Biden Calls for Congress to Suspend Excise on Fuel in Summer
U.S. President Biden has called on Congress to temporarily refrain from charging nationwide excise duties on gasoline and diesel. He says he wants to meet …
Economists
Demonstration in Istanbul against economic policy Erdogan
In Istanbul, according to organizing unions, thousands of people participated in a demonstration against President Erdogan’s economic policy. They argued against increasing poverty and increasing …
Portugal organises ‘EU social summary’, but Rutte and Merkel stay away
European leaders meet today and tomorrow in the Portuguese city of Porto. It must be a social summit, which deals with issues such as a European …
Chinese economy is growing at record speed after coronacrisis
Never before has such a high growth rate been recorded in China as in the first quarter of this year. The economy grew by 18.3 percent on …
Ministers deny that Cabinet exerted pressure on Rehabilitation NL
Insolvents do not recognize themselves in the claim that pressure has been exerted from the government on Restoration NL to stop activities until after the elections. …
United States: key elements of the minimum wage bill
The legislative battle for doubling the federal minimum wage was launched this week in the United States.
The goal is to raise it to $15 per hour …
Massive recession for the French economy in 2020, but lower than expected
The French economy experienced a historic recession in 2020, landed by the Covid-19 epidemic and the forced cessation of many activities during the year, even if the …
Banks and Exxon pull Dow Jones down
New York stock exchanges opened mostly lower on Friday, due to the balance of disappointing quarterly figures of banks and a downturn at ExxonMobil. Investors had …
Large job losses in US damper economic growth
The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, which was expected to increase. In advance, economists, polled by FactSet, calculated on 50,000 jobs increase. Especially in restaurants, bars …
KLM pilots and Rutte at Davos high pilots in 2020
In the year in which the coronavirus dominated the news almost daily from March, the article about the wages paid by KLM pilots this year attracted …
No question of coronadip; house prices rose again
Despite the coronacrisis, Dutch house prices continue to rise. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), owner-occupied homes were almost 9 percent more expensive in November …
DNB: now hard intervention means growing faster
The Nederlandsche Bank warns against a coronation policy of running and standing still. “Here fits the expression ‘soft healers make smelly wounds’,” says DNB director …
Dow runs well on vaccine heap; Tesla rushes to record
The American stock exchanges showed a positive picture at the start of the new stock exchange week. Especially the Dow had the wind in the back …
Nikkei closes week lower
The Japanese stock exchange ended again with a small minus on Friday. It was the third loss in a row. Investors took little risk prior to …
Historical recovery after first lockdown
The Dutch economy has shown an unprecedented recovery in the months between the first and second corona wave. In July, August and September, the economy grew …
Coronavrees plays Wall Street at start
The stock exchanges in New York came down on Thursday. The investor vote on Wall Street is being pushed by a record number of new coronavirus …
‘Tech continues upswing on lower Wall Street’
New York stock markets are expected to open mainly with small losses on Thursday. Techbeurs Nasdag will probably continue the recovery movement. The investor vote on …
Recovery of economy is’ weak ‘
The recovery of the Dutch economy was weak in the third quarter. And in the last months of this year, the economy will even shrink again. …
Biggest growth ever in the eurozone
The euro area economy has seen a much stronger recovery in the third quarter than expected. Growth in the last quarter stood at 12.7%, compared to the …
Economists argue for less fear: ‘Risks second wave considerably lower’
A person under 70 years of age is less likely to die from Covid-19 than a car accident, an industrial accident or drowning. This is evidenced by …
Cows produce more and more milk, and not everyone is happy
The Dutch cow is increasingly productive. The average life production of a cow has reached a record of 34,000 litres. For comparison: in 2010 it was still 30,000 litres …
Nobel Prize for Economics to American Economists
This year, the Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, for their research into auctions. Their research is applicable to many aspects …
Trump will cancel negotiations on new economic aid package
Negotiations on a new, comprehensive support package for the US economy are being lifted over the presidential elections. President Trump is tweeting that the Republicans stop …
Column: The Netherlands should increase public debt wisely
In the Netherlands, we see an increase in companies that are going to reorganize. On Thursday, this newspaper reported that thousands of redundancies were announced in …