The global shipping industry is largely unseen by us, but its pollution is a threat to our health and our climate, especially for the communities and wildlife of the Arctic.
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Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The micro incompetence of UK austerity
It is good to read a piece by an economist, which puts politics back into austerity. Read here
Corruption
Reuters – Explainer: Europe’s money laundering scandal
A nice summary of EU money-laundering – up to now. This story still has a lot of road ahead of it as the US authorities tend to be more strident in their investigations (see the […]
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