Rafael Ramirez de Alba

Mariana Mazzicato: “…por encima de las lógicas tradicionales de mercado”. ¿Reconocida economista? En su vida escucharon hablar de ella. ¡Qué ingenuidad! Nadie puede vencer las fuerzas del mercado. Son implacables. Ir contra ellas sólo puede resultar en un verdadero desastre.

We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel. The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict. Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God"). Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge. And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best. I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it. Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy. Communism, in a nutshell.

Data centers barely use any water, barely use any land, and they lower electric bills.

China's economic slowdown is deepening: China's GDP grew just +4.3% YoY in Q2 2026, the slowest pace since Q4 2022 and below the government's official target range of +4.5% to +5.0%. This followed +5.0% expansion in Q1, bringing first-half growth of the year to +4.7% YoY. Furthermore, fixed-asset investment fell -5.7% YoY in the H1, worsening from a -4.1% decline in the first 5 months. The decline was driven by property investment plunging -18%, the largest drop on record dating back to 1992. At the same time, retail sales increased +1% YoY in June after a -0.6% decline in May, while auto purchases dropped more than -16%. Weakness is spreading across the world’s 2nd-largest economy.

🔴Felipe Calderón afirmó en Madrid que México enfrenta un problema “parecido al de Venezuela” y advirtió que el país “va en la misma vía”. El expresidente criticó la reforma al Poder Judicial y sostuvo que la elección popular de jueces y magistrados permitió el ingreso de abogados “leales al Gobierno”, incluidos, según afirmó, abogados de narcotraficantes. Calderón cuestionó quién protegerá los derechos de los ciudadanos si, bajo este modelo, “nunca se le podrá ganar un juicio al Gobierno”.