I am at a conference today, and amongst the issues discussed has been the role of accounting in permitting future gains to be discounted to
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Everyone seems surprised that net UK employment is falling, by 56,000 in the last quarter. Sure, it breaks a trend: But let’s be clear about
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I won’t deny that I was pleased by yesterday’s successful rebellion in the House of Commons. There were three reasons for being so. First, this
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The FT summarised modern capitalism in two lines this morning: Boeing shares hit another record high after the company boosted its quarterly dividend by a fifth and announced
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I published my disquiet about a letter from the Big Four accounting firms on the issue of inequality yesterday, suggesting when doing so that they
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I was musing last night on writing a blog on the divisions that Brexit is creating within UK society, only to find Sebastian Payne had
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The Times reported (paywall) this morning that: Negotiations on Britain’s future trade agreement will continue only if last week’s withdrawal deal is quickly turned into a
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This amendment to the EU tax haven black list has been tabled in the EU parliament by the Socialists and Democrats Group (of which Labour
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The Guardian reports today that: A former Facebook executive has said he feels “tremendous guilt” over his work on “tools that are ripping apart the social fabric
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