TIME: May 30, 2016 - Battle of the Bathroom

TIME: The 100 most influential people.

Guardian of the global economy

No organization is more crucial to the stability of the global economy than the International Monetary Fund. Its decisions affect billions of people, so the person who heads the IMF must be an outstanding, effective leader.

Christine Lagarde meets this high standard. She has ably led the IMF through a tumultuous era for the world economy since she was chosen in 2011 by the more than 100 nations that govern the organization.

Christine is a trailblazer, the first woman to lead a major international organization like the IMF and, as Finance Minister of her native France, the first woman to hold this key role in any large advanced economy.

The IMF lends to member governments with the goal of minimizing the long-term damage of financial crises and preventing them from spreading. Christine was central to the effort to stabilize Greece’s economy and prevent a wider crisis in Europe. She has spurred economic reform in emerging nations like China that have appropriately gained more of a voice at the IMF. She has also given the IMF a more human face by addressing issues like gender and income inequality and public-health threats like the Ebola virus.

Christine is enormously impressive—a charismatic leader, respected worldwide. She is also a good friend and fun to be around—witty and refreshingly direct, whether we’re sharing a stage or a private meal.

Janet Yellen is the U.S. Federal Reserve Board chair.

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Time: Angela Merkel - Person of the year 2015.

TIME'S Person of the Year: Pope Francis.

Person of the Year 2011: The Protester.

Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons to declare themselves opposed, it was the very definition of news — vivid, important, often consequential. In the 1960s in America they marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War; in the '70s, they rose up in Iran and Portugal; in the '80s, they spoke out against nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Europe, against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, against communist tyranny in Tiananmen Square and Eastern Europe. Protest was the natural continuation of politics by other means.

And then came the End of History, summed up by Francis Fukuyama's influential 1989 essay declaring that mankind had arrived at the "end point of ... ideological evolution" in globally triumphant "Western liberalism." The two decades beginning in 1991 witnessed the greatest rise in living standards that the world has ever known. Credit was easy, complacency and apathy were rife, and street protests looked like pointless emotional sideshows — obsolete, quaint, the equivalent of cavalry to mid-20th-century war. The rare large demonstrations in the rich world seemed ineffectual and irrelevant. 

There were a few exceptions, like the protests that, along with sanctions, helped end apartheid in South Africa in 1994. But for young people, radical critiques and protests against the system were mostly confined to pop-culture fantasy: "Fight the Power" was a song on a platinum-selling album, Rage Against the Machine was a platinum-selling band, and the beloved brave rebels fighting the all-encompassing global oppressors were just a bunch of characters in The Matrix.

"Massive and effective street protest" was a global oxymoron until — suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history.

Steve Jobs - 2011.

Steve Jobs era um gênio? Indiferente do que você pensa, o que ele conseguiu vender lhe trouxe mais do que 15 segundos de fama. E ainda continua vendendo.   

Diferente do que acontece na USP.

Protestos são normais em alguns lugares e totalmente anormais em outros. O que importa é saber se o motivo é válido. O que se deve evitar é a ditadura da minoria. Por isso, a importância da participação de 99% dos envolvidos.     

Steve Jobs na Time.

Ele está em todas as capas das revistas semanais pelo mundo. Ele fez por merecer.

Cartoon da Time.

Direto da TIME, eu escrevo: nunca substitua seu livro por um tablet.

As versões de Barack Obama.

Falando em humor, fechamos o mês com o sempre inteligente humor da TIME.

The 2011 TIME 100 - Dilma Rousseff

It's not easy being the first woman to govern your country. Beyond the honor it signifies, there are still prejudices and stereotypes to confront. Nor is it easy to govern an emerging nation: when societies begin to see the light of development at the end of the tunnel, there is a surge of optimism and enthusiasm, but the challenges become more complex and the citizenry more demanding. It's harder still to govern a country as large and globally relevant as Brazil.

Dilma Rousseff, 63, has all of this ahead of her. Brazil is living a unique moment in its history, one of great opportunity, which requires a leader with solid experience and firm ideals. Dilma offers precisely that virtuous combination of wisdom and conviction that her country needs. Brazil's new President is a courageous fighter who stood up to its former military dictatorship and has dedicated her life to building a democratic alternative for development, social equality and women's rights.

Bachelet is the former President of Chile and the first executive director of U.N. Women.

The 2011 TIME 100 - Joseph Stiglitz.

It's said that the day when the arms dealer Alfred Nobel picked up his newspaper and was shocked to find an obituary calling him a "merchant of death," he decided to dedicate the rest of his life to supporting peace and prosperity. Hence the Nobel Prize. It was good that he changed, because he has made it possible for us to honor people who have changed our view of the world for the good.

Joe Stiglitz, 68, has chaired President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, served as the World Bank's chief economist and developed theories that will be remembered long after current controversies die down, because he has delivered to us a better understanding of economics, particularly with the crucial insight that markets aren't always efficient.

