The FT says twice as many business leaders say that the world economy is going to improve in the next six months than think it
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Kindle anyone?
The FT reports: Amazon.com says it is selling more e-books for its Kindle electronic reading device than paperback and hardback print editions combined, helping its
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Jersey’s approach to the EU Code is just bravado – everyone else has lost faith in them
My analysis of Jersey’s potential failure to comply with the EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation, yet again, reached the Telegraph today. They reported my opinion very accurately. The Jersey response?:
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Jersey shifts the burden of tax from tax abusers to ordinary people
Because of Jersey’s failure to collect the tax it needs to run its government – Something I have been predicting since 2005 – it has been forced
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Introducing the first paid blogger for Forbes in Europe
I’ve just become Forbes’ first paid blogger in Europe. I make the disclosure of payment because it’s important to do so and not because it’s a lot! My first
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Do the Tories have a clue about anything – including trains?
Philip Hammond has made the most extraordinary range of comments in response to a report on the future of our railways according to the Guardian. As
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The bond vigilantes v Japan
The FT’s report on Japan slipping back into recession is either bizarrely written or indicative of deeply worrying priorities. It says: Japan’s economy contracted sharply in the
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The conventional wisdom
I thought this piece in the FT really well written. I love J K Galbraith (the second best economists of the twentieth century and a
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Why we don’t need an increase in interest rates now – video
I discussed inflation and unemployment on Radio 2 this lunchtime. My opponent’s arguments were not just annoying, they showed considerable indifference to the needs of
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