The attitude of the Catholic Church before public protests and government repression generates admiration and wonder in those sectors unaware of the key criticisms of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference to the regime's projects and fail to recall memorable episodes of the struggle against the former dictatorship.
On 29 April, the French National Assembly approved a first major package of measures presented by the new socialist cabinet, led by the newcomer Prime Minister Manuel Valls, as the only way to meet the economic goals set by the European Union. Under this plan, launched as a 'Stability Pact', the costs of government will be reduced by a total of fifty billion euros until 2017, of which the so-called 'welfare state' will be deducted 11 billion, in cuts from social protection programs, and 10 billion to be saved on health-care costs.
I like economists who, besides inventing things, are remembered for knowing how to explain the reality that surrounds them and making it understandable to others. I like economists who do not die, but survive the problems of their times and whose solutions reach future generations. I like economists who are convincing in simplicity, implacable in logic, overwhelming in evidence. This is how Nobel Prize winner economist and professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago, Gary Becker, was, and how we will always be.
More than four months have elapsed since CDU/CSU and SPD formed a coalition in Germany. This time, the aim was to avoid the errors made by both parties in the previous coalition of 2005-2009, after Gerhard Schröder’s defeat and the election of Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The result of said coalition was not satisfactory to either party, but was especially harmful to SPD. The Social Democratic Party decreased by more than 11 points in the following 2009 election and CDU/CSU had to form a coalition with the Liberals to continue in office.
One year after the death of the “Iron Lady”, it seems mandatory to make some comments on her figure and her political leadership. Margaret Thatcher was a world-renowned stateswoman. This is not only due to her three election victories (1979, 1983 and 1987), but also to the loyalty she always showed to her principles, specially to her unconditional defence of freedom, to which she linked a disused concept (then and now): responsibility.
The Spanish economy has a strong degree of momentum in terms of economic growth (above the European average) based on the significant expansion of domestic demand. Over the year and a half in which the present government has been in power, not a single significant economic measure has been introduced, although the effects of previous reforms continue to be felt.
05.14.2014. The attitude of the Catholic Church before public protests and government repression generates admiration and wonder in those sectors unaware of the key criticisms of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference to the regime's projects and fail to recall memorable episodes of the struggle against the former dictatorship.
05.12.2014. On 29 April, the French National Assembly approved a first major package of measures presented by the new socialist cabinet, led by the newcomer Prime Minister Manuel Valls, as the only way to meet the economic goals set by the European Union. Under this plan, launched as a 'Stability Pact', the costs of government will be reduced by a total of fifty billion euros until 2017, of which the so-called 'welfare state' will be deducted 11 billion, in cuts from social protection programs, and 10 billion to be saved on health-care costs.
05.06.2014. I like economists who, besides inventing things, are remembered for knowing how to explain the reality that surrounds them and making it understandable to others. I like economists who do not die, but survive the problems of their times and whose solutions reach future generations. I like economists who are convincing in simplicity, implacable in logic, overwhelming in evidence. This is how Nobel Prize winner economist and professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago, Gary Becker, was, and how we will always be.
04.21.2014. More than four months have elapsed since CDU/CSU and SPD formed a coalition in Germany. This time, the aim was to avoid the errors made by both parties in the previous coalition of 2005-2009, after Gerhard Schröder’s defeat and the election of Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The result of said coalition was not satisfactory to either party, but was especially harmful to SPD. The Social Democratic Party decreased by more than 11 points in the following 2009 election and CDU/CSU had to form a coalition with the Liberals to continue in office.
04.11.2014. One year after the death of the “Iron Lady”, it seems mandatory to make some comments on her figure and her political leadership. Margaret Thatcher was a world-renowned stateswoman. This is not only due to her three election victories (1979, 1983 and 1987), but also to the loyalty she always showed to her principles, specially to her unconditional defence of freedom, to which she linked a disused concept (then and now): responsibility.
12.20.2005. The Spanish economy has a strong degree of momentum in terms of economic growth (above the European average) based on the significant expansion of domestic demand. Over the year and a half in which the present government has been in power, not a single significant economic measure has been introduced, although the effects of previous reforms continue to be felt.