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El director general del banco JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, advirtió a los inversores que la economía de EE.UU. podría enfrentarse a un escenario aún “peor” que una recesión, según un reporte publicado este sábado por Yahoo Finance.

Pese a las estimaciones de que la economía del país es “fuerte”, y aunque los balances de consumidores y empresas están “en buena forma“, el jefe del gigante bancario indicó que hay “nubes de tormenta” en el horizonte, que se reflejan en el alza de precios de los combustibles, así como en la elevación de la tasa de interés por parte de la Reserva Federal, entre otros factores.

“Cuando se hace una previsión, hay que pensar de forma diferente. ¿Qué hay ahí afuera? Hay nubes de tormenta. Tipos de interés, QT [la contracción cuantitativa, aplicada por bancos centrales para disminuir la masa monetaria o la cantidad de liquidez], petróleo, Ucrania, guerra, China. Si tuviera que ponerlo en probabilidades: aterrizaje suave, 10 %. Aterrizaje más duro, recesión leve, 20-30 %. Recesión más dura, 20-30 %. Y algo quizá peor, entre 20 y 30 %. Es un error decir ‘aquí está mi pronóstico’ a partir de un solo punto”, comentó el experto.

Esta vez Dimon utilizó la metáfora de “nubes de tormenta”, aunque en junio vaticinaba que la economía estadounidense podría ser golpeada por “un huracán”, e instaba a los inversores a prepararse para el empeoramiento de la situación económica en la nación.

Aunque algunos altos funcionarios del país, incluido el actual presidente, Joe Biden, han declarado en varias ocasiones que EE.UU. no está en recesión, el pasado 28 de julio la Oficina de Análisis Económico del Departamento de Comercio informó que el producto interno bruto (PIB) del país se contrajo en 0,2 % durante el segundo trimestre de 2022, con respecto a los tres meses anteriores, lo que técnicamente constituye un indicador informal de recesión económica. 

Noticia original de RT en Español. 

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A facility leased for the holding of e-waste should be ready for operation before year-end, says Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon.

In an interview with JIS News, Gordon said that “the Government must have in place a facility that can be the go-to for those discarded items and we want to fill that gap”.

The property, located in St. Catherine, is currently undergoing work to make it suitable for e-waste holding.

“We are doing actual retrofitting of that property. We have applied for the [environmental] permit for that property also, to do e-waste over in Hill Run [and] to make it the official e-waste holding area for us,” added Mr. Gordon.

He explained that retrofitting would include fencing of the area and the installation of containers with office spaces and restrooms.

Overseeing the general process, Mr. Gordon said that he is confident that by October the facility should be “more than ready”.

Once in operation, persons commuting in the general area of Hill Run can drop off their e-waste at the facility.

With Jamaica being a consumer market and an importer of electronic items, the NSWMA Head said he anticipates the islandwide collection of e-waste to be “major” and has started the process of seeking international markets for local e-waste.

The NSWMA recently announced that citizens can now take e-waste to any of its facilities islandwide, encouraging persons to no longer place discarded electronics among household waste.

E-waste is electronic products that are unwanted, not working, and nearing or at the end of their useful life.

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Is 200 years enough to get past the trauma of slavery?

This was one of the questions examined in commemoration of emancipation day 2022.

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The 2022 plant distribution season is now open and plants both locally and imported are available for purchase.

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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre says he has not considered the matter of states of emergencies in known crime hotspots in Saint Lucia.

But at the same time, he has not ruled out exploring the idea.

Reporters raised the issue with Pierre, responsible for National Security, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting and against the backdrop of a violent crime wave resulting in 42 homicides so far this year.

They noted that Jamaica had employed limited states of emergency to address crime surges.

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“I have not considered that, but I see the Commissioner of Police very often and we have a discussion,” the Castries East MP stated.

“You know, it’s on stages. You increase the firearms act and on Friday there was a graduation of 30 members of the SSU who we hope will be out on the streets dealing with crime. It’s incremental – we can’t do everything one time,” Pierre explained.

He recalled that the crime problem has been with Saint Lucia for a while.“It is something that we abhor. It is something we think we should do something about it, but I can’t speak to a state of emergency at this time,” Pierre told reporters.

Asked whether it was an initiative worth exploring, he declared that anything to lessen crime is worth exploring.

Headline photo: Police at scene of Leslie Land shooting on October 12, 2020 

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