Il faut que les \u00e9v\u00e9nements soient pressants \u00e0 Washington pour qu’un dirigeant du calibre de Lawrence Summers, conseiller \u00e9conomique du nouveau pr\u00e9sident des USA, d\u00e9commande sa venue \u00e0 Davos, pour la fameuse conf\u00e9rence annuelle o\u00f9 nous avons tous coutume de nous retrouver. (Cette ann\u00e9e, c’est \u00e0 partir d’apr\u00e8s-demain.) La nouvelle est annonc\u00e9e fort discr\u00e8tement en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, \u00e0 l’image de la non-annonce officielle, par le Financial Times<\/em> d’aujourd’hui<\/a>, qui parle essentiellement des r\u00e9ductions de participants (un peu comme on dit r\u00e9duction de personnel) dans les d\u00e9l\u00e9gations des ex-grandes banques d’affaires de Wall Street; elle est annonc\u00e9e bri\u00e8vement mais en mettant l’accent sur la signification de la chose sur le site WSWS.org<\/em> de ce 26 janvier<\/a>, qui analyse les nouveaux plans financiers et de relance qui sont pr\u00e9par\u00e9s aux USA, pour faire suivre \u00e0 ceux dont on parle tant et qui n’ont pas march\u00e9, et qui sont insuffisants:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Le Financial Times<\/em> (\u00e0 propos de Golden Sachs, pas de Summers): \u00abThis year, in a nod to the new mood of sobriety and self-recrimination, the US broker has quietly cancelled its party and sharply reduced its delegation to the event, which starts on Wednesday.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t WSWS.org<\/em>: \u00abA new bank bailout package is expected as soon as the House and Senate have passed the stimulus package. Both Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, and Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), cancelled plans to attend the World Economic Forum next week in Davos, Switzerland so they could work on the next steps for handling the financial crisis.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’absence de Summers, qui \u00e9tait partant et venant \u00e0 Davos jusqu’\u00e0 ce week-end, est un point important, significatif du climat qui r\u00e8gne aujourd’hui (on veut dire, ce week-end, puisque les choses vont vite) \u00e0 Washington. Les Am\u00e9ricains avaient jug\u00e9 ces derni\u00e8res semaines que Davos serait une importante plate-forme de communication pour d\u00e9fendre leur cause et relever le moral g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement d\u00e9faillant des chevaliers du capitalisme. Davos faisait m\u00eame partie, dans les plans du d\u00e9partement d’Etat reborn<\/em> gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 Hillary, d’un coup d’envoi somptueux de la grande campagne de r\u00e9habilitation de l’image globale des USA et de l’influence US d\u00e9faillante chez ROW (Rest Of the Workd<\/em>). Les politiques, m\u00eames ambitieuses et indispensables \u00e0 l’image de la puissance nationale, proposent, les \u00e9v\u00e9nements disposent, dirons-nous sentancieusement et sans prendre beaucoup de risques. Il y a un brusque alourdissement du climat ces derniers jours aux USA, avec un terrible retour de flamme de la crise financi\u00e8re. Les perspectives sont, comme il se doit, colossales, en esp\u00e9rant que ce qui se pr\u00e9pare en fait d’aide publique aura un peu plus d’effet que ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9, disons, g\u00e9n\u00e9reusement distribu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abBut still more money is to be funneled to the financial interests. The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Congressman Barney Frank, said Friday, I don’t think many people at the top of the Treasury or the Fed thinks this is the last amount of money they’re going to need to deploy. Press reports suggest that the next request could be for as much as $250 billion more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe investment bank Goldman Sachs issued a projection last week that US banks will record an additional $1.1 trillion in losses, while NYU professor Nouriel Roubini put the total at a staggering $3.6 trillion, nearly half of the $7.8 trillion in total bank lending.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPour autant, et ceci est par contraste significatif de cela, les autres gouvernements et de nombreuses autres d\u00e9l\u00e9gations (de ROW, par la force des choses) seront pr\u00e9sents \u00e0 Davos. \u00abMore than 2,500 attendees are registered this year, more than ever before, including 1,400 business leaders. There are also 41 heads of state and government, almost double the previous record, including Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, and Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor.<\/em> [] Some business leaders and policy-makers also hope to use the gathering to extend their influence. Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, will be one high-profile attendee this year. So is Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa conf\u00e9rence sera rude, d\u00e9licate et sans doute int\u00e9ressante, cette ann\u00e9e \u00e0 Davos. C’est un monde en plein d\u00e9sarroi qui s’y r\u00e9unit, qui nous annon\u00e7ait en janvier 2008 que la crise (quelle crise, ah ah ah?) serait courte; qui avait m\u00eame donn\u00e9, encore en octobre dernier, comme th\u00e8me de la conf\u00e9rence d’apr\u00e8s-demain: Shaping the Post-Crisis World<\/em>, estimant \u00e9videmment que la crise \u00e9tait \u00e9videmment terrass\u00e9e. Ce monde-l\u00e0 est absolument fascinant, par sa persistance formidable \u00e0 \u00e9carter la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 comme quelque chose d’absolument incongru, de litt\u00e9ralement naus\u00e9abond, de grossi\u00e8rement d\u00e9plac\u00e9, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abNevertheless, the debates may be tough. In recent years the proceedings have propagated the idea that a cocktail of innovation, globalisation and free-market capitalism could deliver a better world. The financial crisis, though, has shattered confidence in those ideals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMany of the Davos attendees appear determined to fight back. We’ve had a globalised economy and markets over the past few years and that’s been brought into question given the financial crisis. But there is no turning back, wrote Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext on the Davos website. Michael L Ducker, president, international at FedEx said: History warns us that raising trade barriers during times of economic anxiety will only fuel further domestic and international economic decline.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbYet, the uncomfortable fact remains that some of those who will be in Davos this week are widely blamed for having created the current crisis not least because they so notably failed to predict it. Two years ago, during the peak of the credit boom in January 2007, the mood at Davos was so exuberant that private-equity players were lauded as the new stars. Even last January, optimism was high that the financial crisis was short-lived. And this year’s event has already delivered one small embarrassment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe organisers have billed this week’s meeting as Shaping the Post-Crisis World, since they assumed until recently that the turmoil would be over by now. It’s a bit unfortunate, but maybe it is good to be positive, one official at the WEF observed last week. It is a sentiment that many at the Swiss resort might like to share.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 26 janvier 2009 \u00e0 15H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il faut que les \u00e9v\u00e9nements soient pressants \u00e0 Washington pour qu’un dirigeant du calibre de Lawrence Summers, conseiller \u00e9conomique du nouveau pr\u00e9sident des USA, d\u00e9commande sa venue \u00e0 Davos, pour la fameuse conf\u00e9rence annuelle o\u00f9 nous avons tous coutume de nous retrouver. (Cette ann\u00e9e, c’est \u00e0 partir d’apr\u00e8s-demain.) 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