Carlos Fernandez

Contador Público. Especialista en Tributación. Enfermo por los impuestos. Existencialista heideggeriano. Basketballista de vino y sillón

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Al final, le van a terminar dando la razón a Moreno. Se matan solitos. Son una bolsa de gatos

[Los Herederos de Alberdi @LHDA16]

💀 | MARCELA PAGANO CON TODO CONTRA MARTÍN MENEM

“Me gustaría saber qué dice el audio suyo que anda circulando. Cercenar la palabra es de fascista”.

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Santiago Motorizado es como el Post Malone argento

[Corta @somoscorta]

Santiago Motorizado realizó un cover de 'No Tengo Tiempo' de Andrés Calamaro.

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@wsosaescudero

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

This is a repost of my original thread about Trump's election, which has since disappeared. This time I am reposting it is a single message.
I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not Trump’s win. It is the Democrats who have lost this election.
This is not because Biden stayed on as a candidate despite his age. It is not because Kamala Harris is not qualified (I believe she’s amply qualified). It is because of Democrats’ campaign. Dems have been losing the American workers and did nothing to regain them in this election.
Dems have ceased to be the workers’ party long ago, owing to their support for digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant flows, and “woke” ideas.
The transformation is really striking, as I have argued before: now it is the highly educated, not manual workers that vote for Democrats, and if the center-left does not become more pro-worker, it and democracy will suffer: https://t.co/KG37pwiPvS
For a while it looked like Dems could still win elections with support from Silicon Valley, minorities, some portions of organized labor and the professional class in large cities. But this was never a healthy coalition, and even organized labor wasn’t going to remain faithful for long.
This coalition made Dems increasingly alienated from workers and the middle class in much of the country, especially in smaller cities and the South.
The message was loud and clear in 2016, and all of the soul-searching that followed was healthy. It was part of the reason why Biden adopted a pro-worker industrial strategy.
Biden’s economy delivered for the working class in terms of jobs and strengthening the industrial base of the country. Wages at the bottom rose rapidly. Policy started moving towards the views of the American workers on immigration, protectionism, support for unions and public investment.
And yet, I fear that Dem activists and the establishment never fully internalized the woes of the workers and never made enough of an effort to bring them back to the fold. They sounded distant and detached.
My test is the following: if stranded in an unknown city, would a Dem elite (typically a professional or bureaucrat from a coastal city, with postgraduate education) prefer to spend the next four hours talking to an American worker with a high school degree from the Midwest?
Or would he or she prefer to spend it with a professional with postgraduate education from Mexico, China or Indonesia? Or name your country? I asked this question to colleagues and friends, they all think is the latter --- as do I. Most Dem elites are now alienated from American workers.
It seemed at first that Harris-Walz may try to change that, emphasizing bolstering up the middle class and patriotism, in an effort to appeal to the working class deserting the party. A true effort in that direction would have been commendable, and if credible, perhaps win the election.
But at the end, the campaign focused on abortion and other issues appealing to the base. The main effort to broaden the base came from using Liz Cheney to appeal to suburban women ­--- on abortion.
Of course, abortion is a critical issue. But focusing on it was never going to win the working class, and certainly not the working-class men.
On the economy, Dems can talk about opportunity and jobs (which they need to do). But they never distanced themselves from the Silicon Valley and the global business elite (but ironically, Silicon Valley started leaving them!)
I fear that, now, Trump and Vance’s Republican Party will be the main home for workers, especially manufacturing workers and those in smaller cities.
I am saddened and fearful for the United States, and I am deeply saddened about the Democratic Party --- unless this time it gets the message can truly change.
This is not just essential for the Democratic Party but for US democracy, which needs to refocus more on egalitarianism and voice for everybody, as I have argued recently: https://t.co/QL5snisj2i and https://t.co/Ua153Wj8bt
What is tragic is that Biden’s agenda had started paying off for workers already (and also proving that it was possible to adopt policies that would help workers and disproving the claim that globalization and inequality were acts of nature that could not be influenced).
What is even more tragic is that the Trump-Vance policies are likely going to be for the plutocrats and not for the American workers.
I will write separately on my views of what to expect from Trump’s policies in the next thread and follow that up with another one on what this presidency might mean for the world.

