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Waiving VAT and customs duties on vital medical equipment
November 18th, 2020
The European Commission waives customs duties and VAT on the import of medical equipment from non-EU countries. The European Commission had already in April 2020 published a decision helping Member States affected by the coronavirus pandemic to temporarily suspend ...
ASIC further regulates the selling of CFDs to Retail Investors
October 29th, 2020
The Australian Securities and investment commission has announced the restrictions on selling. They would like to protect investors, as they are saying. New rules will also mandate negative account protection. It will ensure customers do not lose more than ...
The destruction of the euro
October 26th, 2020
The Eurozone is bust. The deterioration of TARGET2 imbalances have been hardly noticed, but in recent months it has been alarming. Despite official denials over the years that it is a matter of concern, it is increasingly obvious ...
Most of the emerging Asian markets currencies dipped against the dollar
October 22nd, 2020
Thai shares bounced from earlier losses on Thursday after the government lifted emergency measures aimed at ending months-long protests against Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the monarchy. Uncertainty over whether U.S. lawmakers would be able to agree on and ...
GDPR non-compliance: Multinational clothes retailer fined more than €35 million
October 21st, 2020
Clothes retailer H&M has been fined more than €35 million in relation to employee record-keeping practices – the highest financial penalty imposed in Germany to-date in relation to non-compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The data protection ...
Lessons on inflation from the past
September 25th, 2020
This article examines two inflationary experiences in the past in an attempt to predict the likely outcome of today’s monetary policies. The German hyperinflation of 1923 demonstrated that it took surprisingly little monetary inflation to collapse the purchasing ...
Irish High court freezes probe into Facebook’s EU-U.S. data flows
September 15th, 2020
Ireland’s High Court on Monday (14 September) temporarily froze a probe by Facebook’s lead European Union regulator that threatened to halt the U.S. social media giant’s transatlantic data flows, a court spokesman said. Facebook had sought a judicial review ...
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies
September 15th, 2020
There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come. This article explains the fallacies behind ...
A critique of modern socialism
September 2nd, 2020
Socialism has moved on from the Marxist version of the state owning the means of production to one whereby production remains in the hands of individuals but are heavily regulated — echoing Mussolini’s fascist-socialist model. But after nearly ...
Venezuela’s Bitcoin use soars amid hyperinflation: 3rd on Global Crypto Adoption Index
September 1st, 2020
Venezuelans have become increasingly interested in cryptocurrency as their country faces dire economic crisis and hyperinflation, a new study by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis shows. The firm’s Global Crypto Adoption Index ranks Venezuela third as “The country has ...
