The governance and, more generally, the management of family businesses begins to be recognised as equal and equivalent to corporate governance and plays a central role in the development of family businesses. The average of micro-family businesses in the EU-28 is 93% of all enterprises. The family business may be inextricably linked to the vision, …
Social Tensions and Zombie Companies in the EU
In the Euro-Zone and EU economy in general, two counterbalanced powerful forces are created after the end of the pandemic. On the one hand we have the net potential part of the economy that will include strong capital-intensive companies that will be driven without obstacles to their “green” transformation causing their explosive growth and gaining …
The Continuous Increase in Food Prices Will Cause Mass Production of Lab Grown Agriculture
The continued rise in food costs internationally, in addition to the consequences of already being hit by the Covid-19 family budget pandemic and the increase in basic living costs, raises questions about whether the overall food production-supply of the planet can meet the growing demand for food. Given that China has imported huge quantities of …
Establishing a Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate in the Wrong Way
The high budgetary costs caused by the covid-19 pandemic, which most countries on the planet and especially western governments face in conjunction with US President Joe Biden’s new US fiscal policy through the announcement of the Infrastructure program and the intensifying US trade confrontation with China, makes it mature to implement the US proposal to …
U.S. Infrastructure Program turns to Social Justice by Launching Public Debt
Expectations for the $2trillion Infrastructure Project announced by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday 31/03/2021 are high. With his announcements he decides to shift to social justice with a new form of income redistribution in US society while stopping the tendency to constantly reduce corporate taxation. Joe Biden is largely taking away the gifts of …
Inflation, Rising Interest Rates or Both Together?
At the hearing before Congress on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed Governor Jerome Powell was adamant that any resurgence of inflation in the US would be temporary (inflation above 2% for 2021), transitional and would in no way affect the Fed’s target of average inflation of 2%. But rising Federal Reserve bond yields point to …
Suez Canal: World Trade Woes Grow
The accident of the ferocious cargo-ship named “Ever Given in the Suez Canal last week reminded us how crucial the maritime trade corridors and especially those maritime trade corridors that unite Europe and Asia are. The Suez Canal. The timing of the accident is bad since it coincided with the hardships suffered by world trade …
How a Company’s Expenses are Recognized in Non-Cooperative Countries or Countries with Preferential Tax Status
It is a general rule in all countries of the world, where all the costs paid by an undertaking are deducted from its taxable income, given that these costs are in the best interests of the undertaking and correspond to actual transactions entered in the accounts of the corresponding management period in which they are …
The Leader of a Business
Business leaders are always invited to define the future vision for the company they run, to solve immediate problems whenever and when they arise and of course to be interested not only in the proper functioning and productivity of the company but also in producing the required results that they have set or have been …
Structure of The Stock Portfolio during the Economic Recovery Phase
Last week we saw a sell-off in the technology shares of large companies, a fall in the price of gold and a rise (fall) in yields (prices) on government bonds. However, the passage of the $1.9bn “Biden” fiscal package has made investors worried about the expected artificial inflationary pressures that will force central banks to …