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¿Cómo son las grandes fortunas chinas? El dueño de Wanda, el más rico
Wang Jianlin retiene el título pero es seguido muy de cerca por Jack Ma, fundador de Alibaba
Dos exaltos cargos de Caja Madrid respaldan la tesis de que las ‘black’ eran de libre disposición
Han explicado que podían hacer uso de ella sin necesidad de presentar justificación, respaldando la tesis de gran parte de los acusados. Leer
Brexit means…higher prices
THE economic arguments for and against Brexit in the course of the referendum campaign were quite esoteric and confusing to the average voter. Similarly, sterling’s decline in the currency markets might seem like the kind of thing that only concerns City traders.
So the row that has broken out between Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, and Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational, has made the story concrete in ways that were not apparent before. Unilever wants to raise prices across a range of goods to reflect the fall in the pound, which has dropped from around $1.50 on the day of the referendum to less than $1.22 at the time of writing. Similar falls have been seen against the euro; indeed travellers who change their money at the airport are getting less than a euro per pound.
The row has centered on Marmite, a salty yeast-based spread that is loved by some, but not all, Britons including this blogger. (I have yet to meet an American who can stand it.) But Marmite isn’t the best example as it is made in this country. PG Tips, one of Britain’s favourite tea brands (pictured), is a better example; that is…Continue reading
The business of outrage
ONE of the gentler quips uttered by the writer and thinker H.L. Mencken was that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. By the same token, nobody ever went broke overestimating the anger of the American people. The country is in an unusually flammable mood. This being America, there are plenty of businesspeople around to monetise the fury—to foment it, manipulate it and spin it into profits. These are the entrepreneurs of outrage and barons of bigotry who have paved the way for Donald Trump’s rise.
The very first of them was Rush Limbaugh who, back in the 1980s, transformed himself from a disc jockey into a radio commentator. Mr Limbaugh shook up the ossified talk-show format by dispensing with the tedious call-ins and adding anarchic humour. Soon an army of “ditto-head” followers hung on his every word. He has 13m regular listeners and hundreds of imitators, ranging from national stars such as Sean Hannity to local ranters.
The second entrepreneur of outrage was Roger Ailes, a Republican operative who teamed up with Rupert Murdoch to build Fox News. Mr Ailes took talk radio and added TV…Continue reading
La Audiencia de Madrid archiva una pieza del caso Rato porque ha prescrito
Rato solicitó en julio el archivo parcial de la investigación sobre su patrimonio al sostener que se basaba en hechos falsos. Leer
Los técnicos del FMI desembarcan en España para examinar su economía
El Fondo realiza su revisión anual en Madrid durante 12 días, después de retrasarlo unos meses para tratar de llegar con el nuevo Gobierno
La incertidumbre política merma la confianza de las empresas familiares
El porcentaje de las compañías que tiene una visión positiva en la situación económica ha pasado del 79% al 70% en un año
La caída del Fondo de Reserva reduce un 26% el ingreso patrimonial de la Seguridad Social
Hasta agosto las rentas patrimoniales del instituto público han sumado 1.110 millones