Interview with Giorgio Trentin, sinologist and professor of Chinese language and history of contemporary China at the University of Macerata - "China must seek - and is seeking - new horizons towards which to direct a new impetus for economic growth, but…
Berlin is discovering all the fragility of Made in Germany - German manufacturing suffers above all and Germany's fear is that its development model has come to an end
The gravity of the Italian demographic situation requires the adoption of targeted policies to address its negative effects. Government policies, the promotion of the birth rate, the creation of a work environment favorable to women and new generations are factors…
Gas prices down, but not enough. Pre-crisis levels remain far away. And new tensions are on the horizon, analysts warn. Birol (IEA): no to increasing gas production in Europe. For renewables "we need to do more"
In his latest book, the economist who predicted the 2008 crisis and the subsequent great recession talks about the 10 terrible economic catastrophes that are about to hit us: let's hope he's wrong
No one had ever lasted so short at 10 Downing Street. The pound celebrates and the markets welcome Truss's resignation with "relief". What happens now? Here are the possible scenarios
On September 15, 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers took place, which triggered a global domino effect - At the origin of everything, there was the subprime mortgage crisis
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency explains in the Financial Times why Russia is not winning the battle for supplies or stopping efforts for climate change and clean energy
The president of Confindustria Veneto, Enrico Carraro, and of Confindustria Vicenza, Laura Dalla Vecchia and the top manager Valentina Zago explain why companies in the North East are really in the trenches and how they face one of the toughest moments of…
The latest book by Giorgio Brunetti, a long-time business economist, reminds us of what happened between 2007 and 2021, a period that has profoundly marked Italian political and economic history, even in terms of production structures.
The concepts of nationalization and state aid are cleared when it comes to energy companies. In Italy, the government supervises through its subsidiaries
The Pact is obsolete and has been suspended by the EU to allow governments to deal with the pandemic but some countries would like to restore it in 2023 as if nothing had happened and with the risk of creating serious damage - A…
The September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, thousands of dead and wounded, changed our lives and marked this century from the beginning. America has stood up but the guard must remain high, especially after the dramatic…
At a time when the Draghi government is making its investment plan in infrastructure and the reopening of construction sites a driving force for its economic recovery policy, the book "Basic infrastructure" by the Faculty of…
According to Istat's 2021 report on the competitiveness of the productive sectors, 45% of companies are structurally at risk, while only 11% are solid - Services and industry are bad, especially the South is affected
Speaking in the Senate, the leader of Italia Viva overturns the accusation of having caused an "irresponsible crisis" and presses Conte by recalling the real crises in the country and asking the premier for a change in government action instead of a "collected" majority from a…
INTERVIEW WITH FRANCO FERRAROTTI, father of Sociology in Italy - "The character of a people does not change in just one year but the pandemic is changing habits and is increasing the risk of greater inequalities" - "Let's hope that…
On September 15, 2008, the most ruinous bankruptcy ever took place on Wall Street. But how did that sudden failure come about? At the root of it all was the subprime mortgage bubble
A research by Affide and BVA Doxa quantified the damage suffered by families due to the emergency: 16% lost their jobs or closed their businesses, 25% lost up to 5.000 euros of assets. Credit rises in preferences…
We present a reflection by the American political scientist of Japanese origin, Francis Fukuyama, on the role of politics in the crises of the last century of history and on the impact that the latest emergency may have on our society
According to the National Council of Engineers, the turnover of professionals in this category has dropped by 24% in four months - Claims for compensation and simplifications
Presenting the report on the activities of the ECB in 2019, the vice president de Guindos says that the Eurotower is "more determined than ever to support the economy of the Eurozone" and sides in favor of the recovery fund - On the sentence of the German court: " We under…
The association of cooperative banks led by Giuseppe De Lucia Lumeno warns of the risks deriving from a further closure of branches, especially in a phase of unprecedented economic crisis. The physical presence of institutions is essential for access to credit for…
INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT OF TIM, SALVATORE ROSSI - "If Italian society and politics managed to impress discontinuity in the functioning of the country, the crisis would not have happened in vain", especially if we got rid of that network of rules and...
