スペイン政府の財政削減政策の緊縮財政による失業の増大と、銀行への融資への損失の国民へのツケ?
OPINIÓN
¿Dónde está el límite?
Joaquín Estefanía 1 OCT 2012 - 00:00 CET
OPINION
Where is the limit?
Joaquín Estefanía 1 OCT 2012 - 00:00 CET
1. Theory. It is producing an intense internal devaluation in the Spanish economy through wages and unemployment (not via prices, which will make it even more unequal). This devaluation, despite its speed, is always insufficient and some say it will take at least a decade, a period that no democratic society can bear. It extends a growing sense of doom among the citizenry to what someone has called austerity authoritarian (austerity), whose scientific can be said that Juan de Mairena: stated a fact, then it is accepted as inevitable and finally flag becomes, if one day you discover that the fact was not entirely true or was totally false, flag, more or less discolored, it does fly.
All settings have distributional effects. Not the same if they fall through taxes on income earners suffer if the beneficiaries of the features and services offered by the state. To analyze economic policy is essential to analyze how the costs are shared between creditors and debtors, between groups of high and low income among economic sectors, geographical areas, among the factors of production (capital and labor) or between generations . This is what leads to talk of "rigor of the left" and "right-wing rigor".
Budgets are more special effects that Spielberg film
Spain belongs to the euro. The duty to respect the financial commitments force a choice: follow the rules of the game for the club (although sometimes crazy) or waive that government decisions are conditioned by the preferences of the majority of citizens. But this election is unstable, particularly if those rules do not give results. The fear of the rulers to break those commitments makes them present themselves as "the only alternative", but also unpopular policies are ineffective or leave their long-term effects, public discontent will continue to rise and the rulers-that have to compete electorally-will think twice, or give in to public pressure and give a new twist to the adjustments and sacrifices.
Where is the limit? If this dynamic spreads, more and more people end up perceiving political participation by traditional channels (Congress) as useless. Here's an explanation, even partial, of the demonstrations of 25-S.
2. Practice. After the electoral programs with those who make an election, the State Budget are the main indicator of a government economic policy will continue. Those who have just presented more special effects that Spielberg's films, but there are two or three points unquestionable: the spectacular growth of the public debt (which rises more than five points), driven primarily by the process of aid to the Financial, the decline in public investment in health and education, and the unemployment benefits in a growth of the same, and the implausibility of the macroeconomic, particularly in relation to the behavior of government revenue in the midst of a deep recession.
Helps banks: never got much money so many to so few and so rich
Most notable is the increase in the public deficit and debt for financial aid. This is not a purely national phenomenon, but it has had on the world many times before, but its main feature is that the Great Recession is being operated as transfusion of wealth relative to any time in history: never have so many gave so much money to so few and so rich without asking anything in return.
It has been said: you have to rescue the banks to save the economy, but after transferred tens of billions of euros to the financial sector in the form of direct capitalization, guarantees, asset purchases, etc., the real economy does not work. According to published data, the fall in credit in Spain to families and businesses is the largest in the last 50 years, since there was a historical series.
3. Comparative Perspective. That feeling majority (supported by evidence) that since 2007 has spent a lot more money to rescue the big banks that help people who are falling by the way of the recession, is a major policy data. A recent statement from the Bank of America, one of the entities supported by the various American administrations, said it will pay 2,430 million dollars to settle a class action by a group of investors. This is a settlement in which the bank denies the allegations of irregularity, but because he says it takes kindly removes uncertainties and risks for shareholders.
The Bank of America is not exceptional. Many banks who abused their sophisticated and opaque financial products traded fines they will pay for those. In most cases, these fines are of an amount less than the benefits they reaped their unlawful practices. The road is always the following: banks are threatening a legal battle endless (brigades have law firms at your service), then you come to a compromise and banks pay a fine without admitting or denying guilt. Furthermore, they promise not to return to their old ways, but nothing more engaged promise similar conduct. Again take a scolding (as you just throw them the IMF) and other fine. But perverse incentives remain.
This is what Stiglitz calls "rogue capitalism".
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