Markets, Labor & Prices

Since mid-September, engines have been breaking down after a full tank of gasoline. This column follows the fuel from ship to pump and shows where responsibility dissolves: four links, four alibis, not a single sample kept. The state has a laboratory that checks liters very well and what they contain not at all. Eight measures, only one of which really counts: sending the bill back to whoever is able to avoid it.

Since May 2025, the report of the Superior Council on Wages has been sitting on the executive’s desk. The women who work in the textile factories, whose pay scale has moved only once since February 2022, are waiting too. This column reopens the case against the minimum wage and shows where it misses the mark.

Three classic location models are enough to explain why street vendors always come back to the same spot. Urban evictions fail time after time because they go after people when what needs undoing is an equilibrium.

In Le Jeune Agronome, Maurice Sixto is not just being funny: he diagnoses a market failure. This column revisits the scene of the German-trained engineer facing the peasant farmers and reads in it what theory calls information asymmetry.

Every year Haiti imports more than a million tonnes of cement while its mineral resources lie untapped. This piece reads that contradiction not as a geological fate but as the product of institutional failure.