I just noticed this blog had its 7,000th post in the last day. The first post was in June 2006 so that’s near enough 1,400 a
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Tories, inequality, trade unions and hypocrisy
Aditya Chakrabortty is an economics leader writer on the Guardian. He’s very good at his job. He is not just a good economist, he is
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Last year British business raised £1.3bn in new share issues despite the fact that we paid £80bn into pension funds
According to the FT: Last year, UK companies raised just £1.3bn in new equity, net of buy-backs and acquisitions. As my research has shown, we
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Might I remind people about the comments policy on this blog?
This blog has a comments policy for the good reason that it needs one given the pile that come in on many days (50 is
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Reflections on Greece – 5 – you can’t run a government without taxes
I’ve been reflecting on the situation in Greece and have pointed out that much of what is happening is the inevitable consequence of neoliberal thinking. So too is the
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Jersey and vulture tourism
Tony Bellows has written a first rate review of vulture capital’s use of Jersey to purse its claims through the courts in Jersey. Vulture capitalists
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The success of the neolioberal model is to deliver static income for most people
The FT made this observation yesterday: Fork-lift truck drivers in Britain could expect to earn £19,068 in 2010, about 5 per cent lower than in
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