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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There are a few bits that are very American in here, but it’s worth watching: Hat tip to Max Lawson

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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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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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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There has been much, appropriate, criticism of the commentary in the media on yesterday’s GERS figures. The BBC represented them as if a fact i.e.
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It was largely by accident that I became a commentator on the Scottish government’s Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statement about 18 months ago.
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For those not familiar with it, there is what is known as the UK tax Twitterati, of which I think it fair to say I
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I gather my friends at Common Weal are launching their campaign for an independent Scotland to have its own currency today. This was a contribution
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