Finanzas

El cambio de valoración de los inmuebles puede afectar a algunos impuestos como el IBI

La formación dice que el grupo textil aprovecha las ventajas fiscales de Irlanda, Holanda y Suiza. La compañía critica que el informe contiene graves errores

AS THE parade of billionaires and generals joins Donald Trump’s cabinet, it is hard not to be reminded of the Roman republic. Parallels between Rome and America have been made in the past, of course; Paul Kennedy’s «The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers» talked of imperial overstretch—excessive military spending that eventually undermined an empire’s position.

But the current parallels date from much earlier in Roman history; how the republican system eventually turned into plutocracy or «rule by the rich». In her history of Rome, «SPQR», Mary Beard writes that

The first qualification for office was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens

This is not to say that the poor were ignored. Ms Beard adds that

The votes of the poor mattered and were eagerly canvassed. The rich were not usually united, and elections were competitive. 

The nature of that competition, however, would often depend on the amount of food and drink that candidates were able to supply to the voting public; indeed political slogans were…Continue reading

A NOTABLE American commentator, Charles Krauthammer, once explained Rupert Murdoch’s success in founding Fox News, a cable channel, by pointing out that he had found a niche market—half the country. The same may be true of Breitbart News, a conservative website whose fortunes have risen with those of Donald Trump, and whose chairman, Stephen Bannon (pictured) is Mr Trump’s chief strategist.

Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at Breitbart, explained after Mr Trump’s victory that half of voters are “repulsed by the Lena Dunham, Black Lives Matter, third-wave feminist, communist, ‘kill-all-white-men’ politics of the progressive left.” Breitbart saw it coming a while ago, he added. The company’s expansion plans suggest it sees something coming in Europe, too. It already has a website in Britain and in January it will launch French and German sites.

Founded by Andrew Breitbart, the site is just nine years old. Its formula—outraging and fascinating readers with “clickbait”, occasional fake news, polemics and attacks on mainstream media—has taken off. Ten days after the election it said it had received 45m unique visitors in 31 days—modest compared…Continue reading

He stoops to conquer

A NOTABLE American commentator, Charles Krauthammer, once explained Rupert Murdoch’s success in founding Fox News, a cable channel, by pointing out that he had found a niche market—half the country. The same may be true of Breitbart News, a conservative website whose fortunes have risen with those of Donald Trump, and whose chairman, Stephen Bannon (pictured), is Mr Trump’s chief strategist.

Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at Breitbart, explained after Mr Trump’s victory that half of voters are “repulsed by the Lena Dunham, Black Lives Matter, third-wave feminist, communist, ‘kill-all-white-men’ politics of the progressive left.” Breitbart saw it coming a while ago, he added. The company’s expansion plans suggest it sees something coming in Europe, too. It already has a website in Britain and in January it will launch French and German sites.

Founded by Andrew Breitbart, a conservative journalist who died in 2012, the site is just nine years old. Its formula—outraging and fascinating readers with “click bait”, occasional fake news, polemics and attacks on mainstream media—has taken off. Ten days…Continue reading

ECONOMISTS seem to be warming to the idea that regional inequality is a problem, if only because it leads to political movements that threaten broader prosperity. While that is a useful development, it brings economics to a very difficult question, which is: what can usefully be done about that inequality? In a post generating quite a lot of discussion, Tim Duy says that economists need to get busy thinking about the problem:

The dry statistics on trade aren’t working to counter Trump. They make for good policy at one level and terrible policy (and politics) at another. The aggregate gains are irrelevant to someone suffering a personal loss. Critics need to find an effective response to Trump. I don’t think we have it yet. And here is the hardest part: My sense is that Democrats will respond by offering a bigger safety net. But people don’t want a welfare check. They want a job. And this is what Trump, wrongly or rightly, offers.

If…Continue reading

El primer premio de la Lotería reparte 660 millones de euros, cuatro millones por cada serie afortunada

La Airef advierte sobre la relajación del cumplimiento de la regla de gasto

La Comisión concluye que estas entidades pactaron los precios de productos derivados de tipos de interés en euros e intercambiaron información

El nuevo objetivo es movilizar 500.000 millones de euros de inversión para financiar proyectos en toda la Unión Europea