Monday, March 30, 2009
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
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Corriere.it Today I read about that "was eventually removed from the City Council who was crucified with condom shown at the NAP of Naples." In this case, as in the case of Ratzinger's statement on condoms in Africa ("do not serve to prevent AIDS"), the Catholic Church and the Christian religion-style bigot get hurt themselves.
Pope because he can not lose more that consensus and deepen the crisis of Catholicism in the world, those who did remove the crucifix because, thanks to their intervention, a work of art (openly critical of Catholic morality) of which 99% of us would never have become aware of is in the public domain ... and to me it also seems an interesting concept, or at least (intellectually) "interesting."
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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largely explains and in detail the great economist Nouriel Roubini in the intervention reported in my previous post ( NO RECOVERY IN SIGHT ) a real recovery, supported and sustained the global economy and financial markets are still far away. Friday, March 13, 2009
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From Roubini Global Econmonitor ( www.rgemonitor.com )
Americans have lived in a Ponzi economy-invented (a giant pyramid scheme) for a decade or more. Bernie Madoff is the mirror of the American economy "made off" (invented, in fact) and its agents overexposed: a house of cards financial acrobatics by families, investment companies and corporations that now has collapsed.
When the 'individual get a mortgage with a deposit of zero dollars to buy a house and therefore has no capital in the value of the bow home, his leverage is virtually infinite, and is thus entering the Ponzi game ( pyramid scheme).
And bank that gave him, without any guarantee, a loan NINJA (No Income, No Job and Assets) liar, which for years you can pay only the interest, negative amortization and an initial rate attractive, was also playing with the system Ponzi (pyramid).
And investment companies that have put together more than a trillion dollars LBO (Leveraged Buyouts: The acquisition of one company by another company using borrowed money almost exclusively) in recent years with a ratio debt / income of more than 10 companies were also playing with Ponzi Ponzi scheme. And a government
conclusion that trillions of dollars of new debt to pay for this severe recession and socialize private losses in danger of becoming a government Ponzi if - in the medium term - not a line on tax returns and disciplined-based on debt sustainability.
And that country - for over 25 years - has spent more than you earn and has implemented an endless series of financial deficit and thus became the largest foreign debtor World (with a net foreign debt that could exceed 3 trillion dollars by the end of this year) is also a country that Ponzi could become insolvent at some point if it fails - on time and on time - to tighten their belts and reduce the budget deficit up to transform them into surplus. When
, consistently, year after year, consume more than they earn (a family with savings to the person, a government with a deficit of buget, a company or financial institution with continuing losses, a country with a deficit accounting) are playing the Ponzi game: in economic terms you are not meeting the requirements of the intertemporal budget your long-term borrowing to pay the interest on previous loans, and then you follow a dynamic of unsustainable debt (the debt that grows faster than interest) which ultimately leads to insolvency.
According to economic theory, agents Ponzi are those (families, businesses, banks) who bisongo to borrow money to pay off both the initial loan and the interest of your debt: bisongo have to increase constantly the value of what they have invested to continue to fund their obligations to creditors.
Under this standard, U.S. households whose debt rose from 65% of revenue fifteen years ago to 100% of revenue in 2000 and 135% of revenue today were playing the Ponzi game.
U n'economia where the debt ratio (families, financial companies and corporations) is now equal to 350% is a Ponzi-Economy-off made (invented). And now that home values \u200b\u200bfell by 20% and 20% frame by entering the fall before reaching the minimum level, now that the stock value dropped by 50% (and could still fall), use the houses as ATMs and borrow against the value of the house to finance consumption Ponzi is no longer feasible. The party is over for families, banks and corporations over-exposed.
The bursting of the housing bubble and the stock market bubble and the hedge fund bubble and credit bubble has shown that the wealth that supported the huge economic exposure and the costs of unsustainable wealth was a false economy agents created by the bubbles. Now that those bubbles have burst it is clear that the emperor was naked and that Americans are Emperor naked. The bubble growth hid the fact that the majority of Americans and their banks were swimming naked: the bursting of the bubbles is low tide that showed everyone who was naked.
Madoff will now pass the rest of his days in jail. American families, financial companies and non-financial corporations will spend the next generation in debt prison, with the obligation to minimize fuel costs and to repay the losses inflicted by more than a decade of investment senseless, excessive consumption and reckless risks.
Americans, look in the mirror: are you Madoff and Ponzi's you!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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From Roubini Global Econmonitor ( www.rgemonitor.com )
The recent and sharp declines in the value of the shares in the U.S. and the world, does not imply a consequent rise immediately and, indeed, no risk of further declines in the stock market. The short race to the top (the "bear market rallies") are intended to be sporadic and isolated, crushed under the weight of news deteriorating macro-economic trend of companies and financial markets.
