Ricardo Pascoe Pierce López Obrador’s presidency attempts to return Mexico to the era of an economy controlled by guidelines emanating from the State and not so much from the market. He proposes an economy where the State is the monopolistic agent that determines who invests …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While in Gaza, the death toll exceeds 20,000, in Mexico, the death toll in 2023 is approaching 30,000. President Lopez Obrador has diplomatically called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas group in Gaza. But when he refers to insecurity in …
Juan Villoro Espionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a profession that depends on conceiving and manipulating the lives …
Antonio Navalón In the blink of an eye – which for some seemed too little for what was intended to be achieved, and for others, the wait seemed eternal – we have reached the last year of the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador …
Jamie Dimon’s leadership of JPMorgan Chase has often brought a sense of stability to roiling financial markets. But when he looks at the conflicts in Gaza ( which he considers the highest and most important thing for the Western world), Ukraine, and elsewhere, combined with inflation and rising interest rates at home, he sees ominous …
Percentage of World Debt Government Debt by Country in Advanced Economies Gross public sector debt as a proportion of GDP External debt as a share of GNI, 2021 Developing Countries Receiving the Most Loans from China Graph: on visualcapitalist.com Public Debt to GDP Ratios 2005-2027P The rise …
Luis Rubio “How can a country retain viability when its structures are focused on other purposes? It is worse when the objective is expressly preserving poverty, not development.” Plying the compass has not been the strong suit of most of Mexico’s governments, certainly not during …
Antonio Navalón Amid so many things happening around the world, one of the new facts that characterize the times we live in is how the rich are, how they behave, what their curiosities and interests are, and, among them, the richest of all: Elon Musk. …
Today, I begin my letter with an issue that has been worrying me for some time, which seems even more serious today. The new generation of young people known as Generation Z, the next generation of millennials, seems not to find its way and is …
Federico Reyes Heroles We know they lie to us. They know we know they are lying to us, and… they keep on lying. How far can it go? It is difficult to say. It appears in the world, and we can expel it. It has …