The UK and the Eurozone are both vulnerable to the next recession, but both politicians and central bankers think each other should deal with it.
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Simon Wren-Lewis: How the lessons from austerity have not been learned
Aviation
Ben Davies: Ban Private Jets
This would be common sense if governments were even slightly serious about reducing carbon emissions. Read the article here.
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big pharma lobby’s self-serving claims block global access to vaccines
The self-serving arguments used by big pharma lobbyists at meetings with the European Commission to defend monopoly intellectual property rights on vaccines are demonstrably false. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered new documents from December 2020 […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – The ‘disciplining role of markets’ should be replaced by the disciplining role of democracy
Capital through its lobbying power has also meant that there is now democratic deficits rising all around the world. So, we don’t even get to express our political choices on an even playing field. Read […]
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