Reportagem do 60 minutos americano acerca do HSBC:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hsbc-swiss-leaks-investigation-60-minutes/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hsbc-swiss-leaks-investigation-60-minutes/
Lá estás tu a pensar que te chamo comunista, ou comunismo vs capitalismo.
Eu só nunca meti dinheiro na Suiça porque não o tenho![]()
Credit rating firm Standard & Poor's will pay $1.5 billion to resolve a collection of lawsuits over its ratings on mortgage securities that soured in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, concluding one of the U.S. government's most ambitious cases tied to the housing collapse.
The United States sued S&P in 2013 after initial settlement talks broke down, seeking $5 billion and accusing the ratings agency of defrauding investors. S&P argued that its ratings were protected under the First Amendment right to free speech, and described the lawsuit as retaliation for the firm downgrading the credit rating of the United States.
Under the settlement, S&P acknowledged it has not uncovered evidence to support the allegations of retaliation. "This was important to me," Attorney General Eric Holder said, referring to the allegation as "utter nonsense."
U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday that U.S. support for economic reform in Russia goes beyond President Yeltsin or any other individual.
In a crucial gesture of support, Gore emphatically endorsed a new three-year $9 billion loan to Russia that the International Monetary Fund and other lending institutions are still debating.
President Clinton, who also met with Chernomyrdin Tuesday, said he believes the loan will go through. Clinton said Russia's economy will continue to grow with the support of the United States and international banks.
The Russians had to learn quickly, as their vocabulary expanded to embrace new words such as marketing, advertising and exchange rates; or barter, leasing and - not least - profits.
Those who were unable to adapt quickly suffered. In particular, those employed by the state - including teachers, doctors, professors and policemen - learned to hate the "new Russians" who were flocking to the newly-opened restaurants, night clubs and casinos.
The disparity of wealth sparked a powerful revival of the Communists. In 1995, they led the polls and the demise of Yeltsin looked imminent.
In order to secure his own survival and the continuation of the capitalist reforms, Boris Yeltsin took one of his most controversial economic steps. He succumbed to the pressure of a dozen bankers and promised them a hefty prize for their financial support.
Those bankers, known as "oligarchs", provided the state with loans, taking oil and metal shares as collateral.
Soon they became the owners of some of Russia's most profitable assets, which made them the de facto rulers of the country.
The pauperising effects unleashed by globalisation have generated social conflicts and political crises that the system is now finding it more and more difficult to contain. The slogan "we are the 99 per cent" grows out of the reality that global inequalities and pauperisation have intensified enormously since capitalist globalisation took off in the 1980s. Broad swaths of humanity have experienced absolute downward mobility in recent decades. Even the IMF was forced to admit in a 2000 report that "in recent decades, nearly one-fifth of the world’s population has regressed. This is arguably one of the greatest economic failures of the 20th century"
The three countries stricken by Ebola have been granted debt relief of about $100m (£65m) by the International Monetary Fund, which has been under pressure to relieve the financial burden on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The IMF also urged other international lenders to the countries to take similar action as it established a catastrophe containment relief trust to provide grants to countries suffering epidemics and other natural disasters.
The trust will provide the money to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea so they can pay off debt to the IMF. The IMF also offered the west African states $160m of new interest-free loans.
According to campaigners, the debt of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to the IMF will increase from $410m to $620m over the next three years, because of the $415m of new loans granted before the announcement.
“The cancellation of debt payments coming due over the next two to four years is a welcome step in helping with the impact of Ebola,” Tim Jones, policy officer at Jubilee Debt Campaign, said. “But the lending of more money means that Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone’s debt will actually increase. Grants should be given to cope with the impact of Ebola, not more loans which leave an unjust debt to be repaid over the next decade.”
Médicos do Mundo impugnam patente do medicamento para a hepatite C
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Fotografia © D.R.
Organização não governamental defende que a patente do sofosbuvir deve ser aberta à concorrência, considerando que o laboratório pratica preços "exorbitantes".
É por estas e por outras que terá de haver sempre uma regulação por parte do estado, pois o mercado só por si é irregulável....
Para se chegar a este medicamento esta empresa com todas as suas virtudes usou o conhecimento partilhado e construido por gerações de ricos, pobres, gordos magros, doentes e saudáveis, gente de muitas nacionalidades de muitos extractos sociais. É a cultura que nos liga ao mundo, sem ela estamos despido de qualquer talento ou competência de lidar com o mundo. Esta vem da nossa socialização como membro da sociedade. Daí que usar a sua descoberta e deliberadamente usá-la apenas na linha dos seus principios ambicionistas é um "abuso", para não usar outras palavras....
Como no caso Hepatite C....