Credit Crunch
As long as Mexican banking remains deregulated, it will continue to be detrimental to growth, generating high profits at the expense of debtors, both in the public and non-financial private sectors.
Political Economy
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No Happy Ending for 2025
If public investment continues to decline, the economy & employment will be highly vulnerable, and the foundations for sustained growth will not be laid. At best, we will remain a vast assembly plant; at worst, a country without decent employment opportunities.
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Redistribution Without Production is Condemning Mexico
Mexico’s redistributive social programs have had tangible, laudable benefits, but continuing to redistribute revenues received from taxing the working class in an economy that lacks domestic productive capacity and a financial system that fails to channel industrial credit only filters money into imports and strengthens foreign multinationals.
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Foreign Investment Has Not Translated Into Greater Economic Growth
Mexico has fallen into a growing dependence on foreign direct investment, granting greater tax incentives to multinational corporations while in the first half of 2025, public investment fell by 30%, writes Arturo Huerta González.
