Category: General
A year after the crisis was declared over, Greece is still spiralling down
The historic third bailout awarded to Athens after weeks of brinkmanship last year was supposed to have secured its future in the EU. But little has changed In a side street in the heart of Athens, two siblings are hard at work. For the past year they have run their hairdressing business an enterprise that […]
Brexit: Government guarantees for post-EU funds – BBC News
Brexit Watch: At-a-glance day-by-day summer briefing Mr Hammond said: “The UK will continue to have the all of the rights, obligations and benefits that membership brings, including receiving European funding, up until the point we leave the EU. “We recognise that many organisations across the UK which are in receipt of EU funding, or expect […]
Clinton: Trump’s economic plan will benefit rich, mine will create 10m jobs
Clinton aims to put US to work with infrastructure overhaul, and pledges to stop trade deals including the TPP in move crafted to appeal to progressive holdouts In a fiery speech that sharply criticized her opponents economic vision for the US, Hillary Clinton said Donald Trumps proposals will only benefit the rich, while destroying the […]
Donald Trump is a pretend populist just look at his economic policy | Michael Paarlberg
He called for repealing an estate tax that affects only him and a handful of his richest peers, a display of self interest that’s so unabashed it’s impressive. When Donald Trump pitched an economic policy platform nakedly contrived to benefit other multi-millionaires to an assembled crowd in Detroit this Monday, it was quite a spectacle. […]
Scream by Tama Janowitz review memoirs of the reluctantly famous
Her debut novel put her in the Brat Pack of the 80s with Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Then she faded from view, a process she tracks in her new memoir Tama Janowitzs youth reminds her of the movie Forrest Gump: a series of unlikely brushes with history. At 19, during a year abroad […]