The Federal Reserve of the United States (Fed) has decided this Wednesday to continue with its plan to increase interest rates to contain inflation and raises interest rates again by 0.25% despite the financial instability generated by the crisis Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank. With this rise they are in a range of 4.75% to 5%.

In addition, the US body wanted to send a message of calm and said in a statement in which it announced the decision that the banking system “is solid and resilient.”

With this rise in rates, it is the ninth consecutive increase and it is the same amount as the one already carried out in February, when it placed them at around 4.5% to 4.75%.

Although the president of the US bank, Jerome Powell, indicated in the first week of March that “there is a long way to go” with regard to the rate hike, this Wednesday he changed his discourse and anticipated this Wednesday that, as a result of the recent crisis banking, current interest rate increases may not be adequate to contain inflation. “Instead, we now anticipate that some additional policy firmness may be appropriate,” he said at a press conference following this recent rate hike.

The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 points to 4.75 and warns that they will continue to rise
The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 points to 4.75 and warns that they will continue to rise
However, many experts consider that the entity should stop the increases in an environment of banking uncertainty after the fall of the SVB. In fact, New York Fed President John Williams has warned against using monetary policy to mitigate financial instability: “Monetary policy should not try to be jack of all trades and master of none.”

For her part, the US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yallen, defended on Tuesday the “soundness” of the country’s banking system, stressing that the current situation cannot be compared to the 2008 crisis, since the financial system it is now “significantly stronger” than then. “The situation is stabilizing and the US banking system remains strong,” she said in a speech to the American Bankers Association in Washington.

A context altered by the Silicon Valley Bank crisis
All this situation of banking uncertainty is due to the bankruptcy of the SVB and Signature Bank, which caused collapses and volatility in the world stock markets last week, including European banks such as Credit Suisse, whose crisis was resolved when it was acquired this weekend. week by its competitor UBS. All in all, world markets and banks have experienced one of the toughest financial weeks in a long time.

Keys to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank: what has happened and what are the risks of its fall?
Keys to the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank: what has happened and what are the risks of its fall?
In this context, both Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell have tried to provide some stability, assuring citizens and markets that the situation will not lead to a financial crisis. In fact, the Fed has launched a new fund so that banks that need to insure their customers’ deposits have money to do so.

In addition, major US banks banded together last week to bail out First Republic Bank with $30bn, which was threatening to go the way of SVB and Signature Bank after a sharp drop in share value.
Follow in the footsteps of the European Central Bank
The Fed’s decision occurs in a scenario where another major world bank, the European Central Bank (ECB), maintained last week its plan to raise interest rates by 0.5 points to curb inflation, up to the environment 3.5%, despite the concern in the markets caused by the crisis of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse and that of the SVB.
The president of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, has put the mission of bringing inflation to the 2% target -far from the 8.5% reached in February- before containing the increases due to the uncertainty of the markets. In fact, he wanted to give them some reassurance by making it clear that the ECB had the necessary tools to provide banks with liquidity after the Credit Suisse and SVB crisis: “We are prepared to respond as necessary to maintain price and financial stability in the Euro zone”.

A recent study prepared by scientists from the University of Helsinki (Finland) has revealed which is the most intelligent canine breed through a series of cognitive tests for which they have taken more than 1,000 copies of 13 different races. The result points to Malinois Belga, a tracker dog characterized by its ability to solve problems and its magnificent understanding of the human being and his needs.

To achieve this conclusion, the research has prepared the data set on cognitive aspects of more complete canine breeds that exists to date. The dogs examined have passed a total of 10 tasks: seven cognitive and three behavioral. Subsequently, the same team of experts responsible for the creation of Smartdog has evaluated the results.

Each race has its strengths and weaknesses. However, as indicated by one of the authors of the study, Katriina Tiira, in the case of the Belgian pastor Malinois, “he said in many of the cognitive tasks, with very good results in most of them.” The scientist has also highlighted the role of the border collies in the tests performed.

