Christian Aid has a new and timely report on large company attitudes to country-by-country reporting out today. Entitled ‘Country by Country Reporting A survey of FTSE100
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The increase in debt misery is not chance: it is by design
As the Guardian notes this morning (and the length of the extract is important given the importance of the issue): The number of households struggling
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Keynes is back
This comes from a post by Jeremy Corbyn in the Huffington Post yesterday. In case of cynicism, I first read it there. What it says is
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Now we have a consensus on the need for investment let’s make it green
As I have noted over the last few days, the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign has achieved something quite extraordinary. Forty economists who wrote to support Corbynomics
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Economics and political economy
I was asked recently what I thought the difference between economics and political economy was. I explained that in my opinion when an economist stands
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Taking the Red Pill
This was written in the Business Insider in Australia in 2012: On Saturday, we wrote that more and more people are starting to wonder if
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That review of HMRC is still needed
Before the May election Labour promised that it would undertake a review of HMRC if it was returned to power. It wasn’t, of course, but
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11,000 people die in the UK each year because George Osborne is obsessed with closing the defict
The Guardian has reported this weekend that: Thousands of patients die every year after being admitted to hospital at the weekend, partly because too few
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We could have People’s QE next week
The FT noted yesterday that: Next Monday the Bank of England will dish out £38bn to the holders of 4.75 per cent UK Treasury 2015
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