Towards a tax on "high income"

August 18, 2011

When in 2007 the Merkel government has created an additional income tax of 45%, Germany was against the current. At the time, it was time to lower taxes to encourage work. But the crisis and rising public deficits have changed everything. Germany has become more and more followers. In ...

Wall Street ends sharply lower despite the vote in the Senate

August 3, 2011

Wall Street still frozen in the red on Tuesday. After starting down, and despite the adoption by the Senate's compromise on the debt, the Dow Jones unscrewed from 2.19% to 11,867 points, the Nasdaq loose 2.75% to 2669 points and the S & P drops 2.56 % to 1254 ...

USA: eleventh hour agreement on the debt cap

August 1, 2011

The uncertainty seems to have finally dissipated in Washington. After long weeks of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats have finally announced that it had reached an agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. After a retraction in the Sunday afternoon, the White House confirmed Sunday night (Monday morning Paris time) ...

Wall Street ends on a rebound until Greece

June 28, 2011

Indices end in green on Wall Street Monday. After starting at equilibrium, the Dow has pressed the bar of 12,000 points in the morning. He ends up on 0.91% to 12,043.56 points. S & P and Nasdaq rising 1.33%, respectively, to 2688.28 points and 1280.10 points to 0.92%. ...

The slopes of the G20 to regulate commodity

June 16, 2011

"A major threat to growth is the price of raw materials." Thus Nicolas Sarkozy in Brussels on Tuesday defended the choice of theme for the volatility of energy prices, agricultural products and metals as one of the priorities of French presidency of the G20. The Head of State intervened ...

One more step towards less ISF

June 10, 2011

The vote was taken freehand. The National Assembly on Friday passed the relief measures of the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) contained in Section 1 of the supplementary budget (supplementary budget Ed.) 2011qui door for the tax reform Heritage . Threshold at 1.3 million euros This article ...

Carlos Tavares named number two at Renault

May 31, 2011

It is a redesign that Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn was preparing for several weeks. Portuguese Carlos Tavares, head of Nissan's activities in America has been appointed CEO of the manufacturer. The board was indeed convened on Monday to dedicate this appointment. Carlos Tavares has replaced Patrick Pelata, forced to ...

Demography Achilles heel of Germany

May 18, 2011

Since the beginning of the year, the argument runs in a loop in the mouth of Nicolas Sarkozy and his ministers. If the performance of France remain considerably below those of Germany in employment is that the labor force goes up here, and drop it on the opposite bank ...

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, a homonym of excluded

May 16, 2011

"If you had typed it into Google Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, you would have found me. Me and nobody else. Mark S. Zuckerberg, a lawyer specializing in bankruptcies. But if you renewed your research two years later, you would not have found at all. Now, my name is no ...

ECB displays a misogyny that could prove disastrous

May 6, 2011

Austria's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell participated Thursday in his last Board of Governors of the European Central Bank. She will be replaced from 1 June by the Belgian Peter Praet. Now there will be no representative of the fair sex in the decision-making body of the ECB, which has 23 members, ...

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