PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Invierno 2025

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-01-14/al-ascensor-social-le-faltan-muchas-piezas.html

Saludos.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-01-14/vicios-y-virtudes-de-la-tupida-red-de-proteccion-de-rentas.html

Saludos.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/legal/2026-01-14/su-negocio-pasaria-la-itv-laboral-de-2026.html

Saludos.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/extras/2026-01-14/el-ibex-35-el-parque-favorito-de-los-inversores.html

https://cincodias.elpais.com/extras/2026-01-14/la-emision-de-bonos-gana-terreno-a-la-bolsa-en-la-financiacion-empresarial.html

https://cincodias.elpais.com/extras/2026-01-14/las-grandes-operaciones-reavivan-el-apetito-internacional-por-el-inmobiliario.html

Saludos.

[Saturio]

Bueno.

Yo me pregunto, dadas las condiciones actuales.
¿Qué hacen las bases americanas en Europa abiertas?.

-1. Invitación a marcharse.
-2. Cortarles la luz, el agua y accesos desde el exterior.

Evidentemente se puede argumentar que en ese caso habría represalias tremendas.  Entonces aceptemos que hemos perdido y ponemos directamente el culo para que hagan con él lo que quieran.

[grillo35]

 ( https://archive.is/W82fq

Al final, esta es la realidad, y por tanto, como ya he comentado varias veces, NO VA A CAMBIAR NADA, lo diga Asustadisimos o lo diga el Sursum corda.

Por dios, hay que ser muy naif o estar desesperado, para pensar que los rojos y los azules se van a hacer el harakiri tocando las pensiones o el pisito. 

[tomasjos]

Iran acaba de publicar un NOTAM cerrando su espacio aéreo. Al parecer todos sus sistemas antiaereos están en alerta. Está vez veremos si los nuevos sistemas antiaereos chinos se activan o no

Los cazas pesados israelís han despegado desde el norte de Israel y los iraníes al parecer también
Parece que se oyen los cazas atravesando la barrera del sonido en la frontera occidental de Iran

[puede ser]

[A senslev, en relación con su comentario https://www.transicionestructural.net/index.php?topic=2638.msg254605#msg254605: ¡Qué artículo más buenísimo, por Dios! —hay que visualizar los vídeos completos—.
María Álvarez (https://abundancia.maria-alvarez.com/):
«Soy una empresaria española nacida en los 80. Desde pequeña, siempre me gustó la tecnología. Viví los 2000 desde varios colectivos de hackers y activistas de la Red. Después de la crisis de 2008 me convertí en empresaria porque, honestamente, no soportaba el trabajo asalariado. Soy autista. La mayoría de los autistas tenemos 'intereses especiales' a los que somos capaces de dedicarle una cantidad de tiempo que igual a ti te parecería un disparate. Mi interés especial es el funcionamiento de la sociedad y, en particular, la forma en la que la sociedad se entiende a sí misma; los relatos que nos contamos. [...] Como no tengo formación académica —o quizás precisamente por eso— he dedicado la última década a explorar distintos campos de conocimiento hasta que di con las claves que explican lo que está ocurriendo. Y desde entonces lo cuento en 'Abundancia'».]

Definición de fascismo de Robert Paxton que cita María Álvarez:

“El fascismo es una forma de comportamiento político marcada por una preocupación obsesiva por la decadencia de la comunidad, la humillación o la sensación de victimismo, y por cultos compensatorios de la unidad, la energía y la pureza. En ella, un partido de masas compuesto por militantes nacionalistas comprometidos, que actúa en una colaboración tensa pero eficaz con las élites tradicionales, abandona las libertades democráticas y persigue, mediante una violencia presentada como redentora y sin restricciones éticas ni legales, objetivos de depuración interna y expansión externa.”

