I’m at the start of a pretty frantic round trip to Washington to meet the IMF with the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic
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The Swiss still dream of flat withholding taxes
CS sees withholding tax on Germans’ accounts-paper | Reuters . Reuters report that: The chief of Credit Suisse’s private bank is proposing a withholding tax
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FSA on defensive over Lehman failings
FT.com / UK – FSA on defensive over Lehman failings. Good to know I got yesterday’s musings on Lehamn right. As the FT reports: UK
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An assault on unions is an attack on democracy itself
An assault on unions is an attack on democracy itself | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian . Not surprisingly, many trade
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Spending out of recession works.
Unemployment is down. The evidence that spending out of recession works is unambiguous and clear. So why are people will talking about cuts when it
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Liquidity cannot be assumed to be good
One of the arguments some have used against Robin Hood Taxes is that they reduce liquidity. A leading critic has, for example has been the
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