INTERVENTION BY THE CO-DIRECTOR OF CATTOLICA ASSICURAZIONI - The gravity of the crisis induced by the virus will force insurance companies to think in a systemic way and to place the emphasis not so much on the normal ability to forecast risks as on the ability…
Phase 2 is approaching and without adequate support many women, who earn less than men, will be forced to give up work to take care of their children, sacrificing their independence and their rights
It is not surprising that in the face of the health and economic emergency that is affecting the whole world and the urgency of a rapid reconstruction, the Marshall Plan is still looked at as a reference model - But what are the commonalities…
The first responses from operators to an Agici questionnaire on the impact of the health emergency on gas, electricity, water and waste companies with an eye on consumption and production trends and investments, but also on recovery problems
In its latest bulletin, the central institute does not hide that the impact of the coronavirus on the economy will be heavy - a week of lockdown alone costs 9 billion of GDP - but also underlines that today families, businesses and banks are in…
Over ten million unemployed in just two weeks. The Coronavirus hurricane is hitting the world economy with tremendous force, to the point that all the conditions are in place for it to be the most serious crisis since the post-war period…
In this speech, which appeared in the Financial Times and translated into Italian by goWare, Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari reflects on how the Coronavirus will change our lives
The government plans to extend the 600 euros (no longer a one-off) to 10 million people: in addition to VAT numbers, artisans and professionals, temporary and irregular workers would also be covered
To restart Italy and Europe, a new economic policy is needed immediately in the wake of Mario Draghi's considerations according to which "we are at war and if we hesitate, the costs will be irreversible" - A development model to be rethought by investing…
A new maxi package of interventions will arrive within the first half of the month to counter the recession triggered by the coronavirus - The value will be at least equal to that of Cura Italia: another 25 billion - Interventions are expected on Cig, check…
Unlike in the past, banking crises are also affecting Italy these days, but everything cannot be explained only with cases of "mismanagement" without considering the weight of the economic context
The Sardines' request for information that "approaches the truth" is sacrosanct especially in the face of banking crises: maladministration, where it exists, must be severely hit but nothing is understood about banks if one does not take into account the…
In the traditional Acr-Ipsos survey on the occasion of Savings Day, the widespread feeling emerges that the crisis is still long to overcome but households that save are increasing even if the preference for liquidity remains
Despite the 57 billion IMF credit line, capital flight from Argentina continues, with a 50% depreciation of the currency, a drain on official reserves (-20%) and an increase in inflation (+50%). Austerity, accompanied by high interest rates at over…
On September 15, 2008, the sudden and unexpected bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers bank marked a turning point in the crisis, transforming a financial crisis limited to US subprime mortgages into a systemic crisis which then also overwhelmed the economy: it was the most…
The specter of default on the South American country forces the government to issue an emergency decree: natural persons will not be able to transfer more than 10 dollars abroad or purchase foreign currencies for an amount exceeding this amount.
The Conte 2 government is at the starting line, profoundly different from the yellow-green executive. As in all self-respecting battles, there is no shortage of winners and losers. Who I am? We have identified 8 of them. Here are our report cards.
Boston Consulting Group research “The Italian Comeback Kids. Lessons from successful turnaround” quantifies in just 32 the large Italian companies that have started running again after two years of declining Ebitda.
The month of August disappointed the expectations of hoteliers with a drop in attendance in the traditional seaside tourism destinations - Luxury tourism is resisting, but the lower presence of foreign tourists and the difficulties of the middle class…
Salvini's blitz fades away: the motions on the crisis will be discussed and voted in the Senate only after August XNUMXth.
A recent book by historian Quinn Slobodian offers an original thesis on the birth and real goals of neoliberalism and its current crisis that deserves to be discussed
The Barometer developed by the Cisl together with the Tarantelli Foundation and REF Ricerche on the state of well-being (and malaise) of Italians reveals that, despite the timid recovery of recent years, we have not yet returned to the levels of life of 2007
The picture emerges from the 52nd Censis Report of a country increasingly enraged by the economic crisis, which has no confidence in the future and which sees the phenomenon of immigration with increasing concern - Wages and spending on education still…
In his book "Wild Horizons", the former minister Carlo Calenda comes to terms with the fears of our times linked to globalization and the Great Crisis, imagining solutions that repudiate sovereignty and which focus instead on a reformist policy that…
The Non Performing Exposure of Italian banks, after their sharp increase in the years of the crisis, began to reduce steadily starting from 2016 - But to complete the reduction process, new financial operators are needed.
According to the French foreign trade insurance company (the equivalent of the Italian Sace), Athens has emerged from eight very long consecutive years of crisis with more competitive, less indebted and export-oriented companies - but the banks continue to have many NPLs.
The IAI organized an interesting debate on "Crisis-justice-democracy for Europe and Latin America" from which it emerged that both the crises and the populisms of the two continents present, beyond appearances, many more differences than similarities -…
FOCUS BNL - Between 2008 and 2015 Italian companies decreased by 4,3%, above all due to the decline in construction and industrial ones, and remain on average smaller than French, German and Spanish ones - More than one…
This is what we read in the ECB bulletin, which underlines how employment is currently almost 1% above the pre-crisis peak reached in the first quarter of 2008.
