Chris Lawrence 
The pandemic has affected almost all economic sectors, but leisure has been one of the hardest hit. 2021 started as the year of hope, with the first vaccine supplies arriving in the West with the promise of returning to normalcy, but the film industry has lagged behind recovering pre-pandemic business figures. Despite the fact that … Read more
The INE published unemployment data on Tuesday. Unemployment fell by 782,000 people, to 3.1 million, which means erasing the job destruction from the pandemic, as is the case with Social Security registrations, grew by 780,000, to the magic number of almost 20 million, well above the 19.2 million in February 2020. Why is job creation … Read more
In a clear attempt to continue fighting against tax fraud, the Ministry of Finance carried out, a few months ago, a harsh reform by which it put tighter restrictions on certain amounts of money or performances. Among the new concepts that the treasury included, several of them focus on the self-employed in order to put … Read more
2021 was the year of Elon Musk. Controversial and great, surely in equal parts, the founder of Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX or Neuralink closed the year being the chosen Personality of the Year by Time magazine and also as the richest person in the world. With a fortune of 221,000 million dollars, which has also grown … Read more
With constant concern about the pension system, 2022 will once again bring Social Security and the Ministry headed by José Luis Escrivá on its head. All with the aim of continuing to trust a stable model, for which a series of reforms have been carried out, which will directly affect the new retired that arrive … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated global financialization due to the inevitable contraction in activity, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, due to the extraordinary fiscal incentives of governments and central banks that avoided a liquidity and debt shock similar to that of the Great Financial Crisis, despite the severe recession in 2020, … Read more
Can you imagine that for Reyes they receive 7,200 euros as a gift? In Switzerland this is a real possibility. There is a proposal underway for the country’s central bank (SNB) to give each citizen 7,500 francs. The problem right now is that you are at a stalemate, promoters are not getting enough signatures to … Read more
Bitcoin and ethereum is suffering the sharp turn of sentiment in the markets after the minutes of the US Federal Reserve. The feeling has veered towards a greater risk off (risk aversion) generating significant falls in risk-linked assets such as stocks or cryptocurrencies themselves. Bitcoin corrects more than 7% and falls to the lowest level … Read more
Should housing in the Eurozone and Spain have more weight when calculating the CPI as is done, for example, in the US? What about inflation? The European Central Bank (ECB) is working together with Eurostat (the Brussels statistical agency) to give more weight to housing in the harmonized CPI (HICP) that is published every month. … Read more
The beginning of the year is usually higher expenses, derived from the annual costs as well as the payments for Christmas that suppose the fearsome January cost. However, there is a special case where January traditionally arrives with an extra income called paguilla. It occurs with pensions and for this 2022 it will be the … Read more