José Manuel Suárez Mier* I began last week the account of racism in the United States and how an opposite current of thought and indoctrination emerged that seeks to amend the horror of slavery and racial discrimination by arguing that “race is a cultural category …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* Unlike Ibero-America, where the fusion of races and Christianization took place only when the first explorers arrived, the United States has had a conflictive history of extermination and discrimination, first of indigenous Indians and then of the black slaves essential to …
Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2021 (Second Estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st Quarter 2021 (Preliminary Estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2021 (table 1), according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of …
Antonio Navalón Societies are falling apart, and with them, collective life projects and hope for the future disappear, which in the end are the only ones that maintain social cohesion. The flagship that President Joseph Biden is using to relaunch and stabilize the political and …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* President Joe Biden plans to spend, in addition to budgeted spending of $ 5 trillion, $ 6 trillion: $ 1.9 trillion in aid to neutralize the effects of the pandemic; 2.3 billion for very broadly defined infrastructure; and 1.8 trillion in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance On Friday, February 12, Paul Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation. Krugman is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a …
