At the beginning of 2008, Spain experienced an unprecedented bust in the housing market. The bust triggered a banking crisis and a recession. Moreover, Spain has dealt recently with political…
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In the last few weeks the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has revealed plans to reform the UK secondary education. Her proposition sees the reintroduction of the Grammar Schools model…
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The creation of a European Digital Single Market is moving forward, but the risk of regulatory capture is significant and it is undermining the success of the project. The reduction…
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Speculation: Beneficial to the Market Economy Speculators are currently not very popular. For the globalisation sceptics from Attac speculation is to be blamed for high food prices and famines in…
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The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, has recently announced the intention of the government to invest 13 billion euros to help modernizing Italian manufacturing. Leaving aside reasonable doubts regarding how…
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Economic Growth without a Government? Germany 2005, Belgium 2010-2011, USA 2013, Spain 2016: Even in well established democracies it can happen that governments lose a substantial part of their competencies…
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The EU Commission’s investigation After a three-year investigation, on the 30th of August 2016 the European Commission has concluded that Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple. The…
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Capitalism and Democracy: A recipe for Wealth and Freedom Almost 90% of all Germans believe that democracy is the best political system, despite the slight decrease in approval ratings during…
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Commercial property sector in UK after the Brexit referendum The UK’s choice to leave the EU triggered great instability on the financial markets resulting in currency value shocks and asset…
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In May 2016, the Ministry for Universities and Science of the UK Government published the white paper “Success as a knowledge-economy”. The explicit intention of the document is to indicate…
