PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Invierno 2024

[Benzino Napaloni]

Comienza la "operación" para pinchar el precio en Ibiza.

Desmantelan la oficina de la DGT en Ibiza

[...]En este punto es preciso recordar la contínua carestía de personal que arrastra la oficina de la DGT en Ibiza, lo que ha provocado que abra sus puertas sólo dos días a la semana, además de la imposibilidad de conseguir cita en un tiempo prudencial para realizar trámites habituales, como puede ser la renovación del permiso de conducir.[...]

NHD

Será "sudden and sharp" o con la rana cocida. Pero ya es un primer indicio de que ni el Estado va a malgastar más dinero por un problema derivado de la usura de la vivienda. Se empieza con los examinadores (que juran y perjuran que los traerán en avión desde Palma), pero ya es un primer dique que ha cedido.


Relacionado con esto, la noticia que ya comentamos aquí del resort de lujo de Colorado donde dos candidatos con sueldos de más de 150.000 euros al cambio acabaron rechazando la oferta por la vivienda ya ha salido hasta en el As, al ladito de las noticias del Madrí y de Mbappé.

https://as.com/deportes_accion/snow/150000-euros-el-trabajo-que-nadie-quiere-porque-no-permite-pagar-un-piso-n/

Es muy insuficiente, pero por algo se empieza. La propaganda empieza a gotear que el precio está completamente pasado de rosca.

[Urederra]

Es todo un poquito sórdido.

Ayuso y su pareja disfrutan de un segundo piso en el mismo edificio que está a nombre de una sociedad de su abogado

La sociedad Babia Capital, administrada por el letrado Javier Luis Gómez Fidalgo, adquirió este ático de lujo el mes de julio pasado, en las mismas fechas en que la pareja se mudó al piso de abajo

https://www.eldiario.es/politica/ayuso-pareja-disfrutan-segundo-piso-edificio-nombre-sociedad-abogado_1_11210870.html

[CHOSEN]

¿Ahora el problema de España son 300.000€?
 

[sudden and sharp]

Ésta también es buena.... 


Bruselas da un ultimátum [ ] a España por no cumplir la norma de euroórdenes
https://www.eleconomista.es/economia/noticias/12721040/03/24/bruselas-da-un-ultimatum-a-espana-por-no-cumplir-la-norma-de-euroordenes.html

La Comisión Europea ha hecho público este miércoles su paquete de infracciones del mes de marzo, por el que ha dado un ultimátum a España por no aplicar a su normativa nacional la directiva comunitaria sobre órdenes de europeas de detención y entrega.

"Indícaselo" tu Carles.





 

[Derby]

UUixxx...

https://www.ft.com/content/7fe633d2-daf2-480b-9442-99186a504dfe

Munich prosecutor opens money laundering probe into Signa

Preliminary investigation initiated into Bavarian developments by collapsed luxury property group

Munich’s state prosecutor is looking into allegations of money laundering at the Signa Group, René Benko’s collapsed luxury property empire.

A spokesperson for the prosecutor confirmed to the Financial Times on Thursday that preliminary investigatory proceedings had been initiated.

Several criminal complaints about activities at Signa companies have been received “since the end of last year”, they said. “The facts of the case are being examined in detail from a legal perspective, also with regard to other possible criminal offences.”

The prosecutor’s exact jurisdiction is still being clarified, the spokesperson added.

The investigation is probing property developments by Signa in Bavaria, a person familiar with the matter said, and the way in which large sums of money were transferred in relation to the developments. Signa’s main holding companies are all domiciled in Austria. It is unclear whether any of them may also be part of the scope of the Munich investigation.

News of the investigation was first reported by the Austrian Press Agency and Germany’s Bild am Sonntag.

The FT reported on Tuesday how creditors to one arm of the Signa conglomerate — which has fractured into several competing bankruptcy estates since its collapse late last year — believe hundreds of millions of euros were misappropriated from the company.

“We have not been informed of any investigations by the Munich public prosecutor’s office,” Benko’s lawyer said, pointing out that his client’s name had not been mentioned by authorities in connection with any potential proceedings against Signa or related entities.

Benko intends to fully co-operate with authorities to help with any investigations should they get in touch, he said.

