Hilo bolcheviquista/liberalche para que Soho se humille públicamente

[NubeBlanca]

Claro. Si erraran siempre... con llevarles la contraria ya estarí­amos en lo cierto. ¡Como Dios!

[Benito Mussolini]

Belloso, el "chico" liberal de derechas, en Expansión:


Entre el jueves y el viernes de la semana pasada, el crédito se paró por completo. Nadie podí­a obtener financiación, y una economí­a sin financiación es una economí­a muerta. Los socialistas, socialdemócratas y demás grey que parecen disfrutar con lo que está ocurriendo, suelen repetir que la inyección masiva de dinero público equivale a socializar las pérdidas de los que antes guardaron a buen recaudo sus beneficios. Es falso. Se trata precisamente de utilizar el dinero público para minimizar los costes de la crisis, para impedir que empresas solventes se vean abocadas al cierre por falta de crédito, o que ciudadanos que no tienen nada que ver con lo que está ocurriendo pierdan sus depósitos bancarios. Se trata, por mucho estupor que cause esta afirmación, de proteger tanto a los más débiles como a los más eficientes, que serí­an los principales perjudicados por una gran depresión.

También es hiriente el abuso del concepto de riesgo moral que suele asociarse a la intervención pública. En esta crisis, que se sepa, instituciones centenarias como Lehman Brothers han desaparecido. Otras como Bearn o Merril Lynch han sido engullidas a precio de saldo. Gigantes como Goldman Sachs o Morgan Stanley se han reconvertido de un dí­a para otro. Miles de empleados han perdido sus puestos de trabajo, otros miles de ejecutivos han sido despedidos sin sus bonos y participaciones en el capital. Millones de accionistas han visto reducido a mí­nimos el valor de su inversión. Es decir, contra lo que se dice, el mercado ha funcionando, castigando a los más ineficientes, penalizando la osadí­a, el aventurerismo o la soberbia, y promoviendo un nuevo escenario capaz de afrontar los nuevos tiempos. Todo se ha producido con una dinámica vertiginosa, sin contemplaciones, según la máxima de la destrucción creativa de la que habló Schumpeter. Es verdad que, finalmente, ha sido precisa la intervención del Estado para salvar el sistema. ¿Pero es que hay alguna persona sensata que no esté interesada en salvar el sistema capitalista? O dicho de otro modo, ¿queda alguna que añore el Muro de Berlí­n?

Completo en http://app2.expansion.com/blogs/web/belloso.html?opcion=1&codPost=50708

a este lo conozco yo in person, es colega de mi jefe de estos foros y thinktanks de empresarios liberales

[NubeBlanca]

Sí­, un tanque sin fondo de pensamiento.

[Benito Mussolini]

Sí­, un tanque sin fondo de pensamiento.

que no, que los idiotas que no sabemos pensar y por eso gana la izquierda (bueno, llamar izquierda al psoe dice mucho de como piensan) somos nosotros (al menos eso creen ellos de todo corazón, somos de izquierdas, ergo idiotas)

[Bilán]

efectivamente, este foro es más bien de derechas. El mercado ha funcionado cojonudamente.

[soho]

efectivamente, este foro es más bien de derechas. El mercado ha funcionado cojonudamente.

A mi este foro, en cambio, me parece de un rojo recalcitrante je,je...

[NubeBlanca]

Gracias, idiotas. Vivan los porros.


Lahde Quits Hedge Funds, Thanks `Idiots' for Success (Update1)

By Katherine Burton

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana.

Lahde, head of Santa Monica, California-based Lahde Capital Management LLC, told investors last month he was returning their cash because the risk of using credit derivatives -- his means of betting on the falling value of bonds and loans, including subprime mortgages -- was too risky given the weakness of the banks he was trading with.

``I was in this game for money,'' Lahde, 37, wrote in a two-page letter today in which he said he had come to hate the hedge-fund business. ``The low-hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government.

``All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other sides of my trades. God Bless America.''

Lahde, who managed about $80 million, told clients he'll be content to invest his own money, rather than taking cash from wealthy individuals and institutions and trying to amass a fortune worth hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

``I do not understand the legacy thing,'' he wrote. ``Nearly everyone will be forgotten. Give up on leaving your mark. Throw the Blackberry away and enjoy life.''

Request for Soros

He said he'd spend his time repairing his health ``as well as my entire life -- where I had to compete for spaces at universities, and graduate schools, jobs and assets under management -- with those who had all the advantages (rich parents) that I did not.''

He also suggested that billionaire George Soros sponsor a forum in which ``great minds'' would come together to create a new system of government, as the current system ``is clearly broken.''

Lahde ended his letter with a plea for the increased use of hemp as an alternative source of food and energy that segued into a call for the legalization of marijuana.

``Hemp has been used for at least 5,000 years for cloth and food, as well as just about everything that is produced from petroleum products,'' he wrote. ``Hemp is not marijuana and vice versa. Hemp is the male plant and it grows like a weed, hence the slang term.''

`Innocuous Plant'

He added, ``The evil female plant -- marijuana. It gets you high, it makes you laugh, it does not produce a hangover. Unlike alcohol, it does not result in bar fights or wife beating. So, why is this innocuous plant illegal? Is it a gateway drug? No, that would be alcohol, which is so heavily advertised in this country.''

Lahde said the only reason marijuana remains illegal is because ``Corporate America, which owns Congress, would rather sell you Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax and other addictive drugs, than allow you to grow a plant in your home without some of the profits going into their coffers.''

Lahde graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in finance and holds an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He worked at Los Angeles-based hedge fund Dalton Investments LLC before founding his own firm two years ago with about $10 million.

Lahde wasn't available for comment. A woman at his firm, who asked not to be identified, confirmed the authenticity of the letter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVUE96d.HKyw

[NubeBlanca]

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