These are my links for October 29th:
The next big shoe to fall - Ann Pettifor has a habit of being right
She is on this one
The credit crunch has hardly begun
Letters to the Telegraph - Telegraph - The neocons are out and about
They need to be kept in their cages. They are harmful to life as [...]
From Forbes:
A new study based on unpublished Internal Revenue Service data shows the rich are different when it comes to paying taxes: They hide more of their income.
The previously unreported study estimates that taxpayers whose true income was between $500,000 and $1 million a year understated their adjusted gross incomes by 21% overall in 2001, [...]
These are my links for October 28th:
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens - Why we need to close tax havens, now
These are my links for October 28th:
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens - Why we need to close tax havens, now
You couldn’t make this up in a month of Sunday’s.
Lloyds TSB is using tax payer’s money to buy a share in Porterbrook Leasing. Porterbrook still makes most of its money from leasing trains it bought from British Rail for next to nothing to our privatised rail network, which is one reason why fares are so [...]
My friends over at SOMO have produced a great report on this issue.
Strongly recommended.
Sometimes one has to take time to reflect. The last month or two have been furiously busy. I have travelled too much (not always apparent from what appears here, I admit). And the world economy has changed if not beyond recognition, then at least significantly. I need time off to reflect on this fact, and [...]
Please watch the film here.
It says a very great deal in a very short space of time.
These are my links for October 26th:
Tax Justice Network: Rerum Novarum - a letter from Rome - The UK needs to back words with action
There was some excellent research in the Sunday Herald today, to which I was pleased to have contributed. Take this:
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, one of the so-called “jewels” of the Scottish economy, has beneficial shareholdings in at least 128 companies incorporated in tax havens, according to its annual return.
Included in its portfolio are [...]
