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Summers Gives Lagarde an A+, Urges Fed Rate Increase Next WeekFormer Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers praised European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde for raising interest rates by a half percentage point Thursday and said the Federal Reserve should follow with its own, smaller, move next week.“Lagarde gets an A+ today,” said Summers, a Harvard University professor and paid contributor to Bloomberg Television.(...)
Cita de: senslev en Marzo 17, 2023, 16:43:11 pmPues si eres un fondo de pensiones puedes conseguir una rentabilidad del 3-5% en un bono a X años y como se supone que es la inversión más segura, no tienes que buscar esa rentabilidad en jpegs de piedras, criptoshitcoins o Arkks varios.Con los tipos más altos haces más difícil el ciclo de endeudamiento infinito porque es más caro, luego las empresas zombies lo tienen más complicado, al igual los que se rehipotecan indefinidamente.La cuestión de la inflación, no de activos, la del día a día, explotó con la pandemia. La de activos lleva desde 2008 con el cambio de política monetaria de las bbcc, lo que eran medidas extraordinarias se convirtieron en ordinarias, algo que supone un quebradero de cabeza para el ahorrador o el inversor que busca algo de rentabilidad y no un 1000% arriba - un 99% abajo en unos meses.Estoy de acuerdo, pero al final eso trae más liquidez al sistema. Los que buscan rentabilidad, la reciben a tipos reales o reales + X, y los que se apalancan reciben dinero al tipo del Euribor (por debajo del tipo oficial, o sea de facto, tipo real negativo).Desde la barra de bar, no me parece la estrategia más adecuada para combatir la inflación. Está muy bien para darle estabilidad al sistema (tanto real como de expectativas), pero lo de apagar el fuego con más gasolina no lo acabo de ver.Podría darse el caso de obtener una hipoteca al euríbor + diferencial pequeño y usar el dinero para comprar bonos al tipo real (o real + diferencial) y tener ganancia neta.Imagino que esta situación es temporal y que pronto veremos al Euríbor subiendo, o no. Cuanto más creo que entiendo de economía más me baja los humos el mundo real de un bofetón.
Pues si eres un fondo de pensiones puedes conseguir una rentabilidad del 3-5% en un bono a X años y como se supone que es la inversión más segura, no tienes que buscar esa rentabilidad en jpegs de piedras, criptoshitcoins o Arkks varios.Con los tipos más altos haces más difícil el ciclo de endeudamiento infinito porque es más caro, luego las empresas zombies lo tienen más complicado, al igual los que se rehipotecan indefinidamente.La cuestión de la inflación, no de activos, la del día a día, explotó con la pandemia. La de activos lleva desde 2008 con el cambio de política monetaria de las bbcc, lo que eran medidas extraordinarias se convirtieron en ordinarias, algo que supone un quebradero de cabeza para el ahorrador o el inversor que busca algo de rentabilidad y no un 1000% arriba - un 99% abajo en unos meses.
No creo que haya otra forma de gestionar esto, no hay salida tal y como está montado. Vamos a un cambio de sistema monetario que históricamente ya toca. A ver cómo reacciona el imperio cuando los BRICs lancen su propia moneda respaldada en algo más que confianza y portaviones. Todo apunta a guerra (USA-China) y si no se les va la pinza, después CDBCs respaldadas en algo tangible (pero quién sabe). Igual llegan a un acuerdo antes de que llegue la sangre al río y se reparten el mundo, pero sigo pensando que serán esas CDBCs la base del siguiente sistema monetario.
Google Employees Petition Pichai for Better Handling of Job CutsPosted by msmash on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:01PM from the PSA dept.Almost 1,400 employees at Google parent Alphabet have signed a petition calling for better treatment of staff during the layoff process, after the company announced it was cutting 12,000 jobs. From a report:CitarIn an open letter addressed to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company, including freezing new hires, seeking voluntary redundancies before compulsory ones, giving priority to laid off workers for job vacancies and letting workers finish scheduled periods of paid time off, such as parental and bereavement leave.The workers also called on Alphabet to avoid terminating employees from countries with active conflicts or humanitarian crises, such as Ukraine, and provide extra support to those at risk of losing their visa-linked residency along with their jobs. "The impacts of Alphabet's decision to reduce its workforce are global," the letter said. "Nowhere have workers' voices adequately been considered, and we know that as workers we are stronger together than alone."Further reading: Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees.
In an open letter addressed to Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, employees made a series of demands of the company, including freezing new hires, seeking voluntary redundancies before compulsory ones, giving priority to laid off workers for job vacancies and letting workers finish scheduled periods of paid time off, such as parental and bereavement leave.The workers also called on Alphabet to avoid terminating employees from countries with active conflicts or humanitarian crises, such as Ukraine, and provide extra support to those at risk of losing their visa-linked residency along with their jobs. "The impacts of Alphabet's decision to reduce its workforce are global," the letter said. "Nowhere have workers' voices adequately been considered, and we know that as workers we are stronger together than alone."