Me ha recordado a aquella famosa conferencia de Umberto Eco en la que hablaba de las 14  características del Ur-fascismo o fascismo eterno: https://ctxt.es/es/20190116/Politica/23898/Umberto-Eco-documento-CTXT-fascismo-nazismo-extrema-derecha.htm

[AbiertoPorDemolicion]

Bueno.

Yo me pregunto, dadas las condiciones actuales.
¿Qué hacen las bases americanas en Europa abiertas?.

-1. Invitación a marcharse.
-2. Cortarles la luz, el agua y accesos desde el exterior.

Evidentemente se puede argumentar que en ese caso habría represalias tremendas.  Entonces aceptemos que hemos perdido y ponemos directamente el culo para que hagan con él lo que quieran.

Es muy fácil echarles.

Les suben el precio del alquiler de las bases un XXX%.

Como no se van a ir, inmediatamente se les acusa de inquiokupas.

Se inicia una campaña mediática a base titulares, con programas en televisión mañaneros comandados por asusta-viejas del calado de Nacho Abad, Ferreras, los Bernardos y demás jauría mediática.

Cuando los americanos estén asustados y desamparados ante los insultos de millones de inversores y la presión del sindicato de caseros, se les da la puntilla enviándoles a las puertas de la base a un grupo de proto-delincuentes al borde de entrar a la cárcel a que les amenacen con cobertura televisiva para demostrar su El Poder.

Los americanos, abrumados ante semejante despliegue, van a salir corriendo.

[Derby]

https://fortune.com/2026/01/13/us-workers-smallest-labor-share-gdp-on-record/

U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least


U.S. workers are earning the smallest share of U.S. GDP on record.
Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle—Getty Images

As corporate earnings soar and the U.S. GDP balloons, the American workforce isn’t feeling the same boom. American workers are taking home less of the country’s overall wealth, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, and employment in the U.S. is set to continue to slow.

Labor share, or the portion of the U.S.’s economic output that workers receive through salary and wages, decreased to 53.8% in the third quarter of 2025, its lowest level since the BLS started recording this data in 1947, according to its labor productivity and costs report published last week. In the previous quarter, labor share was at 54.6%. This decade, the labor share average was 55.6%.

That’s despite corporate earnings skyrocketing, with profits for Fortune 500 companies hitting a record $1.87 trillion in 2024. The U.S. GDP grew 4.3% in the third quarter last year, exceeding economists’ predictions.

That growth has not only come at the expense of how much of the pie of wealth workers are taking home, but also how many Americans are in the workforce, economists warn.

“That decline in the share of labor has got to be either falling earnings or falling numbers of people,” Raymond Robertson, a labor economist at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, told Fortune. “The falling share of income is having to do with the shift towards capital.”

Indeed, there are growing signs that as national income balloons, the U.S. workforce is deflating. Unemployment ticked down to 4.4% in December, but still sits above the 4.1% rate from 12 months before. Moreover, employers added just 584,000 jobs in 2025 compared to 2 million added in 2024.

The stark bifurcation of corporate victories and weak labor data raises concerns among economists of jobless growth jeopardizing the U.S. workforce, as well as a K-shaped economy, where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, becoming more exaggerated.

“Data right now is very mixed,” Robertson said. “But I think it also all consistently points to this idea that things are getting worse for workers and much better for billionaires.”

Making sense of jobless growth

Robertson attributes weakening labor share averages to the rise in automation, which he noted is displacing workers, with productivity—a metric essentially measuring worker output—continuing to rise. Third-quarter GDP data showed nonfarm productivity growth soared to an annualized rate of 4.9%.

“All these things, bit by bit, are replacing people, and they’re concentrating income and their share of capital,” he said.

Goldman Sachs analysts Joseph Briggs and Sarah Dong estimated in a report this week, based on Department of Labor job numbers, that AI automation could displace 25% of all work hours. They predicted that over the course of the AI adoption period, a 15% increase in AI-driven productivity would displace 6% to 7% of jobs, and, at its peak, a 1 million increase in unemployed workers.

