Luis Casado
Luis Casado was born in Chile. He holds an engineering degree from the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures Industrielles (CESI – Paris).
He has served as a visiting professor at the Institut National des Télécommunications in France and as a consultant for the World Bank.
His professional career, focused on new technologies for public transportation, has taken him to more than 40 countries across five continents.
As an entrepreneur in the information technology sector, he received an award from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Technological Innovation – 2006).
He has published several books in Chile and Europe, addressing economic, linguistic, and political topics.
Editor of Politika.
Author's topics
The usual pitch: at a markdown, with a hefty discount, at the factory price; don’t miss this opportunity to live off your investments; if you have money, don’t let it sit idle—your capital has to work (sic, and sic again).
SpaceX IPO: “The share price rose when the market opened, but watch out in a couple of weeks”
In 1941, Bertolt Brecht wrote a play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a satire on Adolf Hitler's rise to power. "The womb from which the foul beast sprang is still fertile" is a line from its epilogue. Brecht was right: here we are once again.
Nazism Was Not An Exclusively German Cancer
Little by little, from Pompidou to Valery Giscard d'Estaing, from Francois Mitterrand to Jacques Chirac - who defeated Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of today's Obersturmfuhrer, in the second round of the 2002 presidential election - France saw the quality of its political personnel decline while the influence of the "American Friend" grew.
Rolling Downhill
As climate change displaces millions and threatens entire nations, governments continue to treat environmental action as a secondary concern.
How Much for the Planet? The Dance of the Millions…
Europe's long history of war, from the shifting borders of the continent to Napoleon, the world wars, and the fall of France. History becomes the lens through which to question Europe’s recurring faith in military power.
The Invalids
From promises of effortless riches to Bitcoin’s trillion-dollar swings, financial markets turn uncertain. It then reveals the extraordinary concentration of global wealth and asks who truly benefits when markets rise or collapse.
We Are Poor Because We Are Morons
As 2025 draws to a close, France is heading into 2026 without a passed budget, but with a new aircraft carrier under construction and an ocean of debt in the hold.
FRANCE: THE BUDGET, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, AND DEBT
Connections of public services directly to workers’ contributions and to the distribution of economic output between wages and profits.
WHO PAYS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES AND PENSIONS?
How employment responds principally to demand, not to the wishes of business owners, and considers French subsidies as evidence that public incentives do not necessarily produce new jobs.
SPECULATION, INVESTMENT, AND THE MYTH OF JOB CREATION
THERE IS A LEGAL PROVISION THAT ALLOWS EMPLOYERS TO TERMINATE EMPLOYEES: BUSINESS NEEDS.
NOTHING IS FREE—LEAST OF ALL PUBLIC SERVICES
Focus on figures presented to the French Senate Finance Committee concerning wealthy taxpayers.
13,335 MILLIONAIRES PAY NEGATIVE OR ZERO INCOME TAX
France’s political institutions are presented here as having undergone a long decline in standards, culminating in controversy over Emmanuel Macron’s nomination of Amélie de Montchalin to lead the Court of Auditors.
Doing the Math; The Decline of Institutions and the Court of Auditors
From Warren Buffett’s enormous cash reserves to famous failed predictions before the 1929 crash, the author questions the confidence placed in economists and introduces the central contradiction of uncertainty: while markets claim to fear it, other sectors may thrive on it.
€800 Billion. The European Union’s Magnificent Project
