Ahead of summit, more than 100 economists call on G7 countries to commit to shift their finance out of all fossil fuels this year, to enable a green pandemic recovery
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Fake News
James Ball: It’s time to ditch the term ‘fake news’
It is amazing how quickly terms such as populism and fake news are suddenly omnipresent, yet undefinable because they are use in contradictory connotations: Trump and Sanders are labelled populists, but that is probably the […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Amazon ordered to repay €250m by EU over ‘illegal tax advantages’
European Union officials order Luxembourg to collect €250m in illegal state aid to Luxembourg from online retail giant Amazon, while the European Commission’s competition watchdog will be taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: IMF changes tune on industry policy – shamelessly – Part 2
In Part 1, I introduced the discussion about the use of industry policies in the Keynesian period after World War 2. Most nations adopted a mixed planning-market based system for allocating productive resources and the […]
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