Top Stories

Interviews

Nick Timothy

Interviews 27th October 2020

“We Have To Leave Economic And Cultural Ultraliberalism Behind. There Is Real Scepticism About These Policies”

Tristan de Bourbon | His book ‘Remaking One Nation’ was launched on the first day of the British lockdown, March 23rd. An ideal moment to talk about the many challenges facing the Conservatives, his own party. Nick Timothy, former advisor to Theresa May, is an atypical figure. In the book, he tackles the cultural gap between politicians and the majority of the population. Also the need to recreate a common identity in a socially and ethnically diverse country, which he considers devastated by “ultraliberalism.”

PharmaMar - Sousa

Interviews 20th October 2020

“Plitidepsin, The Most Powerful Antiviral, Has Been Shown To Be Effective Against The Coronavirus”

Pedro A. Muñoz | PharmaMar has just announced positive results for its APLICOV trial with Aplidin against COVID-19. This antiviral achieves the primary safety objective and the secondary efficacy goal, as well as a significant reduction in viral load and C-reactive protein (CRP) in hospitalized patients. A few days before this news, the company’s president, José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, gave an interview to The Corner.

Alberto Toribio, ambassador of Crypto Plaza

Interviews 13th October 2020

“Highly Volatile Assets, Such As Crypto-Currencies, Are Necessary In Many Investment Strategies”

María Fernanda Martínez Sierra | “Investment portfolios usually contain positions of different risks, and today covering that part of high risk assets not correlated with the rest is a problem. That is why many investors access this market… many savers only contract bank deposits, because of their low risk, and then buy lottery. The strategies in investment portfolios are not so far removed from that analogy,” says Alberto Toribio’s, whose company was the first Spanish to be set up with crypto-currencies.

Santiago Fernández Valbuena, President of Aedas Homes, Vice President of EBN Banco and board member of Ferrovial

Interviews 14th September 2020

“The CaixaBank-Bankia Operation Is The Teaming Up Of Two Peas In A pod”

Manuel Moreno Capa | “The concentration of entities is a mantra of the ECB and the EBA. For me it is not evident that the reduction of costs -slow and expensive- is going to make profitability appear where there is none. Caixabank and Bankia are the outcome of several large mergers and takeovers from the 2009 round. Therefore they have not overcome their difficulties,” said Santiago Fernández Valbuena, president of Aedas Homes, vice-president of EBN Bank and director of Ferrovial.

Rocío Hortigüela

Interviews 6th August 2020

“In The International Arbitrations, The Spanish Regulator Agreed With The Electricity Oligopoly’s Arguments”

Mari Pinardo | Rocío Hortigüela, member of Grenergy’s Board of Directors, explains that a “healthy struggle” between the regulator and the regulated is natural. “But when the forces can be unbalanced in certain situations of crisis or misgovernment, we need to rely on a truly independent and agile judicial system to put things back in order,” she adds. “Unfortunately, in Spain’s case, when these imbalances have occurred in recent history, the judicial system has proved to be neither agile nor independent,” says.

David Fyfe

Interviews 10th July 2020

“OPEC+ Will Start To Recover Power In The Oil Market As Demand Slump Hits US Output”

Pablo Pardo (Washington) | One of the most exciting stories of the world economy in 2002 is the oil price collapse. David Fyfe, chief economist of one of the world’s largest suppliers of raw materials’ prices, Argus, is aware that the oil market is not going to be the same after this collapse in demand. It will take years for prices to recover – if they do – and US production will be lower.

David Edgerton

Interviews 30th June 2020

David Edgerton: “Joining Europe Meant Liberalising The British Economy And That Hasn’t Changed In 50 Years”

Tristan de Bourbon (London) | “The United Kingdom joined the European project because the elite wanted to return to a much more open economy, to liberalise the British economy. They also discovered the United States would never treat the United Kingdom as an equal and would remain protectionist,” explains David Edgerton, Professor of History at King’s College London and author of the recent book The Rise and Fall of The British Nation, where he analyses the ideology behind the government’s action.

Ian Bremmer

Interviews 6th May 2020

Coronavirus: “The Loser, For The Moment, Is The West” Says Ian Bremmer

Pablo Pardo (Washington) | We don’t know yet what will happen but, for the moment, it is clear that the fact that China has apparently been able to contain the pandemic better than the US or much of the EU will considerably strengthen that country’s political appeal and capacity for influence. The loser, for the moment, is the West. The economic damage was inevitable. But the political damage, for example in the US, due to the lack of preparation and the scant attention paid to experts, could have been much less…

cristina garmendia

Interviews 4th May 2020

Cristina Garmendia: “Many Companies Are Giving Lessons On How To Behave”

Manuel Moreno Capa | This interview took place two weeks after the declaration of the State of Alarm, in place since March 15. And someone like Cristina Garmendia -scientist, businesswoman and former minister of Science and Technology- is surely amongst the best qualified to analyse many of the aspects concerning the biggest non-war crisis affecting us as far back as we can remember.

stiglitz

Interviews 30th March 2020

“The Global Legal And Economic System Is Biased In Favor Of Capital”

Pablo Pardo (Washington) | Joseph Stiglitz is undoubtedly the most famous Nobel Laureate in Economics in the world… after Paul Krugman. Also the most controversial and the one who has entered more directly into the public debate. However, he does not want to assess the Spanish political situation, despite the fact he has been an informal collaborator of Podemos since he received Pablo Iglesias in his office at Columbia University five years ago.