US Labor Department employment report shows unexpected improvement, but recovery could still take years economics Article 757 words 7 votes
How Germany saved its workforce from unemployment while spending less per person than the US economics Article 2924 words 12 votes
US taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided US taxes business.small Article 1769 words 12 votes
Spain set to introduce permanent basic income scheme to rebuild economy post-coronavirus economics Article 478 words, published May 20 2020 18 votes
America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses banking economics business.small Article 334 words 10 votes
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars). economics Article 505 words 9 votes
Tax change in US coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds Article 881 words 14 votes
How come Australia suddenly has billions of dollars to pay for welfare? economics Article 1779 words 12 votes
US President Donald Trump removes Inspector General overseeing $2 trillion coronavirus relief package days after he was appointed Article 545 words 12 votes
Robodebt: Confidential documents reveal size and impact of years-long debacle and that Australian government is still pursuing Australians to try and validate debts Article 1056 words 5 votes
Coronavirus stimulus package worth $84 billion passed without objection by Australian Parliament Article 720 words 11 votes
US President Donald Trump says he could demote Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, risking more market turmoil economics Article 6 votes
The Federal Government has announced a $17.6 billion economic stimulus package in a bid to keep Australians in jobs as the economy takes a hit from the spread of coronavirus Article 10 votes
The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained Article 3436 words, published May 6 2019 10 votes
Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need economics Article 755 words 21 votes
‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions Article 1020 words 7 votes
The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate economics Article 4 votes
Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine Article 429 words 6 votes
Australian government lawyers warned the tax commissioner the controversial "robodebt" program could be illegal on the same day the Federal Government suspended the scheme Article 449 words 5 votes
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating economics Article 290 words 4 votes
Sweden in global spotlight with interest rate move – Riksbank has ended a period of negative rates but will other central banks around the world now follow suit? economics Article 1112 words 3 votes
For the first time in US history, a decade will pass without the country falling into a recession economics.macro Article 724 words 13 votes
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
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
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
A young mayor makes the case for a guaranteed income economics Article 2542 words, published Aug 16 2019 11 votes