Alberto da Ponte: RTP cortou custos 70 milhões de euros nos últimos três anos - Jornal de Negócios

Cortar não é o mesmo que reformar, privatizar, ou colocar a RTP num plano de igualdade concorrencial com as empresas privadas. O Almerindo Marques também disse que tinha cortado, mas a hidra do pseudo serviço público voltou a multiplicar cabeças, cabecinhas, braços, pernas e perninhas, cuja fatura indecente foi, é e continuará a ser apresentada aos indígenas, até que estes desliguem de vez a luz!

Alberto da Ponte: RTP cortou custos 70 milhões de euros nos últimos três anos - Media - Jornal de Negócios

El transporte aéreo retrocede en España al nivel post 11-S

A propósito da famosa saturação da Portela...

Onde está a sapiência do LNEC e daquela voz do dono que agora manda nos engenheiros deste país? E já agora, para que serve o INE? Onde estão as estatísticas dos transportes desde 2008? Se serve para tão pouco, o melhor mesmo é vendê-lo ao EUROSTAT!

    El avión fue, sin duda, el gran perjudicado por los efectos de la crisis económica en el transporte durante 2013. Su demanda de viajeros se desplomó un 14% hasta los 28,7 millones, casi cinco millones menos que el año pasado. Se trata del nivel más bajo del sector desde 2002, es decir, después del desplome que sufrió tras los ataques terroristas del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y la psicosis posterior.

    El resto de medios de transporte también bajaron su demanda, según los datos publicados este lunes por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Por ejemplo, un 4,5% el popular Metro y un 1,5% de media el autobús, si bien en los trayectos de larga distancia la caída llegó al 7,2%. La causa la hayamos en el fuerte tirón de la demanda registrado por las líneas ferroviarias de alta velocidad, más conocidas como AVE.

El transporte aéreo retrocede en España al nivel post 11-S

German Top Court Finds ECB's OMT Is Illegal, Then Promptly Washes Its Hands Of Final Decision | Zero Hedge

Oops! 

Tribunal constitucional alemão rejeita OMT, ou pelo menos afirma que a dita enteléquia inventada por Mário Draghi —“Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro”— não cabe no mandato do BCE:

“There are important reasons to assume that [the OMT] exceeds the European Central Bank’s monetary policy mandate and thus infringes the powers of the member states, and that it violates the prohibition of monetary financing of the budget,” the German court said Friday. “Subject to the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Federal Constitutional Court considers the OMT decision incompatible with primary law,” the German court said.

German Top Court Finds ECB's OMT Is Illegal, Then Promptly Washes Its Hands Of Final Decision | Zero Hedge

O BCE respondeu poucas horas depois ao pronunciamento do tribunal constitucional alemão reafirmando que está no seu mandato preservar a estabilidade do euro, e que para isso o OMT (Outright Monetary Transactions) é uma arma que pode e será usada usada se for preciso.

O tit-for-tat prossegue.

Scandal: Bank Of England Encouraged Currency Manipulation By Banks | Zero Hedge

Banco de Inglaterra no topo da manipulação cambial que tem vindo a destruir empresas, poupanças, bancos, governos, economias, países e regiões inteiras. Anda tudo ligado e é cada vez mais assustador.

"If the BOE did not encourage currency manipulation by bankers, then the world would have crashed"

Scandal: Bank Of England Encouraged Currency Manipulation By Banks | Zero Hedge: "If the BOE did not encourage currency manipulation by bankers, then the world would have crashed"

On Portugal, PSI and a national salvation pact | Macropolis

O xeque-mate já foi jogado há muito, mas os partidos do regime estenderam uma cortina de fumo que não deixa ver o colapso que aí vem :(

A circunstância de David Salanic, presidente executivo e fundador da Tortus Capital, ser um especulador profissional não retira valor aos seus argumentos. Muito pelo contrário. Na realidade, o caminho da União Europeia e da sua moeda é estreito, e Portugal continuará a viver em permanente sobressalto durante os próximos anos. O melhor, pois, é aprendermos a desconfiar metodicamente do Estado e da nomenclatura partidária enquanto não aparecer nenhum sinal de verdadeira mudança e verdadeira esperança no horizonte. O melhor mesmo é defendermos o que temos e buscarmos entre os familiares e amigos estratégias de partilha e colaboração.

Troika reviews, and particularly the IMF DSA (debt sustainability analysis), although considering that the debt overhang is highly vulnerable, concluded for its sustainability. You refer that the main arguments for that conclusion are misconceptions. Can you summarize the main reasons why the Portuguese debt is not sustainable?

A sovereign, just like a corporation or an individual, needs to be able to service its debt at some point in the future. Today, servicing Portugal’s debt costs €7.2 billion in interest payments a year and this number will grow every year. In order to service its debt, Portugal would need to be able to generate cash flow before interest expense (called a primary budget surplus) of €7.2 billion a year or whatever amount the interest will have grown to in the future.

Will it be possible?

That will never happen. This would imply a primary budget surplus of 4.3% of GDP. Portugal has had a negative primary budget balance for over 15 consecutive years. The highest primary budget surplus ever realized over the past 36 years for which we have data is 3% of GDP. Portugal’s current primary budget balance is negative 1.6% of GDP. In order to get to a 4.3% primary budget surplus, Portugal would need to improve its annual primary budget balance by €10 billion. Any attempt by the Portuguese government to extract an additional €10 billion annually from the economy, would destroy the economy and the social fabric of the country. - See more at:

Troika
reviews, and particularly the IMF DSA (debt sustainability analysis),
although considering that the debt overhang is highly vulnerable,
concluded for its sustainability. You refer that the main arguments for
that conclusion are misconceptions. Can you summarize the main reasons
why the Portuguese debt is not sustainable?

