<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837</id><updated>2012-02-08T12:45:28.736-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Marco, Columbia &amp; The Big Apple</title><subtitle type='html'>Un "bugia nén" nella Grande Mela: il mio MBA alla Columbia University e spaccati di vita New-Yorkese</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>138</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2877463014299270784</id><published>2009-03-13T23:23:00.014-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-14T00:28:21.898-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Colorado... snow snow and more snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbstwbaFvjI/AAAAAAAAAwM/ncsHEOR33Gk/s1600-h/090216-colorado-007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbstwbaFvjI/AAAAAAAAAwM/ncsHEOR33Gk/s200/090216-colorado-007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312890495427788338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Riesco solo ora a postare i dettagli della gita in Colorado. Tre giorni di sci spettacolare tra Breckenridge e Vail. Semplicemente sensazionale. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbstXR7UpkI/AAAAAAAAAwE/7SmADYyKz6Q/s1600-h/090215-colorado-034.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbstXR7UpkI/AAAAAAAAAwE/7SmADYyKz6Q/s200/090215-colorado-034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312890063386093122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Neve perfetta e sci a tratti "estremo" su su fino ai 4,000 metri in punta a Breckenridge... mozzafiato!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi lascio con qualche foto e filmato della tre giorni sciistica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br 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src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Sbsr3QpC4tI/AAAAAAAAAvk/WWBiFPxVcb4/s200/090214-colorado-004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312888413773554386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbssRe7G1qI/AAAAAAAAAvs/RmflEGB3MyQ/s1600-h/090214-colorado-016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbssRe7G1qI/AAAAAAAAAvs/RmflEGB3MyQ/s200/090214-colorado-016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312888864284006050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Breckenridge vista dall'alto della sua cima a 4,000m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Sbss9uZJCJI/AAAAAAAAAv8/7V6bT9wAWOY/s1600-h/090216-colorado-001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Sbss9uZJCJI/AAAAAAAAAv8/7V6bT9wAWOY/s200/090216-colorado-001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312889624350754962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Sbss9WZljZI/AAAAAAAAAv0/-MufQs_3TOs/s1600-h/090215-colorado-001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: right; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Sbss9WZljZI/AAAAAAAAAv0/-MufQs_3TOs/s200/090215-colorado-001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312889617910173074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;... e qui da basso ammirando i 4,000, mentre a destra i back bowls di Vail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-20d8991de2273616" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param 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href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=68d731b06f0ea520&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2877463014299270784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2877463014299270784' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2877463014299270784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2877463014299270784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2009/03/colorado-snow-snow-and-more-snow.html' title='Colorado... snow snow and more snow'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SbstwbaFvjI/AAAAAAAAAwM/ncsHEOR33Gk/s72-c/090216-colorado-007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4421772238980477255</id><published>2009-02-22T15:04:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T15:10:24.475-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crisi economica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi allego un paio di articoli che possono essere di Vostro interesse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;11/2/09  Geithner sinks markets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;After months of ad hoc bank rescue efforts, the markets hoped the new US administration would deliver on its promise of a coherent, detailed plan for mending the financial system. So when Treasury boss Tim Geithner offered only a bare-bones outline, leaving crucial questions unanswered, investors were not amused. The S&amp;amp;P 500 fell some 5%, while some troubled banks’ shares declined multiples of that. The disappointment squandered precious market confidence in the administration. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Treasury’s outline of its now-renamed “Financial Stability Plan” sounds reasonable as far as it goes. The government will subject banks asking for more support to stress tests and more scrutiny. It will purchase preferred shares that can be converted into common stock. It will establish a vehicle to co-invest with private investors in banks’ troubled assets. It will boost the purchase of certain asset-backed securities. And it will offer greater assistance to hard-pressed mortgage holders. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;But missing from the package are crucial details on how each of these initiatives will work. How will the stress tests improve on banks' own, and how are they going to be used - will they dictate which banks are saved and allowed to fail? How will the preferreds be priced? How much of a subsidy must the government offer private investors to lure them to buy dodgy assets? And so on. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Geithner says he is consulting with lawmakers, other regulators and market participants over these questions. That’s great. But he could have waited to unveil his plan until he had his answers. The markets would probably understand a delay caused by the desire to get the details right. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;That makes the administration’s failure of expectation management that much more puzzling. President Barack Obama said as recently as Monday that a detailed plan was in the offing. Raising hopes and under-delivering may be standard procedure in the political sphere. But as today’s market rout demonstrated, it doesn’t fly in finance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;11/2/09 Lawmakers Challenge Bankers on Bailout &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;WASHINGTON — Eight of the nation’s top bankers faced off Wednesday against critical lawmakers in Congress, who questioned their use of tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money and pointed out the growing public anger at the banks in the bailout.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“When you took taxpayer money, you moved into a fishbowl,” said Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, Democrat of Pennsylvania. “Now, everyone is rightly watching your every move from every side.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The eight banks collectively received $125 billion in bailout money in exchange for shares in their companies, and two of them — Citigroup and Bank of America — were given tens of billions of dollars more because of their financial problems.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The banks’ chief executives, who testified before the House Financial Services Committee, find themselves in different positions financially, but they all face extreme scrutiny over the money they were given. Their banks provide essential credit throughout the economy, but some analysts have suggested recently that they have not used the government money to increase lending.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Lawmakers are also concerned about bonuses the banks paid out to their employees and whether the banks are able to pay the bonuses primarily because of the government money.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the committee, said the problem for lawmakers was that the government needed to help the banks to help the economy, but that many taxpayers did not want to see the banks helped.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“Here’s the dilemma: there is in the country a great deal of anger about the financial institutions, including those represented here,” Mr. Frank said.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mr. Frank said the banks would receive “collateral benefit” because they would be helped by the government’s broader efforts to heal the economy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The banking executives said they were aware of the ill will that surrounded them.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“It is abundantly clear that we are here amidst broad public anger at our industry,” said Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs. “Many people believe — and, in many cases, justifiably so — that Wall Street lost sight of its larger public obligations.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Asked how the banks would restore confidence in the financial system, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, replied: “We will beat this thing. We are bruised and battered, but we’re still standing and I believe America will do what it’s always done” and get through the problem.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Lawmakers brought up the overarching question of the day. “What did you do with the new money?” asked Gary L. Ackerman, Democrat of New York, who said it seemed to him that the banks were not loaning out the funds they received from government.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Each of the bankers outlined the ways in which they had used the government capital. Goldman, for instance, increased its financing to clients like Sallie Mae and Verizon Wireless. Morgan Stanley said it had made $10.6 billion in new commercial loans and $650 million in loan commitments to consumers.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;And the bankers were emphatic that they were continuing to make loans.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“We have every incentive to lend,” said Kenneth D. Lewis, the chief executive of Bank of America. “And despite the recessionary headwinds, we are lending.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mr. Lewis said his bank issued $181 billion in loans in the fourth quarter, including $115 billion in new loans.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, said his bank made $75 billion in new loans.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mr. Dimon said JPMorgan made more than $150 billion in new loans in the fourth quarter and also lent an average of $50 billion a day to other banks. He pointed out that his bank increased its lending by 2.1 percent last quarter even while consumers were cutting back their spending.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The pullback in credit, Mr. Dimon said, comes from a retreat of lenders like money market funds and hedge funds — not a retreat of the banks.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Several of the chief executives said they had not used the government money to pay bonuses, and they tried to dispel notions that they had been irresponsible in their spending.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;“We have never been wasteful,” said John G. Stumpf, the chief executive of Wells Fargo.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Still, Mr. Frank asked, “If you weren’t getting a bonus, what would you not do? Would you take longer lunches or leave early on Wednesday?”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;He added, “Why do you need to be bribed to have your interests aligned with the company?”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;John J. Mack of Morgan Stanley replied: “We love what we do. If you gave us no bonus, we would still be here.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas, asked whether executive compensation restrictions would lead to a loss of talent. Mr. Mack responded that he was not concerned about those executives at the most senior levels, but that below that level he had already seen defections to European competitors and others.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;The eight banks received the initial round of bailout money from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, at an emergency meeting in October with then-Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. . Since then, the government has doled out billions more to about 300 other financial companies, ranging from community banks to credit card companies to the financing arms of automakers.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Mr. Blankfein and Mr. Lewis said the banking bailout was needed to bring about stability in the financial system. If the government had not provided assistance to the banking industry, Mr. Dimon said, “the question I and nobody else will know is what would have happened.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Also testifying at Wednesday’s hearing were Robert P. Kelly of Bank of New York Mellon and Ronald E. Logue of State Street.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;At the meeting in October, Merrill Lynch’s chief executive, John A. Thain, was also present. But Mr. Thain is not at the hearing because Merrill has been merged with Bank of America, and Mr. Thain was recently dismissed amid a spate of problems at his firm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4421772238980477255?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4421772238980477255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4421772238980477255' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4421772238980477255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4421772238980477255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2009/02/rendiconto-delle-notizie-finanziarie.html' title='Crisi economica'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-9134320166543272706</id><published>2009-01-19T12:11:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T12:20:48.681-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oro nero</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Devo dire che inizio ad essere infastidito con me stesso, perche' anche stavolta avevo avuto la giusta intuizione che l'impennata dei prezzi petroliferi non fosse altro che l'effetto di ingenti flussi finanziari spostatisi dai mercati azionari e obbligazionari verso la speculazione sulle commodities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il tonfo di questi ultimi 4-5 mesi e' stato a dir poco fragoroso, col corso del petrolio crollato del 70% circa. E non mi e' concesso, per ragioni lavorative, effettuare vendite allo scoperto... avrei avuto un fantastico ritorno sull'investimento! E basato solo su mie considerazioni personali e in barba a quanto la maggior parte degli analisti andavano dicendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leggetevi l'articolo a questo link e, se avete tempo, guardatevi anche il video tratto da 60 Minutes, popolare programma della CBS, che redige un buon riassunto della situazione:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/08/60minutes/main4707770.shtml"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/08/60minutes/main4707770.shtml&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio a tutti e buon 2009, anche se un po' in ritardo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-9134320166543272706?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/9134320166543272706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=9134320166543272706' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/9134320166543272706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/9134320166543272706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2009/01/oro-nero.html' title='Oro nero'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2003368848619077406</id><published>2008-11-08T02:08:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T02:26:27.243-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Crisi finanziaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Sono secoli che non mi faccio vivo... ma c'e' una buona ragione, visto che sto lavorando in media 16-17 ore al giorno, per cui perdonatemi se non trovo il tempo di raccontarvi le vicende d'oltreoceano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Dato che sono un po' stanco, vi lascio con quattro flash su cui riflettere:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;1. Il premio di un contratto CDS su titoli di stato USA e' arrivato a costare piu' di quello della Germania... temo che i libri di finanza debbano aggiornare il concetto di risk free interest rate e passare dal decennale USA a quello tedesco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;2. Il tasso swap a 30 anni e' praticamente pari al trentennale del tesoro USA... un momento, il merito di credito USA e' AAA me la curva swap e' basata su unsecured AA. Conferma del punto 1?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;3. Mai visto un livello di volatilita' cosi' elevato su qualsiasi strumento finanziario... persino il LIBOR e' completamente impazzito. Il trimestrale e' schizzato ad inizio ottobre a 4.55% e oggi ha chiuso a 2.29%, con solo un taglio dei tassi di mezzo punto da parte della Fed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;4. L'oro nero si e' sgonfiato come prevedevo... non appena e' scattata la restrizione del credito e il mercato ha dovuto iniziare a diminuire l'effetto leva ecco che "per magia" nonostante consumi praticamente invariati e taglio della produzione OPEC, il WTI e' crollato da $150 circa al barile a $60 di questi ultimi giorni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;E' dal tempo della mania dei  tulipani in Olanda nel 1600 (e forse ancor da prima) che continuiamo a commettere gli stessi errori di euforia finanziaria! Ma non siamo esseri pensanti e in quanto tali non dovremmo essere in grado di imparare dagli errori del passato?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Aveva proprio ragione Gianbattista Vico, che la storia si ripete uguale a se stessa.  Se non altro cerco di vedere il bicchiere mezzo pieno, la situazione mi sta permettendo di imparare la professione direttamente dal cuore del problema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Un abbraccio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;il Vostro "stanco" bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2003368848619077406?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2003368848619077406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2003368848619077406' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2003368848619077406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2003368848619077406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/11/crisi-finanziaria.html' title='Crisi finanziaria'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6679635342496979304</id><published>2008-07-12T16:50:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-12T17:14:06.258-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte IV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Scusate il ritardo nel postare le tappe successive del nostro viaggio, ma ho avuto una settimana piena di impegni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dove eravamo rimasti? Finita la tappa a Moab ci siamo diretti verso Monument Valley. In territorio Navajo, al confine tra Utah e Arizona, questa zona ha fatto da paesaggio a molti film western ed era parecchio amata dal regista John Ford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivando dallo Utah si percorre un lungo rettileneo, al cui fondo si stagliano alcuni dei picchi che&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkP0BpY0vI/AAAAAAAAAh8/4FzLnfiLAts/s1600-h/ontheroad-792-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkP0BpY0vI/AAAAAAAAAh8/4FzLnfiLAts/s200/ontheroad-792-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222222629382443762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; rendono celebre questo angolo di deserto... la foto qui a lato dovrebbe senz'altro esservi famigliare, visto che l'ho scattata sulla falsariga di molte altre che hanno reso celebre questo tratto di strada che conduce all'ingresso del parco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come per gli altri parchi, anzi, qui a maggior ragione, le ore migliori per visitare il posto sono l'alba ed il tramonto. Noi siamo arrivati per il tramonto e abbiamo avuto la fortuna di imbatterci in una sera di luna piena... il paesaggio ovviamente ha assunto colori e sfumature spettacolari e spero che le foto qui sotto rendano sufficientemente l'idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRsoQxToI/AAAAAAAAAiE/HxhNbEr5ScI/s1600-h/ontheroad-795-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRsoQxToI/AAAAAAAAAiE/HxhNbEr5ScI/s200/ontheroad-795-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222224701332475522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtK9ZR9I/AAAAAAAAAiM/I7ylI-zvSyY/s1600-h/ontheroad-806-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtK9ZR9I/AAAAAAAAAiM/I7ylI-zvSyY/s200/ontheroad-806-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222224710646450130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRthvUrPI/AAAAAAAAAic/nfWsyeCvlJ8/s1600-h/ontheroad-835-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRthvUrPI/AAAAAAAAAic/nfWsyeCvlJ8/s200/ontheroad-835-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222224716761443570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtYP4OpI/AAAAAAAAAiU/NCwGzhdzthM/s1600-h/ontheroad-815-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtYP4OpI/AAAAAAAAAiU/NCwGzhdzthM/s200/ontheroad-815-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222224714213636754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtz3x6AI/AAAAAAAAAik/hyX9MhzUSZY/s1600-h/ontheroad-854-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkRtz3x6AI/AAAAAAAAAik/hyX9MhzUSZY/s200/ontheroad-854-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222224721628751874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkS0rPpKSI/AAAAAAAAAis/5TElEGcJhnI/s1600-h/ontheroad-855-monument+valley.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkS0rPpKSI/AAAAAAAAAis/5TElEGcJhnI/s200/ontheroad-855-monument+valley.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222225939083634978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo Monument Valley e' stata la volta di &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/"&gt;Grand Canyon&lt;/a&gt;. E' senz'altro tra i parchi piu' popolari ed affollati di turisti. In alcuni punti il canyon raggiunge la profondita' di un miglio, ragguardevole, ma il Canyon del Colca in Peru', di cui vi avevo parlato l'anno passato, in alcuni punti e' addirittura piu' profondo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dato che ci sono ormai stato un po' di volte a Grand Canyon, vi suggerisco di distribuire la vostra&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkYLWl-41I/AAAAAAAAAi0/4-RU5D9u0dE/s1600-h/ontheroad-926-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkYLWl-41I/AAAAAAAAAi0/4-RU5D9u0dE/s200/ontheroad-926-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222231826235319122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; visita nel modo seguente. Quando arrivate, fate un giro nelle parti piu' turistiche del South Rim e non perdetevi il tramonto da Yavapai Point o Grandview Point. Quindi se avete un altro giorno a disposizione e siete amanti delle camminate, vi raccomando vivamente di percorrere il &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/day-hiking.htm"&gt;Bright Angel Trail&lt;/a&gt;. Questo sentiere vi portera' nel cuore del canyon, con svariate stazioni per il rifornimento d'acqua... il canyon e' pericoloso e il calore estremo puo' uccidere, c'e' scritto dappertutto e i ranger lo ripetono in continuazione, per cui abbiate con voi scorte abbondanti d'acqua (anche se ci sono le zone di sosta con acqua corrente), integratori di sali minerali e cibo! A meno che voi partiate prestissimo al mattino e siate disposti a sostare nelle ore piu' calde nei pressi del fiume Colorado, sul fondo del &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkaHYbI-bI/AAAAAAAAAi8/BoowYroDLas/s1600-h/ontheroad-936-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkaHYbI-bI/AAAAAAAAAi8/BoowYroDLas/s200/ontheroad-936-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222233957030492594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;canyon, per fare ritorno sulla sommita' del canyon verso il tramonto (o anche piu' tardi), non lanciatevi in una camminata al fiume e ritorno in giornata: e' pericoloso. Semmai, avendo due giorni a disposizione, scendete giu' al fiume il primo giorno, sostate e dormite a Phantom Ranch, dove c'e' un campeggio in riva al Colorado, e tornate su il giorno dopo, magari percorrendo il &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/day-hiking.htm"&gt;South Kaibab Trail&lt;/a&gt; anziche' il Bright Angel, tanto per cambiare un po' percorso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito trovate alcune foto del nostro trekking verso il fondo del canyon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcWihouII/AAAAAAAAAjE/LWckc5oKgyE/s1600-h/ontheroad-945-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcWihouII/AAAAAAAAAjE/LWckc5oKgyE/s200/ontheroad-945-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222236416463386754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcXMRf8II/AAAAAAAAAjM/jDUJsrbXGLQ/s1600-h/ontheroad-946-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcXMRf8II/AAAAAAAAAjM/jDUJsrbXGLQ/s200/ontheroad-946-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222236427669991554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcXQTcC7I/AAAAAAAAAjU/R7L4-Iyhr68/s1600-h/ontheroad-951-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcXQTcC7I/AAAAAAAAAjU/R7L4-Iyhr68/s200/ontheroad-951-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222236428751866802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcX_1yIjI/AAAAAAAAAjc/5qWIN1_dxIs/s1600-h/ontheroad-954-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcX_1yIjI/AAAAAAAAAjc/5qWIN1_dxIs/s200/ontheroad-954-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222236441512387122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcYvtN53I/AAAAAAAAAjk/ep_BN2nBETA/s1600-h/ontheroad-958-grand+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkcYvtN53I/AAAAAAAAAjk/ep_BN2nBETA/s200/ontheroad-958-grand+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222236454361360242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per finire, se avete ancora tempo e siete disposti a farvi una lunga giornata in auto, vi suggerisco di guidare dal South Rim, la zona turistica principale, verso il North Rim per fare una capatina al &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/tuweep.htm"&gt;Toroweap Overlook&lt;/a&gt;. Attenzione che un lungo tratto di strada e' sterrato, per cui puo' essere impraticabile se ci sono state piogge di recente. La vista e' spettacolare, con 3,000 piedi di caduta verticale dalla sommita' del canyon verso il Colorado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancora un po' stanchi dalle fatiche del trekking alla scoperta delle meraviglie di Grand Canyon e dopo svariati giorni di camminate nei vari parchi dello Utah, ci siamo concessi un po' di riposo nella citta' piu' pazza del mondo: Las Vegas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qui non sto neanche ad intrattenervi. Tutti conosciamo Vegas. Non che il posto mi piaccia particolarmente, ma di notte mostra un certo fascino... nonche' eccesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai prossimi giorni per le tappe successive del viaggio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6679635342496979304?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6679635342496979304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6679635342496979304' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6679635342496979304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6679635342496979304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-west-coast-rockies-e-il-south_12.html' title='On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte IV'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHkP0BpY0vI/AAAAAAAAAh8/4FzLnfiLAts/s72-c/ontheroad-792-monument+valley.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-501141716799033644</id><published>2008-07-04T22:59:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T20:28:16.361-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte III</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi ho lasciato ieri con lo spostamento in auto da Bryce a Moab. Moab e' una piccola cittadina, che, dopo aver vissuto un periodo di fulgore economico legato alle miniere di uranio, ha riscoperto un secondo periodo di floridezza economica grazie alle bellezze naturali che la circondano e che la rendono una meta turistica particolarmente apprezzata dagli americani. Qui infatti i tour operator europei e giapponesi fanno solo passare i tour per veri intenditori... il risultato e' che per circa tre giorni non ci siamo trovati circondati dai nostri compatrioti, che continuano a lamentarsi della crisi economica e del fatto che non si riesca ad arrivare a fine mese, ma li incontri dovunque e in qualsiasi periodo dell'anno!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cosa c'e' da vedere e fare a Moab? Il posto piu' bello e' senz'altro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/"&gt;Arches National Park&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. Quanto a bellezza lo reputo secondo solo a Bryce Canyon. Come dice il nome stesso del parco, qui c'e' la maggior concentrazione al mondo di archi naturali, formatisi per l'erosione della roccia da parte degli agenti naturali. In questo parco ci siamo cimentati in tre camminate per un totale di circa 25km a piedi. Le camminate piu' impegnative sono quelle del &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/longtrails.htm"&gt;Devils Garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; e di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/longtrails.htm"&gt;Fiery Furnace &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;(qui dovete essere accompagnati dai ranger, visto che il posto e' un labirinto e c'e' il rischio di perdersi). Piu' corto, ma altrettanto impegnativo, soprattutto se fatto intorno all'ora di pranzo, e' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAKopmdJEI/AAAAAAAAAhU/n5nxe6elgyU/s1600-h/ontheroad-651-arches.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAKopmdJEI/AAAAAAAAAhU/n5nxe6elgyU/s200/ontheroad-651-arches.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219683661600597058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il percorso che vi porta a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/moderatetrails.htm"&gt;Tower Arch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. Questo percorso e' molto poco battuto, visto che la partenza del cammino si raggiunge dopo circa 12km di guida sullo sterrato. Vi assicuro pero' che quando siamo arrivati sotto l'arco e ci siamo fermati a riposare alla sua ombra, la soddisfazione di essere solo noi quattro e la natura intorno a noi e' stata un'esperienza gratificante dopo la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAKoJmdJDI/AAAAAAAAAhM/cZWXXBlUsOU/s1600-h/ontheroad-645-arches.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAKoJmdJDI/AAAAAAAAAhM/cZWXXBlUsOU/s200/ontheroad-645-arches.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219683653010662450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt; fatica della camminata sotto la canicola. Credo che le foto non richiedano commenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un altro arco meraviglioso si trova nel Devils Garden, il Landscape Arch. E' il piu' lungo esistente e sembra quasi sfidare le leggi della gravita', come potete vedere in questa foto. Abbastanza incredibile, vero?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHANS5mdJHI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Xt9e0q4KMjo/s1600-h/ontheroad-656-arches.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHANS5mdJHI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Xt9e0q4KMjo/s200/ontheroad-656-arches.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219686586473325682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per finire, non potete assolutamente perdere la camminata che porta a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/longtrails.htm"&gt;Delicate Arch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. In molti sostengono essere il posto migliore per fare foto al tramonto... in parte e' vero, ma ci sono anche altri posti che meritano; in fin dei conti tutto quello che conta e' avere le giuste condizioni di luce (a questo proposito, vi rimando ad alcuni &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/planyourvisit/photography.htm"&gt;suggerimenti fotografici&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; da parte dei ranger di Arches). Di seguito un paio di esempi degli scatti che sono riuscito ad catturare al tramonto con la nuova macchina fotografica che ho acquistato in occasione del viaggio, una reflex digitale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAMcZmdJFI/AAAAAAAAAhc/uy03IlNIQbc/s1600-h/ontheroad-756-arches.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAMcZmdJFI/AAAAAAAAAhc/uy03IlNIQbc/s200/ontheroad-756-arches.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219685650170455122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAMc5mdJGI/AAAAAAAAAhk/cy6A_xa_ixg/s1600-h/ontheroad-777-arches.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAMc5mdJGI/AAAAAAAAAhk/cy6A_xa_ixg/s200/ontheroad-777-arches.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219685658760389730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma Arches, come vi dicevo non e' l'unico parco naturale situato nei pressi di Moab. &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/cany/"&gt;Canyonlands&lt;/a&gt;, infatti e' un'altra perla di questa terra. Girarlo bene richiede almeno un paio di giorni, data la vastita' del territorio. Il parco sorge intorno alla confluenza del Colorado e del Green River e,&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAPNZmdJII/AAAAAAAAAh0/GVU9uQNeB7s/s1600-h/ontheroad-681-canyonlands.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAPNZmdJII/AAAAAAAAAh0/GVU9uQNeB7s/s200/ontheroad-681-canyonlands.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219688691007300738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; come il nome vi fa intuire, e' uno splendido canyon un po' in stile Grand Canyon, di cui vi parlero' in seguito. Qui potete ammirare il Mesa Arch nella zona di Island in the Sky, come dice il nome sembra proprio un'isola nel cielo, viste le fenditure provocate dall'erosione dei fiumi su questo arido altipiano. L'arco sorge proprio sul precipizio del canyon e credo che la foto allegata renda l'idea dello strapiombo su cui mi sono accucciato per prendere lo scatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mentre vi trovati nei paraggi, vi raccomando una capatina a Dead Horse Point... vi ricordate l'inizio di &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts3A8D6ytE"&gt;Mission Impossible II&lt;/a&gt;? Beh, e' stato girato proprio da queste parti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'ultimo giorno a Moab l'abbiamo dedicato ad un po' di rafting, per cui il Colorado e' tanto rinomato... beh, che dire, noi non ne siamo rimasti particolarmente affascinati, forse perche' la troppa acqua nel fiume non ci ha permesso di sperimantare i brividi veri del rafting. Ad ogni modo nuotare nelle fredde acque del Colorado, lasciandosi trasportare dalla sua forte corrente, ha in parte compensato i mancati brividi del rafting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A domani per il racconto della prossima parte del viaggio: Monument Valley, Grand Canyon e Las Vegas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-501141716799033644?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/501141716799033644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=501141716799033644' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/501141716799033644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/501141716799033644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-west-coast-rockies-e-il-south_6180.html' title='On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte III'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SHAKopmdJEI/AAAAAAAAAhU/n5nxe6elgyU/s72-c/ontheroad-651-arches.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4288802381278815320</id><published>2008-07-04T22:20:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T22:57:59.366-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vi avevo lasciato con noi 4 in procinto di lasciare il freddo ed innevato Yellowstone. Abbiamo coperto quasi 600 miglia di strada per scendere dall'angolo nordovest del Wyoming fino al sudovest dello Utah. Quasi 35 gradi di sbalzo termico in 24 ore... rapidamente ci siamo liberati di giacca invernale, maglioni e pantaloni lunghi per ritornare ad un piu' appropriato abbigliamento estivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ovviamente non abbiamo mancato di essere fermati dalla stradale nel mezzo del nulla del Wyoming... eccesso di velocita' su una strada dove non abbiamo visto anima viva per circa quaranta minuti e lontano da qualsiasi centro abitato... e vabeh, cosi' abbiamo movimentato un pochino il viaggio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verso meta' giornata siamo passati in prossimita' di Park City, dove si sono svolte le gare di sci delle olimpiadi invernali di Salt Lake City del 2002 (quelle prima delle nostre magnifiche olimpiadi torinesi). Ancora 5 ore di macchina per arrivare a Bryce Canyon, la nostra meta. Siamo stati molto fortunati e siamo riusciti a prenotare all'ultimo momento un cottage nel Bryce Canyon Lodge a 30 metri dal bordo del canyon. Siamo ovviamente arrivati dopo il tramonto, ma questo non ci ha impedito di ammirare il bordo del canyon al chiaro di luna, come potete vedere qui sotto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7eTJmdJAI/AAAAAAAAAg0/MjNZUWvz2Us/s1600-h/ontheroad-536-bryce+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7eTJmdJAI/AAAAAAAAAg0/MjNZUWvz2Us/s200/ontheroad-536-bryce+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219353438745076738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo un confortevole riposo, ci siamo goduti lo spettacolo dell'alba&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7gyZmdJBI/AAAAAAAAAg8/SnxCi5oBnlo/s1600-h/ontheroad-563-bryce+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7gyZmdJBI/AAAAAAAAAg8/SnxCi5oBnlo/s200/ontheroad-563-bryce+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219356174639244306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; nel canyon e ci siamo poi avventurati in un magnifico trekking di circa 12km dentro il canyon, il figure 8 trail, una combinazione di 3 percorsi spettacolari dalla cima del canyon a Sunrise point con risalita a Sunset point. Se vi interessa saperne di piu' vi rimando al sito del parco, cliccate qui &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7hLZmdJCI/AAAAAAAAAhE/djnvnTPtk4c/s1600-h/ontheroad-593-bryce+canyon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7hLZmdJCI/AAAAAAAAAhE/djnvnTPtk4c/s200/ontheroad-593-bryce+canyon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219356604135973922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;a fianco - &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/hiking.htm"&gt;Bryce Canyon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo 3 ore di dura camminata sotto un sole cocente eravamo senz'altro stanchi, ma molto soddisfatti di aver dato retta al consiglio di un ranger di fare questa passeggiata... semplicemente spettacolare. Io ero gia' stato qui a Bryce, ma il giro fatto in questo modo mi ha fatto apprezzare ancor piu' questa bellezza naturale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da Bryce ci siamo poi diretti a Moab, dove ci siamo fermati per 3 giorni, non molti, ma abbastanza per ammirare Arches National Park, Canyonlands e fare una giornata di rafting sul Colorado. Il resoconto delle camminate alla scoperta di queste meraviglie della natura alla prossima puntata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4288802381278815320?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4288802381278815320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4288802381278815320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4288802381278815320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4288802381278815320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-west-coast-rockies-e-il-south_04.html' title='On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte II'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SG7eTJmdJAI/AAAAAAAAAg0/MjNZUWvz2Us/s72-c/ontheroad-536-bryce+canyon.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1415074927478565936</id><published>2008-07-02T23:33:00.012-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-03T00:28:09.217-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte I</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ok, il Vostro non si e' fatto sentire per quasi un mese... ma la ragione e' piu' che valida: come chiosa a questi due anni di master abbiamo organizzato un viaggio on the road con Fausto, Lello e Paolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qui sotto trovate il nostro itinerario di viaggio 5.935 miglia (quasi 10.000km) nel grande ovest americano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxKSpmdI4I/AAAAAAAAAf0/lC7b7tAxoYU/s1600-h/map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxKSpmdI4I/AAAAAAAAAf0/lC7b7tAxoYU/s320/map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218627752480809858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siamo partiti il 9 giugno da Seattle, la citta' del grunge, delle prime contestazioni anti-globalizzazione e la patria di Starbucks... quindi da bravi turisti ci siamo fatti il canonico giro nel primo negozio Starbucks e non ci siamo fatti mancare del buon pesce all'altrettanto popolare e turistico Pike Place Fish Market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxMWJmdI6I/AAAAAAAAAgE/HPq57ZHCcCw/s1600-h/ontheroad-013-seattle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxMWJmdI6I/AAAAAAAAAgE/HPq57ZHCcCw/s200/ontheroad-013-seattle.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218630011633607586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxMEJmdI5I/AAAAAAAAAf8/n8yhdU9BOLs/s1600-h/ontheroad-006-seattle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxMEJmdI5I/AAAAAAAAAf8/n8yhdU9BOLs/s200/ontheroad-006-seattle.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218629702395962258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La sera siamo stati intrattenuti dal mio amico Bryan, giornalista locale, nonche' mio compagno di master. Era un po' che non lo vedevo e mi ha fatto veramente piacere trovarlo felice, di nuovo a casa, visto che lui e' nato e cresciuto nei dintorni di Seattle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il 10 ci siamo subito messi in marcia... tanta strada da percorrere, perche' abbiamo i giorni vincolati a Yellowstone. Abbiamo trovato un albergo con vista spettacolare sul lago, ma purtroppo ogni altra data era piena, per cui dobbiamo accettare le due notti che la Divina Provvidenza ci ha regalato. In un sol giorno ci siamo quindi macinati tutto lo stato di Washington da ovest ad est, l'Idaho e parte del Montana. E qui il tempo ha deciso di non essere nostro amico. Infatti abbiamo incontrato una 3 giorni di neve... si' si' avete capito bene, neve a giugno! come la foto sotto testimonia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxO25mdI7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/EGPonWXwOEE/s1600-h/ontheroad-036-washington.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxO25mdI7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/EGPonWXwOEE/s200/ontheroad-036-washington.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218632773297578930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Montana ci ha riservato la sorpresa di una notte passata in un vero ranch, con colazione del cowboy al mattino (uova, pancetta, salsiccie e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta)... dimenticavo, tutti e quattro siamo delle ottime forchette (Lello su tutti), quindi la vacanza e' stata anche molto piacevole dal punto di vista gastronomico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancora con la pancia piena, siamo tornati on the road per raggiungere Yellowstone, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxTQ5mdI8I/AAAAAAAAAgU/w0Es56IjiHM/s1600-h/ontheroad-473-yellowstone.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxTQ5mdI8I/AAAAAAAAAgU/w0Es56IjiHM/s200/ontheroad-473-yellowstone.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218637618020688834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;entrando cosi' nel quarto stato della nostra avventura, il Wyoming. Qui vi potrei riempire di foto dei geyser o delle sorgenti calde, di cui il parco e' letteralmente cosparso... invece vi lascio con un'immagine delle cascate Yellowstone, presa da un'angolazione atipica, visto che ne abbiamo quasi raggiunto la base, intraprendendo il primo di svariati trekking nelle zone avventurose e meno turistiche dei parchi nazionali che abbiamo visitato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A seguire, abbiamo avuto un incontro ravvicinato con un alce (meno di 30 metri)... non so Voi cosa ne pensiate, ma a me pare un animale maestoso.