We begin the year hoping the world will recompose, but it seems unlikely. There is no doubt that many of the problems would end if they put a stop to Iran, a country that loves to create problems by using third parties and financing atrocities. …
Wars, polarization, and uncertainty reign in the immediate future. None of the forecasts at the beginning of the year* alerted us to the outcomes we experienced. The widely anticipated recession didn’t happen; the U.S. economy is growing with low unemployment and decreasing inflation. Growth across …
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 …
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 …
Polarization around the world is increasingly present, in some cases even concerning. Politics in some countries are moved by protesting angry citizens fed up with the incompetence of their leaders. Extremists have a fertile ground for their causes, both for left and right. Unlikely candidates …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Although the world’s attention is focused on the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, the war that will have serious global consequences in the future is still being waged in Ukraine. In that country, the strategic lines of …
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