I had a conversation yesterday on the future of the audit profession. It does not matter who with, where or why. What it did was
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We used to fear inflation: deflation is a much bigger threat
As the FT has noted: The European Central Bank on Thursday responded to fears of deflation across the eurozone by unexpectedly cutting rates to a record low
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The Tory tools of government
As many readers of this blog will know, Open University academic Ivan Horrocks is a regular provider of thoughtful comment on many issues on this
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Ha-Joon Chang nails the anti-living wage lobby
Ha-Joon Chang has a great article in the Guardian this morning in which he completely nails the anti-living wage lobby. As he puts it: More
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Could the Gagging Bill be the tipping point where people say no to neoliberal politics?
The Gagging Bill on the UK’s charity and NGO sector was ‘paused’ in the House of Lords on Monday to avoid an almost inevitable defeat
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What is a secrecy jurisdiction?
The Tax Justice Network has published its new Financial Secrecy Index this morning. One of the issues on which it is surprisingly vague is just what
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The top 10 secrecy jurisdictions
I have already mentioned the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. I should add that whilst I pioneered this Index and directed its first iteration
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The Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index 2013
The Tax Justice Network’s 2013 Financial Secrecy Index exposes yawning gap between G20 rhetoric and reality. Issued today, this is their press release on the new FSI (this
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Should we report the employer’s who can’t afford to pay the living wage to ATOS?
I was amused by this comment by David Lucas on the blog, offered I think, a little tongue in cheek but not wholly inappropriately: If
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