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Now we have government, but, with very reduced powers, as the rulling party is in minority in the Congreso (House of Representatives). So basically Spanish politics now is: -The government saying they will introduce its proposal of Budget for 2017. Meanwhile the public spending by the State...

Sorry, it has been a busy week in the office :D IMHO media is more effective manipulating things we don't know. So trying to create a bad image of Trump-voters or the reasons why people voted him and not the Dems is relatively easy, as most people of Spain (or elsewhere in the world) knows USA...

opal: -Is a single-payer system financed through taxes. Each comunidad (States), has their own medical system which is financed through their own taxes. I must recognise it has positive aspects (our medical spending is low, compared for example with USA), although there are too very negative...

Is a good question. In a general sense, Spain is a very Europhile country, specially before the Great Recession which hit us specially hard. Since the Spanish-American War in 1898, IMHO we've had a very acute complex of inferiority towards Europe. Basically, if you ask "Juan Español" (our term...

Hi everybody. I used to read this forums two or three years ago, but I stopped doing it. This week I've been reading you, simply I was curious about how Ron Paul supporters would consider Donald Trump agenda and first days of presidency (which IMHO has positive and negative issues), but, BTW...

@helmuth: The CEO is controlled by the Catalan government. His neutrality is, IMHO, as dubious as the one of the CIS, the demoscopic agency of the Spanish Gvt. However current status in Spain is very unstable and nobody can know what will happen, although it seems this summer we will have a...

IMHO secessionism in Spain is not caused by any desire of personal freedom but because the politicians have found it a good way to justify their awful gestion. So what if Catalonia have 25% of unemployment? They blame Spanish government, although we're spending tons of millions in bailing out...

Yes they were. The fact is the political spectrum in Europe is different and more leftist than the American one. What I would call Spanish Tea Party is obviously more leftist than the American Tea Party. Moreover the economy of Spain has much more regulations than the American one, and the...

No1butPaul: In Spain the only euroskeptics parties are the ones of the far-left, and some minor parties from the Catholic right which are not more than neo-franquist and socialist conservatives. Helmut, things are a bit different in Spain. In United Stes you're used to see conservative forces...

Sorry if it isn't the appropiate place for this thread, because is of European politics, although I've put it here as I've seen a thread about the UKIP in the same forum. As you may know, on Sunday there will be elections in the European Union, where we choose our 751 deputees in the European...

I was asking because Friedman is not considered into the Austrian School, whilst, people like Ron Paul were supporters of several ideas of the Austrian School. So the question is really about Rand... is he also a supporter of Austrian Economics or has he moved into the Monetarism?

For those from abroad... Does Rand support typical Austrian proposals like the full-reserve banking or the gold standard?

How is the Chairman of the FED chosen?

I must reckon since I entered on the University I've always been a iuspositivist (sorry, it said in that way in English? I'm talking about Kelsenian school, etc..), although with the time I'm being more symphatetic to Natural Law seeing the overregulations made by Euro governments. My distrust...

Encantado. I suppose comments about my English are a complete sarcasm :D, but don't take it in count, the only place I use English regularly is on the net.