It is a fundamental fact that anything organic that takes a negative hit, its sensitivity in the first stage must immediately adjust its performance by reducing its activity accordingly. It is then gradually adjusted and when a second or third negative hit is achieved the organic element is fully adapted and works effectively at the
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed
While the Covid-19 pandemic was initiated by China (Wuhan Province) and it appeared that the Chinese government was taken by surprise, the subsequent successful management of the response to the pandemic strengthened Chinese citizens’ confidence in the communist regime of China, increased the national confidence and pride of the Chinese (always comparing it to 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 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
