Larry Elliott has written in the Guardian this afternoon that: The history of EU negotiations is that victory is snatched from the jaws of defeat
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When the best hope is rebuilding from the ruins of Brexit
An advantage of living with teenagers is you get to talk to teenagers. By and large they get a bad press. Most I see are
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There’s a world out there, and it’s not as economists know it
I was most amused by the concluding comments in a talk by Andy Haldane, chief economists of the Bank of England, this week. So much
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A cure for the ‘frit’ economy?
Eighteen months or so ago I helped launch the Progressive Pulse blog, of which I am the sole director. I think it’s time to give
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Accounting cartel, anyone?
This is from The Times this morning: The nine biggest accounting firms have agreed a cap on the number of FTSE 100 companies that a
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The politics of empathy
GERS is not a meaningful account but is just a political stunt. It is time all nationalists treated it as such
I have been a critic of GERS. As a result I have exposed weaknesses in its methodology that I think are significant. Those weaknesses include
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Labour really has to understand that hypothecated taxes undermine the very logic of its own political reason for being
The Guardian reports this morning that: Jeremy Corbyn is to propose a tax on big technology firms such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, to subsidise the BBC
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Most tenured economics professors keep teaching the same simplistic, faith-based, empirically challenged models
Arturo Cifuentes, who is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, finance and economics division, in New York, had a good article in the FT yesterday in
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