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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro

@romoraleselcoro.bsky.social
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Economista interesado en políticas públicas y obsesionado en la política de competencia.

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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Un comentario apresurado sobre... La nueva fragilidad de los órganos reguladores en Estados Unidos…y en México La decisión de SCOTUS de avalar la remoción discrecional de los comisionados del FTC tendrá implicaciones de largo plazo... substack.com/@rodrigomora...
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La nueva fragilidad de los órganos reguladores en Estados Unidos…y en México
La decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de los Estados Unidos (SCOTUS) de avalar la facultad del Presidente de despedir
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
FTC strategic Plan The sole commitment of a competition authority should be the strict enforcement of the law based on technical criteria. Subordinating that mission to the agenda of the incumbent administration undermines and distorts the effectiveness of antitrust law. www.ftc.gov/reports/fy-2...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
How Insulated Is the U.S. Economy From the Iran War? ➡️ “The longer this goes on for the more it looks like a 1970s stagflation environment with inflation moving higher and remaining higher. Anything beyond six months and all bets are off” www.wsj.com/finance/comm...
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How Insulated Is the U.S. Economy From the Iran War?
Consumers are feeling pain at the pump, but the U.S. is faring better than other parts of the world. How long can the economy hold out?
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
El impacto económico de la deriva autocrática de México vía Guillermo Ortiz "La estabilidad macroeconómica ha ocultado el viraje autocrático de México. Resulta cada vez más difícil ignorarlo y la trayectoria económica del país ya no es tan segura como antes" prosyn.org/JSCv7K1es?re...
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El impacto económico de la deriva autocrática de México
Project Syndicate - The World’s Opinion Page
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Remember all those boasts about jobs and gasoline prices in the State of the Union? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Zv...
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Where's My Golden Age?
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here “They’re assaulting basic democratic ideals on all fronts. It’s really just classic authoritarianism. It always starts with the minorities. It always starts with the immigrants...” newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
¿Quién paga el Impuesto sobre la Nómina? El proyecto de presupuesto de NL propone elevar la tasa del ISN del 3 al 4% ➡️El sector privado y el ejecutivo estatal asumen que el impacto recaerá en la empresa ➡️La evidencia empírica refuta esa hipótesis Algunas reflexiones 1/ elnorte.com/quien-paga-e...
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¿Quién paga el Impuesto sobre la Nómina?
Elevar la tasa del ISN tendría un impacto sobre el bienestar de trabajadores y consumidores y requiere de una discusión bien fundamentada.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trump v. James and Maurene Comey "The greatest risk of putting the tenure of all federal employees at the whim of the president is not that he will fire them all; it’s that people like Ms. Comey will not seek out the work in the first place." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Trump v. James and Maurene Comey
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fed Cuts Rates to Lowest Level Since 2022 but Casts Doubt on December Move www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"MORENA no tiene un proyecto para hacer de México un país moderno y con verdadera justicia social. Solo tienen un proyecto de poder." www.elmundo.es/opinion/luce...
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Ernesto Zedillo: "Los nuevos autócratas juegan con las reglas de la democracia para destruirla"
El mismo mes que Ernesto Zedillo asumió la Presidencia de México, en diciembre de 1994, estalló en el país una grave crisis económica y financiera. Culminaba así un año...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Reflexiones relevantes y quizá incómodas "The London Consensus is an exercise in assembling the best available evidence and ideas to foster dialogue and to develop a set of principles that can address the urgent political, social and economic tasks ahead" press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues. Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The short-term order is designed to give the justices more time to review Trump’s emergency request to fire FTC commissioners By itself, Roberts’ order does not signal whether Trump will ultimately win his appeal in Slaughter’s case www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/p...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to keep FTC commissioner off payroll for now | CNN Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission for now, a temporary win for the White House as it extends control over independe...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency ➡️ La prueba más palpable de que el bienestar de la población, la eficacia de múltiples mandatos constitucionales y la seguridad del Estado requiere de órganos técnicos independientes de actores políticos www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency
The US health secretary's plans could have a huge impact on health policy not just in the US, but across the globe.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
They are not interested in honest, independent, nonpartisan review of the institution´s long run performance. ➡️They are interested in micro-managing the regulators for short term political gains…
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We Ran the C.D.C.: RFK Jr Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent. A unanimous Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the FTC Act’s for-cause removal protection for Federal Trade Commissioners” cyberscoop.com/court-rules-...
