10 PREDICTIONS FOR 2014
Article written by José Alberto León Alonso, and published in the BINTER magazine in January 2014. With a drop in GDP of around 1.3%, a destruction of around 200,000 jobs during the year and 5.9 million unemployed, 2013 will be remembered as the year we came out of the recession […]
FAIRY TALES
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/22/13. I admit that I am fed up with the Catalan independence debate, but my annoyance is even greater when I read or hear obviously biased and false statements, especially with regard to the economic consequences of secession.
DON'T PICK!
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso on 12/01/13 in Diario de Avisos. When the end of each year approaches, financial institutions usually dedicate their efforts to attracting investments for their pension plans, shouting that “this way you will pay less taxes.” Their tax advantages are usually accompanied by gifts: televisions, cash bonuses, […]
WILL THEY DARE TO MEET THE WIDOWS?
Article by José Alberto León Alonso published on 11/24/13 in Diario de Avisos. One of the reforms that is never talked about but that seems increasingly necessary is that of widow's pensions. The reform of widowhood is an old aspiration of Social Security technicians, agents […]
HOW TO REDUCE INEQUALITY?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso on 11/17/13 in Diario de Avisos. Almost a decade after Zapatero proclaimed that lowering taxes was left-wing, the PSOE once again proposes a new tax reduction in the Income Tax (IRPF). Apparently, the change is most progressive, with […]
GOOD MONTH FOR EMPLOYMENT
Article published on 11/10/13 in Diario de Avisos by José Alberto León Alonso. The unemployed registered with the INEM in the month of October amounted to 284,309 people in the Canary Islands, with an increase of 237 unemployed compared to the previous month and a reduction of 3,511 people compared to October 2012. Why is it […]
LOOKING FOR THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso on 10/27/13 in Diario de Avisos. Did Robert Shiller find the investor's philosopher's stone? Did you find that investment method capable of transmuting our vulgar savings into pure gold?
CAN THE BEHAVIOR OF AN ACTION BE PREDICTED?
Article published on 10/20/13 in Diario de Avisos by José Alberto León Alonso. What determines the price of a stock? Can you predict their performance and behavior? The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics awards Fama, Shiller and Hansen for trying to answer these questions and, in general, those related to the prediction of […]
DAWN, WHICH IS NOT LITTLE
Article published on 10/13/13 in Diario de Avisos by José Alberto León Alonso. A little over two years ago, in the first quarter of 2011, I titled this column with the name of the surreal Spanish comedy from the 80s “Amanece, que no es poco”, and indeed, then the Canary Islands economy seemed to emerge from […]
JOSÉ CARLOS FRANCISCO PRESENTS HIS BOOK \»CANARIAS. THE TRANSFORMATION\»
Transcription of the interview conducted with José Carlos Francisco, President of Corporación 5, in Diario de Avisos with the aim of presenting his fourth book Canarias, la transformacion. \»Jordi Sevilla says in the prologue of José Carlos Francisco's new book that the president of the Provincial Confederation of Businessmen of Santa Cruz de Tenerife […]
