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La verdad que no entiendo lo que ganarían los muchos científicos que investigan el cambio climático mintiendo sobre ello. Igual que no entiendo lo que ganarían los miles de científicos mintiendo sobre la existencia de un virus, ¿vaya pérdida de tiempo sería, no?. Toda una vida dedicada al estudio de cómo funciona la naturaleza que resulta ser falso o basado en leyes que son una invención de vaya usted a saber quién, incluyendo las miles y miles de horas de investigación en todos los campos desde hace cientos de años (por comentar lo más cercano). Sin embargo sí entiendo, aprovechándose de la confusión y la ignorancia, que haya gentes que obtengan beneficio de ello inventándose lo que sea, desde impuestos al CO2 a transiciones verdes inviables y fantasiosas. O esos lobbies con intereses a favor o en contra que al final tienen el mismo origen, misma moneda, distintas caras.Decimos que los datos de ahora no sustentan que el ser inhumano tenga que ver con los cambios en el clima que estamos viviendo por falsas, interesadas, manipuladas o tergiversadas, pero se aceptan los datos que dicen que en una época muy muy remota, hubo tiempos de bajas temperaturas con CO2 alto. Ahí sí, esos datos nos parecen buenos y de fiar. Los de ahora no. Siempre nos quedará Dios.
Interacción con el tiempo y el climaLos aerosoles, en particular los polvos minerales, influencian el tiempo y el clima mundial y regional. Las partículas de polvo, sobre todo si están cubiertas de polución, actúan como núcleos de condensación en la formación de nubes calientes y como núcleos de hielo en la formación de nubes frías. La capacidad de estas partículas de actuar como agentes formadores de nubes depende de su tamaño, forma y composición, los que dependen, a su vez, de los tipos de suelo de donde provienen, las emisiones y los procesos de transporte. La modificación de la composición microfísica de las nubes cambia su capacidad de absorber la radiación solar, lo que indirectamente afecta la energía que llega a la superficie de la Tierra. Las partículas de polvo también influyen en el crecimiento de las gotitas de agua y los cristales de hielo de las nubes, lo que afecta la cantidad y la ubicación de las precipitaciones.
¿Por qué a nadie le ha importado jamás la quema creciente de combustibles fósiles y sus efectos de todo tipo sobre la salud de la población, el clima, etc....?
In order to get the market down to where it would typically outperform the long bond by 5%, which you could argue it should, the market, just sheer arithmetic would have to drop by more than 50%. This is not my forecast. I have a very genteel forecast where anything below 3000 would make me think it was reasonable, and if everything works out badly, which it sometimes does, I would not be amazed if it went to 2000 on the S&P, but that would require a couple of wheels to fall off. And wheels tend to fall off when the great bubbles unravel, but it doesn’t mean they have to. It would be unlikely not to get to something close to 3000 on the S&P. You can’t get blood out of a stone. Sooner or later, the simple arithmetic suggests that you’ll either have a dismal return forever, or you’ll have a nice bear market and then a normal return, and the nice bear market will hopefully be less than 50%.– Jeremy Grantham, GMO, Bloomberg UK (abridged), October 5, 2023
Home Buyers Must Earn More to Purchase Average U.S. HomeA home buyer must earn $114,627 to afford the median-priced U.S. home, up 15%, or $15,285, from a year ago, and up more than 50% since the start of the pandemic, Redfin says. That is the highest annual income necessary to afford a home on record. Housing costs are higher than ever because of high mortgage rates and rising home prices. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 7.57% during the week ending Oct. 12. While soaring mortgage rates have dampened demand, low inventory is causing home prices to increase. The typical U.S. home sold for about $420,000 in August, up 3% year-over-year and just about $12,000 shy of the record high hit in mid-2022. The typical U.S. homebuyer’s monthly mortgage payment is $2,866, an all-time high.
EU To Crack Down Further on Microplastics After Glitter BanPosted by msmash on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:20AM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.The EU has announced further plans to crack down on microplastics after its ban on glitter came into force. From a report:CitarThe proposal, which tackles tiny pellets used in nearly all plastic products, aims to cut plastic pellet pollution by 74% by the end of the decade. Overall, it would lead to a 7% reduction in Europe's microplastic pollution, according to the European Commission. "The most important thing is to cut pollution at the source," said Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU commissioner for the environment, oceans and fisheries, in an interview with the Guardian. "What we are looking to do is basically ensure we drastically cut, at the source, pollution of microplastics."Tiny, durable pellets of plastic -- also known as nurdles or nibs -- are melted down and reformed into everyday products, from office chairs to water bottles. But they leak into the environment at every stage of the supply chain. Over time, they break down into microplastics that are eaten and drunk by people and animals. The commission estimates between 52,000 and 184,000 tons of plastic pellets are released into the environment in the EU each year.
The proposal, which tackles tiny pellets used in nearly all plastic products, aims to cut plastic pellet pollution by 74% by the end of the decade. Overall, it would lead to a 7% reduction in Europe's microplastic pollution, according to the European Commission. "The most important thing is to cut pollution at the source," said Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU commissioner for the environment, oceans and fisheries, in an interview with the Guardian. "What we are looking to do is basically ensure we drastically cut, at the source, pollution of microplastics."Tiny, durable pellets of plastic -- also known as nurdles or nibs -- are melted down and reformed into everyday products, from office chairs to water bottles. But they leak into the environment at every stage of the supply chain. Over time, they break down into microplastics that are eaten and drunk by people and animals. The commission estimates between 52,000 and 184,000 tons of plastic pellets are released into the environment in the EU each year.
