A CRISE DOS BANCOS AMERICANOS
COMO SERÁ ENCARADA PELO NOVO GOVERNO?

A cada dia estamos vendo que realmente o sistema financeiro estava auto regulamentado e disciplindo o comportamento dos mercados mundiais, praticando os abusos mais absurdos.

Quando realmente será que os Bancos Centrais ou qualquer uma outra entidade reguladora irá tomar conhecimento da realidade do mercado financeiro mundial ?

Um organismo que custa tão caro para qualquer Nação, como os Bancos Centrais, porque não previram a crise das Letras Hipotecárias e as maracutaias que estavam acontecendo no mundo financeiro ? Em apenas cinco anos, o mundo gerou uma elite de novos bilionários, através da valorização artificial dos ativos das empresas, mas garantiram a privatização dessses lucros, socializando os prejuizos.
E esses bilhões de dólares ganhos desonestamente ainda não foram devolvidos a quem de direito e os responsáveis também não estão na cadeia. Era um mundo intocável e cercado de Corrupção Por Todos os Lados. Mas está provado que tudo isso só existiu e está existindo, porque a maioria das Nações ainda estão sendo governadas por interesses de grupos privados restritos e não da sociedade. Ter pena dos Malandros e não ter pena dos contribuintes e que irão arcar com esses custos, embora não gerado ou usufruido dessa dívida. E a socialização americana continua em marcha acelerada e setor autormotivo continua cobrando, também, financiamentos privilegiados de mais de US$ 50 bilhões e a corrente vai prá frente …. Mas quem é capitalista, a china ou os estados unidos ?
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A CRIDIBILIDADE NO MERCADO DE AÇÕES

Até que enfim, os dirigentes das multinacionais estão entendendo que as suas empresas não vivem um agem exclusivamente em função da mídia, que no médio e longo prazos, desmoralizam o mercado de ações.

Os investidores, no mundo inteiro, foram sugestionados através de propagandas enganosas, por balanços maquiados e por uma infinidade de outras irregularidades que não deveriam ter acontecido. Mas o grande problema, ainda é a distribuição de dividendos e gratificações absurdas para os COEs, calculadas com base em dados contábeis ficticios e maquiados.

Uma infinidade de IPOs foram lançadas com negociações de 100 a 200% acima do prêço real e a CVM não deveria ter permitido esssa aberração, que prejudicou milhares de pequenos investidores nas aquisições de
ações BOVESPA, no Brasil e que não foi um bom exemplo de credibilidade para o mercado mundial de ações.

Thank you for your insight and interest. I only hope that our electorate is not as shallow as we appear to be. And I pray that we do not unleash a McCain/Palin administration on the rest of the world!

Thank you so much for your insightful comments here. I guess that is what we have sunk to...reality TV, American Idol on Politics, trivial pap. And, what future are we giving up? Is this the beginning of an ever evolving decline of what we were and of the beacon that has lit the world for so long?

This pick is alarming because McCain is a 72 year old cancer survivor and under Bush, the vice president has become a co-president. This pick was pure expediency, this moment in time called for a woman candidate to try and wrest votes from the opposition.
A sizable number of Americans have always been annoyed and bewildered by a world that refuses to be more like us. So there is little regard for the overseas consequences. We are an anti-intellectual culture, we prefer simplification over expertise. We like novelty and she's that too for many voters. She's also photogenic and telegenic so the rest of her can be created by the people who are right now tutoring her in bites of information that she can use to debate or face interviews when they think she's ready.

I find it somewhat ironic that the U.S. electorate is being critiqued by a journalist from Beirut, that shining city on a hill, albeit also the poster child for perpetual sectarian violence.

Khuori's simplistic view seems to be that experience equates to judgement. I'll ignore Obama's foreign policy "experience" since it is limited to being an absentee member of the FRC and to a one-off whirlwind pop tour of Europe and the Middle East. So let's consider Palin's opposite number, Senator Biden.

Sure it would be great if Palin could provide informed opinion based on experience to aid in foreign policy decisions; however, "informed judgement" is a much more valuable commodity. Good heavens, while both Obama and Biden voted against the surge, Obama at least has admitted some value associated with the surge. Biden still denies it. And what's Joe Biden's grand strategy for ending the war? He wants to partition the country into three autonomous regions divided along sectarian lines, a position opposed by all political parties within Iraq itself, and one which by general consensus would launch the country into civil war. Experienced? Good lord, this man's foreign policy views are downright dangerous.

Don't misread me. This is not a defense of Palin. In my opinion, neither of the current tickets in this election is qualified to run this country. However, Mr. Khouri's blatantly partisian attack on Governor Palin is especially egregious given where he has elected to live and work. Perhaps he should restrict his pedantic and pompous moralizing to trying to improve his own balkanized and dysfunctional country.