Following a macroscopic approach, earnings per share of companies in the S & P 500 could be realistically between 50 and $ 60 (some claim that could go up to $ 40). The question is what will be the multiplier, that is the price / earnings (P / E - Price / Earnings) on those gains. It is fair to say that this multiplier will fall to a value of 10-12 in a recession of medium length (U-shaped). So even in the best possible scenario (gains of 60 and P / E 12), the S & P would reach 720. If the earnings are closer to $ 50 and the P / E less than 10, the S & P bit will drop below 600 or even below 500 points. According to the same concept as the Dow Jones at the most to stop or even go down to 7,000 up to 6,000 or 5,000. Using the same reasoning, global equity values \u200b\u200b(following those in the U.S.) are likely to fall by another 20%.
These forecasts were drawn up when the S & P was still close to 900 points and the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) was close to 9000: the overall analysis that has resulted is the reason why we have argued that the last "bear market sucker's rally" (literally "rush of the nerds", the quick growth of stock prices tied to purchases of investors overly optimistic and intended to be "scrubbed"), between November 2008 and January 2009, would be exhausted and would been achieved new negative peaks. Indeed. Like the previous rallies, this one has fallen by more than 20%, with the DJIA el S & P fell below the 7,000 and 700 points respectively. Now that both are well below the level "7", the next test will come when will drop below the values \u200b\u200bof 6,000 and 600 for the two indexes.
A new bear market rally could be repeated in the second and third quarters of this year and will end like the previous six. Over the past 12-18 months, whenever there was a dramatic event (which has dragged the indices to new lows) and the government has responded with a more aggressive policy, the optimists have gone out into the open by declaring that yet another dramatic and cathartic event in question was the achievement of the lowest point from which to start shooting real: they said it after Bear Stearns, after the collapse and rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after Lehman Brothers After AIG, after the announcement of the TARP (Trouble Asset Relief Program), after the G7 communiqué, after the fiscal stimulus of $ 800 billion (which marked the start of the latest sucker's rally).
And after a while the markets were again shocked to find that macroeconomic news was much worse than expected in both the U.S. and abroad. That the gains were much lower than expected non- just for financial operators, estate agents, builders and businesses directly to consumers but also for companies not related to the financial sector and markets, the performance of investment groups and general news are worse than expected.
As we have said many times there are many negative news associated with these companies / financial markets news that more and more financial institutions are effectively insolvent and should be acquired by governments, news very leveraged institutions like hedge funds, will untying and then sell the property in non-liquid-liquid markets, news that even the less leveraged investors (retail, mutual fund, etc.), which lost over 50% of shareholder value, they want to reduce their equity exposure, and news that a number of emerging economies is now on the verge of a financial crisis contagious.
Why even the small emerging market economies affect the price of risk values \u200b\u200bat the global level? Take, for example, Iceland, a small island with 300,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Atlantic: the local banks have borrowed money from abroad to a value equal to 12 times the GDP of the country el'hanno invested in toxic assets. Now the banks are bankrupt and the state has failed, because the banks were too big to be salavate In the same way banks sell assets illiquid illiquid in global markets have a ripple effect on markets.
Clearly we can not rule out a bear market sucker's rally in Q2 or Q3 2009. In order to pull the news will be improvements in economic growth in the U.S. and China due to stimulation approved by the respective governments. But soon after (in Q4) the effects of tax cuts and ad investment on infrastructure will collapse, because most of the work on infrastructure needs at least a year only to be started (to be completed require much more time). Similarly, in China, the fiscal stimulus will provide a false increase in productive activities while the unlisted sector quoted manufacturing industry will continue to decline. Given the severity of the macroeconomic imbalances, real estate, financial and corporate in the U.S. and around the world this sucker's rally will run out as the five that preceded it.
What are the major risks, according to these pessimistic forecasts for the U.S. and global stock prices? The most dangerous scenario, as we have already said, that of a quasi-long-term depression, much more severe recession of the mid-term where we are today. If you experience a near-depression we could not exclude a further decline of 40-50% of U.S. equity and global values. But in this near-depression markets equity would be the last concern: there would be major problems to be faced as unemployment rates over 15% and a multi-year period of stagnation / deflation.
The best scenario is that of a sustained recovery to occur faster than our forecast, thanks to the stimulus in the U.S. and other countries. A sustained recovery (contrappopposta a temporary recovery) is unlikely but the argument optimistic (bullish) aimed to counter a pessimistic market (bearish) is based on a resilience of U.S. and global economies than expected.
