those issues is allergic to head-on confrontation.

"Japan’s notoriously illiquid job market, where historically many people have expected to work for a single company for much of their lives, is starting to free up in unexpected ways

“I know that older Japanese people look down on my generation and say we aren’t tough enough,” says Kei, a graduate who joined a large food company but resigned by proxy after months of what he claims were repeated instances of casual bullying. “But when I first joined a big company as a graduate, I realised that Japanese people have been grinning and bearing it through unacceptable situations. I knew I wanted to leave pretty quickly, even though I had worked hard for the place and I didn’t want to go through the process of being told I was ungrateful by quitting. Japan makes a lot of life convenient, and is always looking for ways to smooth things. I think proxy resignation is just another example of that.” 

Masahiro Yamada, an expert in the sociology of emotions at Chūō University, suggests that the use of proxy resignation services, and specifically the act of paying money to avoid confrontation, unwanted suasion and criticism, are a direct consequence of the way social norms have been formed. Japan is not monotheistic, he says, but has evolved a strong sense of community and collectivism. “To maintain your own self-image in that environment, you cannot give too much away and you avoid embarrassment or criticism.” 

All this has coincided, argues Kanama, with the long-term effects of low birth rates and the inexorable demographic change eroding Japan’s cohort of young people. Japanese companies, he says, are best thought of as structured on a membership system: supported by a constant flow of young people at the bottom on the understanding that they will remain members for a long time and absolve the company from the need to engage in a lot of risky, expensive mid-career hiring.

That model, says Kanama, is no longer sustainable because there are simply fewer young people to provide the flow. “The value of young people in Japan is increasing sharply, but companies are not doing anything to change the old system. Young people suddenly find themselves in a strong position and I think this is creating a huge strain,” he says.

Back at Albatross, founder Shinji Tanimoto argues that the proxy agencies are triggering a long-overdue clean-up of subpar companies and dismal workplace conditions. “In Japan today, quitting is seen as a bad thing. Now, if we use resignation agents . . . changing jobs will become a normal part of the culture,” he says. “It will take time, but if there were no resignation agents now, the bad companies would survive. To destroy really bad companies, the best way is to get everyone to quit.” 

[asustadísimos]

[El papa empeora. Está muy malito.]

[tomasjos]

Otra anarcoliberal con su discurso anti Estado

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-02-22/elecciones-alemania-vistas-renegada-de-afd_4070647/

[tomasjos]

Sobre el estado de salud del Papá.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-02-22/papa-francisco-salud-ingreso-hospital_4071005/

[asustadísimos]

[Visa, American Express y Mastercard vuelven a Rusia.]

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/114a157a-6dd8-4705-9efa-53fbe768887f

Buffett seeks to reassure shareholders over record cash pile

Billionaire investor trimmed equity portfolio and put money in Treasury bills


Warren Buffett spent much of last year trimming Berkshire Hathaway’s vast stock portfolio © REUTERS

Warren Buffett has sought to reassure Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that he would always prefer owning businesses, after his move to dump stocks and the lack of a big acquisition helped drive the group’s cash pile to a record high last year.

In his annual letter to shareholders, released on Saturday, the billionaire investor said he would “never prefer ownership of cash-equivalent assets over the ownership of good businesses”, a category that also includes the stakes Berkshire owns in US blue-chip companies.

The 94-year-old’s decision to address the cash pile, which hit $334.2bn at the end of last year, comes as record valuations have dented the appeal of US stocks and also made it harder for Buffett to unearth the major deals that have long been his trademark.

In his letter, Buffett said: “Berkshire shareholders can rest assured that we will forever deploy a substantial majority of their money in equities — mostly American equities although many of these will have international operations of significance.”

The letter was released alongside Berkshire’s fourth-quarter results, which showed its cash pile grew by $9bn in the quarter, as Buffett trimmed stakes in stocks, including multibillion-dollar sales of shares in Citigroup and Bank of America.



The group’s cash pile has almost doubled over the past year as it ploughed the proceeds of stock sales — including tens of billions of dollars' worth of shares in Apple — into Treasury bills.

Berkshire, a sprawling conglomerate with businesses ranging from US insurer Geico to railroad BNSF, disposed of $143bn of stocks in 2024, far surpassing the $9bn it invested in equities.

Berkshire’s increasing shift into US government debt has been a boon for the company since the Federal Reserve began lifting interest rates in 2022.

