The apparent contradiction between the Wall Street Consensus and contemporary state capitalism
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Climate Crisis
Eurostat – EU: A fifth of road freight kilometres by empty vehicles
Not terribly efficient, especially in the age of the computer. Read here
EU politics
Vila Web: Council of Europe says Spain must free Catalan political prisoners and withdraw extradition requests
Committee on Legal Affairs of human rights organization calls out Spanish authorities on independence issue. On the other hand the European Parliament withdrew the immunity of its three Catalan MEPs. Read here
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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