Long ago, to scare the children the Bogeyman was invoked. But today that mythological lord does not scare anyone, unlike George Soros, who is real and At 90 years of age, he has the halo of the greatest felon of the 21st century. Soros’s speculative villainy has given rise to all sorts of convoluted theories […]
Tag: Economy
Iberia collides with Sepi due to job adjustments after the purchase of Air Europa
2020 ends with what was promised was going to be the largest operation in the air sector of the year without closing. The Government, Air Europa and Iberia are negotiating the last fringes for the definitive purchase of the first one, from the Globalia tourism group, by Iberia, from the IAG group. Job cuts are […]
Welcome to the future
At first glance it seems not, but pandemics are a great social leveler. In March 2018, El gran levelador (The Gret Leveler) by Walter Scheidel, a book that can be obtained in kindle format for 2.73 euros. Its author, an Austrian historian who teaches at Stanford, argues that throughout history inequality has only receded as […]
The new listed pharmaceutical companies monopolize the increases in the Stock Market motivated by the vaccines against Covid-19
The behavior of the stock prices during 2020 of the pharmaceutical companies that develop vaccines against Covid-19 has been uneven since all the positive returns were concentrated in the companies that have recently traded in Bag, while the consolidated laboratories saw their share price fall. Specifically, of the main companies developing vaccines against Covid-19, returns […]
Montero advances that the deficit closed 2020 at around 11.3% of GDP
The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has advanced that the public deficit closed 2020 according to the forecast estimate of “around 11.3% of GDP”, with a fall in public income of about 7.6% as a consequence of the Covid crisis. This is what Montero has indicated in an interview with Europa Press, in which […]
China tightens the fence on its tech giants to ensure their loyalty
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has 89 million members. If it were a country, it would be the seventeenth most populous in the world. It would go just behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ahead of Germany. Within Chinese society, having the CCP card, especially outside the big cities, grants a superior status, […]
The division of the West against China
As a catchphrase, ‘Global Britannia’ is phenomenal. The idea that outside the EU, alone and unimpeded by Brussels, Great Britain is going to be able to reach trade agreements with the rest of the world looks very good on paper. The problem is that, on paper, we should all be millionaires by now. One thing […]
Personal income tax on high income, Equity, VAT on soft drinks or insurance, main tax increases in 2021
Most of the main Spanish taxes will register changes or increases in the year 2021, since the personal income tax will increase on high incomes, the exemption on dividends or capital gains of subsidiaries in Companies will be limited, it will increase 1% Equity, it will increase 10% to 21% VAT for sweetened beverages, pension […]
Pensions and salaries of civil servants rise 0.9% on January 1, while the SMI remains
Contributory pensions and civil servants’ salaries have risen 0.9% since January 1, while the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) remains at 950 euros for 14 payments until an agreement is reached to revalue it in the framework of social dialogue between unions, employers and the Government, after Yolanda Daaz had been forced to give up the […]
US announces new tariffs on German and French products
The United States has announced an increase in tariffs on some European Union products, which include component parts, some non-sparkling wines and various cognacs and brandy types from France and Germany. The statement from the US Trade Representative Office. indicates that the new rates will enter effective next January 12 and that they are a […]
