Dutch Market Moves? Paolo Pavan Explains Why

PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

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The Dutch Pension Bomb No One's Talking About: Why Your Taxes Are Now Paying Grandma’s Bills

Paolo Maria Pavan

The Dutch Pension Bomb No One's Talking About: Why Your Taxes Are Now Paying Grandma’s Bills

Act I: The Quiet Crossing Nobody Noticed In 2024, something historic happened in the Netherlands. Not dramatic. Not viral. But structurally seismic: for the first time ever, more than half of all AOW ...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

18 Jul 2025

The Hidden Truth Behind the Netherlands’ ‘Stable’ Unemployment Rate: What 386,000 Jobless Really Reveal

Paolo Maria Pavan

The Hidden Truth Behind the Netherlands’ ‘Stable’ Unemployment Rate: What 386,000 Jobless Really Reveal

When Stability Is the Mask of Movement 386,000 unemployed people. 3.8% unemployment rate. Flat for three consecutive months. To the untrained eye, that signals equilibrium. To anyone who runs a compan...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

17 Jul 2025

Why 95% of Exporting Industries Are Worried: The Trade Policy Earthquake You Can’t Ignore

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why 95% of Exporting Industries Are Worried: The Trade Policy Earthquake You Can’t Ignore

Introduction: Trade Anxiety Is Now the Default Setting for Exporters If you're running a business that exports goods, machinery, chemicals, wood, or even paper—you're likely feeling something heavy in...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

16 Jul 2025

Why the Netherlands Is Keeping Dead Companies Alive (And Pretending It's a Recovery)

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why the Netherlands Is Keeping Dead Companies Alive (And Pretending It's a Recovery)

The Surface Story: Numbers that Reassure June 2025: 313 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s an 18% drop compared to the same month a year earlier. The bankruptcy rate sits at 8...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

15 Jul 2025

Why Your Business Is Clapping for 0.5% Growth Like It's a Win, And Why That Should Scare You

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why Your Business Is Clapping for 0.5% Growth Like It's a Win, And Why That Should Scare You

Exports Up 0.5%. Should We Celebrate? May 2025. The Dutch export machine, once an iron heartbeat of Europe, managed a whisper of growth: just +0.5% in volume (corrected for working days) compared to M...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

14 Jul 2025

Why That Quiet 1.1% Jump in Spending Is the Wake-Up Call Smart Entrepreneurs Needed

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why That Quiet 1.1% Jump in Spending Is the Wake-Up Call Smart Entrepreneurs Needed

A Modest Number with a Loud Signal When CBS tells us that Dutch households spent 1.1% more in May 2025 than in May 2024, most executives raise an eyebrow, then move on. Too small to celebrate, too gre...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

11 Jul 2025

Why the Dutch Housing Market Is Faking Its Comeback (and We’re All Falling for It)

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why the Dutch Housing Market Is Faking Its Comeback (and We’re All Falling for It)

The House Always Wins, But Who’s Keeping Score? Imagine you're standing in front of a brand-new home. Clean lines, solar panels, a smart thermostat that talks to your fridge. €504,000, and climbing. I...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE

10 Jul 2025

Why Dutch Companies Are Hoarding Billions Instead of Building the Future

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why Dutch Companies Are Hoarding Billions Instead of Building the Future

A Curious Abundance: The €14.5 Billion Question Imagine sitting on a mountain of profit, more than you’ve ever seen before, €162.5 billion, to be precise. That’s what Dutch non-financial corporations ...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

9 Jul 2025

Why “Normal” Inflation Is the Biggest Lie You’re Being Sold in 2025

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why “Normal” Inflation Is the Biggest Lie You’re Being Sold in 2025

The Morning After the Storm If inflation were a guest at our breakfast table, June 2025 served us lukewarm coffee, not cold enough to call it deflation, not hot enough to scald us like 2022 did. A 3.1...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

8 Jul 2025

Why the Government Keeps Hiring and What It’s Quietly Preparing For.

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why the Government Keeps Hiring and What It’s Quietly Preparing For.

There Are No Numbers Without Intent. When we say that in 2024 the Dutch government employed over 1.1 million FTEs, we are not simply citing statistics. We are revealing a strategic shift in the archit...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

7 Jul 2025

Why the Dutch Economy "Grew" Without Actually Moving, And Why That Should Worry You

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why the Dutch Economy "Grew" Without Actually Moving, And Why That Should Worry You

The Illusion of Movement: A Story of 1.1 Percent Imagine standing at a railway station, watching a train that seems to move, only to realize it's your own platform slowly sliding forward, powered not ...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

4 Jul 2025

Why “Growth” Is the New Lie We Tell Ourselves in the Netherlands This Quarter

Paolo Maria Pavan

Why “Growth” Is the New Lie We Tell Ourselves in the Netherlands This Quarter

Why I Care About Retail Turnover (And You Should Too) Let’s be clear: I’m not in love with numbers. I’m in love with what they betray. Retail turnover in May 2025 grew by 2.2% compared to May 2024. If...

DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

3 Jul 2025

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