This is the first half of a two-part article about Catalonia and its independence movement. It is based on the article published by me in the Winter 2019 paper edition of Rostra Economica. Catalonia is an autonomous community in north-eastern Spain, self-designated in its Statute of Autonomy as a nationality, with 7.5 million inhabitants. It
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The term “tax avoidance” came into public awareness in 2012 when the British MP’s shunned light on Google’s, Amazon’s and Starbucks tax payments. It turned out that the companies were paying nothing close to the official tax rate. For example, Google had sales of £2.5bn but only paid £3.4m in taxes. When investigations were made,
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Are you thinking to save money in your bank account? Do banks lend out our deposits? How do they create money? Well, banks don’t have the best reputation. Probably you have heard that banks make money out of your money. Many have the intuition of banks using public deposits to create loans and earning the
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Most of us have doubts about the content of morality- we question what is right and wrong. It is hard to determine if it is ever okay to lie, for example, or to distinguish the fine line between taking care of our self interest and being selfish. Some of us have had doubts about morality
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