The new study Global Banking Annual Review 2017 by McKinsey analyzes the performance of the banking sector worldwide: the crisis has been overcome, but there are still critical issues - Profits still low (in 2017 lower than 2015) and…
ASSONIME REPORT - The precautionary recapitalization was applied only three times, of which two in Greece and one in Italy - The real bail-in was instead activated in four countries, albeit in different forms…
The crisis situation was confirmed by Standard & Poor's, which lowered the rating from B- to Ccc+, keeping the outlook in negative territory. The positive margins linked to sales fail to ensure the repayment of the debt, and the equity…
US banking regulation and supervision, which Trump would like to deregulate, has created a much more robust credit system than it was a decade ago. The S&P 500 Banks sector index has recovered 133% of its 2009 lows. Who…
The forecasts in the European Outlook 2018 presented by Scenari Immobiliari: positive real estate markets throughout Europe, rising prices and exchanges, but in Italy "the recovery appears more delicate" - Here's why.
Since the beginning of the financial crisis 10 years ago, the FtseMib is still down by 45% but many stocks have recorded stellar increases: even three-digit for Mde in Italy champions such as Brembo, Recordati and Campari -…
On 9 August 2007, the first signs of the crisis came from the subprime mortgages which the following year, with the collapse of Lehman, became systemic and infected the real economy - Central banks, by injecting liquidity, narcotized it but from the dangers of …
Days of waiting for the response that Doha will have to give to the ultimatum of the Arab countries. In the event of a negative response to the 13 requests judged to be detrimental to the country's sovereignty, negative consequences could follow, in political and financial terms. Eyes on…
Speaking from London, UK, the first female head of the US central bank explained that major US banks are sound and able to deal with shocks, as demonstrated by the results of the first round of stress tests.
Global Risk Management Survey by Aon - For the 390 Italian managers who participated in the survey, the economic crisis and the slow recovery represent the main risk for business in our country - Abroad, the damage matters more…
According to the Governor of Bank of Italy, "the most recent forecasts indicate a further moderate strengthening of product growth".
The clamorous rejection of the candidate of the Democratic Party for the presidency of the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Senate with a Milazzo majority that united Forza Italia, the grillini and the splinters of the Democratic Party tears the majority apart and shakes the Government -…
If the banking crises of recent years are retraced, three causes can always be traced to their origin: baroque governance and irresponsibility of management, enormity of non-performing loans, inadequacy in the production of new banking services
The crises have affected all types of banks and have practically wiped out the southern banking system: the placement of high-risk financial products and the adventurism of many bankers are fatal
From 2011 to today there has been a real real estate shock, with a drop in the value of homes by around one trillion. The triggering factors for this reduction are: the bursting of the speculative bubble, the economic crisis and excessive taxation.
INTERVIEW WITH STEFANO MICOSSI, General Manager of Assonime - "The crisis of some banks does not erase the evidence that the Italian banking system is solid overall and can be tackled with market solutions or with a public parachute" - "The…
Between 2007 and 2015, food consumption contracted by over 18 billion - The expert: “Demand is weak, but at least today there is. However, it is worrying that the signs of recovery are losing intensity compared to…
Wednesday, April 20 AITI-Italian Association of Corporate Treasurers in collaboration with Oracle and Techedge organizes the conference "Cash Flow Objective - how to adapt the internal processes of company management in relation to market volatility and business dynamism".
The economic crisis has hit European countries and their young people, who find it more difficult to find work - But what is their vision on the big issues of growth and global justice and what are their…
There is no shortage of fears that China's economic slowdown is more abrupt than expected and that the "middle income trap" is triggered, but Beijing can avoid the Japanese-type depressive effects because the financial crisis is more manageable...
2016 will give us a lot of sport (from the European football championships to the Olympics) but above all it will be the year of truth for Italian politics with the elections in the big cities and with the referendum on the reform of the Senate on which the premier…
Incredible in Turin: after 25 shots on target and two crossbars, Juve let Frosinone outwit in the 92nd minute with a goal from Blanchard, who, ironically, is very Juventus-like: 1-1 - Now the bianconeri are on 10 points…
China, Brazil, Russia cast shadows on the recovery in the West. Is it possible to avoid the negative sequence centered on exchange wars, protectionism in world trade and the regurgitation of nationalisms, as is in part already happening? Deputy Minister Calenda aims at a…
The German parliament approved the third aid package for Greece with a large majority, giving mandate to Finance Minister Schaeuble to take part in the negotiations - The IMF will participate in a full way in the package, but the…
Due to the capital control decisions by the Greek authorities, PayPal accounts, funded through the products of Greek banks, were also blocked.
