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En comparación con los más de 25 días que toma la línea ferroviaria entre China y Europa, los más de 40 días que lleva el envío a través del Canal de Suez y los más de 50 días de navegación alrededor del Cabo de Buena Esperanza en África, el atajo ártico ofrece una alternativa para las empresas de comercio electrónico transfronterizo que priorizan la velocidad. La llegada de este barco viene a demostrar sus ventajas al coincidir con la temporada navideña europea. Millones de bienes de consumo que adquieren para la Navidad llevan semanas navegando por el mundo.
¿Pero de qué conflicto con Marruecos están hablando?- El enemigo mortal de Marruecos es Argelia. - El caballo de batalla geopolítico de Marruecos es el reconocimiento internacional y asegurar su posición en el Sahara Occidental, algo que Argelia va a intentar impedir a toda costa.- La frontera terrestre entre Marruecos y Argelia lleva cerrada desde 1994. Debe ser de las pocas fronteras terrestres entre países totalmente cerradas que quedan en la actualidad. Una muestra del conflicto que hay entre ellos.- Si Marruecos está comprando F35 no son para lanzarlos contra España; son más bien para su conflicto permanente con Argelia.- Por su parte, Argelia está comprando material militar a Rusia. - Si Marruecos está alineado con Occidente, Argelia lo está con Rusia/BRICS.- Marruecos está a partir un piñón con la UE. Es su principal proveedor/comprador y incluso recibe inversiones y fondos de la UE. Dicho esto: ¿Qué interés puede tener Marruecos en lanzarse contra España/UE en una operación militar absurda por recuperar ATACAR no dos ciudades que están muy bien como están, tanto para Marruecos como para España/UE, y debilitar su posición internacional frente a su mortal enemigo, que además está respaldado por los Rusia/BRICS? Lo de Canarias ya es lo más tonto que se puede decir. Siempre han sido Inglaterra, y no Marruecos, la que historicamente ha intentado apoderarse de las Canarias, en 1797 y en la Operación Pilgrim. Y seguramente que todavía lo tengan en sus planes.Y ya por último, Si los anglos mueven su peón marroquí, ¿no lo harían contra Argelia y sacar a los Rusos/BRICS del Magreb-Sahel? Esto también es aplicable al peón argelino.No entiendo muy bien que cagalera le ha dado a la prensa española y a los coroneles geoestrategos youtubbers encantados de haberse conocido, de estar todo el día dando la matraca azuzando un posible conflicto militar entre Marruecos Y España/UE por Ceuta, Melilla y Canarias, cuando los marroquis y resto del mundo están a otras cosas.
El mundo se apunta a la burbuja, pero solo en Baleares y Canarias - ya saben, " hay zonas y zonas"- La burbuja inmobiliaria amenaza ya a Canarias y Baleares: "La falta de vivienda asequible es uno de los principales problemas estructurales del país" | Actualidad Económica https://share.google/S1UltLw2kiL5trfnf
[Asunto Venezuela.— Jeffrey Sachs dice que Venezuela es mucho más importante para el mundo de lo que parece porque es la prueba de «la caída de la narrativa del excepcionalismo estadounidense en el mismísimo patio trasero del EE. UU.». «Los bloqueos e intervenciones generaron más pobreza, inestabilidad y resentimiento que progreso». «China ofrece créditos sin condiciones políticas». «Rusia brinda cooperación militar sin exigir reformas ideológicas».https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqscFVCW654¿Por qué la sección Noruega de los Premios Nobel le da el de la Paz a María Corina Machado?Es una adinerada hispana anarcoliberal, pro-Bitcoin y angloidentificada (es ingeniera industrial especializada en finanzas, titulada por la U. de Yale). Su primer marido, padre de sus tres hijos, es un empresario exitoso del sector financiero y gestión de inversiones, cuyo nombre aparece en la investigación internacional 'Swiss Leaks', que reveló cuentas bancarias en Suiza vinculadas a evasión fiscal —el actual es un miembro de la Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales—. Y cuyas hazañas personales son tres: haberse entrevistado con el presidente estadounidense, haber dirigido internacionalmente un feijóo («yo he ganado las elecciones») y haber apoyado las recientes operaciones militares especiales de EE. UU. (Trump) en las costas venezolanas con muertes televisadas.Es la 'Paz del Dólar'. Ni Suecia ni Noruega son del euro.¿El Nobel, así, no es un insulto a nuestra moneda nacional, aparte de una gafada 'manos limpias'?Esto último lo digo tras contemplar las declaraciones ante el juez en el caso del pretendido no desamparo de un delincuente fiscal (presuuunto):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V58vo0MR6wEl victimario, ¡pobretico!, cabreado. | El político, hurtando 'auctoritas', de canas peinado. | Y la víctima, el Estado, humillado.'Pro memoria': «Isabel Díaz Ayuso: 'Estoy harta de pagar alquiler y tengo ilusión por comprarme una casa, pero en Madrid se ha disparado la vivienda'», 25/06/2022:https://www.elmundo.es/yodona/actualidad/2022/06/24/62b35a1c21efa0e0528b4596.htmlhttps://archive.is/pJf4O«Perdí la fe a los 9 años»:https://elpais.com/ccaa/2019/05/22/madrid/1558534369_624185.htmlhttps://archive.is/ejscl¡Ánimo, 'libertarios'!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuAxxnz5eng«La fealdad que Dios me dio mucha mujer me la envidió»https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrHCGdMSR0La Joaqui, 'Se dice de mí' (Betty, La Fea).]