Last year, the company’s insurance subsidiary reported $11.6bn of interest income from its holdings of Treasury bills, comfortably exceeding the dividends it receives from its portfolio of stocks.

“We were aided by a predictable large gain in investment income as Treasury Bill yields improved and we substantially increased our holdings of these highly-liquid short-term securities,” Buffett told shareholders on Saturday.

The conglomerate reported operating earnings of $47.4bn for 2024, up 27 per cent from 2023, led by a stronger performance by its insurance business.(...)

[AbiertoPorDemolicion]

Vamos Mario, que tienes más moral que el Alcoyano (hasta me ha salido una rima)

La última de Dragui:

https://legrandcontinent.eu/es/2025/02/19/que-hay-que-hacer-en-la-era-trump-el-manifiesto-europeo-de-mario-draghi/
¿Qué hay que hacer en la era Trump? El manifiesto europeo de Mario Draghi

 19 de febrero de 2025 • Informe Draghi: un debate europeo

EL GRAN CONTINENT - Ayer, 18 de febrero, en Bruselas, ante el Parlamento Europeo, Mario Draghi volvió a hablar extensamente de su informe en el contexto de la disrupción trumpista.

Ante los actuales trastornos geopolíticos, el exbanquero central insistió en un elemento fundamental: el tiempo se nos acaba. «Cada día que tardamos, la frontera tecnológica se aleja de nosotros», advirtió, subrayando que Europa está atrasada en sectores estratégicos como la inteligencia artificial, donde «ocho de los diez modelos de lenguaje más importantes se han desarrollado en Estados Unidos y los otros dos en China». Este retraso amenaza no sólo nuestra competitividad, sino también nuestra soberanía, en un mundo en el que las dependencias tecnológicas se están convirtiendo en palancas de influencia política y económica decisivas.

Y termina diciendo:

"El informe se publicó a principios de septiembre y la última vez que me dirigí al Parlamento Europeo, presenté principalmente sus líneas generales. Hoy, cinco meses después, ¿qué hacemos? Hemos debatido, pero ¿qué hemos sacado de este debate? Que el contenido del informe es aún más urgente de lo que era hace cinco meses. Eso es todo. Espero que la próxima vez, si ustedes me invitan, podamos debatir sobre lo que se ha hecho, sobre lo que se ha hecho de manera eficaz. No niego que la situación actual es muy difícil: cada uno tenemos nuestros valores, con diferencias de opinión. Pero no es el momento de hacer hincapié en estas diferencias. Ahora es el momento de subrayar que debemos trabajar juntos, hacer hincapié en lo que nos une. Y lo que, creo, nos une son los valores fundacionales de la Unión. Y debemos esperar y trabajar por ellos. Gracias"

Perdone, pero JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!!!!! y no solo la mia. La risotada del resto de señorías del parlamento se tuvo que oir hasta en Sebastopol.

Pero...vamos a ver. ¿Es que Mario pretendía disciplinar a las Clases Medias en solo cinco meses? !juas juas juas!

Porque la pregunta que debería hacerse es: ¿Quién va a hacer todo lo dice que hay que hacer? Porque no veo a las señorías muy puestas en IA, Chips, Robots y esas cosas; es más, estoy seguro que no tienen ni p. idea y ni les importa.

Si quieres que las Clases Medias por lo menos se lean tu informe, deberías haber añadido un capítulo sobre la parte de ese incremento de productividad que va a terminar en sus bolsillos, sin dar un palo al agua, y en los artefactos del capitalismopopular. Es lo único que les importa.

"Espero que la próxima vez, si ustedes me invitan, podamos debatir sobre lo que se ha hecho, sobre lo que se ha hecho de manera eficaz"

Ya te digo yo que no te van a invitar.

Vamos Mario, déjalo; no merece la pena seguir con esto. Vete a casa, y no olvides de tomarte la pastilla con el vaso de leche, y ponte una Rebequita que está noche hará frío.

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¿Saturno, dónde andas? Hace tiempo que no apareces por aquí. No me digas que te lo vas a perder, ahora que empieza lo divertido.

[Derby]

https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3299745/new-world-development-warns-us871-million-first-half-loss-amid-weak-property-market

New World Development warns of US$871 million first half loss amid weak property market

The developer is suffering from valuation losses on its investment properties and high interest rate payments, analysts say[/b]



New World Development (NWD), controlled by one of Hong Kong’s richest families, warned it would report a loss of up to HK$6.8 billion (US$871 million) in its interim results to be announced next week, as weak property markets in Hong Kong and mainland China continue to present a tough operating environment for the developer.

