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THANKSGIVING 2009


 
28 You are my God, and I will thank you; 
       you are my God, and I will praise your greatness. 

 
29 Thank the Lord because he is good. 
       His love continues forever.
                      
                                                    Psalm 118:28-29 (NCV)

DIA DE ACCION DE GRACIAS 2009

 28 Tú eres mi Dios, por eso te doy gracias; 
      tú eres mi Dios, por eso te exalto.

   29 Den gracias al Señor, porque él es bueno; 
      su gran amor perdura para siempre.


                                                 Salmos 118:28-29 (NIV)

PAYBACK TIME

WAVE OF DEBT PAYMENTS FACING US GOVERNMENT

The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.

Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.

Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher.

In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A Chart That Should Keep Progressives Up at Night

...progressives need to turn their attention toward the medium- and long-term fiscal crisis the country faces. How massive is the challenge we face? The following chart, from Keith Hennessey, an ex-Bush policy advisor, says it all:

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Obviously the first thing to jump out is the escalating divergence between federal spending and revenues in the decades ahead. And the spending projection in the chart is from 2007, so it doesn’t include the stimulus or spending on the financial crisis (or the projected cost of health care reform). That’s scary enough. But the scariest part may not be evident at first glance.

The red line shows federal taxes as a percent of GDP going back to 1945 and projected outward to 2080 by Hennessey based on its historic growth. The yellow line shows federal spending as a percent of GDP. The chart makes clear that the level of federal taxation has actually varied little since World War II (which says nothing about how marginal tax rates faced by different groups have changed). You can see the last build-up of deficits that occurred from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. You can also see the build-up of the Bush years.

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California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in October as weakness in the labor market stretches from coast to coast and limits the economic recovery.

Joblessness rose in 29 U.S. states last month compared with 22 in September, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Michigan had the highest jobless rate at 15.1 percent, followed by Nevada at 13 percent and Rhode Island at 12.9 percent.

The national rate last month reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, weighing on consumer spending that accounts for about 70 percent of the economy.

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Transparencia Internacional acaba de publicar el Indice de la Percepcion de Corrupción de 2009.  A continuacion, los indices de los paises latinoamericanos.  La primera columna indica el rango del pais entre todos los evaluados.  La segunda columna, indica el indice regional, con Canada siendo el pais donde la percepcion de la corrupcion es mas bajo y  Haiti, el mas alto.  Haz clic en el cuadro para ver el informe completo.

Transparencia Internacional Indice Corrupcion 2009
TI Index 2009
Transparency International's Corruption Index 2009

Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perception Index has recently been published. Above is the portion relative to the Western Hemisphere.  Click on he chart to go to the full report.

Global corporate accounting fraud up sharply: survey

Global companies have seen a sharp rise in accounting fraud over the past 12 months, as the pressures of the recession have weighed on employees, according to a new survey on Thursday.

The survey of 3,000 senior executives in 54 countries from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers PWC.UL showed accounting fraud had grown to 38 percent of the economic crimes in 2009, up from 27 percent in the firm's 2007 survey.

The increase in accounting fraud has come as employees face increased pressures to meet performance targets, keep their jobs and keep access to funding or financing from outside institutions.

The 5th GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRIME SURVEY

The survey, entitled Economic crime in a downturn, is based on more than 3,000 companies in 54 countries. It is the largest, most comprehensive international survey of economic crime worldwide.

Highlights:

  • Despite the attention of regulators and companies' investment in controls, fraud remains one of the most problematic issues for companies around the world.
  • The actual level of economic crime and associated financial and non-financial losses has not decreased.
  • One third of companies fell victim to economic crime in the past twelve months.
  • The report finds that economic crime is intractable because of the many kinds of fraud and the broad range of employees, including senior executives, who commit them.
  • It concludes that companies cannot rely on fraud controls alone to detect and deter economic crime. Companies need to build loyalty to the organisation, give employees the confidence to do the right thing, and put in place clear sanctions for those who commit fraud, regardless of their position in the company.

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PwC Global Economic Crime Survey - CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEOS OF RESULTS

PwC Global Economic Crime Report 2009 - CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT (PDF)

DEUDA, DEUDA, DEUDA...

