Que si la crisis es mundial y las bolsas caen: Dow Jones, FTSE 100, Sensex, Shanghai, Nikkei 225, Bouespa..., que nadie entiende exactamente cómo se maneja esta macroeconomía, pero hay opiniones de todo, y éstas navidades nadie gastará de más y que se recomienda ahorrar.
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Que para unos es crisis y, para otros... no.
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Como sea, yo estaba entretenida leyendo el Times de Londres cuando me encontré con un artículo que me sacó una carcajada y logré interrumpir el silencio casi sepulcral de la biblioteca en la que me encontraba.
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It's not that we've run out of money. Rather, we've run out of confidence. That's the one semi-comprehensible fact that emerges from the specialist writhin about the current financiasl supernove. Everyone says the same thing: the problem is panic, the problem is lack of belief.
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The implication is obvious: if we all believed that there was money, there would be money. If we all had confidence, the problem would no longer exist. The solution, then, is psychological. We don't need money: we need belif. But how do we build belief? How do we create confidence where none exists?
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A new leader. It's the textbook solution. New leaders have, by definition, never failed; therefore, people believed in them, at least, for a while. When their time is done their stock plumments and they leave. So it goes. In any crisis of faith you need a great leader, a person who will cause all around to suspend their disbelief, to regain that elusive yet unmistakable called confidence. It's not reality that counts: it's what we all believe is real.
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(Bornes, Simons; "Confidence can make all the difference", The Times, Londres, october 7th 2008)
