The higher a country’s ad spend was in one year, the less satisfied its citizens were a year or two later. Their conclusion: Advertising makes us unhappy.
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big pharma lobby’s self-serving claims block global access to vaccines
The self-serving arguments used by big pharma lobbyists at meetings with the European Commission to defend monopoly intellectual property rights on vaccines are demonstrably false. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered new documents from December 2020 […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Reclaiming Central Banks
Fifty years ago, a US president closed the gold window, ended capital controls, and launched a new era of globalized finance. The “Nixon Shock” reshaped the international monetary system overnight, and then gradually changed the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: US labour market data – we have never been here before!
This is one of those all-time historical events that make the severe crises of the past (early 1980s, 1990s, GFC – look like blips). Read here
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