Finance
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After Oil & Gas: Blue Economy Promises New Era of Plenty for Mediterranean
The Forum is the largest energy event with significant market influence as it engages energy producers, energy consumers, enterprises of…
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US makes new offer on setting global minimum corporate tax rate at 15%
The US has made a new offer that a global minimum corporate tax rate could be set at 15 per…
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How Inequality Distorts Economics
One of the urgent challenges facing the Biden administration is reversing the ever-worsening maldistribution of wealth. Fred Block Dissent The…
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Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risk Through Bank Capital Requirements
The climate crisis has profound implications for every sector of the economy, every corner of society, and every aspect of…
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Diminishing Returns
Τhe 2008 financial crisis is widely credited with reviving the American left, from the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street…
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European Commission to pressure Ireland on tax in recovery fund plan
The European Commission will pressure Ireland to address “aggressive tax planning” in national plans for spending its chunk of the bloc’s €750 billion…
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EU rebuffs Montenegro plea to help repay $1B Chinese highway loan
Brussels on Monday rejected a call by Montenegro’s government to help finance a $1 billion Chinese loan for an unfinished…
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Housing affordability is a problem.
The idea that young Australians should be able to dip into their super to help buy their first home keeps…
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Biden to unveil plan for 21% global minimum tax
Joe Biden is proposing to plough $2 trillion (€1.7 trillion) in government spending into US infrastructure alongside $2 trillion in…
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Banks warn of ‘significant losses’ as they exit positions with large U.S. hedge fund
While neither Credit Suisse nor Nomura named the fund, it’s been widely reported that Archegos Capital Management is the firm…
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The U.S. will remain richer than China for the next 50 years or more, says economist
“I think it’s very unlikely that … China will get to U.S. levels of GDP per capita — that’s our…
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How the EU Can Better Avoid Bankrolling Authoritarianism
It should do the same for its external aid. Debates on the conditionality of EU funds have risen up the…
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A tantrum without tapering
Stocks fell sharply in Thursday’s New York session after bond “real,” or inflation-protected component of Treasury yields rose sharply. David…
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UK urged to take lead in easing debt crisis in developing countries
Boris Johnson should use his presidency of the G7 this year to insist that UK banks take part in the…
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US charges three North Korean computer programmers in $US1.3 billion hacking spree
The indictment alleges that Jon Chang Hyok, 31, Kim Il, 27, and Park Jin Hyok, 36, stole money while working…
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CBO: U.S. debt to exceed size of economy even before stimulus
Still, the CBO said that the annual federal deficit — the difference between what the government spends and what it…
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