Armando Mendez Morales writes for Pagina Siete: Restrictions on freedom of expression At the heart of the Government of the MAS, there is a dangerous political current based on an archaic ideological vision, even China some time ago and more recently Cuba discarded it. This current, imposed, would do great harm to the future economic…
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Bolivian banking system 101: is it profitable to save? do we have an alternative?
An interesting and clear economic analysis by Karina Moreno Sainz in El Deber: How much banks pay savers? Saving is the act by which a part of the possible present consumption is waived in order to achieve an increase of future consumption. This sacrifice requires compensation, which comes to be passive interest rate, sometimes, more…
Threatened Bolivian macroeconomic stability
Today I will share Alberto Bonadona’s interesting and worrying article published in El Deber: Bolivia stood in a past that still many remember as an economy of great instability. It reached the second rate of higher inflation in Latin America with more than 11,000% of growth of their prices in 1984. But not only inflation became…
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