It’s hard not to celebrate this blog from the IMF: In summary, what the blog says is five things. The first is that whilst inequality
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I spent yesterday discussing transparency in government revenues cycles. That may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but I suffer from excitement by taxation, and
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The IMF global economic review, published today, is a curious mix that still reflects its confusion on what government deficits represent, meaning that some of
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This is the latest IMF growth forecast: Only Mexico is forecast to join the UK in three years of steadily declining growth, and we’re alone
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Sometime mid-Atlantic and at what feels like late at night (about midnight with more than an hour still to go before touchdown, let alone getting
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After much of last week in Scotland this week I am off to Washington, DC. I will be discussing government transparency on its revenue cycles
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I don’t always agree with the FT. It’s worldview is not one I can always subscribe to. But this, from Jonathan Ford, its City Editor,
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As the FT notes this morning: Wolfgang Schäuble has warned that spiralling levels of global debt and liquidity present a major risk to the world
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I am speaking at a Common Weal sponsored event on housing in Scotland in Glasgow this morning. When doing so I’ll be discussing the idea
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