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May 5, 2021
Published by Prometheus at May 5, 2021
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Last month, the Berlin Rent Control Act was found to violate the German constitution. This was the right call, but the Federal Constitutional Court justified its decision with overly formal arguments.
April 28, 2021
Tax shifts are widespread – often at the expense of the consumer – but governments do not always seem to be aware of the extent of such practice when they introduce new forms of taxation.
April 26, 2021
In February, the Bank of Spain published its statistics on the Spanish public debt, indicating that state liabilities reached 117.08% of GDP at the end of 2020. In the beginning of January, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, announced that Spain ended 2020 with a deficit of 11.3% of GDP.
April 20, 2021
Imagine you just purchased a painting from Sotheby’s called Portrait of Edmond Belamy (“Portrait”) for $432,500. Portrait was AI-generated.
April 14, 2021
The United States lacks a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU, and the failed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations during the Obama-era proved that there are significant barriers to achieving one.
April 9, 2021
The EU’s travails over vaccine supply have revitalised calls in some free-market circles for the scrapping of the precautionary principle (PP).
April 8, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns reduced global CO2 emissions by 7 percent last year. Some environmentalists, such as the University College London professor Mariana Mazzucato, have thus wondered about the feasibility of future “climate lockdowns […] to tackle a climate emergency.”
April 7, 2021
Monetary policy could become a problem for the Eurozone as we recover from the pandemic. Given the huge increases in the volatility of money, once demand picks up one can expect inflation to rise.
March 29, 2021
Vaccine passports are all the rage right now in the EU. One of the largest consequences of the pandemic has been significant restrictions to free movement.
