Enchastre está bueno como definición, pero creo que mamarracho es más precisa. El sistema del 11 de marzo lo hicieron unos muchachos en sus notebooks; esta quizás la hizo algún niño -seguramente de apellido Fernández- con un crayón en una servilleta.
Real exports of goods and services increased 2.8 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 6.5 percent in the fourth. Real imports of goods and services decreased 2.6 percent, compared with a decrease of 1.4 percent.El consumo creció al 1%, la inversión residencial bajó el 25,5%. ¿No era exactamente ésta la corrección que necesitaba la economía norteamericana?
...Cafiero recorrió la provincia mostrando la cara domesticada y democrática del partido. Guido se presentaba como su principal referente económico, pero no siempre lograba hacerse entender. En un acto en Lanús, un militante le preguntó cuál era el plan económico de la Renvación peronista y Guido contestó que buscarían el "óptimo de Pareto", en referencia a la teoría de Vilfredo Pareto, un economista italiano...
-Y ese Pareto, ¿de qué sección electoral es?- quiso saber el hombre.
Bloguín confirmó que el acuerdo preliminar consiste en lo siguiente:
Establecer y fijar por tres años el sistema que se utilizará para aumentar en el futuro los salarios.
El esquema reconocería una estimación de la suba anual de los precios y aumentos por productividad.
La pauta de inflación que se utilizaría, sería la proyectada en el Presupuesto.
Consistiría en una pauta de inflación decreciente.
En caso de un desfasaje entre la inflación proyectada y la efectivamente registrada, se establece un sistema de compensación para los trabajadores al final de cada año. Por ejemplo, si la previsión anual es del 12% y la inflación final fuera del 15%, a fin de año se otorgaría un ajuste adicional de salarios del 3%.
While I am sorely aware of the unsatisfactory way to settle a game that penalty kicks are -- one of my earliest football memories was the painful elimination of Germany by Argentina in penalty kicks in the 1986 World Cup -- I always secretly hope for them. They are just sooooo nerve-wracking; and that is exciting and fun.Por suerte uno lo ubicó.
A letter written as late as 1729 by a Jesuit missionary, Carlos Gervasini, throws some light upon the subject of animal abundance and human methods. Writing from Buenos Aires, he says: 'So numerous are the cattle in the neighbouring campo here that any landowner may take from ten to twelve thousand to breed from, merely for the trouble of lassoing them and driving them home. In order to take more than this number a special licence is required from the governor. The ships returning to Spain are filled with the hides, and none but good specimens of these are troubled about. As to the flesh, each man takes what he requires and leaves the rest to the jaguars and dogs'. After which, Gervasini states that in no other country has he seen so many dogs nor such fat ones!
It was doubtless this free and easy method of bestowing gratuitous meals that had long ere this period inoculated the canine temperament with a deep-seated affection for beef. For generations the plains had been infested by packs of dogs that, responding to the call of the wild, had exchanged their domesticated condition for an utterly savage state. Wolf-like, it was their habit to go padding over the campo, emulating in their own fashion the hunting expeditions of the men. According to some, such was the abundance of the cattle that the presence of the marauding dogs was something of a blessing.
A certain Azcarate du Biscay, who in 1658 undertook a voyage to the River Plate in the interests of commerce, touches upon this point in a general description of the land and its people. 'The riches of these folk' he states, 'consist of cattle which multiply so prodigiously that the plains are covered with them. If it were not for a number of dogs who devour the young, the country would be devastated by them'. He goes on to say that the same abundance existed with regard to horseflesh. In the town of Buenos Aires itself, however, there were very few who possessed these animals. This lack of horses, by the way, was principally on account of the trouble that their keep involved. All those who lived outside the radius of the town were inveterate riders, and invariably went at a gallop a description that proves how little the ethics of the 'camp' have changed in some respects from that day to this. The merchant adds that such horse-hide as was not exported to Europe was wont to be put to every conceivable purpose which it could possibly serve.
As a further proof of the astonishing quantity of the live-stock at that period the same writer gives an account of a stratagem that the inhabitants told him they were wont to employ in the case of an attempted invasion. According to them, should hostile craft appear upon the waters of the great river, it was their custom to drive to the threatened point of the shore such vast masses of bulls, cows, and horses that, even were the enemy not deterred from landing by the fury of the cattle, it was impossible for them to cut their way through the great press of beasts. Argentina, it is true, is not the only country where cattle have been employed as allies by the defending forces. At the battle of Morat, for instance, the Swiss urged a herd of maddened bulls upon the English mercenaries, with disastrous results that are testified to by the red coats that still hang in the museum of Neuchatel. But this sudden massing and manipulation of such tremendous four-footed forces savours perhaps just a little of exaggeration, arch-expert in his trade as the peon was then, as now. The writer was only a chance wayfarer in the land. It is not impossible that the men of the plains drew the long bow for the benefit of the merchant-stranger it is, indeed, a process from which the globe-trotter is wont to suffer even to this day.
