The Guardian asks this question tonight: Can Corbynomics guru Richard Murphy fix Britain? And follows with: The Joy of Tax author thinks we should clobber
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Advice on a Masters in Economics please
The following question was mailed to me. I leave it to others to answer: I love discussing economics/political economy but I don’t have any qualifications
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The deficit is just refusing to go away
This was, according to George Osborne, to be one of those years when the deficit was going to really start going away. Instead, as the
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Mark Carney admits Bank of England independence has failed. So what now?
This comes from a speech Mark Carney gave yesterday, talking about Central Bank Independence: In no small part due to my predecessors, particularly Lord King,
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Who should be in special measures? Addenbrookes or a government that won’t fund healthcare?
My younger son was born in Addenbrooke’s hospital. For that and other reasons I have a great deal to thank that hospital for. And today
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HMRC is wide open to abuse because of a lack of staff
The Mail has reported that a carpenter in Hull has been convicted of defrauding HMRC by retrospecively adjusting his on line tax returns to claim tax refunds
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So VW lied. What now?
We now know VW lied about car emissions. And not just lied, but knowingly lied. It even built the lie into its engine software design.
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We’ll offer the Chinese £2 billion of loan guarantees but won’t do People’s QE
As Nick Butler has said in the FT this morning: There is, it seems, no limit to the lengths to which George Osborne, the UK
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FT commentators are confused by Corbyn
Two FT commentators reveal the confusion in the commentariat caused by the election of Jeremy Corbyn. Wolfgang Munchau says: So why is the centre-left by
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