KPMG have issued a Transparency Report for 2013. It begins with this: The press is full of evidence of a breakdown in trust between business and
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Just Money
I haven’t read this yet, but it’s by my Green New Deal colleague Ann Pettifor and as a result I’m pretty sure it has something very
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Would you trust a firm who said its goal is to dominate?
I have been looking at KPMG’s annual report. What struck me almost immediately was this statement: Could you trust a firm that said it wanted
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How did Danny Alexander end up in government?
I thought this from an FT email this morning quite amazing: Treasury gives debt pledge on Scotland: The UK Treasury will on Monday assume full responsibility
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Gove is delivering the Cowardly State
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Taxpayer-funded academy chains have paid millions of pounds into the private businesses of directors, trustees and their relatives,
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The demand that corporation tax be scrapped is all about redistributing wealth upwards
It has genuinely been fascinating to spend the last two days discussing international tax and it’s relationship to the funding of developing countries over the
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This morning’s retail news is about tales of quiet desperation
Tescos, Morrisons and M&S all delivered poor retail sales results this morning. Sainsbury was not much better yesterday. The message is clear; on the High
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On good and bad inflation
There are several commentators calling for economic orthodoxy in the FT this morning. Chris Giles for example ( no links today – I am writing
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Will flooding result in a trickle or deluge of essential change?
I think recent floods in the UK and the very obvious signs of climate change across the world might just create a tipping point when
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