¿La resurrección del ALCA? La cooperación entre la Alianza del Pacífico y el MERCOSUR
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Resumen: Oscar Ugarteche y Miriam E. Chaverría Reséndiz. A lo largo de la historia, se han creado distintos proyectos de integración latinoamericanos, panamericanistas y regionalistas, para formar lo que hoy vive América Latina, un plato de tallarines, en sus múltiples sistemas de integración económica.
El reciente acercamiento entre los bloques económicos:el MERCOSUR y la Alianza del Pacífico; el primero regionalista y el segundo panamericanista; refleja una busqueda de puentes entre ambos.Sin embargo pareciera existir un impulso a resucitar el ALCA de una nueva forma: la suma de los dos bloques, que siguiendo el principio de nación más favorecida (establecida en el artículo primero del GATT), indudablemente sesgan los acuerdos hacia los países con el menor arancel.
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¿Socialismo en Estados Unidos?
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Resumen: Después del rescate de emergencia del sistema hipotecario (Fannie Mae, Freddy e Indy Mac) el longevo ex presidente de la Reserva Federal (por 18 años, hasta el 2006) Alan Greenspan vaticinó hace ya tres semanas que más bancos terminarían siendo rescatados de la quiebra, antes de que la crisis crediticia termine (F. Times del 4 de agosto del 2008). Pero no sólo Greenspan prevé que las autoridades de los EEUU deberán nuevamente intervenir a instituciones para salvarlas de la insolvencia por sus depreciados patrimonios y sus negros estimados de ganancias. Por ello, los bancos y, desde la venta de emergencia del Bear Stearns en marzo 08, también los bancos de inversión, acuden a las ventanillas de emergencia que ofertan los mayores bancos centrales, precisamente para evitar una crisis sistémica. En el caso de Bear, la Reserva Federal(FED) y el Tesoro actuaron con tal celeridad porque se enteraron que dicho banco iba a aplicar a uno de los Capítulos de quiebras, el Capitulo 11 y al hacerlo, admitir legalmente su insolvencia. |
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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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