In this third video in a series on tax havens I look at how tax havens work. As I explained in the first video in
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Low interest rates are driving inequality ever upward, and it’s time we started to tackle this
A significant paper was presented to the annual meeting of central bankers at Jackson Hole last week. It had this seemingly innocuous title: In this
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What are tax havens used for?
In this, the second in a series of five videos on tax havens, I look at what tax havens are now used for. Because of
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What is a tax haven?
When I first began working on tax havens in the early years of this century it quickly became very clear that there was no precise
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Sunak’s approach to NHS funding is completely wrong because it harms wellbeing
I posted this Twitter thread last night: A slightly blown-up version of the Telegraph story to which I refer looks like this: The nub of
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There are economists for hire who will work on anti-social projects
As if to prove the relevance of what Danny Blanchflower and I are calling for in the Mile End Road Economists’ initiative, this academic journal
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Why the last thing we’re going to need is interest rate rises
I have already mentioned this morning the concern that Danny Blanchflower and I share that so many economists appear incredibly keen that interest rates in the
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The launch of the Mile End Road Economists
As a result of exchanges with Prof Danny Blanchflower on Twitter yesterday the ‘Mile End Road Economists’ appear to have been created. The issue Danny
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Why are ministers indifferent to our food supply chains being asset-stripped?
As the Guardian has reported: Let’s be clear how private equity works. It buys companies using debt finance. The private equity investor usually has little
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