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PD. Como último comentario, anoche me he convertido de golpe en bicampeón europeo y americano. Es la primera vez que mi doble nacionalidad me concede esa condición en simultáneo. Me voy a divertir un rato.
Fun fact sobre Gibraltar: España, bueno, su ministra de Hacienda, todavía considera, en la Orden HFP/115/2023, a Gibraltar como un “paraíso fiscal” o “jurisdicción no cooperativa” en la nueva redacción de la Ley General Tributaria. Y eso que hemos firmado un Acuerdo Internacional en materia de fiscalidad y protección de los intereses financieros entre el Reino de España y el Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte en relación con Gibraltar, hecho ad referendum en Madrid y Londres el 4 de marzo de 2019, en vigor desde marzo de 2021. En teoría, tras haber pasado dos años después del acuerdo de 2021 el Ministerio podría retirar esa condición a la colonia británica según se hayan portado las autoridades gibraltareñas y británicas. Se ve que hay un acuerdo más amplio que podría llevar a la Guardia Civil al puerto y aeropuerto de Gibraltar y supongo que se están guardando la carta de retirar la consideración de “paraíso fiscal” en la mano hasta que no estén el resto en la mesa. Antes, la firma de un tratado de intercambio de información suponía automáticamente la retirada de la consideración de paraiso fiscal pero la última reforma permitío tener un Convenio y ser "jurisdicción no cooperativa" (todos pensamos en Panamá y la AEAT mantuvo el suspense hasta el final... que no lo consideró).El acuerdo fue un gol por la escuadra a Gibraltar. A partir del mismo los españoles no podrán refugiarse allá en ninguna circunstancia y los llanitos tendrán que sacar la calculadora para no pasar más de 183 días en su otra casa en Sotogrande si no quieren que la AEAT les considere “españoles” a efectos fiscales. Las sociedades off-shore lo tendrán también bastante difícil y las autoridades fiscales gibraltareñas casi se convierten en una sucursal de Guzman el Bueno, que era de Tarifa. https://www.fiscal-impuestos.com/sites/fiscal-impuestos.com/files/NFL020555_1.pdfEl mundo se estrecha.
Como el sistema actual permite a Montero ganar votaciones sólo con el respaldo de una sola comunidad, ha podido mantener el reglamento actual. Como ha publicado EL MUNDO este lunes, los consejeros del PP, que son mayoría, han solicitado cambiar el reglamento de modo que Montero necesite "una mayoría simple de comunidades" a partir de ahora para sacar adelante votaciones, pero la vicepresidenta mantiene el sistema actual. El PP busca que el Gobierno no sea tan dominante en las votaciones para imponer decisiones como las que se pueden avecinar con Cataluña.
La responsable catalana ha recuperado la antigua reclamación del independentismo de implantar ese sistema fiscal al estilo de Alemania, en donde los länder "recaudan la totalidad de los impuestos que se generan en su territorio". Esto permitiría a Cataluña "reducir su déficit fiscal y hacer uso de su soberanía", ha proseguid Mas, que también ha explicado que la región haría luego una aportación a la equidad territorial.
Mas también ha criticado con dureza el sistema actual que, en su opinión, ha resultado siempre "muy negativo para Cataluña y otros territorios también" y ha demostrado ser "arbitrario". En cambio, ha añadido, el modelo inspirado en Alemania que defiende la Generalitat "tiene una valoración objetiva y académica". "Las finanzas públicas de un Estado, de un país, no pueden gestionarse de una forma tan arbitraria", ha ahondado.
