Economics

  • Corporate legal departments in some of the biggest states in the U.S. will have a greater need for legal services in the coming year and will also pay more for that work, according to survey data compiled by HBR Consulting… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A new report ranking the economic competitiveness of countries around the world suggests crime and corruption are taking a toll on the economies of many of Latin America’s largest countries… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • Just days after the Brazilian Senate voted to suspend former President Dilma Rousseff and subject her to an impeachment trial, the country’s new right-wing government is already planning to balance the budget on the backs of the poor… Read this piece in its entirety at Truthout.

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  • I made a tweet the other day that my good friends at Fact Check Argentina happened to pick up. hahahahaha http://t.co/odwHUkOq4x ahahahahaha pic.twitter.com/3bE3zTFgo6 — Mike LaSusa (@mikelasusa) November 25, 2014 I thought this was pretty funny, seeing as I wrote a piece about ATFA that was pretty harshly critical of their attempts to, in the words

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  • In December 1994, the UN declared the years from 1995 to 2004 the “International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.” The designation was renewed for the years from 2005 to 2014 and rebranded as a “Decade for Action and Dignity.” While some progress has been made toward protecting the rights and dignity of indigenous peoples

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