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Even Small, Well-Run Countries Can’t Escape The Currency War
November 13th, 2015
The old saying “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled” captures perfectly the dilemma of the world’s non-superpowers. From Brazil to Thailand to non-eurozone Europe, the currency war raging between the leading economies is creating collateral damage. ...
Snapshots of Well-Being Across High-Income Countries
November 4th, 2015
Well-being is a multidimensional concept, for countries as well as for individuals. Thus, in the recent OECD report “How’s Life 2015: Measuring Well-Being,” the emphasis goes well beyond basic one-dimensional measures of well-being like per capita GDP and offers comparisons ...
What Economic Recovery? Quarter of EU Citizens at Poverty Risk
October 29th, 2015
The so-called economic recovery being experienced by a number of EU states has been called into question following new research that found a quarter of all EU citizens, and close to a third of young people, were at risk ...
These are the 18 best countries in the world for starting and running a business
October 29th, 2015
The World Bank’s Doing Business 2016 report is just out — it’s the most authoritative source in the world for which countries are most friendly to entrepreneurs, and where’s it’s least onerous to keep an enterprise running. We’ve laid ...
The Shifting World Distribution of Income
October 22nd, 2015
The fastest-growing countries around the world, now and probably for the next few decades, will not be the high-income countries. As a result, the global distribution of income will become–gradually–more equal over time. Tomáš Hellebrandt and Paolo Mauro offer ...
European Court of Justice: Bitcoin is a currency and exchanges are VAT-exempt
October 22nd, 2015
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that bitcoin exchange transactions should be exempt from VAT. The ECJ ruling stated that bitcoin transactions “are exempt from VAT under the provision concerning transactions relating to currency, bank notes and ...
End of energy isolation in the Baltics: How Gas interconnection works
October 19th, 2015
End of energy isolation in the Baltics: how the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) works How does the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) work? What changes The Governments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the European Commission, have reached an agreement ...
The Common Reporting Standard: Automatic Information Exchange Goes Global
October 16th, 2015
Automatic exchange of information for tax law enforcement purposes started first in Europe with the EU Savings Tax Directive, went international with the US Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, and, from 2017, will go global with the recently-agreed Common ...
VW Close to Diesel Fix as Sales of Rigged Cars Halted
September 30th, 2015
Sales halted in Spain, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands Volkswagen to inform customers soon of plans for repairs Volkswagen AG will start fixing emissions systems that cheated on pollution tests as soon as October, as sales of vehicles with ...
New Bitcoin product launch on Nasdaq by XBT Provider
September 22nd, 2015
XBT Provider AB (publ) announced today the launch of Bitcoin Tracker EUR, a bitcoin-based security denominated in Euro. Bitcoin Tracker EUR will be available for trading on Nasdaq Nordic on October 5th. Alexander Marsh, Chief Executive Officer of XBT ...
