Re: God bless America ¶
By: hobi50 on Martedì 31 Agosto 2021 10:30
L'articolo ,interamente riportato,è di George Soros,che ,di finanza se ne intende ( complottismi a parte che lascerei ai soliti scimuniti ).
E' molto preoccupato perché investitori occidentali hanno investito pesantemente in aziende cinesi che sono sottoposte a misure punitive introdotte dal governo cinese quando hanno comportamenti che ,ad insindacabile giudizio di XI Jinpin,sono contrari agli interessi popolari.
Tutto ciò è musica per le mie orecchie anche se mi stupisce che una persona della qualità intellettuale di George Soros sia ancora prigioniera del cliché antico in base al quale il profitto è il criterio sulla base del quale passa il discrimine tra buono e cattivo.
L'analisi marxiana vede nel profitto il diavolo.
Xi Jinping no.
Quando il profitto è contro gli interessi della società...da contrastare non è il profitto in se stesso ma l'attività che lo genera.
Cosi a Tencent viene limitata temporalmente la possibilità di rincoglionire i ragazzini cinesi con i video giochi,ad Alibaba viene impedito di fare credito privato nella società cinese,alle società di tutoring di spennare le famiglie cinesi per agevolare l'ingresso all'università dei figli.
Insomma il profitto non è altro che un sottoprodotto irrilevante di una attività che non s'ha da fare !
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The writer is chair and founder of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations
"Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. His crackdown on private enterprise has been a significant drag on the economy. The most vulnerable sector is real estate, particularly housing. China has enjoyed an extended property boom over the past two decades, but that is now coming to an end. Evergrande, the largest real estate company, is over-indebted and in danger of default. This could cause a crash. The underlying cause is that China’s birth rate is much lower than the statistics indicate. The officially reported figure overstates the population by a significant amount. Xi inherited these demographics, but his attempts to change them have made matters worse. One of the reasons why middle-class families are unwilling to have more than one child is that they want to make sure that their children will have a bright future. As a result, a large tutoring industry has grown up, dominated by Chinese companies backed by US investors. Such for-profit tutoring companies were recently banned from China and this became an important element in the sell-off in New York-listed Chinese companies and shell companies. The crackdown by the Chinese government is real. Unnoticed by the financial markets, the Chinese government quietly took a stake and a board seat in TikTok owner ByteDance in April. The move gives Beijing one seat on a three-person board of directors and first-hand access to the inner workings of a company that has one of the world’s largest troves of personal data. The market is more aware that the Chinese government is taking influential stakes in Alibaba and its subsidiaries. Xi does not understand how markets operate. As a consequence, the sell-off was allowed to go too far. It began to hurt China’s objectives in the world. Recognising this, Chinese financial authorities have gone out of their way to reassure foreign investors and markets have responded with a powerful rally. But that is a deception. Xi regards all Chinese companies as instruments of a one-party state. Investors buying into the rally are facing a rude awakening. That includes not only those investors who are conscious of what they are doing, but also a much larger number of people who have exposure via pension funds and other retirement savings. Recommended Brooke Masters Investors in China should beware Beijing’s unpredictability Pension fund managers allocate their assets in ways that are closely aligned with the benchmarks against which their performance is measured. Almost all of them claim that they factor environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) standards into their investment decisions. The MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) is the benchmark most widely followed by global equity asset allocators. An estimated $5tn is passively managed, which means that it replicates the index. A multiple of this amount is actively managed, but it also closely tracks the MSCI index. In MSCI’s ACWI ESG Leaders Index, Alibaba and Tencent are two of the top 10 constituents. In BlackRock’s ESG Aware emerging market exchange-traded fund, Chinese companies represent a third of total investments. These indices have effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard — power and accountability is now exercised by one man who is not accountable to any international authority. The US Congress should pass a bipartisan bill explicitly requiring that asset managers invest only in companies where actual governance structures are both transparent and aligned with stakeholders. This rule should obviously apply to the performance benchmarks selected by pensions and other retirement portfolios. If Congress were to enact these measures, it would give the Securities and Exchange Commission the tools it needs to protect American investors, including those who are unaware of owning Chinese stocks and Chinese shell companies. That would also serve the interests of the US and the wider international community of democracies. SEC chair Gary Gensler has repeatedly warned the public of the risks they take by investing in China. But foreign investors who choose to invest in China find it remarkably difficult to recognise these risks. They have seen China confront many difficulties and always come through with flying colours. But Xi’s China is not the China they know. He is putting in place an updated version of Mao Zedong’s party. No investor has any experience of that China because there were no stock markets in Mao’s time. Hence the rude awakening that awaits them."
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