The return to political economy is under way — even if the journey is through the rather messy area of behavioral economics — after the revelations of the deficiencies of a purely market-based approach. Joe's Nobel Prize–winning work on information asymmetries is a crucial part of this journey.

He got the Asian crisis right, foresaw the bubble that caused such havoc in 2008 and is advocating global answers to a host of problems that can no longer be solved at the local or national level. This worldview is the essential dimension missing in economic-policy making but which has to be at the core of the next ways forward. Now a distinguished professor at Columbia, Joe is a brilliant intellect, a great conversationalist, and because his work goes on challenging us all to rethink our ideas, he will always be a controversialist wherever he goes.

Brown is a former Prime Minister of the U.K. and the author of Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

The 25 Best Financial Blogs - TIME

From Paul Krugman to Freakonomics to the Consumerist, we compiled a list of the most influential (and useful) finance blogs out there and then asked some of the best-known bloggers to review one another's work.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2057116,00.html#ixzz1G1i4mcoh

PERSON OF THE YEAR 2010!

For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html #ixzz18DfTBinF

Crise: a economia ainda não está com seus fundamentos macroeconômicos sólidos.

Direto da TIME, uma imagem do que esperamos não acontecer.

A TIME DESTE SEMANA!

A TIME desta semana traz na capa uma imagem chocante, resultado do que o ser humano tem de mais cruel. E o que é pior, não estamos na Idade Média, mas em pleno século XXI. Até quando a barbárie vencerá as pessoas de bem?

USA: PERIGO À VISTA.

Apenas para melhor entendimento do que ocorre com os Estados Unidos, em um de seus recentes posts, MÍRIAM LEITÃO comentou parte do problema e a TIME conseguiu, em uma única imagem, mostrar a real situação.

Os Estados Unidos voltam a vivenciar um quadro de deterioração das contas externas. Em maio, a balança comercial registrou déficit de US$ -42,3 bilhões, o maior desde novembro de 2008. No ano, o saldo está negativo em US$ -198 bi contra US$ -144 bi em igual período de 2009. No acumulado em 12 meses, piorou de US$ -411 bi em abril para U$ -429 bi em maio.

Enquanto as exportações somaram US$ 152,25 bilhões - alta de 2,4% sobre o mês anterior, as importações fecharam em US$ 194,51 bilhões, o que representa aumento de 2,9%. Houve queda nas compras de petróleo e aviões para uso civil, mas alta nas importações de carros, produtos farmacêuticos e roupas.

- Lentamente, a corrente de comércio se recupera - está em patamar próximo a outubro de 2008, mas as importações, na margem, estão crescendo mais, o que fez o déficit comercial entrar em trajetória de piora novamente - dizem os economista do Banco Fator em relatório enviado ao blog.

E o saldo comercial com a China segue piorando: em maio, foi de US$-22,3 bi. Em 12 meses, já está em US$ -235,5 bi. Isso serviu de argumento para os Estados Unidos pressionarem o país a valorizar sua moeda.

OBAMA É O CARA QUE BATE FORTE?

Direto da TIME, uma pausa para descanso e risadas!

LULA NA LISTA DA TIME 2010!

Como faz anualmente a TIME publicou hoje a lista das pessoas mais influentes do mundo. E nela consta o perfil do Presidente LULA, assinado pelo cineasta Michael Moore. É uma boa notícia termos um brasileiro na lista, indiferente do juízo de valor que cada um tem sobre o mesmo. Abaixo o texto completo sobre o assunto.

When Brazilians first elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President in 2002, the country's robber barons nervously checked the fuel gauges on their private jets. They had turned Brazil into one of the most inequitable places on earth, and now it looked like payback time. Lula, 64, was a genuine son of Latin America's working class — in fact, a founding member of the Workers' Party — who'd once been jailed for leading a strike.

By the time Lula finally won the presidency, after three failed attempts, he was a familiar figure in Brazilian national life. But what led him to politics in the first place? Was it his personal knowledge of how hard many Brazilians must work just to get by? Being forced to leave school after fifth grade to support his family? Working as a shoeshine boy? Losing part of a finger in a factory accident?

No, it was when, at age 25, he watched his wife Maria die during the eighth month of her pregnancy, along with their child, because they couldn't afford decent medical care.

There's a lesson here for the world's billionaires: let people have good health care, and they'll cause much less trouble for you.

And here's a lesson for the rest of us: the great irony of Lula's presidency — he was elected to a second term in 2006 and will serve through this year — is that even as he tries to propel Brazil into the First World with government social programs like Fome Zero (Zero Starvation), designed to end hunger, and with plans to improve the education available to members of Brazil's working class, the U.S. looks more like the old Third World every day.

What Lula wants for Brazil is what we used to call the American Dream. We in the U.S., by contrast, where the richest 1% now own more financial wealth than the bottom 95% combined, are living in a society that is fast becoming more like Brazil.

A NOTÍCIA COM HUMOR É OUTRA COISA!

Mesmo diante de notícias tão sérias e graves, a TIME mantém o bom humor para o nosso início de uma fantástica semana.