Beyond the Washington Consensus This book offers a great synthesis of new thinking about the economy. It covers issues such as innovation and productivity, trade, macro policy, the labor market, social policy, the environment & state capacity Open Access press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.313…

El gráfico muestra la tasa de rendimiento (%) de las principales bolsas de valores del mundo y de otros activos financieros en 2025. No ha sido un buen año para Bitcoin, el único que en el gráfico muestra rendimiento negativo.

El Salvador La economía desacelera. #IVAE Hay datos de actividad económica a Octubre de 2025. En economóa prevalecen las reglas (leyes). El IVAE desacelera de 6.92% en Sept/2025 a 2.04 en Oct/2025. Caída abrupta. Solo el Sector #Público está en contracción con -2.78% Era

Dear followers, please see my article on A Unified Theory Trump Both Trump’s domestic and foreign policies can be best understood as an attempt to build an imperial presidency by elevating executive power and destroying constraining institutions and norms. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Updated IMF Growth Forecasts for 2026: 🇺🇸 US: 2.4% 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.1% 🇫🇷 France: 1.0% 🇬🇧 UK: 1.3% 🇨🇳 China: 4.5% 🇯🇵 Japan: 0.7% 🇮🇳 India: 6.4% 🇷🇺 Russia: 0.8% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1.6% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 4.5% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.4% Explore the full projections. imf.org/en/publication…

Bertrand Russell’s timeless message to future generations

Conferencia este viernes 13 de febrero a las 9:00am en el Colegio de Economistas. Más detalles en la foto.

On the supreme court decision on tariffs, a remark from afar, by an uneducated foreigner: Didn’t we get a relatively clean test of who is a conservative judge and who is a Trumpist judge? Isn’t obvious that a conservative judge would conclude that the tariffs were

Mapa mundi de aranceles Un interesante y útil mapa del The New York Times de cómo cambian los aranceles de Estados Unidos por país, comparado con la situación antes del dictamen de ayer de la Corte Suprema (CS), teniendo en cuenta el nuevo anuncio de Trump de hoy de que subirá el arancel

With the imposition of tariffs, Pres. Trump promised a "manufacturing boom". WRONG. The Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress reports that 108,000 jobs have been lost in manufacturing in Trump's first year in 2025.

Kristalina Georgieva, the fund’s managing director, said tariffs had a ‘negative supply effect’ and acted as ‘a headwind to even stronger growth’. ft.trib.al/pG0am7J

A fascinating interview with BERTRAND RUSSELL from 1952 that has him talking about his Grandfather meeting Napoleon, and about life in Europe in the 1800’s.

Mi entrevista con el Colegio de Economistas sobre el programa de El Salvador con el FMI y sobre la economía salvadoreña youtu.be/GVg5_BnTl7s?si…

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How high will inflation go? According to a recent Fed study, every $10 rally in oil prices can increase inflation by ~20 bps. Oil has already surged from $55 to $80 per barrel, implying +50 bps of inflation pressure. This could push CPI from 2.4% to ~2.9%. When oil prices

this right here is the reason China stays quiet on Iran everyone losing their mind asking where is Beijing while the US & Israel are bombing a major chinese energy partner and the answer is so brutal in its simplicity that most analysts miss it completely, the empire is eating

BREAKING: Qatar says the Iran war could “bring down the economies of the world” and warns oil prices may see $150 within days as Gulf countries prepare to shut down production, per FT. Details include: 1. Qatar predicts that all Gulf energy exporters will shut down production

Un interesante artículo de Jason Furman en el 250 aniversario del libro de Adam Smith “La riqueza de las naciones”. Nos recuerda que las ideas de Smith iban mucho más allá del liberalismo económico: “Smith nos instó a juzgar a una nación no por la fortuna de sus reyes o su