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Murdoch Warns Pope Francis about Ecuador’s President Correa

By William K. Black Quito: July 12, 2015 Now that Pope Francis’ visit to South America has ended we can reflect on the Rupert Murdoch’s effort to slam Pope Francis and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa using the pretext of the Pope’s … Continue reading

The BBC Hates Correa So Much that it cannot Restrain Itself

By William K. Black I was peacefully reading a BBC article on Ecuador’s plans to introduce a digital currency to bring banking services to the rural poor, when in the midst of the article the anonymous author decided to attack … Continue reading

The Oil Oligarchs Want Me to Know How Much They Hate President Correa

By William K. Black Gustavo Coronel, a Venezuelan oil oligarch associated with Cato has written to let me know how much he despises Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa.  Coronel serves as his own “official scorer” so he has declared that one … Continue reading

Correa’s and Ecuador’s Success drive The Economist Nuts

By William K. Black (Cross posted at Benzinga.com) Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has the special ability to drive our most elite media nuts.  Failures are self-refuting.  It is the successful that drive their opponents to distraction, and much of the … Continue reading

Ecuador’s President Correa Fires his Cousin

By William K. Black In November 2011, President Correa appointed Pedro Delgado as head of Ecuador’s Central Bank.  The appointment was controversial.  The obvious controversy was that Delgado is Correa’s cousin.  Conservatives claimed that Delgado lacked integrity.  Some progressives shared … Continue reading

The Miraculous Turnaround in Ecuadorian Migration under President Correa

By William K. Black I have recently presented a series of talks and authored a series of articles on Ecuador’s and Italy’s leaders’ policy responses to their nation’s challenges. Why is the failed Monti a “technocrat” and the successful Correa … Continue reading

Why is the failed Monti a “technocrat” and the successful Correa a “left-leaning economist”?

By William K. Black (Cross posted at Benzinga.com) The New York Times produces profiles of national leaders like Italy’s Mario Monti and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa.  I invite readers to contrast the worshipful treatment accorded Monti with the Correa profile.  The … Continue reading

Democrats Should Not Rely on Glenn Simpson and His Hit Piece about Trump and Putin

By William K. Black August 27, 2017     Kansas City, MO Like you, I learned recently that Glenn Simpson had given ten hours of testimony before a closed session of the Senate Judiciary Committee and produced tens of thousands of pages … Continue reading

Dear Professors Uribe-Teran and Vega-Garcia…

More than fifty economists signed onto an open letter, written by professors Ha-Joon Chang of the University of Cambridge and James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin, ahead of this year’s presidential elections in Ecuador. The letter … Continue reading

Obama Imports and Immunizes Banksters Who Donate to the Democratic Party

By William K. Black Bloomington, MN: December 17, 2014 President Obama and then Secretary of State Clinton decided that America has a critical shortage of banksters and decided to import some from Ecuador. The banksters showed their gratitude by showing the … Continue reading