At its height, Signa sat atop a sprawling empire of luxury buildings and addresses in Europe and America including New York’s Chrysler Building, London’s Selfridges and Berlin’s KaDeWe.

Behind its glamorous showcase of addresses, however, stood a highly leveraged network of more than 1,000 corporate entities, run by Benko and a small loyal team from the company’s headquarters in the alpine city of Innsbruck.

As interest rates rose in the US and Europe in 2022 and 2023, Signa’s financial strength was sapped. Benko has spent much of the past 18 months racing to try and plug widening financial holes in his businesses.

Benko — a paper billionaire by his early thirties, whose rapid ascent to wealth propelled him to celebrity status in central Europe, with politicians regularly gracing his lavish parties — declared himself personally insolvent last week.

It is unclear how much money remains in his opaque family trusts, however, which are held in his mother’s name in Austria and Liechtenstein.

Analysts at JPMorgan last year estimated that Signa owes more than €13bn of debt, but the total could be considerably higher given the array of different instruments and relationships Benko used to leverage the group. Creditors to the group’s main holding companies were this week told they could expect to recoup a third or less of what they are owed over the next few years.

Among the high-profile victims is Switzerland’s Julius Baer. The private bank’s chief executive, Philipp Rickenbacher, was pushed out at the end of January after the lender wrote off the entirety of a poorly collateralised SFr606mn ($689mn) trio of loans it had extended to Signa.

Several civil and criminal complaints against Signa have been filed by aggrieved investors.

Last month a large group of creditors alleged criminal behaviour at the company in a complaint to Austria’s anti-fraud prosecutor. The Austrian prosecutor has yet to state whether it intends to open a case.

[Derby]

Broteverdismo...

https://www.ft.com/content/f87494b0-c147-474a-8169-5dd0a0c274e8#post-1826b747-de78-448b-aec7-f7940e6c4e03

Property market is ‘past the moment of peak uncertainty’, says Savills

Real estate adviser Savills said the property market is “past the moment of peak uncertainty”, as it reported a sharp drop in profits for 2023.

Chief executive Mark Ridley said: “There are some early signs of underlying market improvements, which should set the course for a broader recovery during the second half of the year and into 2025.”

The company posted a 42 per cent drop in underlying profits before tax to £94.8mn, with increased interest rates, geopolitical events and uncertainty around the future role of offices posing challenges to the sector.

Savills’ dividend for the year was cut by 36 per cent to 22.8p.

[berberecho]

¿Ahora el problema de España son 300.000€?
 

No. Lo son las personas que hay detrás de esos 300.000 (o de la cantidad que sea y del lado que sean)

[sudden and sharp]

Lejos de aferrarse al micro para asestarle una respuesta de las que tumban al oponente, Feijóo desgranó una letanía tímida, casi temerosa, como la del papá de Marty McFly cuando lo matonea el bravucón del cole en Regreso al futuro. "No me sorprendió su silencio cómplice cuando le dije que usted lo sabía y lo tapó. El que calla otorga". Habló de mordidas, chivatazos, fiestas sórdidas, armas, Delcy, trama Ábalos y... el rescate de Air Europa por cuyos despachos pululaba el comisionista del Ferrari. Es ahí cuando pareció entrar en materia, cuando se atisbó un reflejo en su colmillo derecho. "¿Por qué no ha respondido lo que solo usted puede contestar? Seguro que en su casa no están muy contentos con lo que le han escuchado. Esta es su trama de corrupción. Le están investigando a usted".

Se esperaba un tono punzante, luego de lo dicho la víspera en lo de Alsina. ¿Qué es lo que hay detrás, no sé pero desde luego huele mal. Quizás debemos denominarlo un conflicto de intereses al menos... la trama afecta al partido, al Gobierno y a la casa del presidente. Debe dar explicaciones". Esta es la clave. La casa. Ahí acertó Feijóo. Apuntando sin señalar. Con esa sutileza gallega no siempre fácil de calibrar. Ningún introito mejor para haberse adentrado este miércoles hasta las zahúrdas del secretismo presidencial, donde tantas cosas se ocultan, donde tantos episodios invitan a la sospecha. Donde el PP puede encontrar la pista hacia su victoria.

