Should we have boycotted the World Cup in Qatar? Probably not. Since we have always accepted to participate in sports competitions with regimes far removed from social and electoral democracy, starting with China (2008 Olympic Games) and Russia (2018 World Cup), the boycott of Qatar would have been interpreted as a new mark of the hypocrisy of Westerners, always ready to give lessons to a few small countries when it suits them, while continuing to do business with all those who bring them enough money.
Economics
Bill Mitchell – British labour market – rise in self-employment driving growth
“The proportion of self-employed who are working part-time has risen from 17.6 per cent in the June-quarter 1992 to 30.1 per cent in the November-quarter 2018.” This is something that could well be relevant for […]
EU politics
Politico: Fears of Euroskepticism blunt Brussels’ budget threats against Rome
Another fudge by the EU. Unfortunately the author does not answer the question, if this was the result of having to support Macron in France and his promises of unbudgeted expenditures to assuage the yellow […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone policy failures laid bare
The Eurozone might be seeing a little sunshine creeping out from the very dark clouds. But it is far from recovered and the future is ominously black. On many key (cyclical) indicators it still is […]
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