As the FT reports this morning: France’s parliament has passed a law preventing internet booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, in an attempt to
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This time the crisis is deliberate, planned and coolly calculated
An FT email this morning has this headline: Melodramatic? I don’t think so. I’m beginning to get those September / October 2008 feelings all over
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Is the neo-feudalists party over? Not yet. Not by a long way.
Neo-feudalism is a term is a term that literally means new feudalism. It was introduced onto this blog, I think, by regular commentator Ivan Horrocks.
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Mythbusting: austerity has not reduced the UK’s debt and borrowing
Of course you can out money offshore, at your own peril
For the offshore geeks who visit this site, an interesting new law report from Jersey. I do not have time to summarise it this morning
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Should Lynton Crosby walk Cameron’s talk?
The Mirror headline this morning is: The suggestion is simple: David Cameron’s election guru owns and runs a mysterious offshore company in Malta, the Mirror can
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Austerity illusions and debt delusions: new from Class
Have accountants been making up the law on ‘true and fair view’ as they go along?
The following comes from the latest PIRC Alert, issued by PIRC, a firm of investment advisers. I strongly suspect it reflects the views of my
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Cameron’s right: profit and tax cuts are not dirty words. The issue is how you justify them, and he doesn’t
The Guardian web site has a headline this morning that says: I find such commentary from David Cameron not just ludicrous, but part of an
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