The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022 will be debated by the Commons on Monday, with the aim that it passes in a day. The
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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Credit Suisse: what we need to know is whether there are problems now so that the corruption threat we face today can be eliminated
The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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Bad as QE was, unwinding it rapidly could be worse
The Office for Budget Responsibility published this commentary this week: This needs to be out in the context of its borrowing forecasts made last October:
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The Bank of England is going to take on modern monetary theory
The Bank of England has issued this press release this week: It says: ‘Can’t we just print more money?’ is a new pop-economics book, written
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Governments cannot borrow in their own currencies, but they can provide places of safe deposit for savers, and it is essential that they do
I found this headline in the FT both simultaneously worrying and intriguing: Germany has had a constitutional ban on its government borrowing for some years
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Consigning the sterlingisation zombie to history
It is big news when an issue to which this blog has contributed makes it to be an FT headline, but it happened this morning:
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Central banks should not have the power to cause harm, as the Bank of England has at present
As some readers of this column will know, I write a weekly column for The National newspaper in Scotland. In yesterday’s column, I tackled the
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An increase in interest rates would be an act of class warfare
The Bank of England is sending out signals, again, that it is expecting to increase bank interest rates soon. The current official interest rate is,
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