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Cita de: sudden and sharp en Febrero 18, 2023, 12:50:57 pmCita de: CHOSEN en Febrero 18, 2023, 11:48:43 amVéase la desfachatez del MEI.No van a soltar la presa.Esto solo se soluciona llevándose por delante el Estado de Bienestar.Hay un peak de nuevos pensionistas ahí delante... algo habrá que hacer. Venimos diciendo que o pisitos o pensiones...Pensiones.Lo que hay que cargarse es el banano, digo yo. (Y sí, los impuestos, nuevos o no, pues cabrean un tanto.)Cualquier solución a eso que no implique actos criminales como "la inyección", o incluso peor, dejar morir a los pensionistas cuando necesiten hospital, requiere inexcusablemente pinchar el banano.Y, también, dejar de jugar ya no ya con el futuro, con el presente. El problema de la pirámide demográfica del revés no es sólo la falta de contribuyentes suficientes. Es también la falta literal de personal sanitario suficiente.Si se quiere una salida digna de un ser humano sin recurrir a métodos inhumanos, es imperativo bajarse de la burra del banano ya.
Cita de: CHOSEN en Febrero 18, 2023, 11:48:43 amVéase la desfachatez del MEI.No van a soltar la presa.Esto solo se soluciona llevándose por delante el Estado de Bienestar.Hay un peak de nuevos pensionistas ahí delante... algo habrá que hacer. Venimos diciendo que o pisitos o pensiones...Pensiones.Lo que hay que cargarse es el banano, digo yo. (Y sí, los impuestos, nuevos o no, pues cabrean un tanto.)
Véase la desfachatez del MEI.No van a soltar la presa.Esto solo se soluciona llevándose por delante el Estado de Bienestar.
Cita de: Benzino Napaloni en Febrero 18, 2023, 13:07:40 pmCita de: sudden and sharp en Febrero 18, 2023, 12:50:57 pmCita de: CHOSEN en Febrero 18, 2023, 11:48:43 amVéase la desfachatez del MEI.No van a soltar la presa.Esto solo se soluciona llevándose por delante el Estado de Bienestar.Hay un peak de nuevos pensionistas ahí delante... algo habrá que hacer. Venimos diciendo que o pisitos o pensiones...Pensiones.Lo que hay que cargarse es el banano, digo yo. (Y sí, los impuestos, nuevos o no, pues cabrean un tanto.)Cualquier solución a eso que no implique actos criminales como "la inyección", o incluso peor, dejar morir a los pensionistas cuando necesiten hospital, requiere inexcusablemente pinchar el banano.Y, también, dejar de jugar ya no ya con el futuro, con el presente. El problema de la pirámide demográfica del revés no es sólo la falta de contribuyentes suficientes. Es también la falta literal de personal sanitario suficiente.Si se quiere una salida digna de un ser humano sin recurrir a métodos inhumanos, es imperativo bajarse de la burra del banano ya.Fondos Next-Banano...La construcción denuncia un «problema de Estado» por la falta de 700.000 trabajadoresLa patronal del sector advierte de que esto tendrá impacto en el despliegue de los fondos europeoshttps://www.abc.es/economia/construccion-denuncia-problema-estado-falta-700000-trabajadores-20230217014624-nt.htmlArtículo de pago, pero para mí que viene a ser igual que éste de hace año y medio, solo que añadiendo al titular "problema de Estado"La construcción necesita 700.000 trabajadores, se paga bien pero falta mano de obra cualificadahttps://www.20minutos.es/noticia/4809397/0/construccion-necesita-700-000-trabajadores-se-paga-bien-falta-mano-obra-cualificada/
Everything Is About the Housing MarketHigh urban rents make life worse for everyone in countless ways.I have a gripe about San Francisco: The bagel stores open too late.My neighborhood, Bernal Heights, has a number of excellent purveyors. The tasty BagelMacher opens at 8:30 a.m. on the weekends, at which point my sons have been up shrieking and destroying things for three hours. Chicken Dog, which sells the best salt bagel I have had in California, opens at the downright brunch-ish hour of 9 a.m. I come from the Bagel Belt, to co-opt a term. In my mind, bagel shops open at 6 a.m. That’s standard. That’s how it works. You should be able to feel caffeinated and carb-loaded at 6:03 a.m. every day of the year, including Christmas. But not here in the Bay Area. And the housing shortage is to blame.That’s my pet theory, at least. San Francisco has built just one home for every eight jobs it has added for the past decade-plus, and rents are higher here than they are pretty much anywhere else in the United States. The city could stand to increase its housing stock fivefold, according to one analysis. What does that have to do with bagels? Few people can afford to live here—and especially few families who have to bear child-care costs along with shelter costs. Thus, San Francisco has the smallest share of kids of any