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxUipmdI-I/AAAAAAAAAgk/tXK6Epd0tWk/s1600-h/ontheroad-423-yellowstone.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxUipmdI-I/AAAAAAAAAgk/tXK6Epd0tWk/s200/ontheroad-423-yellowstone.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218639022474994658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per finire, vi lascio con la foto in notturna dalla terrazza del nostro chalet con vista lago al chiaro di luna... surreale vero?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxU55mdI_I/AAAAAAAAAgs/4BtaqyVCsGM/s1600-h/ontheroad-498-yellowstone.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxU55mdI_I/AAAAAAAAAgs/4BtaqyVCsGM/s200/ontheroad-498-yellowstone.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218639421906953202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per oggi mi fermo qua... domani vi raccontero' dei nostri spostamenti verso la terra dei Canyon e dei deserti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1415074927478565936?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1415074927478565936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1415074927478565936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1415074927478565936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1415074927478565936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-west-coast-rockies-e-il-south.html' title='On the road - West Coast, the Rockies e il South West - Parte I'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SGxKSpmdI4I/AAAAAAAAAf0/lC7b7tAxoYU/s72-c/map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6390598971198746204</id><published>2008-06-05T08:46:00.012-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T14:32:49.212-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Non mi si dica che non l'avevo detto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Qualora ci fosse stato ancora bisogno di conferme, gli ultimi giorni ci hanno detto che stiamo assistendo ad una possibile bolla speculativa sul petrolio... che dire, pare che si passi da una bolla all'altra di questi tempi, anche perche', in tutto questo trambusto, non e' che la liquidita' sia venuta meno, e' venuta meno in alcuni segmenti del mercato, ma in altri e' piu' copiosa che mai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Date un occhiata ai due articoli che allego qui sotto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 class="articleTitle" style="margin: 0px; font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Is Oil the Next 'Bubble' to Pop?&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div   style="padding: 12px 0px 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;span id="byl" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-size:12;" &gt;By &lt;b&gt;GUY CHAZAN&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;NEIL KING JR.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="aTime"&gt;June 4, 2008; Page C6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Is there an oil bubble that is about to burst?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Some big voices on Wall Street think so, predicting the oil market could tilt sharply south soon if the U.S. dollar strengthens and demand for crude oil weakens in some key consuming countries. Tightness on the supply side could also ease, they say, as some big refineries and new oil fields come onstream over the next few months and the outlook for the Chinese economy clouds over.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;But don't count on a price plunge just yet. While oil has eased off its record of just over $133 nearly two weeks ago, to $124.31 currently, there are still strong reasons to believe that the benchmark U.S. crude could hover at about $120 a barrel well past summer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;img style="font-family: times new roman;" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/MI-AQ700_BUBBLE_20080603191239.gif" class="imglftbdy" alt="[chart]" align="left" border="0" height="578" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="406" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At issue are deep disagreements over what is driving the run-up in oil prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;In the search for scapegoats, many on Capitol Hill in the U.S. and elsewhere are now blaming oil-futures speculators, noting the vast cash inflows into commodity index funds. But those skeptical of a sharp price fall point to a raft of continued gloomy news on the fundamental supply-and-demand side, arguing that an already tight market isn't likely to loosen for months.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;reprintsdisclaimer style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/reprintsdisclaimer&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="b13"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Like the Dot-Com Boom?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;The bearish argument has grown increasingly loud over the past week. Lehman Brothers on Friday compared the rally to the one-upmanship of the dot-com boom: Wall Street analysts have repeatedly raised their price forecasts as oil prices have soared, driving new investor flows that have pushed prices to still-higher levels, leading to still-higher price forecasts. Lehman sees the "classic ingredients of an asset bubble," with financial investors driven by a "herd" instinct and chasing past performance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Hedge-fund manager George Soros also has chimed in. "We are currently experiencing the bursting of a housing bubble and, at the same time, a rise in oil and other commodities which has some of the earmarks of a bubble," he said Tuesday in prepared testimony before the U.S. Senate. Mr. Soros cautioned, though, that a crash in oil markets was "not imminent."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Economists who have cited the dollar's fall as a key factor in the rising price of oil now argue that that linkage is set to reverse. With the dollar now showing signs of strength, and the fears of inflation ebbing, oil prices also should fall, they say. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comment Tuesday that further interest-rate cuts are unlikely gave the dollar another upward jolt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;To back its dot-com analogy, Lehman Brothers cites evidence that institutional investors, including sovereign-wealth funds, have been increasing their exposure to commodities. The investment house calculates that from January 2006 to mid-April 2008, more than $90 billion of incremental investor flows was devoted to assets under management by commodity indexes. It said for every $100 million in new inflows, the price of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, increased by 1.6%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Yet others dispute the view that the run-up in crude oil is investor-driven. "This is the price you get if supply doesn't expand for five years and demand continues to grow as it has done for the last four to five years," says Paul Horsnell, an analyst with Barclays Capital in London. Prices will "continue testing upward" unless the supply-and-demand picture changes substantially, he says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Others have also disputed the evidence that investors are driving up the price of crude.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;In written testimony to the U.S. Senate last month, Jeffrey Harris, chief economist of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said that while futures-contract prices for WTI have more than doubled during the past 14 months, managed-money positions, as a fraction of the overall market, have changed very little.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;"Speculative position changes have not amplified crude-oil futures price changes," he wrote. "More specifically, the recent crude-oil price increases have occurred with no significant change in net speculative positions." He also said there was no evidence that position changes by speculators "precede price changes" for crude-oil-futures contracts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="b13"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seeking Their Footing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Mr. Horsnell and others contend that after their precipitous rise to $133, oil prices are now seeking a new equilibrium. Even the normally bearish Energy Department doesn't see prices falling far soon. Guy Caruso, head of the department's Energy Information Administration, cited continued tight global supplies Monday when he predicted that oil will stay above $100 a barrel through 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;The main factor cited for sustained high prices is the surprisingly steep fall so far this year in production from some of the world's key exporters, particularly Mexico, Russia and Venezuela. The big producers within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have largely held their output steady since late last year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Despite declining demand in the U.S., the thirst for petroleum products -- above all diesel -- continues apace in much of the developing world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="b13"&gt;&lt;b&gt;China's Needs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Rocked by the recent earthquake, China is now scrounging for all available sources of diesel to power thousands of generators that have taken the place of downed power plants. Surging domestic demand among Persian Gulf countries also continues to nibble away at available oil exports.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;"What will turn this around is a real change in what has pushed this up in the first place, which would be a notable shift on the supply-demand front," said Mr. Horsnell. "So far, we aren't seeing that."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Lehman is in the camp that expects the supply-demand balance to change in the coming months. New Saudi oil production should come onstream soon, as well as big new refineries that will ease bottlenecks and bring greater competition in oil-products markets. Russia is enacting tax breaks that many hope will lift stagnant oil production.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;Meanwhile, oil-demand growth is expected to ease in fuel-hungry China, as the economic slowdown in its Western export markets takes hold. China also has been stockpiling fuel in the run-up to the Olympics, and with the Games over, imports might slow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="times"&gt;All this could "set the stage for a significant correction" in the oil price, says Michael Waldron, an analyst with Lehman. Yet even he predicts that may not happen before the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;June 7, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Oil Prices Take a Nerve-Rattling Jump Past $138 &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;By &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/jad_mouawad/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Jad Mouawad"&gt;JAD MOUAWAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;The rise in oil prices turned into a stampede on Friday with futures jumping a staggering $11 a barrel to set a record above $138 a barrel. The unprecedented surge came as the dollar fell sharply against the euro and a senior Israeli politician once again raised the possibility of an attack against Iran.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Friday’s jump capped a second day of strong gains on energy markets, and fed suspicions that commodities might be caught in an investment bubble. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Oil prices have doubled in the last 12 months, and are up 42 percent since the beginning of the year. Oil futures surged $10.75, or 8 percent, to $138.54 a barrel on the &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_mercantile_exchange/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about New York Mercantile Exchange"&gt;New York Mercantile Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, their biggest jump since contracts began trading in 1983. The record rise brought a two-day jump of more than $16 a barrel, after Thursday’s 5.5 percent gain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;“This market is going to shoot itself in the foot,” said Adam Robinson, an energy analyst at &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/lehman_brothers_holdings_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc"&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/a&gt;. “It is searching for a price that will build a safety cushion in the system — either as inventories or as spare capacity. This takes time. But the market has gotten extremely impatient and is not willing to wait.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;The latest jump came as the dollar lost more than 1 percent against the euro amid bleak economic news that fanned recession fears. The unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May, the government said, the biggest increase in more than two decades.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Friday’s negative news pricked a budding sentiment on Wall Street that the financial system was on the mend, and stocks fell sharply. The &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/dow_jones_and_company_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Dow Jones &amp;amp; Company Inc."&gt;Dow Jones&lt;/a&gt; industrials lost 394.64 points, or 3 percent, to 12,209.81, with financial stocks showing the biggest declines. The broader Standard and Poor’s 500-stock index fell 3 percent, its biggest drop since February. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;The pronounced volatility in energy markets in recent weeks continued to puzzle traders. Prices kept rising despite a lack of shortages in the market and strong evidence of lower consumption in industrialized countries. But investors are caught in a bullish mood, focusing on the perceived risks to future oil supplies and the growth in oil demand from emerging economies, where fuel prices are subsidized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Even as uncertainties abound about the fundamentals of the energy market, geopolitical tensions in the Middle East regained center stage after Israel’s transportation minister and a deputy prime minister, &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/shaul_mofaz/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Shaul Mofaz"&gt;Shaul Mofaz&lt;/a&gt;, said Friday that an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites looked “unavoidable” if Iran did not abandon its nuclear program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Iran is the second-largest oil producer within the &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/organization_of_petroleum_exporting_countries/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)"&gt;OPEC&lt;/a&gt; cartel and exports nearly two million barrels a day. Because the world has few supplies to spare, any interruptions in Iran’s exports could push prices to higher levels. The world currently has about three million barrels a day of spare capacity, and consumes 86 million barrels a day of oil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;“The return of the Iranian risk premium calls for a careful assessment of the potential oil supply impact of military strikes on Iran,” said Antoine Halff, an analyst at Newedge, an energy broker. The “comments bring home the point that the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program remains unresolved and that the risks of military confrontation are indeed increasing.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Investors also reacted to the latest forecast by a large Wall Street bank that oil prices would keep rising. &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/morgan_stanley/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Morgan Stanley"&gt;Morgan Stanley&lt;/a&gt; predicted that prices would spike to $150 a barrel in the next month because of strong demand in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Asia&lt;/st1:place&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;The threat of a strike by &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/chevron_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Chevron Corp"&gt;Chevron&lt;/a&gt;’s workers in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Nigeria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; also raised concerns that some production could be shut down. A similar strike by &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/exxon_mobil_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Exxon Mobil Corp"&gt;Exxon Mobil&lt;/a&gt; workers last April, which lasted a week, reduced Nigerian output by 800,000 barrels a day, or nearly a third of the country’s daily exports. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;A strike may delay the start of Chevron’s 250,000 barrels-a-day Agbami project, the country’s largest offshore venture, which is to begin June 15.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;One view gaining ground is that the commodity market is caught in a speculative bubble akin to the recent housing bubble or the technology bubble of the late 1990s. That theory was raised by politicians in Washington and by OPEC producers, who blame speculators for the staggering oil rally. Speaking before Congress recently, &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/george_soros/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about George Soros."&gt;George Soros&lt;/a&gt;, a prominent hedge fund investor, said the current oil markets presented some characteristics of a bubble. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;“I find commodity index buying eerily reminiscent of a similar craze for portfolio insurance, which led to the stock market crash of 1987,” Mr. Soros said this week. But he cautioned that an oil market crash was not imminent. “The danger currently comes from the other direction. The rise in oil prices aggravates the prospects for a recession.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;But many analysts say that fundamentals, not speculation, are driving prices. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;“I don’t know how else to say it, this is not a bubble,” Jan Stuart, global oil economist at &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/ubs_ag/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about UBS AG."&gt;UBS&lt;/a&gt;, said. “I think this is real. There is a whole bunch of commercial buyers out there who are spooked and are buying. You are an airline, right now, you’re scared. I don’t see who would buy at these prices unless they need to.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Jeffrey Harris, the chief economist at the &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/commodity_futures_trading_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Commodity Futures Trading Commission, U.S."&gt;Commodity Futures Trading Commission&lt;/a&gt;, who was speaking before a Senate committee last month, said he saw no evidence of a speculative bubble in commodities. Instead, Mr. Harris pointed to a confluence of trends that has contributed to the oil price rally, including a weak dollar, strong energy demand from emerging economies, and political tensions in oil-producing countries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:12;"  &gt;“Simply put, the economic data shows that overall commodity price levels, including agricultural commodity and energy futures prices, are being driven by powerful fundamental economic forces and the laws of supply and demand,” Mr. Harris said. “Together these fundamental economic factors have formed a ‘perfect storm’ that is causing significant upward pressures on futures prices across the board.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6390598971198746204?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6390598971198746204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6390598971198746204' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6390598971198746204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6390598971198746204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/06/non-mi-si-dica-che-non-lavevo-detto.html' title='Non mi si dica che non l&apos;avevo detto'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5354537669805674892</id><published>2008-05-28T00:04:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T15:38:26.703-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I due zingari ritornano... due anni dopo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ricorderete che al momento del mio trasferimento a New York nell'agosto del 2006, insieme a Lello facemmo diversi acquisti di elettrodomestici e beni di prima necessita' per la casa da Kmart. Oggi, a 22 mesi di distanza i "due zingari" son tornati, ma si sono evoluti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basta aspirapolveri e assi per stirare portate in metropolitana... oggi furgoncino e via alla volta di Ikea (a casa del diavolo in Connecticut, perche' quella vicino a New York non aveva i mobili che mi servono per la mia nuova "magione" newyorkese). Piu' che degli zingari, sembravamo l'A-Team!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzbRc9wQEI/AAAAAAAAAfE/e4_5G2CL8uw/s1600-h/080527-ikea-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzbRc9wQEI/AAAAAAAAAfE/e4_5G2CL8uw/s200/080527-ikea-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205276362212917314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gli acquisti sono stati proficui (ed ingombranti!), anche se per il momento non avro' un tavolo e delle sedie per casa... vorra' dire che mi aggiustero' sul divano!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzb-c9wQFI/AAAAAAAAAfM/KdpiYJtI5-o/s1600-h/080527-ikea-011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzb-c9wQFI/AAAAAAAAAfM/KdpiYJtI5-o/s200/080527-ikea-011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205277135307030610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzcKs9wQGI/AAAAAAAAAfU/FsXeNgulc4k/s1600-h/080527-ikea-014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzcKs9wQGI/AAAAAAAAAfU/FsXeNgulc4k/s200/080527-ikea-014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205277345760428130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In tutto il macello di roba, che vedete a sinistra sui carrelli e a destra dopo essere stato caricato sul furgone, ci sta la meraviglia del modello Ikea... i mobili non saranno dei piu' belli (o migliori), ma sono pratici sia da assemblare, che da spostare. Infatti stipato nel furgone ci sono: 1 letto matrimoniale, con materasso e comodino; 1 divano letto (il materasso e' quel salame grigio arrotolato sul carrello della spesa); 1 cassettiera; 1 guardaroba; 1 piccola libreria; 1 mobile componibile per il soggiorno di 240cm di larghezza e due tappeti. Incredibile no? Avreste scommesso che ci fossero tutti questi mobili?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domani inizia l'opera di montaggio... postero' aggiornamenti fotografici dell'opera di assemblaggio e messa in posa della "magione".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio,&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5354537669805674892?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5354537669805674892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5354537669805674892' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5354537669805674892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5354537669805674892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-due-zingari-ritornano-due-anni-dopo.html' title='I due zingari ritornano... due anni dopo'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/SDzbRc9wQEI/AAAAAAAAAfE/e4_5G2CL8uw/s72-c/080527-ikea-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4350350979387401926</id><published>2008-05-25T02:20:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T00:03:47.955-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Columbia Commencement 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi allego il video girato da Fausto alla fine della cerimonia di Commencement di tutta l'universita'. Quasi 40,000 persone si sono assiepate sul prato al centro del campus... lasciatemelo dire che e' stata una cerimonia in grande stile, che e' valsa gli sforzi profusi per essere ammesso alla Columbia e per conseguire il master.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel video potete vedere il Tricolore, che abbiamo fatto sventolare ininterrottamente durante le oltre due ore di cerimonia, e il grandissimo Frank &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;in sottofondo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, che suggellava questa esperienza esattamente come era iniziata quella notte londinese dell'ottobre 2005, sulle note di New York, New York!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Edq3DIXPato&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Edq3DIXPato&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4350350979387401926?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4350350979387401926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4350350979387401926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4350350979387401926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4350350979387401926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/05/columbia-commencement-2008.html' title='Columbia Commencement 2008'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6882830306810427086</id><published>2008-05-19T09:16:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T09:22:05.637-04:00</updated><title type='text'>E fanno 3!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Con ieri ho raggiunto il "numero perfetto"... di lauree intendo. Alla terza, mi sa che questa e' l'ultima...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Nei prossimi giorni, con un attimo di tempo, rispondo ad alcuni quesiti che amici e lettori mi hanno posto. Intanto, visto che la maggior parte delle richieste di chiarimento che ho ricevuto riguardano le doti manageriali (e di leadership io aggiungo, visto che le due sono qualita' diverse ma altrettanto indispensabili per il nostro successo professionale), vi rimando alla pubblicazione del miglior prof che abbia avuto in questi due anni, Mike Feiner. Con $10 su Amazon potete comprare il suo libro "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Feiner-Points-Leadership-People-Perform/dp/0446695750/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1211203062&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;The Feiner's Points of Leadership&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;"; rispecchia fedelmente il corso che lui tiene qui alla Columbia e che io ho avuto il privilegio di seguire... un solo commento: ILLUMINANTE!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="asinTitle" style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="asinTitle" style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="asinTitle" style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="asinTitle" style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6882830306810427086?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6882830306810427086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6882830306810427086' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6882830306810427086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6882830306810427086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-fanno-3.html' title='E fanno 3!'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5327420126740801304</id><published>2008-05-12T05:14:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T05:52:04.530-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Due anni passati troppo in fretta</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ebbene si', il master e' volato via... mi sembra fosse solo ieri il primo giorno e invece due anni sono passati e con loro una grossa esperienza di vita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei mettere qui in poche parole quello che ho imparato:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho sviluppato le mie conoscenze finanziarie e spero di aver imparato abbastanza da ricordarmi degli errori che sono stati commessi in passato ed evitarli in futuro;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho scoperto l'importanza del gergo legale, che tanto mi verra' utile professionalmente;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho avuto conferma, se ce ne fosse stato ancora bisogno, che il miglior interlocutore quanto a dilemmi di natura professionale ce l'ho in casa ed e' mio padre... dovrei dargli un po' piu' retta;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho dedicato ore e corsi a sviluppare le mie capacita' manageriali e, da quanto altri mi hanno detto, sono cresciuto molto;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho sviluppato amicizie che dureranno per tutta la vita;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho avuto modo di lavorare con culture ed esperienze talmente diverse, che ogni volta era come imparare qualcosa di nuovo;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho imparato a gestire meglio il mio tempo;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ho imparato che il tempismo e' fondamentale per aver successo;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;mi hanno insegnato che deve sempre valere la regola "learn, earn, return"; impara (dovrei averlo appena fatto), guadagna (nel senso di sviluppare la propria esperienza professionale) e restituisci (ossia fare quello che tanti dei prof, che ho avuto in questi due anni, hanno fatto; passarci una parte della loro esperienza professionale, in modo che noi, le nuove leve, possiamo imparare dai loro successi ed errori)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Come tutte le cose belle della vita, anche questa e' durata troppo poco. Cio' nonostante non vedo l'ora di iniziare il prossimo capitolo della mia vita e come sempre, da buon torinese, speröma bin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per i prossimi due anni saro' ancora americano... poi si vedra' che cosa il destino ci riservera'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5327420126740801304?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5327420126740801304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5327420126740801304' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5327420126740801304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5327420126740801304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/05/due-anni-passati-troppo-in-fretta.html' title='Due anni passati troppo in fretta'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2885771617861628023</id><published>2008-04-28T00:11:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T00:21:04.751-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Promessa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ho appena visto un commento di un lettore, che si auspica che il blog continui anche dopo la fine del master.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certo che continuera'! Magari con interventi piu' succinti, ma chi mi conosce sa che riesco sempre a carpire le notizie piu' interessanti e presentarle alla Vostra attenzione, quindi continuero' nel mio impegno... e' una promessa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E poi questa e' un'attivita' che mi diverte e mi rilassa; un modo di riflettere su quello che accade intorno a noi e mantenere stretto il legame con il mio paese, nonostante la distanza fisica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;un abbraccio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2885771617861628023?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2885771617861628023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2885771617861628023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2885771617861628023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2885771617861628023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/04/promessa.html' title='Promessa'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1647855804664891786</id><published>2008-04-24T08:58:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T09:00:47.943-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ecco perche' la comicita' britannica e' cosi' geniale</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vi prego di dare un'occhiata a questo video dei Long Johns sulla crisi subprime... da sbellicarsi dalle risate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SJ_qK4g6ntM&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SJ_qK4g6ntM&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1647855804664891786?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1647855804664891786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1647855804664891786' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1647855804664891786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1647855804664891786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/04/ecco-perche-la-comicita-britannica-e.html' title='Ecco perche&apos; la comicita&apos; britannica e&apos; cosi&apos; geniale'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8689070147403614740</id><published>2008-04-24T08:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T08:49:55.538-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ultimo giorno di lezioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Miei cari lettori,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Oggi per tutti voi potrebbe essere un giorno come un altro... per il sottoscritto e altri 700 eroi della Columbia oggi e' l'ultimo giorno di lezioni del nostro MBA. Due anni sono volati alla velocita' della luce e, dopo esserci sentiti di nuovo teenagers, a breve si ritornera' a far sul serio nel mondo del lavoro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Non sono triste, ma, come tutte le cose belle, avrei voluto durasse di piu'... se non altro stasera si fa una gran festa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8689070147403614740?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8689070147403614740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8689070147403614740' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8689070147403614740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8689070147403614740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/04/ultimo-giorno-di-lezioni.html' title='Ultimo giorno di lezioni'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5330225830619100919</id><published>2008-04-23T11:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T11:44:34.700-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ancora Alitalia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;E' passato quasi un mese dal mio ultimo intervento e le ragioni sono varie:&lt;br /&gt; - non volevo parlare di politica e delle elezioni nostrane&lt;br /&gt; - sono stato parecchio impegnato qui a NY per finire gli ultimi esami (ancora poco piu' di 24 ore e il mio master e' finito, poi si tratta solo di attendere la cerimonia di diploma)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rimando considerazioni sull'elezioni di settimana scorsa, ma non posso esentarmi dal criticare la proposta di €300m di prestito ponte ad Alitalia: e' una vergogna, perche' si buttano nel cesso altri soldi dei contribuenti e la colpa e' dei sindacati e della classe politica. C'era un'offerta seria, per quanto dolorosa, da parte di Air France e le follie dei soliti noti hanno cancellato l'ultima vera speranza di salvezza della compagnia di bandiera. Badate bene che mi posso permettere di dire queste cose, perche' in questi anni ho sempre e solo volato con Alitalia, diventandone un cliente abituale, tanto da meritarmi l'accesso al club Freccia Alata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se fossimo un paese per bene, il governo avrebbe ridimensionato il potere dei sindacati e i capi sindacalisti si sarebbero dimessi, di fronte all'evidenza delle loro colpe... come si possono mettere 15-20mila posti di lavoro a totale rischio, solo perche' se ne vogliono salvare un migliaio? E' doloroso, e lo capisco, perdere mille posti di lavoro, ma se la conseguenza e' perderne 15mila, scelgo il male minore!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E che Dio ci scampi dalla discesa in campo degli impreditori italiani... non sono bastati gli esempi di Telecom e dei furbetti del quartierino?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi lascio con un articolo che mi pare alquanto interessante e ben pensato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Emergency landing&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;" class="byline"&gt;        By        Fiona Maharg-Bravo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alitalia:      &lt;/strong&gt;Rome is concocting yet another plan to keep Alitalia flying. This time, the government appears to have approved an emergency E300m loan to keep the near-bankrupt carrier in the air until the new government led by Silvio Berlusconi takes office in early May. It sounds like an illegal state subsidy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the “one time, last time” principle, Alitalia isn’t allowed to receive any more state aid until 2011, ten years after the last official bailout in 2001. Italy could argue that the loan isn’t strictly state aid, just a commercial arrangement made on terms acceptable to a private investor. But with oil at $120 a barrel, and Alitalia’s habit of burning cash, it is unlikely any private lender would go anywhere near the company – unless the debt was backed by a government guarantee.&lt;br /&gt;Italy, which has a 49.9% stake in the airline, might also try to argue that the loan is necessary to prevent chaos from cancelled flights. But the Italian government should face the consequence of its refusal to take tough decisions on Alitalia. Failed European carrier Sabena was humiliatingly grounded while it awaited restructuring. A similar pain would send a strong signal to Alitalia’s unions about the need for a radical revamp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is it clear that a loan would do any good. Sure, the carrier might limp on for another three months, assuming it loses about E3m a day. Berlusconi insists he has a group of Italian investors waiting in the wings to have a look at Alitalia’s books. But the outgoing government has failed miserably to sell the airline after trying for 16 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacques Barrot, the EU Transport Commissioner, should put his foot down. Following notification from Italy, he can and should reject the loan. If Rome barrels ahead anyway, the EU can start an infringement procedure and take Italy to court. The case would probably drag on for months, but the fight is worthy. Italy should not be allowed to make a mockery of EU rules on state aid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5330225830619100919?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5330225830619100919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5330225830619100919' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5330225830619100919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5330225830619100919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/04/ancora-alitalia.html' title='Ancora Alitalia'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5942319179038281798</id><published>2008-03-28T11:22:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-28T11:35:23.620-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Alitalia senza alternativa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Lasciamo perdere le idee campate in aria di cordate italiane! Alitalia ha un solo possibile partner, per evitare il fallimento, e si chiama Air France. Basti pensare al successo dei francesi nell'integrazione con KLM che, seppure non in condizioni cosi' disastrose come Alitalia, non se la passava poi tanto bene quando accetto' la fusione con Air France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un messaggio agli amici lombardi. Piantatela di fare le vittime su Malpensa. I primi responsabili del fallimento di Malpensa siete stati proprio voi, che non avete mai rinunciato a Linate e avete potenziato Orio al Serio! E poi, ditemi, perche' un torinese deve fare oltre 30km di strada statale per arrivare all'hub lombardo? O perche' un veneto dovrebbe farsi code da carneficina nella tratta da Brescia fino a Malpensa, solo perche' il vostro sistema di trasporti e' inadeguato?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iniziate con un sano mea culpa e cogliete l'opportunita' di ridare slancio a Malpensa con i giusti investimenti. Vi ricordo che New York non ha un hub... e si sopravvive ugualmente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allego anche un articolo finalmente di buon senso pubblicato sul 24ore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4 style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Alitalia-AirFrance: scelta dolorosa, ma senza alternativa&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h6 style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;di Gianni Dragoni&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;È probabilmente la prima volta nella sua storia che la sofferente Alitalia si trova di fronte a un piano di ristrutturazione credibile. La garanzia migliore è data dai risultati positivi di Air France-Klm e dall'incremento dei profitti sprigionato dal 2004, quando c'è stata la fusione tra le due compagnie. È un piano meno doloroso di tanti altri, per quanto ci sia il sacrificio di posti di lavoro. Ci sono 2.120 esuberi, pari al 12% dell'intero organico di circa 17.500 dipendenti, ripartiti tra Az Fly (10mila addetti) e la società Servizi (7.400), che furono divise con lo spezzatino deciso nel 2004 e realizzato l'anno successivo con il piano Cimoli, quando al Governo c'era Silvio Berlusconi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nessuno rimarrà per strada, ha detto Jean-Cyril Spinetta. Per chi non potrà accedere ai benefici del pensionamento, è prevista la cassa integrazione, la mobilità e un'integrazione salariale con il piano sociale di Air France. Questi strumenti garantiranno per sette anni il 100% dello stipendio a chi perderà il lavoro. Sembra che nessun piano di ristrutturazione applicato non solo all'Alitalia, ma anche in altre aziende italiane, abbia mai offerto questo trattamento. L'altro punto di incertezza riguarda i 3.209 lavoratori dell'Alitalia Servizi che non verranno assorbiti in Fly, tra i quali c'è l'Atitech di Napoli: per loro c'è l'impegno a garantire appalti, e quindi lavoro, per almeno otto anni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eppure probabilmente questo piano e questa offerta, l'unica proposta di acquisto vincolante presentata da quando, 15 mesi fa, Prodi e Padoa-Schioppa hanno dato il via alla privatizzazione, non sono sufficienti a vincere la resistenza dei sindacati. C'è soprattutto l'opposizione dei piloti, irrigiditi per i 507 esuberi, accentuati dalla chiusura del cargo e forse indispettiti dalle concessioni ottenute dai confederali, ai quali è stato accordato il salvataggio di un migliaio di lavoratori in più di Az Servizi trasferiti nella Fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'altro capitolo doloroso è il ridimensionamento di Malpensa, sul quale Spinetta non è arretrato di un metro, per le ingenti perdite causate dal sistema di rete su Malpensa, circa 200 milioni all'anno. Il piano conferma che il gruppo delle tre compagnie avrà tre hub, Parigi, Amsterdam e Roma Fiumicino. Da Roma, appena le condizioni di mercato lo permetteranno, potranno essere riaperte le rotte verso Shanghai, Washington e Montreal. Milano è clasifficato come "importante gateway", una porta d'ingresso. Questo lascia scontenti molti imprenditori e politici del Nord, ma per Spinetta è un punto non soggetto a trattativa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con il piano Air France, Alitalia finisce in mani solide, ma dimagrisce a poco più di una compagnia regionale: la flotta passeggeri scende da 174 a 137 aerei (esclusa Volare), dei quali solo a 20 a lungo raggio. Lo sviluppo del lungo raggio riprenderà lentamente nel 2010, un aereo in più all'anno fino al 2018 (Boeing 777), «qualora le condizioni di mercato lo consentissero», avverte però Spinetta. Invece lo sviluppo della flotta a medio raggio (che perderà 16 Md80 e 18 aerei regionali tra Atr72 e Embraer) «sarà probabilmente inferiore a causa della crescente concorrenza dei vettori low cost e dell'alta velocità su rotaia», dicono i francesi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, l'Alitalia deve diventare più piccola per diventare sana. È questa la prospettiva cui sono messi davanti i sindacati nella difficile trattativa che riprenderà lunedì 31 marzo. L'alternativa non è l'arrivo di un partner che offra condizioni migliori, non si scorgono veri pretendenti all'orizzonte, ma sarebbe il fallimento e quindi un ridimensionamento ancora maggiore dell'atività e dell'organico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5942319179038281798?