Author: Ezra

First with the pandemic and now with overwhelming inflation (more than 10%), families are coping with the increase in the price of the shopping basket as best they can, rethinking basic products and with less loyalty to brands. From this phenomenon, that of a loss of purchasing power, three common trends are observed in consumers: rise of the white label (as an anti-crisis “shelter”), control of spending (make a list and try not to go out of the budget) and more promotional purchases (15% of sales have some type of discount). However, the reality is that white brands are becoming…

It is ironic if we take into account that he is the founder of a multinational that has amassed millions of dollars selling clothes, but Yvon Chouinard does not like labels. That’s why when more than five years ago, in March 2017, he opened the magazine Forbes and found that they had placed one on him, the “billionaire” one, he went into a rage. “It pissed me off”recognize. The reason is not that the data was incorrect, that they had missed some figure when calculating their fortune or were wrong in telling their story or sizing their company, the successful…

Two years ago, at Magnet we published an imaginative map of the world illustrated with the different mythological creatures with which each country is identified. Spain was represented by “El Coco”, the mythological being typical of the comics that parents tell their children at night before going to bed: “Be good or El Coco will come”. Equally or more interesting is the map brought to us by Clara Dies Valls, illustrator of the Bestiary of earth and ink with all the monsters and creatures that live in our folklore. Actually, Dies never planned to create this map. It all started…

The labor reform wanted to kill temporality and it did. At least in statistics. For years our country has not seen such an acceleration of indefinite contracts. A success, right? If we talk about the global number of signed contracts, yes. However, as we have seen in other Xataka articles, companies are looking for mechanisms to continue perpetuating this temporality under the guise of a fixed contract. The data illustrates that one of those ways is the use of dismissal during the trial period. During this time, both the company and the worker can terminate the contract without having to…

Over the years, LED lights have become the lighting standard virtually everywhere in the world and in nearly every industry, replacing incandescent and CFL lighting options. Why? It is more energy efficient, lasts much longer and is cheaper. However, little has been said about the health and safety effects that emitted blue light may have. The rise of LED lighting can harm human and animal health, according to several recent studies. The study. Research published in the journal Science Advances indicates that the main consequence of blue light for health is its ability to suppress the production of melatonin, the…

It seems unbelievable that 22 years have already passed since The beach. That movie (pretty bad) in which a young Leonardo DiCaprio at 26 travels to a desert island in Thailand wanting to live experiences and ends up joining a secret community of travelers who have left his past behind. When the script was finished, everything pointed to a resounding success since the actor came in the wake of the glorious titanicawinner of 11 Oscars. It was not so. The beach it was a failure. Not only did he not convince critics or viewers, but DiCaprio was nominated for a…

A Street View image from Google Maps shows a dirt road with some trees on the sides. The sky barely shows any clouds and there are a couple of streetlights. This elements they could be from anywhere, from Oklahoma, in the USA, to Almería, in Spain. “This is going to be…Hot Springs, Australia,” Trevor Rainbolt says, clicking a location on a world map. You’re right. The point he has chosen is only 10 kilometers from the place in the photo. Come back again: this time the photo shows a small town in the mountains. Some roofs of houses are distinguished.…

Neither Madrid nor Barcelona: the Spanish city where the price of housing in Spain increases the most is Malaga. The Andalusian city leads the national ranking of rising prices, which indicates that the global trend of rising housing prices is not limited only to large cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia, but that other cities are literally becoming unaffordable. The data. The price of real estate in Malaga has increased by a brutal 9.8% compared to 2021, which places it in 69th place in the world and first in Spain. It is what illustrates the Global Residential Cities Index…

The news of the free train passes was music to the ears of all those regular passengers who had to travel on this transport every day. However, after its application, the measure has ended up becoming a nightmare for them. How is it possible? Basically because since it was launched, most Media Distancia trains do not have any free seats until ten days before their departure. It is not only due to the high demand, the problem lies mainly in the mischief of some users who reserve all the seats that the app allows since Renfe does not apply a…