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@AndresAcciarri Están jugando a dirigir un país y se cagan de risa

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Que alguien escriba House of Cards versión Argy y lo venda a Netflix por favor!

[Patricia Bullrich @PatoBullrich]

Uno está a favor o en contra del cambio. Está mal mandar a los senadores del PRO a votar a favor de un proyecto fiscalmente irresponsable y después públicamente salir a decir que estás en contra. Usan a los senadores como carne de cañón y atentan contra el plan económico del gobierno que dicen apoyar. Estás de un lado o del otro. Basta de especular.

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@LeanZicca El 17 de octubre también ✌️

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Estos porteños de TyC que dicen que el horario no importa porque mañana empiezan las vacaciones de invierno. Salgan del termo, forros!

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@RozarioCentral Con razón no tienen experiencia con estadios completos

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@RozarioCentral Qué juego es ese?

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Si no supiéramos que Maluma es ese gangster trucho que muestran, pensaríamos que entró un afgano con una bomba al estadio

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Maluma, la policía existe por vos, forro

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Se acelera el kirchnerismo libertario

[totocaputo @LuisCaputoAR]

El presidente @JMilei anunciando en este momento que se cierra la última canilla de emisión monetaria.
A partir de ahora la cantidad de dinero queda igual o se reduce (si el Banco Central vendiera dólares en el Mulc).
Es decir, si el Bcra comprara dólares en el Mulc, la emisión de pesos equivalente será esterilizada con la venta de dólares equivalentes en el mercado de contado con liquidación.
Está profundización de la política monetaria que comienza pasado mañana, contribuirá a profundizar el proceso de desinflación.
En 6 meses terminamos con el déficit fiscal, el déficit cuasi fiscal, y la emisión monetaria.
Consecuencia: vamos a exterminar la inflación para siempre en Argentina. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Ya que volvieron los 90s, que vuelva MTv!

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Argentina devalued in December, but any potential boost for exports has now been squandered. That's because the real exchange rate (black) has climbed back to where it was before the devaluation. Argentina is just the same story over and over. Different leader. Same mistake...

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Ojalá que el que inventó ponerle pasas de uva a los mix de frutos secos haya tenido una muerte lenta y dolorosa

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Yo en NY

[Tendencias en Argentina @porqueTTarg]

“Rober”

Por cómo codeó al taxista tras un chiste en inglés que no entendió.

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@RozarioCentral El de piluso con camiseta blanca al principio del video está en la plena

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

Alguien que me explique el 52% de Canadá

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇺🇸 US Visa rejection rate in 2023:

🇲🇨 Monaco: 0%
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein: 0%
🇮🇱 Israel: 3.30%
🇦🇪 UAE: 4.18%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 5.01%
🇯🇵 Japan: 6.05%
🇨🇿 Czechia: 8.05%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 8.21%
🇫🇷 France: 10.11%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 10.57%
🇮🇹 Italy: 10.62%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 10.66%
🇩🇪 Germany: 10.84%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 10.95%
🇮🇳 India: 10.99%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 11.94%
🇻🇦 Vatican: 14.29%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 14.44%
🇬🇧 UK: 14.69%
🇪🇸 Spain: 15.66%
🇦🇺 Australia: 16.75%
🇳🇴 Norway: 17.96%
🇮🇪 Ireland: 19.41%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 20.59%
🇸🇪 Sweden: 20.68%
🇫🇮 Finland: 22.82%
🇪🇬 Egypt: 26.11%
🇨🇳 China: 26.63%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 29.23%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 34.29%
🇮🇶 Iraq: 37.09%
🇷🇺 Russia: 39.49%
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 40.82%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 48.73%
🇨🇦 Canada: 52.04%
🇮🇷 Iran: 53.26%
🇱🇷 Liberia: 78.19%
🇰🇵 North Korea: 100%
🇫🇲 Micronesia: 100%

Note: business (visa category B-1), for tourism (visa category B-2), or for a combination of both purposes (B-1/B-2).

[Carlos Fernandez @califernandezok]

@LeanZicca A los gordos baja de tasa no los para nadie