The 1,000 Swiss franc is the highest value banknote in the world still in production
The 1,000 Swiss franc note is recognized globally as the highest value banknote (approximately 1,069 euros at current exchange rates) ...
US sanctions on Iran: what Italy and businesses risk
Washington is preparing an unprecedented crackdown against Tehran and is also warning countries, banks and companies that they will continue ...
Spread at 81 basis points, what changes for investors
Slightly declining start for the spread between BTP and Bund and for the yield of the Italian ten-year bond in ...
Record petrol consumption despite price increases, peaking in July
Italians continue to consume fossil fuels even with the price of petrol having exceeded 2 euros per litre. After an ...
The Italian words that only exist in the plural: the defective nouns from holidays to weddings and surrounding areas
Wedding, holidays, dishes, darkness, surroundings: they are the so-called plurality once (“only plural”), or defective nouns, words that in Italian ...
Why dentists’ and surgeons’ lights don’t cast shadows and how operating lights work
How does the dentist avoid casting a shadow with his hand inside the patient’s mouth? The answer is the special ...
Current accounts, 1,163 billion of Italians stuck in the bank: how much it really costs
Italians continue to be a nation of savers: when it comes to money management, the most widespread habit is to ...
Silence changes meaning in different cultures: for anthropology it is an implicit communication
Silence (in Latin silentiumfrom the verb silere, be silent or not make noise) is often defined as the absence of ...
Panama will build 3 maximum security prisons similar to El Salvador’s CECOT: how they are made
Panama’s prison system has been near breaking point for years, with approx 24,000 prisoners crammed into structures designed to barely ...
From the Parks railway to the Monferrato railway, 13 lines of historic trains that travel for 1000 km
From Piedmont to Friuli-Venezia Giulia and up to Sicily, in Italy there are 13 historic train lines born between the ...