Imagino que esta situación es temporal y que pronto veremos al Euríbor subiendo, o no. Cuanto más creo que entiendo de economía más me baja los humos el mundo real de un bofetón.
‘Mutual free movement’ for UK and EU citizens supported by up to 84% of Brits, in stunning new poll
The Next Bomb to Go Off in the Banking Crisis Will Be DerivativesU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finds herself in a very dubious position. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was given increased powers to oversee financial stability in the U.S. banking system. This increase in power came in response to the 2008 financial crisis – the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. The legislation made the Treasury Secretary the Chair of the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC), whose meetings include the heads of all of the federal agencies that supervise banks and trading on Wall Street. The legislation also required the Treasury Secretary’s authorization before the Federal Reserve could create any more of those $29 trillion emergency bailout programs for the mega banks – which had tethered themselves to casino trading on Wall Street since the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999.Yesterday, after the Swiss banking behemoth Credit Suisse had traded at an all-time low of less than two bucks; blown out its credit default swaps to unprecedented levels; and tanked the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than 700 points intraday, Bloomberg News ran this headline at 12:54 p.m. – “US Treasury Reviewing US Banks’ Exposure to Credit Suisse.” By “exposure,” the Treasury really means how many billions of dollars of underwater derivatives are U.S. banks on the hook for as a counterparty to Credit Suisse. The Treasury also has to worry about U.S. banks’ exposure to Credit Suisse’s other major counterparties that U.S. banks do business with, even if the banks are not direct counterparties to Credit Suisse itself.If the U.S. Treasury Secretary and her staff at F-SOC were just yesterday getting around to finding out which U.S. banks had counterparty exposure to Credit Suisse’s derivatives, we are all in very big trouble. The serious problems at Credit Suisse have been making headlines for two years, including here at Wall Street On Parade.In July of 2021, the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison released a 165-page report on the internal investigation it had conducted for the Board of Credit Suisse into how the bank came to lose $5.5 billion conducting highly-leveraged and dodgy derivative trades for the family office hedge fund, Archegos Capital Management, which went belly-up in March of 2021. The Paul, Weiss lawyers wrote:Citar“The Archegos-related losses sustained by CS are the result of a fundamental failure of management and controls in CS’s Investment Bank and, specifically, in its Prime Services business. The business was focused on maximizing short-term profits and failed to rein in and, indeed, enabled Archegos’s voracious risk-taking. There were numerous warning signals — including large, persistent limit breaches — indicating that Archegos’s concentrated, volatile, and severely under-margined swap positions posed potentially catastrophic risk to CS. Yet the business, from the in-business risk managers to the Global Head of Equities, as well as the risk function, failed to heed these signs, despite evidence that some individuals did raise concerns appropriately.”Six months ago, Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of the nonprofit watchdog, Better Markets, released a statement about the deteriorating condition of Credit Suisse, highlighting the following:Citar“As the financial condition of Credit Suisse continues to deteriorate, raising questions of whether it will collapse, the world and U.S. taxpayers should be deeply worried as multiple, simultaneous shocks shake the foundations of economies worldwide. Credit Suisse is a global, systemically significant, too-big-to-fail bank that operates in the U.S. and is deeply interconnected throughout the global financial system. Its failure would have widespread and largely unknown repercussions from the inconvenient to the possibly catastrophic.“That is due, in part, to the failure of the Federal Reserve to properly regulate the activities of foreign banks that have U.S.-based operations. The U.S. has a largely ineffective regulatory framework with gaping loopholes that fail to include some of even the most basic safety and soundness requirements, which incentivizes regulatory arbitrage. As a result, the U.S. financial system and economy are needlessly threatened.“An effective and appropriate regulatory framework for large foreign banks that covers all of their U.S.-based affiliates should have been established when the Fed set up so-called U.S.-based intermediate holding companies (‘IHCs’) that they regulate. Instead, U.S.-based branches of foreign banks (which are not consolidated within the IHC) face significantly weaker standards than the IHC, remarkably including no specific capital requirements in the U.S. Furthermore, the branches have significantly weaker liquidity requirements. This has resulted in many foreign banks – including in particular Credit Suisse – engaging in regulatory arbitrage by shifting large amounts of assets from their IHCs to their branches, entities that are entirely reliant on the resources of their foreign-based parent companies. The 2008 financial collapse proved that these resources are not available in periods of stress, which is why the U.S. bailed out so many foreign banks operating in the U.S. The Fed should have stopped that long ago.