 *2013-2023*
*Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com*
The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing..
Huffington Post 44 minutes ago
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Chuck Lane's got an interesting piece out today about austerity and Keynesian stimulus that leads to a smart, simple policy recommendation (and for the record, "simple" is a beautiful word when it..
Huffington Post 53 minutes ago
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Videos for Austerity | Protests against austerity in Lisbon
Source: AFP Business news - 7 hours ago
| | Around 300 demonstrators gather in front of the Presidential palace in Lisbon to protest against the austerity measures in Portugal.Duration:00:54
Source: Agence France-Presse - 11 hours ago
| | Unions take to the streets in Rome calling for an end to austerity measures and demanding the government prioritises economic growth. Sunita Rappai reports.
Source: Reuters News - 3 days ago
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In Europe we are used these days to witnessing unpopular decisions for the sake of saving the euro, our common currency. "If the euro fails, Europe may fall behind" is a common mantra among eurocrats...
Huffington Post 3 hours ago
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With an economy paralysed by IMF interference, Pakistan could reassert its independence by halting debt repayments
No matter which government Pakistan's people had voted for last week, the debt..
guardian.co.uk 4 hours ago
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It's rare to see a macroeconomics experiment play out in real time in the way we are seeing it right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to..
Huffington Post 1 day ago
| All countries – and policymakers – face difficult choices concerning the timing of austerity, perceived sovereign-credit risk, growth-oriented reforms, and equitable sharing of the costs of..
guardian.co.uk 1 day ago
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Austerity has failed in Europe, where the European Union just racked up 18 months of negative growth with no end in sight. It is failing in the United States, where this year's deficit reductions will..
Huffington Post 2 days ago
| They say hindsight is 20/20, but according to Paul Krugman it may actually be much worse than that when it comes to economic policy-making.
The Nobel-Prize winning economist and New York Times..
Huffington Post 2 days ago
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Thousands of Italians marched through Rome on Saturday to protest against austerity, with union leaders calling on the new government to focus on creating jobs. Italy is stuck in its longest recession..
France 24 2 days ago
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Scientists clone the first human embryonic stem cells
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