major American city. Meaning a modest share of parents. Meaning not a lot of people who might be up at 5:51 a.m. on a Sunday morning, ready to hit the bagel store.The late opening hours of San Francisco’s bagel joints are not the only things you can reasonably tie back to its housing crisis. The declining share of gay residents in its historic Castro neighborhood. The blanding of the city’s bohemian culture. Even the graying of its famous brightly painted Victorians. (Apparently, the people who can actually afford to buy homes in the city prefer understated colors.)The crisis is not just happening in San Francisco. Housing costs are perverting just about every facet of American life, everywhere. What we eat, when we eat it, what music we listen to, what sports we play, how many friends we have, how often we see our extended families, where we go on vacation, how many children we bear, what kind of companies we found: All of it has gotten warped by the high cost of housing. Nowhere is immune, because big cities export their housing shortages to small cities, suburbs, and rural areas too.Recently, a trio of analysts coined an apt term for this phenomenon: the housing theory of everything. You now hear it everywhere, at least if you’re the kind of person who goes to a lot of public-policy conferences or hangs out on econ Twitter. Writing in the journal Works in Progress, John Myers, Ben Southwood, and Sam Bowman took stock of many of the most pressing problems in the Western world, among them declining fertility, endemic chronic illness, brutal inequality, the climate catastrophe, sluggish productivity, and slow growth. They tied each of them back to the cost to rent an apartment.High real-estate prices eat up young families’ budgets, prompting parents to have fewer kids than they would like. Building restrictions beget sprawl, spurring people to walk less and drive more, damaging their arteries and the planet’s climate. The inability of inventors to move to cities bursting with know-how and capital quashes a country’s long-term growth prospects; the inability of workers to move to cities with high wages dents its GDP. And driving up housing prices by restricting construction acts as a wealth transfer from renters to landowners. Indeed, housing prices might be the single biggest generator of financial disparities in many Western countries.In a roundabout way, the French socialist economist Thomas Piketty inspired the term housing theory of everything. In 2013, the publication of Piketty’s opus, Capital in the 20th Century, sparked a broad debate about the causes and effects of economic inequality. “The book was a huge deal, and there was that Bloomberg Businessweek cover where Piketty was this heartthrob and everyone was obsessed with it,” Southwood, a British policy analyst and journalist, told me. When reading some work extending Piketty’s thesis, he told me, “I was thinking, Well, wait a second, land and housing really is an important part of this.”Myers (a former hedge-fund portfolio manager and the co-founder of a U.K. YIMBY group) and Bowman (a think tanker) shared his housing obsession. Southwood and Bowman helped found Works in Progress, now supported by the fintech giant Stripe. And the three published their manifesto on the housing theory of everything a year and a half ago.Post-publication, the idea took off online and in policy circles. Although Bowman, Myers, and Southwood focused on the most vital, sweeping effects of housing shortages and high housing costs, their theory has taken on a somewhat distinct meaning among its internet devotees. As a meme or a catchphrase, it applies to many of the crisis’s more obscure symptoms: riots in Liverpool, Canadian visa trends, the bribery of public officials, New Jersey moms’ desire for luxury bathtubs, and, in my case at least, bagel stores’ opening hours.The theory is catchy because housing costs really do affect everything. They’re shaping art by preventing young painters, musicians, and poets from congregating in cities. How many styles akin to the Memphis blues and Seattle grunge are we missing out on? Would the Harlem Renaissance or the Belle Epoque happen today? They’re shaping higher education, turning elite urban colleges into real-estate conglomerates and barring low-income students from attending. They are preventing new businesses from getting off the ground and are killing mom-and-pops. They’re making people lonely and reactionary and sick and angry.The answer is to build more homes in our most desirable places—granting more money, opportunity, entrepreneurial spark, health, togetherness, and tasty breakfast options to all of us.
