Housing too has become “a commodity to be exploited”. This is nothing new, as Henry George recognised 150 years ago. This fact includes many danger, and as we saw with Grenfell Tower, not only social and economic.
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Austerity
Ashoka Mody: Fall of the eurozone’s saviours: Why Emmanuel Macron is following Matteo Renzi’s path to political oblivion
They inherited poorly performing economies that bred widespread social and political discontent, argues Ashoka Mody, and both leaders unwisely followed the traditional European recipe of ‘labour reforms’ Read here
Finance
Aditya Chakrabortty: A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work
Universal Basic Income is, like Helicopter Money or a Green New Deal, held in contempt by the establishment: not practical, not possible, something for the loony left. In reality it is an idea being increasingly […]
EU politics
slugger o’toole: The secret of surviving the cuts is easy – just don’t be poor…
Austerity in Northern Ireland Read here
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