“In politics, civilities are substance” Attributed to Jesús Reyes Heroles On June 8 of last year, we published a note titled “AMLO’s Mexico Downgraded.” The subtitle was “The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country.” It was based on the State visit …
Antonio Navalón January 6, the day that for our culture and civilization represents the day of the Magi (Three Wise Kings), brought an inappropriate, unwanted, and terrible gift just one year ago. For a long time, the Christian population in the United States has clearly …
Decreasing prices of consumer durables: technological innovation and economies of scale In the chart shown we see the price changes in goods and services in the United States from 1997-2017, measured as the percentage price change since 1997. Positive values indicate an increase in prices …
A joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Abstract The spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus weighed on the near-term growth outlook and marked down projections for gross domestic product (GDP) …
Image: Daniels Joffe on Unsplash Luis Rubio Alexander Pope, a XIX-century English poet, penned the phrase “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Mexico’s relationship with the United States is, was, and will be complex and variegated as long as Mexicans do not resolve the fundamental problems of their own development, which would presumably …
M. Chris Mason The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields where the United States won every tactical engagement but at the strategic level of war. In each case, the U.S. Government attempted to create a western-style …
U.S. Department of State Executive Summary In 2020, Mexico became the United States’ third largest trading partner in goods and services and second largest in goods only. It remains one of our most important investment partners. Bilateral trade grew 482.2 percent from 1993-2020, and Mexico …
José Manuel Suárez Mier * My readers asked me to elaborate on the evolution of the political parties in the United States and from that historical vision to see what will happen today with an extreme polarization between parties and within themselves. The first government …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* The Republican Party of the United States, kidnapped by its most ignorant and radical segment of white supremacists, is a huge political threat because it is modeled on the Know-Nothing Party that emerged in 1853 to group those who wanted purity …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* In past installments, I presented the evolution of racism in the United States and how a line of thought emerged, the CRT, which affirms that all whites are racists and that a new social order is required based on the victory …