Summer of general elections… and prices through the roof!

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Some time now, the economy has played an increasingly determining role in our lives, as Bill Clinton once warned in times of growth and lascivious joy, as Irene Montero would say, in the oral, sorry, oval office. But after spending years with our eye on the happy risk premium, what is now hitting us - and how! - is inflation, which no matter what they say, does not stop rising. This does not mean that all the terraces and beach bars are full at all hours. Even so, a cloud of doubt darkens the faces of the pagan diners, even the loquacious invited brothers-in-law, because in the meantime they know that their permanence in the so-called middle class is in danger. Making ends meet has become a chimera. Each candidate has a different formula to get us out of this quagmire All the candidates in these general elections will tell us that they know how to get us out of this quagmire that is on its way to leaving us numb. Of course, each one in his own way, which is what makes it extremely difficult when it comes to giving our vote to one or the other, or to neither.

Politicians are one thing and economists are another, who are supposed to be the ones who know what inflation and other hardships are about that push many of us to who knows, permanent poverty. If the surveys are Job Function Email Database only indicative, the cold statistics are true as fists that should be taken into account when placing the ballot in the ballot box, if possible in an air-conditioned school or in the shade of a century-old elm, in the case of any remainder. The way things are going, Spain's public debt could soon exceed the astronomical figure of 120% of GDP. Whoever wins on 23-J, no candidate is right, for now, to clarify who is going to reverse this trend that only condemns future generations to misery. The Greeks know them well. Nor is anyone explaining to us what will happen the day our generous NextGen funds are cut off. We have known for a long time that politicians cannot be trusted. But what we are not so clear about is the reliability of economists and bankers, who rather than dedicating themselves to pulling chestnuts out of the fire, seem to be immersed in a little game of Monopoly, with catastrophic consequences for everyone, although not for themselves.



Since they know very well that, except in their private bank deposits, the bills they play with are toys. The greatest obsession of economists is to tame inflation; that of politicians, spending as if tomorrow did not exist, in exchange for votes; That of the banks, they cover themselves by giving loans at exorbitant rates. And to the voter who wears a bowler hat in the happy expression of Xavier Trias. read also Camps of the Three Wise Men But let's see, do economic politicians understand it? Two afternoons were enough for Jordi Sevilla to explain to ZP the secrets of this discipline. No matter how much Pedros Sánchez has training as an economist, it is still true that it is not governments that create money, but banks through the granting of credit. A 2019 UK survey by Positive Money found that up to 85% of MPs had no idea where the money came from, although most said they understood it came from the Mint.