quarta-feira, julho 08, 2009

Fia-te na Virgem e não corras!

Para quem acredita que a crise está quase a acabar e que a retoma vem já aí, aconselho a ler "Liquidity injections alone are not enough" de Wolfgang Münchau.
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Embora esteja em sintonia com o pensamento de Münchau, não tenho a certeza de que assim seja. Por isso, neste ambiente de incerteza quanto ao futuro desafio quem tem de tomar decisões a equacionar, também, um cenário Münchau.
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Se esse ambiente futuro hipotético se concretizar, quais serão as consequências?
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Como podem ser minimizadas?
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"The European Central Bank has recently pumped €442bn ($620bn, £380bn) in one-year liquidity into the system, but the money is not reaching the real economy. Japanese-style stagnation is no longer possible - it is already here. The only question is how long it will last. .
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Even in an optimistic scenario, global economic growth will be weighed down by a combination of credit squeeze, rising unemployment, rising bankruptcies, rising default rates, and balance sheet adjustment in the household and financial sectors.
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I would expect the US to have something approaching a genuine recovery at some point in the next decade, but probably not in 2010 or 2011. Judging by the co-ordination failure at the level of the European Union, the persistent failure to deal with the continent's 40 or so cross-border banks at European level, and in particular Germany's inability to sort out its toxic-asset contaminated Landesbanken, the economic prospects for the eurozone are infinitely worse."
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Por cá, discutem-se as grandes obras. Alguém discute a queda da receita dos impostos em 20%?
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Alguém discute como vão ser os juros que o governo português vai ter de pagar no futuro?
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Nas costas dos outros podemos ver as nossas, por exemplo a Espanha:
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"Spain's fiscal U-turn may not convince markets" onde se pode ler:
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"But one person with access to public accounts, who asked not to be named, told Reuters the public deficit could more than triple to 12 percent this year from 3.8 percent in 2008."
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"Spain has suffered the worst deterioration in public finances of any EU country, bar Ireland, after stimulus measures equal to 4.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2008 and 2009."
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"The government, which has long downplayed the seriousness of the recession, has begun to show signs of economic realism."

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