The Guardian has reported that: The British retail industry has warned that an online sales tax would push up prices for consumers after it emerged
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Money in pursuit of hopelessness: the gold price has hit an all time high
The FT has a headline, just out: As they note: Gold soared to an all-time high and the dollar weakened to a multiyear low as
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Nothing has ever suggested a nation can be successfully oppressed against its will when that will has become apparent: Scotland will not break that rule
Ben Wray has an excellent editorial in Source Direct this morning, the daily newsletter from Common Weal, which i think the best think tack in
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Wealth taxes may be necessary, but they are definitely insufficient
The Guardian has an editorial today that says a wealth tax is ‘necessary but insufficient’ as a basis for tackling inequality in the UK. They
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The National Grid’s “emissions negative†plan for electricity is a work of fantasy – and a dangerous one at that
Summer must have arrived. Crazy ideas are in the air. I just finished writing a blog about the wholly inappropriate and regressive tax that the
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A flat tax on the over 40s to pay for care would be deeply regressive and completely unfair
The Guardian does this morning make reference to a government plan to create a new tax. Given the Conservative Party’s reluctance to tax this is,
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The cost of government borrowing is falling – which gives even less reason than ever for the government not to spend now
The cost of government borrowing is falling….and that’s good news. The debt obsessives have less to obsess about when the amount of interest the UK
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