Publications | Econ Americas

In 2020, 1.5 million new investors started trading through the country’s major exchange, B3. (Rafael Matsunaga)

February 3, 2021

How the Pandemic Drove Brazilians to Stocks

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Young, Retail Investors Embrace Online Discount Brokers

Paz Gómez

February 2, 2021

Why Invest in Latin America in 2021

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Higher Yields Lure Investors from Developed World

EA Staff

The deal is particularly attractive to US citizens: they do not need a residency permit. (MariamS)

January 1, 2021

Puerto Rico’s Allure as a Tax Haven

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Struggling Island Attracts Residents, Businesses with Meaningful Benefits

Paz Gómez

The company’s objective is to offer investors an incentive to go beyond hoarding and to use gold as money. (17095 images)

December 8, 2020

Monetary Metals Turns Gold Into Fixed Income

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Lend Rather than Hoard for In-Kind Returns

Paz Gómez

Matthew Raphael Johnson, a "Russian Orthodox Medievalist," does more harm than good by writing on Latin America. (Realist Report)

November 23, 2020

Matthew Raphael Johnson’s Perversion of Latin American History

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DIY Book Shows Pitfalls of Putting Ideology before Evidence

Fergus Hodgson

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Few issues impact every single Alaskan more than the annual dividend from the fund. (12019/10259 images)

October 29, 2020

What Endangers the Alaska Fund

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Politics Proves Weak Link amid Shortfall

Caitlin Rose Morgante

Rice University, whose mascot is the owl, has for decades been home to two efficient-markets critics. (Rice University)

October 27, 2020

How Efficient Markets Became Academic Dogma

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John Dobelman Delivers Overdue Critique of Financial Orthodoxy

Fergus Hodgson

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In 2015, Guyana, an agriculture-based economy, found oil deposits along 193 km of its coast. (Dan Lundberg)

September 23, 2020

How Petrostate Guyana Got Caught in the Cross Hairs

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A tiny English-speaking country in northern South America, Guyana will be the world’s fastest-growing economy thanks to the massive oil reservoirs.

Paz Gómez

Despite Latin America’s legendary burdensome regulations, the first neobank in the region also emerged in 2013. (Canva)

September 9, 2020

Neobanks a Game-Changer for Unbanked in Brazil

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Despite economic woes, Brazil has emerged as an unlikely global leader in the next generation of banks.

Paz Gómez

MILA will not take off until member countries harmonize investment rules and provide tax incentives. (MILA)

August 6, 2020

The Latin American Integrated Market (MILA): A Misnomer?

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Lack of Harmonization, Red Tape Hamper Investment

Daniel Duarte

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