Southern Pacific Railroad Company, el Tribunal Supremo federal había manifestado que las corporaciones son personas para propósitos de la Enmienda 14 de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos y merecen las mismas protecciones. [read post]

The asymmetries run beyond the usual problem of state subsidies to that of states being tempted to tilt markets in favor of SOEs (producing a sort of systemic corruption in markets driven systems) to issues of interference with sovereignty when SOEs serve as the apex enterprise in global production chains.[18] The legal status of SOEs varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder.[19] But its purpose has remained constant—national… [read post]

(Pix credit: Mexico: López Obrador and a memorable speech in the Zócalo: “With the people everything, without the people nothing” (Full text))I have been writing about the most interesting speech delivered to the representatives of the Mexican state assembled in Congress at an gathering to which a large number of foreign representatives were also in attendance. [read post]