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Pues yo no puedo con Sánchez bajo ningún concepto. Para mí cualquier cosa es mejor que Sánchez, lo veo peor que las 7 plagas bíblicas. Sé que por estos lares hay mucha admiración por "El audaz", para gustos los colores. Yo ya hace mucho tiempo que, ante cada nueva audacia de nuestro flamante presidente de la Internacional Socialista, pienso que cuanto peor, mejor. A día de hoy, si la mejor alternativa de futuro es un gobierno presidido por "El resiliente", sea. Está todo tan podrido y da tanto asco todo, que yo arrasaría el país hasta hacerlo un solar, pasaría el rulo para aplanarlo y construiría desde cero. En fín, cuanto peor mejor. Sin un shock suficientemente gordo no veo posibles los cambios que, en mi opinión hacen falta.
Cita de: Centinela en Ayer a las 15:19:23Pues yo no puedo con Sánchez bajo ningún concepto. Para mí cualquier cosa es mejor que Sánchez, lo veo peor que las 7 plagas bíblicas. Sé que por estos lares hay mucha admiración por "El audaz", para gustos los colores. Yo ya hace mucho tiempo que, ante cada nueva audacia de nuestro flamante presidente de la Internacional Socialista, pienso que cuanto peor, mejor. A día de hoy, si la mejor alternativa de futuro es un gobierno presidido por "El resiliente", sea. Está todo tan podrido y da tanto asco todo, que yo arrasaría el país hasta hacerlo un solar, pasaría el rulo para aplanarlo y construiría desde cero. En fín, cuanto peor mejor. Sin un shock suficientemente gordo no veo posibles los cambios que, en mi opinión hacen falta.Más que admiración, es el pensamiento de que buena parte de lo que se oye contra él es un circo. La derecha nos tiene acostumbrados en España a culpar al PSOE, solo o acompañado, de todos los males del país. Y eso simplemente no es cierto. Felipe tuvo el papelón de pasar página de una dictadura y comerse entre otras cosas el marrón de una reconversión industrial del carajo. Las corruptelas le hicieron mella, quizá debió haberse ido antes. No es ningún secreto que tras el "casi" de 1993 Aznar sacó el hacha de guerra. Luis María Ansón lo reconoció en una entrevista, "no hemos aguantado 40 años de Franco para aguantar ahora otros 40 de Felipe".Zapatero sí fue un presidente que pienso que no estuvo a la altura. Piloto automático en la primera legislatura, y al final de la segunda mandaba Rubalcaba. Fue bochornoso que la vieja guardia del PSOE tuviese que intervenir. Un pánfilo como Rajoy lo tuvo fácil para tumbarle con aquella crisis tan horrorosa.Pero ahora resulta que no es fácil hacerle lo mismo a Sánchez, ahora que la economía no está en crisis. ¿Sánchez no es perfecto? Sin duda. ¿Hay corruptelas? Que los jueces lo determinen, y si sale mierda seré el primero en pedir que haya consecuencias igual que con la Gürtel en el PP.Yo, que no me caso con nadie, y que hago como Bárbol, no estoy del lado de ninguno porque ninguno está de mi lado (a ver qué partido habla claramente de pinchar la burbuja del ladrillo y el expolio de rentas, sin ir más lejos), tengo muy claro que buena parte del ruido que hay contra Sánchez es eso mismo, ruido. Quítate tú que me voy a poner yo. No veo a la derecha con un programa que pueda no ya atraer votos, ni siquiera es capaz de proponer cosas concretas. Aznar tenía un programa y una visión, sin entrar a valorarla. Hasta el pánfilo de Rajoy tenía algo. ¿Pero y los de ahora?La idea de que mejor un tipo cabrón que es capaz de vender a su madre si hace falta, pero que tiene el país más o menos gobernado, antes que un pánfilo que no se sabe qué programa tiene, acompañado de un broncas que no propone más que arrasar, y toros, puede calar bastante en el electorado, y eso es lo que pasó justamente en 2023.
Yo tampoco me caso con nadie, y al final soy un tipo práctico. Básicamente lo resumo de la siguiente forma:Que ventajas competitivas tiene España?Localización, turismo, energía, multiculturalismo (Si, puedes estar en contra de todo "musulmania" como decía aquel, pero no es factible ir contra todo musulman, cuando tenemos África a tiro de Piedra.PSOE: Ladrillo (No hace nada), turismo (parece que quieren limitarlo tímidamente), energía (a tope con las renovables), multiculturalismo (demasiado a favor para mi gusto)PP: Turismo bien a tope, nunca es suficiente. Energías renovables caca, Inmigrantes malosVOX: Turismo bien a tope, nunca es suficiente. Energías renovables no caca... son el demopnio y hay que prohibirlas, Inmigrantes desterrados de aquíCon estos tips (se que estoy haciendo una reducción al absurdo, pero sinceramente no creo que el programa político de PP o VOX de para micho más) me quedo con Sánchez como mal menor.
