I had already been writing about what I think the true meaning of a company is when I read this in an email from The Sunday
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We need to get back to the essence of the company
I have long known of the etymology of the word company, but it came up in conversation yesterday and I thought it worth sharing. This
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Why interest rate rises are very unlikely
The world seemed surprised that the Bank of England did not increase bank rate yesterday. It should not have been. Nothing suggested that was appropriate. The
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The stock markets are dead
The FT reports this morning that: UK banks are raising debt at the fastest pace since the aftermath of the financial crisis, as lenders prepare
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Tax Course: Combating Financial Fraud and Empowering Regulators
I will be co-directing a course at Copenhagen Business School from 12 to 14 September this year. It is part of their Masters in Tax course
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Sometimes and in some places cash is still king
G4S is not a usual source of data here, but the FT had a link to a report they wrote today and I thought some
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Beneficial ownership for the Overseas Territories is just the start: there is a long way to go to get corporate transparency
My apologies: it’s been a slow start to the day. It was, for me, a late evening. There was a small celebration of the victory
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Fiscalism has to replace monetary policy
I suspect that quite a lot of readers did not get to section 10 of my blog on why shares are overvalued, published yesterday. It
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The FT shares my pessimism about markets
In an FT video, published today, the following is said: [I]fQE got asset prices up, shouldn’t the end of QE mean that asset prices will
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