As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has privately admitted the UK faces an increased likelihood of “systemic economic crisis” as it completes its
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Rishi Sunak: a failure in the making
The Guardian’s morning briefing includes this paragraph today: The chancellor’s second mini-budget of the pandemic will lay bare the government’s fears over the long-lasting impact
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We can have a Green New Deal, Rishi Sunak
My Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines had this letter in the Guardian overnight: Your editorial (23 November) highlights how Rishi Sunak is softening the country up
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Tax avoidance is real, and not the same as tax evasion
Richard Brooks of Private Eye is chair of Tax Watch UK, and he has written to me this morning saying that the characterisation I have
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We don’t need more threats to prosecute tax cheats to increase tax revenue: we need a general anti-avoidance principle
It would seem that I walked into another minor hornet’s nest when tweeting, and then blogging, about Tax Watch UK director George Turner’s suggestion that
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What part of the national debt do you want to repay?
The national economic obsession is with repaying the national debt. But, very few people know what it in the national debt (including, I now realise,
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The distinction between tax evasion and tax avoidance is essential if we want to maximise tax yield from those who seek to abuse the law
George Turner of Tax Watch UK published a paper and made a claim at an event yesterday that tax evasion is the same as tax
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Videos: we’re back, from my home
As I mentioned recently, video production has been a bit bumpy of late. So we’re going to do them slightly differently for a bit, using
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MMT is encroaching on the consciousness of more and more economists, every day
There was an article in The Times on Saturday in which its economics editor, Philip Aldrick, said in his opening para: Modern monetary theory, received
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