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The baby bonus just does not work any more
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/05/2023
» I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)
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Sodium also needs taxing
Oped, Editorial, Published on 31/03/2023
» Starting tomorrow, the third stage of a tax hike on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) will come into effect, meaning consumers with a sweet tooth will have to pay more for soft drinks with a high sugar content.
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What if China won't back down to Trump?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/05/2019
» Donald Trump is playing hard-ball with China over trade, and the worry-warts are fretting that he's going to start a real trade war by accident. The bigger threat, however, is that he will push first China, and then the whole world, into a deep recession.
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The trade war hurts US more than China
News, David Fickling, Published on 07/05/2019
» Trade wars are good, and easy to win. So President Donald Trump said last year as he embarked on his first round of tariffs on foreign imports.
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Why tax cuts for rich solve nothing
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 01/08/2017
» Although America's right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country's major problems -- for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and deteriorating infrastructure -- the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregulation, to "incentivise" investors and "free up" the economy. President Donald Trump is counting on this package to make America great again.
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Heading for a police state
News, Published on 07/12/2014
» I have been reading with some concern about what appears to be the increasing occurrence of spot urine testing of mainly Western males in the Thong Lor and Asoke areas of Bangkok, but did not personally know anyone that had been subjected to this until this week.
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Sex, drugs and GDP calculations
News, Published on 03/06/2014
» Europe has a new source of economic growth. In the next few months all European Union countries that do not already include drugs, prostitution, and other illegal and grey-market businesses in their gross domestic product calculations will have to do so.
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