How has dogs be examined?
Among the tests to those who have submitted the canines are those of logical reasoning, where there has been no great difference between the different races, and those of cognition, which have been differential and have served to verify the capacity to solve problems of problems of problems dogs. Another remarkable test has been the one that measured the ability to read human gestures, which has been carried out evaluating the reaction of the canines to five gestures of the people: to indicate constantly, point very little, point out with the foot, point out something While looking in another direction and, finally, following the human look.

In line with this test, scientists have investigated the degree of independence of dogs and the speed with which they help a human who needs help. To do this, the irresolvable task has been raised to try to access the food inside a box that cannot be opened. “This task also measured a social aspect; Some races obtained very high scores in humans directed by humans, which means that they tried to ask the human help, while, at the other extreme, the dogs tried to solve the problem independently, ”said Tiira, which has added“ Both answers can be useful in different situations. ”

Final results of the tests
Both in the proof of gestures and in cognition, Belgian pastor Malinois was first. In addition, it was the fifth most independent. The border collies was followed in the results -secondly -and the Havawart -tercero-. However, the team of scientists has clarified that the classification with respect to each trait is not “as useful” as knowing what races they work best in their own skills.

(Silencio durante unos segundos) Se dice el pecado pero no el pecador. No lo sé seguro, pero matemáticamente podría nombrarle algún museo. No lo haré porque tocar los cojones a alguien no es ético. No quiero implicar a terceros en todo esto. Pero, déjeme que le diga una cosa: lo de los museos es un timo, es un cuento. ¿Me entiende? El 40 por ciento de lo que hay en estos grandes museos son atribuciones. La mayoría de la obra fue destruida y lo que queda son los intereses creados por cuatro. Don Dinero mueve montañas. Es algo que vemos en política, farmacéuticas…

De usted se ha dicho que tiene la capacidad de crear a cualquier artista. ¿Alguno se le ha resistido?

Hay artistas que son difíciles, como Gustav Klimt. Puede que alguno pueda ser complicado, pero la mayoría de los contemporáneos son fáciles. Solamente hace falta un poco de técnica para poder hacer esto. Eso sí, si me nombra a Caravaggio le diré que eso ya son palabras mayores, porque no encontraremos soporte o pigmentos para poder hacer una obra original suya. En esos casos es mejor atribuir. Verá, no es que tengan Tiépolos los museos sino que tienen obra de un tío que copió el estilo del maestro. Hay toneladas de atribuciones de este tipo.

Dalí used to say that the 20th century was when painting was worst and, for this, he cited Modrian or Miró as examples. You who have studied them in detail, do you agree?

I agree. On a technical level, I agree with Dalí. But creation during the 20th century has been extraordinary in cinema or literature… Before, you had to be by the side of a teacher if you wanted to dedicate yourself to art. Now it seems that it is not necessary.

When you picked up the brushes and put yourself in the shoes of another artist, did you also feel like him?

Feeling like him are big words. In any case, what I can say is that he assumed the responsibility of being him.

So, for example, he assumed he was Picasso?

Screw Picasso and I mean that in the best sense. It’s all really a matter of perspective. For example, before I was motivated by drugs, women, the night… Now I am in another era and with other interests.

For assuming that responsibility he was in prison in the United States. What memories do you keep of your days behind bars?
The best thing that has happened to me is being in prison. Those nine months were the best because I went in as sand and came out as if I were a rock. I understood that we have to settle you because you never know where the bad luck is. In the days in jail the air never caressed me. They were almost four months locked up, without giving me the air. That made me hard and strong.

But now he is a painter recognized for his own work that has even sold his paintings to Al Pacino or Madonna. They may even fake it.

They already fake me! Everything that makes money is counterfeited, be it Louis Vuitton bags or Rolex watches… Or my paintings.

If he is now the fake, that will mean that he is a recognized artist.

I don’t want to wear medals, but I don’t like to say that I’m a poor wretch. I want to live the day, something that others who are asleep do not do. I have lived intensely. I did what came out of the lining. If I have copied the greats, it was to have a good life. Knows? Everything I did was for money, so I could have drugs and women.

