Predictably, the playpen was full of straw and dry debris, and the heat was scorching. Now no one knows how to put it out because there is very little water in that house, just a few buckets that are committed to the garden to save some of the meagre harvest. The surrounding neighbours have wells, but they have never given them permission to draw a drop of water from them. And not because they are bad people or unsupportive, no, but because their respective harvests, and therefore their survival, also depend on what is left in those wells, which is rather little. The drought that has been ravaging the region for the past five years is already taking a cruel toll on the well-being of families in this increasingly poor area on the outskirts of the big city. (more…)
La rima es fácil. Pero no existe ninguna animadversión hacia ese pueblo, ni mucho menos, ya que lo ocurrido en Chipre sería comparable con lo acontecido en el resto de la periferia del sur de la Eurozona. Las circunstancias y las rimas de un griego, italiano, español o portugués son distintas, pero los paralelismos son innegables, e 
Parece que el mundo se divide entre las personas que ahorran y las que no lo hacen. Pero muchos de los que dicen vivir al día, en algún momento de sus vidas (mayoritariamente en su madurez) y con el permiso de los azotes de esta crisis, tienden a ahorrar algún dinerito para su vejez o para el futuro incierto. Sin embargo la mayoría de estos previsores jamás se han considerado Inversores, sino simples ahorradores. Warren Buffett dijo que invertir es gastar menos hoy para que en el futuro podamos gastar más, y dio en el clavo, como casi siempre. 
Despite being the closest member of the BRICs, the Russian economy is still largely unknown to Spanish investors. However, we are already beginning to see its inhabitants travelling en masse around the world. And little by little we are becoming familiar with their appearance and language, because more and more Russian tourism is flooding the Mediterranean coasts from the Turkish Riviera to the Costa Brava. Restaurant menus in the Cyrillic alphabet are now quite common, and this is a clear sign that their roubles are beginning to make a substantial contribution to the balance sheets of our companies. 
Most investors care little about what might have happened. They only value and rate the quality of their bets by the final outcome. In other words, often without realising it, they subscribe to the old saying: “all's well that ends well”.
La mayoría tendréis en la memoria la famosa película española titulada “