I wrote this on March 20 this year: The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail
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The Panama Papers: what they reveal and what must happen now
The world’s media is full of discussion of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ this morning. This is the leak of 11.5 million documents form Panamanian law
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We would not have had a steel crisis if we had enjoyed a Courageous State
Larry Elliott has said for the Guardian today that ‘the laissez-faire economic model has proved a complete dud’. Peter Hitchens agrees. Is there an alternative?
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The neoliberal con-trick’s been rumbled (at last) by Peter Hitchens
I am not sure how to react to this: I am so sorry now that I fell for the great Thatcher-Reagan promise. I can’t deny
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Offshore secrecy torn apart by Instagram
I recommend an article in the Observer today. It begins: From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy
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Steel could be the moment to rediscover economic logic, but it does not look likely
Bill Keegan has been an economic commentator for longer than most. That does not mean he is worth reading. That’s the case because what he
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KPMG with a conflict of interest? Surely not?
The Sunday Times reports this morning that: An international consulting firm won or managed foreign aid contracts worth more than £25m at the Department for
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We need capital controls, including tariffs
There is little to celebrate about the steel dispute. The government has been cruelly exposed as the possessor of dogma but no useful policy. People
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People have lost faith in markets
In February it looked as if financial markets were going to crash. They didn’t. This is the FTSE 100 index for the first quarter of
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