Over years we have read how corporations have stopped investing, instead buying back shares to drive up the price of their, thus enriching the rich and the managers. Now they want us to bail them out, just like the banks in 2008.
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EU politics
Kjell Östberg – Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle
‘Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the […]
Finance
Ken Boyd: Tax Avoidance By The Numbers: The Paradise Papers
This an excellent, easy to understand, somewhat long explanation of the Paradise Papers. So if you feel you did not really understand what the fuss was about, you can catch up here. A great weekend […]
Corruption
Romania-Insider.com: Former Romanian interior minister sentenced to 5 years in prison
Romania has been a member of the EU for 10 years. Corruption remains endemic, but that does not appear to bother the EU in the least. Read here
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