Are International Financial Reporting Standards illegal? The evidence is compelling
Friday, June 21st, 2013A new legal opinion, issued to coincide with the report of the Banking Commission, is a damning indictment of International Financial Reporting Standards, and with it
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The ICAEW welcomes the Fair Tax Mark - and says the Prime Minister should do so as well
Saturday, June 15th, 2013Economia, the official magazine of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Walessaid yesterday of the Fiar Tax Mark: Into this arena when, however much it frustrates
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The overstated inflation danger
Thursday, June 13th, 2013Whilst being heads down with the Fair Tax Mark I had failed to notice an article with the above title from Martin Wolf in the FT,
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Keynes was right. The Treasury was, and is, wrong. Everything else is a footnote to that
Friday, May 24th, 2013From Martin Wolf this morning: The UK Treasury considers John Maynard Keynes to be an idiot. He famously said that “the boom, not the slump, is the
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One of the most difficult questions in European politics that's urgently in need of an answer
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013This is from the FT this morning, by SteingrÃmur Sigfússon: Iceland’s response to the financial crisis has been taken as a model for how a country should
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Economic realities: climate change
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013This is by Martin Wolf in the FT this morning: Last week the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reported to have passed 400
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The UK is not an open economy. It's time academics realised that
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013The whole model of tax competition is based on the idea that in the modern world all countries – at least, countries up to the size of the UK
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The end of the Phillips Curve?
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013It was long held (although often disputed) that there was an inverse relationship between pay rises and employment. This was explained by something called the
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Religious leaders of all faiths demand tax transparency in the FT
Friday, April 5th, 2013The following letter was in the FT this morning. I endorse it and what it demands and am pleased by its ecumenical and multi-faith approach:
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