Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Britain: Students Paying Back Loans Into Their 50s and Beyond
April 9th, 2014Via: BBC: Most students will still be paying back loans from their university days in their 40s and 50s, and many will never clear the debt, research finds. Almost three-quarters of graduates from England will have at least some of their loan written off, the study, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, says. The trust says […]
Hundreds of Millions of Pounds Wasted on Tamiflu
April 9th, 2014Via: BBC: Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said. The UK has spent £473m on Tamiflu, which is stockpiled by governments globally to prepare for flu pandemics, The Cochrane Collaboration claimed the drug did not prevent the […]
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
April 9th, 2014Via: Reader Supported News: Ever since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, Washington and its European allies have worked openly and covertly to extend NATO to the Russian border and Black Sea Fleet, provoking a badly wounded Russian bear. They have also worked to bring Ukraine and its Eastern European neighbors into the neoliberal […]
Harsh Childhood Environments Linked to Drastic Chromosome Ageing
April 9th, 2014Via: New Scientist: Children growing up in severely disadvantaged circumstances can experience drastic chromosome ageing. By the time they are 9 years old their telomeres – the caps on the ends of chromosomes that shrink each time cells divide – can be as short as those of someone decades older. And a particular combination of […]
Beef Prices Hit All-Time High in U.S.
April 9th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: Come grilling season, expect your sirloin steak to come with a hearty side of sticker shock. Beef prices have reached all-time highs in the U.S. and aren’t expected to come down any time soon. Extreme weather has thinned the nation’s beef cattle herds to levels last seen in 1951, when there […]
Takeda, Lilly Jury Awards $9 Billion Over Actos Cancer Risks
April 9th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. were ordered to pay a combined $9 billion in punitive damages after a federal court jury found they hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine in the first U.S. trial of its kind.
U.S. Navy Scaling Up Fuel from Seawater Program
April 8th, 2014Via: U.S. Naval Research Lab: Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrate proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from seawater and conversion to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Research Credit: ottilie
Liechtenstein Banker Shot Dead in Reported Investment Feud
April 7th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: A Liechtenstein banker was shot dead after a feud involving an investment fund, and police said they believe the alleged killer later committed suicide. The 48-year-old man was shot in the underground garage of a financial institution in Balzers at 7:30 a.m. local time, the Liechtenstein police said on their website today. Neither […]
Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home
April 6th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said. “The bodies of a father and mother and their daughter were found at the property” in the town of Laren, 32 […]
Catherine Austin Fitts: The UFO Economy
April 5th, 2014Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Trevor Paglen
