La economía está creciendo a un ritmo «modesto» o «moderado» en la mayoría de los estados de Estados Unidos, una evolución que sería suficiente para sostener la subida de tipos que planea la Reserva Federal (Fed) para antes de que acabe el año. Leer
El tribunal obliga a pagar 20 días por año a una empleada temporal del sector público
El tribunal obliga a pagar 20 días por año a una empleada temporal del sector público
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La empresa, que trabaja en un cable submarino entre Escocia e Inglaterra, informa del hallazgo del buque

I HAVE not yet had an opportunity to read Sebastian Mallaby’s new biography of Alan Greenspan (pictured), The Man Who Knew. I have heard great things about it; you can read Martin Wolf’s review of the book in The Economist here. (Full disclosure: Mr Mallaby is a former Economist journalist and is married to our editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes.) In reading coverage of the book, I have been intrigued by one of Mr Mallaby’s judgments of Mr Greenspan: that he was insufficiently committed to keeping control of asset prices. Mr Wolf quotes the book as follows:
The tragedy of Greenspan’s tenure is that he did not pursue his fear of finance far enough: he decided that targeting inflation was seductively easy, whereas targeting asset prices was hard; he did not like to confront the climate of opinion, which was willing to grant that central banks had a duty to fight inflation, but not that they should vaporise citizens’ savings by forcing down asset prices. It was a tragedy that grew out of the mix of…Continue reading
Siete de cada diez pensionistas viven solo de la prestación pública
Por el cobro indebido de sus prejubilaciones. Leer