Lost Decade, Here We Come – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. More wisdom from Krugman: A rough estimate right now is that cutting spending by
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Brazil’s ministry of finance has published a list of jurisdictions or dependencies that we would call secrecy jurisdictions. The accompanying press release notes that Brazil
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From the New York Times today: Some thoughts on the fiscal austerity mania now sweeping Europe: is anyone thinking seriously about how this affects the
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From the FT today, with all but the opening and last paragraphs deleted: A consensus is forming that policymakers should tighten fiscal policy, sharply, in
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Anyone looking for great reading on illicit financial flows today should go to the Tax Justice Network blog. All of these blogs deserve a good
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Baroness Noakes insists CGT rise unwanted – Accountancy Age. Cuts will have no popular support You can bet she’s not arguing against them though I
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I have to admit that Simon Jenkins (a man with a capacity to annoy, often) wrote an intriguing column in the Guardian this morning. He
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So George Osborne says there will be cuts of up to 20% in spending on welfare and pensions. And Cameron says that cuts will not
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All organisations create it. All need to be detoxed occasionally. Tax systems included. One of my objectives for a good tax system is that it
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