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 2006/02/12 - Gabriel CalzadaPolitical EnergyThere is no doubt the energy market is a strategic sector. The fact that politicians try to control the production, distribution and commercialization of electricity proves it. At the same time, the interventionist framework has created barriers that limit competition to a few, select companies.
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 2006/02/09 - Daniel Rodríguez HerreraWhat FON Could BecomeThat a Spanish business initiative has grabbed the attention of techie heavy-weights Google, eBay and Skype enough for them to contribute funding is news in and of itself. It is refreshing to hear in a Spain where so many entrepreneurs spend more time looking for government favors than trying to innovate.
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 2006/01/29 - José Carlos RodríguezThe Irish ExampleWith the government’s so-called fiscal reform still painfully fresh in our minds, it is worth recalling the Irish example. Ireland entered the European Common Market in 1973 as its poorest member. Today, it has the highest income per capita in Europe, behind only Luxembourg.
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2006/01/29 - Gabriel CalzadaGood News For SmokersThe Anti-tobacco Law, a government-sponsored anti-utopia created to attack private property, forbids smoking in your own office and obviates parental responsibility by forbidding them to give chocolate cigarettes to their children. But it is not alone. The administration’s freedom-killing crusade has been growing and pressure groups are joining in.
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2006/01/22 - Gabriel CalzadaNuclear ExterminatorThe whole world knows about the grandeur of la France and that its politicians stand above good and evil, coherence and incoherence. Jacques Chirac demonstrated this again when he declared his government was willing to fire atomic bombs against “leaders of States who resort to terrorism against [France] or consider using weapons of mass destruction.”
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2006/01/22 - José Carlos RodríguezThe Historic DebtIn the middle of the night on January 21, a pair of individuals, sitting face to face, made a tremendous discovery: the “historic debt” the rest of Spain owes Catalonia. It was a strange discovery, without a shred of evidence. You see, the “historic debt” has no history.
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2006/01/15 - Gabriel CalzadaWho Is Stealing Our Purchasing Power?The Consumer Price Index (CPI) shot up 3.7 percent in 2005, the highest level in the past three years. Consumer associations, unions, small business and self-employed organizations and business in general are up in arms. Whose fault is it? The chicken’s? The vegtables’? The tourist sector’s? A consumption obsessed population’s? The olive oil’s?
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2006/01/09 - Gabriel CalzadaThe Misinformation FluTurkey is on tenterhooks. Three siblings, two boys and a girl, died recently after getting infected with the avian flu virus. The entire country is paying attention to the health of the other two brothers in the Kocygit family. This family’s misfortune has become a national tragedy and turned into an uncontrolled collective fear as new cases appeared during the past weekend and spread to other parts of the country.
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2006/01/08 - José Carlos RodríguezA Private Education For The PoorThis week the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal published the 2006 Index of Economic Freedom, once again pointing out how the world’s freest societies are also the most prosperous. The report usually ends with a study on a certain aspect of freedom. This year, it explains how the world’s poorest citizens are leaving public education as soon as they can and looking to get their kids into private schools.
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2006/01/01 - Gabriel CalzadaLights Are Off For This GovernmentThe market for electricity is one of the most regulated in existence. The proof is when we try to find out the price we are going to pay for electricity next year, we do not look to the market but to political power. In this country the government, and not the relationship between producers and consumers, determines the electricity rates.
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