From this morning’s Guardian on market reactions to the latest round of stimulus in Japan: Central banks typically buy bonds and other assets in financial
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There’s been a powerful article on the New Yorker web site this weekend. It documents the hundreds of millions of dollars David and Charles Koch
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I have the following on the web site of Public Finance, sponsored by the chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, this morning: The party
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Larry Elliott has argued in the Guardian that house prices have nowhere to go but down. This has to be true. Most first time buyers
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From the Guardian, by Theo Hobson: A basic British political division is not between left and right, or liberal and conservative, but between Schlegel and
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I note from the Sunday Times (behind a paywall, so no link) that: Kathyryn McKerrow from HMRC’s Business Customer Unit conceded that the Revenue was
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I note I am, according to something called Finance Centres International, the 485th most influential person in the world of offshore. Well, thanks guys. Four
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George Osborne says unless we cuts we’ll suffer a debt default. Paul Krugman notes the evidence does not back the argument. Ireland has gone for
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Sometimes stating the obvious is necessary. We need police. We need laws enforced. And just as much we need their presence in communities — where
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