This may come as a surprise to, well, no one at all: Europeans still hold the distinction of being the world’s biggest consumers of alcohol, although consumption patterns vary widely across the continent. Also no surprise, there are major health consequences for all those over-indulgent […]
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UK savers, prepare to be screwed by even lower interest rates
With a fresh wave of economic uncertainty gripping Europe and the rest of the world, central banks are considering lowering interest rates even further, and in the UK that means they may soon be heading towards 0% — raising a big question for British savers, […]
Ten years after crisis Europe is sort of the same, also worse
A decade after the global financial crisis and ensuing economic downturn, how has Europe changed? Well, not as much as you might expect, according to Matthew Edwards, writing for the Austrian Economics Center. Analyzing data from the OECD and Eurostat, Edwards finds surprisingly little difference from pre-crisis conditions… and unfortunately what has changed […]