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UPI has long offered an array of probing commentary and analysis. Typically, their thought pieces are factually dense and robustly reasoned, feature substantial historical erudition, and overall convey intellectual suppleness. Naturally, such qualities therefore often make UPI’s output inimical to our Commodity Society. Cable news producers, talk show hosts, none can integrate such sui generis [...]
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To be fair, Sachs was foreign to Ireland, and giving him a limo rather than say a Big Mac-stained VW Golf is certainly aid. What Yglesias probably withholds — befitting a gentleman — is that Sachs also expensed his hotel movie rental of ‘Norbit’. One can only speculate how much Greek debt Sachs advised the Irish government to buy up in 2007 ‘given its risk free collateralization’.
Republic of Ireland paying for Jeffery Sachs limo rides:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/05/irish-aid-makes-jeffrey-sachs-a-foreign-aid-project.php