Economia
Não estou me referindo ao Brasil, mas aos EUA, cujo governo trilha insistentemente o caminho em direção à argentinização. Desta vez é com subsídios à produção de energia solar. Do NYT:
WASHINGTON — Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on a former cattle ranch and gypsum mine, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes.
The project is also a marvel in another, less obvious way: Taxpayers and ratepayers are providing subsidies worth almost as much as the entire $1.6 billion cost of the project. Similar subsidy packages have been given to 15 other solar- and wind-power electric plants since 2009.
The government support — which includes loan guarantees, cash grants and contracts that require electric customers to pay higher rates — largely eliminated the risk to the private investors and almost guaranteed them large profits for years to come. The beneficiaries include financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, conglomerates like General Electric, utilities like Exelon and NRG — even Google.
A great deal of attention has been focused on Solyndra, a start-up that received $528 million in federal loans to develop cutting-edge solar technology before it went bankrupt, but nearly 90 percent of the $16 billion in clean-energy loans guaranteed by the federal government since 2009 went to subsidize these lower-risk power plants, which in many cases were backed by big companies with vast resources.
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- Milton Friedman: Conselhos Ao Governo Da Índia, 1955
O Memorando inteiro deveria ser entregue ao Ministro Mantega, mas a parte sobre política industrial salta à vista: "Just as it is inappropriate to discriminate in favour of the cottage industries, so it is equally inappropriate to discriminate...
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Uma observacao sobre o trabalho sugerido pelo Shikida. Temos um cenario a partir de uma dada tecnologia. Os prognosticos da literatura, como pode ser verificado nas referencias sugeridas no trabalho, nao levam em consideracao a possibilidade de mudanca...
Economia
Capitalismo de Compadres e Rent-Seeking
Não estou me referindo ao Brasil, mas aos EUA, cujo governo trilha insistentemente o caminho em direção à argentinização. Desta vez é com subsídios à produção de energia solar. Do NYT:
WASHINGTON — Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on a former cattle ranch and gypsum mine, NRG Energy is building an engineering marvel: a compound of nearly a million solar panels that will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes.
The project is also a marvel in another, less obvious way: Taxpayers and ratepayers are providing subsidies worth almost as much as the entire $1.6 billion cost of the project. Similar subsidy packages have been given to 15 other solar- and wind-power electric plants since 2009.
The government support — which includes loan guarantees, cash grants and contracts that require electric customers to pay higher rates — largely eliminated the risk to the private investors and almost guaranteed them large profits for years to come. The beneficiaries include financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, conglomerates like General Electric, utilities like Exelon and NRG — even Google.
A great deal of attention has been focused on Solyndra, a start-up that received $528 million in federal loans to develop cutting-edge solar technology before it went bankrupt, but nearly 90 percent of the $16 billion in clean-energy loans guaranteed by the federal government since 2009 went to subsidize these lower-risk power plants, which in many cases were backed by big companies with vast resources.
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- Banco Central Americano Ganha $ 100 Bi Em Juros
Fed’s interest earnings approach $100b By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Washington BureauMarch 20, 2015 The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., August 30, 2013 CHUCK MYERS — MCTWASHINGTON —...
- Energia De Vento Para O Nordeste
Brazil Development Fund Shifts From Railways to Wind Farms to Feed GrowthBy Stephan NielsenFundo de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste, a government fund that investments in development projects in northeast Brazil, will shift its focus from railways to wind...
- Milton Friedman: Conselhos Ao Governo Da Índia, 1955
O Memorando inteiro deveria ser entregue ao Ministro Mantega, mas a parte sobre política industrial salta à vista: "Just as it is inappropriate to discriminate in favour of the cottage industries, so it is equally inappropriate to discriminate...
-
Ainda o oil-for-food Segundo o jornal Daily Times, baseado em informações da Reuters: Russian firms and traders buying Iraqi crude were in first place with $19 billion worth of contracts among 64 nations. Companies in France were a low second...
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Uma observacao sobre o trabalho sugerido pelo Shikida. Temos um cenario a partir de uma dada tecnologia. Os prognosticos da literatura, como pode ser verificado nas referencias sugeridas no trabalho, nao levam em consideracao a possibilidade de mudanca...