The Scottish Currency Group, of which I am a member and which is run by Dr Tim Rideout, has issued a new publication entitled ‘How
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New research from Carbon Tracker on stranded assets – those resources that cannot be used by extractive industries companies if the planet is to survive –
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The Guardian business newsletter is not good news for all those who think that the economy is going just fine:

The FT includes this comment this morning: Janet Yellen has warned the US Treasury risks running out of cash next month unless Congress increases its
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The basis of the appeal of populism is twofold. One is that it can keep the wheels on the bus going round-and-round. The other is
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Given that much of yesterday’s Tory tax plan was well-trailed and had been subject to comment here beforehand there would seem little left to say
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Yesterday was an unusual day in UK politics. What the Tories recognised, albeit deeply reluctantly, was that the boundary between the state needed to be
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Government ‘borrowing’ (or money creation as I would prefer to think of it) from April to July this year amounted to £78 billion against an
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Over the weekend I wrote a Tweet that said: I get annoyed when tax professionals say that politics should be taken out of taxation. And
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