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5942319179038281798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5942319179038281798' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5942319179038281798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5942319179038281798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/03/alitalia-senza-alternativa.html' title='Alitalia senza alternativa'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1821501256500310630</id><published>2008-03-26T11:08:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T11:12:40.746-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cosa fare per il futuro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;La domanda che piu' di frequente mi pongo leggendo i giornali in questo periodo e' se, con nuove regole, si possa ridurre il rischio di incorrere nel dissesto finanziario di cui siamo testimoni in questi mesi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non ho una teoria convincente, ma mi pare opportuno, come ho fatto di recente, lasciare Voi, miei lettori, trarre spunto da alcuni interessanti articoli che mi capita di leggere. Di seguito, dunque, un articolo dal FT sull'argomento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="ft-story-header"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;More regulation will not prevent next crisis&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;By John Kay&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Published: March 25 2008 18:47 | Last updated: March 25 2008 18:47&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="ft-story-body"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt; function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length&gt; 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length&gt;= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]);}}}}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="clearfix" id="floating-target"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suppose that at some time in 2006 – or, more usefully, earlier – the UK Financial Services Authority had written to the banks it supervises about the explosion of structured credit products. They might have said that the practice endangered their balance sheets and financial stability more generally. Suppose the FSA had then insisted that banks substantially reduce the exposure to these markets. With hindsight, this judgment would have been entirely justified. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet would these banks have accepted this opinion? Or would there have been the political and press reaction that has greeted other means to tax or rein in the City of London’s activities?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the FSA had insisted its view be put to the board of each bank, would the discussion have reflected gratitude that unnoticed risks had been brought to their attention? Or would there have been outrage at bureaucratic interference in the affairs of well-managed private businesses? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the regulator had imposed more demanding capital requirements on the most aggressive originators, would these companies have meekly complied? Or would they have claimed distortion of competition, threatened judicial review and organised quiet, or not so quiet, meetings with government ministers? If higher solvency margins had been in place at Northern Rock or Bear Stearns, would it have made any difference to their fates when their liquidity dried up?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The notion that future banking crises can be averted by &lt;a class="bodystrong" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/247bfafe-fab5-11dc-aa46-000077b07658.html"&gt;better regulation&lt;/a&gt; demonstrates unrealistic expectations of what regulation might achieve. Banking supervision asks public agencies to second-guess the decisions of executives who earn millions in bonuses and business strategies that yield billions in profit. If Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, were doing the job of day-to-day regulation personally, he might – just about – have the respect and competence to get away with it. But the work is done by relatively junior administrators who lack the authority to intimidate the bankers and who have little confidence that their controversial decisions will win political support. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there was once a golden age when the authority and wisdom of central bankers were so great that such regulation was possible and effective, although the recurrence of bank crises suggests otherwise. Today the financial services industry is the most powerful political lobby in the country and public trust in and respect for regulation are low. All regulators feel buffeted by threats of legal action; there is no easier way to win applause from business audiences than by denouncing red tape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in financial services, the demand today is for more regulation. That &lt;a class="bodystrong" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bc19f158-f5e8-11dc-8d3d-000077b07658.html"&gt;call &lt;/a&gt;should be resisted. The state cannot ensure the stability of the financial system and a serious attempt to do so would involve intervention on an unacceptable scale. But to acknowledge responsibility for financial stability is to assume a costly liability for failure to achieve it. That is what has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since financial stability is unattainable, the more important objective is to insulate the real economy from the consequences of financial instability. Government should protect small depositors and ensure that the payment system for households and businesses continues to function. There should be the same powers to take control of essential services in the event of corporate failure that exist for other public utilities. The deposit protection scheme should also have preferential creditor status to restrict the use of retail deposits as collateral for speculative activities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Banking supervision should then be limited to the weeding out of unfit persons. Capital requirements, liquidity provisions and risk assessments should be matters for the business judgment of the financial institution themselves. We cannot prevent booms and busts in credit markets, but today’s regulation of risk and capital – which is more reflective of what has occurred than of what may occur – does more to aggravate these cycles than to prevent them. Regulation in a market economy is targeted at specific market failures and should not be a charter for the general scrutiny of business strategies of private business. Banking should be no exception. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="copyright"&gt;Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1821501256500310630?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1821501256500310630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1821501256500310630' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1821501256500310630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1821501256500310630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/03/cosa-fare-per-il-futuro.html' title='Cosa fare per il futuro'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2835961461205038501</id><published>2008-03-19T08:29:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T08:32:43.704-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Che cosa sta succedendo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Mi pare importante tenervi aggiornati sui fatti finanziari di oltre oceano, visto che indubbiamente hanno effetti diretti sulla situazione italiana, dal cambio $/€ alla liquidita' sui mercati europei e alla sempre piu' rinnovata debolezza della nostra economia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito un articolo dal New York Times di questa mattina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" "&gt;Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club &lt;/nyt_headline&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "&gt; &lt;/nyt_byline&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;" class="byline"&gt;By &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/david_leonhardt/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by David Leonhardt"&gt;DAVID LEONHARDT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;     &lt;nyt_text&gt; &lt;/nyt_text&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Raise your hand if you don’t quite understand this whole financial crisis. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;It has been going on for seven months now, and many people probably feel as if they should understand it. But they don’t, not really. The part about the housing crash seems simple enough. With banks whispering sweet encouragement, people bought homes they couldn’t afford, and now they are falling behind on their mortgages. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;But the overwhelming majority of homeowners are doing just fine. So how is it that a mess concentrated in one part of the mortgage business — subprime loans — has frozen the credit markets, sent stock markets gyrating, caused the collapse of &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/bear_stearns_companies/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about the Bear Stearns Companies."&gt;Bear Stearns&lt;/a&gt;, left the economy on the brink of the worst recession in a generation and forced the Federal Reserve to take its boldest action since the Depression? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;I’m here to urge you not to feel sheepish. This may not be entirely comforting, but your confusion is shared by many people who are in the middle of the crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;“We’re exposing parts of the capital markets that most of us had never heard of,” Ethan Harris, a top &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/lehman_brothers_holdings_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Lehman Brothers Holdings"&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/a&gt; economist, said last week. Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary and current &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/citigroup_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Citigroup Inc."&gt;Citigroup&lt;/a&gt; executive, has &lt;a href="http://www.money.cnn.com/2007/11/09/news/newsmakers/merrill_rubin.fortune/index.htm"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; that he hadn’t heard of “liquidity puts,” an obscure kind of financial contract, until they started causing big problems for Citigroup. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; I spent a good part of the last few days calling people on Wall Street and in the government to ask one question, “Can you try to explain this to me?” When they finished, I often had a highly sophisticated follow-up question: “Can you try again?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;I emerged thinking that all the uncertainty has created a panic that is partly unfounded. That said, the crisis isn’t close to ending, either. &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/ben_s_bernanke/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Ben S. Bernanke"&gt;Ben Bernanke&lt;/a&gt;, the Federal Reserve chairman, won’t be able to wave a magic wand and make everything better, no matter how many more times he cuts rates. As Mr. Bernanke himself has suggested, the only thing that will end the crisis is the end of the housing bust. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;So let’s go back to the beginning of the boom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;It really started in 1998, when large numbers of people decided that real estate, which still hadn’t recovered from the early 1990s slump, had become a bargain. At the same time, Wall Street was making it easier for buyers to get loans. It was transforming the mortgage business from a local one, centered around banks, to a global one, in which investors from almost anywhere could pool money to lend. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The new competition brought down mortgage fees and spurred some useful innovation. Why, after all, should someone who knows that she’s going to move after just a few years have no choice but to take out a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;As is often the case with innovations, though, there was soon too much of a good thing. Those same global investors, flush with cash from Asia’s boom or rising oil prices, demanded good returns. Wall Street had an answer: subprime mortgages. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Because these loans go to people stretching to afford a house, they come with higher interest rates — even if they’re disguised by low initial rates — and thus higher returns. The mortgages were then sliced into pieces and bundled into investments, often known as collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s (a term that appeared in this newspaper only three times before 2005, but almost every week since last summer). Once bundled, different types of mortgages could be sold to different groups of investors. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Investors then goosed their returns through leverage, the oldest strategy around. They made $100 million bets with only $1 million of their own money and $99 million in debt. If the value of the investment rose to just $101 million, the investors would double their money. Home buyers did the same thing, by putting little money down on new houses, notes Mark Zandi of &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/moodys_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Moody's Corporation."&gt;Moody’s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://economy.com/" target="_"&gt;Economy.com&lt;/a&gt;. The Fed under &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/alan_greenspan/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Alan Greenspan."&gt;Alan Greenspan&lt;/a&gt; helped make it all possible, sharply reducing interest rates, to prevent a double-dip recession after the technology bust of 2000, and then keeping them low for several years. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;All these investments, of course, were highly risky. Higher returns almost always come with greater risk. But people — by “people,” I’m referring here to Mr. Greenspan, Mr. Bernanke, the top executives of almost every Wall Street firm and a majority of American homeowners — decided that the usual rules didn’t apply because home prices nationwide had never fallen before. Based on that idea, prices rose ever higher — so high, says Robert Barbera of ITG, an investment firm, that they were destined to fall. It was a self-defeating prophecy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;And it largely explains why the mortgage mess has had such ripple effects. The American home seemed like such a sure bet that a huge portion of the global financial system ended up owning a piece of it. Last summer, many policy makers were hoping that the crisis wouldn’t spread to traditional banks, like Citibank, because they had sold off the underlying mortgages to investors. But it turned out that many banks had also sold complex insurance policies on the mortgage debt. That left them on the hook when homeowners who had taken out a wishful-thinking mortgage could no longer get out of it by flipping their house for a profit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; Many of these bets were not huge, but were so highly leveraged that any losses became magnified. If that $100 million investment I described above were to lose just $1 million of its value, the investor who put up only $1 million would lose everything. That’s why a hedge fund associated with the prestigious Carlyle Group collapsed last week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; “If anything goes awry, these dominos fall very fast,” said Charles R. Morris, a former banker who tells the story of the crisis in a new book, “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;This toxic combination — the ubiquity of bad investments and their potential to mushroom — has shocked Wall Street into a state of deep conservatism. The soundness of any investment firm depends largely on other firms having confidence that it has real assets standing behind its bets. So firms are now hoarding cash instead of lending it, until they understand how bad the housing crash will become and how exposed to it they are. Any institution that seems to have a high-risk portfolio, regardless of whether it has enough assets to support the portfolio, faces the double whammy of investors demanding their money back and lenders shutting the door in their face. Goodbye, Bear Stearns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The conservatism has gone so far that it’s affecting many solid would-be borrowers, which, in turn, is hurting the broader economy and aggravating Wall Streets fears. A recession could cause credit card loans and other forms of debt, some of which were also based on overexuberance, to start going bad as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Many economists, on the right and the left, now argue that the only solution is for the federal government to step in and buy some of the unwanted debt, as the Fed began doing last weekend. This is called a bailout, and there is no doubt that giving a handout to Wall Street lenders or foolish home buyers — as opposed to, say, laid-off factory workers — is deeply distasteful. At this point, though, the alternative may be worse. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Bubbles lead to busts. Busts lead to panics. And panics can lead to long, deep economic downturns, which is why the Fed has been taking unprecedented actions to restore confidence. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;“You say, my goodness, how could subprime mortgage loans take out the whole global financial system?” Mr. Zandi said. “That’s how.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2835961461205038501?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2835961461205038501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2835961461205038501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2835961461205038501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2835961461205038501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/03/che-cosa-sta-succedendo.html' title='Che cosa sta succedendo'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1908773032939512854</id><published>2008-03-18T20:54:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T21:06:51.967-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cronistoria di questi ultimi giorni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Neanche il miglior giallista avrebbe potuto pensare un'evolversi degli eventi come quello di questi ultimi giorni. Provo a mettermi nei panni di tutte quelle persone che avevano tenuto la maggior parte dei loro risparmi investiti nell'azienda in cui lavorano ed ora, non solo hanno perso quei risparmi, ma rischiano pure di perdere il lavoro... la cosa mi lascia molto triste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi allego un articolo molto interessante dal New York Times, che mi ha segnalato Fausto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" "&gt; Saving Wall St. (For Now) &lt;/nyt_headline&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "&gt; &lt;/nyt_byline&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;" class="byline"&gt;By &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/andrew_ross_sorkin/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Andrew Ross Sorkin"&gt;ANDREW ROSS SORKIN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;     &lt;nyt_text&gt; &lt;/nyt_text&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; The whispers began on Wednesday, and by Sunday it was all over. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; Somehow, in the space of about 100 hours, the value of a share of &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/bear_stearns_companies/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about the Bear Stearns Companies."&gt;Bear Stearns&lt;/a&gt;, one of the nation’s most storied investment banks, skidded from about $67 to a bargain-basement $2. On Monday, just to twist the knife, some wit taped a $2 bill to the glass doors of Bear’s headquarters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; How could this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; It is hard to say it was an accident. Bear Stearns’s stunning downfall and subsequent sale to &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/morgan_j_p_chase_and_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Morgan, J. P., Chase &amp;amp; Company"&gt;JPMorgan Chase&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday was orchestrated by some of the most powerful people on Wall Street and in Washington. It will go down either as a heroic rescue of the financial system or grand theft, Wall Street style. Maybe it was a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Make no mistake: this was one of the greatest corporate euthanizations of all time. And Wall Street played its own gleeful role in it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;On Friday morning, when there still seemed to be a glimmer of hope that the stricken Bear might survive, William C. Repko, former chairman of JPMorgan’s restructuring group and now senior managing director at &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/mem/MWredirect.html?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&amp;amp;symb=EVR" title="Evercore Partners"&gt;Evercore Partners&lt;/a&gt;, was already writing Bear’s obituary. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;“Bear failed,” Mr. Repko was telling me. “Bear is gone.” He seemed so sure. “This is a run on the bank,” he said. “It’s what happened to Enron.” Bear’s demise, it seemed, was a foregone conclusion. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The run on Bear began around midday on Wednesday, when a series of banks and hedge funds started a whisper campaign against the firm. The firm was doomed, they said. It was almost broke. But some of the money managers were clearly talking their book. They were obviously shorting Bear’s stock, betting it would decline. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;How do I know? Because I was on the receiving end of a handful of phone calls from the Gang of Wall Street Whisperers. All of them offered a variation on the same theme: Bear Stearns is toast; no one is trading with the firm; clients are pulling their money out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Bear Stearns, of course, was at that very moment telling anyone who would listen all of this was a lie. And I’ll give Alan D. Schwartz, Bear’s chief executive, the benefit of the doubt. I don’t think he saw the end coming. (That is, in part, because he was playing host to a conference of media big shots at the Breakers in Palm Beach while the bank he runs was careering off the rails. That was a better excuse than the one Jimmy Cayne, Bear’s chairman, had last year, as the firm’s troubles deepened. Mr. Cayne was off playing bridge. ) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;By Thursday, the drumbeat of worries over Bear had grown so loud that my voice mail box was full of gleeful short sellers and panicked investors. The talk built up that evening, as Bear went hat in hand to the Federal Reserve because the firm had run out of money. By Friday, even with the Federal Reserve’s rescue effort by way of JPMorgan in full swing, Bear’s stock fell to $30 a share. People forget that Wall Street is a fragile machine. Cash, or “liquidity,” as it is known in the trade, is the oxygen that keeps investment banks alive. No matter how healthy you are, you can’t breathe if someone puts a pillow over your head. That’s what Bear Stearns’s clients and rivals did, and they did it without remorse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;On Monday, some investors speculated that JPMorgan, the clear winner in this sorry episode, helped fan the rumors about Bear so it could pick up the firm on the cheap. I don’t buy it. But I would say that dozens of banks and hedge funds, including JPMorgan, were quick to kick Bear while it was down — and kept right on kicking. The Gang of Wall Street Whisperers has now moved on, aiming at &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/lehman_brothers_holdings_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Lehman Brothers Holdings"&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/a&gt;, whose stock plunged on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;For Bear, the final nail in the coffin came not from Wall Street, but from the government. After the Fed agreed to give Bear a lifeline on Friday, it became clear that the market still wasn’t prepared to do business with the firm. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The Fed was going to be on the hook Monday morning for untold billions, and it was already taking heat for using taxpayer money to backstop a private institution that had hardly been a model citizen. Bear deserved to be punished for its reckless behavior, some said. So the government, led by &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/henry_m_jr_paulson/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Henry M. Paulson Jr."&gt;Henry M. Paulson&lt;/a&gt;, the Treasury secretary (and the former chief executive of &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/goldman_sachs_group_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Goldman Sachs Group"&gt;Goldman Sachs&lt;/a&gt;, for you conspiracy theorists), put a gun to Bear’s head: take a deal with JPMorgan or file for bankruptcy. It was a perfect antidote to the “moral hazard” argument — Bear’s employees would lose their jobs, and shareholders would lose their shirts, but the financial markets would be saved, at least for another day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; JPMorgan’s chief executive, &lt;a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/james_dimon/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about James Dimon."&gt;Jamie Dimon&lt;/a&gt;, took full advantage of Bear’s dire straits. When he started his sprint-speed talks with Bear on Saturday, JPMorgan suggested it might pay in the low double digits for each share of Bear, people involved in the talks said. And that was without the Fed’s agreeing to take $30 billion of Bear’s most toxic assets off its hands. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;By midday Sunday, however, after looking over Bear’s books and saying it was scared stiff by what it saw, JPMorgan dropped its price to $2 a share. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;“Even at $8, it was an ‘oh my god’ number. Two dollars wasn’t that much worse,” a person involved in the talks said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; Maybe so. But Bear’s shareholders are livid. An astute investor asked on a conference call with JPMorgan on Sunday night what the difference was, for shareholders, between $2 and bankruptcy? Considering that Bear’s headquarters on Madison Avenue is valued at $1.2 billion, or $8 a share, the answer isn’t as clear as it might seem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; Some investors seem to be speculating that Bear might somehow wring more money out of JPMorgan; Bear’s shares closed at $4.81 on Monday, well above JPMorgan’s offer price.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;But getting JPMorgan to raise its bid is probably wishful thinking. JPMorgan has Bear over a barrel. If Bear shareholders vote down the deal, JPMorgan could turn off the cash tap and send Bear into bankruptcy. The Fed is not likely to go along with a rival plan either.And get this: JPMorgan now has an option on Bear’s headquarters. If the deal collapses, Mr. Dimon can evict Bear from its own building. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;No whisper campaign needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1908773032939512854?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1908773032939512854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1908773032939512854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1908773032939512854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1908773032939512854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/03/cronistoria-di-questi-ultimi-giorni.html' title='Cronistoria di questi ultimi giorni'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2843197707804299780</id><published>2008-03-17T10:37:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-17T10:46:26.075-04:00</updated><title type='text'>L'ottovolante finanziario</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Che dire questi ultimi giorni ci stanno dimostrando l'ampiezza della crisi finanziaria in cui ci siamo cacciati. Avevo espresso nei mesi passati un certo pessimismo per la situazione, ma qui stiamo andando ben oltre le mie previsioni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fatti di questo weekend ci dicono che ci sono banche a rischio fallimento e cio' avrebbe conseguenze ancor peggiori sull'attuale situazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonostante le mie incertezze sull'operato della Fed, devo dire che il salvataggio di Bear Sterns, orchestrato in collaborazione con JPMorgan, potrebbe rivelarsi una mossa importante, soprattutto per la tempestivita' dell'azione. Certo, leggendo i giornali stamattina, mi pare che altri istituti possano, a breve, trovarsi in condizioni analoghe a Bear Sterns. E pare che domani la Fed possa tagliari i tassi di un intero punto percentuale, cosa mai successa nella storia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi lascio con un articolo di Alan Greenspan dal FT di oggi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;" class="ft-story-header"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;We will never have a perfect model of risk&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Alan Greenspan &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Published: March 16 2008 18:25 | Last updated: March 16 2008 18:25&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bromley illustration" src="http://media.ft.com/cms/9013994c-f386-11dc-b6bc-0000779fd2ac.jpg" height="287" width="470" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span id="U2012654503341KZC"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war. It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of equity in homes supporting troubled mortgage securities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Home price stabilisation will restore much-needed clarity to the marketplace because losses will be realised rather than prospective. The major source of contagion will be removed. Financial institutions will then recapitalise or go out of business. Trust in the solvency of remaining counterparties will be gradually restored and issuance of loans and securities will slowly return to normal. Although inventories of vacant single-family homes – those belonging to builders and investors – have recently peaked, until liquidation of these inventories proceeds in earnest, the level at which home prices will stabilise remains problematic. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The American housing bubble peaked in early 2006, followed by an abrupt and rapid retreat over the past two years. Since summer 2006, hundreds of thousands of homeowners, many forced by foreclosure, have moved out of single-family homes into rental housing, creating an excess of approximately 600,000 vacant, largely investor-owned single-family units for sale. Homebuilders caught by the market’s rapid contraction have involuntarily added an additional 200,000 newly built homes to the “empty-house-for-sale” market. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Home prices have been receding rapidly under the weight of this inventory overhang. Single-family housing starts have declined by 60 per cent since early 2006, but have only recently fallen below single-family home demand. Indeed, this sharply lower level of pending housing additions, together with the expected 1m increase in the number of US households this year as well as underlying demand for second homes and replacement homes, together imply a decline in the stock of vacant single-family homes for sale of approximately 400,000 over the course of 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The pace of liquidation is likely to pick up even more as new-home construction falls further. The level of home prices will probably stabilise as soon as the rate of inventory liquidation reaches its maximum, well before the ultimate elimination of inventory excess. That point, however, is still an indeterminate number of months in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The crisis will leave many casualties. Particularly hard hit will be much of today’s financial risk-valuation system, significant parts of which failed under stress. Those of us who look to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder equity have to be in a state of shocked disbelief. But I hope that one of the casualties will not be reliance on counterparty surveillance, and more generally financial self-regulation, as the fundamental balance mechanism for global finance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The problems, at least in the early stages of this crisis, were most pronounced among banks whose regulatory oversight has been elaborate for years. To be sure, the systems of setting bank capital requirements, both economic and regulatory, which have developed over the past two decades will be overhauled substantially in light of recent experience. Indeed, private investors are already demanding larger capital buffers and collateral, and the mavens convened under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements will surely amend the newly minted Basel II international regulatory accord. Also being questioned, tangentially, are the mathematically elegant economic forecasting models that once again have been unable to anticipate a financial crisis or the onset of recession. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Credit market systems and their degree of leverage and liquidity are rooted in trust in the solvency of counterparties. That trust was badly shaken on August 9 2007 when BNP Paribas revealed large unanticipated losses on US subprime securities. Risk management systems – and the models at their core – were supposed to guard against outsized losses. How did we go so wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The essential problem is that our models – both risk models and econometric models – as complex as they have become, are still too simple to capture the full array of governing variables that drive global economic reality. A model, of necessity, is an abstraction from the full detail of the real world. In line with the time-honoured observation that diversification lowers risk, computers crunched reams of historical data in quest of negative correlations between prices of tradeable assets; correlations that could help insulate investment portfolios from the broad swings in an economy. When such asset prices, rather than offsetting each other’s movements, fell in unison on and following August 9 last year, huge losses across virtually all risk-asset classes ensued. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The most credible explanation of why risk management based on state-of-the-art statistical models can perform so poorly is that the underlying data used to estimate a model’s structure are drawn generally from both periods of euphoria and periods of fear, that is, from regimes with importantly different dynamics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;The contraction phase of credit and business cycles, driven by fear, have historically been far shorter and far more abrupt than the expansion phase, which is driven by a slow but cumulative build-up of euphoria. Over the past half-century, the American economy was in contraction only one-seventh of the time. But it is the onset of that one-seventh for which risk management must be most prepared. Negative correlations among asset classes, so evident during an expansion, can collapse as all asset prices fall together, undermining the strategy of improving risk/reward trade-offs through diversification. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;If we could adequately model each phase of the cycle separately and divine the signals that tell us when the shift in regimes is about to occur, risk management systems would be improved significantly. One difficult problem is that much of the dubious financial-market behaviour that chronically emerges during the expansion phase is the result not of ignorance of badly underpriced risk, but of the concern that unless firms participate in a current euphoria, they will irretrievably lose market share.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Risk management seeks to maximise risk-adjusted rates of return on equity; often, in the process, underused capital is considered “waste”. Gone are the days when banks prided themselves on triple-A ratings and sometimes hinted at hidden balance-sheet reserves (often true) that conveyed an aura of invulnerability. Today, or at least prior to August 9 2007, the assets and capital that define triple-A status, or seemed to, entailed too high a competitive cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;I do not say that the current systems of risk management or econometric forecasting are not in large measure soundly rooted in the real world. The exploration of the benefits of diversification in risk-management models is unquestionably sound and the use of an elaborate macroeconometric model does enforce forecasting discipline. It requires, for example, that saving equal investment, that the marginal propensity to consume be positive, and that inventories be non-negative. These restraints, among others, eliminated most of the distressing inconsistencies of the unsophisticated forecasting world of a half century ago. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;But these models do not fully capture what I believe has been, to date, only a peripheral addendum to business-cycle and financial modelling – the innate human responses that result in swings between euphoria and fear that repeat themselves generation after generation with little evidence of a learning curve. Asset-price bubbles build and burst today as they have since the early 18th century, when modern competitive markets evolved. To be sure, we tend to label such behavioural responses as non-rational. But forecasters’ concerns should be not whether human response is rational or irrational, only that it is observable and systematic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;This, to me, is the large missing “explanatory variable” in both risk-management and macroeconometric models. Current practice is to introduce notions of “animal spirits”, as John Maynard Keynes put it, through “add factors”. That is, we arbitrarily change the outcome of our model’s equations. Add-factoring, however, is an implicit recognition that models, as we currently employ them, are structurally deficient; it does not sufficiently address the problem of the missing variable. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;We will never be able to anticipate all discontinuities in financial markets. Discontinuities are, of necessity, a surprise. Anticipated events are arbitraged away. But if, as I strongly suspect, periods of euphoria are very difficult to suppress as they build, they will not collapse until the speculative fever breaks on its own. Paradoxically, to the extent risk management succeeds in identifying such episodes, it can prolong and enlarge the period of euphoria. But risk management can never reach perfection. It will eventually fail and a disturbing reality will be laid bare, prompting an unexpected and sharp discontinuous response. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;In the current crisis, as in past crises, we can learn much, and policy in the future will be informed by these lessons. But we cannot hope to anticipate the specifics of future crises with any degree of confidence. Thus it is important, indeed crucial, that any reforms in, and adjustments to, the structure of markets and regulation not inhibit our most reliable and effective safeguards against cumulative economic failure: market flexibility and open competition. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2843197707804299780?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2843197707804299780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2843197707804299780' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2843197707804299780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2843197707804299780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/03/lottovolante-finanziario.html' title='L&apos;ottovolante finanziario'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6599154683966718</id><published>2008-02-24T22:52:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-24T23:47:32.436-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Atto II a Tuck</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Dopo l'esperienza dell'anno passato, mi sono rifatto vivo, col resto della gang sciistica di Columbia alla gara sciistica organizzata da Tuck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Come sempre il tutto e' piu' che altro un'occasione per incontrare altri studenti MBA, divertirsi e passare un weekend lontano dai ritmi frenetici new-yorkesi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E cosi' venerdi' 22 siamo partiti di buon ora alla volta di Hanover, New Hampshire, dove Tuck ha la sua sede. Il viaggio e' stato lungo e tormentato, causa tempesta di neve sul nordest nordamericano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R8I89EsP7BI/AAAAAAAAAek/yr3Rgf-RGFQ/s1600-h/080223-tuckwintercarnival-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R8I89EsP7BI/AAAAAAAAAek/yr3Rgf-RGFQ/s400/080223-tuckwintercarnival-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170762342103772178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qui sopra la situazione a New York... innevato, ma percorribile... purtroppo durante il cammino le condizioni sono andate progressivamente peggiorando, fino quasi a destinazione, quando il tempo e' finalmente volto al bello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La gara si e' cosi' svolta sabato in condizioni di sole splendente e il Vostro, dopo una prima manche da dimenticare, ma comunque vicino ai primi e onorabilmente nei primi 20, ha ritrovato smalto nella seconda, piazzando un tempo da top 10 finale (qui di seguito le mie ultime porte prima del traguardo, filmate da Alex).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-8485fa0bdc3ef0dd" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v6.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D8485fa0bdc3ef0dd%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331348295%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D74C098E117F5F33D52810B261C00BBFE6BC38F7B.59BEBECB84303B973A2DA3A15E1C75772E889DC5%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D8485fa0bdc3ef0dd%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D0jUMzO51_2FRfMiHDprRjixUuHI&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v6.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D8485fa0bdc3ef0dd%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331348295%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D74C098E117F5F33D52810B261C00BBFE6BC38F7B.59BEBECB84303B973A2DA3A15E1C75772E889DC5%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D8485fa0bdc3ef0dd%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D0jUMzO51_2FRfMiHDprRjixUuHI&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi, poi, lasciata Hanover, ci siamo diretti a Killington, Vermont, dove ci siamo concessi 5 ore di puro sci, con condizioni di neve fantastiche. Giornata assolutamente da incorniciare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E adesso sono di nuovo a New York, stanco, ma felice e pronto ad affrontare gli ultimi 9 giorni di fuoco prima del mio ritorno a casa per le vacanze di meta' semestre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio a tutti quanti,&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6599154683966718?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=8485fa0bdc3ef0dd&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6599154683966718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6599154683966718' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6599154683966718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6599154683966718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/atto-ii-tuck.html' title='Atto II a Tuck'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R8I89EsP7BI/AAAAAAAAAek/yr3Rgf-RGFQ/s72-c/080223-tuckwintercarnival-002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-441033121327641654</id><published>2008-02-20T18:43:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T19:09:06.426-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cassandra</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vorrei evitare di svolgere il ruolo di Cassandra, ma le notizie che leggo sull'economia americana iniziamo a preoccuparmi seriamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vediamo di andare con ordine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;la Fed lascia intendere di voler ancora tagliare i tassi d'interesse ==&gt; questo e' uno stimolo all'economia, perche' per abbassare i tassi la Fed tecnicamente acquista titoli di stato americani, ne fa salire il prezzo, ne riduce il rendimento... e paga stampando altri dollari. Risultato: c'e' piu' denaro in circolazione&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;l'inflazione continua a salire, spinta anche dal prezzo del petrolio sopra i $100 al barile&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ora, proviamo a fare un veloce ragionamento. Se l'inflazione cresce, l'economia si sta surriscaldando e bisognerebbe tirare i freni, ossia alzare i tassi... ma la Fed sta facendo l'esatto contrario, perche' in realta' l'economia americana sta rallentando e il rialzo dei prezzi potrebbe essere principalmente dovuto all'impatto del costo del petrolio su tutta l'economia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa situazione non vi ricorda qualcosa? Stagflazione, ossia una combinazione di stagnazione ed inflazione. Gli studi indicano che la stagflazione sia essenzialmente innescata da uno shock sulla corva dell'offerta, tipo il rialzo del prezzo del petrolio, seguito da un'esagerata espansione monetaria... avete bisogno di altre spiegazioni? Mi pare ci sia piu'' di un sospetto che sia proprio quello che sta succedendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Fed si attende una decelerazione dell'inflazione nei prossimi mesi, ma inizio a nutrire seri dubbi sull'operato di Bernanke. A mio modestissimo parere mi sembra si sia agito troppo presto e troppo in fretta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spero proprio di sbagliarmi. Una situazione di stagflazione negli USA avrebbe conseguenze significative in tutto il mondo e purtroppo temo che chi ne subirebbe di piu' sarebbe proprio la nostra vecchia Europa: l'Euro si rafforzerebbe ancora di piu' sul dollaro (e quindi sulle varie monete asiatiche) e la stagnazione americana avrebbe un sensibile effetto contrattivo sull'economia europea. Sara' interessante vedere come rispondera' la BCE alle mosse della Fed, per quanto va dato atto che, nel segno della continuita' con la BundesBank, la BCE abbia mantenuto un atteggiamento molto piu' accorto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vedremo come andra' a finire,&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-441033121327641654?