As the Guardian notes this morning: Investors are ignoring warning signs that financial markets could be overheating and consumer debts are rising to unsustainable levels,
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Austerity has succeeded in its aim: the lives of a few have been enriched at cost to hundreds of thousands more now living in poverty
The Guardian reports this morning that: Hundreds of thousands of children and older people have been plunged into poverty in the past four years, according
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This economic crisis we have to make better decisions than last time
Having reviewed this morning’s news I am well aware that I will be posting a series of blogs that will suggest the UK economy –
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Why is a body of which many UK solicitors are members so excited about the growth of digital currencies in Bermuda?
The Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) has noted on its web site that: The Bermuda government has launched a bid to accelerate the establishment
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GDP is dead. Long live the alternatives
I liked this letter from Caroline Lucas in the Guardian this morning, commenting on an article by Larry Elliott: Larry Elliott (Opinion, 30 November) is
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Austerity will cost a million lives of which 120,000 have already been lost
Danny Dorling, who is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford and Stuart Gietel-Basten, who is Associate Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong
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The UK government is guilty of aiding and abetting money laundering
I quote this from AccountingWEB (where, a long time ago, I was an editor): Transparency International’s new research, Hiding in Plain Sight, found that 766
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Corbyn is only reflecting reality with his comments on the City
As the FT has noted this morning: Jeremy Corbyn has labelled the financial sector “speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy”, warning global banks that
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There is a bubble. And they only end one way.
The FT has reported this morning that: Neil Woodford, the UK’s most high-profile fund manager, has said he believes stock markets around the world are
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