...el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos anunciaba que la deuda nacional asciende ya a más de 12 billones de dólares, concretamente a 12.031.299.186.290,07 dólares. Significa eso que...cada norteamericano tiene ya una deuda de casi 39.000 dólares.

Para valorar lo que significa un billón de dólares piénsese que con esa cantidad (o sea con una doceava parte de la deuda actual de EE.UU.) se pueden cubrir todos los gastos militares de todos los países de la OTAN. También, con un billón de dólares se dobla el coste total del “New Deal” de Franklin Delano Roosevelt y se multiplica por diez lo que costó el Plan Marshall, ajustando en ambos casos la inflación. Con un billón de dólares, en fin, se podrían comprar 91.146.205.956 Cristianos Ronaldos…

Para hacernos una idea visual de lo que significa un billón de dólares, piénsese que si pusiéramos una fila de billetes de un dólar, uno tras otro, podríamos hacer una cadena seguida desde la tierra al sol. Como hablamos de 12 billones, se podría hacer una cadena de billetes de dólares que realizarían seis viajes de ida y vuelta al sol. 

¿El mundo aprendió la lección con la crisis?

Hemos sido testigos de una recuperación record de la crisis financiera que azota al mundo desde hace unos 3 años. Los principales indicadores bursátiles señalan que la confianza está volviendo con mucha fuerza a los mercados alrededor del mundo, lo que ha llevado a pronósticos optimistas sobre el futuro de la economía mundial para el año 2010. Tal vez el exceso de optimismo por la rápida recuperación nos está llevando a olvidarnos, ¿el mundo aprendió la lección?
Los indicadores de ganancias de los 5 principales bancos de EEUU totalizaron unos $23.300 millones en el primer semestre de este año. La cifra supera por mucho la pérdida de casi $7.000 millones de igual lapso del año previo, no obstante está muy por debajo de los casi $50.000 millones registrados en el primer semestre de 2007, período considerado como el apogeo de Wall Street. Como vemos, estas cifras llaman al optimismo, y al mismo tiempo aumenta el apetito de riesgo que nuevamente parecen exhibir los inversionistas, algo que podría ser muy bueno para salir de la crisis y generar puestos de trabajo, pero al mismo tiempo puede representar la creación de nuevos problemas si se vuelve a las prácticas de los años anteriores a la crisis de baja regulación y ejecución de prácticas contables "acomodaticias a las demandas del mercado", pero alejadas de la realidad.

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Jefe FMI dice economía global está en compás de espera

La economía global está en un compás de espera y vulnerable a nuevos posibles trastornos, dijo el lunes el jefe del Fondo Monetario Internacional, quien agregó que una recuperación duradera dependerá de que las autoridades tomen las medidas adecuadas en los próximos meses.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director gerente del FMI, dijo que la principal prioridad de los países ricos debiera ser desarrollar planes para limpiar el desorden fiscal que ha dejado más de un año de esfuerzos para luchar contra la crisis.

Sin embargo, aclaró que pensaba que aún es demasiado pronto para retirar las medidas de emergencia.

"Recomendamos pecar de cautelosos, ya que salir demasiado pronto es más costoso que salir demasiado tarde", dijo...

LEER TODO

Taiwan se recupera de crisis financiera

La crisis financiera del año 2008 en los Estados Unidos se diseminó hasta cubrir todas partes del mundo, causando que las exportaciones de la República de China (Taiwan) se contrajeran y que la economía sufriera una severa caída.

Las empresas de Taiwán dependen fuertemente de las exportaciones y como tal se encuentran vulnerables a las fluctuaciones de la economía global. La estructura industrial de la nación, por lo tanto, debe ser reformulada. Para logra tal objetivo, se invertirán US$ 6.15 mil millones en biotecnología, energía verde, agricultura industrializada, turismo, medicina y sectores culturales y creativos entre los años 2009 al 2012.

Sin embargo, Taiwán no puede restablecer la salud de la economía global por sí sola.

Antes de la recuperación de la economía global, la demanda doméstica debe ser incrementada para estimular la economía, aumentar los trabajos, mejorar la competitividad nacional y asegurar la viabilidad continua de las empresas domésticas.

