Yesterday, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved S. 2971, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which included policy language on extractive industry transparency that parallels
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As the FT reports this morning: “Two parliaments of pain” is the phrase used by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies to describe what is
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Compass and the New Economics Foundation — two organisations with whom I work — have published a report entitled Better Banking. The whole text is
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General election 2010: Vince Cable attacks ‘billionaire tax dodgers’ | Politics | guardian.co.uk . There’s not a lot of courage on display in the election
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The IFS has spoken. The think tank that some (in the Tory press, I note) say is the most respect independent think tank on Britain’s
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Work together on tax haven tag — Swiss ambassador ¬ª News ¬ª This Is Guernsey. As the Guernsey Press notes: GUERNSEY and Switzerland can work
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The Green New Deal group has published a new report on tax which is, they and I will admit, largely my work. As it says:
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On Lloyds I was in Derry in Northern Ireland yesterday to attend the conference of the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade
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So Greece has had its debt downgraded. What an opportunity for profit for the financial markets. What a disaster for the people of Greece. And
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