This blog is now averaging traffic of around 7,000 reads a day. I’m pleased. Yesterday it received probably it’s highest number of comments in a
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Comment has been growing steadily in the media on plans that H M Revenue & Customs should be given access to all bank account information
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I’m one of those who challenged the myth of the Celtic Tiger well before Ireland began its spectacular and obvious economic decline. I took no
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A group of civil society organisations in the U.S. has just published an open letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, outlining a series of
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The Mirrlees review is proposing a merger of the incomex and National Insurance systems.It is a common proposal from right-wing sources. But was there a
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I haven’t finished writing about Mirrlees  yet. But perhaps the most notable comment of the day came up during a question-and-answer session when one of
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As some readers will know, I have written a document that I call Plan B for Jersey. They have, of course, rejected it, preferring their
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Interesting that Martin Wolf notes today: The Fed, added the chairman, has a dual mandate, to foster maximum employment and price stability. Doing nothing would
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From Martin Wolf in the FT today: Yes, it may be reasonable to call for a reconsideration of the global monetary system, as Robert Zoellick,
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