The problem is that, with the U.S. economy and global in serious difficulty and with the deflationary forces at work, it's hard to believe that there might be a massive recovery in 2010 that boosted the face gudagni: even if optimistic that we are in a recession in the medium term, growth will be less than the U.S. in 2010 '1% and the eurozone will be around 0%. Then, with a growth so slow the deflationary pressure is still there, putting further pressure on profits and on the ability of companies to fix prices and therefore margins. In this scenario, a rapid and sustained growth of stock prices is highly unlikely.
is true that generally the share price looks ahead and tends to reach the minimum level of about 6-9 months before the end of the recession, seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. So the optimists who see a recovery in the second half of 2009 argue that the recovery should start. But this recession could not be completed in 24 months (December 2009). It is more likely that unemployment will increase in 2010 to more than 10% and that growth is so slow (0-1%) which will remain in a technical recession for most of 2010. So the stock indices touching their lowest value in late 2009 or even 2010.
also do not always look at stock prices ahead of 6-9 months. In the last recession, the business has reached the lowest point in November of 2001 and the GDP growth was already strong in 2002. But the stock market continued to fall until the first quarter of 2003. So not only the trend in equity markets have not been able to precede the resumption but even arrived 18 months later. A similar scenario could happen again this time: the real economy out of recession in 2010 but the growth is so weak that the deflationary forces maintain a further block the ability of corporations to fix prices and then determine the profit margins, with several false starts dell'ottimistico bullish market.
Most likely we will have to fasten your seatbelt and get ready to new lows of U.S. stocks and global in the next 12-18 months. A strong recovery can take place when we can see clear signs that this global recession in the medium term not turning into a quasi-depresisone long term. Until then we can expect volatile equity performance and fragmented, with minimum reached new heights in the coming months and throughout the course of 2009.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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The turnover of the products that use nanotechnology-based materials has almost reached $ 150 billion and could reach 3 trillion by 2015: this is the way out of crisis or new potential risk for people and the planet?
In 2001, after the Internet bubble burst, the most optimistic had already assumed a recovery driven by an innovative and revolutionary new technology such as IT, nanotechnology, the ability to observe, measure and manipulate matter at atomic, molecular and macromolecular.
The idea of \u200b\u200bmanipulating and producing materials in size between 1 and 100 nanometers (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter, equivalent to about ten atoms of hydrogen) seemed like science fiction of interstellar travel, but did note the scientists, was already something feasible, so that the U.S. Congress has created right in 2001, the NNI (National Nanotechnology Initiative) to optimize and support an investment of over $ 10 billion to be allocated to research; development of nanotechnology.
was probably too soon. Investors and hedge funds have preferred to focus on subprime mortgages and the housing bubble specualazioni for their shareholders. Growing up without the boost from equity capital, the turnover of products that already incorporate nanotechnology materials, however, has reached 146 billion dollars globally and estimates of the company Lux Research predicts exponential growth, reaching the 3.1 trillion (3,100 billion dollars) for 2015 (only a few months ago the prediction was raaggiunge a trillion)
Today with nanotechnology will produce clothing, cosmetics, protective materials for paints, coatings for various surfaces, and even memory chips and hard disk capable of recording large amounts of data at very high densities. In the coming years are expected medical products as drugs and prostheses, but the potential applications are virtually endless and may even be able to ensure an improved eco-friendliness of the materials we use. Could this be one of the fields trainer that innovation needed to create the economic miracle claimed by Obama and other heads of state to revive global economies.
Unlike other technologies most experimental, in fact, even in Italy research and industrial activities related to nanotechnology are in turmoil. This may be an important signal because, you know, our country is generally reluctant to risk investing in technologies that do not offer major opportunities for gain in the short to medium term.
In 2003 he created the Italian Centre for Nanotechnology (Nanotec IT) with the mission to promote the development and application of nanotechnology in Italy, in order to enhance the competitive position of the country. Ben 20 companies have already entered a Nanotec IT (including giants such as Finmeccanica, Pirelli Labs, STMicroelectonrics, ENI), together with 18 research institutes of the CNR and nine other national universities.
The future of this technology is flourishing, and, more than many other areas, it might be strategic but must deal with a strong ideological resistance to the idea of \u200b\u200bmanipulating materials at the molecular level davvvero without knowing the full implications of these processes . It's irrational fears related to the unknown or are at risk, our health and the planet itself?
To try to address these legitimate concerns and know more fully the potential of nanotechnology and above all economic, next March 23 the American Association Project on Emerging Nanotecnologies held a conference (which you can participate via the Internet at www.wilsoncenter.org) with the participation of numerous scholars and experts in this field.