Paolo Maria Pavan Why Most CEOs Sleepwalk Into Economic Downturns And How the Business Cycle Clock Exposes Their Denial The Illusion of Progress: Why “Waves” Matter More Than Numbers Let’s begin where most articles end: the business cycle is not a spreadsheet artifact or a journalist’s cliché. It is the heartbeat of ou... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan 26 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Jun 25, 2025 | Amsterdam Stock Exchange: A measured descent On June 25, 2025, the AEX Index closed at 917.86, marking a 0.73% decline from the previous day's close of 924.62. The index opened at 926.89, reached a high of 929.91, but gradually declined througho... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE 25 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why GDP Growth Is Bullsh*t if Jobs Are Shrinking and People Are Just Tired of Waiting Let’s Start With the Boring Number: +0.4% That’s the Dutch GDP growth in Q1 2025, according to CBS’s second estimate. Yawn? No. Because if you think that number is just a bland statistical revision, f... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan 25 jun. 2025
Linda Pavan What the Tax Office Won’t Tell You Before Slapping You with a VAT Bill As entrepreneurs, we often assume that "being heard" is part of any fair administrative process. Yet, in tax matters, especially around VAT (omzetbelasting), this isn’t always a given. Understanding w... Linda Pavan TAX 25 jun. 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Jun 24, 2025 | Amsterdam Stock Exchange: AEX Climbs Quietly The Amsterdam AEX closed today at 924.62 , up +7.83 points (+0.85%) , in what appears, at first glance, to be a polite day of trading. But let’s not confuse manners with meekness. Markets don’t always... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE 24 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Waarom Nederlanders Denken Dat Ze Rijker Worden (Terwijl Ze Stilletjes Hun Eigen Ongeluk Financieren) Laten We Beginnen Met de Kop Die Iedereen Doet Klappen “Het reëel beschikbaar inkomen van huishoudens steeg in Q1 2025 met 2,2% ten opzichte van een jaar eerder.” De rekenmeesters van het CBS willen d... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE 24 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why €90 Billion in Dutch Profits Should Worry You More Than Impress You When Numbers Stop Whispering and Start Revealing Gross profit before tax for non-financial companies in the Netherlands rose to €90.1 billion in Q1 2025, €4.7 billion higher than in Q1 2024. Operating... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan 24 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Jun 23, 2025 | Amsterdam Stock Exchange: A Gentle Ascent, Lightly Ignored Today, the Amsterdam AEX Index closed at 916.79, a gain of 8.27 points, marking a +0.91% rise that was as composed as it was quietly unexpected. If you listened for drama, you’d be left in silence; th... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE 23 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why Dutch CEOs Are Slamming the Brakes And What It Really Says About the Netherlands The Numbers Don’t Lie, But They Rarely Tell the Whole Truth April 2025: investments in tangible fixed assets dropped 2.3% compared to a year earlier. That’s not just a stat, it’s a signal. And if you’... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan 23 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch House Prices Skyrocket Again! Because No One Trusts Anything Else Anymore Let me be clear from the start: house prices rising again is not news. It’s ritual. What matters now is not what has gone up, but why and why now . In May 2025, Dutch owner-occupied homes were on aver... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE 23 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Jun 20, 2025 | Amsterdam Stock Exchange: Under the Quiet Radar The AEX closed at ~929.5 today, retreating 0.5 % , and bringing the weekly drop to nearly 1.3 % . It was a subdued, corrective cadence, steady without turning bearish, but not confident enough to recl... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE 20 jun. 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why a One-Point Rise in Consumer Confidence Is More Dangerous Than a Crash A Whisper Louder Than Despair The Netherlands blinked in June. Not quite hope, just a blink. Consumer confidence, as measured by CBS, nudged itself from -37 in May to -36 in June. A single point. A ro... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan 20 jun. 2025