On 9/08/2021 gold fell to 1684.37, recording a fall of 4.4% (the lowest price since 31/03/2021). The reasons that led investors to sell gold en masse have to do with their expectations regarding the future economic environment. More specifically: 1. Increased number of jobs in the US warn investors that the dollar is about to …
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Which Businesses Industries Will Win a Leading Role and Which Do Not During the Transition to Green Growth
The transition to the Green Economy will provoke chain reactions not only in the way energy is produced, stored, and channeled but also in the way that any type of activity will now be taxed. The EU is leading the way, followed by the US. China, realizing that if it does not implement the green …
Cities Around the World Choose Corporate PPAs Contracts
To support the development of a RES project requires a critical mass which can and should absorb the energy produced by it. This critical mass must be grouped and entered the green bilateral contracts (corporate PPAs) that are constantly gaining ground in the European and international electricity market. This critical mass is large and small …
Eurozone Economy Returns to Strong Growth Trajectory but Still Has Obstacles to Overcome
The increased spending of European consumers by the increased liquidity that had accumulated due to the continuous economic shutdowns and lockdowns, gave a dynamic impetus to the field of retail, catering, and steadily increased factory production which has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels. As a result of these factors, Eurostat released data on Eurozone GDP, …
The Unchanged Interest Rates, The Dollar Price Slip and the Postponement of Tapering
The Fed, knowing the expectations of the markets, decided last Wednesday 28/7/2021 to maintain unchanged interest rates, while continuing at a steady pace its monetary policy through the purchase of government bonds and securitized mortgage bonds with the always existing monthly rate. The head of the Fed, Jerome Powell, accepted the fact that the American …
Necessity of the Restructuring of the Tax Systems after the end of the Pandemic
Many economies around the world have struggled to maintain a certain level of tax revenue without reducing any current levels of social well-being. Wages in most of the population, especially for low-skilled workers, were low. But the same thing happened with the drastic reduction of the middle class since the onset of the global financial …
Gardening Leave: Business Assistance in Modern Forms of Employment
Employment law in most EU member-countries adequately addresses the regulation of modern forms of employment, which became even more apparent during the pandemic. One of these provisions of the Employment legislation is the so-called “Gardening Leave”. Gardening leave describes the process when an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment …
The Prospects for the Recovery of the Eurozone / EU Economy are Difficult
Based on expectations in various key sectors of the EU economy, inflation is expected to increase across the Eurozone as a whole. This is due: 1) At the expected higher energy prices. 2) In the wider increase of all prices of commodities and food, respectively. 3) The rise in prices due to increased levels of …
Upcoming US Inflation Rise Will Reduce Consumer Income
Economists know that after a sharp drop in demand levels that these large amounts of declining demand are only caused by wars or global epidemics, inflation is the indicator size that will rise after the end of the problem due to declining demand. drastically reducing any disposable income of consumers-citizens. This is due to four …
The Economic Conclusions of Tomorrow from the Pandemic of Today
World economic activity has reached its nadir due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Both governments and central banks responded with unprecedented fiscal liquidity measures (the former) and increased expansionary monetary policy combined with near-zero interest rates and mass securities markets (the latter). Combined with the easing measures of commercial banks taken by supervisors, they provided ample …