We are in the eye of the storm. But not because of injustice or envy of our northern neighbours—no—but because of our own foolishness. That foolishness which has led us in the past to vote for governments of both political stripes, yet with one thing in common: an inability to manage the Spanish economy. We have missed a golden opportunity, given that economic growth and the surge in job creation in the Eurozone allowed us to boast of macroeconomic figures that made even those of France itself pale in comparison. And so Zapatero proclaimed on occasion, although today it is the Mercozy duo who must stifle their feelings in the face of the grotesque and surreal tragicomedy of the current periphery. «Spain is doing well,» we proclaimed to the four winds just a decade ago. Those were years when illusions of grandeur led the presidents of Spain and Portugal to meet in the Azores with the very presidents of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Aznar, Barroso, Blair and Bush together shaping the plans that were to govern the New World Order. That was only nine years ago, but it seems so long ago…
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En muchas tertulias y medios escritos estamos escuchando voces que proclaman la insensatez y el delirio de los Mercados respecto a la situación de la economía española. Se argumenta que, el hecho de que antes de hacer públicos los presupuestos más austeros de la democracia española Mr. Market penalizase los intereses españoles, y que después del tijeretazo también lo hagan, es una prueba irrefutable de la demencia de los Mercados. Dicen que esa es la prueba de que las directrices económicas de este país deben marcarse al margen de lo que los Mercados puedan opinar. Que «la dictadura de los Mercados» es algo que debemos obviar y contra lo que hay que luchar… Pero no. Veamos algunas de las razonas por las cuales no debemos ni podemos obviar a Mr. Market: 
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First of all, we must tell you that the subject we are going to deal with today is complex and may offend some professional sensibilities. But that is not our intention at all, but rather our interest is focused on clarifying a situation that is currently generating a lot of confusion and, more importantly, is damaging families with a certain amount of wealth. Both large fortunes and small savers. We will therefore discuss, for example, Santander's convertible bonds, the recent inflammatory statements by Greg Smith (ex-Goldman Sachs), the types of assets that a properly diversified wealth should contain, the Spanish and Luxembourg regulators, banking, EAFIs, Family Office, or how to distinguish between a perverse advice and a perverse advice. comme il faut. We apologise for the length of the post, but we have chosen to publish it in its entirety so as not to lose the thread in the middle of the reflections that follow. 
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This week I came across an article published in FundsPeople titled «
A continuación os traemos un artículo de una colaboradora que nos ha solicitado publicar algunos de sus artículos en este blog. Sofía Sánchez es una escritora, graduada de Florida International University, con especialización en escrituras sobre la política, economía y tendencias laborales. Os dejamos con su artículo sobre dichas tendencias en el mundo laboral:
Knowing which types of assets or which companies’ shares are going to skyrocket in the coming months is the pipe dream of those who, rather than investing, speculate. Of those who are hoping for a windfall to bail them out of the financial difficulties they have got themselves into through their own foolishness. But even if Lady Luck were to smile on them, their poor judgement would remain just as bad. Consequently, they will believe themselves to be shrewd investors rather than merely lucky, and their cycle of financial difficulties, windfalls and further difficulties will repeat itself, at best. In the long run, the result for most of them is that their forays as speculators (even though they describe themselves as investors), far from supplementing their income, cost them a significant portion of the wages they have earned through the sweat of their brow over the years. And if at any point they were to make an objective calculation of their gains and losses—something they consciously or unconsciously avoid doing—the balance sheet would reveal the harsh reality: that throughout their investing lives, a large part of their own and their families’ well-being has been taken by Mr Market. 
«¿Qué pasaría si las calificadoras de riesgo dejaran de existir? Es una pregunta que aún pocos nos hacemos hoy en día, pero que nos lleva a reflexiones interesantísimas.» Así comenzaba 