I have a new article out on AccountingWEB where I ask: Can it really be right that a cosy club-style arrangement between the Financial Reporting
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Let’s face it: the Met must be corrupt. Partygate is really hard to explain unless that is the case
A great deal is being said about Partygate today. Those with considerably more legal expertise in this area than I have got appear to be
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Public sector debt paranoia at this moment in time is no excuse for the government imposing private poverty on the UK’s population
As the Guardian has noted: Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1974 amid growing concern over the
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Inflation will go away – because it always does – and in the meantime here’s how to deal with it
One of the arguments that Danny Blanchflower and I are making in our two person opposition to the prevailing establishment thinking on inflation is that
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The F word is out in parliament – and rightly so
SNP MP Mhairi Black made this speech in parliament yesterday: It is vital we discuss the F word or we risk facing regret forever. pic.twitter.com/7NNQWjaj95
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If the Bank of England is to pubish a textbook on economics it really should get it right when it comes to describing how modern banks work – but it does not
This comes from page 182 of the Kindle edition* of the new Bank of England book on economics, which is in the chapter explaining the
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