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Transcript: Nouriel Roubini Predicts a Crisis 'Worse' Than the 1970sThe Fed won’t pivot, it will “wimp out” says Dr. Doom. (...)So it's going to be worse than the seventies. So this is not just the short term phenomenon. People say the global supply bottle necks may end after November when Xi Jinping is going to care about growth. I think there are many other forces, there is protectionism and deglobalization. Friend-shoring, reshoring of manufacturing from China to high-cost Europe and US, aging of population, restriction of migration, decoupling between US and China. Geopolitical risk and depression that's going to fragment, decouple, balkanize and deglobalize the global economy, the impact of global climate change, the impact of cyber warfare, the impact of recurrent pandemics, the backlash against income and wealth inequalities leading to policies pro-labor workers and so on. And of course de-dollarization of the dollar when eventually people are going to get out of dollar assets because of the financial sanctions and so on.Those are 11 forces that are medium term that have nothing to do with Covid and Russia/Ukraine. They're going to be reducing growth, increase cost of production and I think central banks will have to blink. Like the first example is what happened in the UK. If you're going to have an economic crash, you're going to have a financial crash. As you increase interest rates, you're going to wimp out. Guaranteed. The Fed did it in 2019, the BOE has done it now, the ECB is going to have to do it, the Fed is going to do it. It's going to happen for sure and therefore we're going to have an unhinging of inflation expectations. I don't believe central banks when they say we're going to fight inflation at any cost, even if there is a recession, even if there's a hard landing, first of all it's not going to be a short and shallow recession, it's going to be ugly and then you'll have financial stresses and a financial and a debt crisis.At that point they're going to wimp out. And wimp out actually worse than the seventies. Because in the seventies we had two stagflationary shocks and with inflation recession, but debt ratios were a 100% of GDP for private and public sector advanced economies. After the GFC where had the debt crisis, mortgage, housing, bank debt, but we had deflation because it was a negative aggregate demand shock and a credit crunch. So we could ease monetary fiscal policies like we wanted. Today we have levels of debt to GDP of 350% of GDP globally, 420% in advanced economies, private and public. And we have this massive negative supply shocks. So we are not going to have only inflation, we're not going to have only stagflation. We'll have a stagflationary debt crisis, the worst of the seventies and the worst of the post-GFC period.
The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos(...) To get out of a labor shortage, economies will need a productivity boost on par with the industrialization miracle that led the world out of relative widespread poverty 250 years ago. If fewer working people are going to finance an ever-expanding welfare state, more investment in innovation and progress is needed. This is especially true for the service sector, where a majority of the labor force works in developed countries, and where productivity has been stagnating for almost 20 years now. There is plenty of room for improvement. Business models based on low-skilled labor at minimal wages are not characteristic of a high-tech country. They are a sign of regression. Therefore, it's necessary to create incentives through raising minimum wages to automate simple work wherever possible.Change also means letting go of creaky processes, outdated business models, and obsolete industries. That means investing in cutting-edge companies: Among the world's top-10 companies when it comes to market capitalization, eight are tech companies whose success is based on products and business models that have adapted to quickly changing markets and even created markets we never knew existed. That also means making a more dynamic labor market that motivates people to find the right job. The Great Resignation has shown that we can allow workers to more dynamically switch to jobs with higher salaries that better fit their skills. And finally, that means reforming our education system. As long as one-fifth of 15-year-old students cannot read at a basic level, we won't be able to combat the challenges of population decline. The next era of work will require skills other than diligence and obedience — which is what schools primarily teach today. Creativity, resilience, and the ability to solve complex problems will be imperative skills to keep our economy running. And a new economy will not emerge without the help of immigrants from around the world. As the population declines, countries will shift from trying to keep immigrants out to fighting over the dwindling supply of in-demand workers. To continue to attract people in the future, countries will need to start shifting their immigration strategies now. For instance, a lack of language support excludes many children of immigrants from the labor market, and high real-estate prices lead to increasing segregation, especially in large cities. Countries like Canada have tried to overcome these problems by proactively welcoming refugees and supporting new residents. This rejection of unequal treatment and discrimination will pay off in the long run as the world's most important resource, human beings, becomes scarce.If history has taught us anything, it's that progress is always accompanied by change and the courage to try something new. To combat the coming population bust, the world will need nothing less than a revolution of our minds. We need innovation and new ideas: robots and artificial intelligence that do our work for us and let everyone get the chance for good education and training. Along the way, we will have to find solutions to make this continued progress climate neutral by investing in sustainable-energy production and low-emission technologies. By doing so, we will make a better world for our children.
