As the Guardian notes: Half the world’s reserves of lithium, the metallic element used to make batteries in electric cars, are believed to be in
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I spoke at the Compass ‘’No turning back’ event on Saturday. I recorded this before I went just to test timing, but I have been
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Saturday morning, early train, dragging down to London when the family are still all asleep, and why — to go to the Compass ‘No Turning
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News from Latvia: Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis announced Tuesday that his government would ditch the country’s flat-rate tax system in favour of a form
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AccountingWEB in  the US has reported the comments of IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman to the OECD on 2 June. He said a lot. I highlight:
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I’m speaking at the PCS seminar on Saturday at the Compass ‘No turning back’ event. More details here.

I’m delighted for my friend Eva Joly: she has been elected a Green MEP in France. As the Guardian reports: What’s left of French politics
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The Task Force for Financial Integrity and Economic Development (on whose committee I sit) has got a new web site. It also has a new
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There’s mighty stink in the US corporate world this morning about Barack Obama’s attack on offshore. According to the FT: “It is the wrong idea,
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