FTC strategic Plan The sole commitment of a competition authority should be the strict enforcement of the law based on technical criteria. Subordinating that mission to the agenda of the incumbent administration undermines and distorts the effectiveness of antitrust law. www.ftc.gov/reports/fy-2...

How Insulated Is the U.S. Economy From the Iran War? ➡️ “The longer this goes on for the more it looks like a 1970s stagflation environment with inflation moving higher and remaining higher. Anything beyond six months and all bets are off” www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

El impacto económico de la deriva autocrática de México vía Guillermo Ortiz "La estabilidad macroeconómica ha ocultado el viraje autocrático de México. Resulta cada vez más difícil ignorarlo y la trayectoria económica del país ya no es tan segura como antes" prosyn.org/JSCv7K1es?re...

Remember all those boasts about jobs and gasoline prices in the State of the Union? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Zv...

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here “They’re assaulting basic democratic ideals on all fronts. It’s really just classic authoritarianism. It always starts with the minorities. It always starts with the immigrants...” newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @radleybalko.bsky.social

¿Quién paga el Impuesto sobre la Nómina? El proyecto de presupuesto de NL propone elevar la tasa del ISN del 3 al 4% ➡️El sector privado y el ejecutivo estatal asumen que el impacto recaerá en la empresa ➡️La evidencia empírica refuta esa hipótesis Algunas reflexiones 1/ elnorte.com/quien-paga-e...

Trump v. James and Maurene Comey "The greatest risk of putting the tenure of all federal employees at the whim of the president is not that he will fire them all; it’s that people like Ms. Comey will not seek out the work in the first place." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

Fed Cuts Rates to Lowest Level Since 2022 but Casts Doubt on December Move www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

"MORENA no tiene un proyecto para hacer de México un país moderno y con verdadera justicia social. Solo tienen un proyecto de poder." www.elmundo.es/opinion/luce...

Reflexiones relevantes y quizá incómodas "The London Consensus is an exercise in assembling the best available evidence and ideas to foster dialogue and to develop a set of principles that can address the urgent political, social and economic tasks ahead" press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues. Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The short-term order is designed to give the justices more time to review Trump’s emergency request to fire FTC commissioners By itself, Roberts’ order does not signal whether Trump will ultimately win his appeal in Slaughter’s case www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/p...

Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency ➡️ La prueba más palpable de que el bienestar de la población, la eficacia de múltiples mandatos constitucionales y la seguridad del Estado requiere de órganos técnicos independientes de actores políticos www.bbc.com/news/article...

They are not interested in honest, independent, nonpartisan review of the institution´s long run performance. ➡️They are interested in micro-managing the regulators for short term political gains…

We Ran the C.D.C.: RFK Jr Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent. A unanimous Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the FTC Act’s for-cause removal protection for Federal Trade Commissioners” cyberscoop.com/court-rules-...

Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Del discurso de Powell a la remoción de Cook vía Javier Guzmán ➡️Una política monetaria supeditada a objetivos políticos elevaría las expectativas de inflación y afectaría al dólar, resultando en tasas de interés de largo plazo más elevadas www.eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/javi...

"La salida a esta disyuntiva es una reforma fiscal que le permita al gobierno mantener la salud de las finanzas públicas y aliviar las carencias en los servicios públicos...la asfixia presupuestaria amplifica carencias educativas, de salud e infraestructura pública" www.reforma.com/2026-pueblo-...

Autonomy allows the Fed to credibly commit to maintaining the value of the currency through low and stable inflation while resisting highly destabilizing demands like Trump’s recent insistence that it cut the federal funds interest rate from 4.38 to 1 %. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Trump says he is removing Fed Governor Cook TRUMP: "...there is sufficient reason to believe that you may have made..." ➡️There goes the presumption of innocence…and the independence of the Federal Reserve Board edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/b...

The 2nd Trump administration seemed poised to deliver on MAGA’s embrace of aggressive antitrust enforcement. Those efforts have run headlong into power brokers with close ties to Trump who have snatched up lucrative assignments helping companies facing antitrust threats www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Rule of Law? ➡️Trump threatened to jail Bolton after he claimed Trump was woefully under-informed on matters of foreign policy and asked the leaders of Ukraine and China to help him win the 2020 election edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...

Don’t make Zelensky the Beneš of 2025 "The circumstances may be different but the dynamics are similar: an aggressor is demanding part of his country as the price for peace and a foreign power is brokering the outcome." www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...