Who was the painter who cost you the most?

Everything that is more or less figurative, such as Marc Chagall. Those who least are those like Klee, Stella, Pollock, Tàpies, the gestural… A De Chirico was difficult, but it was a matter of time. For a Miró I could spend a morning. With a De Chirico, not even in a morning could he make heaven.

If you were commissioned to make a museum with paintings by great creators, would you dare to accept the challenge?

No, not now because that is something that no longer fills me.

So there’s nothing left of the pirate he was?

The pirate’s perfume has remained. It is not like before. Women don’t say anything to me anymore. The drugs left me. Politics disgusts me. I only ask that they let me live life. All that shit they write about me saying I’m Al Capone… Well, I say yes. It’s not my problem what they write about me. I was a pirate, but not one of those who raided ships but galleons full of gold.

Moncloa has gone into a tailspin. In their “trackings” they hit the ground, the data is the lowest they have had in the entire Legislature. Below even the most difficult moments of the pandemic. It is a global wear and tear of the coalition, according to the qualitative questions of the demoscopic studies “sing”, and the great hole has been made up to now by the law of “only yes is yes”. At least until now, because they still have yet to measure all the reputational damage of the adventures of “Tito Berni” a la Torrente, the socialist deputy involved in the “Mediator case.” And that in the best of cases, because in the party they wonder if this will stay in the scam of the stamp or if, on the contrary, it is not that they are facing a rotten apple, but a trail of them distributed throughout the different autonomous communities. The big question they ask themselves is what “Berni” gave to his business clients and whether the answer to this question can lead to the conclusion that this is not a problem of some dandy bastards, but of a criminal network.

Moncloa is transferring to the party, at a delicate moment due to electoral pressure, the feeling that he has lost control of the situation. Like all governments when they enter the end of the cycle and every day they get up trying to put out a fire without water in the hose. This leads to the fact that there is no longer a unified electoral strategy nor the force of Ferraz to impose a campaign discourse.

Even the flag of feminism, on a date as symbolic as that of 8-M, remains for them. The PP is more comfortable with this anniversary than all the left put together and the national order is to let those in front kill each other and show who they really are. Unlike the socialist division, which joins the coalition division, in Genoa they function like an army. Coordination in the agenda and messages at the national and territorial level. And with clear slogans every morning that spread throughout the entire political structure and that aim to convey the image that they are a serious party with a single government project.
It does not even convince the PSOE
Communication is failing Sánchez because the messages with which he tries to escape the storm do not even convince the PSOE, where they raise their hands to their heads with personal attacks on businessmen, the Ferrovial case, or with the maneuvers to cover up the scandal of the socialist group with the corruption of the stage of the PP.

This strategy does not reassure the territorial candidates, who have settled in the “every man for himself”. Between now and the May elections, they do not see where to take refuge or how to get out of a context in which they feel that the time has come to pay all the accumulated bills.

“The boat is sinking”. The phrase is from a socialist president of one of the autonomies of the package that is in serious dispute in these elections. Ferraz tries to order, but he doesn’t have the tools to make himself respected. And the letter from Yolanda Díaz, to whom they have entrusted the future of Pedro Sánchez, continues to be in limbo. On the left they begin to think that the vice president was wrong for letting the regional and municipal elections pass. Her main support is the union, CC OO, and they give up the battle to join Podemos-Pablo Iglesias.

It does not even convince the PSOE
Communication is failing Sánchez because the messages with which he tries to escape the storm do not even convince the PSOE, where they raise their hands to their heads with personal attacks on businessmen, the Ferrovial case, or with the maneuvers to cover up the scandal of the socialist group with the corruption of the stage of the PP.

This strategy does not reassure the territorial candidates, who have settled in the “every man for himself”. Between now and the May elections, they do not see where to take refuge or how to get out of a context in which they feel that the time has come to pay all the accumulated bills.