The developer, which is scheduled to announce first half financial results on Friday, is expected to report a loss attributable to shareholders in the range of HK$6.6 billion to HK$6.8 billion for the six months ending December 2024, according to a stock exchange filing late Friday night.

That compares with a profit of HK$502 million in the same period a year earlier.

The result is mainly due to non-cash impairment losses ranging from HK$4.7 billion to HK$5.1 billion, owing to fair value changes in its investment and development properties during the period, NWD said in the filing.


The Pavilia Forest sales office in Kowloon Bay, November 2, 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee

Excluding the valuation losses, the developer said it may report core operating profit from continuing operations of between HK$4.35 billion to HK$4.55 billion, representing a year-on-year decrease of 15 per cent to 19 per cent.

“NWD’s warning reflects that it is struggling with a property market downturn,” said Kenny Ng Lai-yin, a strategist at Everbright Securities Intern­­ational.

[Benzino Napaloni]

Sobre el estado de salud del Papá.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-02-22/papa-francisco-salud-ingreso-hospital_4071005/

Le tengo mucho respeto a Bergoglio, espero que se recupere.

Pero si lo consigue, haría bien en darse prisa en cerrar lo más importante que tenga pendiente, y retirarse. Con su edad y sus achaques el retiro lo tendría más que merecido.

[Derby]

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/us-prepares-security-council-vote-on-competing-ukraine-war-resolution/

US prepares Security Council vote on competing Ukraine war resolution

US to ask the UN Security Council to vote on a brief resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine on Monday that omits mention of Kyiv’s territory occupied by Russia.

New York (AFP) - The United States wants the UN Security Council on Monday to vote on a brief resolution calling for a "swift end" to the war in Ukraine that omits mention of Kyiv's territory occupied by Russia.

The text appears to rival a competing draft resolution being negotiated by Kyiv and its European Union allies for a vote by the UN General Assembly to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Coming amid US President Donald Trump's efforts to sideline Kyiv and the EU from talks on the future of the devastating war, the US text "implores a swift end to the conflict and further urges a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia".

The terse resolution stands in sharp contrast to the previous texts adopted by the Assembly with the support of Trump's predecessor Democrat Joe Biden.

According to several diplomatic sources who spoke to AFP on Saturday, the United States wants to submit the text on Monday to a vote by the Security Council, which has been paralysed on the topic of the Ukraine war because of Russia's veto power.

Moscow's ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, welcomed the draft as "a good move" on Friday, but also stressed that it did not address the "roots" of the conflict.

Calling it a "simple, historic resolution," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged UN member states on Friday "to support (the US draft) in order to chart a path to peace".

In a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Sybiga on Friday, Rubio reaffirmed Trump's "commitment to ending the conflict in Ukraine, including through effective action in the United Nations Security Council", according to a statement from the US State Department.

[sudden and sharp]

Mientras tanto...


Portalgraph showcasing new 3D Hologram projector. Projecting VR into Real life
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1ivtfuw/portalgraph_showcasing_new_3d_hologram_projector/



Octopus inspired SpiRobs Robotics Arm
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1iujpj6/octopus_inspired_spirobs_robotics_arm/

Es la robot hand... lo interesante.



 

[tomasjos]

Como decía Asustadísimos, Milei va " p'alante"

https://electomania.es/argentina-milei-imputado-por-el-fiscal-federal/


La Justicia argentina ha imputado al presidente Javier Milei por su presunta participación en un fraude relacionado con la criptomoneda $LIBRA. El fiscal federal Eduardo Taiano ha formalizado cargos contra Milei, acusándolo de abuso de autoridad, tráfico de influencias, estafa y negociaciones incompatibles con la función pública.

El escándalo se originó el 14 de febrero de 2025, cuando Milei promovió $LIBRA en sus redes sociales oficiales. Tras su respaldo, el valor de la criptomoneda se disparó, pero poco después sufrió un colapso abrupto, resultando en pérdidas significativas para numerosos inversores. Se estima que más de 40.000 personas fueron afectadas, con pérdidas que superan los 4.000 millones de dólares.

