Ocse: giovani italiani in fondo alla classifica per competenze

Ocse: giovani italiani in fondo alla classifica per competenze Ovviamente si tratta di dati medi (che sono quelli che distruggono la reputazione di un sistema paese al pari di quelli sulla criminalità), abbiamo numerose eccellenze accademiche e imprenditoriali in molti campi, peccato siano già fuori o in uscita dal bel paese La minoranza capace e…

Efficient Inefficiency: The Oxymoron That Explains the Investing World

Efficient Inefficiency: The Oxymoron That Explains the Investing World From now on, there are two kinds of investors: the efficiently inefficient ones and the merely inefficient ones who didn’t read this book. Darn, that would’ve been a great blurb for the dust cover! In writing the foreword to a very good book by Antti Ilmanen…

The new era for the Chinese yuan.

The new era for the Chinese yuan. “For more than a decade, China’s taken a verbal beating from other countries for keeping its currency unfairly cheap. Those days might finally be over. The yuan (a.k.a. the renminbi) is no longer undervalued, the International Monetary Fund’s Markus Rodlauer said earlier today, while also urging Chinese leaders…

Amazon pays $16 million tax in Germany, while making $11.9 billion sales

Amazon had a tiny German tax bill. The online retailer paid Germany $16 million in taxes while generating $11.9 billion in sales in 2014, because it routed most of its revenue through Luxembourg. Under pressure from EU authorities, Amazon said last week it has now started reporting income on a country-by-country basis. “Corporate tax is…