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/441033121327641654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=441033121327641654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/441033121327641654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/441033121327641654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/cassandra.html' title='Cassandra'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4458639182250004700</id><published>2008-02-20T10:33:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T10:38:13.007-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Public Offering - il blog ufficiale della Columbia Business School</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;La scuola ha lanciato a gennaio il suo blog ufficiale (il link e' nella colonna di destra di questo blog). Devo ammettere che avevo inizialmente accolto con diffidenza e scetticismo l'iniziativa, ma il progetto inizia a piacermi parecchio, soprattutto perche' vi contribuiscono alcuni dei prof piu' blasonati della scuola... insomma hanno qualcosa di interessante da dire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vi allego il recente intervento di Michael Feiner (ex Chief People Officer di PepsiCo, nonche' mio attuale prof) su come gestire il sempre crescente volume di email che riceviamo al giorno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ask Professor Feiner: Too Much Email&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;" class="author"&gt;Michael Feiner ’66&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;em style="font-family: times new roman;" class="occupation"&gt;Professor of Management and Sanford C. Bernstein &amp;amp; Co. Ethics Fellow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: times new roman;" class="occupation"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: times new roman;" class="occupation"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear Professor Feiner&lt;/b&gt;: As my career has progressed, the number of emails I get has increased exponentially, and I’m having trouble getting to all of them. Any tips on how to manage this?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; There’s no question that email offers great efficiency in passing on information and in asking for information, and this efficiency leads to productivity — a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; But the sheer amount of email exchanged at companies is an overwhelming problem. Emails have come to replace voice-to-voice and face-to-face transactions and are making the workforce feel anonymous and impersonal. Bosses complain that they get too many emails, and their people, ironically, complain that these same bosses send too many emails.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; There is no good solution. What I tell leaders in my consulting job is that if you’re trying to make decisions around something or if you’re trying to coach people or if you’re trying to motivate, inspire or galvanize people through email, you’re wasting your time. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; Until leaders recognize how counterproductive and demotivating the email experience can be at times, this isn’t going to get fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; There are some tricks that can help: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; 1. Set some ground rules to help employees decide which conversations should be handled via email and which should be handled face-to-face or phone-to-phone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; 2. Restrict your email to a certain number per day per person. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; 3. Don’t use email for those occasions when you’re trying to motivate, inspire, galvanize or energize.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; 4.  Ask an admin to vet emails and try to handle the less important ones themselves, passing on the most important ones to you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; 5. If the matter being discussed is urgent, put “urgent” on it — and if this is a crisis, and you really need an answer immediately, put that in the subject line. Sometimes people cheat with this, but even if people are playing it straight 70 percent of the time, this will very often get you to the most critical emails during the day, and the others you can defer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4458639182250004700?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4458639182250004700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4458639182250004700' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4458639182250004700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4458639182250004700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-offering-il-blog-ufficiale-della.html' title='Public Offering - il blog ufficiale della Columbia Business School'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6535094191669794395</id><published>2008-02-20T09:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T09:02:45.531-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Video remake di Rocky - troppo bello</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Guardatevi questo clip... troppo bello!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i8MZ_2kB72E&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i8MZ_2kB72E&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6535094191669794395?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6535094191669794395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6535094191669794395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6535094191669794395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6535094191669794395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/video-remake-di-rocky-troppo-bello.html' title='Video remake di Rocky - troppo bello'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3767959998261326609</id><published>2008-02-18T23:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-18T23:17:41.874-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Spirito da trader</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Oggi ho avuto la conferma che non posso fuggire agli "spettri" (in senso positivo) dei miei tre anni londinesi... in fondo in fondo posseggo un'anima da trader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riprova ne e' stata la simulazione di trading obbligazionario che abbiamo fatto in uno dei corsi che sto seguendo questo semestre. Si trattava sostanzialmente di fare outcry pit trading (avete presente la scena finale di "Una poltrona per due"?). Ho chiuso la simulazione non solo facendo utili a scapito di tanti miei compari di corso, ma ho letteramente sbaragliato la concorrenza, generando quasi 5 volte gli utili del secondo classificato... insomma non c'e' stata partita!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidentemente le ore di lavoro londinesi sono servite a qualcosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3767959998261326609?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3767959998261326609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3767959998261326609' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3767959998261326609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3767959998261326609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/spirito-da-trader.html' title='Spirito da trader'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8084783985721541391</id><published>2008-02-16T18:04:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T18:22:12.418-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dal Financial Times</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Stavo sfogliando ieri il FT, quando il titolo di un articolo mi ha incuriosito: "Banks advised to walk away from big deals" - le banche consigliate di sciogliere gli accordi di finanziamento delle transazioni piu' grandi orchestrate l'anno passato ed ancora in sospeso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incuriosito mi sono messo a leggere e il testo mi ha lasciato alquanto perplesso. Ci sono degli avvocati che stanno suggerendo alle banche di pagare le clausole rescissorie dei finanziamenti garantiti per alcune grande operazioni di leveraged buyouts lo scorso anno, perche' le penali sarebbero piu' basse dei costi di svalutazioni dei prestiti sui libri contabili delle banche. Trovo personalmente questa idea un po' folle. E' vero che ci sarebbe un immediato vantaggio economico, me se il finanziamento era stato garantito previo il dovuto lavoro di analisi da parte della banca, non vedo perche' una banca non dovrebbe onorare il contratto e procedere con il finanziamento, anche se questo puo' voler dire dover ascrivere a bilancio i prestiti, visto che non si riesce a piazzarli sul mercato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se la due diligence era stata fatta bene, la svalutazione odierna e' solo momentanea. Oltretutto, vorrebbe dire venir meno al compito principale di qualsiasi banca, ossia fornire liquidita' e finanziamenti per lo svolgimento delle attivita' economiche. D'altronde prendere rischi di carattere finanziario e' proprio il mestiere delle banche ed e' quello per cui vengono pagate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Quello a cui l'articolo allude sarebbe, a mio parere, un grosso errore, che minerebbe pesantemente la credibilita' di tutto il mondo finanziario. Almeno cosi' mi hanno insegnato le persone con cui ho lavorato prima a Londra e poi qui a NY. Persone che, anche di fronte alle difficolta' che si sono iniziate ad incontrare quest'estate, mi hanno ripetutamente ricordato che periodi di tumulto sui mercati finanziari, come sta succedendo ora, ci sono stati e sempre ci saranno e chi ha fatto il proprio lavoro con efficacia ne viene sempre fuori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appunto, la cosa che veramente conta e' sapere di aver fatto al meglio il proprio lavoro: si limitano le perdite odierne e si massimizzano i profitti di lungo periodo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di seguito il testo integrale dell'articolo:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ft-story-header"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Banks advised to walk away from big deals&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Henny Sender in New York &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Published: February 15 2008 02:00 | Last updated: February 15 2008 02:00&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ft-story-body"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt; function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length&gt; 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length&gt;= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]);}}}}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="clearfix" id="floating-target"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leading banks are being advised that it would be cheaper to walk away from big buy-out deals than incur further losses on their funding commitments, increasing the chances that more highprofile private equity transactions will collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This advice from lawyers contrasts with the conventional wisdom that banks would risk serious damage to their reputations if they were to drop out of deals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, legal advisers argue that the break-up fees banks would owe in such cases would be far lower than the writedowns they would have to make on their loans, given the current cataclysmic conditions in the capital markets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"It is the tipping point argument," said a senior partner at one of the biggest private equity firms, who asked not to be named.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"The banks have so many issues with their balance sheets that they are considering a new policy."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, such a change could have a dramatic impact on the markets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"If you want to come up with news that could make the Dow drop another 500 or 1,000 points, this would be it," said one lawyer specialising in private equity for a New York law firm. The presence of private equity buyers is one factor that has helped boost stock prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far, leveraged buy-outs have usually collapsed when the private equity firms involved - including Blackstone and Cerberus - have withdrawn.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such moves have occurred as banks have been working behind the scenes to persuade private equity firms to abandon deals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If banks had more direct conversations on this sensitive subject with private equity firms, they could be vulnerable to charges of interference from the target companies and could be sued.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the chances of banks abandoning buy-out deals - such as those for Clear Channel Communications, the radio station owner and outdoor advertising company, and BCE, the Canada-based telecoms group - are growing as the market prices for the leveraged loans used in such transactions continue to fall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;US regulators are pressing banks to account for these loans at market prices while they keep them on their books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Already, it is understood that one bank has marked down its share of the loan used in the Clear Channel buy-out to 85 cents on the dollar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, lawyers are telling the banks that if they walk away from deals, their biggest liability would be equivalent to the so-called reverse break-up fee that private equity firms pay target companies when deals fail to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These fees usually amount to about 2 per cent of the total value of a deal, or about $500m in a large buy-out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lawyers say there could be other costs for the banks, such as covering the expenses buy-out firms incur while doing their homework on bids. Further, they do not rule out the possibility that banks could have to pay greater damages in litigation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is sure is that banks are giving thought to dropping out of deals. "We are already there in terms of the economic pain," said the head of debt capital markets at a major Wall Street firm. "Banks sitting on $30bn (£15bn) of debt for one deal are looking at $4.5bn of losses. That is enough to play hardball."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;www.ft.com/usdailyview www.ft.com/m&amp;amp;a&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="copyright"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/copyright"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8084783985721541391?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8084783985721541391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8084783985721541391' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8084783985721541391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8084783985721541391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/dal-financial-times.html' title='Dal Financial Times'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4257821455418659330</id><published>2008-02-13T11:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T11:13:40.801-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Riassicurare le obbligazioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;E' notizia di ieri che Warren Buffett ha offerto 800 miliardi di dollari ai cosiddetti monoline insurance (Ambac, MBIA e similari), che si occupano di fornire servizi riassicurativi sulle obbligazioni. Sostanzialmente ricevono un premio assicurativo, per garantire coperture in caso di default dell'emittente. Questo alza il merito di credito dell'emittente e ne riduce il costo di emissione dell'obbligazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Le societa' del settore, come vi avevo accennato qualche tempo fa, sono in chiara difficolta' visto che hanno imbottito i loro bilanci con riassicurazione di bond speculativi, legati sia ai mutui subprime che ai leveraged buyout; presto si troveranno a dover compiere ingenti svalutazioni di portafoglio e con i mercati sostanzialmente restii a fornire liquidita', il loro capitale si assottigliera' pericolosamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;In linea di principio l'offerta di Buffett sembrerebbe una manna venuta dal cielo. In realta' il guru di Omaha, non e' diventato tale per caso e la sua offerta, per quanto ciclopica, si propone solo di offrire copertura sui mutui emessi dai governi locali americani. Questi rappresentano ancora la stragrande maggioranza del portafoglio delle monoline insurance (circa 1200 miliardi), ma sono anche la componente piu' sicura di quei portafogli; basti pensare che il tasso di default e' inferiore all'1%. Non deve quindi sorprendere che sia Ambac che MBIA abbiano risposto picche... evidentemente non sono ancora con l'acqua alla gola e non vogliono certo privarsi dei loro asset piu' pregiati, che garantiscono un flusso di pagamenti costante e che aiuta a tenerle in vita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Insomma, questa mi pare piu' una mossa iniziale per tastare il terreno e vedere se ci si potesse impossessare del mercato riassicurativo sulle obbligazioni, partendo da zero, ma senza incorrere troppi rischi. Mi attendo sviluppi nelle prossime settimane, perche' continuo a rimanere dell'idea che nel settore ci siano delle opportunita' per l'investitore con le idee chiare e il portafoglio grosso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Quale sara' la prossima mossa del guru?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4257821455418659330?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4257821455418659330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4257821455418659330' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4257821455418659330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4257821455418659330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/riassicurare-le-obbligazioni.html' title='Riassicurare le obbligazioni'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8169546111787780615</id><published>2008-02-08T01:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T01:56:18.431-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Elezioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sfoglio i giornali e leggo di diatribe sull'election day il 13-14 aprile. Che si voti allo stesso tempo per politiche ed amministrative! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ma diamine, il popolo italiano non ha gia' pagato abbastanza per le bizzarie della politica? Almeno evitiamo di dover pagare due volte per elezioni politiche ed amministrative e facciamo tutto in una sola tornata!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mi chiedo... ma a Montecitorio credono di avere a che fare con 60 milioni di coglioni?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Lascio con un suggerimento... al voto con coalizioni snelle, senza partitini a fare il bello e cattivo tempo, e che Dio ci scampi da Mastella col centrodestra... e' la volta che, a dispetto della mia piu' ferrea propensione liberal-liberista, voto per la sinistra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8169546111787780615?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8169546111787780615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8169546111787780615' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8169546111787780615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8169546111787780615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/elezioni.html' title='Elezioni'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6772911183794681428</id><published>2008-02-08T01:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T01:23:38.492-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Istantanea dallo Jafferau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Torno or ora a casa e collegandomi ad internet mi capita di passare sul sito di Bardo, per vedere questa foto spettacolare dallo Jafferau... godetevi lo spettacolo del tramonto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6v08J1xbsI/AAAAAAAAAeE/7-4jhdpuEbw/s1600-h/jaff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6v08J1xbsI/AAAAAAAAAeE/7-4jhdpuEbw/s400/jaff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164490711981190850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6772911183794681428?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6772911183794681428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6772911183794681428' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6772911183794681428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6772911183794681428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/istantanea-dallo-jafferau.html' title='Istantanea dallo Jafferau'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6v08J1xbsI/AAAAAAAAAeE/7-4jhdpuEbw/s72-c/jaff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-7947757747535370225</id><published>2008-02-04T00:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T01:56:48.122-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Strepitosi NY Giants</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Che partita... la squadra sfavorita va a sconfiggere l'imbattuta Boston con una prestazione esagerata! Chi l'avrebbe mai detto a settembre, con i Giants che perdevano le prime due partite, giocando male, con una difesa scialba e scarse idee in fase realizzativa. Poi la trasformazione, culminata con la conquista del titolo di campioni NFL! Insomma e' un po' come il Toro '75-76, chi avrebbe mai creduto che si potesse vincere contro la Juve e invece...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New York gioca una partita da veri duri; difesa molto aggressiva che concede poco o niente all'atomico attacco di Boston, anzi la star dei Patriots, Tom Brady, prende una marea di botte dai difensori dei Giants, che lo atterrano una dozzina di volte. New York e' come uno tzunami in difesa, non concede praticamente nulla ad una squadra abituata ad andare a segno a ripetizione. Nonostante questa straordinaria difesa, pero', fino a 10 minuti dalla fine New York e' sotto, infatti il suo attacco arriva piu' volte vicino al touch down, ma senza successo. Poi finalmente qualcosa cambia e New York passa in vantaggio, quindi Boston segna e si riporta avanti. A questo punto si gioca sul filo dell'orgoglio e della determinazione. A prevalere sono i Giants con un paio di azioni da cineteca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6aiVp1xbqI/AAAAAAAAAd0/Hx2E1RieGQc/s1600-h/super_bowl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6aiVp1xbqI/AAAAAAAAAd0/Hx2E1RieGQc/s200/super_bowl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162992515719196322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;il touch down che consegna la vittoria ai Giants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Il resto e' semplicemente un grande tripudio qui a New York! Gli sfavoriti, quelli che i bookmakers non davano neanche per probabili sfidanti al titolo, sono i nuovi campioni!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-7947757747535370225?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/7947757747535370225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=7947757747535370225' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7947757747535370225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7947757747535370225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/strepitosi-ny-giants.html' title='Strepitosi NY Giants'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6aiVp1xbqI/AAAAAAAAAd0/Hx2E1RieGQc/s72-c/super_bowl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1650704970308001926</id><published>2008-02-03T00:58:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T01:41:01.801-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Risparmio gestito</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Stavo dando una sfogliata al Sole 24 Ore e mi e' capitato sotto gli occhi un articolo in cui si parla della crisi del risparmio gestito in Italia. Il seguente grafico mi pare abbastanza esemplificativo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6VY7Z1xbpI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2ri5OhplyqA/s1600-h/fondi-investimento-trend.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6VY7Z1xbpI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2ri5OhplyqA/s200/fondi-investimento-trend.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162630325422091922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Nel periodo dal 2000 al 2007 la raccolta netta dei fondi e' stata negativa per quasi 10 miliardi di euro e, a quanto riportato, nel solo gennaio 2008 altri 10 miliardi sono stati riscattati dai risparmiatori. Il periodo preso in analisi include un intero ciclo economico e, dopo le incertezze di inizio millennio, dal 2003 fino a meta' 2007 i mercati sono andati al galoppo in tutto il mondo, quindi il dato negativo e' alquanto interlocutorio, se si considera che siamo appena entrati in un periodo di incertezza, in cui saranno probabili ulteriori riscatti. La cosa piu' sorprendente e' che questi risultati non mi pare abbiano paragoni con le altri principali economie mondiali... dove in questi anni si dovrebbe essersi registrata una raccolta netta positiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;L'articolo (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Finanza%20e%20Mercati/2008/02/fondi-investimento-crisi.shtml?uuid=a5f5aa4c-d181-11dc-a28e-00000e25108c&amp;amp;DocRulesView=Libero"&gt;cliccate qui per leggerlo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;) si limita a sostenere che le banche, spesso fornitrici esse stesse di servizi di risparmio gestito, finisco per spingere allo sportello la vendita di obbligazioni anziche' di fondi, da un lato per potersi finanziare a piu' basso costo, in un momento in cui la liquidita' e' scarsa, e dall'altro perche' la vendita obbligazionaria non comporta successive consulenze al cliente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Non entro nel merito della discussione sulla bonta' o meno dell'articolo o dell'operato del mondo finanziario... del quale tra l'altro faccio parte (seppure al momento non direttamente visto che sto ancora studiando). Mi limito semplicemente a evidenziare quello che mi sembra un paradosso: in un periodo di boom finanziario il settore, nel nostro paese, si e' contratto anziche' espandersi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un altro spunto di riflessione per Voi amici lettori,&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1650704970308001926?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1650704970308001926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1650704970308001926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1650704970308001926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1650704970308001926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/risparmio-gestito.html' title='Risparmio gestito'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R6VY7Z1xbpI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2ri5OhplyqA/s72-c/fondi-investimento-trend.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1914532352481228984</id><published>2008-02-02T14:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-02T14:35:11.408-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Super Bowl Sunday &amp; Super Tuesday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Prossimi tre giorni ricchi di eventi qui negli States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Domani il Super Bowl numero 42, che vedra' opposte le squadre di New York (i Giants) e di Boston (i New England Patriots). Che dire, noi si tifera' New York, la squadra sfavorita... altrimenti Boston farebbe due su due negli sport piu' seguiti qui in America, il football appunto con i Patriots e il baseball, visto che i Red Sox hanno vinto a mani basse l'ultimo titolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Il tempo di riprendersi dai bagordi domenicali e martedi' sara' la giornata decisiva nelle primarie per la corsa alla Casa Bianca. Si votera' in 24 stati e il vincitore sia in casa democratica che repubblicana, sara' con tutta probabilita' il candidato dei rispettivi partiti alla presidenza. Chiaramente i giornali seguono con particolare attenzione le vicende in casa democratica con Obama e la Clinton a contendersi la vittoria. L'altra sera ho assistito ad un dibatto televisivo tra i due e ne ho ammirato la compostezza nel rispondere alle domande del moderatore e nel controbattere alle affermazioni dell'avversario. Un vero esempio di stile da cui i nostri "sciattoni" nei palazzi romani dovrebbero prendere spunto... io continuo a rimanere speranzoso, visto che la speranza e' l'ultima a morire, ma temo che sia un desiderio mal riposto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1914532352481228984?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1914532352481228984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1914532352481228984' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1914532352481228984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1914532352481228984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/super-bowl-sunday-super-tuesday.html' title='Super Bowl Sunday &amp; Super Tuesday'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4292841723244473804</id><published>2008-01-30T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T11:44:49.687-05:00</updated><title type='text'>L'Italia vista dagli States</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vi allego un articolo apparso oggi sul WSJ, in cui si fa riferimento alla situazione politico-economica in Italia. Senza tanti schiamazzi e proclami, mi sembra un'analisi abbastanza veritieria della situazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;Italy is without a government. For a country with a multi-decade record of unstable coalitions, that is nothing more than a disappointment. But it comes at a time when growth is stalling, consumer confidence has plummeted, industrial production has fallen for three months in a row: an economy close to recession that must be revived despite a novel handicap – a hard currency. It won’t be easy for a weakly-governed country to rise to the challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;The unhappy truth is that Italy has not flourished since joining the euro at its launch in 1999. From entry until 2006, its annual growth rate of 1.3% has lagged the eurozone’s 2.1%. The gap seems to be widening. Eurozone industrial production rose by 2.7% in November on a year earlier; in Italy it fell by 2.4%. Export growth has tumbled, particularly to the US and Japan, where the strong euro has made Italian goods expensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;But the root of Italy's economic problem is not the euro. Italy’s soaring labour costs have driven down its price competitiveness by 30% in the past five years, according to the Bank of Italy. The central bank says the gap has worsened since the end of the summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;Romano Prodi, the prime minister ousted last week, proposed labour market and pension reforms. But the changes in voting rules introduced by Silvio Berlusconi, the former and possible future prime minister, caused a proliferation of small parties. It was impossible for Prodi to govern. The long-term failure of government is weighing more and more heavily on an economy that is in many regards powerful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;For Italy has great manufacturers. From handbags to cars, it offers some of the raciest products around. But, saddled as it is with a strong currency — and a government debt that is larger than GDP — Italy seems likely to continue to record the weakest growth of the major European economies unless it can reinvent itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;"&gt;That sounds so difficult that escape from the eurozone may be tempting. But to leave the euro would be a huge and dangerous leap. Italy's economic disease is serious and deeply ingrained, but not utterly beyond human remedy. The euro could be beneficial: a goad to stir the country’s leaders toward the hard but ultimately rewarding work of political reform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4292841723244473804?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4292841723244473804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4292841723244473804' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4292841723244473804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4292841723244473804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/01/litalia-vista-dagli-states.html' title='L&apos;Italia vista dagli States'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8748673276817907291</id><published>2008-01-24T13:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T19:25:55.733-05:00</updated><title type='text'>1908-2008: Bardonecchia 100 anni di sci</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgGp1xblI/AAAAAAAAAc0/S6JzGRh5p9E/s1600-h/th_Bardo100_4x4_light.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgGp1xblI/AAAAAAAAAc0/S6JzGRh5p9E/s200/th_Bardo100_4x4_light.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159119778068131410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Quest'anno ricorre il centenario dello sci a Bardonecchia... da oltre 50 anni la mia famiglia si reca nella bella conca dell'alta val di Susa per sciare e il sottoscritto qui mise gli sci ai piedi per la prima volta nell'inverno del 1980... sembra ieri!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, buona parte della mia vita e' legata a Bardonecchia. Interminabili giornate di allenamento sulla "pista 6" di Les Arnauds oppure su quelle di Vallon Cros e del Bosco al Melezet, per non parlare della "rossa" allo Jafferau... in tutte le condizioni atmosferiche, ovviamente! Il mio primo super-G a 11 anni, con la mamma che mi aspettava preoccupata all'arrivo; preoccupata soprattutto perche' alcuni ragazzini prima della mia discesa erano caduti alla curva della giraffa o alla Vachet! Chi conosce la pista allo Jafferau capisce perfettamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgLJ1xbmI/AAAAAAAAAc8/JkM1yOd5CIE/s1600-h/n_stampa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgLJ1xbmI/AAAAAAAAAc8/JkM1yOd5CIE/s200/n_stampa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159119855377542754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;E che dire delle sveglie alle 6 di mattina per essere sugli sci alle 7? Direte voi, ma gli impanti non dovrebbero aprire alle 8.30-9? Si', ma quando c'era poca neve (e quindi poche piste aperte) quelli degli impianti alle 7 aprivano per noi dello sci club la "cadregovia" singola di Campo Smith per poterci allenare sulla mia amata "pista 1" (quella dove uscito dal canalino, la pista piega a sinistra in una discesa mozzafiato verso Campo Smith) prima dell'arrivo degli altri sciatori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certo ci sono anche ricordi un po' meno belli... come quando mi sono fratturato la tibia al Colomion il 28 dicembre 1986 (80 giorni di gesso, di cui 60 con l'ingessatura fino all'inguine) oppure quando un palo da slalom mi ha aperto il labbro inferiore come se fosse un cocomero, per non dimenticare quando sono caduto rovinosamente sulla 6 a Les Arnauds facendo gigante e mi sono piantato il bastoncino nel ventre, piegandolo ad angolo retto... per fortuna mi e' solo mancato il respiro per qualche istante e non mi sono fatto nulla di grave, ma che spavento!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgbp1xboI/AAAAAAAAAdM/cHEU8O8vJ7Y/s1600-h/n_100_anni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgbp1xboI/AAAAAAAAAdM/cHEU8O8vJ7Y/s200/n_100_anni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159120138845384322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cose che succedono, quando si pratica uno sport con una discreta componente di rischio come lo sci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potrei andare avanti a lungo con i ricordi... ma per oggi devo lasciarvi. Chiudo con una raccomandazione, se non ci siete mai stati, fate un salto a Bardonecchia, merita, sia in inverno che in estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8748673276817907291?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8748673276817907291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8748673276817907291' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8748673276817907291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8748673276817907291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/01/1908-2008-bardonecchia-100-anni-di-sci.html' title='1908-2008: Bardonecchia 100 anni di sci'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5jgGp1xblI/AAAAAAAAAc0/S6JzGRh5p9E/s72-c/th_Bardo100_4x4_light.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3837886529034319097</id><published>2008-01-23T18:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-23T20:18:52.834-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bilanci e previsioni</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Sara' che sto entrando nei fatidici -enta, ma mi pare giusto soffermarmi un attimo su quanto avvenuto nel 2007, prima di buttarsi a copofitto sul 2008. D'altronde, per dirla con Kierkegaard, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;la vita può essere capita solo all'indietro, ma va vissuta in avanti&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direi il 2007 e' stato anno ricco di soddisfazioni... a livello accademico mi sono tolto varie soddisfazioni, soprattutto per la menzione che ho ricevuto nel corso di ristrutturazione aziendale. Avendo deciso di venire qui perche' desideravo intraprendere una carriera in quel campo, non posso che esserne personalmente soddisfatto. Tanto piu' che l'esperienza lavorativa estiva mi ha aperto le porte "professionali" per il post-master.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'anno appena passato mi ha lasciato ricordi meravigliosi, quali il viaggio in Peru', un paese magnifico e che consiglio di visitare a chiunque ne abbia l'occasione... se non ne siete convinti andate a rivedere i miei commenti e foto del viaggio pubblicati su queste colonne lo scorso settembre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E poi ancora il 2007 e' stato caratterizzato da tanto sport sia alpino (sci ovviamente) che velico. In fondo ci vuole poco per divertirmi e rilassarmi... no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora pero' che cosa riserva questo nuovo anno? A differenza di quanti si dicono preoccupati per l'attuale evolversi della congiuntura economica, io credo che questo sia un momento ricco di opportunita' per lasciare il segno e sta a noi, i ragazzi del '78 , coglierle. E non e' forse Karl Popper che ci ha detto che i nostri sogni e desideri possono cambiare il mondo? Ora, non pretendo certo di cambiare il mondo, sia ben chiaro, ma credo fortemente che ci sia la possibilita' di fare qualcosa di costruttivo. Perche' se c'e' una cosa che mi preoccupa e' proprio constatare come il mondo, ivi compresa la mia amata Italia, stia divendando sempre piu' radicale e intransigente. E' nostro dovere fare qualcosa, senza tanti proclami, ma con l'impegno nel nostro piccolo esistere quotidiano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non sto a dilungarmi sugli orrori di cui ho letto e sentito soprattutto in questi giorni, perche' finirei per arrabbiarmi, ma credo immaginiate perfettamente quali siano i principali fatti a cui mi riferisco! Tanto per rimanere a casa nostra: la pattumiera napoletana, la pochezza della classe politica, Malpensa (i milanesi dovrebbero farsi una profonda analisi di coscienza, dato che hanno fatto di tutto per salvaguardare Linate, condannando Malpensa alla rovina) e quant'altro viene strillato su quotidiani e telegiornali ogni giorno. Saranno cambiati i protagonisti e i colori, ma in fin dei conti siamo ancora il paese dei guelfi e ghibellini... solo che il mondo attorno a noi si e' evoluto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi lascio con una frase di John Stuart Mill,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;chiedetevi se siete felici e cesserete di esserlo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;io aggiungo, non chiedetevelo, siate felici, perche' la vita e' troppo breve e dovremmo essere cosi' impegnati a realizzare i nostri sogni da non poter sprecare inutilmente il poco tempo che ci e' stato donato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3837886529034319097?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3837886529034319097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3837886529034319097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3837886529034319097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3837886529034319097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/01/bilanci-e-previsioni.html' title='Bilanci e previsioni'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6864859488120296028</id><published>2008-01-21T06:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T19:35:26.581-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ultime notizie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Qualcuno avra' pensato fossi scomparso nel nulla, visto che e' piu' di un mese che non mi faccio vivo per aggiornare il blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La verita' e' che sono partito da NY il 16 dicembre e ho passato oltre un mese nella bella Bardonecchia a sciare... e vista la quantita' di neve caduta, direi che ho fatto bene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ora mi appresto a tornare in quel di NY, visto che mercoledi' inizia l'ultimo semestre da uomo libero... poi sara' ora di tornare a lavorare sul serio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per farla breve, ho passato Natale in famiglia, come da tradizione, altrimenti la nonna si arrabbia! Capodanno l'ho trascorso con vari amici tra Bardonecchia a Sauze. Festa sensazionale: abbiamo rischiato di farci buttar fuori dalla disco perche' facevamo troppa caciara... sara' che avevamo alzato un po' il gomito, visto che un barista un po' distratto continuava a passarmi consumazioni senza farmele pagare e io smistavo che neanche un servizio consegna pacchi sarebbe stato cosi' efficiente?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tornando allo sci... che e' stata l'attivita' principale della mia vacanza, mi si sono messo di buon impegno, visto che ho sciato quasi tutti i giorni! Come ai vecchi tempi dello sci club... e in effetti mi pare che le foto qui sotto dimostrino che ci so ancora fare abbastanza!