Niño Becerra da un dato interesante sobre la inflación del ladrilloNiño Becerra (74 años), economista, alerta sobre la vivienda en España: "En 1920, con el premio gordo de la Lotería, podían comprarse 24 casas" https://share.google/osnHQWMkCWKtb3v2t
The world economy in an age of disorder, Martin WolfIt is dangerous to have confidence in what lies ahead© James FergusonHow stands the world economy? The answer, as my colleague Tej Parikh noted recently, is that it is confusing. That should not be surprising. Quite apart from some evident macroeconomic uncertainties — disturbing trends in fiscal deficits and debts in many important countries, to take one example — we are witnessing two huge events: the abdication of the US as global hegemon and the uncontrolled onset of what could prove to be the most important of all humanity’s technological innovations, artificial intelligence. No wonder we are confused. The remarkable thing, however, is how well the world economy has coped with the shocks and the uncertainty, at least so far.This is a leading theme of both the introductory speech of Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director, to this year’s annual meetings in Washington and the latest World Economic Outlook. The big conclusion is that the IMF sees growth slowing relatively little this year and next. Needless to say, any such conclusion is itself highly uncertain. But it is consistent with what has happened so far this year, despite the turmoil.Why has the world economy been relatively robust? Georgieva (and the WEO) offer four explanations: less severe tariff outcomes than feared; private sector adaptability; supportive financial conditions; and improved policy fundamentals. (See charts.)First, it is indeed true that tariffs have ended up somewhat less high than initially indicated on Donald Trump’s “liberation day”, April 2 2025. In the end, argues Georgieva, “the US trade-weighted tariff rate has fallen from 23 per cent in April to 17.5 per cent now”. Moreover, there has been surprisingly little retaliation. Yet these are still high tariffs.Second, the private sector has responded in a helpful way. This has been especially true in the short run. Thus, notes the WEO, “households and businesses front-loaded their consumption and investment in anticipation of higher tariffs”. Moreover, implementation delays allowed businesses to postpone price changes. In addition, exporters and importers absorbed some of the price increases. Nevertheless, pass-through is occurring. Tariffs are a damaging tax: they will in the end distort the structure and growth of world output.Third, stock markets have continued to be buoyant and financial conditions to remain supportive more broadly. Part of the reason for this, notably in the US, is the AI investment boom. Whether this is rooted in reality or is the sort of bubble that has too often accompanied such innovation is unknown.The fourth feature seems to be particularly true of emerging economies. Many have learnt from painful past experience and so have pursued more disciplined fiscal and monetary policies than they used to do. That is the theme of chapter two of the WEO. The problem is that external conditions are unlikely to get easier for many of them. China is grappling with US hostility and domestic weaknesses. Brazil and India have been hit by the criminally high US tariffs of 50 per cent. In the case of Brazil, this is largely because, remembering its military dictatorships, its courts have put its would-be dictator, Jair Bolsonaro, in prison for 27 years. Why should Trump detest this so much?At a time such as this, when the world system is being overturned, it is dangerous to have confidence in what lies ahead. As the IMF notes, there are plenty of fragilities, notably those fiscal deficits and debts. It notes, for example, that the US general government fiscal-balance-to-GDP ratio is expected to deteriorate by 0.5 percentage points in 2026, largely owing to “the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and despite an offset of about 0.7 percentage point of GDP from projected tariff revenues”. This also makes big reductions in global current account imbalances rather unlikely, though the IMF forecasts modest reductions.That, in turn, would presage further skirmishes in the global trade war, especially between the US and China. Quite apart from Trump’s tendency to view any bilateral trade surplus as proof that its partner is ripping the US off, China is also viewed as an all-round strategic competitor. The US is particularly upset that China uses its trade muscle in these fights. Scott Bessent, US Treasury secretary, has accused China of trying to hurt the world’s economy after Beijing imposed sweeping export controls on rare earths and critical minerals. So, how does Bessent imagine US victims feel about the trade war being waged upon them?The meetings of the IMF and the World Bank are an opportunity not only to consider the overall state of the global economy and the salient risks of further disruption, but particularly to focus on the condition of the poorest countries and people. The WEO notes that “the world’s poorest economies, including those suffering from prolonged conflict, are particularly at risk of seeing their growth momentum decelerate”. One of the reasons for this is cuts in grants and concessional lending. The abrupt closure of USAID is likely to be particularly significant for health. A sobering study published in The Lancet concludes that the dismantling of the agency “could result in more than 14mn additional deaths by 2030”.The IMF and World Bank were created in 1944 to establish the principle of global economic co-operation. The need for this has most certainly not ended. It is encouraging that the US remains a member. The challenges ahead are huge, not least the need to maintain economic progress at a time of such geopolitical upheaval. No country, however powerful, will be immune if the global economic system blows up, instead.
Dimon, Solomon and Fraser warn on markets reaching bubble territoryThe leaders of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citi warned investors that investor exuberance risked driving a recent-run up in financial markets into bubble territory.Goldman chief executive David Solomon said: “There is no question that there’s a fair amount of investor exuberance at the moment, with US equity markets consistently hitting record highs over the last several months.”“Much of this has been fuelled by a tremendous amount of investment in [artificial intelligence] infrastructure, which has driven significant capital formation. But as students of history, we know that following periods of broad-based excitement around new technologies, there will ultimately be a divergence where some ventures thrive and others falter.”JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon said: “We have a lot of assets out there which look like they’re entering bubble territory. That doesn’t mean they don’t have 20 per cent to go. It’s just one more cause of concern.”Citi CEO Jane Fraser said the global economy has “proved more resilient than many anticipated”, thanks in part to investments in AI.“That said, there are pockets of valuation frothiness in the market so I hope discipline remains,” she said.