Annuities reduce mortality by 2.6% (5 years) and 3.6% (10 years) among Chilean retirees, by providing stable income and reducing investment-related stress, from Borja Larrain, Alessandro Previtero, and Felipe Severino www.nber.org/papers/w35082
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
Por si saben de cuatro amigas chilenas paseando en Buenos Aires, una de ellas dejó un anillo en la cafetería Buo de Paraguay y Bonpland. Ellos lo guardaron porsiaca.
The Effects of California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage on Prices Jeffrey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer & Joshua D. Nguyen WORKING PAPER 34990 DOI 10.3386/w34990 ISSUE DATE March 2026 We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage (Assembly Bill 1228), enacted in September 2023 and implemented in April 2024, on consumer prices using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Indices for food away from home across 21 metropolitan statistical areas. Food away from home prices in California's four in-sample MSAs increased by 3.3 to 3.6 percent relative to 17 control MSAs through December 2024. Our estimates are stable across a number of specifications. Placebo tests on price indices for goods and services that were not affected by the policy, including food at home, show no differential increases in California's MSAs. The price increases we estimate likely arise in part from spillovers to the full-service sector, as well as changes in the production functions and product quality choices of limited service restaurants.
CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power.
www.nber.org/papers/w34990
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Kast todavía no se da cuenta que se acabó la campaña.
Algo que iban a hacer igual, ahora lo enmarca en la polémica.
Partió tranquilito marzo, eh?
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
Wow. Hamnet. Just wow.
@metrodesantiago.bsky.social debería hacer un concurso público de como climatizar el metro.
Me imagino que ya vieron las opciones convencionales y debe ser extraordinariamente caro, pero quizás hay una genia por ahí que se le ocurre algo nuevo y barato.
Sinceren que quieren negociar con la derecha las presidencias de comisiones y nos ahorramos todo este show.
Que grande @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social
Finally some good news. Important for jobs, investment, cooperation and the defence of rule based trade. Strong geopolitical signal.
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www.latercera.com/mundo/notici...
I'm not one for making predictions, but I don't see how securing oil wells with mercenaries is a stable equilibrium in the long-term.
Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, appeared on a state-run television station after Mr. Trump’s announcement and asked Mr. Trump for proof that Mr. Maduro was still alive. In his Fox News interview, Mr. Trump declined to throw his support behind Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ya, aquí le cerró la puerta a mayor intervención. Para mí que el régimen sigue, pero con mayor conflicto interno y mayor violencia.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Yo no sé lo que pasará ahora en Venezuela, pero una transición a la democracia sin violencia no es el evento al que le asigne mayor probabilidad.
Cecilia Giménez, an amateur painter in Spain whose attempt to restore a church fresco of Jesus in 2012 ricocheted across social media, has died at 94. Giménez turned her town into a tourism hot spot.
Hace un par de días escuché a locutores radiales haciendo mofa de que la reflexión electoral de Giorgio Jackson tenía 18 páginas y notas al pié. ¡Porque quien lee 18 páginas!
Me parece que el tema con Karamanos es similar, idiocracia en curso.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
What?!
‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Thank you! This is very useful for policy makers.
Gracias Jeannette. La tarea era muy difícil y cuesta arriba, y aún así la asumiste.
Sospecho que la curva verde mágicamente caerá estrepitosamente desde marzo.