China’s property slump this year is looking much worse than expected, S&P saysKey Points*The analysts forecast sales of new homes will drop by 8% from last year to between 8.8 trillion yuan and 9 trillion yuan ($1.23 trillion to $1.26 trillion).*That’s a far steeper decline than the 3% drop the analysts had predicted in May.*“The government will need to continue to support the sector and demand help restore homebuyers’ confidence,” Edward Chan, director, corporate ratings, told CNBC.Pictured here is construction on a real estate project in Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province, China on October 9, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China’s real estate market is expected to fall more sharply than expected in 2025, extending an industry slump for a fifth-straight year and delaying hopes of a market turnaround, S&P Global Ratings said in a report late Thursday.The analysts project sales of new homes will drop by 8% from last year to between 8.8 trillion yuan and 9 trillion yuan ($1.23 trillion to $1.26 trillion).That’s a far steeper decline than the 3% drop the major ratings agency had predicted in May. At the time, the analysts expected the trade war and other external uncertainties would have pushed China to roll out stronger support for the real estate sector, Edward Chan, director, corporate ratings at S&P Global Ratings, told CNBC.The main reason for the weaker outlook is that “homebuyers’ sentiment is still pretty fragile,” Chan said. “So the government will need to continue to support the sector and demand [to] help restore homebuyers’ confidence.”In September 2024, Beijing called for efforts to “halt” the real estate decline in a high-profile meeting. But after some new measures last year, the political momentum to ramp up further support appeared to slow.S&P noted that China’s five-year loan prime rate — the benchmark for most mortgages — has only fallen by 10 basis points so far this year, compared with a 60-basis point reduction in 2024. This signals that Beijing isn’t easing policy as aggressively as before, despite the property slump.In August, three of China’s largest cities eased purchase restrictions to allow buyers to hold multiple properties, but the move mostly applied to units in the less desirable city outskirts, S&P noted.“If demand can be stabilized first in the higher-tier cities, particularly in the first-tier [largest] cities first, that would probably help the trajectory of the demand recovery to be more sustainable,” Chan said.Turnaround remains elusiveFor now, hopes of a bottom in China’s real estate slump look even more distant.With sales projected to be 9 trillion yuan or less this year, China’s property market will have halved in just four years, from 18.2 trillion yuan in 2021, according to S&P. The ratings agency expects sales to fall by another 6% to 7% in 2026, with primary home prices down by 1.5% to 2.5%.In past decades, homebuyers in China have tended to buy apartments ahead of completion. But as developers ran into financial difficulties, construction was delayed, shaking consumer confidence. This prompted Beijing last year to announce a “whitelist” to fund approved unfinished projects.As of August, completed, but unsold housing inventory had climbed to 762 million square meters, up from 753 million square meters in December 2024, S&P said.“The government has been doing quite a lot to assure people [that getting] their apartments isn’t the issue now,” Chan said. “The issue is the overall demand for the nation as a whole seems to be weaker than we expected.”Going forward, he expects the government will step in, even if incrementally, when market weakness appears.August saw both a relaxation in some home purchase restrictions and a high-profile acknowledgement by Chinese Premier Li Qiang that the real estate slump remained unresolved, indicating the need for more support.The following month, sales by China’s top 100 developers rose 0.4% year over year, S&P said, citing industry data.As developers strive to survive, the report said, “the end result may be a smaller market, but also a healthier and more resilient sector.”
