Monday of contrasts. The economy is growing again but many jobs will not return. Last week we learned that monthly economic activity (Imacec) is advancing strongly. And in April it grew 14.1% compared to the same month last year. The bad news is that unemployment stood at 10.2%, which is 1.2 percentage points higher than twelve months ago. The good news is that Ivan Weissman brings us a new edition of El Semanal.
Thirteen consecutive setbacks – and no success – accumulate from 2014 to date the various legal and administrative actions filed by Jean Jano Kourou, owner of Mall Plaza Los Ríos, against its future competitor, Mall Paseo Valdivia. Today’s featured opinion addresses the issue.
In the RM it will be crucial if Claudio Orrego or Karina Oliva is elected. If Orrego wins, it will give a new air to the unglamorous opposition, which has been doing more or less the same thing for three decades, although I approve dignity will say that what was imposed was the party of order added to the right, whose most extreme characters is doing a disservice to Orrego. If Oliva wins, the less traditional left option will become even more entrenched, and the big loser will be the PS, for having tried a very inelegant transvestism. This minute includes a column with the political analysis of Germán Silva Cuadra.
The world’s major economies reached a “historic” agreement this weekend to introduce a global minimum tax on multinational companies. Finance ministers from the G7 group, meeting in London, agreed to fight tax evasion through measures to make companies pay in the countries where they do business. They also agreed on an overall minimum corporate tax rate which will, in principle, be 15%. The agreement reached by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan will put pressure on other countries to follow suit, something that could be seen at the G20 meeting next month.