America is staring into the abyssAfter the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, an already existential election is now even more fraughtIt is not just Donald Trump who dodged a bullet. Half an inch to the left and the cartridge that grazed Trump’s ear would have turned him into a martyr. There is no telling what his death would have unleashed.As it is, the reprehensible attempted assassination of Trump will have profound reverberations for US democracy. Within seconds of being blanketed by secret service agents, Trump was yelling “fight, fight, fight” to the crowd. The instantly ubiquitous photo of him pumping his fist against the backdrop of the stars and stripes will become the emblem of his campaign.A high-trust society would have awaited the facts of the shooting before leaping to conclusions. By that yardstick, America is close to the edge. Two of the Republicans auditioning to be Trump’s vice-presidential running mate blamed Democrats for inciting hatred of Trump. The favourite, Ohio senator JD Vance, said the Biden campaign’s rhetoric “led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination”. Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator, said Democrats’ “inflammatory rhetoric puts lives at risk”. Elon Musk, owner of the site, X, on which these statements were posted, was quick to weigh in on a conspiracy about how the shooter could have got so close: “Either extreme incompetence or it was deliberate,” Musk wrote.Many on the left were equally quick to claim that the shooting was a staged or false flag operation to boost Trump’s election prospects. It is notable, however, that no senior Democratic official has yet fanned those rumours. The identity of the suspected shooter, a 20-year-old man called Thomas Matthew Crooks, offered little help. Though he was a registered Republican and an enthusiastic gun owner, he had made a small donation to a pro-Democratic group. It is plausible that like most US assassins, Crooks was acting alone and delusional. That will not stop political entrepreneurs from blaming the shooting on their ideological enemies.The biggest question is what Trump will do with it. No honest accounting of America’s fetid climate can ignore the fact that the former president himself is the country’s most influential exponent of political violence. He described those who stormed Capitol Hill with knives and nooses on January 6 2021 as “unbelievable patriots”. He mocked an attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of former Democratic speaker, Nancy Pelosi, after one of his own supporters smashed his head with a hammer. And he encouraged extremist militias to “stand by” shortly before the 2020 election. In calmer democracies, an incident as lethal as the near murder of a party leader with a AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle would lead to bipartisan calls for gun control. There is no chance Trump’s party will change its mind on that subject. The number of AR-15s in America has been estimated to be as high as 44mn, which puts comparisons with earlier periods of US political violence into perspective.Whether Trump gets a lasting sympathy boost remains to be seen. But three conclusions can already be drawn. The first is that the Republican national convention in Milwaukee this week will be dominated by his near miss. Trump’s campaign is enormously skilled at choreographing optics to enhance his message. The iconic fist-pumping imagery of the candidate rising courageously from his near death will suffuse the convention stage. Trump is expected to name his running mate in the next two days — probably on Monday. Expect the nation to be riveted by admiration or dread at the use to which Republicans put Trump’s near martyrdom. At Trump’s first presidential convention in Cleveland in 2016, the streets around the main hall teemed with private militias brandishing arms. Policing the streets of Milwaukee this week will be an unusually fraught challenge, even by America’s standards.Second, Joe Biden is likely to get at least a temporary reprieve from the internal Democratic debate about whether he should step down as his party’s nominee. Though it seems far longer, the 17 days since Biden flubbed his CNN debate with Trump have been consumed by an increasingly bitter shouting match between Democrats. The passions behind that dispute — who would be best placed to defeat Trump in November — remain just as relevant. But the focus will now swing back to Trump. Biden’s campaign said it was suspending its anti-Trump attack ads on Sunday. It will be surprising if that lasts more than a couple of days. There are still five weeks to go before the Democratic convention in Chicago. It would also be a surprise if calls for Biden to quit did not revive.It is far too soon to speculate — as some were quick to do — that Trump’s already-good election prospects are not now inevitable. In 1981, Ronald Reagan got a huge ratings surge after he was shot by a lone gunman. That boost evaporated within a few weeks. But it is fair to say that an already existential election is now considerably more fraught than before. Violence was already implicit in much of the rhetoric. Now it is explicit. It is always tempting to point out that guns and political murder are a staple of the US republic. That is true compared with other democracies. But the conditions in 2024 are unique. A bullet almost killed the man who is vowing retribution if he is returned to the White House. A spirit of vengeance is haunting America.
How can America be stabilized?In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump, America is the world's least stable Great Power.(...)In other words, the U.S. is highly likely to remain in a state of extreme political instability for the rest of this decade. This is simply awful for both the U.S. and the world. America is arguably now the least politically stable of all the great powers — we’ve had a coup attempt and a major assassination attempt within the span of four years, and we’re looking at four more years of struggle over control of the country’s institutions. And this is coming at a time when the country faces its greatest external threat in at least half a century — or possibly ever.Somehow, the country has to find its way back to the stability that a superpower requires. Unfortunately, these threats come at a time when most Americans are deeply exhausted from a decade of social strife and unrest, and may not have the will to fight for a functional nation.
