Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Enough money to continue the aggression

Here’s where they get their money from

Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers

"One of the most indebted countries in the world, Lebanon is struggling to find fresh sources of funding as the foreign inflows on which it has traditionally relied have dried up. Promises of assistance from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Lebanon’s former benefactors, have largely failed to arrive. The government needs to cut spending, raise taxes and fight corruption to unlock some $11 billion in international aid pledges made at a Paris donor conference in 2018." How Lebanon's Unrest is Both New and More of the Same (Click on Free and continue to website)

What's in my coffee? £0.01 goes to the farmer.

At least it is better than Le Monde's and France Info's gutter press of the existing order The gilets jaunes

Against the Grain and The beginning of elites, tax, and slavery

The Catalan referendum "This concern with identity and recognition unites separatists, creating a coalition of conservatives, progressives and radical anti-capitalists with no common project beyond independence." Short Cuts

The myths about tax and spend in Britain See also  "The most corrupt country on earth"

On current exchange rates, Britain is the world’s fifth-largest economy, but no one seriously believes it produces more goods and services than India, Brazil or Indonesia. The UK’s prosperity level is not even in the top 15 per cent of IMF members. The US, Germany and France are far ahead of Britain in the  productivity league table and output per head and per worker does not even match that of Italy. Spending on public services is severely strained: at 39 per cent of national income, it is 5 percentage points below that of Germany.  Britain's economy: how strong is it?

The wrong kind of Universal Basic Income

How the Trumps got rich