Monday, August 30, 2010

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A turtleneck sweater a little too tight. A color that turns to orange without really want. A desire to be forgotten. Let see what happens. A desire to go back. Somewhere without being proud. A corner to forget, perhaps a corner of the sea Let see what happens. One way not to be. Or simply a desire to appear. One thing we do not know where to put. Let see what happens. A fragrance that makes her smile. An image that is not a souvenir. Nothing to do in any case nothing worse. Let see what happens. A sense of déjà vu. A desire to be perceived. Somewhere alone in the street. Let see what happens. Something that takes itself and then forget. A little fancy, a slight envy. Another age does seem gone.
And there's nothing to see.

(Magic Kids - Memphis - True Panther Sounds)

Sunday, August 29, 2010

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Tyranny of the markets: we are our own slaves

Tyranny of the markets: we are our own slaves

Recent decades have seen the birth of a living cold, disembodied, with his hands the destinies of the world economy. Subject to its laws, we must also adapt to his mood: sometimes euphoric, sometimes panicked, sometimes chilly policy penalizing a business, sometimes applauding an ambitious investment plan. I'm talking about the market. This entity seems to have the characteristics of a living being. Yet we are indeed facing a human construct as we remember the Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the Anglican Church) in a rare moment of clarity:

"Behind this, however, lies the ethical problem well deeper. We find ourselves talking about capital or the market as if we were talking about individuals, driven by objectives and strategies capable of making choices and discourse with reason about how to accomplish them. We lose sight that these are things that we have built. These are a set of practice, practice, agreements that have emerged both voluntarily and by chance. From the moment we speak of them as living entities independent, we are forced to make many mistakes destructive. We expect an abstraction called "the market" to produce the common good and it regulates its own potential excesses by a sort of caution and innate moral sense, like a living organism or ecosystem . We call "business" to gain a sense of social responsibility and moral. And we lose sight of the fact that the market is not as much awareness individual, that business is conducted by men who must make choices regarding priorities. The market is not a machine governed by inexorable laws.

[...] The biggest challenge that we confront the current crisis is to be able to find meaning in the link between money and material reality - the production of specific commodities, the performance certain human goals that have something to do with a shared sense of what is good for humanity [...]

[...] Give an independent reality to an object that you actually built yourself is a perfect definition of what the Christian Scriptures call idolatry Jewish st "

Unlike an underlying message very widespread, market did not exist as such. This is not a "natural" forces, which the state power should be opposed to calm the excesses, speeches in which falls very same policies regularly left. The shape depends mainly a market laws, implicit agreements and habits within a given social group.

For 30 years, we experience a particular form of "tyranny of the market." A liberal discourse, called "neoliberal" I personally would describe anarchist inseminated in the minds of key economic actors (entrepreneurs, financiers, politicians ...) that maximizing shareholder wealth was, if not the only goal, the absolute priority of the management of an enterprise. At the same time, the economy has largely financialized, and a large number of companies held by private shareholders (non-publicly traded) have moved to a public shareholding (listed). For proof, just realize that the funding of French companies has increased by 100 between 1970 and 2005. A third movement saw the internationalization of capital markets. Consequently, the vast majority of the capital side in France is held by foreign funds.

The consequences of these three phenomena are hardly debatable multiple. First, it is now virtually impossible to know who owns a business. Capital is held by a crowd of various funds and varied and individual fortunes. Thus the master is invisible. It is disembodied. Leaders do not know a thing about him: he wants to maximize the return on its investment. Whether CEOs s'attellent this spot is actually a very complex issue on which it seems impossible to meet the views of my current knowledge. By cons, it seems clear that the only message that corporate executives are owners is to maximize their financial income. If an owner asks his gardener to mow the grass only, this does not mean he will do this task properly but you can almost be sure he will not get to trim trees on his own. Thus

has imposed a dialogue of the deaf between public opinion and politicians on one side and business leaders on the other. If we worry about relocation, lack of investment, gaps in research and development, risk taking minx, stagnant real wages, deplorable working conditions, the precariousness of employment, the environmental and social impact of a company, the answer will invariably be the same "these issues are very important for us, but the priority is to satisfy the requirements of profitability for our shareholders. " You want to talk to "those shareholders," they were not found and hide behind the nebula called market. Thus, like the Jewish people for 3,000 years subject to the law of Moses, our companies are subject to a timeless message from the idol contract that would have made this one commandment "Thou shalt maximize the wealth of your shareholders' .

