OLDER, LESS YOUNG

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in La Gaveta Económica in the September 2016 issue. In the June issue, I commented on the conclusions of a study for Spain carried out by CEOE, which concluded that our country ages rapidly and that in the medium and long term the unemployment rate will decrease […]

Will demographics solve unemployment?

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the June 2016 issue. Since the crisis opened its jaws back in 2008, employment was swallowed up unstoppably until approximately 2013, reaching unemployment figures of over 33% of the active population.

Voting without debate is not democratic

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/26/16. After my last article on Brexit, some readers have asked me to further develop my proposal for deliberative democracy. It is one of the tools analyzed within decision theory, an interdisciplinary area related to economics, […]

Tomorrow is already here

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/29/16.  Last week it was learned that the public debt in Spain had reached the psychological level of 100% of GDP, a level that had not been seen in our country since 1909, as a result of the debt caused by the disastrous wars of '98. The […]

The sinking

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/22/16. Venezuela is one step away from bankruptcy…again. It will be the seventh bankruptcy since 1950, a world record. And we will not see a controlled and orderly bankruptcy, no. We will witness a disorderly bankruptcy in the style of Argentina in 2001, and of a dimension […]

Slowdown continues

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/08/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of April 2016 amounted to 242,063 people, with a decrease of 825 people compared to the previous month and 11,953 people compared to April 2015. Despite the media importance […]

Pimelia Canariensis

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the April 2016 issue. At the end of 2010, my third book appeared in bookstores, titled "The necessary reform. Canary Islands in the face of the crisis of our lives." The fifth chapter dealt with the new Canarian socioeconomics, which by virtue of […]

Downhill again

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/10/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of March 2016 amounted to 242.88 people, with a decrease of 744 people compared to the previous month and 13,963 people compared to March 2015. Despite the media importance […]

Negative expectations

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 03/06/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of February 2016 amounted to 243,632 people, with a decrease of 2,352 people compared to the previous month and 15,055 people compared to February 2015. Despite the media importance […]

Animal Spirits

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in La Gaveta Económica in the February 2016 issue. The general elections in Spain open a usual parenthesis every four years. Economic decision-makers, that is, all citizens, were waiting for the results to know the composition of a center-right or center-left government.