With speakers from FTSE-100 companies, MPs, economists and tax campaigners, the Fair Tax Conference 2018 (June 7) has something for everyone. We’ll be exploring why we’re in
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The peers who voted to keep us in the European Economic Area
There is no good Brexit. But as I noted recently, being in the European Economic Area may be as good as it gets on Brexit.
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Sticking plasters will not solve real intergenerational issues
The Resolution Foundatioin is the latest progressive think tank to issue a sticking plaster report. According to many reports this morning its intergenerational commission is
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Towards a reading list
A new commentator has said this morning: Thanks to your writings on this blog, I am interested in learning about modern monetary theory in some
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Macroeconomic modelling,endogenous money and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
I am pleased to repost this comment piece by my colleague Hector Pollitt from the blog of Cambridge Econometrics Limited, of which company I am
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Why shares are over-valued and the consequences
The question The question this note addresses is ‘what’s the problem with investing in shares?’ By answering that question it also tackles a range of
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The more radical end of accounting
I was reading the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ Economia magazine this evening (as one does whilst cooking supper on a bank
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The UK’s investment in infrastructure is lower than Greece’s
And you wonder why I say I think we need investment in infrastructure? Look at the company we keep in Europe: That is pretty embarrassing
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Trouble in the stock markets? Not a hint of it in sight…
From the FT this morning: So that’s OK then: not a hint of trouble ahead, anywhere, any time soon. And nothing’s fatal for shares in
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