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Comunidades autónomas, diputaciones, organizaciones parapublicas , chiringuitos de género , ong regadas de dinero público ... miles de ayuntamientos innecesarios ... pero lo que es impagable Som las pensiones de nuestros padres o abuelos.Son/somos gilipollas .
Cita de: cujo en Ayer a las 13:04:28Comunidades autónomas, diputaciones, organizaciones parapublicas , chiringuitos de género , ong regadas de dinero público ... miles de ayuntamientos innecesarios ... pero lo que es impagable Som las pensiones de nuestros padres o abuelos.Son/somos gilipollas .Nuestros padres y abuelos son los que montaron esos chiringuitos.Es justo que lo paguen ellos. Autonomiazo + Pensionazo... O sino quien.Lo que nadie esperaba es que metieran a millones de inmigrantes no asimilables cultural y socialmente para que fueran ellos quienes lo pagaran. Ahí reconozco que nos pillaron por sorpresa.Plan sin fisuras: ahora el problema de la vivienda es DOBLE.El de nos nacionales y el de los internacionales, que necesitan 4 sueldos para mantener EL ARTEFACTO GENERACIONAL.Pues claro que lo tienen que pagar ELLOS y no los jóvenes.Solo faltaba.PD: ¿Los trabajadores vamos a pagarlo? ¿El Capital, que en palabras del maestro es quien manda? Mucho idealismo y poca realidad veo yo por aqui. Sobre todo, muchos platos sucios tras la fiesta que nadie quiere fregar. De la factura ni hablo, porque es evidente que nadie quiere pagarla.El problema es del Estado y la solución (el tuit) tiene que darlo el Estado, esa sociedad política y jurídica que ya estaba aqui cuando llegamos, dando por supuesto que hay un contrato social... que ninguno hemos firmado (ergo no existe).¿Sigo?
Trump: Money from tariffs 'pouring in'United States President Donald Trump stated that "hundreds of billions of dollars" were coming into the country as a result of his numerous tariffs on other countries.During an interview on Fox News, Trump stated that his administration has made trade deals "with various countries," adding that tariffs were bringing in a "tremendous amount of money to" the US.Additionally, the president said that "some of the countries are very upset now because they've been taking advantage of us for 30, 40 years and I had it stopped."
Andrew Kassoy, 55, Dies; Saw Capitalism as a Force for Social GoodHe was a founder of B Lab, a nonprofit network whose lofty mission is “transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities and the planet.”Andrew Kassoy in 2019. “I think one of the things that makes capitalism not work as a system,” he said, was that “it was built on the idea of carelessness.” Credit...Calla Kessler/The New York TimesAndrew Kassoy, who left a career in private equity to help start an international movement to reconsider capitalism as a force for social good and not merely for profit, died on June 22 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 55.His death came after two and a half years of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer, said his wife, Margot Brandenburg, a senior program officer at the Ford Foundation.Shortly before he died, Mr. Kassoy said in a videotaped conversation with Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan, two business partners and longtime friends from their fraternity days at Stanford University: “I think one of the things that makes capitalism not work as a system is, it was built on the idea of carelessness. Like, literally, the entire purpose of it was that people should build wealth for themselves and that other people didn’t matter, you couldn’t care about them.”His contradictory philosophy, Mr. Kassoy continued, was that “you’re here to care, to care for your workers, your community, the planet, the other people that you do business with in your supply chain.”Mr. Kassoy and two colleagues left the corporate world to found the nonprofit network B Lab in 2006. Credit...B LabIn 2006, Mr. Kassoy, Mr. Coen Gilbert and Mr. Houlahan left the corporate world and jointly founded B Lab, a nonprofit network whose lofty mission is “transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities and the planet.”To accomplish its goal, B Lab certifies companies, known as B Corps, that meet verified standards of social and environmental performance. These include pay and working conditions for employees; ethical marketing and data privacy for customers; hiring practices and charitable causes in neighborhoods where businesses are situated; the sourcing of raw materials; and the impact of energy use on the air and water in those communities.B Lab certifies companies, known as B Corps, that meet verified standards of social and environmental performance. Among the certified B Corps companies that employ more than one million people are Patagonia and Ben & Jerry’s.Credit...Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press; Andrew Kelly/ReutersAmong the 9,979 certified B Corps companies that employ more than one million people in 103 countries, according to B Lab, are Patagonia, the outdoor apparel maker; Danone Yogurt; and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.Advocacy by Mr. Kassoy and others also led to the creation over the last 15 years of so-called public benefit corporations — required to consider the public good in their business decisions, not just the interests of shareholders as in a standard corporation — through legislation in 42 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Those states include Delaware, where most public companies are incorporated.While business language can rife with jargon, Mr. Kassoy spoke plainly about wanting to “put purpose and profit on a level playing field.”In a 2020 Q&A with the Shared Future Fund, which finances projects that address climate change, Mr. Kassoy noted that it was the 50th anniversary of an influential article by the economist Milton Friedman, published in The New York Times on Sept. 13, 1970, with the headline “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.”That view had been baked into corporate law in Delaware and the teachings of Harvard Business School, Mr. Kassoy said, but it failed to make companies as sustainable as possible. “I think the opportunity is to reverse all that,” he said.Many young people, he said, “don’t believe in capitalism. They feel like they don’t have the same kinds of opportunities, that companies don’t look at them as anything other than a resource to be exploited.”Countering such cynicism, he said, required reimagining capitalism.To convey his message, Mr. Kassoy didn’t always quote Mr. Friedman’s doctrine, or “The Great Gatsby” and its portrayal of the irresponsibility of elite wealth. As a father of four, he also found incisive meaning in animated feature films and was fond of an aphorism from the “Kung Fu Panda” movies: “One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.”Andrew Renard Kassoy was born on July 8, 1969, in the La Jolla area of San Diego and grew up in Boulder, Colo., where his father, David Kassoy, is an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado. His mother, Carol (Fuchs) Kassoy, a former music teacher, is a board member of the Colorado Music Festival.In a 2019 series in The Times about visionaries, Mr. Kassoy said that by the time he was in fourth or fifth grade he wanted to be an elected official or a policymaker. An early influence on the need for social justice and opportunity for all was his maternal grandfather, Reuben Fuchs, known as Ruby, who was then the principal at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn and started public-private partnerships to train vocational students.“Ruby instilled in Andrew a view that the world and its systems could always be improved,” Mr. Kassoy’s sister, Erin Falquier, a clean energy consultant, said in a text message. “Like Ruby, Andrew saw challenges as exciting opportunities rather than barriers.”While on a grant from Stanford, he worked on his senior thesis on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he was mentored by an elder named Basil Brave Heart. It is one of the poorest communities in the United States, and Ms. Brandenburg, Mr. Kassoy’s wife, said the challenges of extreme poverty that Mr. Kassoy witnessed “really drove home the stark inequalities in this country” and were “eye-opening in a way previous experiences hadn’t been.”He also served an internship with David Skaggs, then a congressman from Colorado. When Mr. Kassoy sought to return to work for him after graduating with a degree in political science in 1991, he recalled to The Times, Mr. Skaggs’s response was “Maybe, but I think not yet.”Mr. Skaggs advised him to do something in the world, like exploring the workings of the economy. Mr. Kassoy ended up working in private equity for 16 years and realized that he could create change without being a politician.But he began to re-evaluate his career path after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, he said, ultimately found Wall Street too focused on “how quickly you could leverage something up and sell it with little interest” in the underlying business “or the humans involved.”There had to be a better way, he thought, of running capitalism to “benefit society and not just a few shareholders.”He was driven in his work, in the way he cooked — his motto, his wife said, was “Go big or order pizza” — and in the way he exercised. He rode a bicycle up Mont Ventoux, a famously steep climb on the Tour de France course. Numerous times he climbed Longs Peak in Colorado, at 14,259 feet the tallest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Ms. Brandenburg said, though on occasion his ambition overcame his endurance.Mr. Kassoy was driven not just in his work but in the way he cooked. His motto, his wife said, was “Go big or order pizza.” Credit...via Kassoy familyAfter Mr. Kassoy underwent his first round of chemotherapy in 2023, she said, he and friends hiked Colorado’s Arapaho Pass to 11,906 feet before his stamina waned. He had to be helped down and was taken to an emergency room.“He never shied away from a challenge,” Ms. Brandenburg said. “Shoot for the moon, and sometimes you get there and sometimes you don’t. You flame out. He wasn’t afraid of that.”Mr. Kassoy left his daily involvement in B Lab in 2022. Over the past year, he wrote a critique of OpenAI and served as a senior adviser to a holding company, started last month, called Nine Dean, whose aim is to acquire midlevel businesses and hold them for the long term, relieving the immediate pressure to maximize profits.In addition to his wife, whom he married in 2013, and his sister, Mr. Kassoy is survived by his parents; a daughter, Etta, and a son, Xavier, from his marriage to Ms. Brandenburg; and two sons, Max and Jed, from his marriage to the writer and therapist Kamy Wicoff, which ended in divorce.“I think the problems we face as a society, they’re enormous and they can be totally overwhelming,” Mr. Kassoy said in a 2021 video. He often awoke in the middle of the night, he said, thinking, “Climate change, we’re screwed.”What is there to do? he asked in the video. Do something, he answered.“At a minimum, just by taking action, it gives you a sense of meaning in your life.”
Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay(...) The Case for Full Public OwnershipBut even these measures are just a start. While a minimum objective should be to bring Canada and the U.S. at least up to the levels of Europe’s most advanced models, where countries like Austria and the Netherlands provide 20 to 30% of housing as social or cooperative stock, even that would fall short of true equity. To address the systemic failures of financialized housing, we must think bigger.All large-scale rental housing should eventually be publicly owned and managed. Small family homes and modest private investments can coexist. But the era of corporate landlords treating entire apartment blocks as speculative assets must end. A system where large rental properties are treated as public infrastructure, like schools, libraries, or transit systems, would ensure housing stability and affordability over generations. It’s the only way to end the extractive business models that have gutted communities for decades.Homes Before Hedge FundsThe financialization of housing has enriched a small class of investors while impoverishing millions of renters. It’s not inevitable. It’s the result of decades of policy choices. It’s the result of the financialization of our whole economy. The power of big banks and the financial sector has never been greater, the concentration of ownership has never been greater, and the concentration of political power has never been greater. But it can be reversed.The question isn’t whether Canada and the U.S. can afford to build public housing. The question is, how much longer can we afford the alternative? Housing is a fundamental human right, not just another commodity.
EU pauses trade retaliation against US after Trump’s 30% tariff threatEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen calls for negotiated solution to disputeSenior EU officials said they did not expect Trump to go through with his new threat © Olivier Matthys/EPA/ShutterstockThe EU will delay its plan to hit the US with tariffs on €21bn of its annual exports to Europe on Tuesday in the hope of coming to an agreement after Donald Trump announced that he would hit the bloc with 30 per cent tariffs from August 1.European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday that the application of tariffs to €21bn of annual US exports to the EU, including chicken, motorcycles and clothes, that were due to come into effect after midnight on July 14 would be suspended until “early August”.“We have always been clear that we prefer a negotiated solution with the US. This remains the case,” she said.Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would hit the EU and Mexico, two of the US’s closest trading partners, with 30 per cent tariffs from August 1.European leaders have been split on whether the bloc should press for a quick framework trade deal similar to the UK’s or keep negotiating in the hope of achieving a better outcome.Senior EU officials told the FT that they did not expect Trump to ultimately go through with his new threat of 30 per cent tariffs, which is being widely interpreted by Brussels as a bid by the US President to increase pressure on the bloc in the remaining time left for negotiations.One EU official pointed to the likelihood of a very negative US investor reaction to such steep measures on a key trading partner.“We trust in the markets,” the official said.Lars Klingbeil speaks to MPs in the Bundestag on Friday © Katharina Kausche/dpaGerman finance minister Lars Klingbeil called for the EU to continue “serious” talks. “Nobody needs new threats or provocations right now. What we need is for the EU to continue serious and targeted negotiations with the US,” he told Süddeutsche Zeitung.However Klingbeil warned that “if a fair negotiated solution cannot be reached, then we must take decisive countermeasures to protect jobs and companies in Europe.”As well as the initial list of counter-tariffs, the European Commission, which runs trade policy, is consulting on a package of tariffs on a further €95bn of imports from the US, including aircraft, alcohol and food, which would need member states’ approval. This has already been reduced to €72bn, according to two diplomats, after governments lobbied to remove some sensitive products from the target list.The US is