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Cea Legal | Mortgage Recording Tax

It’s no secret that the costs in connection with investing in real estate in New York are considerable. Our clients often ask us to provide us a detailed estimate of the expenses before making a final offer. When an investor is financing the purchase, one of the most significant disbursements to take into consideration is the mortgage recording tax. The mortgage recording tax is calculated as 1.8% of the financing amount under $500,000 and 1.925% on financing amounts over $500,000....

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IMF | Energy Shocks Amid Rapid Inflation Could Fuel Faster Wage Gains

Billions of consumers around the world are seeing higher oil prices seep into the cost of living and wages. Filling the gas tank soon starts to cost more when crude prices climb, as does airfare, but higher energy costs also boost prices for all the products on store shelves. Workers seek higher wages to compensate for a loss in their purchasing power. These are what economists call second-round effects, and they can in turn further raise prices. If this...

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NAL Research | Blue Sky Network Announces SkyLink Aviation Qualifications

SkyLink, Blue Sky Network’s 2x award-winning connectivity platform, is now DO-160G qualified for aviation | August 30, 2022 – SAN DIEGO – Blue Sky Network today announced that its SkyLink 7100 aviation solution has completed DO-160G qualification testing and can now be installed on crewed aircraft. Additionally, the SkyLink single-channel Iridium antenna has received FAA TSO C159d approval.  This dual-mode communications solution leverages next-generation Iridium satellite service and local 4G/LTE networks, providing aviation customers with continuous pole-to-pole coverage. To attain DO-160G...

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EU State of the Union, 2022

“Democratic institutions must constantly gain and regain the citizens’ trust. We must live up to the new challenges that history always puts before us. Just like Europeans did when millions of Ukrainians came knocking on their door. This is Europe at its best. A Union of determination and solidarity.” Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission READ THE FULL ADDRESS WATCH THE FULL ADDRESS Charting the course for the year ahead In her State of the Union address on 14 September...

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ECB | What drives inflation expectations of women and men?

Women and men shop differently and have different perceptions of prices and inflation. This ECB Blog post examines how inflation expectations are formed and revised across gender and why that matters for central banks. Women tend to have higher inflation expectations than men. As these differences are well documented across the world, we have used results from the ECB’s new Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) to shed light on certain factors which can explain some of the gender inflation gap. And...

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Exeo Attorneys | Golden Visa Portugal : an immigration program for investors and a gateway to Europe

The Portuguese Golden Resident Visa (or “GRV”) is an immigration program that allows you to acquire residency through a qualified investment in the country. It is considered by many advisors as the best program of this kind due to the wide variety of its investments, flexible investment requirements ​​and to its limited minimum required presence in the country. This program was launched in 2012 and it has grown in popularity during its 10 years of existence: according to data from...

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EIB | With the support of InvestEU, Aquila Clean Energy raises financing for 2.6 GW capacity renewable energy projects in Southern Europe

Financing of unprecedented EUR 1 billion built-to-sell construction facility including one of the biggest loans ever granted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) under a Project Finance structure EIB loan backed by the EU's new InvestEU programme Further loans from seven commercial banks More than EUR 2 billion project volume in total for entire renewable energy pipeline in Spain and Portugal with over 50 projects Aquila Clean Energy EMEA, the clean energy development platform in Europe of Aquila Capital, has...

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Troutman Pepper | More Privacy, Please – September 2022

Editor's Note: In the U.S. laws and regulation space, the California attorney general announced the first-ever CCPA settlement, the California Privacy Protection Agency raised objections to the ADPPA, and the FTC announced advance notice of a proposed rulemaking aimed at commercial surveillance and data security. Meanwhile, the California legislature passed the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. In U.S. litigation, Meta settled a class action over tracking and requested attorneys' fees in a data scraping suit. In international regulation and enforcement,...

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Vulcan Insight | PM Truss and the future of EU-UK relations

As much anticipated, Liz Truss was elected the new leader of the Conservative Party earlier this week securing 57% of the vote from party members. Taking over the reigns from her predecessor, Boris Johnson, many now are wondering what her premiership will mean for EU-UK relations over the coming months. Upon her appointment as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Truss began to receive various messages of congratulations from EU officials in Brussels. While all messages were congratulatory...

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Aimlon CPA P.C. | September 28th, 2022 11th United States-European Union Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SMEs) Workshop

Are you a small business stakeholder? If so, you are invited to a United States-European Union workshop on September 28th, 2022 in Augsburg, Germany. This workshop is organized by prominent institutions: the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, the Small Business Administration, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade and Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. You will have the opportunity to connect and discuss relevant topics with international small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)...

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