Liz Truss Believed in Markets, but the Markets Did Not Believe in Her(...)The mini-budget that ended Mr. Kwarteng’s tenure as chancellor of the Exchequer and crashed the pound can be seen as a utopian gesture, an act of voluntarism designed to jolt the British people out of their post-pandemic torpor through its very boldness. Ms. Truss and Mr. Kwarteng seemed to have believed that by patching together all of the most radical policies of Thatcherism (while conveniently dropping the need for spending cuts), they would be incanting a kind of magic spell, an “Open sesame” for “global Britain.” This was their Reagan moment, their moment when, as their favorite metaphors put it, a primordial repressed force would be “unchained,” “unleashed” or “unshackled.”But as a leap of faith, it broke the diver’s neck.The outcome resulted in a divergence between the incentives of existing capitalism and the fairy tale of liberal utopia. Just as Brexiteers had discovered after the departure of the country from the European Union that the City of London actually didn’t want to be freed of the regulations that they were promising, the money markets were not waiting for an act of faith in Laffer Curve fundamentalism after all. This was “Reaganism without the dollar.” Without the confidence afforded to the global reserve currency, the pound went into free fall.Since the 1970s, the world of think tanks had embraced a framing of the world in terms of discrete spaces that could become what they called laboratories for new policies. The mini-budget subjected the entire economy to experimental treatment. This was put in explicit terms in a celebratory post by a Tory journalist and think tanker claiming that Ms. Truss and Mr. Kwarteng had been “incubated” by the Institute of Economic Affairs in their early years and “Britain is now their laboratory.”The framing captures the situation well. The scientists at the bench discovered that the money markets would not only punish left-wing experiments in changing the balance between states and markets, but they were also sensitive to experiments that pushed too far to the right. A cowed Ms. Truss apologized, and Mr. Kwarteng’s successor has reversed almost all of the planned cuts and limited the term for energy supports.Whether Thatcherism itself is dead is too soon to judge. Political religions have long afterlives.
De todos modos, precisamente en hostelería (sobre todo si hablamos de hoteles), tienen una opción muy simple para hacer que pagando poco merezca la pena tomar el trabajo, y es incluir el alojamiento como salario en especie (de hecho, creo que en resorts eso está muy normalizado). A lo mejor dejan de ganar algo por eso, pero al menos se garantizarían cubrir los puestos. ¿Porqué no es tan común si es tan obvio...?
