Last year War on Want published a report revealing that Boots the Chemists — a fixture of most U.K. high streets — had dodged over £1 billion
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It would be good to have strong civil society participation at this event. I will be there: The Finance Innovation Lab in conjunction with the
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There is a hugely depressing article in the Guardian this morning on a speech that Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
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I am a member of an email based discussion group that considers a wide range of new economic issues. Post the Euro elections there has
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As many papers note this morning, it’s been officially decided that the earnings of drug dealers and prostitutes should be added to the measurement of UK
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My friend, and occasional co-author, Howard Reed has I think, published the most important commentary yet on the Chris Giles v Thomas Piketty spat on
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As the Guardian has reported: The richest 20% of the population in Britain will have, on average, the spare sum of £18,680 to put into
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I commented a couple of days ago about the story circulated to the press by HMRC in which it claimed that it had collected £23.9
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Kenneth Rogoff has an article in the FT this morning in which he argues that the time ash come to get rid of paper money.
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