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The most discussed topics on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., summarised in English: Spanish news, economy, housing and society as Spain talks about them.

• Eating on €10 a week: the experiment that doesn't add up
  Eating on €10 a week, with electricity and water included, the experiment collides with meat and fish costs and is recast at €20 every two weeks
  Sep 29, 2026 · 124 replies
• The 20% a year stock-market return that four shares brought down
  The sale of 4 shares at 16.40 euros was presented as a 61-euro profit; another forum user’s recalculation shows a loss
  Sep 29, 2026 · 267 replies
• 100% tariffs on Spain after Trump mistakes it for a BRICS nation
  Trump places Spain in the BRICS and threatens 100% tariffs on its goods: the country exports more than €20 billion a year to the United States
  Sep 29, 2026 · 283 replies
• He leaves Madrid after six years for €1,500 net and a shoebox
  A 41-year-old technician turns down a permanent contract and returns to his village: €1,500 net, €800 rent in Parla and six years with no pay rise
  Sep 29, 2026 · 232 replies
• ALIA, Sánchez's state AI: open source and doubts over its corpus
  Government presents ALIA as Spanish-language AI, but a user calculates corpus at 39.31% English and 16.12% Spanish
  Sep 29, 2026 · 232 replies
• Haro vehicle ramming: one emergency medical technician dead, five injured
  Haro vehicle ramming: a 32-year-old emergency medical technician dies and five people are hospitalised
  Sep 29, 2026 · 315 replies
• Bertín Osborne: a pregnancy at 69 and an inheritance at stake
  Bertín Osborne, 69, faces a pregnancy he calls unwanted with a 32-year-old woman. Paternity, inheritance and a pending test.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 265 replies
• He made 2M€ on the stock market and is weighing a move to Andorra to pay less tax
  The case of an investor with 2M€ in capital gains at broker IG planning a move to Andorra runs up against the 183-day rule and tax-fraud risk
  Sep 29, 2026 · 180 replies
• 100 saving and self-sufficiency measures for the family budget
  A hundred household saving measures: bono social, draught excluder, €54 pet food, renegotiating your mortgage. The list to stretch your pay to month's end.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 121 replies
• From La Piara to Lidl tuna: the ranking of bad brands
  A poodle of 5,7 kilos lost 2,5 kilos eating dry kibble: the bad-brand list runs from La Piara to returned Media Markt products
  Sep 29, 2026 · 120 replies
• The DNA that tracked down the fugitive in Moncloa's deadly hit-and-run
  DNA found in the vehicle and fingerprints identify the suspected driver in the 2021 death of a student in a Moncloa hit-and-run
  Sep 29, 2026 · 69 replies
• Von der Leyen in Davos: Mobilize savings and tariffs on China
  Von der Leyen proposes in Davos mobilizing European private savings and tariffs on China, with degrowth as energy roadmap
  Sep 29, 2026 · 233 replies
• Abascal attends Trump inauguration amid tariff clash
  Trump puts Spain among BRICS and threatens 100% tariffs, debate hears. Abascal attends inauguration as PP votes on omnibus decree.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 233 replies
• 191,000 Ukrainian casualties: the unverified report in circulation
  A document attributed to the Ukrainian General Staff puts the AFU’s dead and wounded alone at 191,000. No one has verified its authenticity.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 117 replies
• Putin and the oligarch's audio: 'a serious illness'
  An audio attributed to an oligarch close to Putin mentions 'a serious illness': nothing confirms the diagnoses circulating
  Sep 29, 2026 · 166 replies
• Ukraine investigates shooting of Russian prisoners in the legs
  Ukraine investigates video of its troops shooting Russian prisoners in the legs; Kyiv says it takes the allegations very seriously
  Sep 29, 2026 · 222 replies
• Ebola protocol activated in Alicante over suspected case
  A patient from Nigeria triggered the Ebola protocol in Alicante in August 2014. Tests came back negative and the transfer was flawed.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 307 replies
• The Government says it has approved two decrees that don't exist. The big con
  José María Olmo says on X the Government treated two non-existent decrees as approved. Without publication in the BOE, they have no effect.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 4 replies
• A forum user recounts a hair transplant that cost 5.000 euros and fell out within a year
  A forum user says a friend spent 5.000 euros on a hair transplant and lost the added hair the same year. The thread debates maintenance drugs
  Sep 29, 2026 · 141 replies
• Sánchez proposes EU end to anonymity on social media
  Sánchez proposes EU end to anonymity on social media: the digital ID and internet access-control debate is at the centre of criticism.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 305 replies
• Knife attack in Aschaffenburg: two dead, one a child
  A 28-year-old Afghan man has been arrested after the Aschaffenburg stabbing: two dead, one a child, and several seriously injured.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 241 replies
• Partners of detainees deny murdering Guardia Civil officers
  Partners of those detained over Guardia Civil (Spain's military police) officers' deaths insist they stayed on land and only hauled bales
  Sep 29, 2026 · 431 replies
• TikTok and the West’s Degeneration: The Double Standard
  A news report blames China for using TikTok to degrade the West, but its addictive design and double standard with Google and Facebook weaken the claim.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 175 replies
• Nuclear: €26bn decommissioning bill and Olkiluoto's €11bn overrun
  Nuclear faces a €26bn decommissioning bill and Olkiluoto a €11bn overrun, while solar adds 250 MW a month. Coal was shut down in haste.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 331 replies
• Slow cooker: ribs that fall apart in 4 hours
  A €42 slow cooker tenderizes ribs in 4 hours, its fans say; it doesn't destroy the lectin in raw red kidney beans
  Sep 29, 2026 · 160 replies
• Romanticizing some mental disorders, not others
  Depression affects 280 million people, according to the WHO. Empathy isn't spread evenly across mental disorders. Here's why.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 4 replies
• Billing 300 euros in 90 minutes: the myth of the trades
  A plumber at 300 euros for 90 minutes, a doctor with on-call shifts on 4,000 euros net: why high billings don't mean high earnings.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 274 replies
• Pensions absorb ‘more than 42% of the budget’, says a forum user
  According to calculations in the thread, pension spending tops €200 billion a year and takes more than 42% of the budget.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 292 replies
• Banning private healthcare: from a right to health to a business
  Banning private hospitals and drugmakers divides: some see perverse incentives in health as a business, others defend public management.
  Sep 29, 2026 · 343 replies
• Kadirov says Russia is using only 20% of its military potential
  Kadirov tells Rossiya-24 that Russia has used less than 20% of its potential in Ukraine and demands control of Odesa and Kharkiv to seal off the Black Sea
  Sep 29, 2026 · 102 replies