I usually agree with Geoff Tily at the TUC on economic issues, and even interpretation. Likewise with Ann Pettifor. But I think we differ on the
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Who owns the company? No one does
John Kay has a refreshing, and controversial article in the FT this morning in which he asks the question: So who does own a company?
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Barclays is heading back to the wild west
It looks as if Barclays wants to head back to the days of the wild west in the City of London when the economy was
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We don’t need a spending review: we need a paradigm shift
I note an article in the FT this morning that says: The National Health Service cannot survive as a purely taxpayer-funded service and will have
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The scale of Base Erosion and Profits Shifting
The following is reproduced from the Tax Justice Network blog, because of the importance of the findings to which it refers: One of the most
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QE has saved the government £47 billion over four years and so George wants to give £25 billion back to bankers
The FT reports this morning that: Continuing low interest rates have handed George Osborne a windfall ahead of this month’s spending review, leading to expectations
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High paid? The Taxpayers’ Alliance needs to think again
The far-right web site Conservative Home has an article featuring the work of the far-right Taxpayers’ Alliance today in which they say: Today sees the
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The four biggest threats to democracy?
Larry Elliott noted in the Guardian yesterday when writing about the Kilkenomics festival that: Richard Murphy, who has been the source of many of Jeremy
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Rangers’ EBT: why the Court of Session got it right
Jolyon Maugham is two stages into a three part series on why he thinks that the Rangers Employee Benefit Trust case was wrongly decided by
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