Putin has agreed to robust security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says 🙄 Quote of the Day: “It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation” Henry Kissinger www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

"Few people trust China’s economic data because they know the government serves the interests of the ruling Communist Party. Mr. Antoni will have to take off his MAGA hat if he wants to ensure that the public and markets can trust BLS data." www.wsj.com/opinion/all-...

Really?

How Trump's Budget Will Affect the Distribution of Resources Available to Households ➡️Not so beautiful for the poor www.cbo.gov/interactive/...

"Si queremos que los avances en ingreso sean sostenibles, necesitamos bases estructurales sólidas. La educación es, sin duda, una de sus columnas imprescindibles." www.eleconomista.com.mx/opinion/desi...

President Trump once again catapulted crime in D.C. into the national conversation. “It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World,” he said in a Truth Social post. Local and federal data, though, paint a contrasting picture: wapo.st/3UnYDNd

En un país con impunidad casi absoluta, decir “se investigará” es equivalente a “no estén chingando, olviden este asunto”.

Trump's tariff revenue tracker: How much is the US collecting? Which imports are hit? www.piie.com/research/pii...

Contracción en la inversión pública y privada - La inversión pública se desploma para recomponer los excessos de fin de sexenio (con un alto costo social) - La inversión privada refleja, en parte, un entorno externo que se derrumba pero sobre todo la erosión institucional interna

The credibility of American statistics is foundational. It undergirds investor trust. It guides fiscal and monetary policy and business decisions. When those numbers are tainted or appear to be, the ripple effects are vast. Markets can lose faith in the data and in the country that produces it.

Churchill fue el mayor opositor de la política implementada por Neville Chamberlain durante los 30´s de "appeasement" hacia la Alemania Nazi. A pesar de ello, tuvo la generosidad de ofrecer estas palabras en el momento su muerte a finales de 1940 Una generosidad poco común en nuestros días

apnews.com/article/jobs...  “A notable deterioration in U.S. labor market conditions appears to be underway as a result of Trump trade wars and immigration restrictions . This report highlights the risk of a harder landing for the labor market.’'

Trump's tariffs face hostility from federal appeals court scrutinizing his legal justification for imposing them edition.cnn.com/business/liv...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names "There is only one radical means of sanctifying human lives. Not armored plating, or tanks, or planes, or concrete fortifications. The one radical solution is peace" Yitzhak Rabin www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Fed Holds Rates Steady but Two Officials Back a Cut ➡️ The Fed is studying how tariffs filter through inflation data amid anxiety that higher goods prices will keep inflation above the Fed’s 2% goal for a 5th year ➡️ The political noise is always a danger www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

"EPA announced its plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history" ➡️El triunfo de la ideología (y los intereses) sobre la evidencia científica www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Una cita del siglo XIX que corroboramos cada día

Trump prosigue con la erosión institucional al presionar a la FED ➡️ Su crítica a la renovación del edificio de la Fed no tiene nada que ver con rendición de cuentas...es parte del manual populista-autoritario que ya conocemos www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Buena reflexión de Mankiw sobre el futuro fiscal de Estados Unidos...y un buen antídoto frente a soluciones simplistas youtu.be/B916t3od8fM?...

Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent ➡️ "La tentación de la "presidencia unitaria" de microadministrar" cada agencia reguladora --desde la política de salud hasta la política monetaria-- tendrá efectos catastróficos" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

"Lejos del deber de reverencia que invoca el nuevo régimen, debemos defender el derecho a la burla. Si se nos arranca la libertad de reírnos de políticos, curas, millonarios sabiondos o famosos habremos perdido la libertad esencial." www.reforma.com/los-ungidos-...

"Una disculpa ya fue suficiente" dice ahora la diputada La clase política siente el peso de su propia arrogancia. Cada disculpa diaria de Karla Estrella se ha convertido en el síntoma de nuestra degradación política Lo siguiente será prohibirle que se disculpe www.reforma.com/una-disculpa...

➡️ Fear is the tool of a tyrant, Maurene Comey "If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." 1/2 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Un buen diseño institucional y la contención de los actores políticos de ciertas decisiones técnicas es clave para garantizar la estabilidad y el bienestar Llama la atención que ahora los republicanos cuestionen algo tan elemental (y razonablemente conservador) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

DECRETO por el que se reforman, adicionan y derogan diversas disposiciones de la Ley Federal de Competencia Económica y de la Ley Federal de las Entidades Paraestatales ➡️ Un retroceso histórico para el consumidor ➡️ Una (potencial) trinchera más para el Capitalismo de Cuates