On Monday, the FT reported that: Donald Trump has picked a loyalist from the rightwing Heritage Foundation to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after
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Getting the taxation of wealth right
There is a lot of noise about Labour’s tax plans right now. There is also a lot of noise about wealth taxes. However, as the
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What is the difference between truth-telling and lying?
RobertJ, who is a regular commentator on this site, included these questions in the conclusion to a comment he posted today: At a philosophical level,
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The Online Safety Act
As many readers will know, the Online Safety Act is now in operation in the UK. I have checked with Ofcom to see if this
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Could 2008 happen again? Part 2
No sooner had I finished my post on why the 2008 global financial crisis could happen all over again than I noticed this in the
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Could 2008 happen again?
This is from the FT this morning: Almost three-quarters of HSBC’s Hong Kong commercial property loan book was flashing warning signs by the end of
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Black and white thinking takes us closer to fascism
I discussed why fascist narratives can be both created and succeed in my National Column yesterday (yours, in full, for a £20 a year subscription,
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The benefit of benefits – and why wealth floods-up
There are very few things in life that are more straightforward than the economics of paying benefits to those who need them. The simple, straightforward,
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We need to rethink capital
We talk about capital as if it’s only money or machines, but that’s a dangerously narrow view. In this video, I unpack the six forms
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