“The boat is sinking”. The phrase is from a socialist president of one of the autonomies of the package that is in serious dispute in these elections. Ferraz tries to order, but he doesn’t have the tools to make himself respected. And the letter from Yolanda Díaz, to whom they have entrusted the future of Pedro Sánchez, continues to be in limbo. On the left they begin to think that the vice president was wrong for letting the regional and municipal elections pass. Her main support is the union, CC OO, and they give up the battle to join Podemos-Pablo Iglesias.

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The Secretary General of the PSOE and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during an act commemorating International Women’s Day, 8M, in the Casa de Campo Convention Pavilion, on March 4, 2023, in Madrid (Spain) . Organized by the PSOE and the group of the Progressive Alliance of

For Socialists and Democrats, this meeting takes place on the eve of International Women’s Day, which has been celebrated on March 8 since 1910.
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Moncloa has gone into a tailspin. In their “trackings” they hit the ground, the data is the lowest they have had in the entire Legislature. Below even the most difficult moments of the pandemic. It is a global wear and tear of the coalition, according to the qualitative questions of the demoscopic studies “sing”, and the great hole has been made up to now by the law of “only yes is yes”. At least until now, because they still have yet to measure all the reputational damage of the adventures of “Tito Berni” a la Torrente, the socialist deputy involved in the “Mediator case.” And that in the best of cases, because in the party they wonder if this will stay in the scam of the stamp or if, on the contrary, it is not that they are facing a rotten apple, but a trail of them distributed throughout the different autonomous communities. The big question they ask themselves is what “Berni” gave to his business clients and whether the answer to this question can lead to the conclusion that this is not a problem of some dandy bastards, but of a criminal network.

Moncloa is transferring to the party, at a delicate moment due to electoral pressure, the feeling that he has lost control of the situation. Like all governments when they enter the end of the cycle and every day they get up trying to put out a fire without water in the hose. This leads to the fact that there is no longer a unified electoral strategy nor the force of Ferraz to impose a campaign discourse.

Even the flag of feminism, on a date as symbolic as that of 8-M, remains for them. The PP is more comfortable with this anniversary than all the left put together and the national order is to let those in front kill each other and show who they really are. Unlike the socialist division, which joins the coalition division, in Genoa they function like an army. Coordination in the agenda and messages at the national and territorial level. And with clear slogans every morning that spread throughout the entire political structure and that aim to convey the image that they are a serious party with a single government project.

It does not even convince the PSOE
Communication is failing Sánchez because the messages with which he tries to escape the storm do not even convince the PSOE, where they raise their hands to their heads with personal attacks on businessmen, the Ferrovial case, or with the maneuvers to cover up the scandal of the socialist group with the corruption of the stage of the PP.

This strategy does not reassure the territorial candidates, who have settled in the “every man for himself”. Between now and the May elections, they do not see where to take refuge or how to get out of a context in which they feel that the time has come to pay all the accumulated bills.

“The boat is sinking”. The phrase is from a socialist president of one of the autonomies of the package that is in serious dispute in these elections. Ferraz tries to order, but he doesn’t have the tools to make himself respected. And the letter from Yolanda Díaz, to whom they have entrusted the future of Pedro Sánchez, continues to be in limbo. On the left they begin to think that the vice president was wrong for letting the regional and municipal elections pass. Her main support is the union, CC OO, and they give up the battle to join Podemos-Pablo Iglesias.

destabilized coalition
There are complicated weeks left because “Tito Berni” further destabilizes the coalition and should force Yolanda Díaz to come out of the ambiguity with which she handles all problems. The duel in which the socialist family is settling comes from the fear that the two black holes that stalk them, the law of “only yes is yes” and the former socialist deputy who has become famous for identifying himself with the combination of underpants , drugs and prostitution, are not deactivated before the dramatic date of 28-M

The Podemos part of the Government is the calmest. They have nothing to lose, or gain, in these elections. The socialist part is a nerve bomb in which internal rivalries, for example between vice presidents Nadia Calviño and Yolanda Díaz, are displayed even in the small details of the organization of their agendas.

