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The Rev Lord Stephen Green’s $192 million legacy for HSBC
The FT has reported this morning that: HSBC’s private bank will pay $192m in penalties and admit to helping US customers hide more than $1bn
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There’s a lot of accounting to do before COP26
Mark Carney spoke at the Madrid COP25 climate conference yesterday. He matters on this issue now: he will be the effective head of the UN’s
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Mapping Multinational Tax Avoidance
This is excellent, from my co-author Saila Stausholm of Copenhagen Business School. She’s suggesting that research shows that we can beat tax haven abuse by
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There are bigger issues at stake in this election
Do opinion polls matter? We all know that in a sense they don’t. What we do know is that the only vote that matters is
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When will the Tories launch their new free to air state propaganda service?
The Tory plans to control the media are progressing. The latest is this, from The Times: The BBC licence fee could be scrapped and replaced with a
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International aid will, under the Tories, become just another migration bargaining chip
The FT has reported this morning that: Boris Johnson is planning to fold the UK’s Department for International Development into the Foreign Office if he
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Don’t believe the IFS on corporation tax
I am pleased to share this blog by Prof John Weeks with his permission. It was first posted on the Prime Economics blog: The Assertion
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Denial, lies and fascism: the Tory election campaign
I have tried to be broad minded in this election. I have gone as far as to suggest that despite their appalling economic policies people
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