I was involved in making a Taxcast on tax and modern monetary theory yesterday, with John Christensen and Namoi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network.
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MMT is not nonsense economics
I have not had time to finish my response to Jonathan Portes on MMT, and I will be publishing one here since Prospect are allowing
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The left must be bold and back a green new deal
Larry Elliott has an article under the above title in the Guardian this morning. As he does note: Full disclosure here: I was a founder
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Jonathan Portes, Prospect, modern monetary theory and the right to reply
I am aware that Jonathan Portes had a rather bizarre, straw-man based, attack on modern monetary theory published in Prospect yesterday. In this he did,
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It’s not only Grant Thornton who have a problem with Patisserie Valerie: the Financial Reporting Council do too
This is from The Times yesterday and is too important not to be shared: The Financial Reporting Council approved the quality of an audit of
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Grant Thornton dug themselves a great big pit yesterday and jumped right into it
The Guardian has reported: The former auditor of the collapsed cake chain Patisserie Valerie has argued that it is not the role of accountants to uncover fraud.
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Patisserie Valerie shows how badly auditing is failing
This is from the Guardian this morning: Accounts for Patisserie Valerie dating back to at least September 2014 contain unreliable figures on its financial performance, according to
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Where have 70% tax rates worked? In the USA, for a start….
This is worth reading, and watch the video: Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) 29/01/2019, 20:18 We have a rigged tax code that has essentially legalized tax-dodging for
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What’s a bad night for May like now?
There is little time for blogging today: the day job demands attention from hereon. But, first a thought on reaction in this morning’s media, which
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