“As is well-known, risks in the global financial system that materialize elsewhere easily end up becoming risks here in the U.S. and threaten our financial system and economy. Those risks are amplified by the unprecedented fiscal and monetary policies attempting to address the many unexpected shocks from the pandemic and war. The Fed must see Credit Suisse as a warning sign and improve the regulatory framework for large foreign banks and all banks to ensure that the American financial system and economy are properly protected.”Credit Suisse’s reputation has taken more hits from its involvement in the Greensill Capital scandal and the infamous spy-gate scandal in 2019 where the bank spied on and followed various employees.Nervousness about Credit Suisse reached a pivotal moment in the fall of last year. On November 30, its 5-year Credit Default Swaps (CDS) blew out to 446 basis points. That was up from 55 basis points in January of 2022 and more than five times where CDS on its peer Swiss bank, UBS, were trading. The price of a Credit Default Swap reflects the cost to traders, or investors with exposure, to insuring themselves against a debt default by the bank.If all of this didn’t awaken Secretary Yellen from her slumber about the contagion risks posed by a deteriorating Credit Suisse, she should have been jolted upright on December 5 of last year when researchers for the Bank for International Settlement (Claudio Borio, Robert McCauley and Patrick McGuire) released an astonishing report that found that foreign banks had secret derivative debt that is “10 times their capital.”The report focused on the amount of derivative debt that was not being captured through regular statistical reporting because it is held off the banks’ balance sheets. The researchers refer to this exposure as “staggering” and note the potential for upsets to dollar swap lines to settle it as it comes due.The report raises further alarm bells with this: “For banks headquartered outside the United States, dollar debt from these instruments is estimated at $39 trillion, more than double their on-balance sheet dollar debt and more than 10 times their capital.” Their on-balance sheet dollar debt is $15 trillion.The most recent quarterly derivatives report from the U.S. regulator of national banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), found that as of September 30, 2022 four U.S. mega banks held 88.6 percent of all notional amounts of derivatives in the U.S. banking system. The total notional amount for all banks was $195 trillion. JPMorgan Chase held $54.3 trillion of that; Goldman Sachs held $50.97 trillion; Citigroup’s Citibank held $46 trillion; and Bank of America held $21.6 trillion. Even though the Dodd-Frank legislation required that most of these derivative trades move to central clearing, as of September 30, 2022 the OCC report found that 58.3 percent of these derivatives were not being centrally-cleared, meaning they were over-the-counter (OTC) private contracts between counterparties, thus adding another layer of opacity to an unaccountable system.For the role that Citigroup played in keeping these dangerous derivatives inside federally-insured banks, see our December 2014 report: Meet Your Newest Legislator: Citigroup.
“The Archegos-related losses sustained by CS are the result of a fundamental failure of management and controls in CS’s Investment Bank and, specifically, in its Prime Services business. The business was focused on maximizing short-term profits and failed to rein in and, indeed, enabled Archegos’s voracious risk-taking. There were numerous warning signals — including large, persistent limit breaches — indicating that Archegos’s concentrated, volatile, and severely under-margined swap positions posed potentially catastrophic risk to CS. Yet the business, from the in-business risk managers to the Global Head of Equities, as well as the risk function, failed to heed these signs, despite evidence that some individuals did raise concerns appropriately.”
“As the financial condition of Credit Suisse continues to deteriorate, raising questions of whether it will collapse, the world and U.S. taxpayers should be deeply worried as multiple, simultaneous shocks shake the foundations of economies worldwide. Credit Suisse is a global, systemically significant, too-big-to-fail bank that operates in the U.S. and is deeply interconnected throughout the global financial system. Its failure would have widespread and largely unknown repercussions from the inconvenient to the possibly catastrophic.“That is due, in part, to the failure of the Federal Reserve to properly regulate the activities of foreign banks that have U.S.-based operations. The U.S. has a largely ineffective regulatory framework with gaping loopholes that fail to include some of even the most basic safety and soundness requirements, which incentivizes regulatory arbitrage. As a result, the U.S. financial system and economy are needlessly threatened.“An effective and appropriate regulatory framework for large foreign banks that covers all of their U.S.-based affiliates should have been established when the Fed set up so-called U.S.-based intermediate holding companies (‘IHCs’) that they regulate. Instead, U.S.-based branches of foreign banks (which are not consolidated within the IHC) face significantly weaker standards than the IHC, remarkably including no specific capital requirements in the U.S. Furthermore, the branches have significantly weaker liquidity requirements. This has resulted in many foreign banks – including in particular Credit Suisse – engaging in regulatory arbitrage by shifting large amounts of assets from their IHCs to their branches, entities that are entirely reliant on the resources of their foreign-based parent companies. The 2008 financial collapse proved that these resources are not available in periods of stress, which is why the U.S. bailed out so many foreign banks operating in the U.S. The Fed should have stopped that long ago.“As is well-known, risks in the global financial system that materialize elsewhere easily end up becoming risks here in the U.S. and threaten our financial system and economy. Those risks are amplified by the unprecedented fiscal and monetary policies attempting to address the many unexpected shocks from the pandemic and war. The Fed must see Credit Suisse as a warning sign and improve the regulatory framework for large foreign banks and all banks to ensure that the American financial system and economy are properly protected.”
