Public Citizen fought to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and fought for years to get Richard Cordray confirmed as its head.

Some economists predict that high economic growth rates have become impossible, because resource availability now limits growth, and productivity per worker is not increasing.

Productivity per worker increased greatly in the US from 1973 to 2013, but workers did not get a corresponding raise. This shows that workers' income is not really tied to their productivity. For US workers to get a raise, they need to fight for it politically.

In addition, increases in productivity per worker nowadays tend to go with reducing the number of workers, and that's no good for most people. In the next decade, robots could tremendously boost productivity per worker in the US, by putting millions of Americans out of work, and they will never find another job. The number of jobs in the US has not increased in decades.

I am glad that the article points out how important it is to reduce the population growth in the rest of this century.

Spanish thugs attacked thousands of people protesting against austerity and the government's demonstrated corruption.

Egypt is cooperating with Israel in besieging Gaza. Very little construction materials and fuel are now reaching Gaza, and people find it hard to get out.

Egypt's new government has cracked down on media that don't support it.

This could mean they hope to get away with killing protesters because we won't see it.