by MCV | Oct 17, 2008 | Sin categoría
Here is what Joe knows: he has been paying on average US$ 110 per barrel of oil for the first 9 months of this year, or 66% more than last year’s average price of US$ 66 per barrel. Moreover, he has been paying three times more than long term average prices of oil of...
by MCV | Oct 14, 2008 | Sin categoría
Dear Sir, Has it occurred to you that the present crisis is no crisis after all, once you extinguish this unreasonable panic among financial actors? It turns out that even though the US economy is decelerating, it still grows whether a recession is called for or not,...
by MCV | Sep 24, 2008 | Sin categoría
It is not easy to ascertain the depth of the present financial crisis, to differentiate real economic costs from accounting practices that link asset values to markets where prices are no longer reliable, to get to the essence of the problem out of too many...
by MCV | Sep 13, 2008 | Sin categoría
Estimado Señor Director, Todos estamos de acuerdo en que la inflación es dañina para la economía, y cuando ésta se sale de rangos aceptables, aunque sea temporalmente, sobran las recomendaciones. Aquí le envío entonces una más, antes que continúe la escalada alcista...
by MCV | Jul 31, 2008 | Sin categoría
Our present energy crisis has awoken Chile: as of year 2006, domestic energy production –essentially hydroelectricity – represented 24% of total domestic energy consumption, another 24% – natural gas – was supplied from Argentina, a neighboring...