My good friend and colleague Colin Hines had the following on the Guardian blog today: Pity the poor pension fund manager charged with putting his
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I was on the Guardian’s blog late last night saying: In the single biggest spend by any chancellor of the exchequer ever, Alistair Darling has
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These are my links for October 8th: FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment – Extend state ownership to save jobs – Socialism in the
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Memo To: Dave Hartnett, HMRC From: Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP Date: 8 October 2008 Subject: Bank equity and structured finance Dear Dave I’ll trust
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Look at the chart of the FTSE 100 today: First this says the markets are ignoring government interventions: that’s irrational. Second this chart shows the
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In April this year I wrote: sometime soon a FTSE 100 index at 6000 is going to appear as mad a reflection of economic reality
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Martin Hearson of ActionAid had the following letter in the Guardian today: Paul Collier is right that stemming capital flight from developing countries would provide
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I liked this from Simon Hoggart’s Commons Diary yesterday: The most startling remark came from the Rev Ian Paisley. The ancient turtle raised himself on
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You won’t find a much better analysis of the current crisis than the one issued by UNCTAD, here.