A sovereign, just like a corporation or an individual, needs to be able
to service its debt at some point in the future. Today, servicing
Portugal’s debt costs €7.2 billion in interest payments a year and this
number will grow every year. In order to service its debt, Portugal
would need to be able to generate cash flow before interest expense
(called a primary budget surplus) of €7.2 billion a year or whatever
amount the interest will have grown to in the future.


Will it be possible?

That will never happen. This would imply a primary budget surplus of
4.3% of GDP. Portugal has had a negative primary budget balance for over
15 consecutive years. The highest primary budget surplus ever realized
over the past 36 years for which we have data is 3% of GDP. Portugal’s
current primary budget balance is negative 1.6% of GDP. In order to get
to a 4.3% primary budget surplus, Portugal would need to improve its
annual primary budget balance by €10 billion. Any attempt by the
Portuguese government to extract an additional €10 billion annually from
the economy, would destroy the economy and the social fabric of the
country.

- See more at: http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.928#sthash.E9WsPrji.dpuf

Troika
reviews, and particularly the IMF DSA (debt sustainability analysis),
although considering that the debt overhang is highly vulnerable,
concluded for its sustainability. You refer that the main arguments for
that conclusion are misconceptions. Can you summarize the main reasons
why the Portuguese debt is not sustainable?

A sovereign, just like a corporation or an individual, needs to be able
to service its debt at some point in the future. Today, servicing
Portugal’s debt costs €7.2 billion in interest payments a year and this
number will grow every year. In order to service its debt, Portugal
would need to be able to generate cash flow before interest expense
(called a primary budget surplus) of €7.2 billion a year or whatever
amount the interest will have grown to in the future.


Will it be possible?

That will never happen. This would imply a primary budget surplus of
4.3% of GDP. Portugal has had a negative primary budget balance for over
15 consecutive years. The highest primary budget surplus ever realized
over the past 36 years for which we have data is 3% of GDP. Portugal’s
current primary budget balance is negative 1.6% of GDP. In order to get
to a 4.3% primary budget surplus, Portugal would need to improve its
annual primary budget balance by €10 billion. Any attempt by the
Portuguese government to extract an additional €10 billion annually from
the economy, would destroy the economy and the social fabric of the
country.

- See more at: http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.928#sthash.E9WsPrji.dpuf

On Portugal, PSI and a national salvation pact | Macropolis

Hedge Fund Slams Portuguese Bonds With 64 Page Slideshow | Zero Hedge

Fundo financeiro que aposta na quebra financeira de Portugal desanca, com razão, o foguetório ilusório com que começámos 2014.

• The EIB Has Lent More Funds to Portugal than to Any Other Country Relative to GDP
• The European Rescue Funds EFSF and EFSM Represent 22% of Portugal’s Sovereign Debt
• The IMF Already Represents 12% of Portugal’s Sovereign Debt
• Europe Has Already Given Portugal an OSI Without Asking for Concessions From the Private Sector

Common Misconceptions

• Misconception #1: Portuguese Growth Has Turned the Corner
• Misconception #2: Exports Can Save Portugal
• Misconception #3: Portugal’s Bond Exchange Was A Success
• Misconception #4: A Portuguese PSI (1) Would Lead to Portuguese Bank Recapitalizations
• Misconception #5: A Portuguese PSI Would Create Contagion Risk
• Misconception #6: Portugal Is Not Hiding Debt
• Misconception #7: The Greek Sovereign Restructuring (PSI) Was a Mistake

Hedge Fund Slams Portuguese Bonds With 64 Page Slideshow | Zero Hedge

NOTAS

1. PSI—Private Sector Involvement designa a participação do setor privado, por exemplo, num 'haircut', assumindo parte das perdas numa reestruturação parcial de uma dada dívida pública.

Miró transportados pela Iterartis continuam em Londres | Económico

Um furúnculo chamado Miró

Duas instituições cretinas e corruptas: o  governo português e a sua sucursal para mastigar bancos piratas, a  Parvalorem. O cretinismo que larva em Portugal é um produto do Bloco  Central da Corrupção e de um regime demo populista falido e  descredibilizado. Outra democracia, ou nova ditadura, qual prefere?

Parvalorem aguarda contacto formal da Christie’s. Procuradora-Geral diz que poderá avançar com nova acção judicial.

As 85 obras de Joan Miró saíram de Portugal sem autorização de expedição, transportadas pela empresa Iterartis e correndo o risco de serem interceptadas pelas autoridades fiscais nacionais e britânicas e, desse modo, apreendidas. Por enquanto, as obras continuam em Londres e a Parvalorem diz que ainda aguarda um contacto formal da leiloeira para encontrar uma solução. O Diário Económico confirmou junto de fonte ligada ao processo que foi a empresa Iterartis, Serviços para Museus e Transportes de Arte, de Vialonga, que efectuou a exportação das obras, sendo que Parvalorem e Governo continuam a dizer que qualquer responsabilidade nesta contratação é da leiloeira Christie’s.

Miró transportados pela Iterartis continuam em Londres | Económico