Get ready for another round of regulatory shadow boxingIf the non-banks are banks, who banks the unbanked?© Getty ImagesWhen an old central banker leaves the field of battle, it’s an occasion to look back. That’s what the ECB’s Isabel Schnabel and Christine Lagarde have been doing at the retirement event for Klaas Knot. The Nederlandsche Bank president was also the chair of the global Financial Stability Board between 2018 and 2021, during which period he was responsible for, among other things, coordinating global policy with respect to NBFIs. This acronym stands for Non-Bank Financial Institutions; it’s the name picked when the FSB decided that “shadow banking” didn’t sound boring enough.NBFIs include money market funds, private credit and things like that. To oversimplify mightily, a lot of the reason for their growth over the past decade has come from the fact that some lines of business became unprofitable for the banking system as a result of post-crisis regulations. As Schnabel’s slide shows, NBFIs have now grown larger than actual banks. Before long, they will be the real system and the regulated banks will be the shadow:Moving activity into the unregulated sector may not have been as great a win as regulators might have hoped for. Not only do the risks not disappear, but they don’t even necessarily stop being risks to the banks. As Schnabel puts it:CitarIn the euro area, significant linkages between banks and non-banks exist on both the assets and the liabilities side […] Today, 14 per cent of the largest banks’ assets and 22 per cent of their liabilities reflect business with NBFIs […] The largest part of bank funding from NBFIs consists of uninsured deposits, which are particularly vulnerable to changes in market conditions. Moreover, such links are highly concentrated in a small group of systemically important banks …This implies that risks from liquidity mismatches or financial leverage in euro area investment funds may easily spill over into the banking sector […] Such spillovers can be further amplified by common exposures in the event of fire sales. Hedge funds, bond funds and pension funds in particular have significant derivative exposures, which may give rise to margin calls and forced selling at times of market volatility.Oh dear. So what to do about that? Lagarde has a solution:CitarIn short, it is vital that policymakers adapt regulation and supervision to this challenging environment. They should do so not by lowering standards for banks, but by levelling them up for non-banks that are involved in bank-like activities, or with significant links to the banking sector.There’s a logic to it, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that this is a cycle that’s never going to end. As one wag on social media put it:And a more serious question might be not so much whether the effort to bring all finance within the scope of European regulation is destined to fail, but what would happen if it succeeded? The growth in NBFI credit all represents business that there was a demand for, but which it wasn’t economic for the banking sector to carry out. If NBFI regulation is to be “levelled up”, then either the new regulatory system will have no effect (in which case, why bother with it) or it will be a constraint on growth. There is a sort of policy trilemma here, of the sort that can be sketched out on a notepad. You have to choose no more than two of the following options:
In the euro area, significant linkages between banks and non-banks exist on both the assets and the liabilities side […] Today, 14 per cent of the largest banks’ assets and 22 per cent of their liabilities reflect business with NBFIs […] The largest part of bank funding from NBFIs consists of uninsured deposits, which are particularly vulnerable to changes in market conditions. Moreover, such links are highly concentrated in a small group of systemically important banks …This implies that risks from liquidity mismatches or financial leverage in euro area investment funds may easily spill over into the banking sector […] Such spillovers can be further amplified by common exposures in the event of fire sales. Hedge funds, bond funds and pension funds in particular have significant derivative exposures, which may give rise to margin calls and forced selling at times of market volatility.
In short, it is vital that policymakers adapt regulation and supervision to this challenging environment. They should do so not by lowering standards for banks, but by levelling them up for non-banks that are involved in bank-like activities, or with significant links to the banking sector.