North America

Real GDP Growth Canada, Provinces and Territories 2020.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210503/g-a001-eng.htm In Canada, real gross domestic product (GDP) was down 5.3%. In Newfoundland and Labrador, real GDP was down 5.3%. In Prince Edward Island, real GDP was down 3.0%. In Nova Scotia, real GDP was down 3.2%. In New Brunswick, real GDP was down 3.7%. In Quebec, real GDP was down 5.3%. In Ontario, real GDP was down 5.0%. In Manitoba, real GDP was down 4.8%. In Saskatchewan, real GDP was down 5.2%. In Alberta, real GDP was down 8.2%. In British Columbia, …

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There are Judges in México!

Luis Rubio In an old medieval tale,* famous in the world of lawyers, a king decides to expropriate a miller’s estate because it impairs the view from his palace. The miller goes to the higher court in Berlin, which rules in his favor and compels …

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Biden and the Mexican Midterms

Luis Rubio As the midterm elections draw closer, Mexico’s broken politics are beginning to take their toll. The independent electoral authority (INE), one of the country’s greatest institutional achievements after decades of fraudulent elections, is under fire by AMLO and his party, which are also undermining the Supreme …

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Mexico: The Supreme Court and the Future.

Image: Rawpixel on iStock Luis Rubio The Supreme Court is the only one of the three branches of government that was consciously reformed in Mexico recently (1994) to tie in with the political reality of the 21st century. That conferred on the Court a distinctive character that, however, its members have not wholly assumed. Although presidents …

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Mexico’s Broken Politics

Image: Kagenmi on iStock Luis Rubio   “All politics are local,” Tip O’Neil famously quipped. In Mexico, all politics today are about elections and especially about the midterms of June 6. From his inauguration, President López Obrador turned this election into a referendum of himself; in fact, he wanted to be on the ballot by creating a …

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Expenditure, Debt, and Inflation

Manuel Suárez Mier* The interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury bond almost tripled from a year earlier and is twice the level it was just three months ago. Many believe heralds that inflation will soon follow, which has been very low despite runaway spending …

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Mexico’s President Growing Polarization

Photo: CUARTOSCURO on am.com.mx Angry for his negative results, he rushes laws and regulations unfriendly to domestic and foreign private investment. The government that claims to be in a change of regime and calls itself the Fourth Transformation is drowning amid a heap of negative results, a chaos that will have a long-lasting devastating effect …

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Without the Option

Photo: Pashalgnatov on iStock Luis Rubio When divorce is outside the realm of possibility, the two parties are obliged to understand each other one way or another. That is the rationale that Mexico and the United States have pursued concerning the border that both nations share.  A mere look around the world confirms that there …

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