Paolo Maria Pavan Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again,up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fre... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE Aug 22, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan July 2025 Unemployment: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You Q: If the news says unemployment is stuck at 3.8%, why should I care? "Because that number hides what’s really going on. Thousands of people lose their jobs and thousands find new ones every month. It... DUTCH ECONOMY ES HR IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 21, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing? June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 20, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Manufacturing in Q2 2025: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You Every quarter, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) releases its figures. We see percentages, decimals, neat columns: “turnover down 0.7 percent, industrial sales prices down 0.6 percent.” A small shift, almo... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 19, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big,until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figure... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 15, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 14, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 13, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025 When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June,I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient,our ma... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 12, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts,glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contrad... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 11, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Industry’s June Dip: A Story About Margins, Machines, and the Meaning Behind the Numbers We live in an age obsessed with percentages. The Dutch industry in June produced 0.2 percent less than the same month last year, says CBS. A fraction of a percentage,easy to ignore. But every fraction... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 8, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 7, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 6, 2025
