“The 4-month-old movement drew bigger crowds Saturday than in recent weeks”. Austerity is not on the decline. Why should the giletes jaunes give up? As the May EU elections near, liberal democrats will become nervous.
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Economics
Grace Blakeley: The US-China trade war is a distraction from the true failures of liberal globalisation
‘The problem isn’t Mexican migrants or Chinese factory workers — it’s the global elite that built an economic model so extractive, exploitative and unstable that it has provoked the kind of nationalist backlash not seen […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Europhile reform dreamers wake up – there will be no ‘far-reaching’ reforms
EU reform. There is much talk about it, but it does not happen. Bill Mitchell explains why it will remain so. Read here
Deregulation
Open Markets Institute: The Role of Monopoly in America’s Prescription Drug Crisis
This White Paper should act as a warning to anyone contemplating opening the UK’s National Health Service further to the US pharmaceuticals industry. Read here
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