The invisible hand, according to Adam Smith: “Each person uses their capital to satisfy their immediate needs, but an invisible hand leads them to promote an objective that is not in their intentions, promoting efficient markets in a complex aggregate that no one can fully understand [...]”. The supremacy of the market. Hayek described this invisible hand as an imperceptible and unfathomable, but solid and determining, pattern. Market dynamics make it possible for people to act on their own, in ignorance of the whole, without anyone having to tell them what to do.Conventional capitalism, until the 21st century, was sustained by a reciprocal relationship between business and society, between economy and democracy. When in 1965 General Motors had a value of approximately 25,000 million dollars (about 225,000 million dollars today), it employed 735,000 workers; today, Alphabet (Google's parent company) has a value of approximately 2 trillion dollars and about 190,000 workers, and Meta (Facebook's parent company), more than 1 trillion dollars in valuation and 79,000 employees. Reciprocity has been lost, even more so due to the capacity companies have to condition demand: they do not need the market, they create it. The alignment between business, economic, political, and social interests has weakened. Some maintain, with good reason, that past reciprocities were at the origin of the amicable relationship between market and democracy. They needed each other. That balance has been lost. The market dominates democracy. Hence the growing relevance of stark economic profit. The right does not hide its interests at all...

Economic analysis has promoted a strict conceptual distinction between, on the one hand, the total production of goods and services that an economy can potentially derive from its stock of capital and knowledge (the “fundamentals”) and, on the other, the institutions and norms that determine how production decisions are made and how the resulting gains are distributed among the members of the economy. It is a useful distinction, but one that can be dangerous if it opens the door to considering the former in isolation from the latter, as the realization of the potential described by the former may well depend on the latter. I will illustrate this with some examples.

The current economic situation at Barça means they have to keep an eye on their youth academy –Clara Serrajordi, Aicha Camara either Carla Julià—but also those loaned players who can return and earn a place in the first team, such as Giulia Dragoni and Emilia Szymczak. The Italian midfielder is one of the names that has been speculated to potentially end her loan to Roma this winter transfer window and return due to Aitana Bonmatí's injury. The director responsible for the women's team, Xavi Puig, hinted at this on 3Cat before playing the last Champions League match in Paris in December: "The technical staff is working on this and I think it's an ideal time to consider many things. We're very clear about it and perhaps we'll have to consider a move for the team."

It's urgent that we develop the desire to be taught how to go to the fishmonger's, the meat stall, the fruit and vegetable stand, to "choose and browse." We don't know how, and we don't know how because of the supermarkets, which offer us lettuce, peeled and cut carrots, farmed salmon, minced meat and potatoes in the form of hamburgers on shrink-wrapped polystyrene trays. We buy quickly, too quickly. We throw things away without guilt, too often. We live wrapped in shrink wrap. Without plastic on top, no food excites us.

"Number twenty-two?" asks the fishmonger. And when no one answers, a customer says, "I have number twenty-three." They begin the necessary conversation. "Could you clean these sea bream for me for the oven?" "How lovely the mussels are!" "Excuse me! I have number twenty-two, you know?" says a girl with long hair and pumpkin-shaped armpits. "Oh, I called out to him..." says the fishmonger. "You must have called out very softly, we didn't hear you! Call out louder next time!" she scolds her. "It's my fault," says the woman from number twenty-three, trying to help the seller. "Look, I only want monkfish, but I was standing in line at both places, please!" insists the other woman. "How do you want it, monkfish?" asks the fishmonger, who could be her grandmother, and is an expert at cutting and cleaning. "Me? I don't care," the customer shrugs. "I don't eat meat or fish, I shouldn't be here, I was asked to do this, how can you understand why I don't like doing this!" The fishmonger looks at her desolately, her eyes sad and glistening. It's only nine in the morning. She has the whole workday ahead of her.

It's the drug of greatest concern today. Over the past four years, the global cocaine market has continued to grow, and in 2023, according to figures released by the United Nations this Thursday, cocaine will reach record levels in production, seizures, consumption, treatment, and related deaths," Pietschmann, a researcher with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 1997, said. World Drugs Report 2025, cocaine production soared by 34% in 2023, reaching over 3,708 tons. In 2019, half that amount, 1,784 tons, was recorded. The increase in recent years is mainly due to Colombia, which is the world's largest producer and accounts for nearly 70% of the market. The hectares where the cocaine is planted—equivalent to 525,000 soccer fields—have grown far below total production, indicating greater concentration and higher crop yields.

El ARA suggests some plans across the country for this weekend.