Based on data from 176 countries, IMF estimates energy subsidies at $1.9 trillion - equivalent to about 2½ percent of world GDP… Doesn’t even account for unprosecuted negative externalities such as pollution from cheap oil and cheap coal. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/imf-citing-trillions-in-government-subsidies-calls-for-end-to-mispricing-of-energy/2013/03/27/09957d6e-96e1-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_print.html
As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influence-over-research-grows-so-does-the-potential-for-bias/2012/11/24/bb64d596-1264-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html
What only careful readers of the article would have gleaned is the extent of the financial connections between the drugmaker and the research. The trial had been funded by GlaxoSmithKline, and each of the 11 authors had received money from the company. Four were employees and held company stock. The other seven were academic experts who had received grants or consultant fees from the firm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/11/25/National-Economy/Graphics/w-journalconnections.jpg
#pharma #corruption #conflits_intérêt
Sympa ce genre de tableaux.
Il n’y a pas quelqu’un(e) qui lui ferait subir les permutations ligne-colonne à la #Bertin ? @odilon ?
J’ai un peu la flemme
– de saisir le tableau
– d’exhumer le logiciel Amado du vieux PC sur lequel il prend la poussière
– d’expérimenter T_alk, qui m’a l’air bien sympathique…
http://rg75.free.fr/hyperespace.T_AlK.fr.htm
Le mieux est encore de le faire à la main avec de la colle et des ciseaux :) ou de reconstruire le tableau sur Excel ou encore mieux sur Libre Office et permuter les colonnes pour faire une matrice Bertin digne de ce nom. Mais en l’état, on voit déjà bien les tendances
Skype, le meilleur ami de la police :
Skype makes chats and user data more available to police - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/skype-makes-chats-and-user-data-more-available-to-police/2012/07/25/gJQAobI39W_story.html
Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user information available to police, said industry and government officials familiar with the changes.
Surveillance of the audio and video feeds remains impractical — even when courts issue warrants, say industry officials with direct knowledge of the matter. But that barrier could eventually vanish as Skype becomes one of the world’s most popular forms of telecommunication.
#Skype #Police #Surveillance #US
Anemia drugs made billions, but at what cost?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/anemia-drug-made-billions-but-at-what-cost/2012/07/19/gJQAX5yqwW_story.html
The trouble, as a growing body of research has shown, is that for about two decades, the benefits of the drug — including “life satisfaction and happiness” according to the FDA-approved label — were wildly overstated, and potentially lethal side effects, such as cancer and strokes, were overlooked.
The toil index | Robert Frank
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/economists-explain-2011-in-charts/2011/12/21/gIQAT3lg9O_gallery.html#photo=12
Robert Frank, New York University
“My entry is the attached graph of what I call the Toil Index. It’s an index I constructed to portray the most dramatic element of the middle-class squeeze — the effort required to rent a house served by a school of average quality.”
Carrier IQ faces federal probe into allegations software tracks cellphone data
Growing field of ‘smart grid’ technology faces opposition over pricing, privacy - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/growing-field-of-smart-grid-technology-faces-opposition-over-pricing-privacy/2011/11/07/gIQARbH5BN_story.html
l’#électricité intelligente, ça ne marche pas parce … les utilisateurs s’en fichent
Italy plans tough new measures against rioters - The Washington Post
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/italy-plans-tough-new-measures-against-rioters/2011/10/18/gIQA8hpouL_story.html
Italy’s interior minister, under fire for failing to prevent the worst riots in Rome for years, is to propose reviving a law from the country’s bloody “years of lead” to combat violent protests.
Italy plans tough new measures against rioters (via @NetLib)
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/italy-plans-tough-new-measures-against-rioters/2011/10/18/gIQA8hpouL_story.html
Roberto Maroni said he agreed with opposition politician Antonio Di Pietro, a former magistrate, who suggested reviving a law from the 1970s, when Italy was racked by leftwing protests and urban guerrilla violence that came close to destabilising the state. The law allowed police to use firearms, when necessary, and banned the wearing of helmets or masks during demonstrations. It also provided for preventive detention of demonstrators suspected of planning violence.
