What makes the Swedish economy unique and should the world follow its economic model?

Sweden is an amazing country. It is the country where Ikea, Skype, Spotify, Ericsson, Mojang (of the Minecraft fame) were founded and the country of the world’s oldest Central bank Sveriges Riksbank.

It is also the country with the highest Value Added Tax (VAT) rate and amongst the highest income tax rates.

We look at the Swedish economic model and what makes it unique and whether the economic model could be considered as a role model for the world. Continue reading “What makes the Swedish economy unique and should the world follow its economic model?”

What we have learnt in 75 days of this site – Part 1: Visitors and visitor interaction

Thanks again to everyone reading this and contributing to the success of this website. We have had an amazing first 75 days and would like to share what we have learnt, and we hope you will learn something new from what we learnt.

In part 1 of this series, we cover visitors and visitor interaction. Continue reading “What we have learnt in 75 days of this site – Part 1: Visitors and visitor interaction”

Thank you

A massive thank you to all readers of this website.

We are pleased to report that we are now amongst the top 0.5% most visited websites in the world as per the latest Alexa rankings. This site was only registered on December 31, 2017 and this is truly an amazing achievement within 75 days.

We couldn’t have done this without you and thank you for being part of our success story.

Here are some interesting things you may have missed in the equity, commodity, currency and bond markets

1. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index is up 34% over the past year.
2. Tencent Holdings (the owner of WeChat – the WhatsApp equivalent in China and several other things) is up 116% over the last year. It is currently worth over $550 billion and is most valuable social media company (bigger than Facebook).
3. Ping An Insurance (Ping An Insurance Group Company of China Ltd) is now the world’s largest and most valuable insurance company. Its stock is up 110% over the year. Continue reading “Here are some interesting things you may have missed in the equity, commodity, currency and bond markets”