I received the following comment on the blog when discussing wealth taxation. I thought it was worth considering it in more depth and so reproduce
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There are days when running a blog intrudes into life. Yesterday was one. A touch of early hyperactivity on my part led to 100 or
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The Guardian has reported this morning that:  The government is “sleepwalking” into a post-Brexit future of insecure, unsafe and increasingly expensive food supplies, and has
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I have noted concerns on growing wealth inequality this morning, here and here. Over the weekend I also published references to the call I made
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As the Guardian notes in an editorial this morning: As research for the Resolution Foundation this weekend shows, the rich are back. While the rest of
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It’s commonplace to say that the world has a debt problem. It doesn’t. It has a savings problem. Let me explain using the data from
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The old chestnut of what came first, the savings or the loan, came up on the blog over the weekend. I have argued for many
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I was, I admit, pleased to read the editorial of International Tax Review this month, written by an old friend, Salman Shaheen. As he said:
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The Boston Consulting Group (who are big enough to do the research) have published a new report on global wealth. It’s something they have done
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