A Strip of Fire
Antonio Navalón No war is like any other. If one looks at the prelude to the war of 1914 or 1939, one will realize that in both cases, one of the only constants was the denial or omission of reality by the countries that ended …
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How Mexico will save the West.
With dramatic shifts in geopolitical alignments, Mexico is poised to be a key player in the future economy of The West. Mexicans of all economic classes are likely to benefit from these new realities. Big thanks to the History of Mexico Podcast. Check them out …
International Monetary Fund. Managing Expectations: Inflation and Monetary Policy.
Inflation around the world reached multidecade highs in 2022. While headline inflation has since come down, core measures are proving stickier. The high inflation experience of the last two years could engender persistently high inflation expectations, complicating central banks’ paths to getting inflation back to …
Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Stop the World – I Want to Get Off!
The title of the letter is from a Broadway play many years ago. Many people today feel that everything is terrible, with wars dragging on indefinitely, inept and corrupt governments in most parts of the world, non-existent leadership, and a global economic situation complicated by …
North-South, East-West.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders’ speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common issues: the war in Ukraine, the global financial system, poverty, the …
What Electricity Sources Power the World?
What Powered the World in 2022? This was originally posted on Elements. In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from the previous year. In this visualization, we look at data from the latest Statistical Review of World …
The Grand Coalition
Antonio Navalón After reading and analyzing Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “Leadership”, which he has just published at the age of 100, I have discovered something important and worth noting. At this point in civilization, there is almost nothing new under the sun, and generally, the …
AMLO and Milei: are so much alike!
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Extremes touch, some say. And it is always surprising when it happens. The similarity between the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the presidential candidate of Argentina, Javier Milei, is undoubtedly surprising. Of course, one, the Mexican, claims to be …
Edelman Global Trust Barometer
How much do people trust that their governments are doing the right thing? Trust in the institutions, confidence in the path toward economic prosperity, shifts in trust from authorities to peers, trust in media, transparency and accountability, rule of law, democratic values, polarization, all these …
Technological Change in Graphs.
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