Discussing Japanese public finances is extremely difficult. It is not much different from the arguments 600 years ago about whether the world is flat. Critics claimed that eventually the ship will fall off the world into the void. Bust after 30 years Japan is still sailing the earthly seas.
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Yanis Varoufakis turns to the Communist Manifesto and finds turth, solace, and inspiration. Highly recommended. Read here
Corruption
Politico: The mysterious case of the German MEP lovers and the disappearing EU pharma report
Last Friday the Parliament’s Science and Tech panel published a report on the pharma market. On Monday it was gone. Pushing for the removal was the German chair of the panel, MEP Christian Ehler, and […]
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