Dearden addresses all destructive march of tech companies through our societies and how they are using politicians to stop us from stopping them.
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Nick Dearden: Big tech companies are trying to rewrite the rules to get your data
Economics
Jason Hickel: Progress and its discontents
The world has never been better. From global poverty to inequality between nations, all the indicators are showing progress. This is a comforting narrative – popularized by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker. […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze: The Gatekeeper
Rearrangements of the relationship between economic expertise and politics in the Democratic Party in the US, which Tooze puts in context by tracing Paul Krugman’s intellectual trajectory over recent decades. Read here
EU politics
Bloomberg: Europe Is Too Exposed to Italy to Let It Go
French and German banks have more than $400 billion at stake and would lose big if the country left the currency union. Read here
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