David MejíaPor qué es importante el caso del economista Cabrales«Sí, el Banco de España pierde el talento de un buen economista, pero algo gana: un Estado necesita profesionalidad, pero también convicciones firmes»https://theobjective.com/elsubjetivo/opinion/2023-02-18/caso-economista-cabrales/[...]El nombramiento de Cabrales, a propuesta del PP, había merecido todos los elogios. Su idoneidad era indiscutible y además cumplía el requisito moral de no ser un hombre de partido. Su renuncia ha provocado la indignación de quienes ven en el caso Cabrales un nuevo episodio de cómo el sector público expulsa el mejor talento. Sí, el Estado pierde el talento de Cabrales, pero algo gana: un Estado necesita profesionalidad, pero también convicciones firmes. A quienes temen que este caso disuada a otros profesionales independientes y favorezca la partitocracia les ofrezco otro ángulo: se está disuadiendo a las élites de utilizar su prestigio en vano cuando está en juego el Estado de derecho. Y si me permiten, les llamo a evitar los falsos dilemas: la renuncia de Cabrales no implica que sea sustituido por un apparátchik; existen economistas de prestigio que no son abajofirmantes temerarios. [...]
Acusan a las autoridades de dar «explicaciones poco fundadas» y abrir una «búsqueda desesperada» de cargos a los que imputar fallos
Renfe adjudicó en el verano de 2020 el diseño y fabricación de 31 trenes de ancho métrico (el asociado a Feve) y va a necesitar tres años de debates, gestiones y discusiones para contar con un proyecto válido para los mismos. En eso consiste el fiasco ferroviario destapado en primicia por EL COMERCIO y que ejerce de gota que ha colmado el vaso de la paciencia de ciudadanos, ferroviarios y políticos.El asunto alimenta chistes y acaloradas críticas en la Junta, el Congreso y el Senado, peticiones de ceses y de indemnizaciones. En ese contexto los ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos entonaron su particular 'basta ya'. El Grupo de Ferrocarriles de la demarcación asturiana del colegio profesional detalló ayer la «concatenación de errores que desembocan» en el escándalo.1 - Procedimientos ineficaces: son una maraña de procesos de calidad, acciones de verificación y supervisión, «incapaces de atajar los problemas a tiempo».2 - Mala gestión del conocimiento: se está ejecutando en Renfe y Adif un «tardío relevo generacional», prejubilando a los profesionales con «conocimientos suficientemente fundados sobre el estado del arte» antes de que los transmitan a sus sucesores.3 - Deficiente coordinación: entre los distintos organismos implicados.4 - Deficiente integración: del ancho métrico en las empresas de Renfe y Adif.5 - Inversiones inconexas: se meten «en el mismo saco» mejoras dispares pero se ejecutan sin jerarquizar ni ordenar.6 - Descoordinación: entre administraciones, con un Principado que queda al margen de la definición de las obras.
