Puerto Rico’s public finances have stabilized but are still weak, its indebtedness levels and rates are unsustainable, its fiscal viability over the medium term is uncertain, and its economic outlook remains quite modest, said the Center for the New Economy’s Policy Director Sergio Marxuach during an analysis of the administration’s current and future budgetary activity.
The surprising paralysis of the certification of the representatives of the public interest in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s governing body is the most recent example of an arbitrary system that has taken power with impunity and that self-reproduces at the expense of the best interests of the people.
A society that allocates more resources to the upper echelons at the expense of a middle class perpetuates a centuries-old problem that only leads to a reduction in the demand for goods and services, resulting in a crippled economy.
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