tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90828472024-03-07T19:41:08.543+00:0025 cms de neveI can't prevent all things from falling apart but I'm doing my bestzerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4800125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-34368182863395470452014-01-23T13:33:00.000+00:002014-01-23T13:42:44.017+00:00Campanas, campaninas i campanairo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b><a href="http://studosmirandeses.blogs.sapo.pt/7778.html">Toques de sinos nas terras de Miranda</a></b></i></div>
zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-19900517878060013522014-01-22T18:15:00.001+00:002014-01-23T13:52:21.959+00:00Energia - A factura adiada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Montante do défice tarifário para 2014: <b>4.431.872 €. </b>Proposta de Tarifas e Preços para a Energia Elétrica em 2014 <i><b><a href="http://www.erse.pt/pt/imprensa/comunicados/2013/Comunicados/COMUNICADO_PROPOSTAS%20TARIFAS%20EE_2014_vfinal%2015_10_2013.pdf">(PDF)</a></b></i><br />
zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-74587381876954260392014-01-22T18:05:00.002+00:002014-01-22T18:05:21.746+00:002014 Economic Freedom Index<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><b><a href="http://www.heritage.org/index/country/portugal">Portugal’s economic freedom score is 63.5</a>, <i></i></b></i>making its economy the 69th freest in the 2014 Index. Its score is 0.4 point higher than last year, reflecting improvements in labor freedom, business freedom, and trade freedom that outweigh declines in the control of public finance and monetary freedom. Portugal is ranked 32nd out of 43 countries in the Europe region, and its overall score is above the world average. <i><b><a href="http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking">See the rankings.</a><i></i></b></i></div>
zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-10493419877436992012013-10-01T18:37:00.001+01:002013-10-01T18:37:29.918+01:00Depois de silenciar Maria José Nogueira Pinto<a href="http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/ribeiro-castro-queixase-de-ser-silenciado-pelo-cds_178361.html"><b>Ribeiro Castro queixa-se de ser "silenciado" pelo CDS</b></a>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-78181197793215167512013-10-01T18:34:00.001+01:002013-10-01T18:35:22.225+01:00Espelho meu<a href="http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/passos-tem-sido-dos-piores-lideres-do-psd_178323.html"><b>"Passos tem sido dos piores líderes do PSD"
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zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-63181899707060724602013-01-22T12:52:00.001+00:002013-01-22T12:52:06.377+00:00The lottery of life<strong><em><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/21566430-where-be-born-2013-lottery-life">Where to be born Index</a></em></strong>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-28551808844334532722012-10-12T08:52:00.000+01:002012-10-12T08:52:55.624+01:00Diz o burro sobre o pão de ló<strong><em><a href="http://publico.pt/Política/zorrinho-e-os-novos-audi-do-ps-e-dinheiro-dos-contribuintes-mas-a-democracia-tem-custos-1566918">“Quem quer uma democracia sem custos, o que verdadeiramente deseja é uma não democracia.”</a></em></strong> <br />
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-32402576200115846392012-10-11T12:42:00.001+01:002012-10-11T12:45:33.091+01:00A elite extractiva<div style="text-align: justify;">
Finalmente percebi o que quer dizer o PS com estratégia de crescimento para sair da crise. É o famoso apoio ao investimento e ao consumo. <a href="http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/home.php?template=SHOWNEWS_V2&id=583533"><strong><em>A Audi a a BMW agradecem pelo lado dos investidores</em></strong></a>, o PS fica feliz pelo lado dos consumidores. O contribuinte paga.</div>
zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-57250426762963275242012-08-23T17:23:00.001+01:002012-08-23T17:23:38.169+01:00Otra Liga<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2012/08/23/actualidad/1345728482_498508.html"><strong><em>Alemania alcanza un superávit público del 0,6% del PIB en el primer semestre</em></strong></a>. Los ingresos impositivos aumentan un 3,8% mientras los gastos apenas crecieron un 0,8%.</div>
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-28848232261131447272012-07-25T16:51:00.000+01:002012-07-25T16:51:13.332+01:0060<strong><em><a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/07/25/cultura/1343204162.html">Esquinas de Londres</a></em></strong>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-16883690475489511802012-07-02T18:10:00.004+01:002012-08-23T17:24:44.733+01:00Y ahora los números.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong><em><a href="http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2012/07/02/actualidad/1341215492_886927.html">El interés del bono a 10 años de España ha vuelto a subir hasta situarse en el 6,375%</a></em></strong>, mientras el de irlanda que vence en 2021 ha bajado por segunda jornada consecutiva y se ha colocado en el 6,344%.</div>
zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-51475056748328230132012-06-15T19:54:00.001+01:002012-06-15T19:54:50.673+01:00Vem aí a gripe espanhola III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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El endeudamiento de las administraciones públicas pasa del 35,5% en el primer trimestre de 2008 al 72,1% en marzo de este año.</div>
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-46958492848222518772012-06-09T21:39:00.002+01:002012-06-09T21:53:21.352+01:00El reniego y la duda<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong><em><a href="http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2012/06/09/actualidad/1339260169_865423.html">Primero negam la crisis, ahora negam el rescate</a>;</em> </strong>las liebres discuten sobre si sus perseguidores son galgos o podencos.</div>
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-70560996658459677592012-06-04T18:45:00.000+01:002012-06-04T18:45:20.303+01:00Retratos da crise<div style="text-align: justify;">
O número de subscritores de serviços de televisão por <a href="http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/home.php?template=SHOWNEWS_V2&id=560761"><strong><em>subscrição aumentou em 268 mil (9,5%)</em></strong></a>, no ano que terminou a 31 de Março, com a maior parte dos novos clientes a aderirem ao serviço através da tecnologia de fibra.</div>
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-68602716758494055822012-06-01T20:20:00.000+01:002012-06-01T20:20:55.017+01:002012 Tax Liberation Days<div style="text-align: justify;">
Taxes are on the rise in Europe and are largely invisible. As a single economic entity, typical workers in the European Union saw their average “real tax rate” rise again this year, from 44.23% in 2011 to 44.89% in 2012. The rise of nearly one full percent since 2010 is largely a consequence of VAT increases in 15 EU member states since 2009.</div>
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43.3% of all payroll taxes collected in the EU – employer contributions to social security paid on top of gross salaries – are largely invisible to employees. </div>
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Retired, disabled, disenfranchised or simply too young, more than half (54.7%) of EU citizens are not in the labour force. Tax-wise, working people must carry most of the weight – a weight that grows heavier as populations grow even older. Since 2010, the proportion of Europeans outside the labour force has grown 0.4%.</div>
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<strong><em><a href="http://newdirectionfoundation.org/eutaxes2012.pdf">The purpose of this study is to compare the tax and social burdens of salaried employees</a></em></strong> in the 27 Member States of the European Union and, in doing so, determine a <strong><em>“tax liberation day”</em></strong> for individuals who are working in those countries.</div>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-68906757862131960402012-05-31T10:51:00.001+01:002012-05-31T10:51:24.444+01:00Vem aí a gripe espanhola III<div style="text-align: justify;">
La prima de riesgo de la deuda española <strong><em>no encuentra techo</em></strong>, la Bolsa <strong><em>no encuentra suelo</em></strong> y el Gobierno parece <strong><em><a href="http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2012/05/30/actualidad/1338408517_402969.html">no encontrar el norte</a></em></strong>.</div>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-19212803048924340202012-05-29T19:37:00.004+01:002012-05-29T19:37:51.867+01:00Wolf Creek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/catalunha-pede-ajuda-financeira-a-espanha_145348.html"><strong><em>Catalunha pede ajuda financeira a Espanha.</em></strong></a> </div>
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Artur Mas considera que su Gobierno se está quedando sin vías válidas de financiación. Ha recordado que en los últimos dos años ha emitido bonos a un interés de entre el 4,5% y el 5% pero asegura que la capacidad de los catalanes para comprarlos ha llegado al límite.</div>
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La otra opción sería buscar financiación a corto plazo en los bancos, pero tampoco lo considera viable por el elevado interés que ya han tenido que pagar autonomías como la Comunidad Valenciana: el 7%. Por ello, la opción que defiende Mas son los llamados <strong><em>hispanobonos</em></strong>, una emisión de deuda conjunta de todas las autonomías avalada por el Estado. En opinión de Mas <strong><em><a href="http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/05/25/catalunya/1337956281_273567.html">el Gobierno central no puede pedir que se mutualice la deuda de los países de la Unión Europea con los eurobonos y oponerse a que se mutualice la de las comunidades autónomas con los hispanobonos</a>.</em></strong></div>
