Op-Ed: P.R’s per capita debt load is ‘far lower’ than that of mainland states
January 17, 2019
Recent discussions of Puerto Rico’s debt levels by both Puerto Rico officials and the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico represent that the island’s per capita debt levels are far higher than the average per capita levels of mainland states in the U.S. mainland. However, that analysis compares only state-level debt and ignores […]
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Op-Ed: Concerns grow over appointments to Institute of Statistics board
January 14, 2019
The Puerto Rico Science Policy Action Network (PR-SPAN) and CienciaPR, the largest network of Puerto Rican scientists in the world, is echoing the concerns expressed by the American Statistical Association and the Association of Economists of Puerto Rico about recent appointments to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and how […]
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Op-Ed: Financial stability during retirement
December 28, 2018
To maintain your lifestyle level when you retire, you will need to receive approximately 70 percent of the income you earned while working.
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Op-Ed: PREPA keeps relying on expensive consultants, IEEFA says
December 26, 2018
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s overreliance on outside advisors continues to undercut its ability to invest in the people needed in Puerto Rico.
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Op-Ed: Small Business Saturday a success for local merchants
December 20, 2018
The unofficial kick-off to the holiday season places neighbors’ focus on buying with small businesses and local merchants.
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Op-Ed: Reducing food waste — An environmental problem that begins at home
December 17, 2018
The average household in Puerto Rico generates 5.5 lbs. of garbage per day, which ends in one of the 29 landfills or sanitary landfill systems existing on the island.
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Op-Ed: Statistical independence as an antidote to mistrust
December 13, 2018
To ensure that the Institute had freedom of action and was truly autonomous, the Institute’s law created a Board of Directors.
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Op-Ed: Oversight Board includes arbitrary Act 154 assumptions in Fiscal Plan
December 5, 2018
Instead of using the most probable assumptions based on actual past results, the Oversight Board relied on untested assumptions which in combination arrive at extremely low expected revenue numbers for its projections.
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Op-Ed: IEEFA Puerto Rico says massive liquefied natural gas project dead
December 4, 2018
Last week, Excelerate Energy, the company that planned to develop a natural gas import terminal in Puerto Rico, requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory withdraw its authorization for the project.
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Discover Puerto Rico confirms 2 major conventions in ’20, ’21
December 4, 2018
Discover Puerto Rico’s CEO Brad Dean said this is the direct result of the DMO’s participation in IMEX America 2018.
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Op-Ed: Put Puerto Rico first
November 30, 2018
During the past few months a narrative has taken hold, on both sides of the political spectrum, that Puerto Rico is “using federal disaster relief funds to pay bondholders.”
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Op-Ed: ‘Tis the season to support local businesses and shop small
November 21, 2018
Small businesses have the power to propel economies and lift up communities.
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Op-Ed: Takeaways from Social Media Week 2018 San Juan
November 19, 2018
Social media is one huge “Tabula Rasa” where anyone with an interesting product or story can start a business.
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Op-Ed: Puerto Rico’s unfinished business after Hurricane María
October 25, 2018
It has been a little over a year since Hurricane Maria fractured Puerto Rico’s infrastructure and its demographic and economic landscape.
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Op-Ed: Investors need to stay the course
October 18, 2018
The Dow Jones dropped 832 points, and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices took substantial hits.
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