Category: Economics

Real unemployment in both the Eurozone (EU) and the US is the main brake and embankment for expected growth in the US and Eurozone economies, respectively. The figures for official unemployment are a subset of the magnitudes of real unemployment and given that real unemployment is much higher than official unemployment. by Trust Economics-https://trusteconomics.eu ©The

The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published data on the borrowing rates of households, businesses and the overall long-term borrowing costs respectively for both the Euro area and each of its member countries (Source: ECB, https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/publisher/ecb). What continues to trouble us from the graphs below is the fact that a Eurozone of different speeds appears

2020 will be a landmark year for countries whose large part of their GDP composition is based on the product of tourism and the environment respectively, concepts that are causally linked. The Covid-19 pandemic caused a profound decline in the GDP of these countries due to the loss of revenue from their tourism product. It

Usually the price of gold rises and the price of copper follows the opposite path. The factor that determines the price of gold is the state of a country’s economy but also in today’s world economy. When the economy is in recession, the price of gold rises. In growth the price of gold is falling.

The evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic around the globe forcing the majority of governments of the world’s countries to adopt measures of strict social restraint and economic lockdown has resulted in much of the overall economic power being shifted to new powerful economic elites, weakening previous economic elites. By T.C. ©The law of intellectual property

The presence of the pandemic on Chinese soil with the simultaneous expansion of the US-China trade war, which has now turned into a technological, investment and financial war respectively, has been an explosive cocktail that has begun to leave its mark on the Chinese economy. The sharp decline in foreign direct investment in China and

The economic crisis caused by the measures to tackle the pandemic in the developed and developing economies of the world have their consequences and implications for the whole microeconomic and macroeconomic life of the societies of the planet. The imposed measures of lockdown and social distance have caused major structural changes in the labor market

The decisions of the governments of the developed countries of the world to strengthen with state capital all the companies of their countries in a horizontal way, which companies asked for protection against the economic crisis caused by the measures against the pandemic Covid-19, were correct. The problem is the duration of these government liquidity

The spread of the Coronavirus pandemic and the ways to deal with it (lockdown, social exclusion & isolation) are causing tectonic changes in the size of GDP shrinkage and in total economic activity. In recent years, the exogenous factors that determine the levels of demand for services and products in many sectors of the economy

The world’s most vulnerable economies, the developing economies, which, before the crisis caused by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, were already vulnerable to external shocks while carrying relatively high budgetary deficits in their state budgets and high public debt, are also the ones that will face the worst problems left behind by tackling this pandemic. With