https://www.businessinsider.com/great-labor-shortage-looming-population-decline-disaster-global-economy-2022-10CitarThe Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos(...) To get out of a labor shortage, economies will need a productivity boost on par with the industrialization miracle that led the world out of relative widespread poverty 250 years ago. If fewer working people are going to finance an ever-expanding welfare state, more investment in innovation and progress is needed. This is especially true for the service sector, where a majority of the labor force works in developed countries, and where productivity has been stagnating for almost 20 years now. There is plenty of room for improvement. Business models based on low-skilled labor at minimal wages are not characteristic of a high-tech country. They are a sign of regression. Therefore, it's necessary to create incentives through raising minimum wages to automate simple work wherever possible.Change also means letting go of creaky processes, outdated business models, and obsolete industries. That means investing in cutting-edge companies: Among the world's top-10 companies when it comes to market capitalization, eight are tech companies whose success is based on products and business models that have adapted to quickly changing markets and even created markets we never knew existed. That also means making a more dynamic labor market that motivates people to find the right job. The Great Resignation has shown that we can allow workers to more dynamically switch to jobs with higher salaries that better fit their skills. And finally, that means reforming our education system. As long as one-fifth of 15-year-old students cannot read at a basic level, we won't be able to combat the challenges of population decline. The next era of work will require skills other than diligence and obedience — which is what schools primarily teach today. Creativity, resilience, and the ability to solve complex problems will be imperative skills to keep our economy running. And a new economy will not emerge without the help of immigrants from around the world. As the population declines, countries will shift from trying to keep immigrants out to fighting over the dwindling supply of in-demand workers. To continue to attract people in the future, countries will need to start shifting their immigration strategies now. For instance, a lack of language support excludes many children of immigrants from the labor market, and high real-estate prices lead to increasing segregation, especially in large cities. Countries like Canada have tried to overcome these problems by proactively welcoming refugees and supporting new residents. This rejection of unequal treatment and discrimination will pay off in the long run as the world's most important resource, human beings, becomes scarce.If history has taught us anything, it's that progress is always accompanied by change and the courage to try something new. To combat the coming population bust, the world will need nothing less than a revolution of our minds. We need innovation and new ideas: robots and artificial intelligence that do our work for us and let everyone get the chance for good education and training. Along the way, we will have to find solutions to make this continued progress climate neutral by investing in sustainable-energy production and low-emission technologies. By doing so, we will make a better world for our children.
Cita de: wanderer en Octubre 20, 2022, 17:45:48 pmDe todos modos, precisamente en hostelería (sobre todo si hablamos de hoteles), tienen una opción muy simple para hacer que pagando poco merezca la pena tomar el trabajo, y es incluir el alojamiento como salario en especie (de hecho, creo que en resorts eso está muy normalizado). A lo mejor dejan de ganar algo por eso, pero al menos se garantizarían cubrir los puestos. ¿Porqué no es tan común si es tan obvio...?Hombre, entiendo que para un hotel es trivial, pero para el Restaurante Paco, difícil lo tiene. Supongo que al final acabará habiendo convenios o asociaciones si la cosa no mejora (que yo creo que acabará petando antes).
The 10 year yield is approaching the year 2008 highs in vertical fashion. Back then debt to GDP was half of what it was now and everything fell apart.Incidentally the Fed then told the public it forecasted no recession same as they do now.$TNX
Home Sales, Listings Plunge Over 20% in September—Most on Record Aside From Pandemic Start
Si los fondos de pensiones empiezan a necesitar dinero en efectivo de inmediato para cubrir sus posiciones de pérdida en sus contratos de swap, entonces tienen que vender cualquier activo líquido que tengan en sus libros para conseguir dinero en efectivo o quebrarse. Se ven obligados a vender sus tenencias de bonos del Estado, lo que en el mercado más amplio aumenta la oferta y hace bajar el precio y hace subir los rendimientos. Y esto es lo que ha sucedido, y aún sucede en Reino Unido. El hundimiento de los bonos del Tesoro británico no ha tenido nada que ver con la posición fiscal del gobierno. A medida que los inversores del mercado de bonos tratan de venderlos, los fondos de pensiones se enfrentan a nuevas peticiones de margen porque sus activos pierden valor y el ratio de financiación se deteriora. Los fondos de pensiones llaman entonces a sus gestores de LDI -algunos de los grandes bancos de inversión, como Blackrock, etc.- para que vendan sus activos, incluidas las tenencias de bonos del Estado, de modo que puedan cumplir sus obligaciones en virtud de los contratos de LDI. La secuencia se refuerza a sí misma: venta forzosa, caída de los precios, más peticiones de margen, más ventas forzosas, los tipos de interés siguen subiendo. Y así sucesivamente.