The great British business investment problemUK plc needs a bold long-term plan to support capital spendingBritain has an investment problem. For decades, business spending on things like plants and machinery as a portion of GDP has lagged well behind other G7 nations. Investment has stalled since the Brexit referendum, and has only just returned to pre-pandemic levels. Subpar capital spending has led to flatlining productivity — which has held back growth, wages and tax revenues. The UK is now forecast to be the only major economy to shrink this year; corporate insolvencies are set to rise and investment prospects will weaken further. A plan to get businesses investing again is paramount, or Britain’s low-growth malaise risks becoming entrenched.There is no silver bullet to overturning a longstanding and complex problem. But this and future governments should focus on developing the right tax allowances, slashing barriers to business growth, and rebuilding Britain’s reputation for stability.A stable set of capital investment incentives is a key starting point. The current “super-deduction” tax allowance expires in March, just as businesses are hit with a big increase in corporation tax — which would leave the UK among the least competitive capital allowance regimes in the OECD. Generous allowances should be extended permanently or replaced by a system of full expensing which would give firms long-term certainty in their ability to offset investments against their tax bills. Stronger incentives could be added for green and digital spending. Ensuring R&D tax incentives remain attractive is also crucial to support spending by growth sectors such as biotech. A planned reduction to credits used by start-ups is already leading investors and innovative firms to look abroad.The cumulative burden of tax and regulation also has a stultifying effect on business growth, squeezing investment. The increase in corporation tax from 19 per cent to 25 per cent will make the UK less competitive. The government should endeavour to lower it over time. Business rates — a levy on property — are among the most onerous in the G7. Reform is needed to reduce their drag on small business growth and property investment. Meanwhile, thousands of small firms are deliberately curbing their revenue to avoid passing the £85,000 threshold to charge VAT. A smoothing mechanism whereby a reduced charge is applied for those that just exceed it could help unlock growth.Boosting access to finance is vital too. Britain has deep pools of long-term capital, but less than 1 per cent of the £4.6tn in pensions and insurance assets is invested in unlisted UK equities, according to New Financial, a think-tank. Venture capital is widely available, but Britain needs to unlock funding from these other pots to help businesses scale up, partly by reducing regulatory barriers and consolidating the numerous defined contribution pension schemes. The role of equity funding more broadly needs rebooting. It needs to be easier and cheaper for companies to list, and investor relief schemes need long-term backing. Reducing the tax differential between debt and equity finance, to incentivise the latter, could be explored.Stability is essential to give businesses clarity to plan. The chopping and changing of policies is damaging. A long-term tax road map would be valuable. The planned bonfire of EU-derived laws by the end of the year is, meanwhile, causing significant uncertainty, and a speedy resolution to the dispute over trade rules with Northern Ireland is crucial. Short-term attempts to jolt investment will be tempting for policymakers. But the issue demands a holistic approach that supports business growth and confidence over the long-term. The economic prize for getting it right is huge.
The housing theory of everything...https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/us-housing-market-shortage-costs-san-francisco-cities/673121/CitarEverything Is About the Housing MarketHigh urban rents make life worse for everyone in countless ways.I have a gripe about San Francisco: The bagel stores open too late.My neighborhood, Bernal Heights, has a number of excellent purveyors. The tasty BagelMacher opens at 8:30 a.m. on the weekends, at which point my sons have been up shrieking and destroying things for three hours. Chicken Dog, which sells the best salt bagel I have had in California, opens at the downright brunch-ish hour of 9 a.m. I come from the Bagel Belt, to co-opt a term. In my mind, bagel shops open at 6 a.m. That’s standard. That’s how it works. You should be able to feel caffeinated and carb-loaded at 6:03 a.m. every day of the year, including Christmas. But not here in the Bay Area. And the housing shortage is to blame.That’s my pet theory, at least. San Francisco has built just one home for every eight jobs it has added for the past decade-plus, and rents are higher here than they are pretty much anywhere else in the United States. The city could stand to increase its housing stock fivefold, according to one analysis. What does that have to do with bagels? Few people can afford to live here—and especially few families who have to bear child-care costs along with shelter costs. Thus, San Francisco has the smallest share of kids of any major American city. Meaning a modest share of parents. Meaning not a lot of people who might be up at 5:51 a.m. on a Sunday morning, ready to hit the bagel store.The late opening hours of San Francisco’s bagel joints are not the only things you can reasonably tie back to its housing crisis. The declining share of gay residents in its historic Castro neighborhood. The blanding of the city’s bohemian culture. Even the graying of its famous brightly painted Victorians. (Apparently, the people who can actually afford to buy