{"id":22920,"date":"2009-01-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-01-08T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:01:00","slug":"humor-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/humor-negro\/","title":{"rendered":"Black humour."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following image could easily be a scathing and sarcastic cartoon of what is already happening \u2013 and, above all, what is set to happen \u2013 to some American families. It even highlights how far this social problem will spread to Europe. It highlights the paradox and the limited ability to address the effects of a social crisis through monetary policy:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VIxOq4VLwLE\/SV4fWsmP9rI\/AAAAAAAAAc0\/HkHLEbr01tA\/s1600-h\/greattimetobuy1992.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 374px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VIxOq4VLwLE\/SV4fWsmP9rI\/AAAAAAAAAc0\/HkHLEbr01tA\/s400\/greattimetobuy1992.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286697487368713906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But wait: this cartoon isn't from today \u2013 it's from 1992! <\/span>It seems that, at the time, the fall in interest rates served as a lesson to us only briefly. And for the past 17 years, we have continued to be <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/freshfamilyoffice.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/financos-e-inverspatas-un-cctel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financiers and Investors<\/a>. We find ourselves in this situation today because of our own foolishness, even though some people are determined to blame capitalism. The fact is that the capitalism we have today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ledecanes\/senosrompioelamor.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It's broken from being used so much<\/a>, we all went. Now we are facing such a serious situation that <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/freshfamilyoffice.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fin-de-trayecto-borrn-y-cuenta-nueva.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019ll be able to do it again<\/a> the mistakes made in recent decades. And jokes about the future might not amuse us now because we wouldn\u2019t understand them.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"connecta-video-container\" style=\"margin: 2em 0;\"><iframe title=\"Eugenio Series 1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-bUotkNbQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Another humorous note <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">black<\/span> is that divorces in the US today. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">are fighting in court NOT to keep the property<\/span>, contrary to what had previously been the norm in marital disputes. In today\u2019s divorces, neither spouse is willing to take on the full mortgage because they will find themselves unable to sell the property for the amount owed. This is the clearest indication that, as was already warned <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Kiyosaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiyosaki<\/a>, property has very much ceased to be an asset. And divorce lawyers are fighting tooth and nail to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">let the other one take the blame<\/span>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/30\/us\/30divorce.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here you go <\/a>an excerpt from the paradoxical New York Times article:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u201cWe\u2019re finding the husband on one floor and the wife on the other,\u201d said Ms Decker. \u201cNow one of them is coming home with a new boyfriend or girlfriend, and it\u2019s adding a new dimension to relationships that we haven\u2019t seen before. Unfortunately, we\u2019re seeing \u2018The War of the Roses\u2019 in real life, not just in a Hollywood film.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The situation is getting worse by the day for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The middle-class Roses<\/span>, as we can read in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123064533193442343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this WSJ article<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>\u00abThe bear market continues; house prices are back to their March 2004 levels,\u00bb said David M. Blitzer, chairman of S&amp;P\u2019s index committee. He added that both composite indices and 14 of the 20 metropolitan areas are reporting new record declines. \u2019As of October, the 10-city index is down 251 points from its mid-2006 peak and the 20-city index is down 231 points,\u00bb said Blitzer.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.standardandpoors.com\/portal\/site\/sp\/en\/us\/page.topic\/indices_csmahp\/0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Case-Shiller House Price Index<\/a> continues on its relentless, hygienic and therapeutic course.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><p>If a free society cannot help its many poor, it will not be able to save its few rich either.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917\u20131963)<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La siguiente imagen podr\u00eda perfectamente ser una vi\u00f1eta \u00e1cida y sarc\u00e1stica de lo que ya est\u00e1 sucediendo, y sobre todo de lo que va a suceder, a algunas familias norteamericanas. Incluso de la extensi\u00f3n que tendr\u00e1 el problema social a Europa. Pone de manifiesto la paradoja y la escasa capacidad de solucionar los efectos de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}