I noticed I published my 17,000th blog post on this site today. It’s taken a bit under 14 years to do that. That’s an average
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : The UK could tax wealth more
I have already posted the introductory research on tax and wealth for the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project on this blog this afternoon. One person
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs): There is significant room for wealth taxation in the UK
The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project suggests that the most important role of tax in a jurisdiction is to shape its society and economy in
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Today’s inflation data is no guide as to what is to come in the coronavirus economy
A lot of people seem to be quite excited about the news that inflation has fallen in March as the impact of coronavirus hit. The
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Coronavirus deaths are likely to be double those the government is admitting to
It would seem that the FT thinks I was far too cautious in my extrapolation of the excess deaths data yesterday. It suggests that: The
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Question of the day: If we were to create an economy from scratch, what would it look like?
A commentator who uses the name Vinnie on this blog asked this question this morning: I just wondered if I could put forward a suggestion
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Video of the Economics of Green Recovery
This tweet features a video from the event I did on Monday night which I think is worth sharing. It may have been 6.35pm in
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