The Green Swan*, Hollow Glibness

José Manuel Suárez Mier** The Network of Banks and Banking Supervisors to “Green” the Financial System (NGFS), together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), organized last week their conference entitled The Green Swan 2021 to “define the immediate …

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AMLO’s Mexico, Downgraded.

The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country. One cannot imagine Mexico’s President Adolfo López Mateos (1958-1964) receiving Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, instead of President John F. Kennedy, or President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) receiving Vice president Hubert Humprey instead of …

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Scorched Landscape

Antonio Navalón In the midst of the discussion and the claims to count ballot by ballot and polling station by polling station – in the way of bringing back what happened in 2006 – today, what is a reality is the confrontation that Mexicans have …

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Let’s vote

Photo: Element Digital on Pexels Luis Rubio Today’s the day (Sunday), the day of the citizenry. The day on which, with their vote, the citizens will individually express their feelings for the government and their expectations for the future. There have been few times that a midterm election has been so transcendental, and that is …

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The Expected End

Antonio Navalón In the morning after the elections, things will be terribly confusing. For the good of everyone and the country, I hope this is not the case. We are at a time in the history of humanity in which emotions have definitely managed to …

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What’s Important

Image: Giulia May on Unsplash Luis Rubio Next Sunday, June 6, will be a key day for the future of Mexico. It is the day on which the electorate will decide whether it will vote for the existence of counterweights to power or whether it will ratify the course that, step by step, the president …

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Folly and Fiscal Wisdom

Jose Manuel Suárez Mier* I was thinking of writing today about the presidential outburst regarding the leader of the Bank of Mexico, whom he will exchange for “an economist with a social dimension,” but my dear friend Isaac Katz has already written, and better, everything …

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Mexico’s President, AMLO, Breaks all the Laws

Manuel Suárez-Mier * Mexican President has effectively declared himself the sole arbiter of the nation’s democratic processes as his popularity plummets new lows. With crucial midterm elections in two weeks, the political situation in Mexico is deteriorating quickly. The government promotes polarization and violent confrontation …

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The Two Americas

Antonio Navalón The America that rules, the one that financially dominates the planet, has a very complicated agenda. The other America, that of the South, has lived amidst the convulsions of populism. From the beginning, there have always been two Americas. From the time of …

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