<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Costa Rica will face an economic slowdown this year, analysts say</title> <atom:link href="https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/</link> <description>Costa Rica&#039;s Leading English Language News Source</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2</generator> <item><title>By: Casa Kalana</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4442</link> <dc:creator>Casa Kalana</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4442</guid> <description><![CDATA[It wasn&#039;t hard to find independent sources echoing the same sentiment through various unrelated agencies.http://www.centralamericadata.com/en/search?q1=content_en_le%3A%22Economics%22&amp;q2=mattersInCountry_en_le%3A%22Costa+Rica%22]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It wasn&#8217;t hard to find independent sources echoing the same sentiment through various unrelated agencies.</p><p><a href="http://www.centralamericadata.com/en/search?q1=content_en_le%3A%22Economics%22&#038;q2=mattersInCountry_en_le%3A%22Costa+Rica%22" rel="nofollow">http://www.centralamericadata.com/en/search?q1=content_en_le%3A%22Economics%22&#038;q2=mattersInCountry_en_le%3A%22Costa+Rica%22</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4305</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4305</guid> <description><![CDATA[oops, i thought you said you &quot;had&quot; a root canal. i was wrong, and i don&#039;t apologize for it:)))]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oops, i thought you said you &#8220;had&#8221; a root canal. i was wrong, and i don&#8217;t apologize for it:)))</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4304</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4304</guid> <description><![CDATA[at 7am??? you filthy liar. it is people like you destroying the planet. come on tim, get the hang of it......lolol]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>at 7am??? you filthy liar. it is people like you destroying the planet. come on tim, get the hang of it&#8230;&#8230;lolol</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4303</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4303</guid> <description><![CDATA[if anyone is under the delusion that closing public education institutions would leave people less educated please seek help.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if anyone is under the delusion that closing public education institutions would leave people less educated please seek help.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Timothy Williams</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4301</link> <dc:creator>Timothy Williams</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4301</guid> <description><![CDATA[I haven&#039;t had a root canal today :)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t had a root canal today <img src='https://insidecostarica.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4302</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4302</guid> <description><![CDATA[i know i am right tim. but do you have to be so damn nice about it. we want a souped up crazy moderator for a change. get with the program already. lol]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i know i am right tim. but do you have to be so damn nice about it. we want a souped up crazy moderator for a change. get with the program already. lol</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Timothy Williams</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4300</link> <dc:creator>Timothy Williams</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4300</guid> <description><![CDATA[George, you are quite correct.  In addition to the &quot;government&quot; releases (which are actually several different agencies) we are on the press list and get releases from several different government agencies, from emergency authorities, Casa Presidencial, OIJ, IMN (weather), several NGOs, the US Embassy, PCD and other drug control agencies, concert and event promotors, health authorities, CCSS, the list goes on.  These are the same releases that every other news source in the country gets - spanish or english - hence the similarities in many of the stories.  Internet news is so fast now that if anything, ICR and most other media sites in CR are guilty of being lazy and taking too much content and quotes from the releases themselves.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>George, you are quite correct.  In addition to the &#8220;government&#8221; releases (which are actually several different agencies) we are on the press list and get releases from several different government agencies, from emergency authorities, Casa Presidencial, OIJ, IMN (weather), several NGOs, the US Embassy, PCD and other drug control agencies, concert and event promotors, health authorities, CCSS, the list goes on.  These are the same releases that every other news source in the country gets &#8211; spanish or english &#8211; hence the similarities in many of the stories.  Internet news is so fast now that if anything, ICR and most other media sites in CR are guilty of being lazy and taking too much content and quotes from the releases themselves.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4299</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4299</guid> <description><![CDATA[oh, and for the eggheads among us economist Edgar Feige has just written a good piece on the &quot;underground recovery&quot; . this allows cash work and government welfare all in one swoop to combine and use untaxed income and other people&#039;s money to live wonderfully. expect governments to retaliate by making society as cashless as possible. that will teach them, engage in our stupid dysfunctional social democracy or we will find you and make you poorer like everyone else except the pigs in the animal farm, i.e. public employees.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh, and for the eggheads among us economist Edgar Feige has just written a good piece on the &#8220;underground recovery&#8221; . this allows cash work and government welfare all in one swoop to combine and use untaxed income and other people&#8217;s money to live wonderfully. expect governments to retaliate by making society as cashless as possible. that will teach them, engage in our stupid dysfunctional social democracy or we will find you and make you poorer like everyone else except the pigs in the animal farm, i.e. public employees.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4298</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4298</guid> <description><![CDATA[any country that is a social democracy that considers goods and services a right and borrows 40% of it&#039;s yearly income does not need a report to predict economic failure. morons have been peddling this santa klaus system of economics for a little over 100 years now and it is succeeding in bankrupting virtually everything it touches. no need for a report to see it.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>any country that is a social democracy that considers goods and services a right and borrows 40% of it&#8217;s yearly income does not need a report to predict economic failure. morons have been peddling this santa klaus system of economics for a little over 100 years now and it is succeeding in bankrupting virtually everything it touches. no need for a report to see it.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: georgechapogas</title><link>https://insidecostarica.com/2013/04/26/costa-rica-will-face-an-economic-slowdown-this-year-analysts-say/#comment-4296</link> <dc:creator>georgechapogas</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://insidecostarica.com/?p=7928#comment-4296</guid> <description><![CDATA[like all news services, ICR. subscribes to government news releases that is not plagiarism, it is reporting what the government released. does that make all those stories &quot;plagiarism&quot;? your note sounds like bitter wrong john using a different screen name. wish his wife would get him under control.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>like all news services, ICR. subscribes to government news releases that is not plagiarism, it is reporting what the government released. does that make all those stories &#8220;plagiarism&#8221;? your note sounds like bitter wrong john using a different screen name. wish his wife would get him under control.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>