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European bank shares tumbled on Tuesday on the news
Oh no think of the shareholders
I tried thinking of them and started laughing. Tried a second time to be sure and it happened again. Am I doing it right?
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Okay and I agree but how is capitalism a government?
Capitalism eats everything if you let it, including governments.
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Sure… All the countries that were doing well before some 3 alphabet orgs got involved died because of communism, not because of manufactured coups.
They purchase governments
It can’t exist without the government keeping the angry mob from chopping off the Capitalists’ heads off.
To be fair, we don’t want them doing too much stuff with our deposits, since they have to be able to give it back at any point. IIRC they earn most of their money off of lending as a result.
And here I am slaving away making nothing, paying 45% in taxes,
Where the fuck is that one of the lower tax brackets? Where I live 48% is the highest possible rate, including taxes from all levels of government. I hope your government services are pretty dope with that much funding.
Just for what facts are worth, interest rates on savings account are a good 8x higher than 0.5%, at least in a lot of American banks right now. I’m not sure where you are exactly, but central bank rates have risen essentially everywhere, so you should absolutely be able to find better rates than that.
For $10,000 left sitting for 5 years, at 4% that becomes $12,100. At 0.5%, it’s $10,250.
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They have a statue of a hand flipping the bird in front of their stock exchange?!
Looks like they do. Wtf.
i’m italian and wtf now i want to go see it
The question is which direction is it facing?
the plebs otherwise it wouldn’t be there
lmao that’s amazing.
Bout time. Spain did it two years ago and now has inflation down to 2%.
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Food?
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Governments change, the current one handled this crisis pretty well. Spain also became a de facto lider in Europe on energy policy.
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I don’t know where are you getting this from. The have better GDP forecast than Germany for example and one of the lowest inflation in EU. Part of this is thanks to lower energy prices achieved thanks to policies that are now copied by other countries. And the current government did pretty good in elections just couple weeks ago so I don’t think people feel overtaxed. Biased much?
The unemployment rate is horrendous, at 13.3% in the first quarter of 2023. In comparison, Germany was at around 5.5%, the UK at about 3.8%, and the US at around 3.5%.
Edit: And when you scope that to youth unemployment, the rate in Spain is nearly 30%. I won’t pretend to know enough about Spanish economic policy to speculate on causes, but things are not exactly going well.
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They have since announced that it will be capped at 0.1% of a bank’s assets: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/09/business/italy-bank-windfall-tax-change/index.html
It should be noted that this was in response to bank stocks rapidly collapsing. It seems pretty doubtful that this was planned or they would have included it in the original announcement.
Or they wanted the headlines for people who will never read the update.
Nah, it didn’t even last a blink of an eye
https://www.ft.com/content/4db1e071-9ff1-44f1-a92a-c01a048aad17
Now do tech companies.
Hellllll yes
They will increase all wages thanks to that extra money. It’s a joke, a joke gov that should be either upgraded or removed 🥳