En efecto, todas las trompadas verbales fueron para Isabel Díaz Ayuso, que apenas recibió una palabra de aliento desde el grupo de sus siglas. Fue la sesión de control al Gobierno de Ayuso y se olvidaron de mencionar a la esposa del presidente. Por el lado de la derecha, sólo Abascal apuntó al rescate a Air Europa, una leve raspadura sin apenas dejar huella. El líder de Vox se perdió luego por Marruecos y los meandros de la amnistía.

Una actitud muy extraña que movía a una reflexión: O en Génova se ha instalado un respeto estratégico hacia Begoña o, más taimadamente, no le va mal este viacrucis que le están infligiendo a la lideresa madrileña. Cabe una tercera variante. Se daba por hecho que al exigir Sánchez la renuncia de Ayuso, estaba entregando la suya propia con el avance de las pesquisas sobre su esposa.

Fina... la Vara.   

Miedo a Begoña
https://www.vozpopuli.com/opinion/miedo-begona.html











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Manara y sus cosas...

[Derby]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-cautious-approach-to-cutting-rates-reinforced-by-new-inflation-reading-150514957.html

Fed's cautious approach to cutting rates reinforced by new inflation reading

Fresh evidence of sticky inflation released Thursday will likely reinforce the Federal Reserve’s cautious approach to rate cuts and could add to questions about whether interest rates will remain elevated for longer than expected in 2024.

"Given the stickier than expected nature of inflation, it’s going to be very difficult for the Fed to justify a near-term rate reduction," Stifel's Lindsey Piegza told Yahoo Finance Live Thursday. "Our base case is that the Fed holds off to the second half of the year before initiating a change in policy."

The new inflation reading Thursday came from the Labor Department’s Producer Price Index, which tracks the prices businesses pay to manufacture products and services.

The index rose 0.6% from January to February, up from a 0.3% rise the previous month. So-called "core" producer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, were up 0.3% month-over-month. The Fed watches core prices closely.

While that core figure was an improvement from the prior month, it was higher than the 0.2% expectation. Compared with a year ago, core prices climbed 2%, which was the same as last month but also more than expected.

The odds of a first rate cut in June slipped slightly following the PPI release Thursday, from 67% to 63%, according to Fed Funds Futures.

That June percentage was considerably higher several weeks ago, underscoring the shifting expectations on the part of investors as signs of elevated inflation persist. Traders began the year expecting a first cut in March.



One former Fed official said the new PPI figure probably won't change the big picture for the Fed as inflation continues to come down when compared to highs achieved in 2022.

"A little bit hot on the PPI today," said Jim Bullard, former president of the St. Louis Fed and now dean of the Purdue Business School, "but one number like this probably wouldn't affect things dramatically."

The hotter-than-expected producer prices follow a Tuesday release of the Consumer Price Index showing that "core" consumer prices in February climbed 3.8% over the prior year, which was also higher than economist expectations.

Fed chair Jay Powell and his colleagues have been emphasizing for months that they want to be sure inflation is moving "sustainably" down to their 2% target before easing monetary policy.

The Fed is widely expected to hold the benchmark policy rate steady at its meeting next week in the range of 5.25%-5.5%.

Officials will also release updated interest rate projections as part of a so-called dot plot, and there is a chance some could scale back the number of expected cuts this year given the stickier inflation data.

They estimated three cuts for 2024 in their last dot plot released in December.

"This does leave a degree of uncertainty as to when they cut first and what they’ll do on the dot plot," said Wil Stith, bond portfolio manager for Wilmington Trust.

"Will they leave it at three cuts or will they change that?"

[asustadísimos]

[Cunde el segundosemestrismo: «Lo bueno, en el segundo semestre», dicen los usureros con el agua al cuello. Y, en efecto, en el 2.º semestre de este año se consumará la desincronización Europa-Occidente, je, je.]


[Lo de la begonia es como muy 'vanitas':

Mejor es que la musa de los cuernos de Belcebú, de Vila Isabel, haya perdido (vean también la 'passista' que sale a continuación)...
https://youtu.be/o8h5RAJYNcE?t=1974
... y que ahora toque la 'fantasia' de Aricia Silva, de Imperatriz Leopoldinense,...
https://youtu.be/_ExEmaSqhhM?t=201 .]


