Giant Ghost as predicted at Bondi Iceberg performs antarctic break
Rip currents swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain. WaPo. So there is hope for humanity!
Poverty, Crime and Causality
Taking Tax To The Global Level: Combining Southern Initiatives To Create A World Basic Income If you put 10 Tax gurus in the room you end up with 100 bipolar opinions on this topic ...
ANZ: Australia “place of choice” for property money laundering
THE DYING MIDDLE CLASS: The Number Of Americans That Can’t Afford Their Own Homes Has More Than Doubled
How capitalism works differently in various countries including Australia
ACCORDING TO former CROWN EMPLOYEES, BECAUSE PASSPORTS ARE ISSUED IN HER NAME: Why the Queen doesn’t need to own a passport.
Arbitration as Wealth Transfer Yale Law & Policy ReviewThe Hartz myth: A closer look at Germany’s labour market reforms Centre for European Reform
Putting Profits Ahead of Patients NYRB
Fraud, money laundering and insider trading have been fingered as the common criminal activities on the share market, according to the federal agency ...
A THIRD of Australians live week to week, exhausting all their pay between paydays, a survey has found. And many are “living in the moment”, putting instant happiness and impulse buys ahead of sensible savings plans, according to UBank.
HR wanted to know in advance when low ranking employees are going to have a panic attack...
Dragon-Slayers Corey Robin, LRB. On careerism, among other things
London hedge fund workers to be given ‘champagne buttons’ for their desks Evening Standard. Beat that, Frankfurt!Mikey was only working so many extra hours so he could take his beloved wife to Prague for their anniversary on July 3 British Widow whose husband died
Branson Aims Mid-2018 Space Trip as Virgin Resumes Powered Tests Bloomberg. Can we make them one-way? Please ...
Nine young New Yorkers poised for creative greatness? (NYT) Without intending any slight to these undoubtedly fine individuals, I found these feature scary.
Donald Trump’s alarming G20 performance Larry Summers, FT
The case for Polish economic growth
For the second time in less than a year, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is putting India through a revolution in the way the country does business.
In the fall, the government imposed one of the most radical monetary experiments ever, abruptly banning most of the country’s currency notes in an effort to stem corruption.
Now, it is instituting the country’s biggest tax overhaul since independence. On Saturday, a nationwide sales tax replaces the current hodgepodge of business taxes that vary from state to state and are seen as an impediment to growth. It is expected to unify in a single market 1.3 billion people spread over 29 states and seven union territories in India’s $2 trillion economy.
Wall Street Journal, Caterpillar Faces New Questions in Probe
Singularity Hub Essentially what children need to
be trained in but probably works for adults too.
Researchers show how cancer spreads in mice Medical News Today - Original
John Menadue talks to John Faine about Rupert Murdoch, the great rent-seeker (Repost)
The interview with Jon Faine was reported in The Guardian on 29 June 2017. News Corp is a ‘disgrace’ and should not get hands on Ten, former manager says.
Repost: In an interview on 22 June 2017 with Jon Faine of 774 ABC Melbourne Radio, John Menadue highlights how the Murdoch media attacks people like single mothers and dole ‘bludgers’ for wanting handouts from government, yet the Murdoch organisation depends heavily on government handouts and political favours. Right now it is seeking
government favours for Sky television in the UK and Channel 10 in Australia. This has always been the Murdoch way. (See link to interview)
government favours for Sky television in the UK and Channel 10 in Australia. This has always been the Murdoch way. (See link to interview)
John Menadue describes how Murdoch has damaged the media and democracy in three continents. On the defining issues of recent decades – Iraq, climate change and Brexit – Murdoch has been badly astray. But he will never admit the damage he has inflicted and continues to inflict. Fortunately his power is waning and none too soon.
Flight attendant breaks wine bottle over head of passenger lunging for exitAssociated Press. A rare occasion where the flight crew did the right thing by roughing the passenger up.
Great Barrier Reef dead at 25 million The Sun (David L). Horrible.
America’s nearing a record number of weather disasters, and it’s not even hurricane season yet. Grist
Australia Wants Chips in $100 Bills to Stop Crime, Hoarding by Elderly Bitsonline (furzy). So the pensioners will convert the cash into more volatile stores of wealth, like gold or diamonds.
A People’s History of Koch Industries: How Stalin Funded the Tea Party Movement Yasha Levine, The eXiled (MT). From 2010.A review of labor market conditions The FRED Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St LouisWhat Can We Learn From The Nordic Model? Social Europe (MT). MT writes: “A history lesson about possibilities. Sweden nowadays is a neoliberal taxpayer subsidized privatized heaven: education, healthcare, immigrant housing all sectors reaping obscene taxpayer money for crappified services.”
Michele Fontefrancesco, an economic anthropologist and honorary fellow of Durham University, says: “Jobs have been getting more precarious in Italy since the late-1990s. What is becoming more and more common in Italy and other Mediterranean countries is the erratic movement of workers from firm to firm.”He adds: “It’s becoming harder and harder to access professions with social capital. You study for three or four years longer than your father and you earn less money than him.”For Agnese Bellieni, a 31-year-old resident of Alessandria, in Italy’s north-west, years of education are failing to pay off, and the eurozone recovery feels intangible. After finishing her doctoral studies in literature her dream was to become a full-time teacher, but in recent years she has been bogged down in a series of continuous but part-time, precarious work assignments — from market research, to Latin and ancient Greek tutoring — that, at best, have earned her €1,500 a month.
That is by Claire Jones Italian or World average is over - in the FT, mostly about how the new eurozone jobs have lower wages and less job security.