AXA INVESTMENT MANAGERS - The stalemate between Greece and its creditors seems about to ease, after the list of reforms sent by the Tsipras government to the Eurogroup - We are therefore moving towards extending the aid program until…
A spokesman for the Greek government announces that Varoufakis will send a request to the president of the Eurogroup Dijsselbloem to extend the loan program - The German minister: "unacceptable if the agreed reforms are not implemented" - Today the ECB's decision on the ELA,…
Thanks to the initiative of the European business school Escp Europe, in collaboration with Ena, 800 students selected out of a total of 4 enrolled in the five campuses of London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Turin, were able to sit on the benches of the leading institutions for a day…
The great economist Luigi Spaventa will be remembered today in Rome at the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia (Piazza dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 4, 17.30pm) with the presentation of his book "Against opposing pessimisms - To get out of the decline and the crisis" ( Castelvecchi publisher) which collects…
The country has begun a phase of rebound, accompanied by a recovery in private consumption, industrial production and investments, even if this dynamic is still excessively dependent on exports.
The increase in disparities in OECD countries is at its highest level in 30 years: in Italy the richest 10% earn more than 10 times more than the poorest 10%, and this affected GDP when the…
The presentation of the sixth edition of the AUB Observatory on Italian family businesses - News of the 2014 report emerges from the international comparison with the top 300 entrepreneurial realities of five European countries.
With the emergence of economic difficulties, there has been a decline in the self-esteem of the youngest, which has been of some importance for males but even dramatic for females.
According to the Premier, "the new EU leaders will not only have to be new names, but they will also have to interpret this new phase that is opening, because either we all exit together or the crisis that is making a comeback on international markets will not…
ANTIQUES TODAY - The hands of the antique clock slow down more and more every day. What is happening to the "world" of antiques? And to all those objects and furnishings that were handed down for several generations? Difficult times except for high antiques
"ilSapelli" is a new ebook published by goWare that collects the thought of a volcanic and counter-current intellectual on current issues in 300 articles and essays - Giulio Sapelli ranges from economics to history, from sociology to anthropology and…
GOODBYE TO THE CRISIS - New Zealand, which economists call the "rock star economy", is experiencing enviable growth of more than 3%, while its currency is the hottest of 2014 - Post-earthquake reconstruction, development of real estate,…
The existence of the Euro is no longer in question, but the fundamental reasons behind the Crisis have not been addressed: the institutional framework remains insufficient and reforms are hampered by the complacency of national interest groups.
Seven years ago, the subprime mortgage crisis was the beginning of a crisis that has become epochal and that leaves a scenario of rubble: low growth and employment collapses undermine social stability - Investments are not enough to get out of it…
FROM THE ADVISE ONLY BLOG - The crisis in Ukraine that began months ago has not been resolved, in fact it has worsened: after the plane crash in Malaysia, even in Europe the heads of government have decided to tighten the sanctions against…
Register of companies in the second quarter of 2014: the registers of the Chambers of Commerce received almost 97 applications for registration, compared to just over 61.000 requests for cancellation by existing companies. The balance of the second…
FROM THE BLOG OF ALESSANDRO FUGNOLI, KAIROS strategist - Unlike the markets and governments, central bankers see on the horizon the possibility of an even more devastating crisis than that of 2008-2009 - There are four indicators: demography,…
"The eurozone is certainly in a phase of exit from the financial crisis, even if reasons for attention and uncertainty remain": says Antonio Bottillo, Chief Executive Officer for Italy of Natixis Global Asset Management - However, there are still many…
The consolidated operating result of the Leone returns to pre-crisis levels, positioning itself at 1,3 billion (+0,5%), driven above all by the Non-Life sector (+3,7% to 516 million) - Profit is better than expected, reaching 660 million, up 9,4% -…
In the electoral debate on the single currency, Professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago also intervenes, who, although not a supporter of the first hour of the euro, takes its defense - "The culprit is politics: our crisis is structural ,…
It was the crisis, especially that of the Eurozone, that undermined public opinion's support for the single currency and trust in the European institutions - In the light of the results of the Eurobarometer opinion polls, the map of trust has turned upside down: …
"The challenge of growth passes through managerial training", Monica Pontiroli of Manager Italia, who conducted a study according to which very few companies focus on corporate welfare - The four projects on intergenerationality - The case of Fondir, which provides…
