“Recent euro-area house price increases are dissimilar to earlier housing booms” By Zsolt Darvas, Marta Domínguez-Jiménez, and Guntram B. Wolf, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute Rapid house price increases are good for homeowners and bad for people wishing to buy. They could also be bad for the economy as a whole if there […]
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Whither the EU? (Wither the EU?)
“What Next, EU?” By Dr. Rudolf Pozgay, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center 1.Introduction The amount of economic and social challenges that the European Union has faced to date have given rise to the idea that EU reform is required. An example of such efforts is Juncker’s “White book” with five possible […]
Raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million
“Raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million” Duncan Simpson, courtesy of Taxpayers’ Alliance If the inheritance tax threshold was increased from £325,000 to £1 million, almost 25,000 fewer families would have to pay the hated death tax across this year and next. The government would still be raking in £7 billion […]
Young people in UK face stagnant incomes, lower wealth
“How are younger generations faring compared to that of their parents and grandparents?” By Jonathan Cribb, courtesy of IFS Interest in how the economic circumstances of younger generations compare to those who are older shows no signs of slowing. Politicians on all sides of […]