Cuts Watch #43: Local services face closure | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. From the excellent TUC Cuts Watch series: The
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Goldman: time to stop being specific and look at the systemic
FT.com / Companies / Banks – SEC probes second Goldman security. The FT notes that the SEC is now looking at another possible fraud in
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Is ICAEW failing?
Is ICAEW failing?. For the chartered accountants reading this blog follow the link, Dennis Howlett has interesting things to say. He concludes: The broader question
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If only we’d used accruals accounting there’d have been no deficit
There’s a perverse untruth about the fiscal deficit that the likes of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and their acolytes, like Stephanie Flanders on the
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Lost Decade, Here We Come – Paul Krugman
Lost Decade, Here We Come – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. More wisdom from Krugman: A rough estimate right now is that cutting spending by
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Brazil names tax havens – 74 of them
Brazil’s ministry of finance has published a list of jurisdictions or dependencies that we would call secrecy jurisdictions. The accompanying press release notes that Brazil
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Folks, this is getting ugly – or thank goodness for Paul Krugman
From the New York Times today: Some thoughts on the fiscal austerity mania now sweeping Europe: is anyone thinking seriously about how this affects the
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Thank goodness for Martin Wolf and his insight on the morality of cuts
From the FT today, with all but the opening and last paragraphs deleted: A consensus is forming that policymakers should tighten fiscal policy, sharply, in
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Over at TJN they’re having a field day
Anyone looking for great reading on illicit financial flows today should go to the Tax Justice Network blog. All of these blogs deserve a good
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