I loved this comment from Lord Turner yesterday: If you chuck enough monetary stimulus at an economy something happens. It is as if we have
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A long time ago (let’s call it 1997) Labour thought it could bolster its economic credibility by setting the Bank of England free from Treasury
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I loved an article by my Green New Deal colleague Andrew Simms on Davos, written on the Channel 4 News website in which he said:
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The Guardian has published an interesting world map ranking countries based on the Gini coefficients. This measures inequality: the higher the score he more unequal
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The Tories are building the new economy that they want. Yes, there are more jobs, and that has to be good news. But those jobs
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Many commentators on this site have said that continued austerity is bound to lead to civil disruption at some point. The police now seem to
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HMRC have just published data on tax receipts for 2013. Playing with their spreadsheet for just a few minutes I came up with the following
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Tax Heroes and Villains What can the UK and EU do to encourage one and discourage the other? Buffet from 6:30, Meeting 7:15 – 9:00pm,
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is behind today’s stories worldwide on cash flowing out of China through the British Virgin Islands. I have already written
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