La regulación financiera climática es una respuesta en busca de una pregunta. El punto es imponer un conjunto específico de políticas que no pueden pasar a través de una legislación democrática regular o una reglamentación ambiental regular, lo que requiere al menos una simulación de análisis de costo-beneficio.
Los países en desarrollo y desarrollados pueden verse afectados de manera diferente según la fórmula que se utilice: un énfasis en las ventas perjudicará a los países en desarrollo que producen bienes manufacturados, pero puede ayudar a abordar algunas de las desigualdades asociadas con los gigantes digitales.
Una tendencia global hacia tasas de interés más altas, con la Reserva Federal en el centro, corre el riesgo de afectar la recuperación económica en algunos países, especialmente en un momento en que la deuda de mercados emergentes ha aumentado.
¿Será temporal el repunte de la inflación en los Estados Unidos? Esa es una importante interrogante para la economía y el mercado financiero, mientras la administración Biden, Congreso y la Reserva Federal continúan apoyando con políticas fiscales y monetarias.
The results are stark. According to Forbes, those 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years, the IRS data shows. That’s a staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.
I’ve been struck by reporting from Britain, which has been even more successful than the United States in achieving widespread vaccination (thank you, National Health Service). The thing is, Britain and America took very different approaches to supporting workers through lockdown. Where we relied mainly on enhanced unemployment benefits, Britain relied mainly on a “job retention” scheme — subsidizing earnings of workers placed on temporary leave by employers in locked-down sectors.
President Joe Biden has pitched to Republicans the idea of a 15% minimum tax on U.S. corporations, along with strengthened IRS enforcement efforts, as a way to fund a bipartisan infrastructure package.
Vaccination is the world’s most important economic policy at this moment: its benefits are measured in trillions, its cost in billions.
Moreover, as the Rome Declaration of the Global Health Summit held on May 21 affirms, the key to combating future pandemics is transferring not only licenses but also expertise to developing country vaccine producers.
Growth in CEO compensation was slightly faster than last year’s strong growth—14.0% between 2018 and 2019—while the annual compensation of the average worker increased just 1.8% in 2020.