As the FT notes this morning: The UK accounting watchdog is to face scrutiny of its approach to managing conflicts of interest and its handling
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Companies House is a national disgrace
The FT has drawn attention this morning to the story of Kevin Brewer. He is the company formation agent who, because he was so fed up
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When you lie down with dogs you get fleas
One of parliament’s better moments: I applaud David Lammy for this. And I note his comment that ‘when you lie down with dogs you get fleas’.
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If KPMG can’t work out who can sign their audit reports what chance is there that they’re right?
This comes from the disciplinary pages of this months Economia magazine, reporting from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: It would appear
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There are few upsides to Brexit: people’s quantitative easing could be one of them
The Guardian has something decidedly right in its editorial today, saying: When running for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn wanted a “people’s quantitative easing” to boost the
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Neck and neck
A quick screenshot from The Times Red Box email this morning: If evidence that irrationality is alive and well and living in the UK is
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What macroeconomics can and should do
I noted Howard Reed’s erudite and timely essay on what he has called Deconomics on Saturday. The original was posted in Prospect, who also published a
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The Lords will have their say on Brexit
As the FT reports this morning: The House of Lords is expected to vote for Britain to remain in an EU customs union this week,
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Macroeconomics fails because it does not follow the money
Howard Reed has argued that we need to rebuild economics, and I agree. He calls the process deconomics beause it requires a deconstruction and rebuidling
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