Kenneth Rogoff has an article in the FT this morning in which he argues that the time ash come to get rid of paper money.
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If Mark Carney believes in ethics what is he going to do about it? Precisely nothing at all, it seems
This is the introduction to Mark Carney’s speech to the Inclusive Capitalism conference, yesterday. It was published by the Bank of England. Introduction Inclusive capitalism
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Jersey’s getting tetchy
I received this mail yesterday. Well, to be precise, it was forwarded to me. Either way it turned up in my in box: A CSFI
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If only local authority pension funds used their clout for social benefit
As Larry Elliott notes in the Guardian this morning: The four biggest pension funds in the world in 2013 were the Japan government pension fund,
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Especially for Carol Wilcox, a regular commentator on this site and tireless campaigner for land value taxation, there is now a ‘like post’ button on
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If you were going to talk about inclusive capitalism is this who you’d ask to speak?
From today’s inclusive capitalism conference website: Whoever thought this up clearly had no idea at all about inclusivity. I would despair except it is all
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There is no such thing as inclusive capitalism
IMF managing director Christine Legarde called for the creation of “inclusive capitalism” at a conference in London this morning. She used fine words, like these:
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UKIP, tax and the £200 billion hole in its budget for which Farage has to supply answers
One of the biggest difficulties in writing about UKIP is knowing what to say. If it’s true that Labour still remains policy light, that the
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HMRC can’t close the tax gap by making numbers up
Ths FT reports this morning that: HM Revenue & Customs booked more than £8bn of extra tax from big businesses in the year to April,
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