How bankruptcy lets oil companies evade cleanup
How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules. A battle over who is responsible for cleaning up hundreds of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico …
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Deforestation: the route away
Without robust due diligence, financial institutions will continue to fund soy-driven deforestation. By Daniel Jones. Late last year, the UK government announced “world-leading new measures” to protect rainforests. Enshrined in …
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Democratically digital
Internet access has been a lifeline during the Covid pandemic. Miriam Brett argues it is too important to remain in the hands of private sector interests. An invisible lifeform has …
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Can there be a science based ‘exit strategy’?
UK Ministers are claiming that any ‘exit strategy’ from lock down will follow the science. However what science can they draw on to determine whether any relaxation of current restrictions …
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Bring out the Best
Governments using regulators and other institutions to stick-and-carrot people into acting for the common good is not the way to deliver policy. Henry Leveson-Gower shares his discovery of a more …
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Regulator launches guidelines for lenders to protect vulnerable consumers
It wants firms to make sure staff are trained to manage the needs of vulnerable people and to understand that customers’ circumstances can change The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released draft …
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Out of the shadows
How did the central banks find themselves holding the torch that keeps the shadow banks in existence? Leon Wansleben throws some light. You are likely to read this piece at …
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What do we need more of?
Our economic system still fails to allocate enough funds to strategic investments such as infrastructure, industry and education. Alexander Tziamalis tells how our times call for important economic and policy …
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A triumph of finance over democracy
The rolling Back of Dodd-Frank and other tales of twists by Rick Rowden. In May 2018, the US watered down some of the major financial sector regulations it had adopted …
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Real Gone Cat
What state are we in? Like the cat in Schrödinger’s famous quantum thought experiment we can’t know whether we are dead or alive as we await the writing of definitive …
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