April 2012
15 posts
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La millor promesa de CiU
“942. Al llarg de la legislatura, farem un balanç permanent i fefaent de compliment de les propostes formulades en el Programa, per tal que la ciutadania avaluï la tasca efectuada.”
Si CiU convoca eleccions anticipades, podrà reciclar el seu programa electoral de 2010, ja que no té res a veure amb la gestió que han portat a terme.
Maneras de matar: Un Real decreto-ley de escándalo →
La retirada de la asistencia sanitaria a los inmigrantes irregulares provocará unos enormes daños sociales en mi barrio adoptivo del Raval, de donde procede este imagen, y en el conjunto del estado:
Bertolt Brecht, “Maneras de matar”
Hay muchas maneras de matar.
Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre.
Quitarte el pan.
No curarte de una enfermedad.
Meterte en una mala...
The Guardian - Billionaire superyachts cast a... →
This is a clear example of what David Harvey calls “accumulation by dispossession”:
“Neighbours fear that a huge wall may go up around part of the port to ensure the privacy of a handful of wealthy people, creating a fortress-like billionaires’ ghetto on their doorstep. Protesters have already taken to Barceloneta’s narrow streets, demanding that speculators be kept...
Mary Beard, "It was satire" →
“Caligula: A Biography offers a sharp analysis of political communication in imperial Rome and faces the central question raised by many ancient writers themselves: the question of how language functions under an autocracy. It is an eloquent and compelling study of Roman imperial history, and especially of the difficult relations between the imperial monarch and the traditional aristocracy....
Steve Waldman, "Depression is a choice" →
A really terrific blog post:
“We are in a depression, but not because we don’t know how to remedy the problem. We are in a depression because it is our revealed preference, as a polity, not to remedy the problem. We are choosing continued depression because we prefer it to the alternatives….
This preference is not at all difficult to understand. The ailing developed economies are...
David Lizoain, "Grècia vota el seu futur" →
He preparat aquesta petita nota per la FRC:
“Compartim un projecte que es diu Europa, i no podem pretendre engegar a rodar als més febles, com si fossin un llast. Si no sumem forces i plantegem una resistència compartida, en breu el que ha passat als grecs ens passarà a nosaltres.”
Barry Eichengreen, "The ECB's Lethal Inhibition" →
“The ECB is preoccupied by moral-hazard risk – the idea that supporting spending will relieve the pressure on governments to act. But it should also worry about meltdown risk – about the danger that its own failure to act, by leading to a deep recession, will undermine political leaders’ ability to take the steps needed to put their economies on a sound footing.”
El disparate presupuestario español
Esto es la traducción de la última entrada de mi blog en el Social Europe Journal:
Luis de Guindos, el nuevo Ministro de Economía de España, se fue a Alemania y se comprometió con cumplir los objetivos de déficit marcados por el Eurogrupo. Cumplir con los objetivos, insistió de Guindos (como tantos otros), es la clave para recuperar la confianza.
Quiero comentar un par de cosas en este post. La...
Paul McCulley and Zoltan Pozsar, "Does Central... →
“If history is our guide, painful adjustments will ultimately lead to some countries abandoning the euro, or politics overruling monetary orthodoxies: (1) legal restrictions against monetizing debt today versus the fixed exchange rate mentality of the gold standard, and (2) the independence of the ECB.
Just as it did during the gold standard, acting responsibly relatively to orthodoxy will...
WatchI had the opportunity to take part in a debate on austerity in Spain on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story.
Danny Dorling, "The Case for Austerity among the... →
A nice discussion paper from IPPR.