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<br />zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-2649912355274676702012-05-24T18:06:00.000+01:002012-05-24T12:18:57.920+01:00The end of the european siesta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVxhB392iSCZkQUZ5-L6UwDHb5iWisQpHtiQ9ihDxqrcoHix3YK7LWtsKzp0MMRJ5ZyfSFx0ltmJ4OgNa1rkGNbQq93LQwsWdX4F0hQrRnDzov3UI7aRJvBoFwzGLllUzHhtj/s1600/europiece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVxhB392iSCZkQUZ5-L6UwDHb5iWisQpHtiQ9ihDxqrcoHix3YK7LWtsKzp0MMRJ5ZyfSFx0ltmJ4OgNa1rkGNbQq93LQwsWdX4F0hQrRnDzov3UI7aRJvBoFwzGLllUzHhtj/s320/europiece.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div align="justify">The tragedy of Europe goes far beyond the case of Greece and only appears to be financial. The problem lies deeper: it extends to all member countries, or will eventually. It won’t be enough to put government budgets somewhat in order, to avoid a Greek bankruptcy, or to reassure the creditors of Spain and Portugal. <strong><em>Patching things up financially will not stop a contagion common to all of the European Union’s member countries, since all suffer from the same illness, though many would like to minimize its seriousness.</em></strong> The IMF, the Central European Bank, and the ministries all tell us: this is a financial and technical problem. We know how to proceed; this trouble will pass. We’ll provide a few loans and persuade the Germans to bring down government spending a bit. And then everything will be as before.</div><br /><div align="justify">What a denial of reality. <strong><em>The truth is that the foundations of the European Union are incompatible with the way European states govern themselves. Let’s be clear: the European Union is based on a free market. It was so conceived in political philosophy and in economics, and the only possible way to govern it is in accordance with such economic freedom. Yet all the national governments, even those of the right, have in fact created gigantic welfare states inspired by socialist ideology.</em></strong></div><br /><div align="justify">The fact is that, at the origins of Europe, Jean Monnet, a Cognac entrepreneur with strong American connections, concluded that European governments had never succeeded and would never succeed in making Europe a zone of peace and prosperity. He thus replaced the diplomatic engine with an economic engine: <strong><em>free trade and the spirit of enterprise, he envisioned, would generate “concrete areas of solidarity” that would eliminate war and poverty.</em></strong> Three EU founders, all Christian democrats—Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi, and Robert Schuman—ratified Monnet’s free-market intuition. <strong><em>These men shared a common moral and political understanding and a common economic analysis. All were suspicious of the statism then identified, for good historical reasons, with totalitarianism.</em></strong> The Commission of Brussels, and later the Central European Bank, were determined to keep faith with this original spirit of freedom in opposition to constant pressure from national governments to “socialize” Europe. The principle of free trade, which the Commission of Brussels constantly reinforced, roused Europe’s spirit of enterprise against various attempts at protectionism and national monopoly. (Often perceived in the U.S. as just another European super-bureaucracy, the Commission has been a consistent force for deregulation and competition.) The euro, moreover, was created to force states to balance their budgets, just as free-market monetary theory prescribed.</div><br /><div align="justify">Unfortunately, the national governments thought it possible to reap the economic benefits of a free Europe and the electoral delights of socialism. <strong><em>By “socialism,” I mean the unlimited growth of the welfare state—the accumulation of entitlements and jobs protected by the state.</em></strong> <strong><em>This de facto socialism, this sedimentation of electoral promises and acquired rights, grew in Europe at a much faster rate than did the economy or the population. It could thus only be financed by loans, which seemed risk-free, since the euro appeared “strong.” The euro’s strength drove its holders into a frenzy: suddenly, anything could be bought on credit.</em></strong> The result was a remarkably homogeneous indebtedness in all the countries of Europe, on the order of 100 percent of national wealth—ranging between Germany’s 91 percent and the Greeks’ 133 percent (a relatively modest difference), all reflecting a common socialist drift. Germany, Greece, Spain, and France differ less in their levels of debt or modes of administration, which are in fact quite similar, than in their debtors’ capacities to repay. <strong><em>All European states are run socialist-style, in contradiction with the European Union’s free-market principles.