It’s worth watching the video here (it won’t embed). Start at 6.15 and run to the end Mario Draghi does agree Green QE is possible
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Remember Lehman? Grexit could be much worse
I hope you remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. It was the one the US decided should be allowed to go to
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Economics and the limits to growth
The Pope has said: The idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology . . . is based on the
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The Pope joins the club
I was amused by the highlighted element in this comment in an FT email this morning: Join the club mate. We need one or two
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The EU should have taken note: tax haven lists don’t work, but the Financial Secrecy Index does
I am well aware that many of my critics like to say I know little about anything. Unsurprisingly I don’t agree. What I do know
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The far right aren’t populists
I am worried by the whole tone of an article in the FT this morning that reports the election result in Denmark. It begins: Denmark
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Unearned wealth is not growing as fast as the rich would like
The FT reports this morning that: Britain lagged behind the rest of the world in creating millionaires last year, research has found, as political uncertainty
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It’s time the government came clean on the tax gap
I see from Hansard that David Gauke, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was discussing the tax gap in Parliament on Tuesday. Amongst the claims
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Tax abuse goes on and on and on….
The EU announced incredibly weak plans to tackle tax abuse yesterday. And as the FT reports, the reaction was swift: Europe’s biggest business lobby group
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