Primeras secuelas del 'mini-budget' de Truss: un agujero de 20.000 millones en una gestora tras el desplome de los bonosSchroeders ha registrado el impacto en sus fondos de pensionesEl desplome de los bonos ha dañado sus activos bajo gestiónEl día en que la primera ministra británica, Liz Truss, asume que su situación es insostenible y dimite, se conoce la primera víctima de su 'mini-budget'. Aunque ya fuera de Downing Street, su paso por el gobierno ha dejado escollos en el mercado. Es el caso de una gestora con sede en la City que se ha anotado un agujero de 20.200 millones de libras en sus activos, según una actualización contable a cierre de trimestre publicada este jueves por la firma.Schroeders ha dado a conocer su informe de actividad entre junio y septiembre, donde se refleja que su división de Solutions ha pasado de gestionar 225.700 millones de libras a reducir esa cifra hasta los 205.500 millones. Es decir, esos 20.200 millones de diferencia. El 'hueco' se produce en el negocio de la gestora que integra los fondos de pensiones, que se vieron en serio peligro tras el desplome de los bonos británicos. Las firmas como Schroeders utilizan la estrategia Liability Driven Investment (LDI, por sus siglas en inglés) en las carteras de sus pensionistas, lo que les permite cubrir los riesgos con derivados, utilizando activos de bonos como garantía. Tras el desplome de la deuda pública británica, ese esquema se vio sometido a gran presión, como ahora muestran las cifras. En el caso de la gestora británica, la caída en sus activos gestionados está actualizada a fecha 30 de septiembre y las turbulencias en los bonos empezaron solo una semana antes, cuando el ya exministro de Hacienda, Kwasi Kwuarteng, anunció las rebajas fiscales que desencadenaron tal reacción en el mercado. Eso indica que el impacto en el conjunto de los tres meses puede contemplar otras razones, pero también que el 'golpe' a los fondos de pensiones ha sido contundente en tan breve espacio de tiempo. A su vez, eso explica la posterior intervención del Banco de Inglaterra (BoE).El banco central tenía que poner un cortafuegos a las ventas masivas de bonos, ya que, a medida que caían los precios de los títulos, se sucedían los margin call (llamadas de margen) para renovar garantías. Y, para poder cumplir con las mismas, fue necesario vender otros activos, lo que ponía en riesgo un efecto en cadena. Ahora, con el informe de actividad de la firma se han podido cuantificar en libras las consecuencias de la estrategia de Truss y Kuarteng. Si se miran los activos totales bajo gestión de Schroeders, se observa que la caída procede, principalmente, de Solutions. En el segmento institucional, la cantidad en libras gestionadas se mantiene en los 143.800 millones; en fondos de inversión pasa de los 102.600 millones a los 97.600 millones (una diferencia de 5.000 millones) y en el negocio de alternativos mejora de los 69.400 a los 71.700 millones. Por eso, el grueso del impacto está en la división de soluciones. Otras de las compañías que basan sus fondos de pensiones en la estrategia LDI son Blackrock, con exposición a Reino Unido o Insight Investment, entre otras. A medida que transcurra el tiempo, no solo se conocerá el impacto para Schroeders, sino que a esos más de 20.000 millones de libras en activo, se sumarán los de otras gestoras.
On 20 October 2022, amid a continuing economic and political crisis, Truss announced her intention to resign as prime minister after 44 days in office, which when effective will make her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
Government borrowing rises in SeptemberGovernment borrowing rose in September from a year earlier.Borrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - was £20bn last month, up £2.2bn from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said.The figure is the second highest September borrowing since monthly records began in 1993.It comes as the UK borrows billions of pounds to limit energy bill rises for households and businesses.However, borrowing last month was lower than in September 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when the government was borrowing to fund schemes such as furlough.