Almost every scheme anyone seems to devise for “saving” the euro appears calculated to make it more likely that Germany will leave, destroying the euro and the European Union in the process and inducing a recession unprecedented in modern Western democracies. The latest silliness has emanated from the European Commission – until recently, throughout this [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Michael MacBrien – European Property Federation – Green Building Finance and Investments
European Centre for Corporate Engagement Conference: Green Building Finance and Investments: Practice, Policy and Research – Michael MacBrien – European Property Federation Video Rating: 0 / 5
Green Building Finance and Investments: Practice, Policy and Research – Alex Vermeulen
European Centre for Corporate Engagement Conference : Green Building Finance and Investments: Practice, Policy and Research – Alex Vermeulen – Government Building Agency. Video Rating: 0 / 5
Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s: Erase your debt, personalize your budget, and plan now to secure your future (Everything Series)
Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s: Erase your debt, personalize your budget, and plan now to secure your future (Everything Series) Worried about your financial future? Living paycheck to paycheck? Find it hard to save money? The Everything Personal Finance Book in Your 20s and 30s Book, 2nd Edition makes saving for the [...]
NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, and the death of EU Fiscal Union
Judging by the commentary, there has been a colossal misunderstanding around the world of what has just has happened in Germany. The significance of yesterday’s vote by the Bundestag to make the EU’s €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) more flexible is not that the outcome was a “Yes”. This assent was a foregone conclusion, given the [...]
5. 11.10 – Jerry Elmer testimony before House Finance Committee
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Fixing Global Finance (Forum on Constructive Capitalism)
Fixing Global Finance (Forum on Constructive Capitalism) Since 2008, when Fixing Global Finance was first published, the collapse of the housing and credit bubbles of the 2000s has crippled the world’s economy. In this updated edition, Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf explains how global imbalances helped cause the financial crises now ravaging the U.S. economy [...]
National house prices fall as prime London prices soar skyward
National house prices continue to drift downward, according to Britain’s biggest building society, but prime properties continue to soar skyward in the capital. If any symbol were needed of top quality homes’ astonishing ability to defy gravity – or at least the global economic crisis and predictions of a house-price crash – then Heron International is [...]
Finance Ministry may not agree to edible oil import duty hike
With its hands full fighting surging inflation, the Finance Ministry may not agree to the Food Ministry’s suggestion for hike in import duty on edible oil in small packs, especially RBD palmolein. The Finance Ministry is expected to take a call on this issue within the next 7-10 days. “We know that base is low [...]
Why 50pc tax row misses the point: what about the squeezed middle?
New analysis which shows that the United Kingdom has the fourth highest top rate of income tax in the European Union will add to calls for the 50pc band to be scrapped – but I beg to disagree. Global analysis by accountants KPMG found that out of 96 countries surveyed, only five had tax rates [...]