#Pension

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Back in Iraq, CIA officers order some army soldiers to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, those soldiers should have known better than to follow illegal orders, but they did

Lyall Taylor

LT3000Lyall

Central bank asset purchases are actually little more than the de facto nationalization of private wealth. If I could print money and use it to buy your house, I've basically

Peter Apps

PeteApps

Increasing ownership rates has been the No1 (and at times only) goal of Conservative housing policy in recent years. Its the only objective that has had consistent funding and attention.Despite

Austin Berg

A_R_BERG

BREAKING: Census data show Illinois lost 79K residents from July 2019 – July 2020, its worst population loss in one year since WW2 and 2nd worst in the nation. From

Turf_Cutting

last_call12

Anyone see these signs around Dublin and Limerick?See the name "Rethink Ireland" on it?They're a registered charity, they were founded to 2013, formally SIFI.I said I'd do a small thread

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

Me I'm always amazed that America is much wealthier than France by every standard economic index and yet no universal healthcare, no high speed rail, the mail doesn't arrive, elections

Dr Helgi

traumagasdoc

In April @ImperialNHS brought our previously outsourced porters and cleaners onto NHS contracts, and I asked one of our porters how things were going today.They all feel more valuedTheir pay

Ammar Khan

rogueonomist

ML-1 requires funding of $6.8b, of which $6.1b will be funded through CPEC. Railways has annual pension of PKR 40b+. Never turned a profit, and has received subsidies of >PKR

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

It's amazing that they didn't anticipate this kind of blowback after the insurrection. I guess it wasn't assured, but you didn't have to be a genius to suspect major political

Andy Summers

Summers_AD

When a gov is looking for big money, we’re always told it can only come from Income Tax, NICs, VATYou can tax wealthy if you want, but won’t save you

Finshots

finshots

Why does the US want to delist Chinese companies from its stock exchanges?Over 200 Chinese companies, with a combined market cap of over $2 trillion, are listed in the US.

New York Communities for Change

nychange

AMAZING! HUGE VICTORY: @nyscomptroller to divest the giant $226 billion New York State pension fund from fossil fuels. It’s a giant end-of-year victory for activism heading into 2021! Details in

Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple

WhippleMarc

Shredding papers. Taking a break as the shredder overheated.Found my parents' tax returns going clear back to the 1970's. It's like watching an American Dream in stop-motion.My dad only had

The Secret Financial Adviser

SecretFiAdviser

A lot of young people probably feel like they will end up needing to live with their parents until they are 40 and work until they are 80!Truth is things

Ageing Better

Ageing_Better

Join now as our Chief Executive, @DrAnnaDixon, discusses her new book, The Age Of Ageing Better?, with David Willetts and @BobbyDuffyKings. #AgeOfAgeingBetterJoin here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTCBVmm1ZIg Do you think the next decade

Emily Galvin-Almanza

GalvinAlmanza

So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Brooks happen, at this moment, in this uprising? How

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