Daniela Benavente
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Economista. Consultora. Comentarios a título personal.
Así está la cosa en EEUU…
El público mexicano grita "CHILE! CHILE!" por la gran presentación de 31 MINUTOS en el Zócalo de CDMX 🇲🇽 Cerca de 300.000 personas asistieron a este histórico momento. 🇨🇱 31M orgullo nacional.
Ayer se conformó la mesa técnica de la Comisión de Hacienda junto al Gobierno para analizar el proyecto de ley que beneficia a los más ricos. En esa instancia, nuestros representantes entregaron un documento que alerta sobre 23 graves inconsistencias en el Informe Financiero presentado por el Ejecutivo. Estos errores no pueden ser pasados por alto. Ponen en riesgo la recaudación del Estado, es decir, los recursos que financian derechos y políticas públicas para todos los chilenos y chilenas. Por eso, es fundamental que esta mesa realice un trabajo serio y riguroso, donde el Gobierno transparente sus estimaciones y corrija estas inconsistencias, que podrían tener un alto costo para el país.
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
Fin a las contribuciones de adultos mayores: Estudio señala que comunas más beneficiadas serán Las Condes, Vitacura y Lo Barnechea cnnchile.com/negocios/fin-a…
🔴 Mario Marcel: "La política económica está para reducir la incertidumbre y amortiguar los shock transitorios porque eso es mucho más eficiente que maximizar el dolor (...) Para eso está la política macro, para suavizar el impacto de los shock"
Chile’s military police force has cracked down on student protesters after hundreds demonstrated against the government’s proposals to limit access to free higher education. The proposal includes cutting a government scholarship programme and increasing student loans.
Quiroz firmó recorte de $32.721 millones en Desarrollo Social: ex Sename, CONADI, INJUV, Chile Crece Contigo y el ajuar para recién nacidos son los más afectados. El mismo día que nos enteramos de la circular de la DIPRES. Documento 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/108wf4-…