A century later, in any case, the numbers of the cattle were not considered proof against the attacks of their old-time enemy, the wild dog. Though the herds of the horned beasts had continued to multiply, the bands of their canine assailants, encouraged by such a plentiful supply of fresh meat, had increased out of all proportion. In the latter half of the eighteenth century these visitations had developed into a plague that called for repressive measures. A troop of militia was sent out into the campo with orders to wage merciless war on the dogs. The campaign was conducted on the stipulated lines: there were no prisoners; canine corpses littered the plains. The troop returned to Buenos Aires, happy in the consciousness of a duty well done. Though annihilation had proved impossible, they had thinned the hostile ranks.
On their return to the capital, however, the welcome extended to the soldiers struck them in the nature of a shock. It was unfortunate for many reasons that the inhabitants of Buenos Aires had cultivated an undue sense of the ridiculous. The luckless campaigners, instead of praise, were greeted with a shower of this very ridicule. Each was belauded with overwhelming and disconcerting mock praise. Each, moreover, was solemnly invested with the title of Mataperro, the 'dog-killer'.
This proved the climax. Volunteers for a second expedition were called for. None were forthcoming. The fear of further nicknames left the muster roll a perfect blank, devoid of a single name. From an economic point of view the coining of one word had induced far-reaching effects. For one thing, it had spared the lives of thousands of dogs, and had signed the death warrant of at least as many cattle. The reprieved wild dog the perro cimarron continued to flourish until 1860, when, in a less sensitive age, the last of the canine bands was exterminated.
P.: ¿Cuál es la principal causa de la desconfianza?
L.L.: La Argentina hoy tendría que estar mutando su modelo de salarios bajos y alto costo de capital, a uno de salarios más altos en dólares y menor costo de capital. Esta es la forma de mantener la ecuación rentable para el conjunto de la economía.
Lamentablemente, estamos viendo subas salariales en dólares, pero a la vez severos aumentos en el costo de capital. Esto se mide objetivamente por el riesgo-país, y subjetivamente por la incertidumbre respecto del rumbo macroeconómico. Es similar a lo que ocurrió en el último tramo de la convertibilidad: el país había quedado con salarios muy elevados en términos de dólar y las sucesivas crisis internacionales hicieron que el costo del capital subiera al mismo tiempo. El hecho de que esta mutación de modelo no suceda es uno de los datos más preocupantes que se ven.
From: Doña Tota
To: lacienciamaldita
Rollo, cómo va?
Te puedo hacer una consulta? Tengo un amigo que tiene que renovar un plazo fijo en 10 días. Está medio paranoico. Me pregunta qué hace, si lo renueva o qué? Qué me decís que le diga?
From: lacienciamaldita
To: Doña Tota
con plazo fijo tenés una buena chance de ganar unos pocos dólares y una pequeña chance de perder muchos. comprando dólares sabés cuántos dólares vas a tener. yo prefiero lo segundo pero sólo porque soy cagón.
Según Montamat, "el combustible será caro" (el precio del primer cargamento andaría por los 14 dólares el millón de BTU, más 2 o 3 dólares por el alquiler de la planta). Eso daría unos 16 o 17 dólares el millón de BTU, contra el gas de Bolivia, que cotiza a 7-8 dólares. El precio del gas para el consumo residencial en la Argentina es de 0,50 dólares, y lo que se le paga al productor supera levemente los 2 dólares.
If girls and young women ruptured their anterior cruciate ligaments (A.C.L.’s) at just twice the rate of boys and young men, it would be notable. Three times the rate would be astounding. But some researchers believe that in sports that both sexes play, and with similar rules — soccer, basketball, volleyball — female athletes rupture their A.C.L.’s at rates as high as five times that of males.
Tanto los países desarrollados como los países en desarrollo deben abandonar la meta inflacionaria. Ya bastante tienen con pagar los precios cada vez más altos de los alimentos y de la energía. El enfriamiento de la economía y el aumento del desempleo que trae aparejados la meta inflacionaria o tendrán mucho impacto en la inflación: sólo harán más difícil la tarea de sobrevivir en esas condiciones. [la negrita es original, esto es, bloguinesca]Con todo respeto, Joe, no podría estar más en desacuerdo. En los países en desarrollo -y ahora acaso también en los desarrollados- el principal canal de transmisión de la política monetaria a la economía es la tasa de cambio. Pero ni siquiera hace falta creer eso. Basta con creer que la autoridad monetaria puede manejar el tipo de cambio. Ante inflación importada, sencillo: apreciación proporcional como para que el precio de los bienes externos expresados en moneda local tengan el mismo valor. Ya lo decía Keynes -a mi juicio, uno de los inventores del sistema de metas de inflación- cuando en el Tract on Monetary Reform se admiraba de que la India hubiera apreciado su moneda en la inflación de 1919-1920 y depreciádola (?) en la inflación de 1921-22.
Last month, 45 U.S. food-processing groups, representing firms whose raw material costs have gone through the roof, demanded that the U.S. agriculture secretary release farmers from their contractual obligation to maintain a portion of their land for wildlife preservation. The U.S. baking industry's trade association, representing firms such as Kellogg Co., Sara Lee Corp. and Interstate Bakeries Corp., plans a march on Washington by the firms' employees later this month to press for a reduction in U.S. wheat exports...
Jintao lo hizo
