Reuters is reporting this afternoon that: Swiss bank Credit Suisse plans to tap investors for a “substantial” capital raising to fund a restructuring of the bank
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Germany’s looking to be in trouble and that’s bad news for everyone
Germany has been the economic powerhouse of Europe for decades. But I am not sure for how much longer. DeutscheBank is looking to be in
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Experience tells me I should be worried
One advantage of being both 57 and a long time observer of particular types of behaviour is that it is increasingly easy to spot patterns.
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Cameron, the Joy of Tax, and optimism
I referred to David Cameron’s joke about The Joy of Tax at the Conservative Party Conference yesterday here. The Guardian invited me to reply. That
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I hope David Cameron’s bought a big bunch of flowers for his wife
This was David Cameron’s tasteless intervention with reference to me in his Conservative Party speech this morning: There’s an academic called Richard Murphy. He’s the
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It’s not just a new politics we need: we need a new economics too
I had an unusual summer. I didn’t ask to be given the media attention I got, but it happened. I didn’t ask to observe Jeremy
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Overall Evaluation of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project
The following is the summary of the overall assessment of the OECD BEPS package by the BEPS Monitoring Group, of which I am a member. I’d
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Memo to Lord Adonis
This is from the Guardian this morning. I am a member of the Green New Deal group: Memo to Lord Adonis in his new role as
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The CBI’s prayer: Lord, grant me tax compliance, but not yet
I noticed this comment on the OECD BEPS process in the Independent: A spokesperson for the UK’s CBI business lobby group urged governments to roll
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