The displacement is substantial, the analysts said, but said the impacts of automation will be tempered by a wealth of new jobs created as a result of the technological changes.

Automation is expected to be a boon to corporate profits and GDP, expected to boost GDP by 1.5% by 2035, according to a Wharton brief published in September 2025. Early signs indicate AI is already driving productivity gains, with companies who invested $10 million or more in AI reporting significant productivity gains compared to organizations investing less in the technology, according to EY’s U.S. AI Pulse Survey.

Robertson added that growing unemployment, which he expects to see rise over the next few months, keeps wages down, allowing margins and profits to expand.

To be sure, the recent productivity surge has been an “open question,” Morgan Stanley economists wrote in a note to clients this week, not unanimously attributed to increased adoption of AI or automation. The analysts suggested this increase would be cyclical, or vestigates of pandemic-era habits of companies making more from less.

An Oxford Economists research brief published earlier this month suggested companies are disguising overhiring-related layoffs as a result of AI, but said automation-related workforce reductions have not yet happened en masse. Additionally, while unemployment has been ticking up over the past year, it is still relatively low.

An immigration crackdown backfires on U.S. labor

Mark Regets, senior fellow at National Foundation for American Policy, sees a different reason for a slowing workforce. He told Fortune President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has not done what Trump administration officials, such as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, said it would in increasing the number of U.S.-born workers. Instead, according to Regets, Trump’s immigration policies have not only decimated the foreign-born workforce, but has also created fewer opportunities for domestic-born workers to find jobs.

The most recent BLS household survey reveals a decline of 881,000 foreign-born workers since January 2025, and a decline of 1.3 million workers since a March 2025 peak, consistent with the Congressional Budget Office’s report last year indicating shrinking U.S. population growth as a result of migrants being deported or refusing to come to the U.S. out of fear of hostile polities.

“The data is raising huge red flags that we are losing immigrants of all types that we otherwise would be advancing America’s economy,” Regets said.

The rising U.S. unemployment rate, up from 3.7% in December 2024 is counterevidence to Miller’s argument that harsher immigration policy would grow the U.S. workforce, he added. In fact, fewer immigrant workers may actually make it harder for U.S.-born individuals to find work.

“A company unable to find the workers it needs for some roles could shut down operations rather than continuing,” Regets said.

He noted that skillset diversity in a workplace could boost productivity and justify employing more people. Greater immigration can also increase consumer spending and stimulate businesses, as well as encourage businesses to take advantage of ample labor market availability and seek out their labor instead of offshoring jobs.

Reversing a shrinking labor force

While friendlier immigration policies could help reverse an exodus of foreign-born workers, Robertson said addressing the workplace automation push would be key to growing the U.S. workforce.

“There are trades that are technology-assisted,” he said. “Those are going to be in higher demand, but you really still have to have a significant investment in skills.”

The young generation of workers are already prepared to adapt to a changing labor landscape. Gen Z are flocking to trade schools in hopes of a finding a job as a carpenter or welder not so easily outsourced by AI, and in 2024, enrollment in vocation-based community colleges increased 16%, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

Companies have taken it upon themselves to provide reskilling opportunities to employees. An Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey from 2024 found that 68% of hiring managers intended to reskill employees at some point during the year, up from 60% in 2021. While the U.S. Department of Labor updated guidelines to encourage states to adapt workplace development systems, Robertson argued the government hasn’t done enough in several decades to imbue the workforce with necessary skillsets for future jobs.

“Democrats and Republicans have not significantly invested in training [or] the retraining or active labor market programs that you need to match workers to jobs,” Robertson said. “That’s the obvious solution.”

Without changes, economists see the pattern of an employment slowdown continuing, but with greater concern about the ability for the U.S. economy to sustain growth.

“We need job growth to have a growing economy, and I think we need job growth to pay our debts,” Regets said. “I don’t know how you have job growth with a shrinking labor force.”