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Court rules ‘fired’ FTC commissioners be reinstated — again
In a 2-1 decision, an appeals court upheld a 1935 Supreme Court precedent restricting the president’s ability to fire FTC commissioners.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
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Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Del discurso de Powell a la remoción de Cook vía Javier Guzmán ➡️Una política monetaria supeditada a objetivos políticos elevaría las expectativas de inflación y afectaría al dólar, resultando en tasas de interés de largo plazo más elevadas www.eluniversal.com.mx/opinion/javi...
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Del discurso de Powell a la remoción de Cook | El Universal
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"La salida a esta disyuntiva es una reforma fiscal que le permita al gobierno mantener la salud de las finanzas públicas y aliviar las carencias en los servicios públicos...la asfixia presupuestaria amplifica carencias educativas, de salud e infraestructura pública" www.reforma.com/2026-pueblo-...
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2026: ¿pueblo o mercados?
En los próximos días el Gobierno Federal enviará al Congreso su propuesta de paquete económico para 2026. Esta propuesta incluye la Ley de Ingresos, la Miscelánea Fiscal, el Presupuesto de Egresos de ...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Autonomy allows the Fed to credibly commit to maintaining the value of the currency through low and stable inflation while resisting highly destabilizing demands like Trump’s recent insistence that it cut the federal funds interest rate from 4.38 to 1 %. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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Opinion | What the Federal Reserve, Supreme Court and Senate Need to Do After Lisa Cook’s Firing
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump says he is removing Fed Governor Cook TRUMP: "...there is sufficient reason to believe that you may have made..." ➡️There goes the presumption of innocence…and the independence of the Federal Reserve Board edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/b...
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Trump says he has fired Fed governor Lisa Cook, escalating his battle against the central bank | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Monday said he has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to a letter addressed to her posted on his social media — the first such instance in the central bank’s...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The 2nd Trump administration seemed poised to deliver on MAGA’s embrace of aggressive antitrust enforcement. Those efforts have run headlong into power brokers with close ties to Trump who have snatched up lucrative assignments helping companies facing antitrust threats www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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MAGA Antitrust Agenda Under Siege by Lobbyists Close to Trump
The administration’s populist promise to be tough on companies is clashing with influence campaigns.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Rule of Law? ➡️Trump threatened to jail Bolton after he claimed Trump was woefully under-informed on matters of foreign policy and asked the leaders of Ukraine and China to help him win the 2020 election edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...
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FBI conducts search at John Bolton’s home as part of resumed national security investigation | CNN Politics
The FBI conducted a court-authorized search at John Bolton’s home as part of a national security investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book, according to two peopl...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Don’t make Zelensky the Beneš of 2025 "The circumstances may be different but the dynamics are similar: an aggressor is demanding part of his country as the price for peace and a foreign power is brokering the outcome." www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...
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Don’t make Zelensky the Beneš of 2025
When Czechoslovakia was dismembered in 1938 it did not end well. Let us not now make the same mistake in another European country
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Putin has agreed to robust security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says 🙄 Quote of the Day: “It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation” Henry Kissinger www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
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Putin has agreed to 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says - latest updates
Steve Witkoff describes the proposal as
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"Few people trust China’s economic data because they know the government serves the interests of the ruling Communist Party. Mr. Antoni will have to take off his MAGA hat if he wants to ensure that the public and markets can trust BLS data." www.wsj.com/opinion/all-...
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Opinion | All E.J. Antoni’s Labor Statistics
Does Trump’s nominee for BLS have a plan to make data more reliable?
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Really?
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
How Trump's Budget Will Affect the Distribution of Resources Available to Households ➡️Not so beautiful for the poor www.cbo.gov/interactive/...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Si queremos que los avances en ingreso sean sostenibles, necesitamos bases estructurales sólidas. La educación es, sin duda, una de sus columnas imprescindibles." www.eleconomista.com.mx/opinion/desi...
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Desigualdad educativa persistente
La reducción de la movilidad educativa y el acceso desigual a estudios profesionales, agravada por la redistribución regresiva de transferencias,
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/08/2025
President Trump once again catapulted crime in D.C. into the national conversation. “It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World,” he said in a Truth Social post. Local and federal data, though, paint a contrasting picture: wapo.st/3UnYDNd
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Jacobo Dayán @jacobodayan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
En un país con impunidad casi absoluta, decir “se investigará” es equivalente a “no estén chingando, olviden este asunto”.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Trump's tariff revenue tracker: How much is the US collecting? Which imports are hit? www.piie.com/research/pii...
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Trump's tariff revenue tracker: How much is the US collecting? Which imports are hit?
