Bankbonuses: an unfinished business
As long as structural measures to end the “too big to fail problem” of banks is not completed, we have to consider the potential negative effects of bonuses and exit payments.
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Prosperity
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
The endless labor cost discussion
To maintain our social system, there is a need to create 400.000 jobs towards 2020. An objective calculation shows that to increase labour intensity of economic growth and to upgrade the employment rate, a wage cost reduction of 5% is only a first step.
Seven Years of economic crisis
The first stirrings of what would later be called the “sub-prime crisis” were observed in August 2006, in the midst of the greatest possible indifference. Hence, seven years have gone by since the western world stumbled over itself.
Break the taboo about underprivileged versus privileged diploma's
The European leaders have announced an action plan against youth unemployment. Obviously it’s a very complex and divers issue. Seen the seriousness of the issue we can’t tolerate any taboo’s about this. Also not about the matter about the often ill-considered choice of...
The (un)deserved fairness tax
The federal government has announced a new tax for trading partnerships, wrongfully named the ‘fairness tax’. The economic and political incentives for a minimum tax are understandable, but the measures that the government announces, raises several questions.
The endgame: exit from excess debt- environment
History tells if debt has escalated as it has done in the West, the fastest way out of the crisis is debt restructuring.
Lessons from the crisis for investors
It’s surprising how often implicitly still is worked with models that only are defensible when the financial markets are efficient. Nevertheless that’s one of today’s most controversial subjects.
Phobia and weakness : how Belgium can drop its fixation on mini-jobs
Marc De Vos offers an alternative to the black-and-white debate on the German mini-jobs. We can maintain the advantages of the mini-jobs while avoiding its disadvantages by reforming unemployment insurance into employment insurance.