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The Economics of Mexico · Book 5

Investing in Mexico

The People, the Market, the Money, the Risks and the Rules for Those Coming from Abroad

J Rutan Flores

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For the investor, institutional or individual, weighing companies, projects and property in Mexico: what a foreigner may own, structure and tax, pricing the risk, the exit, and the deal tested against ten assumptions and scenarios to 2036.

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Also in Spanish, as a book of its own, written for the Mexican reader: Cómo invertir en México.

Contents

Inside the book

    1. Chapter 1. The decision in one chapter
  1. Part I. The backdrop
    1. Chapter 2. Mexico in numbers against the United States
    2. Chapter 3. Money: the peso, Banxico, inflation, rates, the sovereign rating
    3. Chapter 4. The North American deal
    4. Chapter 5. The risks every reader carries
  2. Part II. The rules and the protections
    1. Chapter 6. What a foreigner may own, and who regulates it
    2. Chapter 7. When it goes wrong
  3. Part III. The institutional investor
    1. Chapter 8. Sector theses and the assumption under each
    2. Chapter 9. Structure and tax before you enter
    3. Chapter 10. Entering: build, buy or partner
    4. Chapter 11. Pricing the risk
    5. Chapter 12. The exit, and getting money out
    6. Chapter 13. Capital markets and private capital
  4. Part IV. The individual investor
    1. Chapter 14. Your status and your taxes at home
    2. Chapter 14B. Buying a going business
    3. Chapter 15. Is it a good deal?
    4. Chapter 16. Owning property as a foreigner
    5. Chapter 17. The purchase that goes wrong
    6. Chapter 18. The cost of owning
    7. Chapter 19. Renting it out
    8. Chapter 19B. Building your own
  5. Part V. Testing the deal
    1. Chapter 20. The ten assumptions tested
    2. Chapter 21. Scenarios to 2036
Book facts
SeriesThe Economics of Mexico, Book 5
AuthorJ Rutan Flores
PublisherConnected Continents Press LLC
LanguageEnglish (American)
Edition2027 Edition; figures as of October 2026
Pages498 (paperback, 6 x 9 in)
Chapters23
ISBNAssigned when the edition is registered
Publication dateAnnounced to the readers' list

Foreign direct investment into Mexico

Billions of US dollars

Full year 2025US$40.9 BFirst half 2026US$35.0 B
Source: Secretaría de Economía, February 25, 2026 (2025) and August 24, 2026 (first half of 2026); both the highest on record for their period. More dated data: rutanamex.com.