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aC2UkuXQI/AAAAAAAAAbE/kmfcMdNHwoU/s1600-h/071229-sci-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aC2UkuXQI/AAAAAAAAAbE/kmfcMdNHwoU/s200/071229-sci-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158454292946771202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDGUkuXRI/AAAAAAAAAbM/RAYmeC3-dxw/s1600-h/080110-sci-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDGUkuXRI/AAAAAAAAAbM/RAYmeC3-dxw/s200/080110-sci-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158454567824678162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il sottoscritto impegnato sui pendii bardonecchiesi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDoUkuXUI/AAAAAAAAAbk/_DJTc8eJD-8/s1600-h/080110-sci-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDoUkuXUI/AAAAAAAAAbk/_DJTc8eJD-8/s200/080110-sci-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158455151940230466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDyEkuXVI/AAAAAAAAAbs/dGAYPno70VU/s1600-h/080110-sci-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aDyEkuXVI/AAAAAAAAAbs/dGAYPno70VU/s200/080110-sci-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158455319443955026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era da tanto che non si vedeva tutta questa neve dalle nostre parti. In Bardonecchia stessa i mezzi spartineve hanno avuto i loro bei problemi a ripulire le strade, visto che ne e' venuta a piu' non posso. Qualche testimonianza di seguito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFQUkuXXI/AAAAAAAAAb8/a-xvFDmDYVE/s1600-h/080116-bardonecchia-024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFQUkuXXI/AAAAAAAAAb8/a-xvFDmDYVE/s200/080116-bardonecchia-024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158456938646625650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFGEkuXWI/AAAAAAAAAb0/np0zPTkLZWo/s1600-h/080116-bardonecchia-022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFGEkuXWI/AAAAAAAAAb0/np0zPTkLZWo/s200/080116-bardonecchia-022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158456762552966498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;la cappella dedicata a Nostra Signora della neve&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFukkuXYI/AAAAAAAAAcE/h5rz_9s5lrM/s1600-h/080117-bardonecchia-016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aFukkuXYI/AAAAAAAAAcE/h5rz_9s5lrM/s200/080117-bardonecchia-016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158457458337668482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aF6EkuXZI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ZFNkVkecr5Y/s1600-h/080118-bardonecchia-009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aF6EkuXZI/AAAAAAAAAcM/ZFNkVkecr5Y/s200/080118-bardonecchia-009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158457655906164114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a sinistra, Bardonecchia innevata, vista dalla cabinovia                                      dello Jafferau; a destra Valle Stretta e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; le pendici del monte Tabor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aGVkkuXaI/AAAAAAAAAcU/RM-8xa-YTLc/s1600-h/080118-bardonecchia-015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aGVkkuXaI/AAAAAAAAAcU/RM-8xa-YTLc/s200/080118-bardonecchia-015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158458128352566690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vallon Cros - Punta della mulattiera&lt;br /&gt;(su questo muro tremendo, reso lastra di ghiaccio, vinsi una delle mie prime gare)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Nei prossimi giorni aggiornamenti sull'anno appena finito e considerazioni su quello appena iniziato. Rimanete sintonizzati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6864859488120296028?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6864859488120296028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6864859488120296028' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6864859488120296028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6864859488120296028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2008/01/ultime-notizie.html' title='Ultime notizie'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R5aC2UkuXQI/AAAAAAAAAbE/kmfcMdNHwoU/s72-c/071229-sci-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6297419361877467617</id><published>2007-12-12T19:26:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T19:29:56.400-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Noi ragazzi del 78</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per i miei coetanei e me si avvicina il giorno in cui diventeremo trentenni. Nel mio caso non vedo l'occorrenza dell'evento come un fatto negativo... semmai positivo. Anni di felicita', soddisfazioni, sfide, vittorie, sconfitte, da cui abbiamo imparato, e quant'altro: insomma ho qualcosa di cui vale la pena raccontare!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Stavo sfogliando il blog di un'amica e mi ha colpito il suo ultimo post, dove racconta della sua generazione - e' di qualche anno piu' giovane del sottoscritto - e mi sono permesso di copiare e liberamente interpretare e riadattare alla mia generazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Noi siamo i ragazzi del 78&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che ci divertivamo a giocare a pallone al Fante e quando arrivava il Civic, ci faceva puntialmente la multa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che  dicevamo ai nonni che  andavamo in bici in giardino e poi aprivamo il cancello solo per allungare un po' il giro e alla fine scappavamo e tornavamo dopo un'ora, e i nonni, preoccupati, ci facevano il cazziatone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che se i nonni ci dicevamo di non giocare con l'acqua, ci facevamo di nascosto le scorte e si continuava imperterriti per tutto il pomeriggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che i vetri e le porte a casa dei nonni li abbiamo rotti tutti.... a volte passando attraverso le porte a vetri senza neanche aprirle... e per fortuna siamo ancora qui a raccontare questi eventi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che in spiaggia giocavamo a biglie e costriuvamo dei percorsi che ci voleva talmente tanto tempo a realizzarli, che quando si poteva finalmente giocare era ora di tornare a casa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che sui pullman delle gite non mancava mai 'dire fare baciare lettera testamento'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che i pattini avevano 4 ruote e si allungavano quando il piede cresceva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Noi che col Lego ci siamo cresciuti, come i nostri padri sono cresciuti col Meccano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che ingegneri elettronici lo siamo sempre stati, visto che i nostri trenini elettrici andavano piu' veloci del Pendolino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che chi andava in bici senza mani era il  migliore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che 'posso giocare anch'io?' 'e no...sai, la palla non è mia'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che suonavamo al campanello per chiedere se c'era l'amico in casa, che puntualmente non c'era e quindi chiedevamo se c'era la cremeria (la pubblicita' della Cremeria Motta)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che il piu' famoso testimonial della Lavazza e' Manfredi e piu' lo mandi giu' piu' ti tira su&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che dove c'e' Barilla c'e' casa e abbiamo imparato a suonare il piano catturando le note della colonna sonora della pubblicita'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che dopo la prima partita c'era la rivincita, poi la bella e poi la bellissima e se c'era tempo si faceva anche un giro di tedesca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che se passavamo la palla al portiere coi piedi e se lui la raccoglieva con le mani non era fallo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che forse eravamo gia' destinati alla finanza, visto che le regole del Monopoli le adattavamo alle peggiori tecniche di strozzinaggio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che quando si giocava all'impiccato la D stava sempre per Domodossola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che Domodossola sappiamo dov'e', visto che i preti da cui siamo andati a scuola li' hanno una delle loro sedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che, se al lago di Misurina ci dicevano di fare quello che volevamo, affittavamo i pedalo' e poi scatenavamo l'inferno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che a Porto Cervo e Porto Rotondo si faceva il giro di tutte le banchine tutte le volte... perche' le barche erano troppo belle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che a Mortorio ci siamo stati quando ancora non c'era troppa gente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che ci mancava sempre la figurina di Maradona per finire l'album Panini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Noi che ce l'ho ce l'ho...MANCA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che sappiamo che il miglior cartoon della Disney non e' la Bella e la Bestia, ma Robin Hood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che in TV guardavamo Goldrake, Ufo Robot, la Famiglia Addams, Hazard, Supercar, l'A-Team e Magnum P.I.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che sappiamo che Bonolis ha iniziato con BIM BUM BAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che cercavamo di far sorridere i sofficini ma si rompevano sempre in due&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che non avevamo il cellulare per andare a parlare in privato sul terrazzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che i messaggini li scrivevamo su dei pezzetti di carta da passare al compagno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che l'unica  macchina fotografica per fare foto istantanee era la Polaroid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che non era Natale se alla tv non vedevamo la pubblicità della Coca Cola o della Bistefani, col tizio che diceva 'e chi sono io, Babbo Natale?'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che non era Natale se Italia 1 non trasmettava 'Una Poltrona per Due" alla Vigilia e 'Balle Spaziali' il 31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che siamo nati e cresciuti con Guerre Stellari, la trilogia originale non il prequel che non e' neanche lontanamente paragonabile alla grandezza dell'originale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che abbiamo guardato Profondo Rosso e... sappiamo dove e' stato girato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che nei corridoi a scuola si faceva a gara a chi faceva lo sgambetto al compagno che ti stava davanti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che i corridoi e le scale della scuola li abbiamo consumati a furia di camminare 'in riflessione dei nostri peccati' per ore ed ore ogni settimana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che il bagno si poteva fare solo dopo 2 ore che avevi finito di mangiare a meno di mangiare direttamente in acqua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che a scuola andavamo con cartelle da 2 quintali e senza rotelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che quando a scuola c'era l'ora di ginnastica era come se le porte dell'inferno fossero state aperte... succedeva il delirio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che a scuola il maestro si inalberava se il voto dell'interrogazione di storia era piu' alto del voto di condotta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che le ricerche le facevamo in biblioteca, mica su Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che internet non esisteva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che il 'Disastro di Cernobyl' l'abbiamo vissuto e se i coetanei dei nostri genitori non avessero votato contro il nucleare, oggi avremmo energia pulita ad un costo piu' basso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che la merenda era sempre e solo del Mulino Bianco o della Ferrero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che la merenda portata da casa, all'intervallo era sempre in briciole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che però sapevamo che erano le 4 perché stava per iniziare BIM BUM BAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che il primo novembre era 'Tutti i Santi', mica Halloween&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che siamo nati quando Giovanni Paolo II e' diventato Papa e, grazie a Lui, il mondo e' cambiato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che abbiamo conosciuto i paninari col monclerino che perdeva il piumino in ogni dove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che abbiamo vissuto la moda del Barbour, che se andavi in Scozia e vedevi uno vestito bene col Barbour addosso sapevi che era un Italiano, visto che li' lo usano solo per andare a caccia e a pesca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Noi che se ci facevamo male a scuola... un po' di alcool sulla ferita, un po' di dolore e tutto era passato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che quando la nonna ci dava l'amaro Giuliani, se avevamo il mal di pancia, ci passava tutto in dieci minuti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che quando il Preside del D'Aze veniva a cercarci eravamo sempre in bagno o al bar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che il bar del D'Aze era la nostra seconda casa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che quando ci siamo presentati l'ultimo giorno di scuola con i capelli tinti di verde e blu tutti ci hanno applaudito e il Preside, stupito, ci ha chiesto se veramente avessimo intenzione di andare a studiare alla Normale a Pisa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che Capodanno lo si festeggiava iniziando il 30 al Black Sun o al Tabata&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che colazione al primo dell'anno la facevamo a base di acciughe al verde&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noi che un micone di pane e un barattolo di Nutella non bastava per far colazione prima di andare a sciare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Che fortuna, esserci stati! Che bello potervelo raccontare!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6297419361877467617?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6297419361877467617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6297419361877467617' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6297419361877467617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6297419361877467617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/12/noi-ragazzi-del-78.html' title='Noi ragazzi del 78'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6341554013200873312</id><published>2007-12-09T13:32:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-09T13:44:24.291-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Grande Italia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ieri mi sono gustato, in differita, il trionfo italiano nella mia specialita' alpina preferita, lo slalom gigante... quella dove la tecnica la fa da padrone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max Blardone primo e Manfred Moellg secondo... e dietro loro il resto della squadra. Abbiamo senz'altro alcuni dei migliori atleti al mondo, magari non troppo costanti (vedi le Olimpiadi in casa dell'anno scorso), ma che spettacolo vederli sciare. Se poi pensiamo che la federazione non ha soldi, questo ha quasi del miracoloso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E oggi abbiamo fatto il slalom addirittura 3 nei primi 5! Ma dico io, cosa servira' ancora per portare uno degli sport piu' belli alla ribalta del piccolo schermo? Dopo Tomba e Compagnoni lo sci e' stato sostanzialmente dimenticato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ADMINI%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R1w3S__y1fI/AAAAAAAAAa0/MHFfjOawhRM/s1600-h/blardon--346x212.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R1w3S__y1fI/AAAAAAAAAa0/MHFfjOawhRM/s200/blardon--346x212.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142045674106443250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R1w3YP_y1gI/AAAAAAAAAa8/fnLKzwrJrIc/s1600-h/4211775753.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R1w3YP_y1gI/AAAAAAAAAa8/fnLKzwrJrIc/s200/4211775753.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142045764300756482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se non fosse per la Formula 1 e le moto, l'unico sport trasmesso in TV sarebbe il calcio. Eppure abbiamo campioni che vincono in tutti gli sport dalla pallavolo, allo slittino, allo sci di fondo, alla corsa e via discorrendo... forse con piu' attenzione mediatica, maggiori sponsorizzazioni potrebbero garantire piu' continuita' di successi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non sono un esperto di marketing, ma suggerirei a parecchie aziende di puntare su sport diversi dal calcio: i ritorni potrebbero essere sorprendenti, perche', a dispetto di tutte le porcherie di cui la politica ci riempie le orecchie, siamo ancora una grande nazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6341554013200873312?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6341554013200873312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6341554013200873312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6341554013200873312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6341554013200873312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/12/grande-italia.html' title='Grande Italia'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/R1w3S__y1fI/AAAAAAAAAa0/MHFfjOawhRM/s72-c/blardon--346x212.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-678451704324440010</id><published>2007-11-25T17:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T16:48:45.253-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Greed &amp; Fear - Avidita' &amp; Paura</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ho scelto con convinzione le due parole che compongono il titolo di questo post per una semplice ragione: avidita' e paura sono i sentimenti che spingono e governano i mercati finanziari di tutto il mondo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Quando le cose vanno bene, l'avidita', unita all'euforia, fa schizzare all'insu' i corsi dei titoli... quando l'incertezza inizia a far capolino, la paura vi si associa, spingendo all'ingu' i prezzi. I grandi investitori, Warren Buffett in primis, sanno dominare questi istinti e non farsi eccessivamente condizionare da essi. In questo modo, quando tutti sembrano fuggire, loro rimangono in attesa e colgono le occasioni che l'eccessivo pessimismo del mercato offre loro; ugualmente attendono che l'euforia abbia preso il sopravvento per vendere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Questo ragionamento mi pare fili che e' una meraviglia. Ma se fosse cosi' facile comportarsi da investitore, come mai i veri investitori sono pochi? Non e' facile spiegare le ragioni... forse perche' investire e' piu' un'arte che una scienza, ma ci sono alcuni paradigmi che si ripropongono in ogni grande investitore:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Disporre sempre di liquidita', soprattutto quando il mercato inizia a perdere terreno;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mantenere la tranquillita' e non farsi prendere da eccessi ne' di euforia/avidita' ne' di paura;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aver pazienza e saper temporeggiare, attendendo l'attimo propizio per operare;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mantenere obiettivi di investimento a lungo (se non addirittura lunghissimo) termine.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il primo punto e' fondamentale; ho gia' parlato, in precedenti post, di come l'effetto leva, ossia l'indebitarsi per accrescere il ritorno sugli investimenti, sia alla base di quasi tutte le crisi finanziarie della storia (a partire dai tulipani nell'Olanda del 1600 fino ai giorni nostri). Disporre di liquidita', soprattutto quando essa e' piu' necessaria, pone in una posizione di forza, una posizione da cui si possono dettare le regole e le condizioni del gioco - ossia acquistare buoni investimenti a prezzi stracciati, perche' qualcuno ha talmente bisogno della nostra liquidita' da essere disposto a pagare un premio pur di entrarne in possesso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ovviamente, disporre di liquidita', quando il mercato e' in difficolta', facilita il non cadere nella trappola della paura, garantisce tranquillita' e favorisce l'attesa e la pazienza... insomma tutte qualita' necessarie a garantirsi un ruolo di forza nell'effettuare investimenti a prezzi convenienti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;In ultimo, mantenere obiettivi di investimento a lungo termine, ci allontana ancora di piu' dalle chimere dell'avidita' e permette di ragionare sugli investimenti in modo piu' obiettivo e meno viscerale (seguire la massa).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Non dovrebbe sorprendere che Warren Buffett sia diventato il personaggio che tutti conosciamo avendo costruito all'interno della sua azienda una grande attivita' di (ri)assicurazione. Chi meglio delle compagnie assicuratrici ha obiettivi a lungo termine? Chi meglio delle compagnie assicuratrici fa dell'analisi dei rischi ed opportunita' degli investimenti una parte fondamentale del proprio modello operativo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La paura sta iniziando a pervadere i mercati finanziari mondiali; aziende che assicurano le emissioni obbligazionarie (Ambac Financial e MBIA in primis) sono in crisi di liquidita' a causa dell'attuale situazione... qui puo' facilmente entrare in gioco Buffett, che possiede una tonnellata di liquidita' e puo' salvare aziende in crisi, acquisendole a prezzi di convenienza, attendere che la situazione migliori e portare a casa lauti profitti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Quando tutti scappano... qualcuno attende la sua occasione per entrare in gioco. Potrebbe essere questa un'opportunita' per vedere uno scatto d'orgoglio da parte del comparto assicurativo europeo, che, fatte salve alcune eccezioni, non ha propriamente brillato negli ultimi anni?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il tempo ci dira'...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-678451704324440010?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/678451704324440010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=678451704324440010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/678451704324440010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/678451704324440010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/11/greed-fear-avidita-paura.html' title='Greed &amp; Fear - Avidita&apos; &amp; Paura'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3836784768626652556</id><published>2007-11-11T17:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T16:48:51.447-05:00</updated><title type='text'>La pazza corsa del petrolio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Sembra ormai sempre piu' vicino il giorno in cui il petrolio sfondera' la soglia dei $100 al barile... ho letto sul Wall Street Journal un interessante articolo, che spiega come questo prezzo non sia sostenibile, per 10 ragioni:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ci sono scorte pari a 4.2 miliardi di barili stoccate nelle cisterne (record storico)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Le riserve accertate sono pari a 1400 miliardi di barili e con miglioramenti nelle tecnologie di estrazione si potra' in futuro estrarre dalle sabbie bituminose, dove si stimano riserve per 1700 miliardi di barili&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La produzione crescera'&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I costi di produzione sono sostanzialmente inferiori ai $100 al barile... anche tenendo in conto gli investimenti per perforazione non si va oltre i $30/40 al barile&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Le esportazioni iraniene non diminuiranno - le conseguenze sarebbero negative da ambo i fronti&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I prezzi troppo elevati stanno riducendo la domanda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I prezzi troppo elevati stanno spingendo sempre piu' governi ad eliminare sussidi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Energia da petrolio e' in questo momento piu' cara di quella da gas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Il dollaro debole e' una finta scusa per giustificare prezzi cosi' elevati&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;La speculazione sta artificialmente spingendo in alto i prezzi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Non condivido tutte le ragioni qui esposte, ma, chi mi conosce bene, sa che sono un fervido sostenitore dell'ultimo punto. C'e' senz'altro troppa liberta' di speculazione offerta agli investitori finanziari sul petrolio, cosi' come su ogni materia prima. Se gli investitori finanziari fossero sottoposti agli stessi costi, cui sono sottoposti gli operatori che acquistano fisicamente materie prime per mandare avanti le loro attivita' industriali, la speculazione diventerebbe molto meno appetibile e i prezzi delle materie prime quasi sicuramente diminuirebbero consistentemente. Mi rifaccio in questo ragionamento ad una ricerca che era stata pubblicata nel 2005, di cui purtroppo pero' non trovo piu' copia, in cui si riferisce come $25-35 al barile siano frutto di attivita' speculativa (potete fare una veloce ricerca su Google ed imbattervi in svariati articoli che sostengono questa ipotesi).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ora con questo ragionamento non si vuole criminalizzare gli investitori finanziari. Questi operano in base a quello che il sistema consente loro di fare. Cio' pero' non vuol dire che qualora ci siano errori nel sistema, questi non possano essere corretti. Di questo non se ne parla praticamente mai, ma potrebbe evitare di farci piombare nell'ennesima bolla speculativa di questi anni, da aggiungersi a dot.com, subprime, leveraged buyouts e cartolarizzazione di strumenti a lungo termine finanziata con emissioni a breve... non trovate che in fin dei conti il tema comune e' poi sempre lo stesso? L'effetto leva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3836784768626652556?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3836784768626652556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3836784768626652556' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3836784768626652556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3836784768626652556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/11/la-pazza-corsa-del-petrolio.html' title='La pazza corsa del petrolio'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1006202115389505078</id><published>2007-11-07T15:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T15:49:45.640-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alternative Investments</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;E' passato qualche giorno dalla mia ultima comunicazione e mi pare opportuno darvi un rapido aggiornamento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt; Sono stato molto impegnato, causa varie consegne per i corsi che sto seguendo, in particolare ristrutturazione aziendale e analisi finanziaria mi hanno portato via una montagna di tempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Per ristrutturazione ci siamo cimentati nel preparare il piano di rifinanziamento, post-bancarotta, di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.foamex.com/"&gt;Foamex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;, azienda leader mondiale nella produzione di schiume, che vengono utilizzate nei piu' svariati settori: auto, elettronica, trasporti industriali, coibentazione termica per gli edifici, mobili, materassi e cuscini (quelli ortopedici di cui si vede un mare di pubblicita' in tv). Lavoro abbastanza ciclopico, ma molto interessante, visto che la discussione in classe e' stata moderata dalla banca che si e' occupata di gestire il piano di ristrutturazione: insomma abbiamo avuto la miglior prospettiva possibile sulle difficolta' incontrate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Quanto ad analisi finanziaria, ho dovuto preparare un rapporto su FedEx ed esprimere un giudizio sul titolo (buy o sell), specificando un prezzo obiettivo a 18 mesi. Ho passato una buona settimana a scartabellare nei bilanci aziendali, scovare le scelte manageriali di FedEx e dei rivali, analizzare le possibili aree di sviluppo del business e via discorrendo... la mia sensazione e' che il titolo sia sottovalutato e quindi sarebbe da comprare (stabilita' delle borse permettendo), con obiettivo a $120 per azione (oggi sta trattando a $102).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;In ultimo, arrivo all'argomento del titolo di questo post: alternative investments. Sto seguendo un corso di venture capital e ieri ho avuto modo di scambiare alcune considerazioni con Jason Mendelson, uno del settore. Mi e' parso una persona molto in gamba. Anche lui ha un suo blog, nel quale si occupa di trattare tematiche legate all'attivita' di venture capital. Dato che mi pare molto interessante, vi rimando al link, se siete interessati ad esplorare questa categoria alternativa di investimento: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.askthevc.com/"&gt;http://www.askthevc.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1006202115389505078?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1006202115389505078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1006202115389505078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1006202115389505078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1006202115389505078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/11/alternative-investments.html' title='Alternative Investments'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-970315525960846268</id><published>2007-10-26T18:50:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T19:17:00.316-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Giornata uggiosa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Oggi e' stata una giornata veramente uggiosa: mi son svegliato con la pioggia e sta ancora dandoci dentro (sono le 19 ora locale)! Se non altro questo mi ha dato la forza per concentrarmi su un lavoro che sto facendo: per un corso che seguo, mi hanno dato da analizzare il business model di FedEx, "rovistare" sui bilanci per tirar fuori qualche anomalia, stimare il valore intrinseco dell'azienda e... infine, dare una raccomandazione di acquisto/vendita sul titolo con prezzo obiettivo per il 2008 e 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ci vuole proprio una giornata uggiosa, per concentrarsi su questo lavoro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Punto la vostra attenzione sul MLEC (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119257807388261274.html"&gt;Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;); un di maxi fondo di cartolarizzazione, promosso da alcune delle piu' grandi banche americane, per cercare di ristabilire credibilita' nel mercato dei prodotti cartolarizzati (soprattutto i tanto chiacchierati mutui subprime), impegnandosi ad acquistare le tranche a miglior qualita' e con lo scopo ultimo di ripristinare il vitale mercato dei finanziamenti a brevi (commercial paper o pronto/contro termine, che dir si voglia). Il successo di questa operazione non e' ancora chiaro... visto che si sta ancora discutendo sui termini per mettere insieme il fondo. Mi pare pero' interessante la similitudine con &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907"&gt;la crisi finanziaria dell'autunno 1907&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, qui negli States... non dovrebbe sorprendere che, oggi come allora, una delle banche, protagonista del salvataggio di un secolo fa, sia tra i fautori di iniziative volte a cercare di risolvere la situazione ed evitare ulteriori conseguenze negative per l'economia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-970315525960846268?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/970315525960846268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=970315525960846268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/970315525960846268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/970315525960846268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/giornata-uggiosa.html' title='Giornata uggiosa'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1696471853195564408</id><published>2007-10-17T09:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T09:31:18.887-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tasso di sconto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Mi sembra logico un commento sulla mossa della Fed di tagliare, 3 settimane fa, il Fed Fund Rate di mezzo punto. Non ho scritto prima, perche' volevo attendere l'annuncio dei risultati trimestrali delle banche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;I mercati finanziari hanno visto il taglio come un segnale positivo, di sostegno della Fed al mondo finanziario, in difficolta' a causa della bolla creditizia, venuta a galla quest'estate. La mia reazione a tale decisione era stata di gran stupore: il compito di qualsiasi banca centrale non e' tanto quello di salvare il mondo finanziario (dove molti degli attuali problemi risiedono nelle cause analizzate lungamente in queste colonne durante l'estate e nel fatto che prestiti a lungo vengono oggi finanziati principalmente a breve... era logico che il "giocattolo" finisse per rompersi), quanto quello di difendere l'economia dalle conseguenze di una violenta recessione. Mi spiego: gente che perde la propria casa perche' non riesce piu' a pagare il mutuo e che, magari, finisce per perdere pure il lavoro, a causa di una recessione, finisce per perdere tutto. Questo sarebbe un danno molto grave per qualsiasi economia e, purtroppo, ci sono alcune zone negli States dove questo rischio e' presente, proprio a causa della bolla creatasi in questi ultimi anni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ora, e' ovvio che la Fed sia intervenuta tempestivamente per arginare i danni. Quello che mi auguro e' che nel prendere tale decisione non si siano fatti trasportare dalla paura e abbiano reagito in eccesso a quanto realmente necessario. E' di oggi, infatti, la notizia che l'inflazione qui continua a schizzare all'insu': +3.6% nei primi 9 mesi, contro il +2.5% per tutto il 2006. Questi sono chiari segnali di una sensibile spinta inflazionistica, che suggerirebbe un rialzo dei tassi d'interesse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Provando ad interpretare questi dati, mi vien da pensare che lasciare i tassi invariati, a settembre, fosse la soluzione migliore da adottare. Se proprio si voleva lanciare un segnale di sostegno per alcuni settori economici, un taglio di un quarto di punto poteva essere piu' che sufficiente. Mezzo punto, a mio avviso, non fa altro che continuare ad alimentare la speculazione; temo, e mi auguro di sbagliarmi, che finira' per aggravare o prolungare questa situazione di ristagno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Staremo a vedere. Continuero' a tenervi aggiornati periodicamente sugli sviluppi, visto che rappresentano una parte rilevante del mio lavoro estivo e post-master.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1696471853195564408?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1696471853195564408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1696471853195564408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1696471853195564408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1696471853195564408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/tasso-di-sconto.html' title='Tasso di sconto'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6562369361353533879</id><published>2007-10-15T12:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T12:36:46.755-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Visto che me lo chiedete...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;... vi accontento con un commentino sul derby: la partita e' stata quantomeno brutta, nervosa e piena di falli. Non credo che il Toro meritasse di perdere, cosi' come i pigiami di vincere. Trezegol era in fuorigioco e se il nostro Dellafiore non avesse spizzicato la palla, questa sarebbe arrivata comunque a Trezegol, che si sarebbe palesemente trovato in fuorigioco.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ora, da sportivo, accetto quanto dice la regola sul fuorigioco, ma credo che sia palese quanto sia errata. E non sono solo io a dirlo, l'hanno detto in tanti. Che poi, tanto per cambiare la regola abbia favorito i pigiami, beh... questa e' solo consuetudine, come ormai succede da molti, molti anni. Un po' piu' di purgatorio avrebbe fatto bene ai cugini!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6562369361353533879?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6562369361353533879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6562369361353533879' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6562369361353533879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6562369361353533879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/visto-che-me-lo-chiedete.html' title='Visto che me lo chiedete...'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5947512043646863959</id><published>2007-10-12T10:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T10:41:32.567-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Orgoglio granata</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Mentre facevo colazione stamattina, ho letto questo articolo apparso sul sito internet de La Stampa: "Cairo-Chiamparino, schiarita sugli stadi". Si discute della possibilita' di ricostruire il Filadelfia (e speriamo che sia la volta buona!) e di ampliare l'Olimpico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ma la cosa piu' interessante e' questo commento del Chiampa: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;" class="articologirata"&gt;Oltre all’impegno - ha replicato Chiamparino - abbiamo già pronti 3,5 milioni di euro. Ora bisogna trovare le risorse finanziarie dei privati (almeno altri 10 milioni di euro, ndr) garantendo loro anche profitti commerciali. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Io sono però un sindaco tifoso e la storia dimostra che Torino è stata e resterà granata&lt;/span&gt;. Due anni fa rischiava di scomparire un pezzo della città e io ci tengo a ringraziare Cairo per aver buttato il cuore oltre l’ostacolo".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;" class="articologirata"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;" class="articologirata"&gt;Grazie Chiampa e, ovviamente, forza Toro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;" class="articologirata"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5947512043646863959?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5947512043646863959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5947512043646863959' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5947512043646863959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5947512043646863959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/orgoglio-granata.html' title='Orgoglio granata'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5938132794814960449</id><published>2007-10-05T14:28:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-05T14:53:48.857-04:00</updated><title type='text'>S. Margherita - un anno dopo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ebbene si' e' gia' passato un anno dalla navigata trionfale del team di Columbia alla MBA's Cup a S. Margherita Ligure e forti di 24 impavidi velisti ci siamo nuovamente diretti alla volta della magnifica localita' ligure per cercare di centrare la doppietta...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;... il tempo non ci ha assistito per nulla, con continui temporali e un'umidita' tale da farti scricchiolare le ossa! E poi, a dirla in tutta onesta', abbiamo regatato abbastanza male: sbagliato tutte o quasi le partenze, varie penalita' rimediate per eccesso di foga e altri vari piccoli errori, che ci sono costati il quinto posto. Non male, considerato che c'erano 21 barche a competere, ma ben al di sotto delle nostre aspettative di podio, soprattutto con la vittoria che e' andata ai bravissimi ragazzi di Tuck (Dartmouth University), che per i lettori assidui dovrebbe ricordare la gara invernale di sci! Tuck si trova al confine tra New Hampshire e Vermont, a oltre due ore d'auto dal mare: come si sono potuti allenare? Facciamo fatica qua a New York, a due passi dal mare, a trovare il tempo per allenarci!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Comunque complimenti, perche' sono stati quelli che hanno commesso meno errori e mi sono sembrati tutti dei validi velisti. Noi cercheremo di rifarci il prossimo anno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi lascio con alcune foto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFOcTjtLI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ysFpBaaErvM/s1600-h/070928-mbacup2007-052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFOcTjtLI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ysFpBaaErvM/s400/070928-mbacup2007-052.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117924509716034738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;il porto di S. Margherita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFg8TjtMI/AAAAAAAAAZw/kFfUQS4ocZs/s1600-h/070928-mbacup2007-038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFg8TjtMI/AAAAAAAAAZw/kFfUQS4ocZs/s200/070928-mbacup2007-038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117924827543614658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;io al timone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFzMTjtNI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/ecnbCSpHHIY/s1600-h/070929-mbacup2007-022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFzMTjtNI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/ecnbCSpHHIY/s200/070929-mbacup2007-022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117925141076227282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;durante la regata&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGIcTjtOI/AAAAAAAAAaA/KVYkdViEAIo/s1600-h/070929-mbacup2007-030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGIcTjtOI/AAAAAAAAAaA/KVYkdViEAIo/s200/070929-mbacup2007-030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117925506148447458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;uno scorcio di turchese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGgcTjtPI/AAAAAAAAAaI/5slY-SHCXNI/s1600-h/070929-mbacup2007-054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGgcTjtPI/AAAAAAAAAaI/5slY-SHCXNI/s200/070929-mbacup2007-054.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117925918465307890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGqMTjtQI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/jidi-I4HVCA/s1600-h/070929-mbacup2007-056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaGqMTjtQI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/jidi-I4HVCA/s200/070929-mbacup2007-056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117926085969032450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Portofino by night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Un abbraccio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5938132794814960449?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5938132794814960449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5938132794814960449' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5938132794814960449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5938132794814960449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/s-margherita-un-anno-dopo.html' title='S. Margherita - un anno dopo'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RwaFOcTjtLI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ysFpBaaErvM/s72-c/070928-mbacup2007-052.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6172920025891796878</id><published>2007-09-14T15:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T15:55:56.719-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Alitalia - Malpensa - Ryanair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Devo ammettere che mi lascia alquanto perplesso quanto sto leggendo in questi giorni sui giornali italiani. Possibile che la nostra Nazione pur di difendere tesi utopiche, sia disposta a sacrificare il proprio sviluppo economico, unica speranza che abbiamo di provare a risolvere i problemi che affliggono il paese?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Prima ho letto che Alitalia vuole ridurre la sua presenza a Malpensa, per concentrarsi su Fiumicino. Alcune domande che dovremo porci. Chi genera un maggior giro d'affari, l'utenza business o quella per turismo? Visto che si vuole sacrificare Malpensa, per facilitare i flussi turistici, cosa succedera' all'utenza business? Non succedera' forse che svariate compagnie si impegnaranno a garantire connessioni dirette con il nord Italia, togliendo ancor piu' traffico ad Alitalia? Non servirebbe un impegno deciso a migliorare i collegamenti con Malpensa e rendere l'aeroporto piu' efficiente?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Preferisco non rispondere in questo momento alle domande, che ho sollevato, e lasciarvi riflettere sulle implicazioni che le risposte a quelle domande possono avere, nella buona come nella cattiva sorte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi lascio invece con un articolo di Giavazzi, dal CorSera di oggi, che secondo me ben presenta la situazione, citando anche alcune saggie considerazioni del Ministro dell'Economia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gli irlandesi in lista d'attesa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il governo e il futuro dello scalo lombardo&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;di Francesco Giavazzi&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;«I britannici esulterebbero se a Wimbledon vincesse di nuovo un inglese, dopo decenni; ed esulterebbero i produttori britannici di racchette (se ancora ve ne fossero) se tutti i partecipanti al torneo usassero solo racchette made in England. Ma qualora il governo britannico manovrasse a tali fini premi di ingaggio ai giocatori, scelta degli arbitri, sorteggio dei turni, tifo del pubblico, il torneo scomparirebbe dal calendario dei veri campioni, dei programmi televisivi e dai bilanci pubblicitari. Una perdita netta per la Gran Bretagna». Così scriveva il ministro dell'Economia Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa su queste colonne il 14 luglio 2005. Ryanair gli offre oggi l'occasione di realizzare questo progetto... e così, paradossalmente, di contraddirsi quando sostiene che «Scrivere sui giornali è facile ma l'amministrazione dello Stato è una cosa seria». La vicenda di Alitalia è un esempio illuminante dei disastri che può fare la politica quando si sostituisce agli imprenditori privati. Quindici anni fa Alitalia era un'azienda ambita, soprattutto dalle compagnie aeree orientali che cercavano un hub europeo. Non se ne fece nulla. L'elenco di chi si oppose alla privatizzazione è lungo: i sindacati dei dipendenti (e si può capire), politici abituati a spartirsi non solo i posti in consiglio di amministrazione ma giù giù fino ai direttori degli uffici acquisti, e anche l'azionista del tempo, l'Iri di Romano Prodi, che asseriva: «Prima valorizzare, poi vendere». Si è visto.