Charles Darwin, a biologist and an economist ...?
I have always been fascinated by the theory of evolution of species by its element of chance, and the harshness with which the drawbacks are solved in nature. An example would be enlightening giraffes. Suppose that in a very remote era of abundance of food and water are the ancestors of a herd of giraffes. They did not have long necks as we know them now. There were some short neck with the type horse, and some with a neck pelín longer. There is a change, and reduces the amount of food in the bush. Those with the longest neck to reach the highest branches, and those that have a shorter neck are more difficult to eat. What is most surprising is that the short neck but did not manage to enlarge die, so they are better prepared are played between them (the survivors), giving a new generation of giraffes with necks longer, and so on. That means that the phrase "adapt or die" does not reflect what actually happens. The animals were randomly by better prepared for the new situation survive, others die. Obviously the theory has a lot of chicha more than this, and any biologist who walk by the forum as Gracia Ana Obregon, can add ten thousand nuances.
This analogy can be applied to businesses. In times of plenty all companies will survive and wind in its sails, but it is in times of crisis when most companies only manage to survive well prepared. This screening is "healthy" because it improves the quality of the business fabric, the surviving occupy the place of falling (customers, markets, etc ...), working on more efficient way to the falls. Those that survive and succeed in reaching the next stage of growth, will do so with greater force.
The current liquidity crisis, which is causing companies which themselves have worked with higher levels of debt are those that are finding more obstacles to pursue their activity. Those who have based their returns in an appeasement will be depleted their excessive financial activity, and those who have gone mad to its market by making their own customers would have to borrow dangerously to buy your product, they also see as the closure of the credit will cut sales considerably.
So, what the government has to do with the current situation? Help to companies that are not prepared for the new market conditions with money taken from the taxes of citizens? Help to companies that have burst their own market by removing large gains in recent years? ¿Brought to the evolution of the national fabric?
Obviously, following patterns liberal (liberal truth that in Spain there is no party that is), and following strict criteria of economic efficiency, it should let the market is self-regulating, leaving companies more vulnerable to die, but from the moral side and social, we know that this will cause victims among the workers. The measures to take at this stage should be a consolidation between the need to expel certain patterns that business would not survive in the new economic environment, and the need for this to occur with the least number of victims among the workers. Actually Solbes has it fucked up, but good, something you get paid for what you get paid.
Now let's see a summary of economic news.
- The shortage of credit for forcing thousands of families to ask for money outside Spain
- The oil caresses the ill omens 128 U.S. dollars after Goldman
- Hike in interest rates for mortgages: trend or coincidence?
- The Spanish economy accuses the first signs of recession
- 'The Economist' to the bank sees an example of Spain against the failure of regulators
Good Monday to everyone!
Written by Oriolrc the May 19, 2008 with 137 points.









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# 1, Dhaula
Buenos dias. Hopefully starting the day by lowering the price of money (aka Euribor), because I'm starting to tire of that speculate on everything, and I feel that this case is a speculation over which we suffer.
And if you do not read this article. it is clear that no matter what the world will die of hunger while others continue to "getting fat" its coffers:
http://www.canalsolidario.org/web/noticias/noticia/?id_noticia=10020
A greeting.