Home foreclosures are on the upswing nationwideHome foreclosures up 34% from same time last year
El ministro de Finanzas de Francia, Bruno Le Maire, intentará llegar a un acuerdo bilateral con su homólogo alemán, Christian Lindner, sobre las nuevas reglas europeas de déficit y deuda que sirva para desbloquear la negociación que los Veintisiete desean concluir antes de que acabe el año.“Propondré continuar avanzando mano a mano entre Francia y Alemania. Todo el mundo sabe que al final un acuerdo sobre las nuevas reglas del Pacto de Estabilidad pasan por un acuerdo francoalemán”, expresó a los medios antes de participar en la reunión de ministros de Finanzas de la UE en Luxemburgo (Ecofin).
Airbnb Faces Curbs in Canada After Sharp Rise in Rental CostsRental platforms ‘mean fewer homes for Canadians’: FreelandComments follow British Columbia plan on short-term rentalsCanada’s government is examining new measures to rein in short-term rental services such as Airbnb Inc. as policymakers try to cool inflation in apartment and house rents.Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday the government is looking at what laws or regulations it can bring in to curb the use of platforms that offer rented accommodation for a few days or weeks at a time. She heaped praise on the province of British Columbia, which this week introduced a proposed law to restrict many residents from renting their investment properties on Airbnb, Flipkey and similar services. “We know that short-term rentals through sites like Airbnb and VRBO mean fewer homes for Canadians to rent, especially in urban and populated areas of our country,” Freeland said during a press conference in Ottawa. She said she has seen estimates that as many as 30,000 more homes could be made available for rent in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, if those platforms were restricted. “It is so important that we are examining whether there are any tools in federal jurisdiction that we could use that would make a difference in this space.”Rents rose 7.3% over the past year, Statistics Canada said in its inflation report Tuesday — 8.4% in British Columbia, which includes greater Vancouver, one of the country’s most expensive housing markets.The British Columbia law won’t apply to certain resort areas or to municipalities with fewer than 10,000 people.
China’s Growth Beats Forecasts as Consumer Spending Improves*GDP expands 4.9% y/y in 3Q, topping economists’ forecasts*Retail sales jumps 5.5% in September, the highest since MayChina’s economy gained momentum last quarter as people ramped up spending on everything from restaurants and alcohol to cars, offsetting a drag from the property crisis and putting Beijing’s annual growth goal well within reach.Gross domestic product for the three months ended September expanded 4.9% year-on-year and 1.3% from the previous quarter, far exceeding economists’ expectations as government stimulus efforts appeared to take root. The figures got a boost from bumper retail sales growth last month, which recorded the biggest jump since May. The jobless rate was the lowest in nearly two years.(...)
Bank of America's unrealized losses on securities rose to $131.6 blnNEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Bank of America (BAC.N) reported unrealized losses of $131.6 billion on securities in the third quarter, growing from the second quarter, but the bank does not expect the portfolio will generate actual losses in the long-term.Unrealized losses have come under closer scrutiny by investors since March. At the time, Silicon Valley Bank sold a portfolio of its holdings at a sharp loss, precipitating its collapse and fueling the worst industry turmoil since the 2008 financial crisis.Analysts say it is highly unlikely that Bank of America would sell the securities at a loss because the lender has strong liquidity with consumer deposits and higher capital. Keeping securities until maturity also gives it the flexibility to avert mark-to-market losses.Banks use the held-to-maturity designation to buy less risky securities that give them downside protection, even though in a rising interest rate environment there is limited upside potential.All of these are unrealized losses are on government- guaranteed securities," Bank of America's chief financial officer, Alastair Borthwick, told reporters on conference call discussing third-quarter earnings. "Because we're holding them to maturity, we will anticipate that we'll have zero losses over time."Bank of America had reported early $106 billion in paper losses in the second quarter.Bank of America, the second-biggest U.S. lender had about $603 billion in held-to-maturity securities, it said in a filing on Tuesday, shrinking from $614 billion in the second quarter.And yet the holdings of low-yielding assets have also constrained the second-largest U.S. lender's ability to make higher profit from deploying its cash in money markets or other assets with greater returns, analysts have said."The bank has one of the lower overall yields on its securities book, and that securities book is there to stay for a while," said Eric Compton, analyst at Morningstar.U.S. banks could be grappling with at least $650 billion of unrealized losses in their securities portfolios, according to an estimate from Moody's after prospects of interest rates staying higher for longer led to a bond market rout in the third quarter.That would be 15% more than the $558 billion of losses they were sitting on at the end of the second quarter.JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) had unrealized losses of $40 billion in its HTM portfolio in the third quarter.Citigroup (C.N) did not disclose paper losses on its portfolio for the third quarter. They stood at $24 billion at the end of the second quarter.Both banks did not comment beyond the disclosures.While the securities holdings represent an economic drag, the mounting unrealized losses are a "non-issue" from an accounting perspective, said Allison Nicoletti, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania."If you would have waited, you would have gotten a higher yield on the bonds,” she said. Still, "these are paper losses — this is a problem only if you have to sell them."When banks take in customer deposits, they can choose to put excess money to work by buying bonds that they keep for sale based on market prices. Or they can lock in rates for securities that are held until they mature.
La fortaleza de la economía estadounidense ha pasado de ser un motivo de alegría a convertirse en una preocupación. En un momento en el que todo es interpretado en clave monetaria, la mejora de los indicadores son recibidos por caídas en la Bolsa y más especialmente en la renta fija, el mercado que más disgustos está causando a los inversores en los últimos meses.