A family that regulates its budgets well makes two basic decisions in times of job and / or financial uncertainty that could jeopardize future income: spend less and save more. The two are intertwined. In this day and age it is easy to spend less. As much as it hurts the leisure sector, tourism and […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The Government approves with two months of delay a rescue to the hotel industry without direct aid
The Government has approved this Tuesday, almost two months after its announcement, a rescue plan for hotels and businesses that aims to alleviate the critical situation these businesses are experiencing due to the impact of the pandemic, but which these sectors consider insufficient because there is no direct aid, which was what they asked for. […]
The ‘ghost’ closure of Tenerife: tourists will be able to enter and now also non-residents who are going to spend Christmas
The closure of the island of Tenerife, decreed on Wednesday and which comes into force as of today, perfectly illustrates the regulatory chaos that has sometimes occurred throughout this pandemic. This measure it was decreed last wednesday, arguing that it was to control infections. Shortly after, it was decided to make an exception for tourists, […]
The digital infrastructure sector aims to attract up to 32.5 billion European funds
Digital infrastructure companies aspire to attract a total of 32,500 million euros from European funds, as calculated in the Conference Investment opportunities in digital infrastructures organized this Thursday by the DigitalES association. Jose Antonio Vázquez, from the operator Onivia, recalled that, of the 72,000 million investment going to Spain from Brussels to face the covid […]
The Government will invest 4.32 billion in deploying high-speed broadband and 5G
The Government foresees an investment in 5G for five years of 4,320 million euros of public investment, 883 million of these already foreseen in the Budgets for 2021, with the aim of mobilizing a private investment of 24,000 million euros, such and as explained by the Minister of Finance and spokesperson MarÃa Jesús Montero, after […]
The Government raises the quota for the self-employed to 24 euros amid a plummet in economic activity
The Government has applied in full pandemic and recession the rise to the Social Security self-employed contributions that was agreed for the period from 2019 to 2021. This will affect how self-employed they will pay between 6 and 24 euros more than in September. The figure is temporary, since the quota will grow again in […]
The Government extends its aid plan for the economy but omits the direct aid claimed by the companies
The Government has announced the renewal and extension of the aid schemes launched with the hibernation of the economy last April, setting aside the request for urgent direct aid demanded by different business sectors due to the economic consequences of the second wave of the pandemic. The Vice President of Economic Affairs Nadia Calvio has […]
Entrepreneurs ask Pedro Sánchez for an urgent decree to temporarily modify laws to speed up European aid
The opportunity that the significant stimulus of European aid represents for Spain and its companies –140,000 million euros to be distributed over six years– must be taken advantage of. And for this, it is necessary, according to businessmen, that the Executive streamline the procedures that allow access, as soon as possible, to such aid. […]