In the midst of the chaos, Sánchez has no other alternative than to remain linked to a coalition in which his partner’s shadow boss works to destabilize this alliance to which the president is united, not just in the present, but for any option of future government.

The entire Moncloa plan for the start of this exercise has collapsed

He was arrested with four other men. Only one of them has been released
The Court of First Instance and Instruction 2 of Picassent has decreed this afternoon the entry into provisional imprison a man. Joaquín Martins, formerly called Mauri, was arrested last Tuesday by the Civil Guard with four other men, of which only one has been provisional.

They are accused of the alleged crimes of kidnapping, theft with violence, injuries, belonging to the criminal group, theft of use of motor vehicles, damage, documentary falsehood, illicit possession of weapons and against road safety.
The events that gave rise to the arrests occurred on November 29, 2021, when the group approached a man in Montserrat (Valencia) when he returned to his home and with great violence forced him to climb a van, with which he They moved to a ship.

There he was held several hours and hit him, for reasons that are being investigated, to leave him later on the Santa Ana road, next to the urbanization known as the Smurfs, in the term of Paiporta, naked, disoriented and with his hands with his hands tied behind the back with flanges.

The magistrates estimate a plus of gravity and consider that there was necessary cooperation and an intimidating effect
The Supreme Tribunal has raised three defendants for participating in the group violation of an 18 -year -old in Sabadell (Barcelona) in February 2019, considering that in multiple sexual aggressions the conduct of those who are part of the group, are part of the group, Although they are not the authors of the violations, they have a plus of gravity in the environmental intimacy of the victim that must be qualified as necessary cooperation in the crime and not only complicity.

The Criminal Chamber estimates the appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office and elevates from 13 and a half years to 24 years in prison the sentence to the two sentenced for complicity in the three violations suffered by the young woman, when they are now considered necessary cooperators of them and Non -complicit.

In addition, the magistrates increase from 22 to 28 years in prison the penalty to one of the authors of sexual aggression, who imposes 12 years in prison as the author of the violation and 16 years as a necessary cooperator of the two sexual aggressions committed by others Two men (one of them in rebellion and one unidentified).

The events occurred after 6 in the morning of February 3, 2019 when the victim was heading alone at home after having been in a disco and a man (who could not be identified) approached her in the back, grabbing her by The neck, putting it against the wall and touching the girl and introducing a finger in her vagina. He then led her to a place that had previously been a banking office, occupied at the time for at least six other men (the three defendants, another declared in rebellion and two more unidentified individuals).

The young woman was raped first by two of the men (the one who assaulted her in the street and the declared in rebellion) and thirdly by one of the defendants, who not only penetrated her vaginally and orally as the previous two, but what He tried anally.

The Barcelona Hearing, in the first instance, condemned the author of one of the violations to 31 years in prison (13 years for sexual aggression and two sentences of 9 years as a necessary cooperator of each of the other two aggressions), and to the Two other defendants, who were part of the group but did not commit the violations, at 13 and a half years in prison as accomplices of three sexual assaults (4 and a half years in prison for each of them).

The definitive failure: necessary cooperator
The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia partially estimated the appeal of the former and considered him an accomplice and non -necessary cooperator of the two sexual aggressions not committed by him, so that he established two penalties for it of 4 years and 6 months in prison instead of 9 years, keeping unalterable the sentence of 13 years in prison for the sexual aggression he committed. That is, the conviction became 22 years.

