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On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York hosted a hybrid event centered on achieving equitable growth. During the event, Miguel A. Soto-Class, CNE’s President & Founder, discussed the opportunities that arise from natural disasters and associated resiliency efforts to ensure equitable growth.
It has become a bit of an end of year tradition: Congress is scrambling again to enact legislation to keep the federal government open. Unfortunately for the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico, Congress is also scrambling to provide additional funding for the island’s Medicaid program and avoid a so-called “Medicaid cliff.”
El 2022 cierra con un balance de avances fiscales y de incertidumbre económica. Los factores que apuntan al alza superan actualmente los riegos a la baja, debido principalmente a las proyecciones de la inversión federal en infraestructura. Pero esa inversión no está completamente bajo nuestro control y no es recurrente. Resulta imperativo, entonces, que Puerto Rico comience a diseñar una estrategia de crecimiento económico a mediano y largo plazo de cara al 2023.
This report provides a detailed examination of short-term rentals activity in Puerto Rico and addresses several of the claims made by different groups through a detailed analysis focused on: hosting trends, and the industry’s effects on housing markets and affordability.
Ponencia presentada por Jennifer Wolff en el Seminario “Sociedades atlánticas: Ayer y hoy” del Instituto de Historia-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicasen Madrid el 21-22 noviembre de 2022.
In this edition of the CNE Review, we present a summary of the current state of U.S. politics after the midterm elections and what the outlook is for Puerto Rico. We also include some highlights of our most recent event, Puerto Rico’s Colonial Conundrum.
Election results in the U.S. midterm elections are still coming in as we write this CNE Review but the big picture is fairly clear. Adapting to the new political conditions in the U.S. is the only strategy likely to be successful in avoiding two years of stagnation and achieving some policy victories in Washington.
La más reciente falla masiva en el sistema eléctrico de Puerto Rico causada por el huracán Fiona, el desencanto con el desempeño de LUMA, y la frustración general con el proceso de reconstrucción y transformación de la infraestructura de la isla me llevaron a preguntarle a dos expertos en sistemas eléctricos en España sobre las claves para lograr tener un sistema funcional.
