“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By: Rechtsanwalt (Attorney) Carsten Lexa, LL.M. The German finance court of Cologne has ruledthat poker is a game of skill. The ruling is in response to poker player Eduard Scharf´s claims that his poker winnings shouldn’t be taxed because poker is a game of chance, and “anyone can win a game of poker.” The court disagreed, ruling that “he had to pay
Jamaica’s swashbuckling days are long behind it however it geo-strategic potential still remains strong. Jamaica is smack dab in the middle of both the western hemisphere – North and South America. Just think half way between the largest market in the world in the USA and one of the top emerging economies in Brazil – what are the possibilities?
The combination of beer and economics – beeronomics if you will – is not as absurd idea as one might think.
By: Carsten Lexa The German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe dismissed motions on Wednesday that sought to block the Euro Zone’s permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, or ESM. The ESM is designed to handle bailouts and work in tandem with the European Central Bank to buy the bonds of countries, such as Italy and Spain, that are straining
The US firms just have a clear edge over their UK counterparts for two clear reasons; the first is due to the language of the trade agreements and the second is demographics.
Given the state of the global economy and the fiscal constraints many governments find themselves one would reasonably think that all is being done to locate, account and tax these monies? With a conservative $21 trillion out there, the results so far speak for themselves.
It is Emancipation Day.
If you still don’t understand the importance of the day and my subsequent mood, please do a Google, Bing or Yahoo search – or whatever search engine you use – and look it up.
As I was reading the BBC yesterday I stumbled upon a very interesting headline: Your Olympic Body Match. Being the weekend warrior athletic sort – my poison being rugby – decided to click and see what it was all about.
According to the Financial Times the international law firm Clyde & Co is set to become the first foreign law firm to be granted a licence to operate in Libya in 40 years.