La venta de viviendas regresa a terreno negativo, aunque los precios seguirán al alza SANDRA LÓPEZ LETÓNMadrid - 15 JUL 2024 - 11:30ACTUALIZADO: 15 JUL 2024 - 11:36CESTLa compraventa de vivienda no termina de salir a flote. Las operaciones se desplomaron un 21,5% en el mes de mayo, cuando cambiaron de manos 44.013 casas, la cifra más baja para este mes desde 2020, en plena pandemia del coronavirus, según los datos difundidos este lunes por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). En tasa intermensual (mayo sobre abril), las transacciones bajaron un 17,1%, mientras que en los cinco primeros meses de 2024 disminuyeron un 4,1% con respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior, lo que significa que se vendieron 10.781 casas menos. Ninguna autonomía se libró del descalabro, siendo Asturias, Andalucía, Cataluña, Galicia, Madrid y la Comunidad Valenciana las peor paradas.Había expectación por saber cómo se comportaría el mercado en el quinto mes del año, después del desplome de marzo y la fuerte subida del 24% que experimentó en abril por el efecto de la Semana Santa (en 2023 cayó en abril y este año en el tercer mes). Los datos del INE evidencian que ese extraordinario repunte fue coyuntural y que la compra de casas regresa a terreno negativo. La subida de los tipos de interés y el encarecimiento hipotecario siguen lastrando las operaciones, a pesar de la rebaja de 0,25 puntos básicos de tipos llevada a cabo por el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) en junio y de que el euríbor de ese mes se colocó en el 3,65%, una bajada leve respecto a mayo.Tampoco ayuda el constate encarecimiento de las casas, que sigue retrasando la decisión de compra y continúa expulsado a una parte importante de ciudadanos que no pueden pagar una entrada o asumir las letras hipotecarias. Es más, los expertos no esperan que los precios bajen este año. Según la compañía inmobiliaria Solvia, el precio de la vivienda cerrará 2024 con un aumento interanual de entre el 2% y el 3%. Y Sociedad de Tasación estima que el precio medio de vivienda nueva registrará un nuevo máximo al cierre de 2024, que se situaría en 2.979 euros por metro cuadrado con una variación interanual positiva del 3,8%, según las proyecciones que ha hecho públicas la compañía este lunes.Pero es el mercado de casas de segunda mano, que acaparó el 79,3% de las operaciones cerradas en mayo, el que más nota el parón en las ventas. “El mercado más damnificado es el de las viviendas usadas porque el alza de precios está tensionado mucho este mercado en el que la calidad es muy heterogénea”, indica Consuelo Villanueva, directora de Instituciones y Grandes Cuentas de Sociedad de Tasación. En mayo, se vendieron 34.908 casas, un 23,2% menos que en el mismo periodo del año anterior. En lo que va de año la caída es del 6%, según el INE.En obra nueva apenas se comercializaron 9.105 viviendas, un 14,4% menos en términos interanuales. La caída acumulada desde enero es del 4%. Este mercado agoniza por la falta de oferta. “En los últimos años se han construido 90.000 viviendas anuales, mientras que en el periodo de 2022 y 2023 se crearon 275.000 hogares. Con estos datos estimamos que, en proyección hasta 2025, tenemos un déficit de unas 600.000 viviendas”, recordó Roberto Blanco, director del Departamento de Análisis Macrofinanciero y Política Monetaria del Banco de España, en un encuentro organizado por el del Consejo General del Notariado la pasada semana. Además, el coste de construcción continúa registrando máximos de la serie histórica, tras detectarse incrementos del entorno del 30% en cuatro años. “Esto hace mella en la promoción inmobiliaria”, dice Villanueva, que insiste en que el problema de la vivienda es un problema de oferta y de falta de generación de suelo.En cuanto a la distribución geográfica de las compraventas en mayo, las comunidades autónomas que presentaron los menores descensos fueron País Vasco (-3,0%), La Rioja (-8,6%) y Extremadura (-14,2%). Por su parte, Asturias (-25,8%), Andalucía (-25,0%) y Cataluña (-24,5%) registraron las mayores caídas.El mercado está estancado, aunque los expertos dibujan un panorama algo distinto de cara a la segunda mitad del año. Sociedad de Tasación habla de “un segundo semestre de recuperación y una incipiente expansión de la actividad inmobiliaria e hipotecaria”. Y añade: “Pese a superar todavía el máximo recomendable del 30%, el esfuerzo de los hogares para hacer frente al pago de la cuota hipotecaria se reduce y el acceso a la vivienda se recupera ligeramente con motivo de la leve relajación de los tipos ofertados por las entidades en las nuevas operaciones”. Cree que unas condiciones más favorables de financiación también deberían aliviar el esfuerzo de los hogares. De acuerdo con esta tasadora, que espera una nueva rebaja de los tipos oficiales de 0,25 puntos en el último trimestre del año, la renta disponible debería seguir aumentando en un contexto de incremento de los salarios contenido y de acumulación de las tasas de ahorro, lo que posiblemente favorecerá la compra en lo que resta de año.“Si los pronósticos de desescalada de tipos de interés se cumplen y se producen dos descensos más en el segundo semestre del año, volveremos a ver cómo el acceso a la vivienda mejora al rebajarse las condiciones de acceso al crédito hipotecario y cómo la demanda que se mantenía a la espera volverá al mercado con fuerza. Una demanda también impulsada por las ayudas a la compra en forma de aval que jugarán un papel clave en la segunda parte del año”, según María Matos, directora de Estudios de Fotocasa. Pero lo que casi ningún experto espera es que el alivio para quienes desean comprar una casa llegue también por la parte de los precios.
