Ignacio Briones: "The Day the President of the Autonomous Fiscal Council Is 'Friend' of the Finance Minister, We Have a Problem"

By Hernán Guerrero S. When someone tells me that he is independent I ask immediately who is independent?. This because human beings are community and we do not live with absolute independence from other humans, including an anacoreta that to feed depends on the environment that surrounds him. Even more, not even the anacoreta when he observes, speaks [...] La entrada The Autonomous Fiscal Council: The Limits of Independence was first published i…

The former Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, said that the fiscal situation in Chile has been complex for more than a decade. “We have a structural fiscal mismatch many years ago,” he said. In conversation with Libre Mercado, El Libero’s economic space, he compared the problem with “the fairy tale of the frog in the pot”, that “cold part, you start to warm up and you don’t realize when you burn.” The former minister referred to the disagreem…