</em></strong> Some will be more able than others to deal with defaults, but all have drifted off course.</div><br /><div align="justify">How shall we explain this fatal drift? The true cause lies in ideology. Socialism dominates minds across Europe, whereas liberalism—which has retained its original free-market meaning in Europe—is under attack in the academy, in the media, and among intellectuals generally. <strong><em>In Europe, to support the market against the state, to recommend modesty on the part of the state, is taken for an “American” perversion. And socialist ideology is sufficiently engrained that it’s almost impossible for a non-suicidal politician to win election without promising still more public “solidarity” and still less individual risk.</em></strong> These welfare states, through their financial cost and the erosion of ethical responsibility that they foster, have smothered economic growth in Europe. <strong><em>We are the continent of decline, albeit decline with solidarity.</em></strong></div><br /><div align="justify">And now Greece’s bill has come due. It won’t be the last of its kind. <strong><em>What is to be done?</em></strong> We might perfectly well refuse to pay it—after all, why should French or German taxpayers of modest means pay taxes evaded by rich Greeks to finance Greek unions and the Greek military? But European finances are deeply interwoven: in reality, the euro owed by a Greek sits in a German or French bank. <strong><em>Whether or not non-Greeks rush to Greece’s aid would therefore change nothing; Europe’s failure will be collective. We thought we were citizens of independent nations, but we are instead a continent’s debtors. If Europeans don’t settle the Greek bill, then those of Portugal, Spain, and Italy will come due in quick succession, since a Greek bankruptcy would impact the euro’s value across the continent.</em></strong></div><br /><div align="justify"><strong><em>How can we escape such a tragedy? By buying time, by denying reality, by committing suicide—or by telling the truth.</em></strong> At this historic threshold, it’s hard to tell which of these scenarios will prevail. At the origins of Europe, Jean Monnet told the truth, and statesmen explained it to the various peoples of Europe. <strong><em>Today, it is not the Greek crisis that needs explaining, but the path that led to it. The long-term imperative is not the absorption of Greek or Spanish debt, but putting an end to the European strategy of decline.</em></strong> All things considered, we should thank the Greeks for waking us, however inadvertently, from our European siesta. <span style="font-size:85%;"><em>(Guy Sorman)</em></span></div>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-43017389448825285352012-05-22T11:34:00.002+01:002012-05-22T11:38:11.038+01:00Goodbye yellow brick road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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O Deutsche Bank, maior banco privado alemão, propôs a introdução de uma <strong><em><a href="http://economia.publico.pt/Noticia/deutsche-bank-propoe-moeda-paralela-para-a-grecia-o-geuro-1547123">moeda paralela ao euro na Grécia</a></em></strong>, caso os adversários das medidas de austeridade ganhem as eleições legislativas gregas de 17 de Junho.</div>
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Comentar a medida em si é o menos importante. O relevo está inteirinho na cada vez maior determinação da Alemanha (e não só) em deixar cair a Grécia e por arrasto quem se colocar em situação semelhante. Um euro amputado de economias frágeis e em crise, no momento e/ou a prazo, é um euro que compensa em sustentabiliade e força o custo da perda dessas economias. Já toda a gente o sabe menos os contribuintes dessas economias marginais.</div>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082847.post-88981666205952357322012-05-20T22:18:00.000+01:002012-05-20T22:19:11.121+01:00Burgernomics<div style="text-align: justify;">
<em>The Economist</em> tem o <strong><em><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21542808">Big Mac index</a></em></strong> baseado na teoria da PPP (purchasing-power parity) segundo a qual as taxas de câmbio a prazo fariam equivaler o preço de um cabaz de produtos em diferentes países. Neste caso o cabaz é um hamburger da McDonalds: O Big Mac. </div>
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Pacheco "lefty" Pereira, em regime de parceria, tem um outro index: <strong><em><a href="http://abrupto.blogspot.pt/2012/05/retratos-da-crise-sandra-bernardo_18.html">O prato da crise.</a></em></strong></div>zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098127166872415595noreply@blogger.com0