President Macron’s dreams of a peaceful Christmas were dashed as striking workers rejected his plea for a holiday truce, during what has become the longest continuous strike in 30 years – longer than the victorious struggle of 1995.
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Climate Crisis
Yale Environment 360 – Energy Hogs: Can World’s Huge Data Centers Be Made More Efficient?
Data centres eat up more than 2 percent of the world’s electricity and emit roughly as much CO2 as the airline industry. This is a fact that is conveniently being ignored. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The divide between mainstream macro and MMT is irreconcilable – Part 1
It is noticeable that the economic mainstream is becoming increasingly uncomfortable by the increased interest in Modern Monetary Theory. Bill Mitchell is right. There appears to be an effort to co-opt Modern Monetary Theory under […]
Deregulation
John Harris: Profiteers make a killing on Airbnb – and erode communities
The Sharing Economy is simply capitalism in new clothes. Housing shortage is bewailed throughout Europe, but important causes like Airbnb ignored. Nor does anyone mention how communities, especially in inner cities, are being destroyed by […]
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