Because no one knew Sarah Palin, three days were wasted by John McCain. He should have gone for Britney Spears and gotten instant recognition!

This is such a good comment, its a sad, sad day to see this process turned into a soap opera. We do not neet to give Gov Palin time to learn her job while on the job. We need the most expertise in January 2009 not later. It is a shocking decision made by a shockingly stupid losing candidate. The Americans generally don't care about the rest of the world or what the world's opinion are of America - they have this blinkered view that America is #1. We are slowly circling the drain.

GET REAL AND WAKE UP AMERICA

This is such a good comment, its a sad, sad day to see this process turned into a soap opera. We do not neet to give Gov Palin time to learn her job while on the job. We need the most expertise in January 2009 not later. It is a shocking decision made by a shockingly stupid losing candidate. The Americans generally don't care about the rest of the world or what the world's opinion are of America - they have this blinkered view that America is #1. We are slowly circling the drain.

GET REAL AND WAKE UP AMERICA

Nothing about Palin worries me apart from the fact that McCain's choice reflects the candidate's decision-making strategy: act now, think later. Some call it clever and bold, a real maverick choice. The rest of us are simply stupified. As for "people in other countries," what is there left not to get? As we say, in the end we get the government we deserve. In that respect, the U.S. is no different from any other nation except we tend not to decide elections by killing off the opposition. (We do live in hope, however.)

I am really disappointed in the Republican Party and the media. They are not focused on the issues. They keep emphasizing these foolish comments and tactic’s of the Republican Party. Why won't John McCain go in front of the media? Why is the media only printing comments from his campaign camp and not him directly? Why because he is hiding from the media. Also, we are suppose to be an example of how a demographic society is suppose to work not fail. The Republican Party and John McCain have now showed the world how is can be manipulated bought for personal glory and the worst that we can be. Of all times today of all days. McCain used 9/11 to drive home one of the worst times in our history. He used and she allowed him to use her daughter's circumstances and her infant son (if it is her son) Me and my brother are 11 months apart and for those of you who can count it is possible to be pregnant again so soon after giving birth. We the American people are so much better than this. The media needs to not participate in this practice. If John McCain wants to hide out behind his campaign than do not give him a forum to pass on ridiculous comments. Let him personally speak to the American people, to the rest of the world. The reason he can't is because he can't do it with out the same old script and a teleprompter. Yes American stand up and be proud. Stop John McCain and Sara Palin.

Mrs. Palin, John McCain and the Repubican strategists bring not only the worst of American Electoral Politics, they show no respect for the majority of the citizens of this country. Indeed, many people are not aware of the lies and tactics being practiced in the McCain campaign. They are true believers of John McCain. In the past I have held him in high esteem, though I did not always agree with his politics. That is now gone. To take advantage of citizens many of whom do not have the time, the means or even the interest to follow the political conversation but are well-meaning folks swooped up in the ra-ra-ra of the more calculating and vicious political elite in the Republican party is unworthy of Mr. McCain.

Only about 11 % of Americans have the means and curiosity to study or travel to see the results of our Foreign Policies as they impact the rest of the world, things that the U.S. should be ashamed of - like Free Trade Agreements, like the War in Iraq. Unlike Europe, the Middle East and other countries, we are among the most isolated people in the world and a knowledge of foreign affairs and the societies and cultures or other countries are extremely important qualifications for President and Vice-President. Elections are not a game. They are a serious and important part of our Democracy. The kind of entertainment that Mr. McCain and his political elite promoters are providing to the electorate - this includes Mrs. Palin's Annie Oakley image and her "zingers" playing to a seriously isolated American audience - are a very sad demonstration of how desperate Mr. McCain is to win the presidency. He is not an overly intelligent or moral man seeking the presidency, but even if I respect his "story" and many of his accomplishments through the years, I have certainly lost respect for the man, who in old age, is engaging in the same tactics that some of his predecessors have practiced - even against him. It shows that Mr. McCain is no longer a "Maverick" but just another political hack! I agree with others that have said that Mrs. Palin has no time and she shows no interest in being re-educated. But John Mc Cain, I think, if he were not so desperate, knows better than to appoint someone so unqualified for his Vice-President because she would be only a heart-beat away from the Presidency with no serious understanding of the importance of the position.
Mrs. Palin apparently thinks that power is the most important experience for holding office without understanding that "community organizers" are people who organize "the power of people" to remind politicians of their duties to work for in the public's interest. The community organizer serves, sometimes without pay, to neutralize the "power of money" from politicians whose interest is not the public's interest. Such "grass-roots democracy" can be far more important as Mr. Rudy Juliani learned during his time in office in New York when community organizers empowered local people who "persuaded" him to fund the building of affordable housing! Choosing Palin as his Vice-Presidential running mate shows that Mr McCain's ambition has diminished him and turned him into a cynical, desperate, old soldier who has betrayed not only those who have appreciated him, but his country as well. It would seem that Mr. McCains love and honor for his country have been seriously degraded by the power of money available through the currently cynical Republican Party. Let us hope that Mr. McCains loss will bring a new seriousness and sense of responsibility to the Republican Party which used to be the Party of Lincoln.

