¿Detroit pone en jaque a Alemania?
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Resumen: Las bancarrotas municipales en Estados Unidos tienen tras de sí la experiencia traumática de la crisis fiscal de Nueva York en la década de los setenta. Liderada por Walter Wriston al frente de Citibank, la «Gran Banca» gestionó la quiebra de la Gran Manzana y demostró que los intereses de las instituciones financieras priman sobre el bienestar de los ciudadanos.[3] El costo de la quiebra fue el desmontaje del mecanismo municipal de apoyo social diseñado en los años treinta. Ahora en pleno siglo XXI, aparece una nueva quiebra municipal en Detroit. Fundada en 1701, ubicada en el estado de Michigan y con una superficie de 370 kilómetros cuadrados, la ciudad se declaró técnicamente en bancarrota el 18 de julio con una deuda de 18,500 millones de dólares (mdd). La mayor quiebra registrada en Estados Unidos luego del default de Jefferson County en el estado de Alabama en 2011 por 4,200 mdd.[4] |
MUNDIALIZACIÓN DE LA CRISIS Y REFORMA FINANCIERA EN MÉXICO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN
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Resumen: La crisis financiera estadounidense de 2007-2008 inicia su mundialización al resto del mundo, particularmente hacia las economías emergentes toda vez que la Reserva Federal (Fed) ha anunciado su eventual retiro de estímulos monetarios. Esto ha traído consigo el alza de la tasa de interés de largo plazo (bonos del Tesoro a 10 años) revirtiendo gradualmente el flujo de capitales de corto plazo hacia las economías emergentes[3]. |
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Fecha: Lunes, Mayo 23, 2022 - 19:52
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For decades, the mainstream of both the Democratic and Republican parties favored expanding trade between the U.S. and other countries. Greater globalization, these politicians promised, would increase economic growth — and with the bounty from that growth, the country could compensate any workers who suffered from increased trade. But it didn’t work out that way. Instead, trade has contributed to the stagnation of living standards for millions of working-class Americans, by shrinking the number of good-paying, blue-collar jobs here. The incomes of workers without a bachelor’s degree have grown only slowly over the past few decades. Many measures of well-being — even life expectancy — have declined in recent years. All along, many politicians and experts continued to insist that trade was expanding the economic pie. And they were often right. But struggling workers understandably viewed those claims as either false or irrelevant, and they refused to support further expansions of trade. Fuente: |
Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 18, 2022 - 21:40
Headlines are abuzz with the return of inflation, which, according to some measures, is now reaching 40 year highs. Considering that vanquishing inflation is supposed to be the one undisputed achievement of neoliberalism, why is it rising? Many explanations – from excessive money creation to disrupted supply chains to tightening labour markets and a post-lockdown surge in demand are offered. The view that it would be a short term affair is giving way to a more sobering assessment of its persistence, particularly since geopolitical conflict gave inflation a booster shot. As for its solution, one thing is clear, dealing with it as Paul Volcker famously did in the late 1970s is not a politically affordable option for governments beholden to elites whose outrageous fortunes depend on low interest rates. This panel will seek to examine this phenomenon by asking question such as why is inflation rising? Can we expect it persist? What are the major policy-options being discussed and what are their political implications of each? How should socialists think about this new problem? Fuente: |
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