This speech is so ingrained within the business community that any change in attitude is purely utopian. It was with amazement I discovered, for example this passage from the end of laissez-faire Keynes writing in 1926, speech that must have seemed a commonplace to drive 50 or 60 years:

"But evolution taken by joint stock companies once they have reached a certain age and a certain size, becoming almost more public institutions than private companies. One of the most interesting developments and least discussed of recent decades has been the trend for large companies to socialize themselves. There comes a time during the growth of a great institution (Particularly a railroad company or public infrastructure but also a large bank or a large insurance company) where owners of capital, ie shareholders are almost entirely dissociated from the direction of the company. Consequently, the realization of large profits interest becomes quite secondary in the eyes of management . When this stage is reached, the stability and reputation of the institution become more important for management than maximizing shareholder profits. Shareholders must be satisfied by conventionally adequate dividends, but once secured, the direct interest of management is often to avoid criticism from the public and customers of the company. This is especially true for companies with large or semi-monopolistic position attracts attention. The extreme example of this trend in the case of an institution theoretically owned by private persons is the Bank of England. It is almost true to say that there is no class of persons within the realm to which the Governor of the Bank of England thinks less when making a decision that its shareholders. [...]

[...] This development is not only beneficial. The same causes promote conservatism and the decline of the initiative. In fact, we have often seen in many cases the same advantages and disadvantages in the same state socialism. Nevertheless, we see here, I think, a natural line of evolution. "

This small step back in time reminds us that the company did not always follow a single goal.

The question remains in abeyance. How to ensure that companies are encouraged to promote the interest of other values without going through a financial nationalization which we know the faults and appears to be completely anachronistic. We must first identify the real master in this story. The master is money. The money with which you buy shares. Whose money? To everybody. The small investor to the large fortune, the shareholding is distributed among a crowd of people. Most have invested their money in the bank and are not aware that their money was invested in a particular company. Despite the highly unequal distribution of wealth in France, the French hold on the final actions a value greater than the capitalization of all French companies. The conclusion of this little argument is tragically simple: we are the market. We establish the tyranny of short-term. Not that this is voluntary. The process of delegation of investment of savings is in charge of our own slavery. It is our obvious lack of desire to use this power that is our money that is involved.

Yet I sincerely believe that most investors would be willing to exchange a few tenths of a percent of return in exchange an ethical policy on the part of companies in which they invest. What is missing, it is a legal framework to allow shareholders to defend common values, ethical structures of reference to put his money and finally a realization of large-scale social and economic power that has our money. If the state must regain control of money creation as I have argued on this site, it is time we resume control of our economic destiny by taking advantage of this extraordinary tool of power that is potentially money.

Monday, August 23, 2010

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I do not think my desires. My worries too. It's crazy all the people we cross unintentionally. It's a bit annoying sometimes. We do not know what to say. One can cross swords with some of them. The animosity of the overflow of emotions. A strange desire to make tons. And then we come across things we want to believe. That passenger. It is futile. It's too good. It is believed that cross some important passes without really believing it. It's a bit confusing. The crosses are a work of balance, a choice between bad and very bad. Or so we thought crossed for something better. It's just like. It always crosses his ego, without speaking to him lest he disappoint us. Do not talk to him can see it a little, after all these years.
Then we take short cuts and is expected to cross a small fortune.