homes in the city prefer understated colors.)The crisis is not just happening in San Francisco. Housing costs are perverting just about every facet of American life, everywhere. What we eat, when we eat it, what music we listen to, what sports we play, how many friends we have, how often we see our extended families, where we go on vacation, how many children we bear, what kind of companies we found: All of it has gotten warped by the high cost of housing. Nowhere is immune, because big cities export their housing shortages to small cities, suburbs, and rural areas too.Recently, a trio of analysts coined an apt term for this phenomenon: the housing theory of everything. You now hear it everywhere, at least if you’re the kind of person who goes to a lot of public-policy conferences or hangs out on econ Twitter. Writing in the journal Works in Progress, John Myers, Ben Southwood, and Sam Bowman took stock of many of the most pressing problems in the Western world, among them declining fertility, endemic chronic illness, brutal inequality, the climate catastrophe, sluggish productivity, and slow growth. They tied each of them back to the cost to rent an apartment.High real-estate prices eat up young families’ budgets, prompting parents to have fewer kids than they would like. Building restrictions beget sprawl, spurring people to walk less and drive more, damaging their arteries and the planet’s climate. The inability of inventors to move to cities bursting with know-how and capital quashes a country’s long-term growth prospects; the inability of workers to move to cities with high wages dents its GDP. And driving up housing prices by restricting construction acts as a wealth transfer from renters to landowners. Indeed, housing prices might be the single biggest generator of financial disparities in many Western countries.In a roundabout way, the French socialist economist Thomas Piketty inspired the term housing theory of everything. In 2013, the publication of Piketty’s opus, Capital in the 20th Century, sparked a broad debate about the causes and effects of economic inequality. “The book was a huge deal, and there was that Bloomberg Businessweek cover where Piketty was this heartthrob and everyone was obsessed with it,” Southwood, a British policy analyst and journalist, told me. When reading some work extending Piketty’s thesis, he told me, “I was thinking, Well, wait a second, land and housing really is an important part of this.”Myers (a former hedge-fund portfolio manager and the co-founder of a U.K. YIMBY group) and Bowman (a think tanker) shared his housing obsession. Southwood and Bowman helped found Works in Progress, now supported by the fintech giant Stripe. And the three published their manifesto on the housing theory of everything a year and a half ago.Post-publication, the idea took off online and in policy circles. Although Bowman, Myers, and Southwood focused on the most vital, sweeping effects of housing shortages and high housing costs, their theory has taken on a somewhat distinct meaning among its internet devotees. As a meme or a catchphrase, it applies to many of the crisis’s more obscure symptoms: riots in Liverpool, Canadian visa trends, the bribery of public officials, New Jersey moms’ desire for luxury bathtubs, and, in my case at least, bagel stores’ opening hours.The theory is catchy because housing costs really do affect everything. They’re shaping art by preventing young painters, musicians, and poets from congregating in cities. How many styles akin to the Memphis blues and Seattle grunge are we missing out on? Would the Harlem Renaissance or the Belle Epoque happen today? They’re shaping higher education, turning elite urban colleges into real-estate conglomerates and barring low-income students from attending. They are preventing new businesses from getting off the ground and are killing mom-and-pops. They’re making people lonely and reactionary and sick and angry.The answer is to build more homes in our most desirable places—granting more money, opportunity, entrepreneurial spark, health, togetherness, and tasty breakfast options to all of us.
Cita de: Derby en Febrero 18, 2023, 09:56:17 amUna guía de cómo exprimir más y mejor a los inquilinos Un ejemplo de la validación sistemática (muy necesaria ahora mismo) que se facilita a los propietarios. Sería impensable una guía simétrica para los inquilinos, no hablando de sus derechos, sino de cómo aprovecharse más y mejor de los propietarios.https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-landlord-mistakes-4e6072bdToo long .Ahora en serio, no olvidemos que lo que se busca es el negociete fácil. Dar el pase antes del crack de 2008 era la opción preferida, y el alquiler es sólo el premio de consolación, como suelo decir.El escenario más o menos soñado aceptable era el de la LAU 2013. Tú, bicho, mientras me convenga a mí o no encuentre nada mejor, a pagar. El día que lo necesite, te vas a la calle.El casero al uso sigue la premisa de que tiene que forrarse "que pa eso soy el propietario". Si no puede, vende y adiós. El cabreo de ahora es que ya ni puede vender ni puede hacer "alquileres patera", no sólo pasa en España. Estas guías pueden tener "buenas intenciones" de cómo hacer bien un negocio, pero el casero tarugo no quiere eso. Lo quiere facilito, o nada.Mientras...La caída de la venta de pisos ya obliga a los propietarios a bajar los precios
Una guía de cómo exprimir más y mejor a los inquilinos Un ejemplo de la validación sistemática (muy necesaria ahora mismo) que se facilita a los propietarios. Sería impensable una guía simétrica para los inquilinos, no hablando de sus derechos, sino de cómo aprovecharse más y mejor de los propietarios.https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-landlord-mistakes-4e6072bd