The world of banking has won two more victories over the rest of society. The challenge to its right to charge excessive fees to people
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Government takes the brakes off. The Green Party in Australia tried to stop that country’s international development fund investing through tax havens yesterday. It failed:
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I spoke using the above title at a meeting in Parliament last evening, previously noted here. For those interested, these are my speaking notes set
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Tim Worstall, the right wing blogger who likes to think he can answer all objections with reference to neo-liberal economics, challenged some of the assumptions
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IMF to look again at Tobin tax – Accountancy Age. Good news. Enough said.

Stephanie Flanders, the thinly disguised Tory in the BBC’s economics’ department wrote on her blog today: We’ll be debating the timing of Britain’s fiscal budget
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There has been an interesting response to the Compass tax report. One has been to challenge why my co-authors and I did say that: Of
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I was on the Today programme this morning discussing the new Compass report on the need for a fairer tax system for the UK. You
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For those interested, I am discussing the new Compass tax report on the Today programme, BC Radio 4 at 8.40 this morning.