Laura González-Molero: "There will be a new normality in which digitalisation will be a very important pillar".
In this interview with Proa Comunicación, Laura González-Molero, president of the Association for Progress in Management (APD), analyzes the economic crisis that the containment measures established by the coronavirus are going to unleash in Spain. He admits that if in March the priority was «to face a pandemic in which we were overwhelmed from the [...]
There is only one future: build trust
The virus not only leaves thousands of dead - the most painful and serious - but a trail of physical and mental destruction, creating such uncertainty that there is no future. The most optimistic talk about a very different future coming, one that is very new, but perhaps more supportive and ecological. The apocalyptic ones [...]
National Security and COVID-19
The objective of Security is to ensure the integrity of people, physically and mentally, as well as everything necessary to achieve it, properties, health, food, communications, etc. To do so, it is necessary to determine the vulnerabilities of the system to be secured. Because in this way the risks can be evaluated and these can be [...]
From lockdown to Spain 2.0
In pre-confinement Spain, work was being done on the digitalization of our economic and social reality, but without pace. The apostles of the physical still found an echo to their arguments and more in a community where socialization is an essential part of the character. In a few days we learned that pandemics can be [...]
After the pandemic, nothing will change
We are experiencing cooperation, solidarity, the applause on the balconies, all symptoms of how all animals, insects, bacteria, when they have serious difficulties come together. There are theories from anthropologists and some ideologists that evolution is based on the fact that we have killed and fought. The idea that behind everything human is the struggle [...]
In view of the falls in the stock market caused by the coronavirus, it is advisable to persevere
Despite the deep health crisis caused by the coronavirus, and its enormous impact on financial markets and the economy, some experts advise to remain calm and persevere in investing in equities. This is the case of Banco Mediolanum, which has released a video produced by its specialists, in which they demonstrate with arguments the thesis of [...]
Ramón Tamames estimates a 13% fall in Spanish GDP (and III)
In the third and final article in the series, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, estimates the extent of the recession in Spain and analyses the policies being implemented to combat it. Fall in GDP: 13% in [...]
Almeida and leadership
Investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett said that «only when the tide goes out do you know who was swimming naked». Well, the tide has come out in one fell swoop, and how. We don't remember a tide like that; at the time of writing we have 3,434 dead in Spain and what we have left. [...] [...]
The economic and social consequences of the pandemic: in the face of a calculable recession (II)
In this second article, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, EU Jean Monnet Chair and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, analyses, together with Antonio Rueda, the economic slowdown in Spain and the collapse of the stock market. The state of alarm The Spanish economy was already in a phase of [...]
Home confinement
It's a big virus that when I talk or cough it falls to the ground at only four feet. It's a single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus, and it has the glycoprotein in the form of a spine that recognizes the cells of the lung alveoli and uses them to replicate. It stays on surfaces for a [...]
The economic and social consequences of the pandemic: in the face of a calculable recession (I)
Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, presents his vision of the effects of the coronavirus on world economies, in a series of three articles that we summarize below for the Proa Comunicación Blog. Black Swan In assessing [...]
How the coronavirus will affect the global and Spanish markets and economies
The coronavirus crisis is having a very negative impact on people's daily lives as well as on markets, the economy and politics. A recent report by Arcano Economic Research explains the consequences of this disease in these areas, and the scenarios that can occur afterwards. According to the entity, the biggest challenge for governments is [...]