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Da allora su 15 bilanci Alitalia ne ha chiusi in attivo non più di due. Se non è ancora fallita è solo grazie al denaro che i contribuenti hanno versato, un aumento di capitale dopo l'altro. Oggi la storia si ripete. Dopo aver indetto un'asta per vendere l'azienda — e averla mandata a vuoto — che ha fatto il governo? Ha affidato Alitalia ad un manager dell'Iri, Maurizio Prato, con il compito di preparare un piano industriale per valorizzarla. Nel frattempo l'azienda continua a perdere 40-50 milioni di euro al mese. Dieci anni fa trascorrere una giornata a Londra era un privilegio dei benestanti. Il prezzo del biglietto era proibitivo e coloro che non abitavano nelle grandi città dovevano lasciare il lavoro cinque ore prima del volo. Ryanair porta a Londra da Brindisi e da Montichiari con poche decine di euro. Oggi la compagnia irlandese chiede alla Sea (l'azienda che gestisce gli scali aerei della Lombardia) di poter acquistare 50 slot tra Malpensa e Orio al Serio per aprire nuove rotte europee e collegamenti tra Milano e il Mezzogiorno. Offre di investire un miliardo di euro. Le rotte intercontinentali sono per ora escluse, verranno il giorno in cui la liberalizzazione aprirà i voli transatlantici alle compagnie low cost. Ma per farlo Ryanair chiede di poter acquistare slot pregiati, non gli scarti di Alitalia. Chiede anche che Malpensa raggiunga livelli di costi ed efficienza simili a quelli di altri aeroporti europei dai quali è ancora distante. Che faranno il governo e gli enti pubblici della Lombardia? Continueranno a proteggere i dipendenti di Sea e quelli di Alitalia, che poveri certo non sono, e i molti parassiti che vivono alle spalle dell'azienda fornendo servizi a prezzi fuori mercato. &lt;/span&gt;Oppure faranno finalmente «qualcosa di sinistra»?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6172920025891796878?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6172920025891796878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6172920025891796878' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6172920025891796878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6172920025891796878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/alitalia-malpensa-ryanair.html' title='Alitalia - Malpensa - Ryanair'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-19146808073457438</id><published>2007-09-09T19:57:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-06T12:43:06.379-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Un po' di vela</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Dopo svariati secondi posti nelle regate, seppur poche (causa lavoro), a cui ho partecipato durante l'estate, finalmente e' arrivato un successo, direi ampiamente meritato. A bordo di Dybbuk, un 28 piedi molto bello disegnato dagli stessi cantieri che negli anni '70 disegnavano i 12m per la Coppa America, abbiamo dominato partenza, bolina e poppa, vicendo tutte e 3 le gare in programma oggi e aggiundicandoci il trofeo, messo in palio dal nostro yacht club.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; Non sto ad annoiarvi con le mie storie veliche, per cui vi lascio con la foto della premiazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RuSJdbJP8EI/AAAAAAAAAZY/8FhSSJsQuys/s1600-h/mbrw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RuSJdbJP8EI/AAAAAAAAAZY/8FhSSJsQuys/s200/mbrw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108359015940747330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-19146808073457438?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/19146808073457438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=19146808073457438' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/19146808073457438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/19146808073457438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-po-di-vela.html' title='Un po&apos; di vela'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RuSJdbJP8EI/AAAAAAAAAZY/8FhSSJsQuys/s72-c/mbrw.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4713940017527031832</id><published>2007-09-08T18:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T18:50:25.688-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guida culinaria - Capitolo IV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Essendo appena ritornato a New York, mi pare opportuno esordire con un post culinario. Oggi parlero' di un altro dei ristoranti dove mi reco piu' di frequente: Gennaro, su Amsterdam Ave, tra la 92a e 93a strada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Come potete ovviamente intuire dal nome, il ristorante e' italiano, gestito da italiani... cosa sempre piu' rara qui a New York. Il posto e' grazioso, anche se parecchio affollato. Ma questa e' indicazione della qualita' delle cucina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Personalmente mi piacciono molto gli antipasti. Qui si puo' spaziare dalla pasta e fagioli, ai calamari alla griglia, al carpaccio di manzo e Grana. Per le portate principali potete farvi conquistare da svariati tipi di pasta, oppure un fantastico stinco di agnello.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Io personalmente mi lascio sempre conquistare dalle specialita' del giorno. La ragione? Ovvio, no? I piatti del giorno sono quelli preparati con quanto ricevuto in giornata, quindi sono piu' freschi e poi, in questo modo, si evita di mangiare sempre le stesse cose... e questo succede quando andate nello stesso posto troppo spesso!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Devo ammetterlo, questo posto mi aggrada, perche' non e' il classico ristorante italiano. Mi ricorda piu' la cucina casalinga, semplice, ma ben presentata. Insomma e' un piacere passare una serata da Gennaro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Servizio: 3.5 stelle, cibo: 4.5 stelle, carta dei vini: 3.5 stelle - totale 4 stelle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4713940017527031832?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4713940017527031832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4713940017527031832' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4713940017527031832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4713940017527031832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/guida-culinaria-capitolo-iv.html' title='Guida culinaria - Capitolo IV'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-7180841838005815745</id><published>2007-09-03T12:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-13T23:14:36.104-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Peru - la gente</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Come promesso, alcune foto di quotidianita' andina: scene di mercato, folklore e semplice spaccato quotidiano. Spero vi piacciano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwwGngaMpI/AAAAAAAAAWg/zGB4ifgUAfo/s1600-h/070818-ayacucho-014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwwGngaMpI/AAAAAAAAAWg/zGB4ifgUAfo/s200/070818-ayacucho-014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106008967773565586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;un po' di riposo dopo una lunga giornata al mercato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwwSngaMqI/AAAAAAAAAWo/R2jVK9eln7c/s1600-h/070820-daandahuayllasacuzco-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwwSngaMqI/AAAAAAAAAWo/R2jVK9eln7c/s200/070820-daandahuayllasacuzco-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106009173931995810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;setacciamento del frumento, per separare i chicchi dal resto della spiga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtww-ngaMsI/AAAAAAAAAW4/5REjGR-3Y8U/s1600-h/070821-cuzco-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtww-ngaMsI/AAAAAAAAAW4/5REjGR-3Y8U/s200/070821-cuzco-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106009929846239938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;dopo il mercato... inizia il lungo ritorno dalla citta' verso la propria casa sulla montagna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwxv3gaMuI/AAAAAAAAAXI/oHzqpgrV0fc/s1600-h/070826-titica-007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwxv3gaMuI/AAAAAAAAAXI/oHzqpgrV0fc/s200/070826-titica-007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106010775954797282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwx8ngaMvI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/xnWat-Da3sg/s1600-h/070826-titica-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwx8ngaMvI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/xnWat-Da3sg/s200/070826-titica-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106010994998129394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bimbi del popolo Uros, gli abitanti delle isole galleggianti sul lago Titicaca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwyRXgaMwI/AAAAAAAAAXY/1XTi-lcy5oo/s1600-h/070828-yanque-003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwyRXgaMwI/AAAAAAAAAXY/1XTi-lcy5oo/s200/070828-yanque-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106011351480414978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwyangaMxI/AAAAAAAAAXg/PfpzgBgU89U/s1600-h/070828-yanque-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwyangaMxI/AAAAAAAAAXg/PfpzgBgU89U/s200/070828-yanque-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106011510394204946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwylHgaMyI/AAAAAAAAAXo/sxljn9rmKQ4/s1600-h/070828-yanque-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwylHgaMyI/AAAAAAAAAXo/sxljn9rmKQ4/s200/070828-yanque-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106011690782831394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Folklore a Yanque, nel Canyon del Colca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwzg3gaMzI/AAAAAAAAAXw/IGaBKqB8_So/s1600-h/070821-cuzco-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwzg3gaMzI/AAAAAAAAAXw/IGaBKqB8_So/s200/070821-cuzco-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106012717280015154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;... verso casa con il lama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwzxHgaM0I/AAAAAAAAAX4/TzdCBrUFOf0/s1600-h/070821-sacsayhuaman-021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwzxHgaM0I/AAAAAAAAAX4/TzdCBrUFOf0/s200/070821-sacsayhuaman-021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106012996452889410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;tessendo per i turisti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwz9XgaM1I/AAAAAAAAAYA/yLSeizgow2Y/s1600-h/070825-versopuno-003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtwz9XgaM1I/AAAAAAAAAYA/yLSeizgow2Y/s200/070825-versopuno-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106013206906286930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;con un agnellino in braccio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-7180841838005815745?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/7180841838005815745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=7180841838005815745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7180841838005815745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7180841838005815745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/peru-la-gente.html' title='Peru - la gente'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtwwGngaMpI/AAAAAAAAAWg/zGB4ifgUAfo/s72-c/070818-ayacucho-014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-7862119005742085710</id><published>2007-09-02T17:13:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T00:08:56.203-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Peru - il viaggio - da 0 a 5000m di altitudine e ritorno - Parte II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;Gli ultimi 3 giorni sono in continua discesa... altimetrica, ovviamente! Dal Colca risaliamo ai 5000m del passo andino e puntiamo il nostro fuoristrada verso i tre vulcani che circondano Arequipa: Chachani, Misti e Picchu Picchu. La visita piu' interessante e' al monastero di Santa Catalina, una vera e propria citta' nella citta'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzXOHgaM2I/AAAAAAAAAYI/MVa8UaNtlRk/s1600-h/070829-arequipa-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzXOHgaM2I/AAAAAAAAAYI/MVa8UaNtlRk/s200/070829-arequipa-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106192715064423266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzYYngaM3I/AAAAAAAAAYo/JIi18LhFww4/s1600-h/070829-arequipa-009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzYYngaM3I/AAAAAAAAAYo/JIi18LhFww4/s200/070829-arequipa-009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106193994964677490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtspM3gaMjI/AAAAAAAAAVA/-4tMLaucA1s/s1600-h/070829-arequipa-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtspM3gaMjI/AAAAAAAAAVA/-4tMLaucA1s/s200/070829-arequipa-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105719903589642802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtspZ3gaMkI/AAAAAAAAAVI/b7HyQGD7ZpA/s1600-h/070829-arequipa-009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtspZ3gaMkI/AAAAAAAAAVI/b7HyQGD7ZpA/s200/070829-arequipa-009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105720126927942210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;giochi di luce dalle vetrate del refettorio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da una vallata fertile come quella di Arequipa, a circa 2300m di altitudine, il nostro cammino ci riporta verso il mare ed un territorio particolarmente arido. Questo, pero', non ha impedito alla vita umana di svilupparsi: infatti sulla cordigliera ci sono molti corsi d'acqua, che scompaiono sotto terra in questo deserto, per riaffiorare vicinissimi al mare. La cultura Nazca ha saputo trovare l'acqua nelle sue faglie sotterranee e creare un sistema di acquedotti, ancor oggi usato, per coltivare parte di questo territorio arido ed inospitale. Insomma, non solo le enigmatiche linee, ma anche capacita' ingegneristiche e talento artistico nel vasellame... qui abbiamo conosciuto un simpatico signore, di discendenze italiche, spagnole e andine, che ci ha fatto apprezzare l'antica tecnica della lavorazione dell'argilla, per la produzione dei vasi Nazca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad ogni modo, la cosa piu' bella rimangono le famose linee e figure ricavate sulla pianura desertica della zona. Abbiamo effettuato il sorvolo in aereo... certo, con luce molto intensa non sono facilissime da vedere, ma il filmato del colibri e' venuto particolarmente bene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="280" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-37233cba31399eb3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v11.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D37233cba31399eb3%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331348295%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DD62C34FF754947B157FA05954B4ABD6DC4DF5E8.380497D87D453243796D589E18D0C66850A91A85%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D37233cba31399eb3%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DUgfKpKbv0rGxkhsG5IGgNdozmZM&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="280" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v11.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D37233cba31399eb3%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331348295%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DD62C34FF754947B157FA05954B4ABD6DC4DF5E8.380497D87D453243796D589E18D0C66850A91A85%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D37233cba31399eb3%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DUgfKpKbv0rGxkhsG5IGgNdozmZM&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Linee di Nazca - il colibri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il mistero sulle linee rimane ancora grande... di certo non si puo' rimanere indifferenti di fronte all'ennesima prova di capacita' dell'uomo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E ora veniamo alla parte piu' triste del viaggio... la testimonianza della distruzione causata dal terremoto nella zona di Pisco-Paracas-Ica. Qui, come in altri spezzoni di questo racconto, preferisco lasciar spazio alle immagini, piuttosto che alle parole: se le linee di Nazca o Macchu Picchu sono simbolo della capacita' umana di modellare la natura a proprio uso ed interesse, queste immagini ci ricordano che Madre Natura e' sempre piu' forte di noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtst3XgaMmI/AAAAAAAAAVY/zt8WFrour94/s1600-h/070831-paracas-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtst3XgaMmI/AAAAAAAAAVY/zt8WFrour94/s200/070831-paracas-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105725031780594274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZIHgaM5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/KLGzGEzRQEs/s1600-h/070831-paracas-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZIHgaM5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/KLGzGEzRQEs/s200/070831-paracas-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106194811008463762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzY9ngaM4I/AAAAAAAAAYw/e32DWFCq14c/s1600-h/070831-paracas-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzY9ngaM4I/AAAAAAAAAYw/e32DWFCq14c/s200/070831-paracas-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106194630619837314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;faglie apertesi sulla costa...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZgngaM7I/AAAAAAAAAZI/5MmpfrdHIWU/s1600-h/070831-pisco-012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZgngaM7I/AAAAAAAAAZI/5MmpfrdHIWU/s200/070831-pisco-012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106195231915258802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZVngaM6I/AAAAAAAAAZA/c2NIefHSDDM/s1600-h/070831-pisco-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzZVngaM6I/AAAAAAAAAZA/c2NIefHSDDM/s200/070831-pisco-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106195042936697762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... e la distruzione in citta'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Con questo finisco la descrizione del viaggio. Nel prossimo post aggiungero' foto del popolo andino, che ho scattato nella varie zone visitate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Rimanete sintonizzati,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-7862119005742085710?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/7862119005742085710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=7862119005742085710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7862119005742085710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7862119005742085710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/peru-il-viaggio-da-0-5000m-di_02.html' title='Peru - il viaggio - da 0 a 5000m di altitudine e ritorno - Parte II'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtzXOHgaM2I/AAAAAAAAAYI/MVa8UaNtlRk/s72-c/070829-arequipa-005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3889555522573419280</id><published>2007-09-02T15:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-13T23:15:35.787-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Peru - il viaggio - da 0 a 5000m di altitudine e ritorno - Parte I</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sono or ora di ritorno da 3 settimane in giro per il Peru: un paese magnifico, dai mille climi, colori e cibi, nonche' culla di civilta' che hanno prodotto Macchu Picchu e le linee di Nazca... tanto per citarne un paio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsMl3gaMFI/AAAAAAAAARQ/bUIB0WtsezU/s1600-h/PE_06_101.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsMl3gaMFI/AAAAAAAAARQ/bUIB0WtsezU/s320/PE_06_101.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105688447249166418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tutto ha inizio il 15 agosto, con una spiacevole sorpresa, poco prima dell'arrivo a Lima un violento terremoto si abbatte su Pisco (200km a sud di Lima), mietendo un migliaio di vittime e radendo al suolo buona parte del paese e della zona circostante. Pisco dovrebbe essere l'ultima tappa del nostro giro, dopo quasi 20 giorni di viaggio, ma dobbiamo passare da li' per iniziare il lungo cammino sulle Ande, che ci portera' a Cuzco (l'ombelico del mondo in linqua Quechua), l'ex-capitale dell'impero Inca e base di parte per le escursioni verso Macchu Picchu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La nostra prima tappa, dopo Lima, e' la citta' di Ayacucho, citta' importante sia in periodo preincaico (culla della civilta' Wary), che in periodo colonico, visto che qui vicino i Libertadores, guidati da Bolivar e San Martin ottengono la vittoria sugli spagnoli, che sancisce l'indipendenza del Peru, nel 1835. L'arrivo ad Ayacucho, il 17 agosto, risulta particolarmente faticoso, a cause delle frane dovute al terremoto, come potete vedere qui sotto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsOnHgaMGI/AAAAAAAAARY/nXI0OzqjRE4/s1600-h/070817-versoayacucho-003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsOnHgaMGI/AAAAAAAAARY/nXI0OzqjRE4/s200/070817-versoayacucho-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105690667747258466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il 19 ripartiamo alla volta di Andahuyllas, tappa intermedia per Cuzco, oltre 250km di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsPYXgaMII/AAAAAAAAARo/H211osEjqog/s1600-h/070819-daayacuchoaandahuayllas-016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsPYXgaMII/AAAAAAAAARo/H211osEjqog/s200/070819-daayacuchoaandahuayllas-016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105691513855815810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;sterrato. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsPNngaMHI/AAAAAAAAARg/qHJHPWN-qFM/s1600-h/070819-daayacuchoaandahuayllas-008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsPNngaMHI/AAAAAAAAARg/qHJHPWN-qFM/s200/070819-daayacuchoaandahuayllas-008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105691329172222066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tra lama, alpaca, bovini vari, sempre ad un'altitudine superiore ai 2500m, non manca di incontrare un bus per trasporto locale e un'oasi fluviale, in una zona a dir poco arida. Il 20 e' ancora tappa di avvicinamento alla zona Inca, oltre che di acclimatamento alla quota... arrivati a Cuzco, in serata, ci troviamo gia' a 3400m sopra il livello del mare... ma stoicamente non ci serviamo degli aiuti, tipo mate de Coca! A dir la verita', io il mal d'altitudine non l'ho proprio sofferto, neanche quando siamo arrivati a 5000m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il 21 iziamo la parte archeologica del nostro giro, visitando le 4 rovine di Sacsayhuaman, la collina di Cuzco. Qui si inizia a comprendere appieno il senso della cultura inca, tutta incentrata sul mondo sotterraneo (a cui si associa il serpente), il mondo terreno (il puma) e il cielo (il condor - l'uccello simbolo della liberta' andina).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsRBXgaMJI/AAAAAAAAARw/PLHB8w2nAQM/s1600-h/070821-sacsayhuaman-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsRBXgaMJI/AAAAAAAAARw/PLHB8w2nAQM/s200/070821-sacsayhuaman-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105693317742080146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;il tempio del sole a Sacsayhuaman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Purtroppo la conquista spagnola a spazzato via, quasi interamente ogni altro resto inca nel centro di Cuzco, conservando solo le classiche mura degli edifici a sezione trapezoidale, e qualche traccia del grande tempio del sole e della luna (Qorikancha), all'interno del chiostro del convento di San Domenico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Da qui inizia la nostra ascesa verso Macchu Picchu, percorrendo il Valle Sagrado degli Inca, sulle sponde del fiume Urubamba. Qui ci imbattiamo in saline di salgemma di epoca inca, ancor oggi utilizzate dalla popolazione locale... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTBXgaMKI/AAAAAAAAAR4/zC1HVBBAEtg/s1600-h/070822-salinasmaray-006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTBXgaMKI/AAAAAAAAAR4/zC1HVBBAEtg/s200/070822-salinasmaray-006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105695516765335714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;ma quello che piu' affascina e' senz'altro il paesaggio. Qui stiamo passando dalla montagna andina, un po' arida, a meno di interventi umani, alla foresta alta (infatti proseguendo oltre Macchu Picchu si finisce in zona amazzonica).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTe3gaMLI/AAAAAAAAASA/f2QINFNcJZM/s1600-h/070822-vallesacrado-003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTe3gaMLI/AAAAAAAAASA/f2QINFNcJZM/s200/070822-vallesacrado-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105696023571476658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTpXgaMMI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ou4xcrpOJ-Q/s1600-h/070822-vallesacrado-010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTpXgaMMI/AAAAAAAAASI/Ou4xcrpOJ-Q/s200/070822-vallesacrado-010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105696203960103106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;km 82 - l'inizio del cammino Inca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTx3gaMNI/AAAAAAAAASQ/hPYHKTMEwMg/s1600-h/070822-vallesacrado-012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsTx3gaMNI/AAAAAAAAASQ/hPYHKTMEwMg/s200/070822-vallesacrado-012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105696349988991186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E poi, come per magia, ecco apparirci dinanzi agli occhi, all'alba, Macchu Picchu, la citta' perduta degli Inca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;La cittadella vista da Inti Punku (la porta del sole)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsUyXgaMOI/AAAAAAAAASY/Su4IQ5c1JOk/s1600-h/070823-macchupicchu-062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsUyXgaMOI/AAAAAAAAASY/Su4IQ5c1JOk/s200/070823-macchupicchu-062.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105697458090553570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsU-XgaMPI/AAAAAAAAASg/HtGc7FkC-i0/s1600-h/070823-macchupicchu-040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsU-XgaMPI/AAAAAAAAASg/HtGc7FkC-i0/s200/070823-macchupicchu-040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105697664248983794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsWdHgaMQI/AAAAAAAAASo/sSh9LTeD2Dk/s1600-h/070823-macchupicchu-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsWdHgaMQI/AAAAAAAAASo/sSh9LTeD2Dk/s200/070823-macchupicchu-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105699292041588994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;...e l'ultimo tratto del cammino Inca, per entrare a Macchu Picchu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsW0HgaMRI/AAAAAAAAASw/Vcvl4evXQvc/s1600-h/070823-macchupicchu-007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsW0HgaMRI/AAAAAAAAASw/Vcvl4evXQvc/s200/070823-macchupicchu-007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105699687178580242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Non credo che le mie parole possano rendere omaggio, piu' delle foto, alla bellezza magnetica ed enigmatica di questo luogo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;A ritmo serrato, facciamo ritorno in vallata, con il treno delle Ande, e visitiamo la fortezza di Pisac. Spettacolare per l'immensita' dei terrazzamenti costruiti dagli Inca sulle falde della montagna e per gli effetti di luci e colori nelle gallerie di comunicazioni tra i vari quartieri della fortezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsXhngaMSI/AAAAAAAAAS4/QhTOuPwzPg8/s1600-h/070824-pisac-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsXhngaMSI/AAAAAAAAAS4/QhTOuPwzPg8/s200/070824-pisac-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105700468862628130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsXr3gaMTI/AAAAAAAAATA/TaJuYM9PdBM/s1600-h/070824-pisac-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsXr3gaMTI/AAAAAAAAATA/TaJuYM9PdBM/s200/070824-pisac-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105700644956287282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Una nuova sosta a Cuzco e' d'uopo per riposare un pochino le membra e preparsi ad una 4 giorni a 4000m e oltre (Titicaca e Canyon del Colca).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il viaggio da Cuzco a Titicaca, riserva la sorpresa del grande altipiano centro-andino: lo sguardo si perde in una pianura arida a oltre 4000m, contornata da picchi di oltre 5000m. Per chilometri non si vede traccia umana, se non fosse per la ferrovia che porta a Puno, sul lago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsZC3gaMUI/AAAAAAAAATI/SGVXkG9-nBk/s1600-h/070825-versopuno-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsZC3gaMUI/AAAAAAAAATI/SGVXkG9-nBk/s200/070825-versopuno-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105702139604906306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsZOHgaMVI/AAAAAAAAATQ/DhyprialP9I/s1600-h/070825-versopuno-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsZOHgaMVI/AAAAAAAAATQ/DhyprialP9I/s200/070825-versopuno-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105702332878434642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A meta' strada, non puo' mancare la sosta pranzo, nella cittadina di Ayaviri, dove il Vostro si cimenta nella degustazione del Kankacho (pecora al forno e patate disidratate) al banchetto di Doña Julia, che serve porzioni da 5 o 8 soles... ovviamente io sono andato per quella da 8. Ma c'era da chiederselo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsaKXgaMWI/AAAAAAAAATY/MUZ2QRiC3J4/s1600-h/070825-versopuno-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsaKXgaMWI/AAAAAAAAATY/MUZ2QRiC3J4/s200/070825-versopuno-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105703367965552994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Quasi dimenticavo... ovviamente si pasteggia ad Inca Kola, la bevanda piu' consumata nel Peru, dal colore giallo e dal gusto di bubble gum!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Di Titicaca si potrebbe dire molto e potrei sommergervi di foto, ma preferisco essere sintetico e lasciarvi con un paio di chicche. Il posto e' assolutamente da visitare se fate un giro in Peru.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsbaXgaMXI/AAAAAAAAATg/Wsuu392V4Cg/s1600-h/070826-titica-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsbaXgaMXI/AAAAAAAAATg/Wsuu392V4Cg/s200/070826-titica-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105704742355087730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsbqXgaMYI/AAAAAAAAATo/BVKPL46GzXs/s1600-h/070826-titica-019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsbqXgaMYI/AAAAAAAAATo/BVKPL46GzXs/s200/070826-titica-019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105705017232994690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;lo spettacolo dell'alba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Questo mare di cobalto a 4000m riserva grandi emozioni e poi non si puo' non fare un salto alle isole galleggianti degli Uros, isole letteralmente costruite su canna totora, che richiedono di essere continuamente lavorate per evitare che sprofondino o marciscano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsb-3gaMZI/AAAAAAAAATw/GIbFSMpHK1c/s1600-h/070826-titica-011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsb-3gaMZI/AAAAAAAAATw/GIbFSMpHK1c/s200/070826-titica-011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105705369420312978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Lasciato Titicaca, il nostro fuoristrada si inerpica ancora piu' in alto, ritornando verso la costa, per raggiungere i 5000m di altitudine... l'aria, vi assicuro, e' sensibilmente piu' sottile a quest'altezza e occorre respirare profondamente, per raccogliere quanto piu' ossigeno possibile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsc_3gaMbI/AAAAAAAAAUA/AXzNq6ankms/s1600-h/070827-versocolca-005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsc_3gaMbI/AAAAAAAAAUA/AXzNq6ankms/s200/070827-versocolca-005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105706486111809970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rt4zTXgaM8I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/fp8a0MD9Wys/s1600-h/DSCN2358.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rt4zTXgaM8I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/fp8a0MD9Wys/s200/DSCN2358.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106575435305202626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;la lapide non mente... 4910m sopra il livello del mare, ma sono sempre in t-shirt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsjbXgaMiI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Jsh4EBxcnLc/s1600-h/070827-versocolca-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsjbXgaMiI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Jsh4EBxcnLc/s200/070827-versocolca-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105713555627979298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;... il cartello ci informa di far attenzione al passaggio dei lama!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;l 28 agosto e' finalmente l'ora di preparare gli obiettivi e dimostrare di saperci un pochino fare con la macchina fotografica: siamo alla Cruz del Condor, nel Canyon del Colca, luogo ideale per l'avvistamento dell'uccello simbolo della liberta'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfI3gaMcI/AAAAAAAAAUI/f6v1OPJSD7A/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfI3gaMcI/AAAAAAAAAUI/f6v1OPJSD7A/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105708839753888194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfSXgaMdI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/uSqru7H440g/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfSXgaMdI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/uSqru7H440g/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105709002962645458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsfa3gaMeI/AAAAAAAAAUY/klxHS2u5yPI/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsfa3gaMeI/AAAAAAAAAUY/klxHS2u5yPI/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105709148991533538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfjngaMfI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cxA9kXuhK4c/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfjngaMfI/AAAAAAAAAUg/cxA9kXuhK4c/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105709299315388914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfuHgaMgI/AAAAAAAAAUo/tVLu5GDJm2Y/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsfuHgaMgI/AAAAAAAAAUo/tVLu5GDJm2Y/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105709479704015362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsf4XgaMhI/AAAAAAAAAUw/th3lOx2wd5w/s1600-h/070828-cruzdelcondor-065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rtsf4XgaMhI/AAAAAAAAAUw/th3lOx2wd5w/s200/070828-cruzdelcondor-065.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105709655797674514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Dopo oltre 2 ore e mezza e oltre 70 foto, con la schiena un po' acciaccata, per le posizioni assurde che ho dovuto tenere per scattare, si torna in albergo a riposarsi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3889555522573419280?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3889555522573419280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3889555522573419280' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3889555522573419280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3889555522573419280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/09/peru-il-viaggio-da-0-5000m-di.html' title='Peru - il viaggio - da 0 a 5000m di altitudine e ritorno - Parte I'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RtsMl3gaMFI/AAAAAAAAARQ/bUIB0WtsezU/s72-c/PE_06_101.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5958644094722359955</id><published>2007-08-10T15:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-10T17:25:40.253-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Vita notturna</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E' da un po' di tempo che sto intrattenendo discorsi abbastanza seri sul blog, per cui mi pare opportuno reintrodurre un po' di frivolezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo un anno di vita newyorkese, mi pare giusto darvi qualche dritta sui locali piu' interessanti dove sono stato. Inizio dai rooftop bar, che, essendo estate, sono i posti piu' gettonati. Se passate da queste parti non potete mancare un visita al &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/plunge_at_the_hotel_gansevoort/"&gt;Plunge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, il bar sul tetto dell'hotel Gansevoort, nel bel mezzo del Meatpacking district sulla 9a strada, all'angolo con la 13a. Se invece preferite avere l'Empire State Building proprio di fronte ai vostri occhi, allora il posto che fa per voi e' il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/230-fifth/"&gt;230 Fifth Avenue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, che come dice il nome e' sito al 230 della 5a strada, all'incrocio con la 27a. Se il panorama ancora non vi bastasse, provate il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/rare_view/"&gt;Rave View&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, situato poco piu' a nord su Lexington e la 37a, da cui potrete ammirare le guglie dell'Empire State e del Chrysler Building. Per finire, vi lascio con l'ultima opzione, che pero' manca del fascino scenico delle altre 3, ma e' comunque molto alla monda e straripante di gregge urbano, il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/cabana_at_the_maritime_hotel/"&gt;Cabana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; all'hotel Maritime, sulla &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;9a, all'angolo con la 16a.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per l'estate, se siete nell'Upper West Side, vi consiglio il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/west_79th_street_boat_basin_cafe/"&gt;Boat Basin Cafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, sul lungofiume dell'Hudson alla 79a, ideale se state pensando ad un romantico tramonto sulla riva del fiume in compagnia di una persona speciale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se invece cercate un locale che vi ricordi le serate in spiaggia e al tempo stesso volete gustarvi lo skiline di Manhattan, allora vi consiglio il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.nywatertaxi.com/water-taxi-beach/"&gt;Water Taxi Beach&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, sito nel Queens, proprio di fronte al palazzo di vetro dell'ONU, sull'altra sponda dell'East River.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direi che vi ho dato svariati suggerimenti per divertirvi parecchio, se passate da queste parti... ma se ancora non vi bastasse e voleste fare proprio le ore piccole, non posso far altro che suggerirvi il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.marqueeny.com/main.html"&gt;Marquee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, sulla 10a all'angolo con la 26a, oppure il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.sol-nyc.com/"&gt;Sol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, sull'11a all'angolo con la 29a.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the City that never sleeps,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5958644094722359955?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5958644094722359955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5958644094722359955' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5958644094722359955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5958644094722359955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/08/vita-notturna.html' title='Vita notturna'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6450865080522833469</id><published>2007-08-08T09:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T10:18:34.251-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Condizioni di mercato - addendum</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ho appena letto il commento di uno di voi lettori alle mie considerazioni sulle condizioni dei mercati finanziari mondiali e mi pare opportuno fare alcune aggiunte a quanto gia' detto e rispondere ad alcuni punti sollevati nel commento alla mia analisi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Non metto per nulla in discussione il fatto che l'economia mondiale sia in buona forma e, aggiungo, differentemente al passato, oggi finalmente possiamo parlare di vera globalizzazione, in cui la locomotiva americana dettera' sempre meno il tempo alle altre economie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ugualmente non metto in discussione il fatto che la reazione dei mercati nelle ultime settimane sia stata eccessiva: sia l'indice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itraxx"&gt;iTRAXX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt; high yield europeo che il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap_index"&gt;CDX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt; high yield americano sono schizzati a valori assolutamente ingiustificati, ma questo non fa altro che dare maggior peso alla mia considerazione che, con i default ai minimi storici, se non si sa che pesci pigliare, si vende indiscriminatamente qualsiasi cosa, si cerca di toccare il fondo e a quel punto si ricomincia ad acquistare solo quei titoli che trattano a sconto rispetto al reale merito di credito dell'emittente. Se poi aggiungiamo che le vendite sul mercato obbligazionario sono spesso state seguite da acquisti sul mercato dei titoli di stato, che hanno visto i rendimenti scivolare di 50 punti base nel giro di 3 settimane (il decennale americano e' sceso fino a 4.69% da  5.20%!), ecco che si puo' motivare il movimento dell'iTraxx a 500 punti da 250 circa di meta' giugno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Un altro problema, di non poco conto, e' rappresentato dal fatto che la pipeline di formazione di nuovi CLO e' stata sostanzialmente interrotta e qui il problema non e' di liquidita', ma e' di natura squisitamente tecnica: non ci sono le condizioni per garantire il ritorno sull'investimento. Dato che i CLO rappresentano una fonte primaria di liquidita', l'interruzione nella generazione di nuovi veicoli e' un grosso problema, soprattutto se si considera che il calendario di nuove emissioni per finanziare le acquisizioni a leva si colloca intorno a 200-250 miliardi di dollari.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Spero di essere stato piu' chiaro con queste precisazioni: il problema attuale non e' di carattere fondamentale, nel senso che tutti i parametri economici e societari sembrano essere sani, ma di natura tecnica e dubito che cio' sia solo legato alla carenza di liquidita' tipica dei mesi estivi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Chiaramente non pretendo di essere corretto, intendo solo esporvi il mio pensiero, per quel che puo' contare, sui fatti che ho avuto modo di testimoniare in prima persona, durante il lavoro estivo. Mi auguro di sbagliarmi, ma temo che l'attuale situazione persistera' almeno fino all'inizio del 2008. Non ci vedo nulla di tragico, solo il normale, seppur eccessivamente pessimistico, rimbalzo di un pendolo, che era stato spinto fin troppo agli estremi dell'euforia da investimenti e da eccesso di liquidita'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6450865080522833469?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6450865080522833469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6450865080522833469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6450865080522833469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6450865080522833469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/08/condizioni-di-mercato-addendum.html' title='Condizioni di mercato - addendum'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4003786767419040128</id><published>2007-08-04T09:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T09:37:36.216-04:00</updated><title type='text'>NY Harbor al tramonto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;L'altra sera abbiamo festeggiato la fine del lavoro estivo, facendo un giro in barca nella baia di New York.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Prima di salire a bordo della nostra goletta, mi sono imbattuto in un paio di yacht di proprieta' di Mr. America's Cup, alias Dennis Conner....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSAQ1jA24I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/7MpffAfibnc/s1600-h/070731-sailing-003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSAQ1jA24I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/7MpffAfibnc/s200/070731-sailing-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094838105203071874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSALVjA23I/AAAAAAAAAQw/J3derzW-7Y4/s1600-h/070731-sailing-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSALVjA23I/AAAAAAAAAQw/J3derzW-7Y4/s200/070731-sailing-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094838010713791346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;non mi sarebbe dispiaciuto farci un giro! Delle vere meraviglie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi lascio con un'immagine della punta meridionale di Manhattan, vista dalla barca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSAr1jA25I/AAAAAAAAARA/8B-aNYA0Eyg/s1600-h/070731-sailing-004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSAr1jA25I/AAAAAAAAARA/8B-aNYA0Eyg/s200/070731-sailing-004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094838569059539858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4003786767419040128?