Chile Forum

Happy new year, folks!

May your lives get easier in 2020!

May Chile find peace and a path to becoming a better place for all its inhabitants, be it humans or pudús!

According to the latest CADEM poll released a week ago, 86% support a new constitution.

Seems that the job market wasn't affected much after all: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas just announced that the unemployment rate for the end of the year is 6.9%, 0.1% more than in the end of 2018.

Daniel Matamala: De qué estamos hablando Más del 94% de los 2 millones y medio de votantes de la consulta ciudadana está a favor de un IVA menor para productos de primera necesidad. Coinciden en ello con una de las principales críticas de la OCDE a nuestro país: que nuestro sistema tributario está ...

I'm slow, but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

fraggle092 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:01 pm

I did suggest subcontracting Chile's administration out to the Swiss, or some other upright nation some years ago, as a joke....

Far from a joke, Ancient Rus' was bootstrapped like this: the Slavic tribes invited some viking nobles to rule them because they had "no order" in their lands.

The director of the Santiago Stock Exchange resigns, says the economic elites and politicians are to blame for the crisis:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/dia/2019/11/ ... -santiago/

I can't see how this act confirms that they are "communists" and can't see why they shouldn't demand for Rozas to go away. Also, communists are extremely well organized through worker unions, while FA doesn't have anything like this and caters to young middle-class voters. I understand why you don't...

Thats all well and good , to be fair though it has produced a lot more than flat screens in every home, but putting that aside and the failings in the current system , what system then doesnt produce misery and is sustainable in the long run? The Nordic-like social democracy: I've been to Finland m...

It's not only cultural reasons (although they play an important part) that will prevent Chile from getting out of the so called middle income trap. A shrinking workforce and older population, low productivity, low copper prices and the natural resource curse, lack of R and D, bureaucracy and red ta...

And there in lies Chiles major problem, comparing themselves to Western Europe and OECD members, this is definitely Chiles neighborhood, the last month has shown this is the neighborhood where the country firmly belongs. These Latin American basket cases , economically speaking, are who Chile shoul...

really your buying that crap? the far left has so many different names, and changes them almost daily, because they shit in their own bed so often they could not get elected if they did not change flags constantly. Yes I do because I made an effort to distinct between the 50 shades of Chilean socia...