terça-feira, 12 de janeiro de 2010

Homens sem mulheres

A política de China de reduzir a taxa crescimento populacional deixa 24 milhões de homens sem mulheres para formar uma família:
BEIJING (AFP) – More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.
The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, the Global Times said.
"Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas," where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said, while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were "complex."
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/wl_asia_afp/chinapopulationmenmarriage

segunda-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2010

Chávez (veja SBT)

O Chavez do sbt tem competição em Venezuela:

By JOHN LYONS and DARCY CROWE


CARACAS -- President Hugo Chávez's decision to devalue Venezuela's bolivar and impose a complicated new currency regime may paper over some growing cracks in the economy, but it is also setting the stage for bigger problems down the road for the country's oil-rich nation and its populist leader.
Over the weekend, there were signs that Mr. Chávez's slashing of the "strong bolivar" currency could create as many problems as it solves in Venezuela's economy, provoking a wave of anxiety that sent Venezuelans scurrying to spend cash they feared could soon be worthless...
On Sunday, Mr. Chávez vowed to fight speculation and price increases that could result from the devaluation, which raises the price of imports...
Mr. Chávez has watched his popularity slide amid corruption scandals, a shrinking economy, rising crime and shortages of food and electricity. Increased spending could boost Mr. Chávez's popularity...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126316619465423909.html#mod=todays_us_page_one

China número 1 em exportações

FRANKFURT (AFP) - – China and its population of 1.3 billion has overtaken Germany, population 82 million, as the world's top exporter, trade figures from the German national statistics office showed on Friday. From January to November, Chinese exports were worth 1.07 trillion dollars, while German data showed that exports from Europe's biggest economy amounted to 734.6 billion euros, or 1.05 trillion dollars. The widely-expected crowning of a new export champion should be confirmed when Germany releases full-year 2009 trade figures on February 9.

sexta-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2010

O maior mercado para automóveis agora é a China

BEIJING (AP) -- China overtook the United States as the biggest auto market in 2009 and automakers should see more strong growth this year, an industry group reported Friday.
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quarta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2009

Para celebrar réveillon: um banho de gelo


Festa de réveillon em Usedom, uma ilha no nordeste de Alemanha, no Mar Báltico.


Neste período do ano a temperatura da água é no ponto de gelo (1-2 graus).

segunda-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2009

Vale estudar economia


Uma análise extensa e profunda sobre a estrutura de salários pagos na Alemanha mostra que no longo do tempo os absolventes de estudos das ciências econômicas e administração ganham mais que ele de outras áreas: com um salário de 40 000 euros na entrada, os economistas e administradores estão ainda abaixo dos graduados em direito e da engeheiria, mas já depois 6 até 10 anos de atividade profisional estão na mesma faixa como os juristas e ganham mais que os engenheiros. Depois de mais de 20 anos de experiência profissional os economistas e administradores seguem na frente: ganham 95 mil euros por ano - bem mais que os juristas (86 mil), os graduados das ciências naturais (79 mil) e também mais que os ingenheiros (87 mil), e que os graduados da informática (76) e das ciências humanas (68 mil).
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sábado, 19 de dezembro de 2009

O que vai acontecer em 2010?

"If it were possible to calculate the future structure of the market," Mises wrote in Human Action, "the future would not be uncertain. There would be neither entrepreneurial loss nor profit. What people expect from the economists is beyond the power of any mortal man."

quarta-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2009

Meltdown

Ben Bernanke:
"Virtually every large financial firm in the world was in significant danger of going bankrupt. And we knew — and I knew — based on my experience as a policymaker, I knew that if the global financial system were to collapse, in the sense that many of the largest firms were to fail, and the financial sector essentially stopped functioning, I knew that the implications of that for the global economy would be catastrophic. We would be facing, potentially, another depression of the severity and length of the Depression in the 1930s. And that this was not at all hypothetical."
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quinta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2009

terça-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2009