I had a piece on Comment is Free on the scandal surrounding Facebook’s tax payments. Except that I say I have no idea if there is
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On budget surpluses and the economic illiteracy of the Fiscal Charter
I made my position clear on fiscal surpluses some time ago. I have not changed my mind. I won’t be any time soon. We don’t
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The real questions we should ask about Facebook and tax
I have a posting on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site under the above title tonight. I will be doing an more in-depth analysis here
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I may be wrong, but that’s a risk worth taking
Chris Dillow wrote a cautionary, if public, note to me last week on forecasting recession. I think he slightly overstated his case: I do admit
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The paradoxes of central bankers
I wrote yesterday on what I will be calling a safe haven policy for the world’s capital. I think this new idea may be a
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Former IMF chief economist backs People’s QE
I missed this during last week, but think it worth noting that Reuters ran an article on 7 October saying: “People’s QE” could be an
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It’s time to create a safe haven strategy for the world’s capital as well as its people
The time has come for some fairly radical reframing of economic policy if not just the UK but the world at large is to survive
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Clueless markets traded by automatons in search of a consistent dream
Three ideas struck me form my reading of the FT this morning. First, Mark Carney is still talking about the ‘normalisation’ of interest rates. Second, Martin
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David Cameron should take note: he also borrowed my ideas
A couple of days ago David Cameron had a little go at me because Jeremy Corbyn has borrowed some of my ideas. That’s fine. That’s
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