Não ficarei estupefacto quando for anunciado nos próximos dias que o pão aumentou de preço no país. Após esta nova "regulação" no preço dos combustiveis (e que consequentemente reflectirá nos preços da água e da electricidade), não será de se estranhar que o pão venha a custar mais caro. Embora também se tenha dito que esse aumento nos preços da água e electricidade não afecta o sector industrial. Ou será que já foram adoptadas medidas para que um aumento no preço do pão não aconteça? Digam-me por favor, se tiverem mais informações.
Uma outra dúvida que tenho, é se os preços dos combustíveis não deveriam ser calculados de acordo com o custo do combustivel em stock, ou seja o combústivel já aquidirido? Opiniões de pessoas ligadas a essa área ou que entendam mais do que eu do assunto, precisa-se. Este blogger agradece antecipadamente.
Fontes: ARE e TCV
Uma outra dúvida que tenho, é se os preços dos combustíveis não deveriam ser calculados de acordo com o custo do combustivel em stock, ou seja o combústivel já aquidirido? Opiniões de pessoas ligadas a essa área ou que entendam mais do que eu do assunto, precisa-se. Este blogger agradece antecipadamente.
Fontes: ARE e TCV
1 comentários:
Caboverdiano, you have a good blog. I can help explain why you cannot sell something for the price you purchased in the stock.
It is the basic law of economics. For an efficient market and to sustain your business, you should sell your goods only at the current price that reflects the equilibrium of supply and demand.
For example, if you bought something for 1.000$ECV and it is now worth 2.000$ECV, would you sell it for 1.000$ECV? No. Likewise, if you bought something for 5.000$ECV but it is now worth only 3.000$ECV, you could not expect to sell it for 5.000$ECV because no one would buy it from you.
So if you tried to do what you said, what would happen is a very disorganized and inefficient market, and businesses would not be profitable. Here's why. If your business sells something for much less than it is worth, I will buy it ALL from you and sell it for what it is worth. Your business will lose and you will layoff your workers. I will create the jobs where my business is located. So there will be a transfer of jobs from your location to mine (and that could be outside of Cabo Verde).
In the reverse situation, if your stock was purchased when prices were high and you try to sell at a price that is too high, no one will buy from your business and you will go out of business. When you go out of business, I will buy your stock for what is is worth. The result is the same, your business will lose and my business will win.
It truly is that simple. But, even if you tried to sell at the price you purchased in the stock, how would you know which is stock and which is current purchases when everything looks identical. In other words, if you mix all of the combustivel in one large tank, you could not possibly tell which is stock and which is new. So there is no practical way to do what you asked.
When the government subsidies prices, it causes an inefficient market and eventually everybody loses. What Cape Verde government needs to do is to invest in projects that can create more jobs and better paying jobs, raising the economic wealth and standard of living of the population. This way, if and when prices rise, people will have the money to pay the higher prices.
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