[Más sobre la 'panicat' Aricia Silva, en este Carnaval de 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xiRf8wkFg

Esto sucedía mientras la Fiscalía pensaba cómo contestar a un correo electrónico del asesor del novio en el que reconocía la comisión de los delitos imputados por la AEAT y la Fiscalía, se comprometía a pagar lo que le pide la AEAT y pedía árnica. Le contestaron al día siguiente —Aricia, recuperándose de las agujetas— con otro correo electrónico en el que le decían que «tomaban nota». Si paga no le embargarán ahora a él, el Maserati Ghibli, y a La Chacinera, la vivienda de los dos. Moralmente, muerta. La confesión ya está. Cuando haya sentencia, tendrán que cumplir la pena: cárcel y multa pecuniaria de hasta el 600%. Entonces, la inmoral ya no será 'VIP'. Si el PP es un partido político normal, a esta, la echan («Yo no tengo por qué vivir de alquiler y estas ministrillas rojas-de-mierda gozar de pisazos gratis... ¡que les den!»).

¡Cuidado con jugar con fuego, falsoliberales! Las facturas falsas no tienen por qué serlo totalmente. Pueden ser solo parcialmente malas. Y puede generalizarse esta mierda. Basta con que no esté mal visto que haya un 'mercao' de hinchazón de facturas normales en el que resarcirse de 'Sánchez'.

Este caso es diabólico porque combina esta guarrería anticapitalista (estafa al fisco —minoración de bases imponibles en los impuestos directos, pero cuotas falsas a devolver en IVA—) con la gran guarrería anticapitalista de la sobrevaloración inmobiliaria de la vivienda normal. Se estafa el dinero al fisco y se mete en pisos, y «que se jodan» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjQ12-zHF8).

La sentencia condenatoria tiene que ser supermegahiperejemplarizante.]

[Derby]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/top-us-executives-salaries-versus-tax-payments

Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes – report

Compensation for senior bosses at firms from Tesla to T-Mobile US worth more than those companies’ net tax payments, study finds

Top bosses at some of America’s largest companies have received more in pay than their companies paid in federal taxes, according to a new report.

Senior executives at 35 different firms – from Tesla to T-Mobile US – received compensation worth more than the net tax payments of their respective employers between 2018 and 2022, the research found. All the companies generated billions of dollars in profit over the same period.

Analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) found the collective net federal income tax bill of all 35 companies was negative $1.72bn over the five-year stretch – meaning they collectively received more money back from the government in refunds than they paid.

Over the same period, executive compensation for senior executives at these firms – including salaries, bonuses, perks, benefits, stock options and stock awards – stood at $9.49bn. (...)

[Derby]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/ecb-s-knot-says-he-s-penciling-in-june-for-first-rate-cut

ECB’s Knot Says He’s Penciling In June for First Rate Cut

European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot said he’s leaning toward June to begin lowering borrowing costs, though stressed that it’s premature to say inflation has been defeated.

“I personally penciled in June to start cutting rates,” the hawkish policymaker said Thursday in Amsterdam. “Where we take it from there is data dependent.”(...)

[asustadísimos]

[He seguido escribiendo en...
https://www.transicionestructural.net/index.php?topic=2601.msg226307#msg226307 ]

[sudden and sharp]

Por la sanidad no sera...


La Comunidad de Madrid registra la mayor esperanza de vida de la UE y supera la media por 4,6 años
https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/madrid/mayor-esperanza-union-europea.html
En 2022, la esperanza de vida al nacer en la UE fue de 80,6 años, 0,5 años más que en 2021. Durante dos décadas, el valor más alto se registró en 2019, cuando alcanzó los 81,3 años

Una estadística que deja entrever que la esperanza de vida dentro de la Unión Europea está en la cresta de la ola, sobre todo desde principios del siglo XXI, sin tener en cuenta la crisis sanitaria provocada por el covid-19. Dentro del elenco de comunidades y provincias que conforman los países miembros, la Comunidad de Madrid fue durante el 2022 la región con una edad media más alta, con un total de 85,2 años. Le siguen la Provincia Autonoma di Trento en Italia (84,4 años), Ile de France en Francia (84,1 años), Estocolmo en Suecia (84,0 años), y Comunidad Foral de Navarra en España (83,9 años).

[Cadavre Exquis]

https://www.expansion.com/economia/2024/03/14/65f20fb2468aeb47518b45bd.html

Saludos.