Fed's Powell says officials won't wait until inflation reaches 2% to cut ratesJerome Powell says Fed is seeing 'more good inflation data'Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Monday that policymakers will not wait until inflation falls to 2% in order to cut interest rates. "The implication of that is that if you wait until inflation gets all the way down to 2%, you’ve probably waited too long, because the tightening that you’re doing, or the level of tightness that you have, is still having effects which will probably drive inflation below 2%," Powell said at the Economic Club of Washington D.C.The Fed chief reiterated that policymakers are looking for additional evidence that high inflation is conquered before they pivot to reducing rates."We want to have greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our 2% target," he said. "What increases that is more good inflation data. And lately, we have been getting some of that."Officials voted at their most recent meeting in May to hold interest rates steady at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the highest level since 2001. Although policymakers left the door open to rate cuts later this year in their post-meeting statement, they also stressed the need for "greater confidence" that inflation is coming down before easing policy.Since then, there has been some evidence that inflation is starting to ease again. The May personal consumption expenditures index showed that inflation had cooled to 2.6%, from a high of 7.1%. At the same time, core prices – which are more closely watched by the Fed because they strip out volatile measurements like food and energy – also climbed 2.6%, the slowest annual rate since March 2021. Most investors now expect the Fed to begin cutting rates in September or November and are penciling in just two reductions this year – a dramatic shift from the start of the year, when they anticipated six rate cuts beginning as soon as March.Powell did little on Monday to push back against those expectations. He also said that he thinks a "hard landing" scenario is unlikely.Higher interest rates tend to create higher rates on consumer and business loans, which then slow the economy by forcing employers to cut back on spending. Higher rates helped push the average rate on 30-year mortgages above 8% for the first time in decades. Borrowing costs for everything from home equity lines of credit, auto loans and credit cards have also spiked.
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China Home Prices Fall Sharply Despite Latest Rescue PlanRescue plan has done little to bolster sentiment in marketExpectations for more big stimulus at policy meeting are lowChina’s home prices fell again in June, underscoring the challenge for policymakers to halt the property market slump that’s hurting developers and the economy.New-home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidized housing, dropped 0.67% from May, when they slid 0.71%, the most since October 2014, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed Monday. Values of existing homes declined 0.85%, compared with a 1% decrease a month earlier.The figures add to evidence that a rescue package unveiled in May has done little to boost sentiment in the real estate market. Yet few expect more aggressive measures to emerge from a key five-year meeting of Chinese Communist Party officials starting Monday. Pressure on prices is likely to remain as developers and homeowners resort to deep discounts to offload homes.“Fears of catching a falling knife could deter property investment,” Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Kristy Hung and Monica Si wrote in a recent note. “Excessive inventory of new and existing homes added pressure for further price drops.”Price declines deepened from a year earlier. New-home prices slid 4.9% on average and used-home values tumbled 7.9%, the statistics bureau said.The property sector continued to weigh on China’s economy last quarter. Gross domestic product expanded 4.7% from a year earlier, missing the median estimate of 5.1% in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Real estate investment shrank 10.1% in the first half, the same pace as in the first five months, separate government data showed Monday.“Recent supports are a step in the right direction but are still dwarfed by the scale of the problem,” said Harry Murphy Cruise, an economist at Moody’s Analytics. “Real estate’s tentacles run deep. When the sector hurts, pain is felt economy-wide.”One bright sign was an improvement in residential property sales, which narrowed declines to 13% in June from a year earlier, according to Bloomberg calculations based on figures for the first six months. That compares with a 28% year-on-year drop in May.China introduced a broad real estate policy package in May, centered on relaxing mortgage rules and encouraging local governments to buy unsold homes. All four of the nation’s biggest cities — Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou — have since rolled out major easing measures for homebuyers.Investors and analysts are skeptical that the steps will be sufficient due to the limited central bank funding revealed so far and the slow progress of existing trial programs in several cities.Property polices are a key area of focus during the Third Plenum this week, one of the most important political meetings of the Chinese Communist Party. China has the firepower to end its housing crisis, including with a “big-bang solution” that involves pumping money like the Federal Reserve, but it’s unlikely to pull the trigger, according to Bloomberg Economics.A Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of Chinese real estate stocks fell 1.5% on Monday morning, extending declines to 27% from a mid-May high.Developer China Vanke Co. last week warned of a loss of as much as 9 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in the first half, as discounts and high land acquisition costs hurt margins. The state-backed company is trying to avoid following the likes of China Evergrande Group and Country Garden Holdings Co. into default.Funding for developers has stayed weak even after the government drew up a “white list” late last year of property firms that are eligible for loans. A broad gauge of financing for builders, including loans, bonds and proceeds from home sales, shrank 23% from a year earlier, separate data showed Monday.While slightly more cities saw new-home prices rise from a month earlier, the first such improvement in three months, the recovery has been skewed to bigger cities and second-hand homes, BI’s Hung said on Bloomberg Television.There are hurdles to a recovery as long as people remain insecure about their jobs and pessimistic about prices, Hung said. “People are still asking where the bottom is for home prices to get in the game and buy a property.”