Gothenburg fined for missing an environmental target – was one of the first local governments in the world to take out a "sustainability linked loan" ~enviro sustainability Article 499 words 9 votes
Beijing's deflation dilemma: Falling prices signal bigger troubles ahead for China's economy ~finance economics Article 1170 words 27 votes
Iceland is crowdsourcing ideas from the population on budget savings to ensure taxpayer money is well spent ~finance economics Article 77 words 13 votes
Closing asset loophole can raise $100 billion in taxes, US Treasury now says ~finance Article 1009 words 10 votes
Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America ~humanities.history Link 16 votes
Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out. ~enviro energy Article 576 words 7 votes
Monopoly round-up: Price gouging vs price fixing vs price controls ~finance economics Article 1653 words 13 votes
‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis ~enviro climate change Article 856 words 61 votes
Scott Galloway - "The Algebra of Wealth" ~finance economics Video 9:26, published Jul 18 2024 15 votes
US appeals court blocks all of Joe Biden's SAVE student debt relief plan ~finance Article 274 words 45 votes
Does market failure justify government intervention? (with Michael Munger) ~finance economics Article 10 621 words 5 votes
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich ~finance business Article 19 votes
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return ~finance cryptocurrency Article 774 words 8 votes
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective ~finance economics.macro Article 7974 words 7 votes
Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires ~finance Article 77 words 15 votes
Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy ~finance economics Article 9 votes
Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months ~finance Article 528 words, published Jan 22 2024 62 votes
Canadian federal government considering new caps on payday lending and high risk lending ~finance Article 1320 words 12 votes
Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden ~finance economics Article 77 words 12 votes
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value ~finance Article 987 words, published Oct 5 2023 33 votes
Rising long-term interest rates are posing the latest threat to a US economic ‘soft landing’ ~finance economics Article 1031 words 24 votes
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections) ~finance Article 1124 words 18 votes
Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties ~finance Link 29 votes
US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program ~finance Article 987 words 18 votes
We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax ~finance Link 39 votes
What a green monetary policy could look like ~finance economics Article 1758 words, published Jul 12 2022 8 votes
Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’ ~finance economics Article 1814 words 45 votes
Turkey is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed. ~finance Article 2198 words 28 votes
US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what? ~finance Article 1008 words 117 votes
US President Joe Biden can probably forgive student debt even if Supreme Court of the United States rules against him ~finance Article 706 words 28 votes
US Federal Reserve holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year ~finance economics Article 24 votes
The high-wire drama of raising the US debt ceiling is making headlines again. Is there a better way? Perhaps Denmark has the answer. ~finance economics Article 908 words 5 votes
Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly – flood moving abroad has come as a shock and is costing tens of millions in lost tax receipts ~finance Article 715 words 10 votes
The incredible tantrum venture capitalists threw over Silicon Valley Bank ~finance banking Article 2791 words 5 votes
Beijing needs to junk its economic playbook ~finance economics Article 2514 words, published Feb 2 2023 4 votes
Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits' ~finance Article 4 votes
Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth ~finance Article 1519 words 8 votes
Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found ~finance economics Article 599 words 4 votes
Alexander Lukashenko imposes ban on price increases in Belarus effective immediately ~finance economics Article 83 words 7 votes
UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil ~finance economics Article 441 words 11 votes
Liz Truss's UK growth plan is nothing but a magic potion ~finance economics Article 766 words 11 votes
UK in turmoil as government's gamble to solve economic woes fuels crisis, instead ~finance economics Article 641 words 9 votes
The new US Income-Driven Repayment system could cause some big problems ~finance Article 1452 words 7 votes
Denmark's decade-long experiment with negative rates seen ending soon – central bank raised its key interest rate ~finance Article 363 words 5 votes
The US Federal Reserve is set to pull back economic help rapidly. Is it too late? ~finance economics Article 1365 words 8 votes