The cache
Finance could understanding as the science that seeks to optimize resources while minimizing risk. Most of our emotional well as sound without follow this pattern that often we realize. For example, when we drive we try to find the shortest way to save money and time evaluating various alternatives, including shortcuts, that while we further optimize the route, usually have some sort of added risk (the famous "there is no shortcut without work ").
In the book "The hidden Logic of Life" shows us some interesting, not least the book begins by analyzing the incredible increase in oral sex among young Americans. If you look at "economically" oral sex is a "price" under which the risks of pregnancy and disease contagion is much lower than that of sexual relations therefore would be the best choice for the small economist in all of us ( and that "small economist" is not a metaphor). So, what at first seems immature behavior, has much more than what we think rationally.
In computing, we have other methods to optimize resources, we can spend the dough in a huge server or we can install a system cache. This system is what makes leaving memorized the most frequently visited pages, so that when a user accesses the Web, instead of having to perform various calculations and access to the database shows the page memorized. It is as if in your job you frequently ask for your email address, and opt, instead of reciting, have it tattooed on your hand and save spell your email.
As we have commented before, many times the value for money carries some risks, this is what we did with the cache and some of our readers have been almost a week without seeing the updated Web site.
That it is also what has happened to banks in the famous crisis in subprime mortgages, using a system of "packaging" of mortgages (a shortcut to get better returns) but taking too many risks. It is the highest in finance and in life, more risk than profitability, we must not give him more laps.
In Cotizalia can read an opinion article entitled: And the bomb exploded financially. When the search for profitability ignores the risk (II). Who comes to summarize the current crisis in 3 points:
- Fatten the cow until reviente
- The mote in the eye of others and the beam in one's own
- Tweet, tweet that I have not been
In Spain it seems that this will not remain with us and to our world of color and fantasy and I read with amazement the next release as Invertia: "hook quick to credit: Spaniards pay more (9.25%) than Europeans by consuming" .
Consumer credit are two hundred basis points more expensive in Spain than elsewhere in Europe. The national average stands at 9.25% versus 7.21% applied to the forward transactions between 1 and 5 years in the Eurozone. In Spain, most bets by paying with cards and the recruitment of direct credit, a loan that does not rely only on assets or securities, and that carries a higher risk premium.
If in the end we will have what we deserve. Like it's because we know a lot of economics, not the poor of Warren Buffet has stated recently that "Is it the economy? I have no idea "
Warren Buffett says it has no idea where is the economy. And he is not interested because, he says, this is not your business. They are words that clash, coming from that is the richest man on the planet, and especially from someone who has gained the nickname of El Oracle of Omaha.
Of course, that is dedicated to what is not to the economy if not to finance, which is without doubt a guru. Meanwhile, other "gurus" are dedicated to predicting $ 200 oil, which you get to know if this will be true or not but the truth is that it gives fear of something.
In the end, friends, be very careful about the cache.
Written by Carlos Lopez on May 7, 2008 with 211 points.












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Presenter: George Parros, you are an agent of investments
George Parros: What am I, yes.
Host: And as such, have controlled the "pulse" of the financial market.
George Parros: Yes, you could say so.
Presenter: And last summer there were a lot of turbulence .... ... Volatility.
George Parros: If tremendous
Host: And what is the cause?
George Parros: Well we must remember two things about the market: The first is that it is composed of people very acute and sophisticated. They are the big heads of the world. And the second is that financial markets are driven by sentiment.
Presenter: What does that mean?
George Parros: What does that mean? Well, things are going normally, and suddenly, without more, one of those sophisticated people said, my God! What will happen? Oh We've lost everything! What will we do? Oh ... .... ¿Salto for sale? Jump out the window. Everyone. SOLD! , SELL!
Presenter: Yes.
George Parros: Precisely ... And then one of those sophisticated people said, 'You know, I think everything is going well. " And everyone says, "I agree. We are rich, are rich "
Presenter: "Buy, Buy, Buy"
George Parros: Buy, buy, buy the other. And to call that "market sentiment."
Presenter: Yes .... Surely we are exaggerating a bit.
George Parros: Ah, what is not good in August of last year, when markets collapsed in London a well-known firm issued a statement in which he said, and I'm quoting, agents market does not know whether to buy in rumor and sell on the news, do the opposite, any two, depending on the direction of the wind.
Presenter: Yes, and this is the kind of rigorous analysis by which these companies receive huge salaries.
George Parros: And a few days later, when the situation improved, a senior official said the ABM, and I quote, return to happy days again
Presenter: There is no money to buy that kind of mature wisdom.
George Parros: Probably not. Those people received millions in bonuses.
Presenter: There have been real causes behind the volatility of the market. Especially in the U.S., for the many mortgages made to people who can not pay for properties that are losing value
George Parros: Where are the subprime mortgages.
Presenter: subprime, if .... How does that?
George Parros: Imagine, if you can an unemployed person sitting in a black gantries demolished, with a T-shirt without sleeves somewhere in Alabama. And a so-approaches and asks Would you like to buy that house before they fall? You provide the money.
Host: And that so-and-so is a banker.
George Parros: No, no. It is a vendor of liens. His salary depends on how many sold. So its valuation is highly objectionable.
Presenter: Yeah, yeah, completely. So what happens?
George Parros: Well, a bank buying that debt, the mortgage and packaged with other similar debts
Presenter: Without going into detail about ....
George Parros: No, no ... It's too boring ... So it is packaged and then goes to Wall Street. And something extraordinary happens here. Somehow those packages of risky debt, ceases to be and becomes a vehicle for structured debt.
Presenter: A SIV
George Parros: Yes, a SIV.
Host: OK, and then, someone like you comes and buys it.
George Parros: Yes, and then call someone in Tokyo and I say: "Look, I got this package You want to buy?, I wondered what's in it?. I say you do not have the slightest idea. I wonder how much I ask, I say $ 100 million. He tells me he's worth, and that's it. That is the market.
Presenter: And presumably, this happened several times with the same package. And if someone like you will make money with that.
George Parros: Do not wait to be done for nothing. It's a tough job ....
Presenter: Based on that debt in these packages are very arriegasdas Why attract investors?
George Parros: Because these funds in the research has very good free names.
Host: You mean that companies are respectable?
George Parros: No, no. Nothing to do with your reputation. He has very good names. They are very creative. For example, there is a well-known firm, Bear Sterns, who has two of these funds. They lost so much money they announced that they would have to put $ 3.2 million to keep one foot. Even so investors lost money