Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robeyn’s thoughts on an upper limit for personal salaries are interesting. In her book “Limitarianism – The Case Against Extreme Wealth”, she argues that an upper limit should be set for personal income. She suggests that such a limit could be 10 million euros. This is unlikely to affect most people,…
Two Russians and a Ukrainian from Donbas have been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting down a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The passenger plane route MH17 was on its way from the Netherlands to Malaysia. 298 people lost their lives. Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and a Ukrainian, Leonid Kharchenko were convicted…
The Netherlands decided to take Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for Russia’s involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) 6 years ago. Justice for the victims has the highest priority for the government of the Netherlands. Shot down over Ukraine MH17 was shot down over the area controlled…
I write this blog for two reasons. Firstly, it’s a fun story and secondly, an easy way to explain what a financial bubble is. Strange as it may sound, this story is true. That is the story when tulips were the cause of the financial bubble in the Netherlands. Netherlands and tulips The Netherlands…