2018 January 22

We’re not heading a for a new normal

Posted on January 22 2018

The IMF has just published a new blog by Maurice Obstfeld, who is the Economic Counsellor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. He
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The Great Fragility

Posted on January 22 2018

Might I recommend today’s column from my old friend and fellow Green New Deal member Larry Elliott in today’s Guardian? As Larry argues: A synchronised
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The era of neoliberal capitalism is already a dead parrot

Posted on January 22 2018

Ian McWhirter, the political editor of the Scottish Herald, which is not a left wing paper, wrote an excellent attack on neoliberalism in that paper
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Coffee shops are still tainted by tax

Posted on January 22 2018

Populus has published a report on public perceptions of UK fast food outlets from McDonalds, to Greggs to Starbucks via Costa and Pret a Manger.
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The Centre for Policy Studies has get every part of its scare story on the cost of nationalisation wrong

Posted on January 22 2018

The Telegraph made much noise yesterday about a claim from hard right think tank, The Centre for Policy Studies, that what they say are Labour’s
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Our government is still going out of its way to support tax haven abuse

Posted on January 22 2018

I trust Global Witness will forgive me reposting this from their blog, but the issue seems too important to ignore. If people want to know
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