Now, the Supreme Court elevates the penalties by estimating the claim of the Prosecutor’s Office that what was considered complicity in the sexual aggressions of the three defendants is qualified as necessary cooperation in crimes. The sentence indicates that the defendants “created environmental intimidation, were present by reinforcing all the aggressions, encouraged the authors, deterred the victim, increased and created the risk situation for the legal good refraining after avoiding the three violations , and all this did even without having the reins of the typical positive act that only correspond to the author, not withdrawing his causal contribution, which could have avoided the three crimes – long -term negative act – and his contribution was not sporadic, accidental and expendable, but causally relevant from the point of view of the equivalence of the most effective and substantially valuable conditions and causality from the theory of scarce goods. That is, they were necessary cooperators and not simple accomplices of the crimes of rape. ”
For the High Court the necessary concept of cooperation extends to the cases in which, “there is not yet a preordered plan, the violation occurs in the presence of other individuals without prior agreement, but with awareness of the action that is carried out. These cases the intimidating effect is produced by the simple presence or concurrence of several people, different from which the violation materially consumes, since the existence of the group can produce in the person attacked a state of environmental intimidation. And it is that always intimidation and Group intimidation inexcusably causes the victim to adopt an attitude of submission, not to consent. ”

The Chamber emphasizes that “in multiple sexual aggressions there is an intensification of the intimidation suffered by the victim with an effective decrease in their response capacity, giving all this to a qualitative increase of the G

The Senate has given the mayoress of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz (PP), 15 days to make “the clarifications and documentation that she deems appropriate” in the investigation that the Upper House has opened to elucidate the legality of her assets. Last November, the councilor updated her declaration of assets as a senator weeks after her husband, Lars Gunnar Broberg, was prosecuted for money laundering and her stepson, Joakim Broberg, was identified as the leader of a marijuana and hashish sales network in a National Court investigation. The president of the Senate’s Incompatibilities Commission, Julia Liberal, urges Muñoz, according to the documentation to which EL PAÍS has had access, to render an account “either summoning her to an appearance” before said body “or to send a letter in the within 15 business days from the receipt” of the official letter that he sent this Wednesday to the leader of the PP.

The institution opened an investigation in February, requested since December by the PSOE, to verify whether the mayoress of Marbella had violated the Code of Conduct of the Cortes Generales by not declaring all her assets at the beginning of the legislature. The opening of these investigations in the Upper House is unprecedented and is motivated by the updating of Muñoz’s statement of assets in the Senate. The councilor reported that she had gone from owning 50% of three companies —as it appears in her declaration of assets of November 27, 2019— to 100% of all of them: Parcela Hacienda Property S. L., Atraque Hacienda Property S. L. and Nave Industrial Hacienda Property S. L. He also did the same with a house in Sweden acquired in 2005 that has become completely his. In her previous report, she indicated that she only owned half of the property. What does not vary in the declaration of assets and income of the senator are the 84,621 euros of her salary and another 3,250 euros of monthly income for the rental of a house in Madrid, a local in Marbella and a vacation property in Benahavís (Málaga ).

The Committee on Incompatibilities of the Senate also resolved, in its session on February 23, as it appears in the letter sent to the councilor of Marbella, to request a report from the Office of Conflicts of Interest in accordance with the provisions of article 9 of the Code of Conduct of the Cortes Generales on offenses and sanctions. The couple and the stepson of the Marbella councilor were arrested in August 2021 in the framework of a macro-operation against marijuana and hashish trafficking, in which a total of 71 people were arrested and which the National Police and Civil Guard announced as an important swedish narco coup Judge Manuel García-Castellón prosecuted the Brobergs for their involvement in the plot and, at the end of January, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court confirmed the prosecution of the stepson of the PP senator and ratified the evidence against her husband in three laundering operations valued at 6.3 million euros, although the Prosecutor’s Office has given up filing charges against the Broberg patriarch, 79, for his poor health.

The PP maintains its support for Muñoz unchanged, who has the endorsement of the national leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the president of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno. The PP baron confirmed her in December as a candidate for re-election in the Malaga city of 135,000 inhabitants. Moreno then stated that the senator “is alien” to the causes related to her husband and her stepson and stressed that there was “no type of investigation” against her. The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has also come out in defense of the mayoress. “She is not investigated in any judicial process,” he said. The PSOE criticizes that Feijóo and Moreno “wrapped” her in mid-February in a party act and reproaches the president of the PP for “endorsing” the candidacy of the councilor for the municipal elections on May 28.