It is perhaps time to abandon the old idea according to which reduction of inequalities should be left to income tax, while the retirement schemes should content themselves with reproducing them.
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK: Drax’s ‘Carbon Negative’ Bioenergy Claims ‘Wildly Exaggerated’, Study Argues
Responding to the analysis, Phil MacDonald, chief operating officer of Ember, said this was “exactly the kind of research that the UK government should be doing before it makes a decision on funding BECCS”. Read […]
EU politics
Vila Web: Spain’s judicial crackdown on Catalonia’s pro-independence protests: over 600 new indictments in six months
Alerta Solidària reports stepped-up repression in the wake of the protests that followed the announcement of the verdict against the leaders of the 2017 independence bid Read here
Finance
Bill Mitchell – Shipping disruptions unlikely to precipitate another inflation surge
Both the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal – two of the world’s most important shipping routes – are “now under stress from various sources”. Published in Bill Mitchell’s blog. Read the article HERE.
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