For those of you who might have missed it, their were activites throughout Europe in protest at the inaction of politicians and the EU with regard to global warming, many of them blocking traffic in major cities.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: We are all entrepreneurs now marching towards a precarious and impoverished future
The mainstream economists keep claiming that fiscal deficits are undermining the future standards of living of workers – an erroneous claim at best. Read here
Media
Burak Haylamaz: Shutting down the internet in Turkey to shut down criticism
Immediately after the earthquakes, authorities started to use legal instruments to silence the use of social media platforms even at the expense of utilizing its benefits during catastrophic times. Read Here Photo: Bernama/Wikimedia Commons
Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
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