While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy.
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Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
Corruption
Aljazeera: US Supreme Court rejects Bayer’s bid to end Roundup lawsuits
The justices left in place a $25m judgement in favour of a man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup. Read Here
Environment
Reuters: Los Angeles County sues Bayer’s Monsanto over PCB contamination
Los Angeles County sued Monsanto Co on Thursday, seeking to force the unit of Germany’s Bayer AG to help pay for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of bodies of water. Thus the series of lawsuits […]
Economics
Patrick Bigger, Federico Sibaja: Feasibility Pact?
A brewing sovereign debt crisis threatens to engulf as many as sixty-one countries in debt distress over the coming year. Aid flowing from the global North—which carries the most responsibility for the atmospheric carbon stock—to […]
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