Grandfather Says: The Continuing Chronicles of Elaine, Part 67
The following was written by my late wife Elaine. She wrote a long book, a diary really, from which this is one passage: My Weekly Piano Lessons My weekly piano lessons began in 1941 in an upper flat in Detroit from our church organist and traveling piano teacher.
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What Comes Next Isn’t a Product. It’s a Provocation.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab, a place I helped create not to organize what was already known, but to make space for what wasn’t. It was interdisciplinary before the word became decor. It was designed for people who didn’t fit into departments.
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Running Ads for Your Side Hustle? Read This First
If you’ve got a side hustle and you’re running digital ads to promote it, good on you. Paid ads for your side hustle can be a powerful way to drive traffic and grow your brand. But they can also burn through your budget fast if you’re not careful.
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New solution for TenneT’s capital requirements
TenneT is making the electricity grid fit for the future. Major investments will be required in the coming years to strengthen and expand the grid. This is necessary to meet growing demand for electricity, including from households and companies that want a new or higher power connection. TenneT
Read More2025 Tax Plan: more balanced income distribution and healthy public finances
Today Folkert Idsinga, State Secretary for Tax Affairs and the Tax Administration, presented the 2025 Tax Plan to the House of Representatives. The package contains a range of measures to contribute to healthy public finances, improved purchasing power and a stronger business climate. It also includes a number
Read MoreBudget Day 2024: more purchasing power and a return to fiscal discipline
Next year most people will be financially better off. It will pay more to work due to cuts in income tax, and measures on purchasing power will prevent a rise in poverty. The government will also invest heavily in our security, and the budget will absorb the recent
Read More2023: a better financial outcome, despite turbulent economic times
With the world in flux, 2023 was an economically turbulent year. Inflation was high, interest rates rose and the Netherlands saw virtually no economic growth. The war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring. The Dutch government took a range of extra measures to prevent a rise in poverty,
Read MoreThe Netherlands to invest €2.5 billion to strengthen business climate for chip industry in Brainport Eindhoven
Found in objects from telephones to solar panels and medical equipment, microchips play a crucial role in everyday life. Dutch businesses and knowledge institutions lead the way in the global chip industry. But in the Brainport Eindhoven region they’re coming up against limits in terms of personnel, space
Read MoreNetherlands and Bangladesh sign new tax treaty in Dhaka
Dutch State Secretary for Tax Affairs Van Rij and Minister Abdul Hassan Mahmood Ali of Bangladesh put their signatures to a new bilateral tax treaty in Dhaka on 12 March. The aim of the treaty is to avoid double taxation and further Dutch and Bangladeshi economic interests. Source
Read MoreCocaine seizures by Customs see sharp rise in 2023
In 2023, Dutch Customs seized almost 60,000 kg of cocaine. This is a sharp increase compared to 2022, when more than 51,000 kg of cocaine was seized. The largest seizures were in the ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen. At airports, more than twice as much cocaine was seized
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