This was recorded late last year – but is well worth sharing. It’s my good friend Prem Sikka in action: Hat tip to another good
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Google are before the PAC on 16 May
Free-market economists advocate the castration of democracy
From Ha-Joon Chang in the Guardian this morning: In particularly difficult economic times, it was even argued, we need to insulate economic policies from politics
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No wonder the economy is flat
John Christensen and I have been discussing UK lending data from the Bank of England this morning for a report he is writing. That report
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Is HMRC really tackling the tax gap when it’s lost 43% of its staff in a decade?
Ernst & Young’s paranoia about country-by-country reporting
The following paragraphs come from Ernst & Young’s new report on tax transparency: In making the decision in terms of what to disclose, the range of information that
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Ernst & Young concede the case for greater tax transparency has been won – but want to put every obstacle they can in its path
Ernst & Young issued a report yesterday called ‘Tax Transparency: Seizing the initiative’. Put bluntly, the report says that there shouldn’t be a legal requirement to deliver country-by-country reporting,
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It’s time to quit the stock markets
This is this mornings Dow Jones chart from Google Finance. I’ve plotted ten years: Just for the record, this is from the 1970s: Don’t worry that they’re
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What am I manufacturing?
This came up on my mail alerts this morning: And that’s it. No article. Nothing else I can see. So go on guys – tell
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