Truck toll mileage index, August 2025
-2.3% on the previous month (calendar and seasonally adjusted)
-1.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted)
Environment
Reuters: Austrian parliament backs EU’s first total ban of weedkiller glyphosate
Apparently this sovereign decision will be overruled by EU law. Once again the EU proves that it is here to serve international corporations and not the people of Europe. Read here
Economics
Yeva Nersisyan, L. Randall Wray: The collapse of SVB shows why monetary policy is the wrong tool to fight inflation
What is missing from the debates over monetary policy today is the understanding that the Fed was not established to control inflation. It was created to prevent financial crises by acting as a lender of […]
Corruption
Anna Minton: Developers are using culture as a Trojan horse in their planning battles
It’s an old story in many cities. Artists move into a derelict building, because the need cheap ateliers or rehearsal rooms. The building becomes hip, property developers buy it and throw out the artists. Luxury flats […]
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