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Solo se dona el 5% de lo recomendado. Fabiola Czubaj LA NACION Es difícil que transcurra más de una o dos semanas sin que llegue un e-mail en el que se solicitan con urgencia 10, 50 y hasta 120 dadores de sangre para que un familiar o un desconocido puedan ser operados o transfundidos. "Quienes donan sangre ayudan a cientos de personas. Donar sangre es dar vida", recuerda el texto del mensaje con el que la semana pasada el hospital Garrahan, de esta capital, solicitó a la población 60 donantes diarios para sus pequeños pacientes víctimas de accidentes graves, con leucemias o anemias crónicas o que deben ser trasplantados del corazón, pulmón, riñón o médula ósea. La Argentina cuenta con apenas el 5 por ciento de los 800.000 donantes voluntarios que debería tener para asegurar la disponibilidad de sangre en todo el país. Y aunque existen varias iniciativas exitosas, son aisladas, lo que impide contar con aquella cantidad que, como ha recomendado la Organización Mundial de la Sa...

By Kurt Kasun May 09, 2008 http://www.greenfaucet.com/ http://www.greenfaucet.com/the-market/trapped-in-old-paradigms King Dollar is coming back with a vengeance, threatening to thump commodities, offering to lift the U.S. out of recession, and promising to restore the investment primacy of U.S. equities. On this rallying cry of the desperate blind-eyed optimist crowd (who have been wrong for the last seven years), I wish to make two points: First, the U.S. dollar's rally will be short-lived and capped at a resistance level which once served as support for 36 years! Second, the first point is becoming increasingly irrelevant because the rally in commodities is evolving more into a supply/demand and world fiat currency story than a USD story. This is especially true since the rest of the world is beginning to eschew the USD as the world's reserve currency and adopt their own inflationary, currency-debasing policies. Analysts have shown that, thus far in the commodity rally, be...

Robert Kiyosaki Monday, November 24, 2008, 12:00AM How did we get into the current financial mess? Great question. Turmoil in the Making In 1910, seven men held a secret meeting on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. It's estimated that those seven men represented one-sixth of the world's wealth. Six were Americans representing J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the U.S. government. One was a European representing the Rothschilds and Warburgs. In 1913, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank was created as a direct result of that secret meeting. Interestingly, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank isn't federal, there are no reserves, and it's not a bank. Those seven men, some American and some European, created this new entity, commonly referred to as the Fed, to take control of the banking system and the money supply of the United States. In 1944, a meeting in Bretton Woods, N.H., led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. While the stated purpose...

by Andy Kessler Friday, November 21, 2008 The Wall Street Journal Down in the morning, up in the afternoon. Or is it the other way around? The topsy-turvy stock market is tough to read. In the last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has briefly been over 13,000 and below 8,000. The past month has felt like the Cyclone roller coaster on Brooklyn's Coney Island -- lots of ups and downs, the whole rickety thing feeling like it's going to crash at any minute. Great investors are taught to listen to the market. Each tick of the tape has something to say about expectations for growth, inflation, policy changes and looming recessions. The stock market is like a giant mass of pulsing plasma doing price discovery and a game of hot potato, getting stocks into the correct hands with the right risk profile. It's way too big for any one person to manipulate, let alone touch directly. Instead, millions of us provide input with our buying and selling decisions. When it's at its mo...

By CONRAD de AENLLE Published: November 21, 2008 WHEN crude oil sailed above $140 a barrel, analysts forecast even higher prices, virtually without dissent. Four months have passed, crude has fallen below $50, and now a rally generally seems to be considered almost out of the question. Betting against the consensus by selling energy stocks would have paid off several months ago, and the opposite play, equally contrarian, might be profitable now. Shares of many suppliers of oil and natural gas have lost half their value or more in the stock market’s race to the bottom, and may be good buys. Robb J. Parlanti, an analyst and fund manager at Turner Investment Partners, expects gas producers to be the biggest beneficiaries if energy prices recover. He emphasizes the “if,” however, and advises investors to “stick with high-quality companies that are good to own even if the market doesn’t come back.” Those he has in mind include XTO Energy, Range Resources , Southwestern Energy , Petrohawk En...

Doug Kass 11/17/08 - 12:00 PM EST This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on Nov. 17 at 8:03 a.m. EST. For nearly a decade, a surplus of cash has led to a shortage of common sense in the lending and borrowing of capital, and the markets are now in disarray as a financial hurricane has wreaked havoc upon the world's economies. In a haze of uncertainty, market participants' visions of our economic future remain cloudy. That uncertainty and the loss of investor confidence and liquidity are manifested in historic intraday swings, suggesting that investors see a very wide range of possible economic outcomes. A crisis 10 to 15 years in the making does not get fixed overnight. There are going to be difficult days ahead, but, as I have noted , there are tentative signs of improvement. For example, the actions taken by the U.S. and other nations are beginning to have an impact. Though credit remains dear, credit markets are beginning to thaw. Businesses are slowly gainin...