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4003786767419040128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4003786767419040128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4003786767419040128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4003786767419040128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/08/ny-harbor-al-tramonto.html' title='NY Harbor al tramonto'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RrSAQ1jA24I/AAAAAAAAAQ4/7MpffAfibnc/s72-c/070731-sailing-003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8554409309223871070</id><published>2007-07-26T09:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-29T21:08:05.502-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Condizioni di mercato</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vorrei aggiungere un paio di considerazioni alla discussione aperta l'altro giorno da Lello. Mi soffermarmi sul mercato obbligazionario, che e' quello dove le vendite sono state piu' sostenute in questi giorni, anche se l'azionario sta ormai seguendo a ruota.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come dicevo l'altro giorno, ci troviamo di fronte ad una situazione in cui le aziende che entrano in crisi finanziaria o che sono tecnicamente in default non solo sono ai minimi storici, ma soprattuto tale numero e' sensibilmente vicino a zero, almeno qui negli Stati Uniti. Questo vuol dire che c'e' un solo percorso da qui in poi... ossia i default sono destinati ad aumentare. Aggiungiamo a questa considerazione, il fatto che l'offerta di nuove obbligazioni ha raggiunto livelli esorbitanti e la frittata e' bell'e fatta. Non credo ci sia nulla di fondamentalmente malsano nell'economia; e' il mercato che non sta funzionando... o meglio la correzione, per tornare alla normalita' dopo gli eccessi di questi ultimi mesi, sta avvenendo con eccessiva foga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direi che la situazione puo' essere letta in questi termini: le aspettative sono per un incremento fisiologico dei default, ma gli investitori non hanno ancora metabolizzato quali saranno le aziende che entreranno in difficolta' finanziaria. Risultato, si vende qualsiasi cosa, generando un effetto negativo sulle nuove offerte: perche' acquistare alla pari un titolo che, non appena quotato, trattera' a sconto? Tanto vale aspettare che venga prezzato e poi acquistarlo sul mercato secondario!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quale puo' essere la strada a seguire? Intanto il mercato secondario, quello delle contrattazioni quotidiane, deve trovare il suo minimo: ad un certo punto qualche investitore iniziera' a realizzare che titoli che trattano a 70 centesimi per ogni dollaro di debito, ma che sono sostenuti da solide realta' industriali, non hanno alcuna ragione di trattare cosi' tanto a sconto, dunque, selettivamente, gli investitori torneranno a comprare titoli. Quando le valutazioni torneranno su valori piu' corretti, ecco che ci sara' di nuovo interesse ad acquistare sul mercato primario, quello delle nuove emissioni, e si tornera' in una situazione di normale ciclo economico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certo non torneremo ai fasti di questi ultimi mesi, usando gli stessi strumenti usati oggi. Ritengo si sia rotto il giocattolo usato per creare l'ondata di liquidita' richiesta a finanziare le acquisizioni a leva. Sto parlando di veicoli finanziari tipo &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation"&gt;CLO e CDO&lt;/a&gt; (cliccate sulle sigle per accedere ad una breve descrizione). Non dico che siano morti, anzi, continueranno a rappresentare importanti fonti, ma non illimitate di liquidita', come fino ad oggi si era arrivati (erroneamente) a credere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con un po' di tempo a disposizione, pero', ritengo che si arrivera' in futuro a superare i fasti dei mesi passati. Come? I CLO e CDO del futuro saranno sviluppati e portati sul mercato. Quindi, a differenza di quanto leggo sui giornali o sento dire da alcune persone, questo e' un momento ideale per essere parte di questo business. C'e' la possibilita' di ideare qualcosa di nuovo, e quindi... sotto col lavoro!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8554409309223871070?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8554409309223871070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8554409309223871070' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8554409309223871070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8554409309223871070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/condizioni-di-mercato.html' title='Condizioni di mercato'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8436206437555797693</id><published>2007-07-25T13:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T21:03:15.177-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Risposta a Lello</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Lello, in un attimo di pausa dal lavoro ho avuto modo di leggere il tuo post sul blog e mi sembra opportuno darti risposta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Credo che in questo momento anche i cosiddetti "esperti" di mercati finanziari non sappiano che pesci prendere. L'economia mondiale e' fondamentalmente sana, le aziende continuano a macinare utili e, nella maggior parte dei casi, a superare le attese degli analisti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Quello che si e' creato e' un forte disequilibrio tra domanda ed offerta, che sta facendo muovere i mercati in modo erratico in questi ultimi giorni. Il fatto che un'enorme quantita' di investimenti sia direzionale (ossia in tanti, forse troppi, investitori si sono gettati sulle stesse scommess), che ci troviamo di fronte a 3-4 anni di corsa continua dell'azionario, che il differenziale tra titoli di stato e junk bond abbia toccato a giugno i livelli piu' bassi di sempre e che il numero di default societari sia ai minimi dalla fine degli anni 80, ha presumibilmente aperto qualche crepa nelle convizioni che il mercato possa continuare a crescere. La possibilita' che il mercato immobiliare si sgonfi puo' quindi rappresentare l'elemento che fa riaffiorare timori nelle menti degli investitori, facendo scattare un effetto di vendite a catena sui vari mercati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Direi che la cosa migliore da fare sia osservare attentamente gli sviluppi e cercare di non seguire bovinamente la massa. Questo nella speranza che si possa imparare dagli errori del passato ed evitare di ricommetterli (che in sostanza era quanto dicevo nel post a cui Lello fa riferimento (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/segnali-da-non-sottovalutare.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Segnali da non sottovalutare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8436206437555797693?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8436206437555797693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8436206437555797693' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8436206437555797693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8436206437555797693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/risposta-lello.html' title='Risposta a Lello'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-7991924659337729006</id><published>2007-07-25T07:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T10:05:55.395-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Scusate l'ignoranza</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spanish-living.com/images/spanish-property-portal/mortgage.gif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 329px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 262px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.spanish-living.com/images/spanish-property-portal/mortgage.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; Io, di mercati immobiliari ne capisco assai poco, ma dopo il post di Marco intitolato "&lt;a href="http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/segnali-da-non-sottovalutare.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Segnali da non sottovalutare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" mi sono cominciato a preoccupare. Oggi leggo l'articolo di seguito (FT) riguardo i problemi del mortgage market. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cosa succede di preciso?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h2 class="ft-story-header" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e2ab1b62-3a13-11dc-9d73-0000779fd2ac,_i_rssPage=6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2Fe2ab1b62-3a13-11dc-9d73-0000779fd2ac%2C_i_rssPage%3D6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html&amp;_i_referer="&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"&gt;Markets tumble as credit concerns spread&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p class="ft-story-header" style="FONT-STYLE: italic" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;By Michael Mackenzie and Saskia Scholtes in New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="ft-story-header" style="FONT-STYLE: italic" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Published: July 24 2007 19:38 Last updated: July 25 2007 00:50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="ft-story-body" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;US stocks suffered their worst fall in nearly five months on Tuesday, reflecting fears that the problems in the mortgage market are spreading and investor appetite for complex debt instruments is drying up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="ft-story-body" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;The S&amp;amp;P 500 index lost 30.52 points – 2 per cent – to 1,511.05, its worst one-day drop since losing 50.33 points on February 27. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 226.47 – 1.6 per cent – to 13,716.95.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-7991924659337729006?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e2ab1b62-3a13-11dc-9d73-0000779fd2ac,_i_rssPage=6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2Fe2ab1b62-3a13-11dc-9d73-0000779fd2ac%2C_i_rssPage%3D6700d4e4-6714-11da-' title='Scusate l&apos;ignoranza'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/7991924659337729006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=7991924659337729006' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7991924659337729006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7991924659337729006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/scusate-lignoranza.html' title='Scusate l&apos;ignoranza'/><author><name>Emanuele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16035504017201612149</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6479627859526532469</id><published>2007-07-15T18:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T19:21:02.781-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Spot Fiat 500</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Gli spot della nuova Fiat 500 sono talmente belli, che mi pare giusto metterveli a portata di mano. Divertitevi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Primo Spot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: times new roman;" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/seJmEb0fcBA"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/seJmEb0fcBA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Secondo Spot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: times new roman;" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Iuw-daWvtqU"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Iuw-daWvtqU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Terzo Spot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="font-family: times new roman;" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6oTQZS7tTU"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6oTQZS7tTU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Di seguito vi lascio alcuni stralci dell'intervista di Gramellini a Marchionne. Ci sono alcuni spunti (li ho ben evidenziati), per tutti Noi Italiani. In questo periodo difficile per la nazione, mi pare veramente corretto il pensiero che se ce l'ha fatta la Fiat, ce la puo' fare il paese intero... dimostriamo a noi stessi che non siamo soltanto il paese dei giocolieri, saltimbanco, tronisti, veline e quant'altro la spazzatura televisiva ci propone, ma che abbiamo il coraggio di tornare ad essere una nazione viva e pulsante.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;"...la nuova Fiat 500 entra nella case di tutti gli italiani con una pubblicità che parla di Falcone, Ciampi, Valentino Rossi e Giorgio Gaber, non nomina mai la 500 e cita la Fiat soltanto una volta, alla fine. Colpiti dalla scelta, siamo andati a chiederne conto al pubblicitario che ha scritto il testo dello spot e scelto le foto che lo illustrano. È un esordiente. Si chiama Sergio Marchionne, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;uno che ama l'Italia come capita solo a chi non ci ha vissuto per molto tempo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; e che di mestiere gestisce da tre anni l'azienda di cui ha appena curato la réclame. È seduto davanti a un portacenere, gioca con l'accendino e porta il solito maglione blu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Nero. Io posseggo solo maglioni neri. Ma siete tutti daltonici? Nero con una rifinitura speciale di cui nessuno si è ancora accorto. Dopo gliela mostro».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Intanto ci dica quando ha deciso di darsi alla pubblicità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Il 16 maggio, di pomeriggio. Ho impiegato un'ora e mezzo per scrivere il testo al computer. Ma ce l'avevo in pancia da giorni. L'ho scritto in inglese e poi tradotto, ma chi lo ha letto in originale dice che è ancora più bello, perché l'inglese è una lingua precisa».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E cosa dovrebbe comunicarci di così preciso, lo spot della 500?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Ricostruisce il Dna del gruppo Fiat. Abbiamo sputato sangue in questi anni per ripulirlo e ricominciare...[]».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ricorda la prima volta in cui entrò al Lingotto da amministratore delegato?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Nella pancia della balena. Sentivo puzza di morte. Morte industriale, intendo. Un'organizzazione sfinita, pronta ad appigliarsi a qualsiasi chiodo []».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il piemontese viene da generazioni di montanari, soldati, operai. Ha il culto dell'obbedienza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«E io ho mantenuto la disciplina e il senso del dovere, però li ho dirottati verso la condivisione degli obiettivi. Lavoro di squadra vuol dire che tutti i miei uomini comunicano fra loro e si informano su tutto []. Tutti ci davano per morti. Sull'ultimo numero del Journal de l'Auto c'è l'immagine di una 500 che esce dalla bara… Ora il sogno è [] diventare i migliori. Non in tutto, che è impossibile. Ma su certi valori. Essere italiani significa farci riconoscere per lo stile che abbiamo. Noi [] stiamo diventando veloci e facilitanti come la Apple. Per lo spot mi sono ispirato allo slogan: "Think different"».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La Apple è il suo pallino. Come mai preferisce Steve Jobs a Bill Gates?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«È l'underdog, quello che vede il mondo in maniera diversa e capisce che c'è spazio anche per quelli come lui. []».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Nello spot ci sono anche gli operai sotto Mirafiori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Abbiamo scelto immagini che riguardassero da vicino la storia d'Italia degli ultimi 50 anni. [] Perciò lo slogan della campagna è: la nuova Fiat appartiene a tutti noi».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Le immagini le ha scelte lei?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Ho dato spunti, anche forti. Amin, Pol Pot. Alcuni sono stati scartati. Nella mia testa c'erano solo parole e immagini. Poi è saltato fuori il bambino del "Nuovo cinema Paradiso" di Tornatore. È lui che guarda le foto, nello spot. Il suo sorriso buffo rappresenta il nuovo primo giorno della Fiat».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La sua immagine preferita? Per De Meo è Ciampi che mette le mani sulla bara dei caduti di Nassiriya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Falcone e Borsellino. E Valentino Rossi che solleva un braccio al cielo dopo la vittoria. Quanta energia e forza in quel gesto, quanta italianità… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Questo è un Paese che non sa volersi bene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. [] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Il problema italiano è che non ha la reputazione internazionale di sapersi correggere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; []».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Bisognerebbe avere senso dello Stato. Anche le aziende che privatizzano i profitti e scaricano i debiti sul pubblico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Negli ultimi 3 anni profitti e debiti delle Fiat sono stati totalmente a carico dell'azienda. Alle banche avevo promesso che mi sarei spaccato l'anima per non far perder loro i soldi che in quel momento non potevo restituire. Bene, se fossero rimaste tutte, adesso avrebbero il doppio e oltre del capitale investito. I loro 3 miliardi oggi ne valgono quasi 7».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Fra gli italiani si respira impotenza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;Strano. Il Pil cresce, l'indebitamento e la disoccupazione calano, eppure c'è questo senso di insoddisfazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. [] Scusi, mi è arrivato un sms dalla Borsa: "Fiat vale 28 miliardi e mezzo di euro". Forse è davvero ora di andarci, in pensione…».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Non ci crede nessuno. Ormai con quel maglione è anche un personaggio. Dal Presidente della Repubblica dovrà mettersi la giacca.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;«Cos'è, una minaccia? Io sono così. Il tizio con il maglione. Almeno non mi confondo la mattina nell'armadio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;I miei maglioni hanno un piccolo tricolore sulla manica. E lo porto con orgoglio, io. L'Italia non è un concetto astratto. Esiste. Come ce l'abbiamo fatta noi a trovare la gente giusta per risorgere, ce la può fare anche il Paese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;. []». &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6479627859526532469?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6479627859526532469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6479627859526532469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6479627859526532469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6479627859526532469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/spot-fiat-500.html' title='Spot Fiat 500'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3962635843992268859</id><published>2007-07-15T15:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T15:17:27.348-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Topo d'ufficio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Riprendo il tema del buon Lello e vi informo che, nonostante sia sparito per qualche giorno, sono ancora vivo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ieri, sabato, ho passato "solo" 16 ore in ufficio... alle 22 ero l'unico rimasto, come potete vedere nella foto qui sotto (io siedo ad un'estremita' del palazzo, per cui  la profondita' della foto e' di una settantina di metri). Direte, ma che ti sei rincretinito tutto d'un colpo? No, no c'e' un motivo, almeno riesco ad evitare l'ufficio oggi e mi posso godere una bella giornata d'estate a Central Park, mentre i miei colleghi lavorano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RppysnrEDgI/AAAAAAAAAQo/1BOYJD79mfE/s1600-h/070714-office-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RppysnrEDgI/AAAAAAAAAQo/1BOYJD79mfE/s320/070714-office-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087504839957810690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Infatti, nonostante il mercato obbligazionario stia continuando a dare preoccupanti segni di cedimento, noi continuiamo ad essere oberati di lavoro. Dubito che molti dei progetti su cui stiamo lavorando vadano in porto, ma bisogna provarci...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Scappo, che il sole mi attende.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3962635843992268859?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3962635843992268859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3962635843992268859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3962635843992268859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3962635843992268859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/topo-dufficio.html' title='Topo d&apos;ufficio'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RppysnrEDgI/AAAAAAAAAQo/1BOYJD79mfE/s72-c/070714-office-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4580902386266887752</id><published>2007-07-15T13:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T15:07:26.057-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Topo di Campagna, Topo di Città</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s1600/070627-chicago-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s1600/070627-chicago-001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.feeder.ro/africa_de_sud_3463453534.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.feeder.ro/africa_de_sud_3463453534.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ciao Marco,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Guardando il tuo blog e confrontandolo con il mio non posso fare a meno di notare quanto siano diversi! E' veramente bello vedere come un'internship estivo possa assumere connotati così diversi a seconda della cultura, geografia e funzione. Viva la diversità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Per chi non mi conosce sono Emanuele, anche chiamato "Lello" in questo blog, il compagno di MBA di Marco che è finito all'ospedale per le follie di un taxi newyorkese. Ora mi trovo in Ghana per il mio summer internship come consulente volontario per una NGO che accoppia studenti MBA con imprenditori Ghanesi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU7K7V3ywI/AAAAAAAAAOg/dChjzexjHEI/s1600/travel.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU7K7V3ywI/AAAAAAAAAOg/dChjzexjHEI/s1600/travel.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rvrZ_ektGR0/Ro6c-6tEvoI/AAAAAAAAAH8/WqhBy6nqMWs/s200/Accra.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rvrZ_ektGR0/Ro6c-6tEvoI/AAAAAAAAAH8/WqhBy6nqMWs/s200/Accra.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Quì dall'Africa seguo le gesta del nostro Marco su è giù per gli Stati Uniti a cavallo di efficientissimi Jet privati. Leggo di stress considerevole e ritmi elevatissimi e proprio non posso fare a meno di confrontare NY con il Business Climate africano. Credo che le parole siano solo noiose e retoriche, mi limiterò quindi ad allegare qualche foto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-PrV3y0I/AAAAAAAAAPA/bbo3dZR84Hk/s1600/070625%2B-%2Bfalcon.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-PrV3y0I/AAAAAAAAAPA/bbo3dZR84Hk/s1600/070625%2B-%2Bfalcon.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iwalewa.uni-bayreuth.de/Bilddateien/Taxis3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.iwalewa.uni-bayreuth.de/Bilddateien/Taxis3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkPForafI/AAAAAAAAAN0/vArgnHuebkk/s200/070614-rockefellercenter-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkPForafI/AAAAAAAAAN0/vArgnHuebkk/s200/070614-rockefellercenter-002.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ashesi.org/GHANA/TOUR/tour6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.ashesi.org/GHANA/TOUR/tour6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Se qualcuno è interessato, il mio blog è http://teladoiolafrica.blogspot.com. Ogni vostro commento o richiesta sarà graditissimo. Akwaaba!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Lello dall'Africa Nera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4580902386266887752?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://teladoiolafrica.blogspot.com/' title='Topo di Campagna, Topo di Città'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4580902386266887752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4580902386266887752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4580902386266887752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4580902386266887752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/topo-di-campagna-topo-di-citt.html' title='Topo di Campagna, Topo di Città'/><author><name>Emanuele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16035504017201612149</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s72-c/070627-chicago-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2493820355098777349</id><published>2007-07-07T23:08:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-07T23:27:57.816-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ambientalismo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Oggi si e' svolto il Live Earth, una serie di concerti in varie parti del mondo, per promuovere la salvaguardia di nostra Madre Terra. L'idea mi sembra intelligente e abbastanza azzeccata... pero' mi e' sembrata poco ambientalista. Affermazione provocatoria (ed intenzionale).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cerco di spiegarmi; se avete avuto modo di dare un'occhiata alle foto su internet o seguire dal vivo o via tv i concerti, credo non possiate nascondere che si e' sprecata un bel po' di elettricita' su quei palchi! E come ben sappiamo per produrre elettricita' servono gas, carbone o petrolio (e vai di gas serra!); a meno che non si abbiano centrali atomiche, che, per quanto pericolose, non mi pare producano i nocivi monossido e biossido di carbonio, un paio delle cause principali del problema. Certo bisogna averle le centrali atomiche... gia', noi italiani abbiamo saggiamente votato per la loro chiusura, tanto per tutte quelle che ci sono in Francia e Svizzera ci pensano le Alpi a bloccare evenutali nubi tossiche!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ad ogni modo credo sia importante che si inizi a fare qualcosa e che non si facciano solo chiacchiere, concerti, documentari e altre attivita' di scarso impatto reale: bisogna agire e farlo in fretta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tanto per metterla sul ridere, pochi minuti fa ho aperto il Sole 24 Ore... e questo titolo mi e' balzato agli occhi: "Grano nei carburanti: aumentera' il costo della pasta". La prima riga recita: "Costera' piu' caro il piatto di spaghetti: in virtu' del boom dei prezzi raggiunti dal grano duro, sempre piu' richiesto per i biocarburanti, i maggiori industriali della pasta lanciano l'allarme di un possibile aumento del 20% sugli scaffali a partire da settembre". Fate tutto quello che volete, ma non toccatemi la pasta... possibile che il genere umano, tanto intelligente (ma sara' proprio vero o e' una nostra illusoria convinzione?), non riesca a pensare sistemi piu' efficaci e che non causino altri scompensi negli usi e abitudini delle persone?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén - pasta-dipendente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2493820355098777349?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2493820355098777349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2493820355098777349' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2493820355098777349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2493820355098777349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/ambientalismo.html' title='Ambientalismo'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8585238152488352526</id><published>2007-07-04T18:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-04T18:29:01.836-04:00</updated><title type='text'>4 luglio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowaybV3y4I/AAAAAAAAAP0/PWRHucSqpw4/s1600-h/Fourth_of_July_fireworks_behind_the_Washington_Monument.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowaybV3y4I/AAAAAAAAAP0/PWRHucSqpw4/s200/Fourth_of_July_fireworks_behind_the_Washington_Monument.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083467533029723010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il 4 luglio, anno 1776, i coloni americani dichiaravano l'indipendenza dal Regno Unito. Questa e' senza ombra di dubbio la piu' importante festa americana e questa sera, in ognuna delle principali citta', ci saranno lunghi festeggiamenti e fuochi d'artificio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ma non e' di questo 4 luglio, che vi voglio parlare oggi. In fin dei conti, anche se vivo all'estero, da parecchio ormai, il mio cuore rimane nella mia citta' natia e oggi abbiamo avuto modo di festeggiare un anniversario importante. Esattamente 50 anni fa, il 4 luglio &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoweWrV3y5I/AAAAAAAAAP8/FYi3KRYVcA0/s1600-h/05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoweWrV3y5I/AAAAAAAAAP8/FYi3KRYVcA0/s200/05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083471454334864274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;1957, a Torino, veniva presentata la Fiat 500, l'auto del boom industriale italiano. Oggi, a 50 anni di distanza, e' stata presentata la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.fiat500.com/"&gt;nuova 500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, con uno spettacolo molto bello &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowerbV3y8I/AAAAAAAAAQU/GjK4t_PVdhg/s1600-h/11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowerbV3y8I/AAAAAAAAAQU/GjK4t_PVdhg/s200/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083471810817149890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;e ben curato, dai Murazzi del Po. Pare proprio che la Fiat si sia definitivamente risollevata dalla sua lunga crisi e con lei la citta' tutta, finalmente! Dalle Olimpiadi dello scorso anno, in poi, ho visto e ascoltato di una citta' che torna ad assumere il suo ruolo storico di motore trainante della nostra grande nazione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Immagino gia' le faccie di voi amici Milanesi, Genovesi, Veneti, Toscani,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rowec7V3y6I/AAAAAAAAAQE/41fnZqMMk00/s1600-h/06.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rowec7V3y6I/AAAAAAAAAQE/41fnZqMMk00/s200/06.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083471561709046690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; Romani e via discorrendo... ma e' un dato di fatto, che molte delle innovazioni del&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; nostro pa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;ese siano state pensate e sviluppate sotto la Mole (e non fatemele ricordare, che poi divento noioso), percio', almeno oggi, consentitemi di essere un pochino campanilista... sono orgoglioso di essere Torinese!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowekrV3y7I/AAAAAAAAAQM/vIL22avbAnw/s1600-h/07.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowekrV3y7I/AAAAAAAAAQM/vIL22avbAnw/s200/07.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083471694853032882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8585238152488352526?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8585238152488352526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8585238152488352526' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8585238152488352526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8585238152488352526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/07/4-luglio_04.html' title='4 luglio'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RowaybV3y4I/AAAAAAAAAP0/PWRHucSqpw4/s72-c/Fourth_of_July_fireworks_behind_the_Washington_Monument.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3356855400955364395</id><published>2007-06-30T16:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T16:59:51.150-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Roadshow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Cerco di spiegarvi quello che ho fatto negli ultimi giorni. Ho partecipato ad un roadshow, cioe' col mio boss e i nostri clienti (tutti pezzi grossi, dal presidente all'ad, al direttore finanziario e via discorrendo) siamo stati in giro per gli Stati Uniti ad incontrare potenziali investitori nella transazione su cui ho lavorato in quest'ultimo mese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Risultato, come vi ho detto, a bordo di un jet privato ci siamo diretti alla volta di alcune delle piu' importanti citta' americane, per un totale di 33 incontri in 5 giorni. Come potete immaginare, adesso sono stanchissimo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Un paio di suggerimenti, se vi capita di fare un giro ad LA, vi suggerisco di fare una capatina poco piu' a sud a Newport Beach (Orange County) e di fermarvi a cenare da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://orangecounty.citysearch.com/profile/41816911/newport_beach_ca/mastro_s_ocean_club_fish_house.html"&gt;Mastro's Ocean Club Fish House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; Il posto e' molto bello, con vista sul Pacifico, e il cibo semplicemente delizioso... occhio,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s1600-h/070627-chicago-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s200/070627-chicago-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081964848526904162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt; pero', ai prezzi!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per finire vi lascio con una foto dell'atterraggio in notturna a Chicago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;A presto,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3356855400955364395?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3356855400955364395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3356855400955364395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3356855400955364395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3356855400955364395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/roadshow.html' title='Roadshow'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RobEGrV3y2I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/HOPwB6eqgeY/s72-c/070627-chicago-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1669384083286447264</id><published>2007-06-29T13:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T13:19:11.669-04:00</updated><title type='text'>4 giorni in viaggio</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Un veloce resoconto sui miei ultimi spostamenti, quando avro' un attimo di tempo, vi forniro' qualche dettaglio di questi ultimi, caotici, giorni.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Lunedi' 25: New York - Boston - New York - Houston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Martedi' 26: Houston - San Francisco - Newport Beach (Orange County)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mercoledi' 27: LA - Chicago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Giovedi' 28: Chicago - Milwaukee - New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU9sLV3yzI/AAAAAAAAAO4/xEzQNXP92Mw/s1600-h/070625+-+falcon.jpeg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU7K7V3ywI/AAAAAAAAAOg/dChjzexjHEI/s1600-h/travel.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081532813471632130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU7K7V3ywI/AAAAAAAAAOg/dChjzexjHEI/s400/travel.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il tutto a bordo di un Falcon 900.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-PrV3y0I/AAAAAAAAAPA/bbo3dZR84Hk/s1600-h/070625+-+falcon.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081536193610894146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-PrV3y0I/AAAAAAAAAPA/bbo3dZR84Hk/s200/070625+-+falcon.jpeg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-U7V3y1I/AAAAAAAAAPI/Rfc8mMo2gG0/s1600-h/17hiron-falcon900a.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081536283805207378" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU-U7V3y1I/AAAAAAAAAPI/Rfc8mMo2gG0/s200/17hiron-falcon900a.jpeg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1669384083286447264?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1669384083286447264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1669384083286447264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1669384083286447264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1669384083286447264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/4-giorni-in-viaggio.html' title='4 giorni in viaggio'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RoU7K7V3ywI/AAAAAAAAAOg/dChjzexjHEI/s72-c/travel.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-1207192254669133282</id><published>2007-06-24T13:07:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T19:34:24.179-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Segnali da non sottovalutare</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Si stanno ponendo le basi per una correzione dei mercati finanziari mondiali e i segnali iniziano a non mancare: il costo del denaro e' salito un po' dappertutto, il prezzo del petrolio rimane alto, l'economia americana ha un pochino rallentato, il mercato immobiliare statunitense si e' sensibilmente raffreddato e l'uso di contratti derivati, specialmente su mutui e ipoteche immobiliari, sta iniziando a scricchiolare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E' notizia di questi giorni che un paio di hedge fund, gestiti da Bear Sterns, sono sull'orlo del tracollo. Hanno in portafoglio un mare di contratti derivati, legati al mercato immobiliare, e le strategie di hedging messe in piedi non sembrano funzionare. Sotto certi aspetti, mi pare di rileggere gli eventi del fallimento, nel 1998, di Long Term Capital Management (l'hedge fund che annoverava tra i suoi partner le migliori menti matematico-finanziarie al mondo, tra cui Scholes e Merton, coloro che assieme a Black formularono la teoria per prezzare le opzioni, e che io, non senza qualche difficolta', cercai di utilizzare, riadattata, per la mia tesi in elettronica). Sono passati 9 anni da quegli eventi, ma personaggi e istituzioni coinvolte sono sempre piu' o meno gli stessi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Basandomi sulla mia, seppur ridotta esperienza, direi che la preoccupazione piu' assillante per Wall Street e' che si arrivi ad un'asta per liquidare gli asset dei due fondi in questione, apponendo un'etichetta ben visibile sul reale valore di questi contratti, tanto astratti quanto complicati da prezzare... col timore di avere i libri pieni di strumenti sopravvalutati rispetto al valore di mercato (e conseguenti ripercussioni sui bilanci). Insomma, siamo sempre alla stessa storia: qual'e' il valore reale di un bene? Quello teorico che si puo' ricostruire dalla somma delle parti o quello di mercato, indicato dal punto di Cournot (ossia l'incontro tra domanda ed offerta)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Nel lungo periodo i due dovrebbero coincidere, visto che tutti sappiamo fare di calcolo e possiamo arrivare alle stesse conclusioni. Il problema sta pero' appunto nella tempistica: il mercato mostra, a volte, un atteggiamento irrazionale e cio' puo' portare ad uno scostamento pronunciato dal valore teorico di un bene... ossia ci si muove continuamente intorno al punto di equilibrio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sono ottimista e mi auguro che la cosa si risolva per il meglio (evitando una correzione al ribasso come quella del 2001-2), ma conviene stare ben attenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-1207192254669133282?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/1207192254669133282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=1207192254669133282' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1207192254669133282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/1207192254669133282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/segnali-da-non-sottovalutare.html' title='Segnali da non sottovalutare'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6947579057409729718</id><published>2007-06-17T09:51:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-17T09:55:13.322-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Panorama</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ieri (sabato per la precisione) mi sono ritrovato di nuovo a lavorare fuori dall'ufficio, ancora con panorama splendido di fronte ai miei occhi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Gustatevi quest'altro paio di immagini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnU9CloragI/AAAAAAAAAN8/aqWUWFtI98c/s1600-h/070616-downtown-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnU9CloragI/AAAAAAAAAN8/aqWUWFtI98c/s200/070616-downtown-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077031269601864194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnU9H1orahI/AAAAAAAAAOE/BNZBzwwNTXc/s1600-h/070616-downtown-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnU9H1orahI/AAAAAAAAAOE/BNZBzwwNTXc/s200/070616-downtown-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077031359796177426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6947579057409729718?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6947579057409729718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6947579057409729718' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6947579057409729718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6947579057409729718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/panorama.html' title='Panorama'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnU9CloragI/AAAAAAAAAN8/aqWUWFtI98c/s72-c/070616-downtown-001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8148660740182200307</id><published>2007-06-16T00:12:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-16T21:14:25.804-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lavoro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Solo un veloce aggiornamento, visto che sono molto stanco e mi attende un weekend di lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono ormai oltre due settimane che sto lavorando e devo dire che ritornare nel mondo del lavoro, seppure solo per l'estate, mi sta facendo bene, visto che mi risolleva dalle mollezze della vita da studente.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkPForafI/AAAAAAAAAN0/vArgnHuebkk/s1600-h/070614-rockefellercenter-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076511415350290930" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkPForafI/AAAAAAAAAN0/vArgnHuebkk/s200/070614-rockefellercenter-002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certo pero' sto tenendo degli orari da inferno... questa settimana ho gia' totalizzato 85 ore in ufficio e domani e domenica si preannunciano dure, quindi, facilmente, sfondero' il muro delle 100 ore lavorative!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'altro canto, volete mettere che&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkLForaeI/AAAAAAAAANs/WyxDr6jYUnY/s1600-h/070614-rockefellercenter-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076511346630814178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkLForaeI/AAAAAAAAANs/WyxDr6jYUnY/s200/070614-rockefellercenter-001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; soddisfazione trovarsi a partecipare ad una riunione tenutasi al 65esimo piano del Rockefeller Center a New York? La vista e' semplicemente spettacolare. Le immagini allegate non rendono abbastanza bene, ma vi posso assicurare, mozzafiato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8148660740182200307?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8148660740182200307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8148660740182200307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8148660740182200307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8148660740182200307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/lavoro.html' title='Lavoro'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RnNkPForafI/AAAAAAAAAN0/vArgnHuebkk/s72-c/070614-rockefellercenter-002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-956633426380145717</id><published>2007-06-09T19:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-12T00:31:10.712-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Aggiornamento</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Dato che e' qualche giorno che non mi faccio vivo, vi do un breve aggiornamento... Luna Rossa putroppo si e' beccata una sonora legnata da parte dei neozelandesi. Che dire, sono stati piu' bravi e con quel venticello intorno ai 10 nodi, la loro barca era chiaramente piu' veloce: complimenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Io sono tornato a New York, ormai da 15 giorni, e ho appena completato la mia seconda settimana di lavoro. Per ora posso dire di aver fatto un'ottima scelta: e' il lavoro che volevo, i colleghi sono molto simpatici e ognuno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rm4hgForadI/AAAAAAAAANk/b71tC4C10ks/s1600-h/0561497.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rm4hgForadI/AAAAAAAAANk/b71tC4C10ks/s200/0561497.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075030665245452754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt; riesce ad integrare bene le responsabilita' lavorative con il&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;giusto svago e la voglia di non prendersi troppo sul serio: ma d'altronde questo e' lo spirito aziendale; esattamente come a Londra. In fin dei conti, ben sapevo a cosa andavo incontro, quando ho fatto la mia scelta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/aircraft/c20/gulfstream_bank.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/aircraft/c20/gulfstream_bank.