Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort has earned graduate degrees in engineering, business administration, financial economics, financial engineering (Berkeley), economic development (LSE), and public administration (Columbia), and currently pursuing degrees in international law and government (Georgetown), and public health. He has worked in the technology sector internationally and in the financial industry in New York and London.

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The Perfect Place to Write

(0) Comments | Posted January 12, 2011 | 2:20 PM

Finding the inspiration and the creativity to continue the journey of our lifetime requires a flexible mindset and the ability to imagine unheard of scenarios able to enable the travel in time. Traveling and exposing one's daily living to a variety of thinking approaches can only enhance the ability and...

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The Iberio

(0) Comments | Posted December 19, 2010 | 2:18 PM

Spain is undergoing a severe economic downturn and recession perhaps more acute than that of other European countries of the so-called periphery. Contrary to other past recessions Spain has been unable to depreciate its former Peseta in order to become more competitive, boost exports and reduce unit labor costs. Here...

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The Elegant Revolution

(0) Comments | Posted December 9, 2010 | 4:13 PM

Capitalism and democracy seem to be suffering from a strong crisis of identity, of declining importance and decadency. The once upon a time happy existence of a system considered the de facto approach in Western countries seems to be at the end of a cycle. In what direction should capitalism...

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The Truth About Spain's Politics

(3) Comments | Posted September 24, 2010 | 1:58 PM

The political landscape in Europe is not exciting. Right-wing leaders in France and Italy or left-wing leaders in Spain lack the leadership, communication skills and charisma of the statists of the 1980s and early 1990s that drove towards monetary union and the ambitious expansion to Eastern Europe.

The picture is...

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New European Immigration Policy Trend

(2) Comments | Posted July 6, 2010 | 10:27 AM

CREATING PROBLEMS THROUGH THE BUREAUCRATISATION OF PREJUDICE

By Dimitry KOCHENOV and Jaime POZUELO-MONFORT

Between 1950 and 1975, the average annual rate of population growth in Europe was 8.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, a rate that has decreased to 2.9 per 1,000 inhabitants in the subsequent quarter-century. Statistics issued by the Council...

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A Sleeping Society

(1) Comments | Posted April 20, 2010 | 2:48 PM

The western world has become a sleeping society that lives off the legacy of the great men of the twentieth century. We have lost the vision, the ambition, the ability to dream of past generations that reacted on time based on the atrocities of the two World Wars that were...

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The Custodians of Civilization

(0) Comments | Posted April 12, 2010 | 11:32 AM

"We of this generation did not create the civilization of which we are part and, only too obviously, it is not we who are destined to complete it. We are not the owners of the planet we inhabit; we are only its custodians."
--George F. Kennan, Memoirs 1950-1963


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The Travel in Time

(0) Comments | Posted April 8, 2010 | 5:00 PM

The History of Tomorrow begins today. It is a History yet to be written. It is a History yet to be imagined. It is a beautiful dream come true. It is a true love story that has an end in 2050. The History of Tomorrow begins today. It is a...

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The Train of Dreams

(0) Comments | Posted March 31, 2010 | 11:19 AM

You are citizens of a world in crisis. You are the dwellers of a planet on the verge of extinction. You have the power to decide whether or not to become a dreamer. You have the choice to decide whether or not to ride the Train of Dreams.

The Train...

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Looking forward one more time

(0) Comments | Posted March 28, 2010 | 5:22 PM

In a world that is in desperate need of creative policy-making, our leaders continue to look backwards instead of looking forward. In a world where creative, forward-looking approaches to the great evils of our time are desperately needed our leadership is only the shadow of what it once was, when...

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Briefing on The Monfort Plan and Bienvenido Mr Monfort

(0) Comments | Posted March 10, 2010 | 9:56 AM

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort briefs on Vaughan Radio about his first two books The Monfort Plan and Bienvenido Mr Monfort.

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The Spanish Roubinis

(0) Comments | Posted February 12, 2010 | 1:14 PM

There is a myriad of Roubinis in Spain. There are many pronosticators in a country of procrastinators that forecast a lost decade. There are many pronosticators in a country of procrastinatos that anticipate tougher times than what the average citizen in this beautiful country could imagine.

I have met the...

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The Spanish Presidents

(0) Comments | Posted February 8, 2010 | 9:05 AM

Since Spain transitioned from Franco's dictatorship to democracy in 1976 five Premiers have presided the Government. The Premier or Prime Minister of Spain is typically referred to as Presidente del Gobierno or President of the Government. Out of the five Presidents, the first two were moderate and the last three...

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The Spanish Chaos

(0) Comments | Posted February 5, 2010 | 10:41 AM

There is chaos in the Spanish Administration. There is much chaos in the ranks of Premier Zapatero and his cabinet. Zapatero's widely unpopular cabinet, beginning with his two female Vice Presidents Maria Teresa Fernández de la Vega and Elena Salgado and his male Vice President Manuel Chaves and ending with...

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The Spanish Debacle

(1) Comments | Posted February 3, 2010 | 3:44 PM

Spain is on the verge of an economic breakdown. Spain is on the verge of a political breakdown. Spain is on the verge of entering into a Lost Decade if the country's political men and women do not react on time.

Premier Zapatero took part in the National Prayer Breakfast...

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Become Part of The Monfort Plan (video)

(0) Comments | Posted October 13, 2009 | 7:46 PM

Become part of The Monfort Plan. You can now invest in the action plan to redefine capitalism and eradicate extreme poverty. Buy your participation today. Request the Investment Proposal at prospectus@monfort.org

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Zapatero Discovers America

(1) Comments | Posted October 4, 2009 | 5:19 PM

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain, will visit the White House this coming October 13, 2009. In his first visit to the White House Mr Zapatero will show his fellow Spaniards that he is the closest US ally on this side of the Atlantic.

Not long ago in...

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Welcome Mr Monfort (video)

(0) Comments | Posted September 27, 2009 | 11:29 PM

Watch Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort brief about The New Architecture of Capitalism on Spanish Public Television. The New Architecture of Capitalism is presented in Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort's forthcoming book The Monfort Plan (Wiley Finance, April 2010).

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A Modest Proposal

(0) Comments | Posted September 1, 2009 | 6:36 PM

The Monfort Plan is a modest proposal that describes the new architecture of capitalism. Jonathan Swift wrote his Modest Proposal in 1729, in which he identified three classes of readers: the superficial, the ignorant and the learned. According to Swift "the superficial reader will be strangely provoked to laughter", whereas...

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Dreamers

(0) Comments | Posted August 16, 2009 | 7:29 AM

You decide to seek explanations to the great evils of our time. You are called unorthodox. You say why not when and where, others say why. You dare, therefore you exist. You are the dreamers of today.

You do not understand why the current political elite perpetuate a foreign policy...

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