Many people commenting on this site want a real alternative to neoliberalism. They’d like Labour to provide it, but so far it is not doing so. That, I am
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Economia magazine, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales official journal has published a comment piece by me on corporation tax today in which I address the issue of
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This is good: I like the ‘spin cycle’ that follows the ‘rinse cycle’. And note: not all the money went to Greece – despite the
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The following was written by friend and long term collaborator in tax campaigning on international development issues Alex Cobham and was published on the blog
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The Bank of England issued a statement yesterday saying that the UK’s major banks and building societies are currently underestimating their losses by £50 billion. I
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There are, as I have often said on this blog, just four ways to restore the economic activity needed to create full employment in the UK. One
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Capital controls are in the news. They are something I called for in Chapter 18 of The Courageous State when discussing the need to tackle tax haven abuse. I wrote there:
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As the FT notes in an email this morning: Cyprus is to become the first eurozone country ever to apply capital controls — with limits
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