The FT includes this comment this morning: Janet Yellen has warned the US Treasury risks running out of cash next month unless Congress increases its
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The basis of the appeal of populism is twofold. One is that it can keep the wheels on the bus going round-and-round. The other is
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Given that much of yesterday’s Tory tax plan was well-trailed and had been subject to comment here beforehand there would seem little left to say
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Yesterday was an unusual day in UK politics. What the Tories recognised, albeit deeply reluctantly, was that the boundary between the state needed to be
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Government ‘borrowing’ (or money creation as I would prefer to think of it) from April to July this year amounted to £78 billion against an
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Over the weekend I wrote a Tweet that said: I get annoyed when tax professionals say that politics should be taken out of taxation. And
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A little over a week ago The Times published an article noting that John Christensen and I had resigned our associations with the Tax Justice
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Unless the government briefing machine has gone very wrong we are going to see the announcement of 1.25% increases in both employer’s and employee’s national
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Nobody expected a shortage of bed linen in hotels to be a consequence of Brexit. But along with shortages of food, cars, blood testing bottles
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