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Contracción en la inversión pública y privada - La inversión pública se desploma para recomponer los excessos de fin de sexenio (con un alto costo social) - La inversión privada refleja, en parte, un entorno externo que se derrumba pero sobre todo la erosión institucional interna
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The credibility of American statistics is foundational. It undergirds investor trust. It guides fiscal and monetary policy and business decisions. When those numbers are tainted or appear to be, the ripple effects are vast. Markets can lose faith in the data and in the country that produces it.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Churchill fue el mayor opositor de la política implementada por Neville Chamberlain durante los 30´s de "appeasement" hacia la Alemania Nazi. A pesar de ello, tuvo la generosidad de ofrecer estas palabras en el momento su muerte a finales de 1940 Una generosidad poco común en nuestros días
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
apnews.com/article/jobs...  “A notable deterioration in U.S. labor market conditions appears to be underway as a result of Trump trade wars and immigration restrictions . This report highlights the risk of a harder landing for the labor market.’'
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US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda
U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Trump's tariffs face hostility from federal appeals court scrutinizing his legal justification for imposing them edition.cnn.com/business/liv...
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Trump’s trade deadline ticks down to zero, sending tariffs soaring | CNN Business
The self-imposed midnight deadline is rapidly approaching for countries to strike a trade framework with the United States or faces significantly higher tariffs. Follow along for live updates.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names "There is only one radical means of sanctifying human lives. Not armored plating, or tanks, or planes, or concrete fortifications. The one radical solution is peace" Yitzhak Rabin www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fed Holds Rates Steady but Two Officials Back a Cut ➡️ The Fed is studying how tariffs filter through inflation data amid anxiety that higher goods prices will keep inflation above the Fed’s 2% goal for a 5th year ➡️ The political noise is always a danger www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
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Fed Holds Rates Steady, but Two Officials Back a Cut
Dissents highlight a fraying consensus among policymakers, who are debating the effects that tariffs will have on the economy and inflation
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"EPA announced its plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history" ➡️El triunfo de la ideología (y los intereses) sobre la evidencia científica www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Trump's EPA targets key health ruling underpinning all US greenhouse gas rules
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal foundation for all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Una cita del siglo XIX que corroboramos cada día
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump prosigue con la erosión institucional al presionar a la FED ➡️ Su crítica a la renovación del edificio de la Fed no tiene nada que ver con rendición de cuentas...es parte del manual populista-autoritario que ya conocemos www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
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Jerome Powell disputes Trump on cost of changes to Fed construction
President Trump is visiting the Federal Reserve's headquarters in Washington, keeping up the intense pressure he's been putting on Fed chair Jerome Powell because the Fed hasn't lowered interest rates...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Buena reflexión de Mankiw sobre el futuro fiscal de Estados Unidos...y un buen antídoto frente a soluciones simplistas youtu.be/B916t3od8fM?...
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2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Greg Mankiw, "The Fiscal Future
YouTube video by NBER
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent ➡️ "La tentación de la "presidencia unitaria" de microadministrar" cada agencia reguladora --desde la política de salud hasta la política monetaria-- tendrá efectos catastróficos" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Opinion | Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Lejos del deber de reverencia que invoca el nuevo régimen, debemos defender el derecho a la burla. Si se nos arranca la libertad de reírnos de políticos, curas, millonarios sabiondos o famosos habremos perdido la libertad esencial." www.reforma.com/los-ungidos-...
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Los ungidos
La clase política se planta ante la crítica con la soberbia del ungido. Los morenistas se imaginan apartados del resto de los mortales, dedicados a una obra histórica que los coloca por encima de cual...
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
"Una disculpa ya fue suficiente" dice ahora la diputada La clase política siente el peso de su propia arrogancia. Cada disculpa diaria de Karla Estrella se ha convertido en el síntoma de nuestra degradación política Lo siguiente será prohibirle que se disculpe www.reforma.com/una-disculpa...
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Una disculpa ya fue suficiente, dice diputada Barreras
Tras críticas, diputada Diana Karina Barreras dijo que una disculpa de ciudadana Karla Estrella fue suficiente; pidió a TEPJF considerarlo.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
➡️ Fear is the tool of a tyrant, Maurene Comey "If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." 1/2 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Maurene Comey urges DOJ colleagues to stand up to 'abuses of power' in memo after her firing
Comey that she was fired via a memo and that she wasn't given a reason.
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Rodrigo Morales Elcoro @romoraleselcoro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Un buen diseño institucional y la contención de los actores políticos de ciertas decisiones técnicas es clave para garantizar la estabilidad y el bienestar Llama la atención que ahora los republicanos cuestionen algo tan elemental (y razonablemente conservador) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
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Trump’s Attack on the Fed Ripples Through the Global Economy
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