Linda Kaucher from the LSE has probably correctly chastised me for ignoring the importance of the ongoing negotiations for a GATS deal (General Agreement on
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It’s been a privilege of mine to work with the team from Global Financial Integrity over the last year or two. Indeed, I’m visiting them
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It’s possible that you have not read the detail of the Cayman Island’s budget for 2008-09. But if you had you’d learn quite a lot
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David Cay Johnston has an article in Mother Jones in the US in which he says (amongst much else): In 1983 just 10 percent of
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I thought I’d finished with Tim Worstall. But not quite as it turns out, for he left a comment on this blog yesterday which really
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From today’s Guardian editorial: Voters are left with a choice, then, between Mr Brown’s shopping list of jobs for today, and Mr Cameron’s wishlist for
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Lucy Komisar has an article in the Mail on Swiss bank Julius Baer. The article is prefaced: As anger mounts about the global economic meltdown,
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David Cameron has announced his big new plan to tackle the recession. He’s going to increase the personal allowance for pensioners by £2,000 a year
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Tim Worstall and his friends on the libertarian far right have had a fun time over Christmas. It would seem they have decided that I
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