I have always presumed that most people are empathic and as a result capable of imagining themselves walking in another shoes. More than that, I
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The need for green quantitative easing: video commentary
This is another video from an interview I did on Monday, this time published by European CEO Again, apologies for the image quality (and my
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Poverty in the Cayman Islands
I received this email last night under the heading: Help feed children of Grand Cayman today! Quite what the per capita GDP of the Cayman
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A Greek default will cost a lot less than bank penalties and fines. So what’s the fuss about?
This is the size of Greek debt: The latest data I have on Greek GDP is €182.4 bn in 2013. So debt was 175%
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Can Greece wave goodbye to debt? Video reaction
Oxfam was founded to relieve poverty in Greece. Surely it won’t have to do it again?
A commentator on this blog this morning asked the question asked the practical question of how we might help Greece. It reminded me of the
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You couldn’t make this up
From City AM today: So asking people to pay the right amount of tax in the right place at the right time is an injustice
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The Green New Deal in the FT
The following letter from my friend and Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines is in the FT this morning: Sir, You are correct to say (“No
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The Tax Dodging Bill – the demands
I have already mentioned the demand made by 17 NGOs today for a Tax Dodging Bill. How the Tax Dodging Bill website is live so I
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