Además de Milei, la investigación abarca a figuras como Hayden Mark Davis y Julian Peh, vinculados a $LIBRA; los empresarios Mauricio Gaspar Novelli y Manuel Terrones Godoy, asociados a Milei; y Sergio Daniel Morales, asesor del directorio de la Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV).
En respuesta a las acusaciones, Milei ha negado cualquier implicación en el desarrollo de $LIBRA, argumentando que su intención era apoyar proyectos argentinos y que desconocía los detalles del proyecto. No obstante, la oposición ha solicitado un juicio político en su contra, acusándolo de aprovechar su posición para inflar artificialmente el valor de la criptomoneda.

Este escándalo ha generado una crisis política en Argentina, poniendo en entredicho la credibilidad del presidente y afectando la confianza de los inversores tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. La investigación continúa, y se espera que las autoridades determinen la magnitud de la participación de Milei y de los otros implicados en el caso.

[sudden and sharp]

... y la tozuda realidad:





La banca aumenta en 24.000 millones su tenencia de letras y bonos del Estado en 2024
https://www.elespanol.com/invertia/empresas/banca/20250222/banca-aumenta-millones-tenencia-letras-bonos/925907509_0.html
La cifra implica un saldo un 14% superior al que tenía en este tipo de deuda al cierre del año anterior.

Las entidades del país habían sido durante los últimos años las mayores tenedoras de letras del Tesoro en España (sin contar a los no residentes). Algo que cambió radicalmente a principios de 2023, cuando el mayor atractivo de la rentabilidad de este producto generó un verdadero furor entre las familias, que acudieron en masa a hacerse con letras públicas.

Tras el boom, y a pesar de que ha ido perdiendo fuelle según iban bajando los tipos de interés, los particulares son los mayores tenedores de letras, con un más de un 33% del total del saldo que está actualmente en circulación. Los bancos son los segundos en España (en total, los segundos serían los no residentes).

 

[Benzino Napaloni]

Como decía Asustadísimos, Milei va " p'alante"

https://electomania.es/argentina-milei-imputado-por-el-fiscal-federal/


La Justicia argentina ha imputado al presidente Javier Milei por su presunta participación en un fraude relacionado con la criptomoneda $LIBRA. El fiscal federal Eduardo Taiano ha formalizado cargos contra Milei, acusándolo de abuso de autoridad, tráfico de influencias, estafa y negociaciones incompatibles con la función pública.

El escándalo se originó el 14 de febrero de 2025, cuando Milei promovió $LIBRA en sus redes sociales oficiales. Tras su respaldo, el valor de la criptomoneda se disparó, pero poco después sufrió un colapso abrupto, resultando en pérdidas significativas para numerosos inversores. Se estima que más de 40.000 personas fueron afectadas, con pérdidas que superan los 4.000 millones de dólares.

Además de Milei, la investigación abarca a figuras como Hayden Mark Davis y Julian Peh, vinculados a $LIBRA; los empresarios Mauricio Gaspar Novelli y Manuel Terrones Godoy, asociados a Milei; y Sergio Daniel Morales, asesor del directorio de la Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV).
En respuesta a las acusaciones, Milei ha negado cualquier implicación en el desarrollo de $LIBRA, argumentando que su intención era apoyar proyectos argentinos y que desconocía los detalles del proyecto. No obstante, la oposición ha solicitado un juicio político en su contra, acusándolo de aprovechar su posición para inflar artificialmente el valor de la criptomoneda.

Este escándalo ha generado una crisis política en Argentina, poniendo en entredicho la credibilidad del presidente y afectando la confianza de los inversores tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. La investigación continúa, y se espera que las autoridades determinen la magnitud de la participación de Milei y de los otros implicados en el caso.

Hace un tiempo en Extremadura ocurrió el caso Zetta Smartphone, popularmente conocido como el 'Bellotagate'. Los que presumían de vender el primer móvil diseñado en Extremadura y no eran más que Xiaomi con unos pocos cambios, además ilegales porque usaban un sistema operativo modificado sin licencia para usarse comercialmente.

Ahí la Junta de Extremadura sí que pecó de pardilla. Cuando borró los tweets, nadie le reprochó a la Junta haber participado en la estafa más allá de habérsela creído. Cuando el "CSI de Forocoches" se puso en marcha y destapó el escándalo, Zetta se vino abajo casi de un día para otro. Tampoco era tan difícil, sólo había que arrancar un par de pegatinas para descubrir el logo de Xiaomi tapado.


Milei quiere agarrarse a esto mismo. Pero si se demuestra que ha participado de la estafa, y huele a que al menos alguien de su equipo está en el ajo, su carrera se puede dar ya por terminada. En este sentido es muy esclarecedor ver cómo más de uno de sus "aliados" le ha dado la espalda.