Well said.

Palin represents irrationality, ignorance and foolishness as a substitute for enquiry, analysis and wisdom.

The higher qualities, which I say she does not possess, are acquired over time. They require learning, enquiry and thoughtfulness.

Anyone who jumps out of the bushes and proclaims that they are suitable VP (or Presidential) material because they can call up unjustified slogans as a substitute for intellectualism is deluding themself.

Too many Americans are good at deluding themselves because their minds are not enquiring. Good example are Bush and Cheney who give me the impression that their simplistic and bigoted view of the world cannot be successfully challenged by anyone because their minds are closed.

She represents the bottom of the barrel in her provincialism in global affairs, and her willingness to be used as an attack dog whose main job is to savage the Democrats with sarcasm, selectivity and exaggeration. She bases her candidacy on a series of emotional appeals more suited to television soap opera and wrestling arenas than to serious politics -- busy mom, moose hunter, rebel, hockey fan, etc.

Americans don't seem to care. The current president has never been more disliked worldwide than any in all of our lifetimes. Of course he is not all bad. But American don't care about that sort of things it seems. Now, we might get a vice-president who poses for the camera in a spangled-banner bikini while sporting an AK47. Whatever your position on patriotic bikinis and guns is, could we give the world a more ridicule carricature of ourselves if we tried?

How very well put!

The only thing I would take issue with is the statement that we should give Palin time to learn something about the world and clarify her positions. She can take all the time she needs to develop/clarify her positions. The problem is that she needed to do that BEFORE accepting her party's nomination for Vice President, not after.

Khouri's article gets to a sort of irony in the American democratic process: the same people for whom the electorate scrutinize in order to give them a safer, better world are the people who will, in fact, do the exact opposite.

That said, the idea that we subject candidates to "all to intense, sustained scrutiny" is necessarily dependent on a media that is free and has access to the candidates. As of tonight, that is something that the McCain campaign has not permitted for Sarah Palin. Even McCain himself has become closed off to the media in many ways. It has become a political tactic to be the "victim of the media".

Palin said that the war in I-raq was the will of God. She is likely to see all issues in a simplistic black and white and dogmatic manner. She is tough and will likely support bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb I-ran (you ran, she ran to I-ran). On the Middle East she seems a bit confused. She has supported Pat Buchanan in the past who is no friend of Israel and at the same time sported an Israeli flag in her office.

"She should only be judged by her actions, though, so we should give her time to learn something about the world and clarify her positions."

The problem is that she doesn't have time to learn what she needs to know. The world outside the US is changing and evolving rapidly, and she needs to be up to speed now. Furthermore, since she has the same attitude of Dear Leader about moral shades of gray, the source of all knowledge (the Bible), and the value of nonAmerican customs and culture, there is no reason to suspect that she will ever learn about the world. I sincerely doubt that she believes that she should appreciate how other people think since she has been blessed with divine wisdom.

As for the point that Obama doesn't have much foreign experience, there is Joe Biden. He has more than McCain ever thought of having.

"She should only be judged by her actions, though, so we should give her time to learn something about the world and clarify her positions."

We have given George Bush, Jr. almost eight years to learn something about the world and yet he is still where he was when he entered office. That is because he is convinced that his actions are divinely inspired and therefore there is no reason to consider events or experiences that challenge his beliefs. What we are now faced with is someone who is even more rigidly bound to a world perspective that is more than 2,000 years ago. It is a truly frightening prospect that Sarah Palin could be the most powerful decision maker for the country that has the greatest destructive capability.

Only Democrats expect that political figures will have some influence over their lives and world events. Republicans refuse to acknowledge the importance of mere politicians. Top politics for them is filled with throw away people who will not interfere with the business people who really matter. To expect Democratic credentials for a Republican candidate is simply not recognizing the reality they inhabit. To elect Republicans to office is to respect their reality. To consistently deny them office is the only way to change their reality, over a long period of time.

Author writes: ....she (Palin) does not even know how to pronounce the name of the country Iraq...

Ignorance is bliss! Palin does not have to know how to say the word 'iraq' correctly; many of her supporters say it the same way. Palin and her supporters do not allow 'ferenerz' to correct them.

If one tries to remind Palin or her staff of the inappropriateness of her saying iraq the way she said it, she or her staff would most likely answer: the world better change the way 'iraq' is pronounced. Darn it; say it the way Palin say(s) 'r. Those who object would be dressed like 'meeses'.