Jonathan Tepper on TV3: "Spanish fiesta has ended so, if you want jobs, lower real salaries"

Jonathan Tepper, partner in the Variant Perception, is considered an expert on Spanish economy since he produced a report on the Spanish banks in August 2009: "Spain: The Hole In Europe's Balance Sheet", where he said something like "Investors are smoking crack if they believe that Spanish banks are among the strongest in Europe". Here you have it (on TV3!!):



Le he comentado a él directamente:

Lo has clavado, estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que has dicho (¡que siendo 30 minutos hablando es decir mucho!).

Sólo por buscar tres pies al gato creo que perdiste una oportunidad buenísima para gritar "End the FED!!" cuando en el minuto 38 el entrevistador se quejó de la hipocresía de los bancos. Los bancos piden prestado dinero fiat baratito al BCE sufragado por inflación y riesgo socializado entre los ciudadanos europeos y prestan al gobierno llevándose el carry trade. La única solución para eso es la separación del monopolio del dinero y de los tipos de interés del poder estatal. La socialización de las pérdidas de los amiguetes del gobierno es un ejemplo de "fallo de Gobierno" que puede ser solucionado con más y mejor Mercado.

Y segundo: estoy de acuerdo en que muchos jóvenes españoles no tienen los estudios adecuados y por tanto no producen más que un valor de €400 de salario, pero esto no es porque no haya gasto en educación, al revés, sino porque hay demasiado gasto público en educación pero es un derroche total. Con chavales estudiando hasta los 16 años cuando ni quieren ni son capaces; con un sistema educativo basado en las chorradas socialistas, progresistas, following Labour's "comprehensive school" model; pero, sobre todo, con una epidemia de TITULITIS de universitarios que se dedican a beber mientras aprueban Turismo, Psicología o Ciencias Audiovisuales cuando no hay demanda para ellos cuando salen de la universidad y terminan trabajando donde hay demandas de trabajadores (en Carrefour y en Agroman). El desastre de la educación pública es otro ejemplo de "fallo de Gobierno" que puede ser solucionado con más y mejor Mercado.

Y parafraseo al Sr. Tepper: "The Spanish fiesta has ended so, if you want jobs, lower real salaries"

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Comentario en El Confidencial: Políticos inútiles

Comentario leído en El Confidencial con el que estoy completamente de acuerdo. RenauxA dijo:

Hace pocos años, cuando Rafa Nadal comenzó a ganar trofeos, era un poco penoso que no pudiera hablar en otro idioma. Como el chaval es un currante se puso en ello y hemos podido verle en el último Grand Slam que ha ganado con qué fluidez habla el inglés.

En el otro lado están los vagos y mediocres que viven del morro y que no pasarían ninguna entrevista de trabajo para un puesto con contacto internacional: ZP, Pajín, De la Vega, Rubalcaba, Rajoy, Soraya y muchos mas inútiles.

Se puede decir más alto pero no más claro.

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Ciudadanos en Blanco

www.ciudadanosenblanco.com: la única agrupación política cuyo programa apoyo íntegramente.

Ved un vídeo de presentación:


AZAHARA HABLANDO CLARO

Ciudadanos en Blanco | MySpace Video

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Dining at Cambio de Tercio in London

One of the best places to have Spanish food in London is the restaurant Cambio de Tercio on Old Brompton Road, near Gloucester Road tube station. Critics and diners alike love it and tennis player Rafael Nadal eats there when he is playing in Wimbledon. It is then no surprise that I promised to celebrate Spain’s World Cup win with a dinner there (World Cup victory doesn’t come very often!).

 

True to my word last Saturday evening I took S. to enjoy an incredibly delicious meal at Cambio de Tercio. Our menu was the following:

 

Starters:

Manchego cheese lollipops

New season white asparagus dressed with seeds and nuts vinaigrette and Padron pepper ali-oli

Char-grilled Galician-style octopus on a bath of potato parmentier and sprinkled with paprika oil

Grilled lamb cutlets accompanied with aubergine puree, Manzanilla olives and one glazed potato

 

Main courses

Wild sea bass with artichokes, smoked grilled courgettes, and cauliflower puree

Basque style monkfish casserole surrounded by griddled razor clams, broad beans, and asparagus tips and showered with parley jus

 

Wine

Terras Gauda 2009 (70% albariño, 20% loureiro, 10% caiño)

 

