All posts by A. W. Maldonado

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  Is Economic Growth Possible in a Democracy?

  What has happened to Liz Truss, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom, poses a question that is crucial to us in Puerto Rico, and throughout the world – whether democracy, after all, is the best...

  • Posted October 22, 2022
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  Better Believe it:
  The Danger to the United States is Real

  There is something strange, and I think very dangerous, In 2015, when I first saw Donald Trump announce on TVthat he was running for president, my immediate, gut reaction was: “This guy has serious mental problems. This...

  • Posted September 8, 2022
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  The Trump Virus

  When the dust settles, what is today known as the coronavirus will be known as...

  • Posted October 15, 2020
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  Race in the South Bronx

  Like Americans from the beginning, we Puerto Ricans, especially those of us born and raised in the U.S., have had to cope with race. But there is a difference. When we lived in Spanish Harlem, El Barrio,...

  • Posted July 2, 2020
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  The War Against the Fiscal Board

  This is bad politics

  • Posted July 11, 2018
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  [Column] Should Puerto Rico pay its debt?

  Of course

  • Posted February 20, 2018
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  [Column] Puerto Rico’s Doomsday Clock

  Time's ticking. Where's the economic development strategy?

  • Posted January 26, 2018
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  Has Puerto Rico, too, gone bananas?

  The ruined economy makes the demand for statehood senseless

  • Posted January 17, 2018
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  [Column] Has the U.S. gone bananas?

  Would you ask a celebrity doctor for a diagnosis?

  • Posted January 11, 2018
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  Salvador Casellas and the battle to save the Puerto Rican economy

  May 28, 1974 Teodoro Moscoso received an urgent telephone call from Resident Commissioner Jaime Benítez in Washington. Benítez was furious. He had just read a May 22 press release from the House Ways and Means Committee listing...

  • Posted December 5, 2017