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Monopoly round-up: Price gouging vs price fixing vs price controls economics Article 1653 words 13 votes
Why scrapping VAT on sunscreen and public EV charging would be an expensive waste of money Link 13 votes
Does market failure justify government intervention? (with Michael Munger) economics Article 10 621 words 5 votes
International scheme to tax billionaires’ wealth technically feasible, study [by Gabriel Zucman] finds economics Article 536 words 30 votes
Giorgia Meloni accused of splitting Italy over law to let richer regions keep taxes. Critics say differentiated autonomy bill, sought by wealthier areas, will increase poverty in south. Article 545 words 9 votes
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich business Article 19 votes
Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly Article 370 words 16 votes
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return cryptocurrency Article 774 words 8 votes
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective 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 Article 77 words 15 votes
Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy economics Article 9 votes
Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months Article 528 words, published Jan 22 2024 62 votes
Canadian federal government considering new caps on payday lending and high risk lending 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 economics Article 77 words 12 votes
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value 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’ economics Article 1031 words 24 votes
Norway wealth tax pushes the rich to move to Switzerland – millionaire prime minister has embarked on a push to tax the wealthiest for social justice economics business Article 77 words 41 votes
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections) Article 1124 words 18 votes
Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties Link 29 votes
US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program 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 Link 39 votes
What a green monetary policy could look like economics Article 1758 words, published Jul 12 2022 8 votes
Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’ economics Article 1814 words 45 votes
Turkey is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed. Article 2198 words 28 votes
US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what? 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 Article 706 words 28 votes
US Federal Reserve holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year 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. 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 Article 715 words 10 votes
The incredible tantrum venture capitalists threw over Silicon Valley Bank banking Article 2791 words 5 votes
Beijing needs to junk its economic playbook 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' Article 4 votes
Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth 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 economics Article 599 words 4 votes
Lukashenko imposes ban on price increases in Belarus effective immediately economics Article 83 words 7 votes
UK in turmoil as government's gamble to solve economic woes fuels crisis, instead economics Article 641 words 9 votes
Denmark's decade-long experiment with negative rates seen ending soon – central bank raised its key interest rate Article 363 words 5 votes