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Prima che me ne dimentichi... tra una decina di giorni dovrei ritrovarmi a girare per la nazione a bordo di un executive jet (Gulfstream G5): 6 giorni di roadshow, per illustare alla comunita' finanziaria gli ultimi dettagli di uno dei deal su cui sto lavorando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-956633426380145717?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/956633426380145717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=956633426380145717' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/956633426380145717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/956633426380145717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/06/aggiornamento.html' title='Aggiornamento'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rm4hgForadI/AAAAAAAAANk/b71tC4C10ks/s72-c/0561497.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-2907419935637513968</id><published>2007-05-29T22:45:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T08:14:55.602-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tecniche di mercato</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La classe del 2007 si e' appena diplomata e qui in Columbia gia' fervono i preparativi per l'arrivo, ad Agosto, dei ragazzi della classe del 2009.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Tra le tante cose che stanno accadendo, una senz'altro ha degli spunti interessanti. In questi giorni le nostre caselle di posta elettronica sono inondate da messaggi dei ragazzi del 2007, che stanno cercando di vendere libri, TV, Hi-fi, letti, poltrone, sofa' e chi piu' ne ha piu' ne metta... infatti molti lasceranno a breve New York e preferiscono sbarazzarsi dei "ricordi" dei due anni di MBA, piuttosto che dover affittare due U-haul per poter liberare gli alloggi universitari.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Fatto sta che noi del 2008 tipicamente non abbiamo bisogno di nulla, visto che abbiamo gia' provveduto lo scorso anno alle varie necessita' per la casa. Chi potrebbe essere interessato alla maggior parte degli articoli in vendita, facilmente non e' ancora arrivato a New York: i ragazzi del 2009, arriveranno non prima di fine luglio. Questi due mesi di buco tra chi ha terminato e chi deve iniziare il master sono causa di inefficienza, perche' costringono un venditore, che abbia fretta di realizzare, a svendere i propri articoli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Come rendere il "mercato" piu' efficiente? Beh, il buon Lello ci ha pensato su e pare abbia deciso di comprare due TV. Non che ne abbia bisogno, si limita a fare da tramite tra domanda e offerta. Suo obiettivo dichiarato, ovviamente, e' "buy-low-sell-high", comprare ad un prezzo inferiore a quello a cui vendera' tra un paio di mesi ai nuovi arrivati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Insomma, Lello sta ripristinando l'efficienza walrasiana nel mercato della roba usata; anche se ad essere onesti il &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrasian_auctioneer"&gt;battitore d'asta walrasiano&lt;/a&gt; garantirebbe competizione perfetta (ossia perfetta informazione e nessun costo di transazione), ma, grazie al buco temporale, ecco spuntare l'opportunita' di qualche profitto! Attenzione pero', potrebbe anche essere che quello che si e' comprato non sia poi facilemente rivendibile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mi auguro di non aver imparato solo questo dal primo anno MBA, altrimenti sto buttando palate di biglietti verdi fuori dalla finestra! Le teorie economiche di &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walras"&gt;Walras&lt;/a&gt; le avevo gia' studiate all'universita'... e io sono un ingegnere!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Con il solito sarcarsmo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-2907419935637513968?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/2907419935637513968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=2907419935637513968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2907419935637513968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/2907419935637513968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/tecniche-di-mercato.html' title='Tecniche di mercato'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6174873300464528680</id><published>2007-05-21T05:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-21T05:36:34.682-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Una Luna sempre piu' Rossa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E' bene non farsi prendere troppo dall'euforia, visto che c'e' ancora molta strada da fare... ma questa Luna Rossa mi e' piaciuta davvero. Dopo quella seconda regata da infarto, con una condotta di gara quantomeno strana, un minuto su Oracle sperperato... lo yacht italiano si e' un po' piu' fedelmente attenuto alla regola del match race e, sfoggiando partenze spettacolari e una miglior andatura di bolina, si e' adattato alla "valza", come dice l'immenso Cayard, ossia a marcare l'avversario, soprattutto nei lati di poppa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Bene cosi'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.corriere.it/Fotogallery/Tagliate/2007/05_Maggio/20/LUN/12.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.corriere.it/Fotogallery/Tagliate/2007/05_Maggio/20/LUN/12.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;, dieci giorni per migliorare ancora la barca e lanciarsi nella sfida per la vittoria in Vuitton Cup, il lasciapassare per tentare l'impresa...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Vi lascio con qualche immagine spettacolare... che bella la vela!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.corriere.it/Fotogallery/Tagliate/2007/05_Maggio/20/LUN/09.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.corriere.it/Fotogallery/Tagliate/2007/05_Maggio/20/LUN/09.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6174873300464528680?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6174873300464528680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6174873300464528680' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6174873300464528680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6174873300464528680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/una-luna-sempre-piu-rossa.html' title='Una Luna sempre piu&apos; Rossa'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-3671964392953400182</id><published>2007-05-18T04:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T04:50:57.466-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Letture interessanti</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Devo dire che quest'anno accademico mi ha dato l'occasione di concentrarmi su alcune letture, che ritengo abbastanza significative per capire il nostro tempo, le cose giuste e quelle meno che sono state compiute (principalmente nel mondo degli affari) e gli insegnamenti che il passato ci puo' fornire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Vi lascio i titoli di tre libri, un paio un po' voluminosi, che ho trovato estremamente interessanti:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Gate-Fall-RJR-Nabisco/dp/0060536357/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-4069939-2438420?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1179477966&amp;sr=8-2"&gt;Barbarians at the gate: The fall of RJR Nabisco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;, di Burrough &amp; Helyar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Management/dp/0375758259/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4069939-2438420?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1179477588&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;When genius failed: The rise and fall of Long-Term Capital Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;, di Lowenstein&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/Diplomacy-Touchstone-Book-Henry-Kissinger/dp/0671510991/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-4069939-2438420?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1179478119&amp;sr=1-2"&gt;Diplomacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;, di Kissinger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-3671964392953400182?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/3671964392953400182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=3671964392953400182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3671964392953400182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/3671964392953400182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/letture-interessanti.html' title='Letture interessanti'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5862761198252036615</id><published>2007-05-17T12:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-17T12:54:46.228-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nel blu, dipinto di blu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Oggi sono stato in volo con Franco e Dario... una semplice frase: troppo bello! Vi allego alcune foto... mi sono divertito quasi quanto andando in barca!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi faccio notare l'inusuale inquadratura sulla Sacra di San Michele, all'imboccatura della Val Susa e la virata a 60 gradi sopra l'autofrejus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyG4rNsSiI/AAAAAAAAAMk/VpweKZlIlZg/s1600-h/070517-volo-002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyG4rNsSiI/AAAAAAAAAMk/VpweKZlIlZg/s200/070517-volo-002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065571989115914786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyHRbNsSjI/AAAAAAAAAMs/sIio-P7elqA/s1600-h/070517-volo-008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyHRbNsSjI/AAAAAAAAAMs/sIio-P7elqA/s200/070517-volo-008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065572414317677106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyHqrNsSkI/AAAAAAAAAM0/co1FNBckPks/s1600-h/070517-volo-019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyHqrNsSkI/AAAAAAAAAM0/co1FNBckPks/s200/070517-volo-019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065572848109374018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyINbNsSlI/AAAAAAAAAM8/RPSGFVF2838/s1600-h/070517-volo-020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyINbNsSlI/AAAAAAAAAM8/RPSGFVF2838/s200/070517-volo-020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065573445109828178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5862761198252036615?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5862761198252036615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5862761198252036615' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5862761198252036615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5862761198252036615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/nel-blu-dipinto-di-blu.html' title='Nel blu, dipinto di blu'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkyG4rNsSiI/AAAAAAAAAMk/VpweKZlIlZg/s72-c/070517-volo-002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4973591685557016012</id><published>2007-05-15T05:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T08:13:36.692-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Non farsi sedurre dalla piazza</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Non entro nel merito di nessuna delle discussioni in scena in questi giorni, mi limito solo a leggere alcune dichiarazioni, che, a mio parere, hanno dell'incredibile. Sentite questa:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; "a Fassino che difende la legge e promette di cercare un punto di incontro tra le richieste dei cattolici e quelle dei laici di piazza Navona, ai prodiani che con Monaco gridano alla «strumentalizzazione» della manifestazione e difendono le ragioni dei credenti come quelle dello Stato laico, [fa] da contraltare .... il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;presidente della Camera Bertinotti, che non si [fa] sedurre dalla piazza e da «una manifestazione fuorviante» perché «la gente è davvero un'altra cosa»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ma non e' proprio lui quello che scende in piazza, che e' cresciuto politicamente vivendo sulla piazza e sul suo umore? Come sempre evviva la coerenza!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4973591685557016012?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4973591685557016012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4973591685557016012' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4973591685557016012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4973591685557016012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/non-farsi-sedurre-dalla-piazza.html' title='Non farsi sedurre dalla piazza'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-434647508057005061</id><published>2007-05-14T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T10:44:43.880-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Una bella Luna</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.americascup.com/multimedia/images/img_traitees/2007/05/lvrr2070504gt_23097w_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.americascup.com/multimedia/images/img_traitees/2007/05/lvrr2070504gt_23097w_big.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Si e' appena conclusa la prima regata di semifinale della Vuitton Cup... e Luna Rossa ha iniziato col piede giusto. Devo dire che mi e' venuto un mezzo coccolone a vedere quello che hanno rischiato di combinare nella prima poppa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per fortuna, in bolina sembrano piu' bravi degli americani.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Per chi ha seguito la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gazzetta.it/Hermes%20Foto/2007/05/14/0JI1BSOP--346x212.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.gazzetta.it/Hermes%20Foto/2007/05/14/0JI1BSOP--346x212.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;regata, credo possiate tutti concordare, che sono stati novanta minuti di passione e sofferenza!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-434647508057005061?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/434647508057005061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=434647508057005061' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/434647508057005061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/434647508057005061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/una-bella-luna.html' title='Una bella Luna'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8615287603440534242</id><published>2007-05-10T08:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T03:54:29.679-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A proposito di vela</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il sipario si e' definitivamente chiuso sul primo anno di master; l'estate portera' il nuovo lavoro e chissa' quali altre sorprese... come diciamo noi, speroma bin. Io, come sempre, rimango fiducioso del fatto che alcuni tasselli di questa mia vita strampalata prima o poi si sistemino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkMt5mMm_jI/AAAAAAAAAMU/SSlqo_JV5hg/s1600-h/mlc-de.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkMt5mMm_jI/AAAAAAAAAMU/SSlqo_JV5hg/s200/mlc-de.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062940873623797298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Ora vi sto scrivendo dal suolo patrio, fresco d'arrivo... e mi pare giusto, visto che la stagione velica e' iniziata e da quasi un mese sto seguendo in modo maniacale la Coppa America, fare un accenno ad un videogioco che mi ha tenuto parecchio sveglio in queste ultime due settimane (sto marciando spedito verso i 30, ma in fin dei conti mi sento ancora un 18enne): Virtual Skipper 5, il gioco ufficiale della 32esima America's Cup. Se avete il broadband, si puo' scaricare da internet a circa €40 ($49.9 - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.dde.it/vsk5/downloads/index.asp"&gt;http://www.dde.it/vsk5/downloads/index.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;), altrimenti usate il tradizionale sistema di recarvi in negozio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il gioco mi ha letteralmente appassionato, la grafica e' molto curata, cosi' come l'aspetto simulativo... anche se c'e' qualche carenza sugli aspetti dei salti di vento, le immagini a campo largo non danno l'impressione di dove il vento stia girando, come invece in realta' spesso si puo' intuire. Questo comporta un certo fattore c.u.l.o. nell'azzeccare il salto, a scapito del rivale di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkMt_GMm_kI/AAAAAAAAAMc/461pktDOi20/s1600-h/orcl-ali.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkMt_GMm_kI/AAAAAAAAAMc/461pktDOi20/s200/orcl-ali.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062940968113077826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;regata. Gli sviluppatori potevano fare anche qualcosa di meglio in termini di imbarcazioni a disposizione; tolti gli scafi di America's Cup, non e' che ci sia una scelta grandissima a disposizione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Semplicemente strepitosa, invece, la modalita' per giocare in linea. Sara' che siamo in anno di America's Cup, ma online ci sono moltissimi giocatori e ci si diverte molto... e poi si possono organizzare sfide all'ultima virata/strambata con gli amici!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Consentitemi di terminare con un messaggio sentimentale e, in quanto tale, utopico... volete mettere la sensazione di timonare la nostra amata Luna Rossa e battere Alinghi in finale? Risultato gia' ottenuto due volte... almeno nel mondo virtuale gli svizzeri/neo-zelandesi paiono battibili!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Buon vento a tutti,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8615287603440534242?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8615287603440534242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8615287603440534242' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8615287603440534242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8615287603440534242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/proposito-di-vela.html' title='A proposito di vela'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RkMt5mMm_jI/AAAAAAAAAMU/SSlqo_JV5hg/s72-c/mlc-de.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-4190916238374685070</id><published>2007-05-04T23:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T03:54:59.754-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guida culinaria - Capitolo III</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mi pare d'uopo una review del sushi bar dove sono stato piu' di frequente, da che mi sono trasferito a New York. Il posto si chiama Tomo Sushi &amp; Sake Bar, su Broadway tra la 110a e la 111a strada (insomma, a due passi dall'universita').&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il posto non ha nulla di pretenzioso, ma la varieta' e' buona, sushi, sashimi e tempura sono piu' che dignitosi, nonostante qui sull'East Coast la maggior parte del pesce che ci viene propinato sia d'allevamento! Il pollo teriyaki e' molto buono e dal sushi bar, gli chef propongono alcuni rolls interessanti, quanto a combinazione di gusti e sapori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Personalmente vi suggerisco una scelta tra i sushi special, in particolare a me piace molto il Volcano roll, e la Tomo box; se siete amanti degli esperimenti, invece, dovete andare con le scelte degli chef. Il tutto annaffiato con una buona birra Kirin o con l'ottimo sake della casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Servizio: 3 stelle, cibo: 4.5 stelle, sake/birra: 4 stelle, per un totale di quasi 3.5 stelle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-4190916238374685070?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/4190916238374685070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=4190916238374685070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4190916238374685070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/4190916238374685070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/guida-culinaria-capitolo-iii.html' title='Guida culinaria - Capitolo III'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-5958465781981180199</id><published>2007-05-02T20:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T00:36:09.789-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Un angolo di Torino nella Grande Mela</title><content type='html'>&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Alla faccia del fatto che siamo dei bugia nén... e che non abbiamo idee vincenti in fatto di business. Conosco molto bene il gelato di Grom, e consiglio a chiunque di provarlo (stanno aprendo un sacco di punti vendita anche in Italia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora tentano il salto e aprono qui a New York (inaugurazione sabato 5 maggio). Da non perdere!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi allego l'articolo apparso ieri sul NY Times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;2 Turin Gelato Men, Hoping New York Will Melt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nyt_headline&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "&gt; &lt;/nyt_byline&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;     &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;nyt_text&gt; &lt;/nyt_text&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;TURIN, Italy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A few years ago Guido Martinetti, a young winemaker here, noted to a friend, Federico Grom, that Italy suffered from an odd market gap. Its gelato was plenty good, he observed, but few made it the way Italians approach food and wine generally: with only fresh seasonal products, the highest-quality ingredients and handmade care. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; “I forgot what I said to Federico,” Mr. Martinetti, 32, said. “But a week later he came back with a business plan for five years.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thus Grom gelato was born, and in just four years, not much time in traditionbound Italy, it outstripped the business plan and earned a name as one of the best. “Sensationally good,” one top food expert here has called it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;On Saturday, Grom opens its first shop in the United States, at Broadway and 76th Street in Manhattan, and it does so with some nervous questions: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Are Americans, whose tastes often tend toward the robust and even flashy, ready for a gelato created almost like the subtle wines the Piedmont region here is famous for? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;And maybe more to the point, will they pay the matching price, starting at $4.75 for a small cone?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“You have this culture — big, big in everything,” Mr. Martinetti said. “In Italy, there is sort of a different way.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“But I think when you taste this ice cream, it’s more fresh,” he said. “It’s more natural. I am an optimist.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He was speaking, in a white lab coat and a hairnet, in Grom’s factory near the Turin airport, pint-size but big enough to supply the nine existing shops in Italy and five more, including New York’s, in the works. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The company’s whole way of being was on display. Five workers were slicing spring strawberries for sorbet, made only with San Bernardo mineral water from Piedmont. Mr. Martinetti was surrounded by boxes of high-grade Ecuadorean and Venezuelan chocolate, hazelnut paste from Piedmont and Madagascar vanilla. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Into a huge steel vat, workers had just poured several cases of $30-a-bottle Spanish sherry for one flavor, Málaga, otherwise made of milk, organic eggs and sugar. (Raisins would be added later.) Mr. Martinetti dunked a lowly plastic cup into the vat and poked his nose in as if it were a glass of his family’s Barolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;He sniffed, then tasted. It is pretentious to say about ice cream, but maybe the best word — apart from “delicious” — would be “balanced,” with each ingredient nicely playing off the others rather than one shouting over the rest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“It’s what I look for in wine and ice cream,” Mr. Martinetti said, shucking off any high-mindedness by noting, too, that Coke’s sweetness wouldn’t work if it weren’t balanced by citric acid. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“I don’t want to say it’s the best ice cream,” he added, though clearly that is his ambition. “But it’s very serious. It’s made in a serious way.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;That seriousness is reflected in the price, which is significantly higher than those of his competitors. Il Laboratorio del Gelato, on the Lower East Side, which also makes fresh, high-quality gelato, charges $3.25 for a small serving of two flavors, $4.50 for medium and $5.75 for large. Grom’s medium will go for $5.75, the large for $6.75. Grom’s “huge” size — not a very Italian concept, although it is available here, too — will cost $9. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“It’s a different approach,” said Mr. Grom, 34, a business executive before settling in full time at Grom two years ago. “We hope the clients will accept the idea and understand. For sure we don’t sell quantity. We sell quality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“We think New York is ready.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Indeed, New York has no shortage of either high-quality ice cream or gelato — the Italian version, which is lower in butterfat and whipped with less air than American ice cream. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Jon Snyder, the New York gelato guru who owns Laboratorio and who also created and sold the Ciao Bella chain of gelato shops, said that although Grom’s price is higher, New Yorkers may well pay it if the product is good enough. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“In New York and certain cities, you can almost charge what you want,” he said, though he added that his own prices reflect the fact that his retail customers are not quite so well-heeled. “If you have a quality product, people will come and buy it.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Though he travels to Italy often, he said he hasn’t yet tried Grom here and is “looking forward” to visiting the shop in New York to see how it stacks up. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“I’m so often disappointed with other people’s products,” he said. “It’s nice to see someone open and be impressed.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In Italy — a nation of inherited wealth, tight family businesses and enterprise often stultified by bureaucracy — Mr. Martinetti and Mr. Grom stand out, quite apart from whether their gelato succeeds in New York. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rather than depend on their parents, the two took out loans to start Grom on their own. And their growth here — with stores crowded by long lines in cities including Turin, Milan and Florence — is unusual for a concern open for such a short time. (It also says a lot about the difficulties of doing business in Italy that they found it more appealing to open a store in New York than in Rome, where they do not have a shop. They say they do not have the “right partners” even to attempt the far south — Naples, say, or Sicily.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;They also broke the mold here in how their shops get the gelato — a model that makes opening in New York, or anywhere else, less difficult than it might have been. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Normally, Italian gelaterias contract with ingredients suppliers, then mix and whip the gelato on site according to their own recipes. Mr. Martinetti and Mr. Grom came up with a different model by chance: the ice cream maker in their first shop, here in Turin, was hurt in a scooter accident, and Mr. Grom and Mr. Martinetti, both still working their other jobs, were forced to make the gelato themselves at night. They did not sleep much. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;With plans to open other stores, they realized that their margin for the unexpected was thin. Another accident or sickness by any individual ice cream maker could close down a shop. So they decided to centralize. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Now the liquid base for all their flavors — 20 a month, changing as different fruits come into season — is made entirely at their little plant here, frozen in bags and shipped off to each shop. There it is thawed, whipped and frozen again, with final ingredients like raisins or chocolate chips added at the end. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This gives them complete control over the gelato’s quality — something Mr. Martinetti approaches with such orthodoxy that even his father, an obsessive high-end wine maker, calls his son “a Taliban.” To ensure that they get the best fruit, they have bought a vineyard near Turin and are uprooting the vines to plant their own strawberries, melons, apricots, peaches, raspberries and figs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;For anyone who might puzzle over the name Grom, it is neither a marketing concept nor a cute acronym starting with “gelato” and ending in “mangiare.” It is simply Mr. Grom’s surname, reflecting the winemaking tradition of putting the family name on the label. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Just before their first shop opened in 2003, Mr. Martinetti surprised Mr. Grom by insisting that the business be named after him. Mr. Grom claims he was terrified, but Mr. Martinetti coolly reasoned that his own name was already on his family’s wine label. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“When you make top-quality food, you have to put your name on it,” Mr. Martinetti said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-5958465781981180199?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/5958465781981180199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=5958465781981180199' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5958465781981180199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/5958465781981180199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/unangolo-di-torino-nella-grande-mela.html' title='Un angolo di Torino nella Grande Mela'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-7859220259347744989</id><published>2007-05-01T08:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-01T09:04:30.239-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Questa non mi era mai successa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sabato sera e' successa una cosa veramente incredibile! Per la prima volta nella mia vita una donna ha fatto il diavolo a quattro per pagarmi la cena... lo so, lo so adesso tutte le donne che leggono mi daranno del maschilista, ma fatemi finire, prima di giudicare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Forse sono un po' all'antica, ma l'educazione che mi e' stata data e' di fare alla romana o di essere noi "maschietti" premurosi nel pagare il conto... non so che dire, non ero preparato a questo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Sicuramente qualcuno stara' gia' pensando che da buon taccagno, quale sono, dovrei essere contento di questo... e in parte puo' essere vero. E' che in fin dei conti sono quello che qui negli US chiamano un "type A" character, se no non sarei qui a fare un MBA, visto che siamo tutti dei "type A", e in quanto tale risulta difficile accettare l'evento!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;... pero' sono favorevole ai cambiamenti; come in tutte le cose bisogna solo allenarsi, per cui, se c'e' qualcun'altra disposta ad offrire cena, fatemi sapere!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-7859220259347744989?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/7859220259347744989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=7859220259347744989' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7859220259347744989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/7859220259347744989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/05/questa-non-mi-era-mai-successa.html' title='Questa non mi era mai successa'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-8702768570752849823</id><published>2007-04-27T09:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T09:48:16.794-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No cry? No party!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Tranquilli non e' una nuova pubblicita' della Martini. Leggete questo articolo dal Corriere... dopo che avrete letto, vi chiederei di rispondere a questa domanda: se soffriste di depressione, come vi sentireste in un locale del genere, sapendo che il piangere e' diventato un trend, una "moda"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;27 aprile 2007&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuove tendenze del «go clubbing» mondiale &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No piangi? No party &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dall'Oriente sbarcano in Europa ed in Usa i «crying clubs»,locali dove si beve e si piange, chi per stress chi per tendenza &lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MILANO&lt;/span&gt;- Avete in programma un viaggio in Giappone o una visita a Londra? Preparate i fazzoletti. Ma a farvi piangere non saranno i prezzi folli delle due città (fra le più care al mondo) bensì i «tears parties», feste ad alto tasso lacrimevole organizzate nei «crying clubs», dove (come dice la parola stessa) si va apposta per singhiozzare, da soli o in compagnia, senza badare al trucco che si scioglie o alla faccia stile tavolozza di un pittore ubriaco. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GIAPPONE, LACRIME PER TUTTI I GUSTI&lt;/span&gt;-Nata nella terra del Sol Levante per aiutare gli uomini d’affari orientali a superare lo stress da superlavoro, la «tear therapy» (o terapia della lacrima) ha conosciuto un vero e proprio boom negli ultimi mesi, tanto che sono nati locali come il «Minnade Nako Kai» di Kyoto e il «Lachrymal Gland Club» di Sendai dove piangere in libertà, insieme agli amici o in beata solitudine, magari guardando un bel film strappalacrime in una delle stanze che si affittano per 1000 yen (l’equivalente di 6 euro). Chi, invece, preferisce un bel libro, può scegliere il lacrimevole Crying for Love at the Heart of the World, che racconta la storia d’amore di una ragazza malata di leucemia e che ha già fatto piangere più di tre milioni di giapponesi, diventando il caso letterario di tutti i tempi e contribuendo al proliferare di librerie specializzate in volumi dalla lacrima facile.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CINA, DAL «MANGIA E BEVI» AL PIANGI E BEVI&lt;/span&gt;- Nella vicina Cina, invece, spopola il «Nanjing Bar», dove bere e piangere allo stesso tempo. E nel caso la lacrima non arrivasse, dei vassoi di cipolle e peperoncini rossi sono pronti all’uso. In Estremo Oriente il «crying boom» è dunque diventato una vera e propria industria, con un giro d’affari milionario e un interesse trasversale, visto che le lacrime non conoscono età o condizione sociale. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LONDRA, LACRIME ALLA MODA&lt;/span&gt;- In Europa, invece, il trend è più modaiolo e non poteva che essere Londra la culla del «lacrimoso» fenomeno che ha rapidamente conquistato centinaia di persone. Sono, infatti, quasi 300 quelle che ogni ultimo martedì del mese si danno appuntamento al «Loss» (&lt;a href="http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/?cat=4"&gt;http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/?cat=4&lt;/a&gt;) per celebrare miseria, malinconia e tristezza in una cornice neo gotica&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(merito dei candelabri sparsi in ogni dove) che evoca cupa disperazione. In pratica, ci si ritrova al «Loss» per piagnucolare in santa pace sorseggiando un drink, mentre la visione di splendide ragazze (s)vestite in stile burlesque (con tanto di lacrimuccia disegnata a matita) indurrebbe a ben altri pensieri, niente affatto tristi. Ma per quelli non è serata. Spiega Victor Wynd, ideatore dei «martedì del pianto», al londinese Daily Mail:«Non sopporto le feste dove tutti devono divertirsi per forza, preferisco starmene seduto in un angolo e dare sfogo alla mia depressione. Noi inglesi siamo un popolo piuttosto malinconico,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;eppure cerchiamo sempre di forzare la nostra natura, ostentando una gaiezza che, in realtà, non proviamo. Queste serate vogliono perciò essere un antidoto alla ricerca ossessiva della felicità».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;USA, LA «RETE» DEL PIANTO&lt;/span&gt;-La febbre del pianto ha contagiato rapidamente anche la rete ed è sbarcata negli Stati Uniti grazie a &lt;a href="www.cryingwhileeating.com"&gt;www.cryingwhileeating.com&lt;/a&gt;, sito specializzato in video e foto dove si piange mangiando (c’è pure l’indicazione del menù accanto ad ogni clip) e bisogna anche spiegare il perché, con motivazioni che vanno dal «riscaldamento della Terra» al «non essere mai stati in Sicilia», fino «all’indimenticabile fine di Titanic». Non facesse piangere, ci sarebbe quasi da ridere. Intanto, fra una lacrima e l’altra, il sito ha raggiunto punte di 12 milioni di visitatori e si può persino votare il videomessaggio lacrimoso preferito. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;PIANGERE FA BENE&lt;/span&gt;- Ma il potere terapeutico del pianto è stato teorizzato anche dallo psicologo sperimentalista Alex Goetz: «Le lacrime hanno una grande importanza», ha spiegato lo studioso al Daily Mail, «perché segnalano che si è raggiunto un livello tale di stress da compromettere il nostro stesso benessere, quindi non si può fare altro che lasciarle scorrere».&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IN ITALIA&lt;/span&gt;- Il piagnone, soprattutto se maschio e a maggior ragione in pubblico, imbarazza ancora parecchio. E in attesa di sdoganare il «pianto libero» anche da noi, non resta che buttarsi sui dvd strappalacrime, con una scorta di fazzoletti di carta e una scatola di biscotti al cioccolato.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-8702768570752849823?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/8702768570752849823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=8702768570752849823' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8702768570752849823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/8702768570752849823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-cry-no-party.html' title='No cry? No party!'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6825190465732495323</id><published>2007-04-21T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T12:34:25.968-04:00</updated><title type='text'>... e il primo anno se n'e' andato</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio7xTZskKI/AAAAAAAAALs/vivsQ7r3LQc/s1600-h/IMG_0515.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio7xTZskKI/AAAAAAAAALs/vivsQ7r3LQc/s200/IMG_0515.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055919249884483746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Ieri sera abbiamo festeggiato la fine del primo anno! Ora non ci rimane che sostenere gli esami... ma diciamo che nessuno pare particolarmente preoccupato, come potete vedere dalle foto del party!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio7ijZskJI/AAAAAAAAALk/1Wukg4vSTG8/s1600-h/IMG_0510.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio7ijZskJI/AAAAAAAAALk/1Wukg4vSTG8/s200/IMG_0510.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055918996481413266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Che dire, il tempo e' letteralmente volato... ci siamo conosciuti, amati, odiati, rappacificati, siamo diventati un po' piu' adulti, pur volendo rimanere dei ragazzini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;E permettetemi, ma chi vorrebbe crescere, quando possiamo ancora rimanere spensierati e divertirci come se fossimo ancora al liceo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio8KzZskLI/AAAAAAAAAL0/AXAQk2cffgc/s1600-h/IMG_0576.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio8KzZskLI/AAAAAAAAAL0/AXAQk2cffgc/s200/IMG_0576.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055919687971147954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6825190465732495323?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6825190465732495323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6825190465732495323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6825190465732495323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6825190465732495323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/04/e-il-primo-anno-se-ne-andato.html' title='... e il primo anno se n&apos;e&apos; andato'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/Rio7xTZskKI/AAAAAAAAALs/vivsQ7r3LQc/s72-c/IMG_0515.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-6411071414311970977</id><published>2007-04-18T11:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T16:16:25.617-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guida culinaria - Capitolo II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Mi sembra doveroso riportare una breve recensione sulla pizzeria che ho sotto casa, qui a New York. Direi una delle migliori pizzerie in cui sia mai stato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il locale si chiama &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.sezzmedi.com/"&gt;Sezz Medi'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt; e si trova tra la 122 e Amsterdam. E' gestito da italiani e la qualita' e' decisamente superiore non solo alle pizzerie fuori dai nostri confini, ma direi anche a molte pizzerie nostrane... insomma, una vera pizza napoletana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La varieta' del menu' e' abbastanza elevata, come da richieste degli indigeni, ma senza finire in alcuni eccessi tipo la pizza all'ananas, che veramente poco hanno del nostro gusto mediterraneo. La pasta della pizza e' ottima, la mozzarella, specialmente quella di bufala, fantastica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Il menu' comprende anche un assortimento di carni, che non sfigurano di fronte alla pizza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;La carta dei vini e' varia e sufficientemente ben assortita, ma la perla sta nella Moretti rossa, una rarita' anche in Italia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Concludo con un suggerimento sfizioso: come dolce, lasciatevi tentare dalla focaccia alla nutella... una vera libidine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Servizio: 4 stelle, cibo: 5 stelle, vino/birra: 3 stelle, per un totale di 4 stelle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-6411071414311970977?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/feeds/6411071414311970977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32356837&amp;postID=6411071414311970977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6411071414311970977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32356837/posts/default/6411071414311970977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marconyexperience.blogspot.com/2007/04/guida-culinaria-capitolo-ii.html' title='Guida culinaria - Capitolo II'/><author><name>Marco</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32356837.post-540147293854448467</id><published>2007-04-15T19:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T16:16:53.689-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Weekend nelle Catskills</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RiK3hZvIbCI/AAAAAAAAALU/CKHXZqZRpuw/s1600-h/070415-catskills-006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RiK3hZvIbCI/AAAAAAAAALU/CKHXZqZRpuw/s200/070415-catskills-006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053803516335254562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;E' un po' che non scrivo, quindi mi pare il caso di farvi sapere che sto bene e sto passando un periodo veramente sereno della mia vita... che dire sono felice! Ho deciso, per un po' di tempo, di mettere da parte il mie manie di iper-attivismo e di concentrarmi sul mio benessere, occupandomi solo dello stretto indispensabile. Risultato, lo studio e' concentrato sulle materie a cui sono interessato, lasciando da parte quello che mi interessa di meno, mentre il tempo libero e' dedicato al relax: corse al parco, weekend fuori citta' e simili.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RiK3K5vIbBI/AAAAAAAAALM/DQ8rf2XuqQ0/s1600-h/070414-catskills-025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UXw5An6sfoU/RiK3K5vIbBI/AAAAAAAAALM/DQ8rf2XuqQ0/s200/070414-catskills-025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053803129788197906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non a caso, questo weekend con alcuni amici siamo andati nelle Catskills, zona collinare/montuosa a circa due  ore di macchina a nord di New York. Abbiamo affittato due chalet e ce la siamo spassata della grossa. Il tutto condito con passeggiate, salutari mangiate e svariate ore passate in iacuzzi all'aria aperta, dove la temperatura dell'acqua e' mantenuta costante intorno ai 45 gradi, cosi' che anche di notte ci si puo' tranquillamente farsi cullare dai getti d'acqua della vasca (come potete vedere nella foto). Diciamo che ci siamo trattati da signori!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;il Vostro bugia nén&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32356837-540147293854448467?l=marconyexperience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='applicati
