I prigionieri delle fabbriche - Maila Iacovelli
Maila Iacovelli, fotografaAlessandro Leogrande, giornalista e scrittoreFabio Zayed, fotografo Il 21 maggio del 2014 Maria Baratto, operaia di 47 anni, si uccide nel piccolo appartamento in cui vive da sola ad Acerra, colpendosi più volte con un coltello all’addome. Il suo corpo rimane riverso sul pavimento per quattro giorni. Nessuno la cerca, nessuno la chiama. Maria Baratto è in cassa integrazione da sei anni, vive con 800 euro al mese. Benché se ne parli poco, in Italia esistono ancora i reparti confino, proprio come nella Fiat degli anni cinquanta, quella di Vittorio Valletta. Ai lavoratori “confinati” non è chiesto di produrre, ma di passare le giornate senza fare niente, guardando il soffitto o girandosi i pollici, fino a quando quel lento, prolungato stato di inazione non diventa una forma estrema di violenza contro la propria mente e il proprio corpo. Un caso che ne racchiude molti è quello di Mimmo Mignano, dipendente iscritto ai Cobas e trasferito a Nola.
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A Shared Future, A Global Economy Of Haves And Servants
Editor’s note: Max Wolff is an economist and investment strategist who is the managing partner and chief economist at Manhattan Venture Partners. Previously, he has served as the chief economist at a leading financial technology and investment firm. Many high-flying companies are pushing logistics, services, and payment options to our new “sharing economy.” We see these firms and sectors as largely driven by macroeconomic trends. The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Competition has increased as global barriers and technology change have added mice into the maze more rapidly than new cheese has been introduced. Enter the “sharing economy.” Needs and people can be matched on mobile apps as never before.
Spain Is Not Greece, It’s Spain (And That’s Worrying Enough)
By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Following Alex Tsipras’ humiliating capitulation to the Troika, one can imagine governments across Europe breathing a collective sigh of relief, tinged no doubt with a little schadenfreude. The loudest sigh was probably not in Berlin, as one might suspect, but in Madrid where the scandal-tarnished Rajoy government arguably had most to lose from a Syriza triumph (or even half-triumph), with general elections lurking just around the corner. As the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis admitted to the New Statesman, he and Tspiras chronically underestimated the strength of opposition to a new Greek debt deal among the governments of fellow peripheral nations Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland. “The greatest nightmare” of those with large debts – the governments of countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland – “was our success”. On paper Rajoy and Montoro may have a point. An Economic Fairy Tale “Many Little Greeces.”
VOLETE GLI STATI UNITI D’EUROPA? ECCO QUANTO PAGANO GLI USA PER LE LORO GRECIE
26 luglio 2015 Subito dopo i risultati del referendum greco dello scorso 5 luglio è uscito un articolo sul Washington Post scritto da Jared Bernstein (ex capo economista del vice-presidente Joe Biden e senior fellow di un think tank progressista come il Center on Budget and Policy Priorities): “[In Grecia] ci sono in ballo fattori politici strutturali, che sono endemici al fatto che un’unione monetaria non è un’unione politica, né un’unione fiscale, né una bancaria. Come mi ha detto un economista tedesco: ‘Pensi che alla gente di Manhattan piacerebbe bailing out (salvare) il Texas?’” Which States Are Givers and Which Are Takers? La lente distorta con cui si vedono gli Stati Uniti (o meglio, l’America) dall’Italia porta spesso a considerarli come una sorta di unico magma, se non ancora una terra delle opportunità dove tutto e grande e la ricchezza si tocca con le mani. (una vista del South Dakota) Blue America pays for Red America Cosa hanno in comune gli stati con più necessità di aiuto?
The Greek Coup: Liquidity as a Weapon of Coercion
“My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract.”— The Godfather (1972) In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system. Choking off that credit line was a form of blackmail the Greek government couldn’t refuse. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is now being charged with treason for exploring the possibility of an alternative payment system in the event of a Greek exit from the euro. The irony of it all was underscored by Raúl Ilargi Meijer, who opined in a July 27th blog: The fact that these things were taken into consideration doesn’t mean Syriza was planning a coup . . . . So how was that coup pulled off? There is an article in the [Maastricht] Treaty that says that basically the ECB has the responsibility to promote the smooth functioning of the payment system.
Life on the Layaway Plan: We’re All Greek Now
Is modern economics one big Ponzi game, where the debt of today is continuously postponed beyond any ultimate day of reckoning? The European debt crisis may have been temporarily managed with a quick-fix German bailout of Greek insolvency, but does anyone really think that a country with a GNP of $X can repay almost $2X after its economy has shrunk by 25% (insert current value of X = 240 billion for Greece)? I have some swamp land in Florida if you do. In any pyramid scheme/scam, a day of reckoning always comes, as in the first great Ponzi swindle. Charles Ponzi was a transplanted Bostonian, who in the 1920s developed subdivisions in Florida at 23 lots to the acre in places next to nonexistent cities, described by John Kenneth Galbraith “as repugnant to the people who bought it as to the passer-by.” But we can’t all be rich, a mathematical impossibility using any basic accounting. We’ve been here before. Printing money is one solution, as long as we don’t run out of paper and ink.
'Sharing economy' surge creates labor conundrum
la grande balla della 'ripresa' spagnola - il new york times sbugiarda rajoy e l’economist
mariano rajoy 6 Carlo Antonio Biscotto per "il Fatto Quotidiano" Tra i malati gravi che all' inizio della crisi economica in Europa furono indicati come possibili naufraghi, la Grecia naviga a vista su una scialuppa di salvataggio che fa acqua da tutte le parti, l' Italia si barcamena - anche se il governo vuol far credere alla ripresa e i sindacati lo contestano - il Portogallo non riesce a tirare la testa fuori dall' acqua. E la Spagna? Mentre l' Economist la indica a modello da seguire e ne loda la ripresa " grazie alle riforme", il New York Times con un articolo a firma Suzanne Daley, bolla la ripresa spagnola come una "truffa", uno specchietto per le allodole, l' illusione alimentata dalla diminuzione della bolletta energetica. Economist Ma per moltissimi spagnoli come Puyalon, queste statistiche nulla significano e molti dubitano persino che siano esatte. manifestazione-spagna spagna_proteste Molti disoccupati non hanno più alcuna forma di assistenza economica.