applying tariffs on around €380bn of annual imports from the EU.Von der Leyen said that the commission would “continue to prepare” the second list of countermeasures but she said that the bloc would not invoke its anti-coercion instrument, which would allow it to take measures against US service exports, for example by blocking companies from public procurement contracts.The instrument “is created for extraordinary situations — we are not there yet,” the commission president said, adding that “the time is for negotiations”.Her comments came as she announced a “political agreement” on a free trade deal with Indonesia after nine years of talks.The deal, expected to be finalised in September, will need to be ratified by a weighted majority of member states and by the European parliament. Officials are confident it will pass as Indonesia does not export sensitive agricultural products such as beef.Bilateral trade in goods between the EU and Indonesia was €27.3bn in 2024, with EU exports worth €9.7bn and EU imports worth €17.5bn.“I am very happy that in this era of instability and confusion we are setting a right example,” Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto said.Von der Leyen said that diversifying its trade agreements was a central part of the EU’s strategy to counter Trump’s trade war.Some business groups and politicians, however, have criticised Von der Leyen’s approach.Matteo Salvini blamed Brussels for mishandling the trade negotiations. © Riccardo Antimiani/EPA/ShutterstockItalian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party who had enthusiastically rooted for Trump’s re-election, lashed out at Brussels for mishandling the negotiations.“Trump has no reason to attack our country but once again we are paying the price for a German-led Europe,” said the League in a statement.Coldiretti, the influential Italian agribusiness association, has also criticised Brussels’s handling of the negotiations, warning that Trump’s threatened 30 per cent tariff rate would be a “deathblow” to Italy’s food exports, and cause an estimated €2.3bn in direct damages to Italian producers.“If the tariffs were to be confirmed on August 1, we cannot help but note the complete failure of von der Leyen’s policy,” said Ettore Prandini, Coldiretti president.
Adiós a los pisos de 100.000 euros: Sareb retira del mercado de venta 40.000 viviendas baratas que pasarán a Sepes para alquilerSe trata de la mayor bolsa de pisos asequibles para la venta Esta cartera será el gérmen de la nueva empresa pública de viviendaEdificios de viviendasEl traspaso de las viviendas y suelo de Sareb a Sepes para dar forma a la nueva empresa estatal de vivienda supondrá la retirada de la mayor bolsa de pisos asequibles del mercado libre, además de un impacto en la facturación del conocido como banco malo de, al menos, 5.900 millones de euros.Concretamente, la compañía va a transmitir a la nueva empresa estatal de suelo y vivienda 40.000 unidades residenciales y alrededor de 2.400 suelos con capacidad para construir unas 55.000 viviendas. Así lo anunció Isabel Rodríguez, ministra de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana, que destacó que el traspaso de estos inmuebles se realizará de forma progresiva.Del monto total, la mayor partida de facturación, unos 4.000 millones de euros de ingresos, procederían de la venta de las viviendas, que ahora pasarán a formar parte del parque público residencial y se inyectarán en el mercado del alquiler asequible.Si bien, estos pisos desaparecen de la bolsa libre de compraventa. Esto implica que de golpe han salido del mercado 40.000 unidades de venta asequible, ya que el precio medio al que se comercializaban los pisos de Sareb es de unos 100.000 euros por vivienda, lo que las convierte en las más accesibles para el comprador.Concretamente, en el primer semestre de 2024, siendo estos los últimos datos disponibles, Sareb logró cerrar la venta de 4.353 unidades, lo que supuso unos ingresos de 443 millones, por lo que el precio medio de este segmento de viviendas se situó en torno a 102.000 euros. Adicionalmente, la compañía ha vendido 877 viviendas a través de ventas de colaterales, lo que supone un precio medio de 71.500 euros.Estas viviendas transaccionadas se encuentran además en mercados con alto nivel de actividad y precios en constante