While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy.
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Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
Austerity
Forbes: Christmas Rail Strike Chaos As French Pension Reform Protests Continue
The strike in France continues through Christmas as we enter week four. Read here
Environment
Reuters: Second U.S. jury finds Bayer’s Roundup caused cancer
A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different […]
Corruption
Reuters: ECB governor accused of bribery in Latvia corruption trial
These are the sort of people running the European Central Bank. Still another example for the endemic corruption in the EU political elite. Pity we can never write about endemic integrity in the EU political […]
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