LEER TODO

Una banca con más capital y sin límites al tamaño

La crisis financiera que ha asolado los mercados mundiales desde el verano de 2007 ha puesto patas arriba el orden natural que regía en el sector bancario internacional. Reguladores, supervisores, agencias de calificación, entidades financieras y los Gobiernos han sido puestos en duda, y su comportamiento y funciones están hoy sometidos a una revisión. Los cambios vendrán, de eso ya nadie duda, y son muchos los expertos que aseguran que el sistema bancario del futuro será bien diferente del que existía antes de esta crisis. Sin embargo, la principal cuestión ahora -en un contexto en el que la globalización económica forma parte del sistema, pero donde los países todavía no han homogeneizado sus modelos de regulación bancaria- es cómo se van a acometer las reformas...

LEER TODO

Germany warns US on market bubbles

Germany’s new finance minister has echoed Chinese warnings about the growing threat of fresh global asset price bubbles, fuelled by low US interest rates and a weak dollar.

 ...it would be “naive” to assume the next asset price bubble would take the same guise as the last.

“More likely today is a scenario in which excess liquidity globally creates a new [sort of] asset market bubble.”

 “That low interest rate currencies such as the US dollar are increasingly being used as a basis for currency carry trades should give pause for thought. If there was a sudden reversal in this business, markets would be threatened with enormous turbulence, including in foreign exchange markets.”

USA UNBALANCE 


SHEET

US NATIONAL ASSETS
per citizen
US UNFUNDED LIABILITIES
per citizen
$ 241,253.00
$ 344,712.00

 YOUR SHARE OF THE USA's REAL DEFICIT  
 $ 103,459.00
CLICK ON TRILLION DOLLAR BILL BELOW FOR DETAILS

CLICK HERE TO SEE US TREASURY DEPT. BALANCE SHEET

CLICK HERE TO SEE US TREASURY DEPT. STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT

CLICK HERE TO SEE USGAO's Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government

CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government published by the Department of the Treasury (pdf, 194 PAGES)

CLICK ON THE TRILLION DOLLAR BILL TO SEE  COMPLETE
US DEBT CLOCK

One trillion seconds = 31,688 years
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Recorded history covers much less than one trillion seconds

QUOTABLE Edit Text

"...Since the current recession has lasted a record seven quartersand has been marked by a near-record average GDP decline of 1.8% per quarterwe should be witnessing the start of a powerful and sustained recovery. Yet forecasts of a 2% recovery in growth are only one-fourth as strong as postwar experience suggests. Meanwhile, unemployment sits at a generational high of 10.2%. Why all the pessimism? The source appears to be a growing fear that the federal government is retreating from the free-market economic principles of the last half-century, and in particular the strong growth policies that began under Ronald Reagan. A review of the economic policies instituted by President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress lends credibility to this concern...." Edit Link

"More than 14 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September, a record-high for the ninth straight quarter and a problem that could threaten the economic recovery. The Mortgage Bankers Association's report Thursday adds to fears that the housing market and broader recovery could be thwarted by the continuing surge in home loan defaults, especially as the unemployment rate keeps rising. Lost jobs, rather than the shady loans made during the housing boom, are now the main reason homeowners fall behind on their mortgages..." Edit Link

"... More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle Sam is expected to build up over the next decade will be interest...$4.8 trillion.In 2015 alone, the estimated interest due - $533 billion - is equal to a third of the federal income taxes expected to be paid that year..." Edit Link

"Unlike in previous crises, such as the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s or the Mexican crisis in the mid-1990s, Latin America was in a much stronger position to weather the current financial crisis, the head of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said. The global financial crisis has hit resource-rich Latin America quite hard, driving down demand for and prices of the commodities it exports. The region's gross domestic product will likely contract between 1.8% and 1.5% on the year in 2009, but it will quickly recover next year, Alicia Barcena, who heads the commission known as Eclac, said in an interview...." Edit Link

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CLICK HERE for 4th Quarter 2009 Economic Outlook Survey Results


Regulation signs

The global economic crisis brings into relief differences among nations as they tackle financial regulation. A look at principles behind U.S. and European systems.


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