This comes from the Real World Economics Review Blog. It is a  map showing one zip code on Chicago’s South West Side, 60629. This neighbourhood
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Call me cynical? Yes, OK. I plead guilty. Update: if you don’t believe me, try this from the Mail: It is hoped the ceremony will
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I am amused by a story published today by CayCompass.com that says: Suspicious financial activity reports presented to the Cayman Islands’ finance industry watchdog group
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The FT notes: Inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in October, prompting Mervyn King to write a letter to George Osborne, the chancellor, to explain
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As the Guardian notes: The president of the European Union has warned that the EU could collapse unless the debt crisis that is gripping the
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Questions have been raised this morning about whether I have seen the latest comments in Private Eye on the relationship between Vodafone and HM Revenue
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Larry Elliott has a piece in the Guardian this morning in which he considers the possibility that the UK will exploit Ireland’s current misfortunes. As
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I reported yesterday that the zero / 10 tax regimes adopted by all three of the Crown Dependencies have failed the test set by the
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Left Foot Forward has a blog with the above title by my friend and occasional co-author,George Irvin, who is a research professor at SOAS. I
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