The Conservative Party in the UK is the home of some quite bizarre thinking — like belief in the Laffer curve. In the last week
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Martin Wolf’s opposition to the ConDems’ cuts is now well known. And he’s right to say it, of course. In his latest posting for the
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From the Real World Economics Review blog US poverty numbers: Approximately 45 million Americans were living in poverty in 2009. 2009 saw the largest single
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John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network did yesterday’s PCS fringe meeting at the LibDem conference. The Guardian has given it extensive coverage: A former
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I’ve got this music bug. This one is so obvious it’s ridiculous. “You squander wealth that’s mine” has to be the song about illicit financial
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  There’s an excellent article here from India, showing that some realise that what the Tax Justice Network is arguing is about creating economic justice
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A commentator on this site has said in response to a blog post on the news story that HMRC have found millions of people have
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As many papers report, it’s been discovered that more than 10 million people may be in line for a tax rebate due to errors in
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A new staff paper from the IMF looks at the issue of “Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies”. There is content I
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