Manuel Suárez Mier* In my decades of teaching economics, I always try to persuade my students that incentives have consequences as they are a mechanism that alters the prices of goods and services to which consumers react either by increasing or decreasing their demand, as …
Luis Rubio A tweet at the beginning of the week summed up the moment: “The President prepared more for the march of women than he did for the vaccination.” The extraordinary fence built in the Zócalo betrayed the true perceptions inside the presidential palace, revealing …
Manuel Suárez Mier* Yesterday the most ambitious public spending plan (American Rescue Plan, ARP) in the United States history was approved, 1.9 trillion dollars that Congress sanctioned in a strictly partisan vote, now that the Democrats control both houses and the White House. The ARP …
Photo: Dan LeFebvre on Unsplash Dead leaves are collected with a rake. Memories and sorrows, too. And the north wind carries them away in the cold night of oblivion. Jacques Prévert Antonio Navalón I am in favor of using personal experiences in these articles, although only up to a point. In this case, and taking …
Luis Rubio In Solidarity with Angel Verdugo Two visions of the Mexican political transition characterize observers and scholars of the subject: one sustains that the transition ended the day that there were clean and contested elections allowing for a peaceful change of power. The other …
Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Manuél Suárez Mier* One of the most negative aspects of the new North American Free Trade Agreement was the imposition of raising wages in Mexico by decree and adopting more inflexible labor standards in bargaining between unions and companies. These positions promoted by the unions in Canada and the United …
A new law restores a full government monopoly of the energy sector and bans private companies from generating electricity. Manuel Suárez-Mier The policies backed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) invariably err on the side of imposing government controls, steamrolling the citizenry and …
Antonio Navalón Everything is broken for almost everyone. Neither the East nor the West has a clear plan that allows us to know how to get out of the situation we are in or where to go from here. Beyond Vladimir Putin’s antics and his …
Photo: Mulyadi on Unsplash Juan Villoro The unusual Germany creates the impression that more words are born there than people and that more people are baptized in dictionaries than in churches. Image: Raphael Schaller on Unsplash In 1980, Günter Grass published his novel Births in the Head, or Germans Are Dying. There he speculated on …
Luis Rubio The U.S. establishment achieved converting the pandemic into another point of contention and polarization. The matter adds to an infinity of factors that divides Americans, and that produced, during the last decade and a half, three polar-opposite administrations: Obama, Trump, and now Biden’s. …