Tax the rich

Tax the rich

"Crypoly! Tax the rich. Cartoon of 01/10/2022 in CTXT The Government announced what is popularly known as a "tax on the rich", although the government refers to it as a "solidarity tax" on large fortunes. This temporary tax will only apply during 2023 and 2024 for net wealth of more than 3 million

Inflation

Inflation

Inflation. Cartoon of 03/04/2022 in CTXT In March prices rose by 9.8%, the biggest increase since 1985. This storm in the CPI, largely caused by the so-called "energy crisis", has pushed up the prices of almost everything, which had already been rising for months. In El País I saw a headline in front

The grandparents' revolution

The grandparents' revolution

The revolution of the grandparents. Cartoon of 13/02/2022 in CTXT I am 78 years old and I feel alienated by banks. Human attention in bank branches. This is how Carlos San Juan De Laorden, a retired urologist and surgeon, titled a collection of signatures to ask banks "to attend to the elderly without

The world of Escrivá

The world of Escrivá

José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration of the Spanish Government since 2020, says that Spain lacks a "cultural change" to work more between the ages of 55 and 75. In an interview with the newspaper ARA, he argues that retiring at 60 or whatever is "a European anomaly": "At

Ponzi's legacy, the pyramid scheme fraud

Libertad financiera

Ponzi's legacy, the pyramid scheme fraud Ponzi and origins The name of the scam is the surname of an Italian, although he was not the first to practice it. There are other precedents in time and "illustrious" successors such as Bernard Madoff. Carlo Ponzi went down in history as the father of one