Unexpected news came from Scandinavia last week. Sweden will have lower corporate tax rate than Slovakia! Last Thursday Swedish government announced its intention to lower tax rate from 26,3% to 22% in order to „strengthen climate for investments and growth“ in the country. Well, even Scandinavian socialism is not what it used to be. Truly shocking…
So it happened. Finally. The recession is over. The 0.3 % growth is considered as the end of it. Not so hurry. Cautious is also Mari Draghi who said that he is very, very cautious about prospects for growth and added that Syria situation could lead to some geopolitical risks. The rates remain record low.…
In June of 2012 the newly elected Slovak government finally unveiled first official blueprint of highly rummored consolidating measures. The main objective is continuation of cutting the fiscal deficit below 3% of GDP until 2013. Although we find some of the measures positive, an overwhelming majority of the presented proposals will have a negative impact…
Besides strong public statements from EU Commission bosses that EU is in turning point in crisis the reality is much worse. You can find one example in Greece. Public Power Corporation has reported last week that many Greek households and corporations are not able to fulfill their obligation to pay their electricity bills. In total,…
We already know that ECB is prepared to use so called OMT mechanism to buy on secondary markets government bonds in trouble. The only thing we know is that ECB is prepared but close details were never revealed to public. But the rhetoric was so strong that markets calmed down for now. Lower interests’ rates…