House GOP leaders delay vote on debt plan - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/boehner-other-gop-leaders-ramp-up-pressure-on-republicans-to-pass-debt-plan/2011/07/28/gIQARD5veI_story.html
Two lawmakers — Reps. Jeff Duncan and Mick Mulvaney — left the office and went into a nearby chapel, telling reporters they were praying over the matter and for their leadership.
Rep. Tim Scott (S.C.), a liaison to leadership for the freshmen class, said he was still opposed to the legislation. He added that leaders have told him they are on the brink of securing the 217 votes needed, but still just short.
“I hear three votes, four votes, it’s very close. They’re only a handful away,” he said.
Scott then joined Duncan and Mulvaney in the chapel. About 45 minutes later, they emerged and headed downstairs to the first-floor offices of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), where Boehner,Cantor and McCarthy were waiting.
Pendant 45 minutes, donc : « Seigneur, Éloigne de moi la tentation d’augmenter du plafond de la dette ».
Paper industry pushed further into the black by ‘black liquor’ tax credits - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/paper-industry-pushed-further-into-the-black-by-black-liquor-tax-credits/2011/04/19/AFdkrMtE_story.html
The paper industry — which in 2009 raked in billions of dollars in federal subsidies originally intended to promote alternative highway fuels — is now using a different #biofuel #tax credit to cut its tax bills for 2010 and beyond by hundreds of millions of dollars more.
OK, fini de jouer. La démocratie, ça va bien deux minutes, mais après, il faut se souvenir de qui est le chef.
Il y a cinq mois, les Grecs votaient, et acceptaient de « renouveler leur confiance au parti au pouvoir », dans un scrutin en forme de « référendum sur sa politique de rigueur » :
►http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/news-brief-cover/388401-la-rigueur-confortee-dans-les-urnes
Les braves Grecs votaient donc « pour » la rigueur. Pour l’aspect démocratique, il fallait noter :
Le même jour, la mission de la “troïka” (Commission européenne, BCE, FMI) est arrivée à Athènes pour évaluer l’application du plan de rigueur et approuver ou non le versement de la troisième tranche du prêt de 110 milliards d’euros.
En clair : les bailleurs de fond s’étaient déplacé, mettant clairement l’aide internationale sous condition du vote en cours.
Maintenant, les américains et le FMI viennent siffler la fin de la partie en Égypte :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-imf-missions-in-egypt-to-discuss-economic-aid/2011/04/05/AFnquWlC_story.html
U.S. and International Monetary Fund officials are in Cairo this week for talks on how to avert an economic crisis in a country where revolutionary fervor has left government finances reeling and cast a broad cloud of suspicion over the nation’s business class.
En effet, pour le FMI, il y a de quoi s’inquiéter :
Corruption investigations against former president Hosni Mubarak and other former high-ranking officials and business figures are proceeding as part of the country’s political transition. But they have also raised questions about whether the economic reforms championed by those such as Gamal Mubarak, the ex-president’s son who is due to be questioned in a corruption probe next week, will give way to a more government-oriented economy less open to global corporations and capital.
La conclusion à notre futur Président humaniste-de-gauche :
In Egypt “the macroeconomic situation was not that bad before the crisis. But it’s a country, like many in the Middle East, where beyond the macro figures the distribution was a big issue,” IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Tuesday. “The increase in prices of food and fuel understandably creates the temptation to help with subsidies. A big change is happening there with the push towards democracy; at the same time they must be careful not to create problems for their fiscal sustainability.”
L’article fait explicitement le lien, plusieurs fois, entre les suspicions de corruption qui touchent l’élite économique du pays et le déplacement du FMI (après la révolution, que vont devenir les entreprises détenues par des individus qui se sont enrichi grâce au système autoritaire, que va devenir l’affairisme que l’on appelle ici néo-libéralisme ?), et Strauss-Kahn fait mine de parler des subventions à la nourriture.