As May rolls out, and June approaches, all the meteorological and emergency management pundits start their media tours to forewarn everyone on getting prepared for hurricane season, which will last up until November. The warnings become full campaigns, which will flood the airwaves and the social media environment hoping that preparations will somehow reduce the […]
The fear of an inflationary wave in the United States has implications for Puerto Rico, precisely because the island’s prices are largely determined by what happens stateside. Puerto Rico’s inflation rate has been rebounding since October 2020, although during the first quarter of 2021, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained at a rate slightly below […]
Puerto Rico’s economy is predicted to have a base scenario of 0.5% real Gross National Product growth in Fiscal 2019 with a slight growth of 0.8% in Fiscal 2020, according to a forecast published by economic analysis firm H. Calero Consulting. In its latest edition of its “Pulse” publication, the firm says, however, that the […]