The question of why the rich are rich is something that society tends to ask, and, depending on the answer we give to that question, we can make very different policy decisions. For example, if those who earn the most receive their income mostly from non-work sources, we tend to see the resulting distribution as…
The global economic slowdown is a palpable fact for the big economic blocs. All of them have cut growth estimates during this year, but we must highlight the specific case of Europe, which is positioned as the economic block with the lowest growth. For this year, the IMF projects economic growth for the world of…
Economic theory says that wages are linked to productivity, that is, that productivity improvements will be reflected in workers’ salary improvements and that wage pressures impact on high inflation rates. But the truth is that in Europe it has been showing an interesting paradox to analyze in relation to wages, to the progress of productivity…
On Sunday, November 10, voters are called to the polls to express their political preferences. If we previously analyzed the economic proposals of national parties that are located on the left axis, today, we have to analyze the ideological axis of the right. The economy becomes more important in the current context of deceleration. The…
Today, the United States and China are in the middle of a trade war with the mutual imposition of tariffs, initially driven by the Donald Trump government, whose ultimate goal is to avoid the bulky trade deficit of what is the world’s first economy with China. But there is another basic war that is being…
Catalonia is living a few complicated days. After the sentence of the process, a wave of protests has begun, which especially affect the Catalan capital, Barcelona. The page of the process is closed, and another is opened, but not without leaving consequences in the Catalan economy. In these years, we have seen the deterioration of…
One of the keys to the technological world that we have to live, and that from these lines we have always stood out as a fragile point of European socioeconomics, is the almost total lack (and almost without) of European technological giants. With this grim picture, not only do we not lead the socio-economic sector…
Recasting Capitalism and correcting a course that the success of populisms, whether left or right, shows that it was only a drift has always been one of the most recurring theses from these lines, and always with a purely constructive ambition. Without going to judge whether the correct approach is a Democrat or a Republican,…
No one in the financial world (and just in the street-level world) has been able to dodge on the covers and in the media that eternal debate about whether the trade war was going to harm the US or China. It is an issue that has often been exposed as a simple football match, when…
The China relocator is now relocated… China is testing its own globalizing medicine Meanwhile, in the last rales of multilateralism and globalization that we still cannot know very well if we will have to bury definitively, Chinese production had already been relocating Chinese production to Africa. A trend instrumentalized by the Chinese regime to secure…