UBS in talks to acquire Credit SuisseSwiss authorities press for merger to stem crisis of confidence in country’s banking sector
Realmente a Lagarde se la veía bastante tensa en su discurso de ayer. No debe ser nada fácil gestionar la cantidad de estrés que implican determinadas posiciones y no dejan de ser seres humanos. Summers le pone buena nota a Lagarde https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-16/summers-gives-lagarde-an-a-urges-fed-rate-increase-next-weekCitarSummers Gives Lagarde an A+, Urges Fed Rate Increase Next WeekFormer Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers praised European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde for raising interest rates by a half percentage point Thursday and said the Federal Reserve should follow with its own, smaller, move next week.“Lagarde gets an A+ today,” said Summers, a Harvard University professor and paid contributor to Bloomberg Television.(...)
Cita de: senslev en Marzo 17, 2023, 19:20:03 pmNo creo que haya otra forma de gestionar esto, no hay salida tal y como está montado. Vamos a un cambio de sistema monetario que históricamente ya toca. A ver cómo reacciona el imperio cuando los BRICs lancen su propia moneda respaldada en algo más que confianza y portaviones. Todo apunta a guerra (USA-China) y si no se les va la pinza, después CDBCs respaldadas en algo tangible (pero quién sabe). Igual llegan a un acuerdo antes de que llegue la sangre al río y se reparten el mundo, pero sigo pensando que serán esas CDBCs la base del siguiente sistema monetario.EE.UU. es bastante más que confianza y portaviones... Los avances en libertad --o en sensación de, tanto da--; no han sido fáciles a lo largo de la historia.En cambio:El ChatGPT chino es un fracaso y la culpa es de la censura del Partido Comunistahttps://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/novaceno/2023-03-17/chatgpt-china-fracaso-partido-comunista-censura_3595059/La presentación de Ernie, el ChatGPT de Baidu, ha sido una gran decepción que demuestra cómo la censura China se está convirtiendo en un enorme lastre para el desarrollo de sus IAs
Para ciudades como Nueva York o San Francisco, la baja presencialidad supone un daño estructural enorme. En las últimas décadas, ambas metrópolis han crecido al calor de las grandes corporaciones y sus sedes. Su llegada supuso aperturas de restaurantes, tiendas o el desarrollo del transporte. Ahora, estos servicios han perdido su materia prima, los oficinistas y los millones de personas que se acercaban a las dos ciudades para hacer negocios. Por si fuera poco, los alquileres de oficinas se han chocado con la gran renuncia, entendida como un aumento de poder negociador del empleado frente a la empresa. Esto no solo implica mejores salarios, sino también exigir teletrabajo.
Cuando no merece la pena pagar la hipoteca: los grandes dueños de oficinas apagan la luz y encienden otro fuego en la bancaParece que las oficinas son las nuevas subprime americanas, ya veremos con cuánto impacto.CitarPara ciudades como Nueva York o San Francisco, la baja presencialidad supone un daño estructural enorme. En las últimas décadas, ambas metrópolis han crecido al calor de las grandes corporaciones y sus sedes. Su llegada supuso aperturas de restaurantes, tiendas o el desarrollo del transporte. Ahora, estos servicios han perdido su materia prima, los oficinistas y los millones de personas que se acercaban a las dos ciudades para hacer negocios. Por si fuera poco, los alquileres de oficinas se han chocado con la gran renuncia, entendida como un aumento de poder negociador del empleado frente a la empresa. Esto no solo implica mejores salarios, sino también exigir teletrabajo.El artículo es bastante largo pero la idea clave está aquí. El presencialismo tenía una fatal debilidad, dependía de los millones de personas forzadas a acudir presencialmente. Y efectivamente, las personas eran lo que realmente le daban vitalidad a todo.Ha sido un suicidio forzar mantener todo eso, cuando desde hace no menos de diez años había medios técnicos para que ciertos trabajos se hiciesen en remoto. Y como decía en el hilo del teletrabajo, el melón se ha abierto, y en EEUU ya se ha visto el fracaso del intento de volver a llevar al personal a la oficina.¿Cuánto vale una oficina en la Quinta Avenida, o en el Paseo de la Castellana, sin oficinistas? Cero.