Dessert

White chocolate ganache topped by passion fruit, ginger ice cream and sprinkled with pistachio,

 

Everything was delicious and the flavours released by every bit left us speechless. After yummy crunchy asparagus, the potato parmentier where the octopus lazily swam was so tasty that it deceived me into thinking that was spiced up with some mild herbs; however, the waiter set me right when he swore that the parmentier was made of potato, olive oil and salt only cooked and stirred for half an hour to give it a gelatinous texture. The lamb cutlets were so tender that my companion, who doesn’t exactly love meat, had to admit defeat and proclaim it was mouth-watering. The fish was outstanding: although the sea bass topped my monkfish in my opinion and the artichokes brought some fond memories of my mother’s cooking. And, finally, the Dessert: that dessert is one of the best ones I have had in my life; the way the passion fruit melted the ginger ice cream and spiced up the chocolate sent my senses into such a rapture that the experience was, as the waiter put it, “orgasmic”. With a blissful smile on her face, my companion concurred with him.

 

We finished the loveliest evening having a watermelon cocktail at Coquine, a posh cocktail bar across the road from Cambio de Tercio.

 

Love and freedom.

 

Attenborough and the bees

J.L., one of my colleagues at the Libertarian Fleas Society (meeting of Spanish libertarians in London) posts the following Facebook status:

 

“David Attenborough moment: in the cross of wardour St. with Sheraton St., there is a beehive in a traffic sign post. Bees are piled up around it while people take pics. The wonders of nature.”

 

Comments that followed:

 

Borjabrela: “And the wonders of the Market! (without which bees could exist, but Attenborough as a model wouldn’t.)”

 

J.L.: “Yes and no. Markets and biological behaviours share some principles.”

 

Borjabrela: “Please clarify: yes to what? And no to what?

 

J.L.: “NO: Bees and Mr. Attenborough exist thanks to previous “markets” where they evolved. YES: The Wonders of the Market!”

 

Borjabrela: “Not entirely sure. As I understand the markets as systems of voluntary relationships and transactions, I wouldn’t apply this term to Nature’s evolution, which, in my opinion, has no will (and hence can perform no voluntary acts), but follows certain rules set in stone (such as the Principles of Thermodynamics or the Basic Forces of Nature) sprinkled with azar”.

 

Please feel free to contribute with your opinion.

 

Love and freedom.

 

State pension systems = Ponzi schemes

“The great Ponzi scheme that lies behind our State pension is unravelling – as they all do eventually – because money being taken from new investors is insufficient to honour promises issued to earlier generations. […] None of this should come as a surprise. It is many years since experts began pointing out that Britain’s State pension – like most of its public sector pensions – are unfunded promises which rely on NICs and taxes paid by workers this week to pay pensions to old people next week.

This financial model is so fundamentally unstable that it is illegal in the private sector. No private company or insurer would be allowed to carry on as a series of British governments have done. Hence my disrespectful but I hope helpful comparisons with the original wheeze of the American fraudster, Mr Ponzi.”

State pension Ponzi scheme unravels with retirement at 70, Ian Cowie (Telegraph.co.uk, 24/06/2010)

 

At last someone in mainstream media starts stating the obvious fact: state pension systems in Britain, Spain and most Western countries are Ponzi schemes. Another trick devised by the governments to rob the average citizen. In the case of Spain, it was set up by the national-socialist dictator Franco and nowadays supported by all those who, after Franco’s death (of course), have appointed themselves as “anti-Franco fighters”.

 

Love and freedom.

 

LondonStays

Me gustaría presentaros LondonStays, la agencia que te ayuda a estudiar inglés en Inglaterra. Nuestro objetivo es ayudar a nuestros clientes a aprender inglés mientras disfrutan de una experiencia en el extranjero.

Si quieres aprender inglés en Inglaterra, te hacemos la vida más fácil.

· Ayuda y asesoramiento para estancias en Inglaterra
· Gestión de alojamiento (residencias, familias, pisos)
· Gestión de inscripción en academias de idiomas
· Gestión de becas MEC para estudios en Inglaterra
· Ayuda y asesoramiento para búsqueda de trabajo en Londres.

En LondonStays gestionamos la academia de inglés y el alojamiento para estancias de estudio en Inglaterra: Londres, Brighton, Bournemouth y Oxford. Nuestras academias están situadas en el centro de las ciudades y están acreditadas por el British Council.

Para más información, visita nuestro blog: http://inglesenlondres.blogspot.com.

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