Brazilian cane sugar

For Brazil's sugarcane crops, the arrival of frost was just another hit after a difficult year.

Last year's drought had prevented the crops from getting off on the right foot, and more high temperatures were paired with fire outbreaks across sugarcane fields. Then waves of frost arrived, damaging production once again in the world's largest sugar producer.

That has constrained global supply, helping prices jump. The FAO's Sugar Price Index jumped 9.6% in just one month to August, and was up for the fifth consecutive month, hitting levels not seen since February 2017, when weather events and increasing sugar consumption had pushed sugar prices up.

Canadian wheat
The Canadian Prairies were sizzling.

Earlier this summer, the now-famous "heat dome" across western North America produced record temperatures across the region, while rainfall was less than half the typical levels. In the Canadian provinces that operate as the country’s breadbasket, that meant wheat crops were being toasted alive.

The country's wheat production is expected to drop by nearly 35% this year, to a 14-year low, according to the Canadian government statistics agency. In the province of Alberta alone, smaller harvest areas and baking heat meant the crop is forecast to drop by 45%. The FAO says that wheat stocks in Canada have now dropped to a 40-year low.

Понеже темата все пак е за президентските избори и за да се доближим до нивото на аудиторията - Паганини можел ли е да прави коремно и лицеви опори и колко?

Съобщението на Фандъкова гласи:Всичко останало са мисирчести заглавия и интерпретации. Както и лингвистични и терминологични упражнения дали Фандъкова трябва да се нарече "болна", "заразена", "ковид-позитивна" и т.н.

Ноо голем мач, брат, нов!

A short-term fix.

As the global recession unfolded over 2009 and beyond, China’s government moved rapidly to support its domestic economy, launching an impressive Keynesian programme of public spending to support jobs and – it should be clear – to exploit the relative weakness of western economies.

In the short term, this worked incredibly well: China powered through the recession, maintaining a high rate of economic growth, at over nine percent a year –  which, incidentally helped to support the global economy, by providing a growing market for countries across the world to sell their goods and services into.

However, this rescue came at a price. First, there was the classic capitalist problem of ‘overproduction‘. While government support helped to sustain domestic demand for essential industries like steel – production of the metal increased 12-fold in 25 years up to 2016 – steelmakers chasing profits meant they produced more than China’s domestic market could buy. This, in turn, provoked the government-approved ‘dumping’ of cheap steel on global markets, undermining producers across the world, and leading directly to the closure of a steel plant in Redcar in England.

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Secondly – and perhaps even more importantly – there was the problem of the debt issued to provide money for additional spending, notably on infrastructure. Alongside this increase in government spending, restrictions on private-sector borrowing were also loosened.

Thanks to China’s system of local property taxation, in which rising property values could be captured through local taxes, local and regional authorities were heavily incentivised to direct this flood of capital into property development –  a move which helped steer lending from the wider financial system into local development, with local authorities hoping to capture future property taxes from new buildings. 

Because of all this, China’s property boom has been – even by its own superlative standards – extraordinary. Accounting today for an estimated 25% of its economy, by 2011, the Chinese construction sector was building the equivalent of a city the size of Rome every two weeks.

And what’s more, The rapid pace of economic growth itself encouraged greater borrowing; if part of an economy is booming, it creates a big incentive for other investors to try and pile into that sector, or else risk losing out on potential profits. So for a time, the expansion of a bubble is self-sustaining – in China’s case, because property prices are going up so much, more investment is attracted into the sector, helping further fuel its expansion and a further spike in prices.

But the problem is, by taking on more debt, developers also now have to pay a lot more in interest.  This is exactly what’s happening in China, with property developers now having to repay $54bn of loans this year – a massive increase, on last year’s $25bn repayments. Thus, heavily indebted property companies are the major weakness in China’s economic system today, with Evergrande at the top of this wobbling pile of property-related debt.

A property Ponzi scheme.
Evergrande’s on-balance sheet $300bn debt is equivalent to about two percent of China’s entire national economy. Meanwhile, a further one percent is estimated to be tucked off-balance sheet in the country’s ‘shadow banking system’ – its vast, $13tr system of unofficial and unregulated lending.

Even so, Evergrande itself only accounts for four percent of the total Chinese property market, which is heavily fragmented into many thousands of developers. This splintered market further boosts the bubble, since – given the fierce competition between them – each developer has a major incentive to try and get ahead of its rivals by building more, and taking on more and more debt to do so – or risk being pushed out of the market.

Мотивация за миграция, ама... ТЕЛЕНИ ОГРАДИ. Как ги прескачаш? С мотивация просто?  :crying_with_laughter-3302: Ай сиктир. Днес оградите пречат да избегаш от държавата, но утре - пръв трамплин.  :crying_with_laughter-3302:

и поради инхерентни когнитивни ограничения.

Малко уточнение: опщ. Гърмен

Джиджи, не се бутай в чувствителни теми. Аз не познавам помаци. Познавам трудолюбиви родопчани.

Мълния!

Няма такова понятие неолиберализъм.
Неолиберали е наименованието на десните либерали демократи. Клинтънитите.
Не се говори за тях, защото те загубиха от консерваторите, или по точно от неоконсерваторите. Които от своя страна са пак либерализъм плюс марксизъм.
А либерализмът си е либерализъм, все едно и също смрадливо лйно

Няма да гласувам на парламентарните, само на президентските. Парламентарните да си ги определя народът в мамковината - който където живее, там да управлява. Президентът се показва навън, затова искам и аз да се изокам как да изглежда, че току виж Луна и Йоло Денев се явят при Бети Две, та после колегите ще ме одумват!

ама полетите са отменени, щото пилотите са си дигнали чуковете, като са ги накарали да се ваксинират, вж южноамериканските линии ли се казваха, 2000 полета отменени за уикендо

“It’s inaccurate,” a Southwest spokeswoman said by email. “There’s a lot of unfounded rumor and speculation circulating.”

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, Southwest pilots’ labor union said that “we can say with confidence that our Pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions.”

“Our Pilots will continue to overcome SWA management’s poor planning, as well as any external operational challenges, and remain the most productive Pilots in the world,” it said.

Earlier on Saturday, the union said that the company’s announcement last week that it will join other airlines in complying with the Biden administration’s requirement that federal contractors must mandate Covid vaccinations is contributing to distractions for aviators.

А може би препоръчваш да убием малко дечурлига за да опазим дядовците им? Това ли е грижата ти?
Или да направим някои младоци инвалиди, защото работещите не знаели как да се пазят? Това ли е твоята солидарност?

Не, уви полицаите и лекарите ги вкараха в една репресивна група.
да ме извинява Бачо, ама ако една даскалица ( казвам го почтително), може да преподава и дистанционно ( със смешен резултат ) то има и в България, стотици хиляди хора, които ако един ден не отидат на работа всички други ще останат на гладно и студено.
Няма що да ходите надалече, вижте магазинерката в кварталния дето без да мърка контактува с 100-200 човека на ден и на никого не е отказала или решила да продава хляб и сирене дистанционно - щото и там куриер си требе и той отмята стотина неизвестно колко здрави клиента.

факт е геноцида. инак превръщането в солен стълб на оная клюкарка,  благоверната на Лот, адмирирам..

в това, което си написал.

аз открих Голямото Спагетено Чудовище в текущото преброяване, макар че се колебаех дали да не се пиша омнианец

То е сигнал за политическите сили и който го разбрал - разбрал.