And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England’s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And
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The Big 5 banks’ private welfare state
Lydia Prieg is a researcher at the new economics foundation (nef). She wrote this on the Left Foot Forward blog yesterday: A new report (pdf)
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WordPress problems
My apologies for all the typos in blogs of late. I am perplexed by what is happening. I write the blog. I edit and correct
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Taxes paid in anger
Several people have already referred in comments to Simon Jenkins’ article in the Guardian on tax today – which is very good (everyone has their day). I recommend it.
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Swiss banks are already helping their clients evade the new UK disclosure scheme
Accountancy Age reports: Swiss banks have already begun helping UK clients move their money to Singapore in defiance of an agreement struck with the UK last week, Accountancy
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You can tell the right by their indifference to working people
Obama proposed this deal last night: The American Jobs Act includes $140bn for building roads, bridges and other major infrastructure projects that would put hundreds of thousands
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Entrepreneurs don’t migrate because of taxation
There are two more letters in the FT that are of sufficient public importance to be reproduced in full given the importance of the 50p tax rate in current
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Serious economists should not indulge in fact-free grandstanding
The following letter is in the FT this morning: Sir, Serious economists should not indulge in fact-free grandstanding. There is no hard evidence to support
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Obama can do it, and so can we. Now’s the time for a stimulus.
Obama wants to stimulate the US economy. Good for him. He’s not doing enough – but he’s got the Tea Party to deal with. In the
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