The following is by my Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development colleague, Raymond Baker, and is reposted from the Huffington Post: We learned some devastating
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I’m appearing at the following event: Occupy London Economics Working Group present: A day of discussions of what an economically just future could look like. This is a chance
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I’d love to say the following idea was mine, but it wasn’t, so I’m going to give credit for where it came from, in a letter to
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Seamus Milne has argued in the Guardian this morning that: For the past fortnight the Labour leader has faced a barrage of open or thinly
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Don’t get me wrong about Scottish nationalism. As someone who is quietly proud of being an Irish as well as a UK citizen, and who is a
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One of the US readers of this blog, Kenneth Thomas, who writes the Middle Class Political Economist blog, wrote the following and I reproduce it with his permission as it
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I’m on You and Yours on Radio 4 at lunchtime discussing tax avoidance and abuse. Martin O’Neill is introducing the philosophy of tax, and tax
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From Philip Stephens in the FT this morning: Business leaders are “filling their boots”. Second-rate executives are “ripping off” shareholders and consumers. Hefty rewards for
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A commentator on this blog this morning has made an excellent point on pensions: It used to be the case that most employers’ pension schemes
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