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 2005/07/10 - Jorge ValínPoverty Does Not Cause TerrorismA study by Alan Krueger, from Princeton University, and Jitka Malečková, from Charles University, reached empirical conclusions showing terrorism does not come from poverty.
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2005/07/03 - Jorge ValínProduction DictatorIf the Prime Minister’s “priority objectives” actually corresponded with Spaniards’ priorities, he would have made a successful businessman. He would be offering exactly what people most urgently need at the most affordable price without having to confiscate astronomic amounts of money from the community via extortion, ummm… I mean, taxes.
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 2005/06/26 - José Carlos RodríguezEnemies Of The PoorThis Sunday, enemies of the poor gathered in Madrid and in other places around the world. “Zero poverty”, they demanded –having done nothing to reduce it. Nothing good, I mean.
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2005/06/19 - José Carlos RodríguezOur Debt With AfricaCondoning debt is useless and hypocritical. These debts were never going to be paid. Canceling them is mere propaganda, and implies that Africa is kept in poverty by cheap rich countries. In truth, the causes lie elsewhere.
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2005/06/12 - Jorge ValínNasty Social DemandsPutting social demands into effect is not a step forward, but a step back. Our high levels of unemployment and scarce job opportunities are proof Europe’s experiment with radical unionism and omnipotent Statism has failed.
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2005/05/29 - Jorge ValínThe State Doesn´t Add UpA few weeks back, the business association CEOE declared the “the Spanish economy is suffering a serious competitiveness problem” due to “fiscal, labor and social burdens”. As a solution, the socialist administration is studying whether to lower the social costs imposed on indefinite contracts half a point. Come on. This tiny measure won’t do much against the 38% companies have to pay the government for the luxury of employing people.
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 2005/05/23 - Gabriel CalzadaZapatero, Trittin And The Red-Green KhmersThe context for the Bonn meeting is as follows: Kyoto’s utter failure. Not for its dreadful economic consequences and invisible environmental benefits, about which Europe’s politicians are unconcerned and knew beforehand. The reason for the failure is that only 33 countries have committed to reducing emissions in agreement with the conditions laid out in the Kyoto Protocol and of these fewer still seem capable of complying with the conditions they signed.
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2005/05/15 - José Carlos RodríguezDown With Science!At some point, we have heard reference to “the scientists” and we surrender to this term with the same reverence we surrendered three centuries ago to accusations of witchcraft. And so, without any proof, we fixate on what the media tells us. The problem arises when the word “science” is manipulated for strictly political ends.
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2005/05/12 - Gabriel CalzadaGallardon-gradI don’t know if everyone is clear on Mr. Gallardón´s idea. Changing the zoning laws means that some people who have a home today, might not have one tomorrow thanks to our right honorable Mayor and his personal, collectivist vision of how to raise the quality of urban life. We are talking about confiscation, expropriation, robbery or seizure.
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2005/04/24 - José Carlos RodríguezThe Tragedy Of Common PropertyIt is hard to exaggerate the importance of this woeful way of managing the assets. In England, the privatism of the commons, known as the enclosures, allowed a huge increase in the productivity of the land spurring an agrarian revolution that preceded the industrial revolution and making the latter possible.
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