CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
A little over a month ago the U.S. Census Bureau published a notice of proposed rulemaking for the elimination of the Electronic Export Information filing requirement for shipments between the United States and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While for the most part this notice has flown under the radar, the negative implications it poses over Puerto Rico’s economic data merits our attention.
This year things are complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a record number of voters who have already cast their ballots to avoid the crowd on Election Day. This combination could result in a strange election night.
En un momento tan doloroso como este, en el que el mundo experimenta semejante pandemia, vale recordar que Puerto Rico atraviesa una situación aún más delicada. Hay toda una generación en la isla que solo conoce la palabra “crisis”.
As COVID-19 cases surge again in Europe and key cities like Paris, Berlin and Barcelona take extraordinary measures to curtail the expansion of the virus, Spain’s management of the pandemic has come again under scrutiny.
España apostará a la economía verde y a la transformación digital tras el azote del COVID-19. Con más de 860-mil contagios detectados y 33-mil muertes contabilizadas a mediados de octubre, la pandemia ha golpeado fuertemente al país: el Banco de España estima que la economía española decrecerá entre 10.5% y 12.6% durante 2020 y que registrará una de las caídas más graves entre las economías avanzadas.
Hace unos meses tuve la oportunidad de leer una entrada en el blog de Howard S. Marks, cofundador y copresidente de Oaktree Capital Management, titulada “Knowledge of the Future”. Según Marks, “hoy en día todo el mundo tiene los mismos datos sobre el presente y la misma ignorancia sobre el futuro”.
With less than five weeks to the general election in the United States, the partisan temperature is rising as politicians and their lawyers plot their electoral strategies.
Four years since the enactment of PROMESA, the island of Puerto Rico is still grappling with nearly 15 years of economic contraction and a bankruptcy process that appears to have no end in sight. Making matters worse, just a year after PROMESA was signed into law, Puerto Rico was struck by not one but two devastating hurricanes in a span of 14 days.
