Gen Z, Climate Change Activism, & Foreign Policy, with Tatiana Serafin
By: Carnegie Council Audio Podcast Generation Z makes up over 30 percent of the world’s population and this group of people, most under the age of 20, are already having an extraordinary effect on society, culture, and politics. Tatiana Serafin, journalism professor at Marymount Manhattan College, breaks down the power of this generation, focusing on […]
Huawei under fire in China over employee detained for eight months
By: The Guardian December 02, 2019 The Chinese telecom corporation Huawei has come under fire in its own country as members of the public rallied behind a former employee detained for eight months after demanding severance pay from the company. Last January, Li Hongyuan, a Huawei employee of 13 years, was arrested on extortion charges and detained […]
The migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement
By: Economist Nov 30 , 2019 Even in a China filled with the shiny and the new, the southern city of Guangzhou stands out. A generation ago it was a smoggy, sweltering sprawl of factories and workshops, a bit embarrassed by its history as a semi-colony of Western powers, who knew it as Canton. Now Guangzhou […]
EU States Block Plan for Public Multinational Tax Reporting
By: Joe Kirwin November 28, 2019 EU plans to require large companies to publicly report their taxes and profits earned on a country-by-country basis stalled again Nov. 28 after 13 EU member states opposed the legislation. If the legislation had been approved negotiations with the European Parliament would start to finalize the bill. The EP […]
Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality
By: The Economist November 28, 2019 OVER A DECADE before thousands of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York in 2011, a little-known researcher in France sat down to write about income inequality in a new way. “The focus of our study consists in comparing the evolution of the incomes of the top 10%, […]
Does the economy affect elections any more?
By: The Economist Nov 28, 2019 “The economy, stupid,” was the slogan of a strategist in Bill Clinton’s campaign for the presidency in 1992. It was a pithy encapsulation of time-honoured spin-doctoring wisdom: that a strong economy helps the incumbent and a weak one helps the challenger. When Mr Clinton took on George H.W. Bush […]
EU ministers to vote on move to expose firms’ tax avoidance
By: Rupert Neate November 27, 2019 European government ministers will vote on Thursday on a new directive that would require multinational companies to reveal how much profit they make and how little tax they pay in each of the EU’s 28 member states.The proposed rule is designed to shine a light on how large companies […]
Cows on Russian Farm Get Fitted with VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production
By: Fabienne Lang November 26, 2019 If you walked onto the RusMoloko dairy farm near Moscow, in Russia, you may think you’ve arrived onto a bizarre futuristic film set, where cows run around fitted with VR headsets. The VR goggles aren’t props for a film, however. They have been specifically made for these dairy cows, […]
Power firms move ownership offshore to ‘protect against Labour renationalisation’
By: Miles Brignall November 24, 2019 Two of the UK’s largest power companies have quietly transferred the ownership of their British operations to offshore companies to protect themselves against Labour’s plan for renationalisation. National Grid and SSE, which together own Britain’s gas and electricity transmission networks, confirmed on Sunday they had created overseas holding companies […]