Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures economics Article 523 words 11 votes
US Trade Representative investigation concludes that France's Digital Services Tax discriminates against US companies, proposes retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on French products Article 416 words 7 votes
Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians business Link 4 votes
Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to Article 1249 words, published Aug 5 2019 12 votes
What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark Article 1215 words 6 votes
FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism Link 5 votes
Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic Article 321 words 6 votes
US hits Scotch whisky, Italian cheese, French wine, and other European products with 25% tariffs Article 86 words 12 votes
Denmark's new government to boost spending after years of austerity, following a campaign pledge to reverse years of cuts by previous administrations Article 474 words 6 votes
German fiscal frugality is the stuff of legends – but they have nothing on the abstemious Swedes economics Article 8 votes
US Congress promised student borrowers a break. Education dept. rejected 99% of them. Article 1619 words 20 votes
Sweden to introduce bank tax to help fund greater defense spending from 2022 banking Article 294 words 8 votes
A young mayor makes the case for a guaranteed income economics Article 2542 words, published Aug 16 2019 11 votes
Elizabeth Warren, in detailed attack on private equity, unveils plan to stop ‘looting’ of US companies business Article 756 words 16 votes
Australian Government's $158b tax cuts pass Parliament, giving Coalition first win since election Article 952 words 5 votes
Capitalism isn't 'broken'. It's working all too well - and we're the worse for it economics Article 621 words 27 votes
It’s been five years since Seattle’s landmark $15 minimum wage law. It not only helped workers — it raised their expectations about what's possible and what they deserve. economics Article 926 words 16 votes
We talked with the New Hampshire family in Andrew Yang’s universal basic income experiment Article 1020 words 11 votes
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin, but an attempt to check up on them found little except empty buildings and secrecy business Article 6807 words, published Apr 10 2019 10 votes
Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour Article 1115 words 23 votes
With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans finally have a politician who agrees with them about taxes economics Article 997 words 24 votes
Build the US wall? It could take at least ten years, even with 10,000 workers. Article 1158 words 11 votes
Ocasio-Cortez’s seventy percent top tax rate is a moderate, evidence-based policy Article 652 words 23 votes
Kenyatta orders lifestyle audit on high net worth individuals over low tax remittances Article 324 words 5 votes
Changes for automakers, dairy farmers, labor unions and large corporations headline the renegotiated USMCA, which is poised to replace NAFTA Article 1010 words 16 votes
Litigation gone digital: Ottawa experiments with artificial intelligence in tax cases Article 839 words 4 votes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faults US for frail economy: good politics, but risky policy economics Article 1377 words 5 votes