Minimum wage

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/25/15. The PSOE has proposed in its draft electoral program to raise the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to around 1,000 euros in two terms. This would mean going from 648 euros in 14 payments today to 1,000 euros […]

Surveys using aggregation techniques

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/18/2015. Citizens have been subjected to a bombardment of electoral polls with disparate results regarding the elections to be held in 2015, so they end up concluding that the polls are useless, which is the same as what politicians think...when […]

Employment increased, but less

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/11/15. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of September 2015 amounted to 242,313 people, with a decrease of 336 people compared to the previous month and 24,324 people compared to September 2014. Despite the media importance […]

Another crisis?

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/04/2015. For about two years I have been expressing my concern about the irrational growth that has been fueling the Chinese economy, creating bubbles in the financial, real estate, stock market and raw materials sectors. Liquidity tensions, stock market crashes and skyrocketing rates […]

Collapse in TF-5

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 09/27/2015. The headline of my article coincides with that of the front page of this newspaper on September 23, when an accident early in the morning caused queues of about 15 kilometers on the Tenerife North Highway. […]

Sanity and madness

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 09/21/2015. The book The Accounts and Tales of Independence by Josep Borrell and Joan Llorach recalls the fable of the milkmaid embodied by the independentists, analyzing their arguments in favor of the independence of Catalonia, and concluding that they have been deceiving […]

Jobs cool, not the economy

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 09/13/2015. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of August 2015 amounted to 242,649 people, with a decrease of 1,257 people compared to the previous month and 24,019 people compared to August 2014. Despite the media importance […]

Worse, impossible

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/19/15. Throughout the month of July we have watched the penultimate chapters of the Greek soap opera. The signed agreement exudes distrust on all four sides and can be broken into a thousand pieces at each of the innumerable milestones that mark it. The Greeks […]

Turbulence on the road

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/14/2015. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of June 2015 amounted to 248,223 people, with a decrease of 3,718 registered unemployed people compared to the previous month and of 21,836 people compared to June 2014. Despite the importance […]

The great Greek madness

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/05/15. Just two weeks ago I was asked how I thought the negotiations between Greece and the Institutions (formerly Troika) would end, and I responded that I believed they would reach an agreement, since it was reasonable, given that both would benefit from the agreement and both would be harmed by the […]