(The Klaxons - Surfing the Void - Polydor)

Sunday, August 15, 2010

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Favela Diva

The Opposites attract, especially when they can not be separated. A brain is cut into four to preserve at least two hemispheres. The planet is small, especially when the problems overwhelm. The pile of disappointment is something taken at face value. As people get burned, drowned, destroy ... the rich people pay attention to the sunscreen for a drink and wait a bit before diving into their pool. I just want my life to rhyme something. Something big. So you have to exaggerate a little, a little more than that. It's so hard to be credible in the same facility when you want to complicate everything. Until the lack elsewhere. Honorable effort should be emphasized.
The voice of a human being Does she realize when she cries from the inside?

(MIA - Maya - XL)

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Savings: the immense waste


At December 31, 2009, in France, corporate debt (excluding financial sector), households and the state was 200% of GDP. The government debt rises alone to 81.9% of GDP. Of these 1.562 trillion, how much was allocated to real investment in infrastructure or research and how many were used to meet current expenses of a state too expensive? Household debt reached 52.8% of GDP. Of these 1.007 trillion, how many were used to invest in building a house or education and training and how many were used to finance the purchase property already constructed or consumer goods? The corporate debt off financial sectors weighs 64.30% of GDP. Of these 1.226 trillion, how many have actually served to invest in new production capacity, research and training and how many were used to finance working capital, repurchasing its own shares, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts?
The issue of allocation of savings available is absolutely critical. Yet she is asked seriously? During the last twenty years in developed countries, the savings she was mainly invested in capacity production, employment, research and development, training, infrastructure, construction or in use but in no way improve our economies? Viewed this way, the huge waste of our resources that we are witnessing is obvious. Fully legitimized by contemporary political and economic thought, financial institutions have largely limited resources allocated savings into non-productive but with strong profitability. This shocked he great world? Not too much that I had the chance to see yet. However, simply asking the question of where we would if 3.795 trillion had been allocated to productive activities to realize that there is indeed a matter of digging.
To ensure the unproductive allocation of savings in developed countries, we need only look at the evolution of the total debt relative to GDP. Indeed, if the debt grows faster than production, this obviously means that savings have been used to finance unproductive too much debt, ie debt which failed to create an improvement our economy.


Source: bank France (1999 figures are approximate because from a curve)

Total debt increased sharply during the decade of 2000 in six of the seven major industrialized spays above. Germany has seen a moderate increase of this debt. She saw, however, exploded its foreign assets during this period. These figures show us and a large part of savings has been allocated for non-productive.
The reallocation in the future of our savings into activities that will allow our country to find the path to full employment, develop our technology to enable our SMEs to be more efficient and to better train is not an easy task. This would require a lot of innovative ideas and a very strong political will which we are still light years away. The first step would be to open your eyes. Loanable funds are limited resources whose allocation is a major issue. When a bank willing to finance an LBO, a mortgage in the former or current expenditure of the State, as that will not be invested in our future.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

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Part of the Things Back

A room without light. An imperceptible movement that redefines the rules. A light breeze that sends shivers down the spine. Affordable sophistication. Hidden smiles. Result in development. A dance without languorous pace. One way to do or to do too much. A silent group of friends. A movement of more and nothing more. A desire to please absolutely. An air that did not air. Energy savings that gives off a little heat. A good life sometimes vulgar. A falling body without gravity. A trick of reality. Shadows seeking sun in the night. A city faces. Cravings for anything and everything. A very foolish.

(LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening - DFA / Virgin)

Saturday, August 7, 2010

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A straightforward

We accept many things from that far back, per se. The indulgence takes precedence over the years distant, misty roads or sparkling success. A child comes home. An entire family back. What makes things a bit chaotic. A long-awaited reunion in the house that felt empty. An uncontrolled energy that can at least fill the silence.
None of this seems thoughtful. The return is unannounced. Conversations fuse but did not conclude. A steady stream of different thoughts that do not resemble anything. Nothing seems to stop this hysteria. We will think about later. For now, the most important thing to communicate is to put it is to express what can not be explained.

(The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - Merge)