Albert Carreras

Albert Carreras

Truths and lies of the Francoist economy

Opinion | 21/11/2025

A protester displays a pre-constitutional flag in front of the police deployment protecting the Congress of Deputies this morning.

Wealth in Catalonia and Spain, fifty years after Franco

Economy | 16/11/2025

The businessman Amancio Ortega, the driving force behind the Inditex empire.

The vulnerability of democracies

Opinion | 06/11/2025

A fence marks the border between Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, in an image from October 2022.

Between hope and fear

Opinion | 24/10/2025

Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, in a file photo.

Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize winner in economics

Opinion | 13/10/2025

Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, in a file photo.

We do not deny our best past

Opinion | 11/10/2025

The former Banco de Barcelona, the Foneria de Canons, at the bottom of La Rambla, undergoing renovations in 2023.

Europe? Europe!

Opinion | 24/09/2025

US President Donald Trump.

Tariffs on services?

Opinion | 10/09/2025

From left to right, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Bill Gates at a dinner that brought together the US president and the leaders of major US technology companies on September 4 at the White House.

A more civic Barcelona

Opinion | 27/08/2025

A street in Barcelona, in a file image

American strength, Chinese competitiveness, and what about us?

Opinion | 31/07/2025

Students in a classroom

Ordinality is not the only problem

Opinion | 18/07/2025

Euro banknotes and coins

Is singular financing starting to roll?

Politics | 14/07/2025

The President of the Generalitat (Catalonia), Salvador Illa, before delivering the lecture "Catalonia leads. An economic model of shared prosperity," this Saturday in Manresa.

Trump's plan for the European Union

Opinion | 04/07/2025

Donald Trump at the NATO summit held this June in the Netherlands.

10 keys to the airport expansion

Opinion | 20/06/2025

El Prat Airport seen from the control tower

The poverty of Welfare

Opinion | 06/06/2025

The Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, held a press conference this Monday.

The European elections, a constant concern

Opinion | 21/05/2025

A woman holds a pro-European banner during a demonstration against the rise of the far right in Romania, days before the second round of the country's general elections.

Housing: Towards a redistributive conflict?

Opinion | 08/05/2025

Blog about apartments on Muntaner Street in Barcelona, where neighbors live, but the owners want to convert them into tourist apartments.

Housing: Attacking the Wrong Enemy

Opinion | 25/04/2025

Construction of new buildings in the Barcelona neighborhood of Vallcarca.

Housing: Attacking the Wrong Enemy

Misc | 25/04/2025

Construction of new buildings in the Barcelona neighborhood of Vallcarca.

Tariff war: we're not going back to the 1930s

Opinion | 11/04/2025

Portraits and caps of Donald Trump at the New York Stock Exchange this week.