crecimiento, como son la Comunidad Valenciana, donde corresponden el 28,1% de las compraventas, Cataluña, con el 18,9% de las ventas, seguida de Castilla y León (9%) y Andalucía (8%).La retirada del grueso de las viviendas de Sareb para su traspaso a Sepes menguará de forma importante el volumen de ingresos futuros para la sociedad, ya que suponen la principal vía de facturación. Concretamente, en el primer semestre, las ventas residenciales representaron el 58% sobre el total de ingresos de la cartera para desinversión.Esto supone que Sareb tendrá a partir de ahora menor capacidad para repagar la deuda que está avalada por el Tesoro y que pasará a manos del Estado una vez la empresa inicie su proceso de liquidación, a partir de 2027.Devolver el pasivoDe hecho, uno de los objetivos principales de Sareb, tal y como la propia compañía lo indica en su última presentación de resultados, "consiste en generar ingresos mediante la gestión y venta de sus préstamos e inmuebles para cancelar el mayor importe posible de la deuda emitida en el momento de su constitución y avalada por el Estado".Desde su creación y hasta final de junio de 2024, Sareb ha reducido su deuda en 21.370 millones de euros, un 42,1 % del total. La compañía arrancó su actividad en 2012 con una deuda total de 50.781 millones y al cierre de junio se sitúa en 29.411 millones.El pasado año, el entonces consejero delegado de la compañía y ahora presidente, Leopoldo Puig, ya reconoció de forma pública que Sareb recogía en sus cuentas al cierre de 2023 un patrimonio negativo de 14.600 millones. "Esto da un indicio de por dónde van las cosas y por tanto, es previsible que va a haber una parte de la deuda que no se va a poder amortizar", explicó en una rueda de prensa. Con el ajuste de la facturación, ese objetivo queda todavía más lejos.Dentro de los al menos 5.900 millones que Sareb dejará de ingresar en los próximos años se encuentran los 800 millones que la compañía tenía previsto percibir por la venta de su promotora Árqura. Esta desinversión estaba llamada a convertirse en una de las operaciones más relevantes en el sector residencial y de hecho, había despertado el apetito de los grandes players inmobiliarios.Esta operación, que iba a suponer el traspaso de una cartera de suelos con capacidad para levantar unas 16.000 viviendas, se paralizó en diciembre del pasado año. La transacción, que estaba encargada a Deloitte, había despertado el interés de una veintena de grandes fondos internacionales y promotoras, entre las que se encontraban las firmas más grandes del sector como Aedas, Neinor y la propia Aelca, entre otras.Desde el lanzamiento de Árqura en junio de 2019, la promotora ha puesto en comercialización 9.550 viviendas, de las cuales 3.912 figuran como entregadas a cierre del primer semestre de 2024.
Nursing homes struggle with Trump's immigration crackdown(...) Blumberg got less than 24 hours’ notice when her employees lost their work authorization, setting off a scramble to fill shifts. She has already boosted salaries and referral bonuses but says it will be difficult to replace not just aides, but maintenance workers, dishwashers and servers.“Unfortunately, Americans are not drawn to applying and working in the positions that we have available,” she says.
Productividad a base de esclavitud laboral. El modelo anglo. Me acuerdo de cuando se hablaba aquí de Auschwitz Monowitz. Yo no quiero vivir en un mundo así. No tiene sentido, no merece la pena esa esclavitud, y es para escapar de ella y de una sociedad que te haga vivir así para no morirte de hambre. 'La conciliación está sobrevalorada': la nueva moda en las ofertas laborales de EEUU https://share.google/7cP0YlNGlpOdtC4h8
Se acaba de crear un desequilibrio en el sistema: el alter ego Don Capullo comprará cosas que enano mental no podrá pagar. Y hasta que alguien se de cuenta, se crearán deudas. Deudas que los de siempre tendremos que saldar.[...]Así que lo de siempre. Se informa a la prensa del clásico “HAY CRISIS EN EL SECTOR”, “LA ECONOMIA ENTRA EN CICLO RECESIVO”, “ETAPA DE DESCONFIANZA”, etc. Que el inversor era un banco: se bajan los salarios y se suben los intereses. Que era una telefónica: se bajan los salarios y se suben los precios de la llamada. Nos jodemos los de siempre con el chantaje de siempre: o nos apretamos el cinturón o se cierra la empresa.