2020 April 09

Is the EU really going to put Blackrock – the arch purveyors of greenwash – in charge of EU green accounting?

Posted on April 9 2020

I have not got time to unravel the true horrors of this story – and anyway, Professor Daniella Gabor has already done it really well.
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Coronavirus is not going to treat everyone equally

Posted on April 9 2020

It’s commonplace on the left to say that the BBC is on the side of the right, and supports the government. It’s not a view
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The Millennials’ Money

Posted on April 9 2020

There has been a lot of favourable comment about J D Alt’s videos on money on this blog over the last day or so. I
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Andrew Bailey and the fridge

Posted on April 9 2020

On Sunday Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England said that the Bank would not undertake direct monetary funding (DMF) of government spending. As
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On Sunday the Bank of England said it would not fund the government and today it is going to do just that: welcome to the world where we realise that there isn’t taxpayer money because the government makes its own

Posted on April 9 2020

At the weekend Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, said that the Bank would not engage in direct monetary funding (DMF) of
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Stock markets are now inherently unstable because current accounting standards have ceased to value the real worth of companies

Posted on April 9 2020

Financial markets are proving themselves to be highly irrational at present. Take the FTSE 100 as example. This is the chart for this year: Markets
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Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield Management School

Posted on April 9 2020

It was confirmed to me yesterday that I have been appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield’s Management School working primarily on accounting
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The only outcome of this crisis is going to be recession – and the government has to begin talking about that fact and how it will manage it very soon

Posted on April 9 2020

I was involved in discussion with academic colleagues yesterday on the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis. One of the issues discussed was whether or
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